skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems my take away from the article was a lot different from most of you.

What I read was a discussion of how coddling is crippling. That the parents who were financially capable of insulating their children from pretty much any sort of failure were actually setting their children up for failure when it matters most.

It is reasonable to contrast that attitude with the failure-embracing aspect of startup culture. That here there is no stigma associated with a startup failing, it is seen as a learning experience. The idea that falling down is part of the process of learning to run is completely at odds with the attitude of the parents in the article.
Actually, it's Latin for "thus so", derived from sic erat scriptem, or "thus was it written". Used by a quoter to assure the reader that errors or irregulaties in the quote are indeed the fault of the quotee.
Hello to the person living in a bubble.

Most people don't spend more than that on a car. The average price of a used car (what most people buy) is $14,375 [1].

The average savings rate in the USA is below 5% [2]. With a median household income of approx $50k [3], then we assume that approx. $2.5k is the average amount an average USA household can afford each year. With average savings of around $6k [3], that's over 5 1/2 years to "get out from under", not including loss of earning, no savings cushion, and not including interest payments.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2013/02/14/used-car...
[2] http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/23113/how-many-week...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
Heroku's most recent outage a catalyst for transition
> Along with that you can't make it portable on other architectures.

Not only that, but it seems from other stuff I've read that you'd have a hard time making x86 code performant on more than one microarchitecture or family thereof, which means re-writing the same code for different manufacturers and different generations from the same manufacturer.

It seems that if you accept the façade that says "x86 is x86" you're better off writing in C or even Haskell, but if you peel the façade back to write fully performant code you're doomed to either keep re-writing it or doomed to see it languish as processor technology moves on.

I'm immediately reminded of the early RISC design concept of "moving the microcode into the compiler"; having extremely simple hardware that explicitly exposed design details like pipeline length in the form of delay slots becoming ISA features and saying that compilers would handle all the resulting complexity much like how microcode handled it in the System/360 and similar.

It turns out architectural branch delay slots were a mistake, but compilers have gotten better at turning obvious source code into performant machine code unless you need so much performance you have to dig into architectural details anyway.

It's unavoidably complicated. And now we're moving towards multi-core CPUs, which bring to the fore another area which is unavoidably complicated.
i am completely not getting the link between an IDE and your battery?

"working on a remote server" ? you mean editing files on a production box? there is a reason people use revision control and deployment processes you know.

As for "collaboration", IDE's like Komodo have built-in collaboration for pair programming etc. I wonder if you can see the irony when you say you can't use an IDE because a collaborative tool doesn't support it, but then say you don't want to be dependent on a specific tool?
Is Marissa Mayer the right CEO for Yahoo?
You could say the same about the Sermon on the Mount, and many other things as well. IMHO there is a difference between "totalitarian" and "all-encompassing".
Shorten the tests is one thing. A lot of database setups and tear downs? Try encapsulating each test in a transaction to keep it in memory.

Another thing is reading the docs of the libraries you use - reading around a subject is an under used and highly valuable activity.
Facebook Market Value Tops $100 Billion Amid Mobile Push
You should set up something like Jenkins (or use a hosted solution like Travis), and keep working. No need to wait around for test results...
FYI you can't downvote posts. You can only flag.

There are also emerging voting rings which are hard to protect against, especially if it only takes 6 votes in an hour to get to the front page
Cloud Foundry Momentum Continues to Build  VMworld w/ Pivotal CF Announcement
Khan Academy CS blog
http://i2.wp.com/goodmorningblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013...

A border going through a house:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44CWQkimcko/UeemC9NcL0I/A...
HSA, by the way, stands for "Heterogeneous System Architecture".
World's Largest Laser Triples Previous Neutron Yield Record for Fusion
YC maintains a pretty solid list: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
Based on your previous submission history, I'd say get a handle on your issues before going off somewhere isolated for so long.
I figured sports would be their main strength...
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Not a stupid question.

I am covered, during my time I am diagnosed with cancer. I get treatment, and am declared "free" of cancer. I remain that way for 5 years, and claim no more benefits. I am still covered.

I leave, and join a new company. To enter their health insurance, I have to declare any "pre-existing" conditions. They see that I am in remission from cancer, and offer my employer two choices: pay hugely inflated premiums, or get no cover. My new employer never expected to need to cover premiums 20 times that of their existing employees, and consequently I am now screwed.
As for doing more harm than good: I can't possibly see how this does more harm than NSA domestic surveillance.

