skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fluff. Unpaid internships are so mainstream there's really no reason to call out Sheryl Sandberg personally for being associated with the practice (as opposed to every big bank in America which have 100x more money and also have unpaid interns). Furthermore, the amount of money the company/CEO has is completely irrelevant to what constitutes a market wage for a position. Sheryl Sandberg can afford to pay interns $100,000/year also, but the job isn't worth that much so no one is outraged that she's not doing it.
I run a user group and network a lot with other developers. I noticed that in the past two years all the elite developers that I knew, the top half of one percent, were pulling their profiles from LinkedIn.

Have to laugh because companies looking for the proverbial 'rockstar developer' are increasingly never going to find them on LinkedIn.
That's a strange conclusion to reach. The GPL license is actually a major problem with Blender. Importing and exporting content from artist tools is a huge headache. The Autodesk FBX file format and SDK have largely solved those issues. It's a phenominal interchange format and most professional tools support it out of the box. Just drag and drop. It's wonderful.

Blender does not and will not have official FBX support because of the GPL. That's unfortunate and actively harms users. Providing support for user generated content is a lot of work. Trying to support Blender is extremely painful and adds to that pile of work.

I'd argue that one of the single biggest issues with Blender right now is it's GPL license.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ton/Autodesk_FBX_EULA
will it support asm.js?
I'll believe it when I see it. Almost nothing has changed since I went through my Go adventure which was like 9 months ago I think.

9 months to me is a huge amount of time. I don't want to have to wait years to be super productive. I want to be super productive right now and by using other platforms I can be.

For a new viable web platform to be accepted it needs to really explode in popularity. It has to offer MASSIVE gains.

Look at node, it offers performance and also offers the benefit of using the same language on both ends. That's pretty neat... maybe, but I think you would at least agree with me that node's popularity and growth has been unmatched. Even so, it's still quite far behind rails and I don't think it will catch up.

I'm not some massive rails fan boy either. I only started using it when 4.0 came out because the ease of caching seemed interesting to me and I was looking for an excuse to go from node/express to something more opinionated just to see if it was more productive.
My problem isn't necessarily with unpaid interns, but how the industry treats paid interns. Specifically how it seems like the current industry trend is to hire younger engineers as "interns", even though they've graduated university, in order to treat them as trial/probation employees. I'm not sure what can be done about it, but it's frustrating seeing friends be excited that they got a "real programming job" but are hourly, low-benefits, low-job-security that do the same work as their salaried coworkers but happen to be junior enough to be taken advantage of this way.
The joke I've heard is that software is a gas and expands to fill the available space.
Yes! And if you could somehow re-route the steam from the steam-powered coffee grinder to an adjoining moka pot... automatic steam-powered coffee-grinder-brewer?
As long as you write C correctly, which can be verbose when things get complex.

This project seems to be less concerned with the realtime aspect and more concerned with wiring things together. To me it functions as an OpenWRT/RasPi hybrid, with the Node runtime.
Directionality! How dare you impose higher order critical thinking! That poor journalist can't be bothered with such abstract things.
Beware the self-taught know it all
Me too. Thought it sounded cool.
RTFA. It's clearly an income generating position.
Look them straight in the eye and say "prison"
Many others do seem to need more, though.
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And saved people countless hours in waiting for their classifieds to get printed and effort in figuring out spacing and setting up their ads.
Journalists?
It depends on where you are. China is expanding their high speed rail network like crazy. 10,000km of line between 2007 (when it was created) and end of 2012.

So the question is not whether projects like this can happen, but rather whether politicians in the USA can be beaten into allowing them to happen there.
i meant (but got distracted and subsequently didn't) to write a note on when NOT to use gifs. i don't think they're a killer to screencasts or anything.
Javascript enlightenment at CampJS
Yeah, and Twitter, g+, etc.
I'm all for it, now I just need to find that free steam source
Berlin start-ups: Cool and commerce coming together?
I understand where you are coming from, and I don't like the "it allows people to get into programming more easily" excuse either.