How about false sense of security? Zero improvement in security plus baseless confidence that you are now secure sounds like a step backwards to me! It's already suspected that NSA has been working around Tor for years now. Wasn't there an article recently stating that the NSA (or was in the CIA...?) control 2/3 of Tor exit nodes?
They were basically the knights of legend, in plate mail from head to foot with swords and lances.
Running w/ docker 0.6.1 on EC2 ubuntu instances behind an ELB. Pretty cool docker.io use case:
docker run sguignot/textblob-api-server
Facebook already did in May 2012. It was called Karma. Facebook Gifts is based off of the Karma platform.
The people of Thailand didn't invent Thai, and it's unlikely that a handful of them could invent a new language and have it catch on within a few years. The analogy doesn't quite hold. Switching sentence structure is more akin to switching paradigms, anyway.

There are no strict comparison operators for less-than/greater-than. === acts fundamentally differently for objects than for everything else. Alas.
It's not illegal price fixing or anything like that. The hospital charges $10K for simple procedure, and then the insurance company reduces it (per contract between them and the hospital) to the "reasonable and customary" $200. Presumably Canada does the same thing, and presumably in Canada there's no point to the hospital charging $10K when they know there's only one payer possible at $200.

It's all but impossible to see costs up front in the US. Hospitals insist on determining the charge at the point of billing.
I remember trying to build one of these in Argentina and the CNC (our FCC) shutting it down. As it turns out the government-sanctioned telco duopoly (telefonica/telecom) not only had rights to all landlines but also the frequency where Wifi works meaning that by providing this service I was infringing their rights.

Back then I was still in highschool and didn't have any idea of all this cronyism, but now its obvious the Argentine system is disruption-proof, the bad way though.
My web-sites will say - "This site uses cookies ... If you agree, please leave."
If Carmack isn't an expert programmer, no one is. There are very few people with a comparable resume.
"Treat nonlogged in users as second class citizens. By always giving logged out always cached content Akamai bears the brunt for reddit’s traffic. Huge performance improvement. "

This is the lowest of low hanging fruit. Many people don't realize it but a ton of huge media sites use Akamai to offload most of their "read-only" traffic.
> The US has a much higher tolerance for what in Europe would be considered pretty blatant racism.

Really? Because it always seemed the other way around to me--Europe lacks the strong taboos against overt racism that America has evolved. Americans are crypto-racist, but they don't share the shamelessness Europeans seem to have when they show up to football stadiums and make monkey noises at African players or chant "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas" when playing a "Jewish" club. That kind of thing happens in countries like Spain, Italy and Holland but would be unthinkable in the United States.
@beambot Thanks for the list.
>I would say the core tenants of Austrian Economics are very much observable and repeatable, much like game theory.

Neal Stephenson made the analogy that math is more than just a 'physics of bottlecaps'. In the same sense, even if you have a set of sound testable principles, It is a fundamental mistake to blindly assume that the dominant forces on the scale at which you can test and reason about are the dominant forces on the scale of e.g. the global market. Given that the behavior of markets on a global scale is [a] chaotic, and [b] driven by group behavior, it is not clear to me that useful conclusions can be drawn from the behavior of markets, or the study of the individual. Consider as an analogy the behavior of gas particles both severally and in totum.

In any case, you are verging on falsehood by implying any scientific basis to libertarianism. Whether you consider it a philosophy or an economic theory or a religion, these things all merely ape the trappings of science. I don't merely mean to imply that libertarianism is a useless philosophy: like intelligent design, it is an actively harmful memetic virus.
register_globals could not have existed without the legality of undeclared variables, and it could not have been a security issue without code that relied on using undefinedness as a default value.
Because you hose people who are not actually high-risk but, for whatever the reason, chose to hang out with people who are high-risk. This is not really a socially acceptable thing to do, because you are effectively punishing those individuals for their choice in friends. While the First Amendment may not apply here, I'd say most people value the spirit of "freedom of association" and thus I expect it to have been applied elsewhere.
I totally chose the wrong career.
First, it depends on whether the gold was considered a currency. If it was just another good, then it's really just a bartering -- life for some good, which in this case happens to be gold.

Second, that story is post-conquistador. It is in fact the Spanish who are demanding the gold and silver, which is of course what the Spanish used for currency. So it's really an observation on the Spanish, not the Incans.
Life may have been bleak, but that's not what you were saying.
You're taking anecdotes from one part of the Soviet Union and applying it to the whole thing. Would you say that Russians are immeasurably better off now than during Communism?
My guess is that you're testing AR associations all over the place and that the business logic in your models is tightly coupled to AR associations. This has the effect of slowing down testing tremendously.

I try to write code so that stuff that needs to be tested is not tied to AR. Why should your logic need to wait for AR to fetch records and fire a callback when the part that is likely to break (that isn't covered by AR's test suite) is your logic, not the data fetching or callback infrastructure.
Yeah, Carmack has weight due to his history of being incredibly technical and writing lots of incredibly useful code. Also, he has a huge profile in the industry.

He's been a heavyweight proponent of static typing for a while - 2-3 years IIRC - and so it doesn't totally surprise me that Haskell is up his alley. It's particularly notable that he prefers it as a technical lead as a low-pass filter on bugs.
I'm an avid reader... but for some people, reading non-fiction is not very good for relaxation. For entrepreneurs, time (especially relaxation time) is at a premium.
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It's a very interesting assertion to make, but really ambiguous. Slow how? Is it slow to render the page, slow DB access, slow to build?

It would also be interesting to know the versions and any backstory. My guess is that none of this info exists because it, like most things done in a rush/under pressure, was probably attempted, didn't work right away and then tossed.
Pretty sure summation definition is recursive. So no assignment/mutation is necessary.
Not necessarily. Say you both have the same credit score. If you befriend eachother, that reduces the negative impact of friends with lower scores for both of you, by reducing their overall weight.
Hmm: locals usually check http://www.gallito.com.uy/ , and Argentineans their local equivalents.

Many go for a weekend a month in advance, and look at the "For Rent" signs, then make a deal with the homeowner (usually haggling on price). That is of course not very practical for someone from the U.S. !!

Punta del Este is nice (though some people like other kinds of vacations, like Punta del Diablo), but it's very expensive (even for people from the U.S.), especially in January. December is a little cheaper.

The times I've been there I went to a hostel. My parents use the "haggling" option, so I don't have a good recommendation for online search. Airbnb is slightly more expensive than the average listing, but not by much.
Except that it's not. You can only ask $1000 for SAT tutoring if you have the name and track record to back it up. People pay $1000/h because their child getting into some school is worth it to them. This is not at all like $1000 bottled whine. It is much harder to measure fine wine vs measuring wether your kid makes it to the college or not.

Ofcourse, you can go for the short term and bluff that your tutoring is worth it by asking the price without actually having that record, but that might not last.
> Has there been any work done at all to standardize this process and allow users to opt-in to cookies at a browser level

Yes, it's called DNT (Do Not Track)

It could solve exactly this problem, but it is effectively sabotaged by the internet industry.
Sold!

Caveat: I don't know Rails. I've only recently started teaching myself to code/program/develop. So I guess now is a good time to start with Rails as any, eh?

8 months ago I jumped straight into working with Django/Python - one fine day, I made a list of project ideas that I've had in my head for a while and started chalking out the corresponding algos & coding them without a care about how 'bad' my code was going to look. (Yeah, I belong to the 'learn first, refine later' school of thought.)

8 months since I first started, the score is two ideas done, six more to go. Wait, scratch that, seven more to go. Wish me luck!
The Power of Pomodoros
this is an argument against making any kind of predictions at all, as it could negatively affect some individuals.

The question we ask is, what is this prediction based on? Some things are sacred; we will not allow predictions to be made based on race or gender, but we will allow predictions to be made based on billing history. The latter is much more within an individual's control than the former!
Except of course for religion.
Haha. Thanks. Yeah I really enjoyed those Stratfor reports while I was in Armenia. I published everything in my own inbox on twitter, shared to reddit/fb/evenG+ and now here...
https://www.facebook.com/alexis.ohanian/posts/10101092121771...
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thanks for the info - it makes sense now. its a similar issue to non-declared vars in js as you mentioned, but even then that was not a language fault per-se, it's just a lack of knowledge about the language.

i can't think of things that actually come up like that in php these days - things like register globals and magic quotes are long gone..
Using IDEs lead to higher CPU usage, that makes the battery die faster.

Remote servers are not always production boxes. They may be CI systems or you may need to help a colleague. I'm not becoming dependent on a tool, there are a lot of tools with different features and I switch them all the time. I, for example prefer sublime text for a lot of tasks, and until recently, it didn't have proper PHP auto-completion. Depending on other tools because a language is quirky? No, thanks.
How is Laravel compared with Yii?
It depends on what you'd like to learn. Particle physicists learn a lot from 'minbias' data, data without selective triggers.