But I don't really think it will inhibit growth. I think that it is more likely just to create two main groups of people that call themselves programmers. The people that know HTML and jQuery and the actual programmers. I don't think it will do anything to the growth of real programming, it just might mean we get lots of people calling themselves programmers who really aren't. But that happens already.
"We'd hope that this will get enough of our users exposed to and interested in Blender so they will be inclined to work on Blender plugins that would talk to Steam's backend services such as Workshop."

doesn't sound like a modification to you?
Why can't they make the user download it?

And possibly adjust how the linking works to avoid issues.
Pretty cool how the lens flare forms an "X" around the exhaust.
These look great, but curious why this ended up on the front page of HN.
I stand behind what I've said and encourage you to dig into the open source docs on this. The RAND study is worth a start but there's a lot more, including English language materials from the SU design staff.

"As for your comment about stealth when the F-22 fires a missile, that assumes the F-22 doesn't change course after firing said missile."

Doesn't matter. Once you've got a launch flare that gives you a position fix to hand to the radar to do localized searching, dramatically weakening the likelihood of avoiding continued spotting.
But those other big companies with unpaid internships didn't publish a book about how they believe in empowering individuals (albeit women individuals in this case). Some finger pointing seems warranted in that her company's actions do not match her words...
That are paid by...?
I might have a problem if it wasn't a high-profile non-profit. And the headline's a bit mis-leading considering how little Sandberg has to do with the hiring.
"Default to full screen". I hate it too. Enough of the boxes and frames. Maybe I am old school but I like pages to flow. Google is getting terrible with their UI's. From a disability access point of view, it is hard to navigate around the new Google "plussed" world. Crappy UI's and user experience combined with their recent views on GMAIL users should not expect privacy, Google is on the outs with me. Everyone is taking off with HTML5 but very few sites, not including Google, is getting it right.
'make a plugin for' doesn't sound like a modification of the original, no.

And even if it was, I don't see why BSD changes wouldn't get shared back here.
Same. I was expecting something along the lines of the pulse jet powered tea kettle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDM9Eb16Do
It won't run satisfactory.

Reminds me of that time Sun made the Java CPU and the JavaStation. A hardware implementation of the JVM. It ran 20 times slower than the Microsoft JVM on an average Windows PC.
Because you aren't a shitty person?

I mean, to me, it's that simple. You can abuse the desperation of people needing work, or you can pay a good wage for the work that they do. I consider it a moral good to employ at a sane wage despite the ability to burn others without fallout; for similar reasons, I don't shop at Wal-Mart but will shop at Costco.
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I assume if external noise is drowning out the music / changing how it sounds, then the music will be modified to let you hear certain sounds better via making them louder.
My perspective on the canadian matter would be to simply ditch the f-35 and wait or finance a full fighter drone. We really aren't far from this technology.
The LA end is really Sylmar, at the edge of the LA Basin; with additional access time and security checks, this is no faster than conventional HSR doing the trip in 2:40.

"Security checks"? Why would Hyperloop require any more security checks than the HSR? If anything, you'd expect security to be faster for a constant stream of departures, vs 1000+ passengers bunched together for a train.

(Or you could be sensible like the French, Japanese, Germans and Chinese and dispense with any train-related security theatre entirely, but that would probably be too much to ask in the land of the free and the home of the scared.)
pets

God says...
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bowels of the bottles into their own stomachs.

Sancho beheld all, "and nothing gave him pain;" so far from that, acting
on the proverb he knew so well, "when thou art at Rome do as thou seest,"
he asked Ricote for his bota and took aim like the rest of them, and with
not less enjoyment. Four times did the botas bear being uplifted, but the
fifth it was all in vain, for they were drier and more sapless than a
rush by that time, which made the jollity that had been kept up so far
begin to fla
That looks very very cool. Im really excited to see how this will change the game.

I just wanted to ask the readers here... anybody notice the sticky tape holding it together in the second picture?
> Vulnerability in ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service (microsoft.com) 12 points by vog 1 hour ago | flag | 7 comments

I read the linked page and all I could see was a vulnerability in Windows.

> The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows TCP/IP stack allocates memory while processing specially crafted ICMPv6 packets.

What website am I on, Slashdot?
Interesting point - but wouldn't Jupiter or Saturn with their many moons also experience solar eclipses in a similar way ? Maybe not as perfect as on Earth, but certainly some of their moons could obstruct the sun?
Class warfare aside, there are important variables associated with class, especially when you iterate this into thousands of situations.

First off, everyone rebels, it's part of our psychological growh to become individuals. The smarter ones, i suggest might not use it for petty crap, but for min/maxing on skipping class and going to a party, or putting of school for a year or two to run with a good idea. I say smarter ones, because they are just looking at more variables to crunch.

Secondly, the financial backing of one's support system, or family, has a lot to do with mitigating the downsides of intensive and/or risky projects. If mom and dad are more successful or stable, there is more of a safety net. Couch surfing and ramen/starving might not be for everyone, so a better safety net means less downside.

Self esteem vs low self esteem is a big one too. This correlates to socio-economic economic status. Self esteem will let one believe in their good idea, instead of letting someone tell them it's stupid.

I will agree that the article is slanted twords rich kids, they just had more bonuses.

The interesting thing to me, is I think if you look at middle class entrepreneurs, they will be running their businesses taking less risk (service businesses as tradesmen / lawncare / contracting / etc) for less reward, but are fitting the same mold.
Yeah, but a basic level of javascript is often all that's necessary.

I had quite a few non-developers on my team, who knew enough javascript to have a "good enough" idea what was going on with the code, without having to bug me all the time.
If only having loads of money was coupled with an obligation to be fair...
Having your first kid does too. Of course, you may feel like you REALLY need to unwind when there's a screaming baby taking up all your awake time, but, one thing about being a (responsible) parent is that you always have to be 'on' - meaning you gotta get up reliably when it's time for feeding, routines, and making sure the baby doesn't harm themselves when they're awake. No time for booze, mate!
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Empowering women and unpaid internships are not mutually exclusive. In fact, you could say that unpaid internships are extremely empowering, because it gives the prospective employee on the job training that they wouldn't get if they were unemployed.
We should hack together some CSS in a browser extension. Old UI for reference: http://i.imgur.com/65C2I1E.png
Dirk Schultzs-Makuch and David Grinspoon said if one day methane eaters are found to exist on Titan,

.5

and if they swim around in very, very cold ethane lakes or oceans,

.5

and if those oceans don't have the pressure or weight of water,

.5

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* .5 .5 .5

0.125, under stupidly generous assumptions.

Have you paid your complexity tax today?
I've been writing quite a bit over the last 1.5 years on bootstrapping Planscope / my other products: http://planscope.io/blog/category/bootstrapping-and-products...
To people that didn't read the article:

The internship is for Lean In, a non-profit she started, and not for Facebook.

Minimum wage laws apply far less to non-profits, since you can legally volunteer at a non-profit.
Job well done, Youth Center Counselors.
Yes, but the only difference is that Sandberg portraits herself as an advocate for work fairness and equality. Therefore I think it is fair game to call her out personally.
Really? It felt more like a genuine attempt to gauge interest, and possibility recruit for, a project they're considering.
I took a brief glance at the LPC1830 and it seems it doesn't have hardware floating-point at all. (None of the mainstream Cortex M3 products that I've seen do). Do you have better info on this?

So, I believe its FP support is through software and could be written to be double or greater precision. If this is true and if JS can only do floats, it would be bad news for many basic mathematical operations running on this chip. But hey, as someone pointed out above:

People don't want performance. They want libraries.