If you have a specific question you'd like to ask, then selective cuts on the data are useful. If you'd like to characterize an entire system, like Twitter, it's good to randomly sample the entire thing. Without a random sample, you've added your own preconceptions about what's to be learned.
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In the spirit of total transparency, I have published all of my own emails for the meeting with Stratfor and all subsequent emails: http://imgur.com/a/oZHt1

What you'll find will bore you:

RECAP: I have never worked for Stratfor, I've tweeted screenshots from my inbox with every exchange -- they invited me to their office during SXSW, I got a tour and they asked me for a quote to consult, so I gave it to them, but it went nowhere. We hadn't talked since.
https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/372033348052340736
https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/372028024532643841
https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/372008427528396801

I'd been a big fan because no one else reported on Caucasus as well and I was living in Armenia at the time. When the Wikileaks revelation happened years later, I did not renew my subscription.

Here's a bonus upload of a program from a panel at Booz Allen I was on (that was a paid gig) in 2007. http://imgur.com/MXtxvEZ

Nonetheless, Adrian Chen wanted an interview, so here it is:
http://imgur.com/MVZR0ay
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In my undergrad EE, we had an elderly german prof who pronounced "quiescent" as "christian." Awesome professor, but half the class didn't take the initiative to understand (1) the meaning of the word or (2) it's true pronunciation. Could you imagine communicating with these people in industry?! It would've been maddening. </anecdote>
It's an advantage at working at any non-menial job anywhere. If you're competent as well as a pleasant person to work with, you'll go far in most fields.
This list, compiled by Chris Johnson, includes a book called "Trust Me, I'm Lying", by Ryan Holiday.

One thing to note is that Chris worked with Ryan and has a close relationship with him (Chris actually wrote the trailer for Ryan's book).

And judging from Ryan's usual tactics, Chris wrote this list simply to push Ryan's book, which he cleverly included alongside clear classics like The Lean Startup, In The Plex, and The Innovator's Dilemma.

Edit: Here are some other tactics cleverly used by Chris/Ryan in the post...

1) they mentioned Ryan Holiday in the first couple paragraphs so that the reader would have some familiarity with his name and be even more likely to click through to his book

2) they included Ryan's book early in the list but not as the first, and specifically after at least one book that you probably haven't heard of, but that seems credible

3) they marked The Innovator's Dilemma (arguably the most well known book in the list) as "optional," leading one to perceive that the other books in the list that aren't marked as optional must be even better

Edit: evidence for Chris and Ryan's relationship... https://www.google.com/search?q=chris+johnson+ryan+holiday
Why's that? It's clear they recognized various things as valuable. And that the Spanish told them they wanted gold.

But money is special: it's a unit by which all economic value is measured, and it's universally swappable for any other kind of value.
Have you noticed the starvation in 64 bit programs or 32 bit programs?
> Redlining is when you discriminate against people based on where they live

Reread the comment. It's exactly what you describe, down to the actual building. People living in a particular apartment complex can't get a credit card.
I liked Guy Kawasaki's "The Art of the Start" (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Hardened-...) because every time I picked it up, it motivated me to put it down and get back to work.

I am kind of surprised to see Steve Blank's "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" (http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/098...) omitted. Is that one that everyone mentions, but nobody reads?
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Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

This was discussed previously on The Daily WTF:

"If you're a spammer, you don't want to waste your time
corresponding with someone with even half a clue." [1]

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Best-of-Email-Automated-Inse...}
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Which of the following are true?
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User friendly? More like user hostile... But that is what is needed.
Having now gone publicly on record with this, I wonder what kind of lawsuits this might lead to down the road. I could imagine that any company pg sits on the board of would now have their lawyers scratching their heads how they are going to minimize their risk.
Both. They weren't issues with precision/no gc at all, but that the arena contents became fragmented, as far as I could tell.
I didn't think that this was an article about what it takes to get into an Ivy as much as how some people doom their kids.
> This benefits everyone.

Everyone?

LOL
I hope it's better recently. I've only been through Toronto Pearson twice and it was a royal screw up each time: luggage for my entire plane was sent to the wrong area and nobody knew where it was, it took 3 hours to figure it out thus missing connecting flights for 300 people, harassing immigration officers as we tried to make alternate flight arrangements because it was a no cell phone area (where were we supposed to go?), customs hand searched my bags both times and on and on.

I've since decided not to fly into North America via Toronto from now on it was so bad.

I dearly love my Canadian neighbors so I hope they've since straightened it out.
"Building my own engine, whilst fun and a great learning experience, was an expensive mistake. For six months’ work all I had to show for it was a short proof of concept demo. I should have used UDK, Unity or one of the other available game engines and got on with building a game, but my pride as an experienced game engine programmer didn’t let me!"

This has been my biggest mistake. I have to keep chanting 'Build a game not an engine'. It would be silly to start building a house by building a brick factory but that is, unfortunately, what I find myself doing.
Laravel looks great, is it still a one-person-mainly project? if so that really concerns me, same as Gitlab project.
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