But with no FPU, count me out. I'd rather have my stm32f4. Just sayin'.
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Not the one in my father's home town of ~12,000. ~$150.00 per column inch IIRC. That price was without pictures or fancy fonts.
This is sweet. If it did profiling as well it would be perfect!
In other news gamblers are more likely to win money gambling.
True, but at least the headlong rush has stopped.
Once you factor in the entire program cost and logistics footprint, the Tomahawk is the absolute cheapest way the US military has to put a bomb on a specific spot on the map.
Funny, I'll shop at the local Wal-Mart because they pay better than the local grocery store and use much less scummy political tactics. We have some real winners for local business people.
The CEO needs another raise.
Both javascript and lua were designed for very similar goals. It just so happens that the designers of Lua had more time to do it- plus they aren't burdened with the need to always be backwards compatible, so lua (now at version 5) breaks scripts written for older versions.

So they each have their trade offs.
I agree. I sort of like javascript now, but it was an acquired taste after force-feeding myself the language.
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There's some people who drink because they need too.
You know who you are. You might be drinking because
of generalized anxiety, or panic attacks? I know
how you feel. Try to keep the drinking to a minimum
though. As you age, the need for alcohol might decrease;
it did with me. I never thought I could give up drinking,
but I think age played a part? Now, I need to get off
prescription drugs? A doctor once told me, every patient
is different--that might be the only useful advise he
ever gave me.
I for one am really happy the JS era is here. Finally! Also don't listen to the haters. Ya'll know most of us make web apps so stop fronting. Though, I guess now I can make a battlebot too! JS is shaping up to be a great language and environment as more and more people get on board.
To quote Jack Sparrow: "But where has all the rum gone?"
That's "Atwood's Law"
The name of it is a hint as to who said it.
This book is also terrific. http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Making-Steinway-Concert-Grand/dp...

From it I remember a guy who goes to Tacoma a few times a year to look at Sitka spruce really carefully, another who guards their hand planes, which they can't get anymore, stuff like that. I also have a friend who's a concert pianist and who's quite obsessive about tuning, voicing, regulation, and her (Model C?) sounds absolutely amazing.
Who wasn't a troubled teen?
Its entirely reasonable to claim CL has transformed a billion dollar business into a million dollar business of which it (as a company) is the sole beneficiary. For quite some time, Newspapers and the like have not sold news- they sell used cars and real estate. Quantifying the actual numbers if valuable.
Reuters, for example.
Rich kids rebel with cocaine and DUI; poor kids rebel by holding up convenience stores.
I've noticed a pattern with people who are very public figures/very wealthy calling themselves an advocate of fairness/equality/whatever....
Yea, I agree. There's nothing worse than a hypocrite.
Well, almost nothing?
They're not going to be manipulating low-level devices directly. They're going to be communicating via device drivers from JS. I'll bet $100 the device drivers will all be written in C.

The thing people need to learn about Arduino is that it's not important that it's a microcontroller. It's important that it lets you drive and read electrical signals from a PC environment. This lets people do that. Sure, it's like visiting a gated resort in Jamaica on vacation instead of being on your own, but many people like to feel safe and get things done without having to learn too many new skills.
I still cannot believe they bought Flip and shut it down. I would imagine quite a lot of these jobs are from other acquisitions.
Well, if Sandberg takes that position in her book then she shouldn't deserve finger pointing I suppose. But since she talks about leveling the playing field in the workforce and fixing the salary gender gap is part of that I'd say she believes that cash money is a key source of empowerment.
https://github.com/linnovate/mean.
Any sort of compiler for JavaScript could only support a subset of the language, unless you shipped an interpreter alongside the compiled code. This subset might be unfamiliar enough to the point that moving to a new language wouldn't be that much harder for some programmers.

I also see nothing on the site to suggest that C/C++ (at least) couldn't be supported, although I have no clue how much work you would have to do yourself (likely too much).
It only gets you charged with something if you use it illegally.

In many US states, including the ones most frequented by HN's target demographic (CA, WA, OR, CO, etc.), being a legal user is much less of a pain than being an illegal user (and you get much better choice in goods too!)
Sir, thanks for the link! I feel like I am going to bed more intelligent tonight.
Yikes - that's pretty grim. I live in Massachusetts and we tend to have pretty good local businesses, so I tend to prioritize those, but bulk buying is pretty much the province of Costco (or Sam's, but that's part of Wal-Mart and aren't really any better towards their workers anyway).
Hey HN, at the start of summer I began this project as a means to learn more programming before I began university. Every time I sat down by myself or with a friend to watch a film I/we could never decide what to watch and just relied on the related films section on IMDb and that caused us to keep watching the same type of films. So at the start of summer I decided to build a website that would do the hard work for me, by picking films at complete random from IMDb. All the films on our database have a rating above 6.8 and have had over 7,000 votes.

I'm currently working on a system so that you can track what films you have watched so that you don't keep getting films you have already seen, but that will be a few months away from now.

All feedback is welcome, if you hate it then tell me why and if you love it then go watch some films!

Love From FILMFORTONIGHT
Actually, on second thought, if anyone wants to join me in starting a HN battlebot league, hit me up!
If I ever become a very wealthy public figure, I promise you I will not advocate for any of that.
Let's at least turn this into a teachable moment by drawing attention to Nick Bostrom's "great filter" argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GnkAcdRgcI
It's reasonable to say that they have transformed the market, but saying they have "cost" them anything is an ill choice of words.
I'm just wrapping up a full semester course on multiple regression and reading this is a great and different perspective on it.

I definitely appreciate the simple approach in the article. If the OP is like myself, perhaps he's posting this to better his understanding and leaving artifacts for others to follow as they learn. I have to point out, there's so much more happening in regression. To do it well, read further on it.

As a concrete example of why- The author mentions the R^2 value but doesn't seem to warn that adding more variables to your model will artificially increase it. For this reason, a better value is the "Adjusted R^2" which adjusts for that. Also testing the validity of your model, building it up from scratch, understanding you can't predict outside of the domain of your independent variables, etc.

With that out of the way, I very much enjoyed seeing some of the math behind this. My class was entirely focused on just learning to use a statistical package to run regression. That's perfectly adequate, fine, and all I'll use on a day to day basis. Understanding what's going on beneath the covers has always just enabled me to be more powerful at the given task.

Thanks!
I feel sorry you lack basic understanding of linguistics. Any major programming platform today is too complex for a single individual to understand completely. One can spend his time learning several languages (and the platform they run on) or concentrate on a single language. I'd say it's obvious the second choice leads to higher productivity.

You don't see professional musicians trying to play 10 different instruments on world level. Or olympic athletes competing in 10 disciplines. Or lawyer practising 10 domains. But some programmers like to pretend they have 10 languages in their "linguistic toolbox".
Are you describing copyright? ("Valve would be free to modify Blender and then sell it without contributing anything back to Blender.")
loceng, we try to avoid that - a simple equalizer will create an amplification of frequency bands without gain control, so you get a sound of higher amplitude/magnitude, which can have a negative impact as you pointed out.

We use some techniques to rebalance your music - by making sounds that are softer in the mix louder, while keeping the very loud sounds at the same level. We also try to change the relative volume of the frequency bands you do not hear well, while preserving the overall volume.

Since psychoacoustics vary a bit from person to person, it may be perceived as mildly louder or softer than the original, but overall it will be at a similar volume level.
Amazing, I just had an idea to implement something like this, and here it is!
Amazing pile of cash. Add this to Apple and MSFT and that's a huge horde. I suspect if/when globally the economy shows sustained health there will be a massive M&A surge as these guys gobble up small and medium players.