skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having gone through something similar (3-4 hours of sleep daily, irregular eating), it's not worth it no matter what. Within half a year, I was a bodily wreck, coming down with regular colds/flus, several eye infections and a debilitating 2 month diarrhea that left me with a 14.something BMI. Oh, and the ensuing pandemonium got me expelled from the school, to add insult to injury.

It's a damn diploma, which doesn't even guarantee you are getting a job, especially since those 7 hours left mean you don't get to network during that time. It's totally ridiculous anyone would expect you to sacrifice your health for that, and I did buy that con for far too long.

Ahh, well, such are things.
> I get anxious, frustrated with the slow pace, second guess too many decisions, wonder why everyone around me doesn't have that same passion/enthusiasm, etc.

Same here, and the frustration is compounded when you get slogans like "take ownership" thrown at you, but then find out you're not allowed to own the project, just the problems.
17 Questions You MUST Ask Your Wordpress Developer
While a good read, this paper is over 3 years old
> grandchildren retaining copyright control over his idea

You are being conservative. Let's try to visualize a hypothetical example...

Age 25 children are born.

Age 40 write work of art.

Age 50 grand children are born.

Age 75 great grand children are born.

Age 80 dies.

100 years after being born. Great great grand children are born.

125 years after being born. Great great great grand children are born.

150 years after being born. Great great great great grand children are born. Copyright runs out.
> I could certainly imagine people objecting to having the speech presented in a secular school.

Yes, and the price is both loss of freedom and loss of history. We've also lost books that aren't PC.

> Finally and probably most importantly, what do speeches really teach us?

Communication skills (Intonation, volume, speed, timing). Listening/attention skills (I doubt we have high school students anymore with the attention span to listen to the whole speech- I don't even have it because I'm too ADHD and brain fried). Sympathy (How can you listen and not feel it). History (Self evident, gives details and story to bland summarized facts). Need more?
I wonder if there's an element of users learning how to optimize their query for Duck Duck Go. I've been using it as a default for some months now, but I often fall back to Google for software error message strings and other things.
Yes, that's what I'm referring to.

I use a service called Car2Go quite often which rents Smart cars exclusively. For some reason they decided not to include the little arrow.

http://0.tqn.com/d/cars/1/0/6/9/1/ag_08fortwo_speedo.jpg
Power Quotes on education and action: John F. Kennedy & W.B. Yeats
If you sold the company and then backed out, the company still should have remained sold even if you decided to quit. If you were still doing the same thing in the accelerator, it would probably be reasonable for the acquirer to raise the issue.
>Do you know what my name means?

Well, I do. In simple terms, a word refering to another one in the same sentense/text (e.g. "My Xbox arrived and it was great" -- it being an anaphor for the Xbox).

It's a shortened version of the greek word "anaphora", which means "reference" / relation etc. It comes from the words ana (which roughly means "again" or "anew") and phora (pherein) which means "carries" (connotes, etc).

In the example case, "it" "carries again" the banana (in the sense that it refers to it again from another place).
My life turned around at a private school. I have on more than one occasion thought in response to accusations that Christine Gregoire is trying to collapse the public school system that it would likely be a positive event.
The NRO and the NGA programs are going to be on a need to know basis, aren't they? That is, knowledge about what's going on is compartmentalized. This adds to the cost. I recall reading a reference (which I can't find now) that claimed a Top Secret program was 20% more costly than an open program. I remember feeling surprised, because my personal estimate was about double for anything Secret.

We can double NASA's budget, can NRO and NGA, and still come out ahead financially.
This is amazing! Just wondering if there can be any real world applications apart from gaming? Very cool though.

Anything open sourced?
On Syria - Charlie's Diary
Just think, within our lifetimes we'll be able to explore this canyon by foot.
Information is like an infectious agent. Even if you want to keep it to yourself, if you are around others, it will likely spread

digital gossip.
I have a 1994 Toyota Corolla. It doesn't have an indicator.
seems like it, why not just invent a big number?
Most of my hardest classes like Differential Equations were monsters and I struggled mightily. I thought about giving up several times, but stuck with it for some reason. After the class, two of my engineering buds and I went for a beer. They asked me if I thought I would be a better person for struggling and succeeding, or giving up and waiting to take it again? The answer was simple.

Just because they're "competitive" isn't always a bad thing. Struggling to learn is normal. Just because the prof makes it competitive might make you work harder, put in more hours and in the end, learn more through your struggles.

There is no
To grow up? Meet a spouse? Transition to adulthood amongst peers?
Do you think that there's really space nowadays for someone who works with files containing any kind of code (ui, markup, program, ...) and doesn't use a VCS? I find it really hard to find people like that and working with them is rather painful (they will end up in a position where they just have to know git, or someone will have to do their work for them).
The implications of this have always fascinated me. It's hard to go back to being a worker when you've spent time as a boss, but we also know that 75% of venture-backed startups fail.

What happens to the failures? Can they go back to work and fall back in line? Or are we going to have "Professional Founders" or "Business Engineers" down the line that have a decade or two of experience starting and running companies, none of which survived past infancy.

It's hard to imagine in the very positive atmosphere that most young entrepreneurs live in. What are you supposed to do when you want to keep building companies, but they just keep failing? Are you prepared to say "I can't do this very well" and move on? Where will you go?

I personally don't think startups are the tech equivalent of starting a band or going Hollywood, but I can understand why some would employ the analogy.
Not that it's your fault they didn't include the arrow, but when you rent a car, you want to walk completely around it anyway before driving away. Otherwise they may try to stick you with pre-existing damage that wasn't noticed the last time the car was turned in.

(I've heard it's a good idea to shoot a video of the walkaround with your phone, but that seems OTT.)
I'll shoot you an email....
It's literally emulating phone lines that dial in. Telebears is a massive piece of shit.

Source: Current Berkeley student.
I think a lot of things like "take ownership" are working ideas lost in translation, applied by people that don't properly understand how to apply them.

For example, it works well where employees are given the responsibility to take ownership of things. Some guy who runs a business that runs well on that premise writes a blog post about, or an article that's printed on page 23 of Inc. Magazine. Some middle manager reads that article and thinks "yeah, that could help me get to this quarters target" and tries to implement it in a company that isn't structured that way. Since he doesn't want to restructure, he simply tells his employees "yeah, you should take ownership now, that's an order", and the inevitable happens.
Grow your own food. Spend $2000 on a quality chipper/shredder to make compost for your garden. You'll have it for 25 years and use it every weekend, if you have any landscaping, at all. Talk about hacking. It's a great investment, young man.
Dr-How-To
The article makes the point that the LOC metric is confounded by duplication:

> Copy and paste programming leads to high LOC counts and poor design because it breeds duplication.

This problem is not insurmountable. Compression tools work by finding duplication and representing copies as (more concise) references to the original.* The size of the compressed version is an estimate of the real information content of the original, with copies counted at a significantly discounted rate. The compressed size of code could be a more robust measure of the work that went into it.

* Sometimes this is done explicitly, other times it's implicit
(or (except (some company) Apple))

Sorry... I couldn't help it :)
As someone actually attending this class, the primary reason for this syllabus is to get 2/3 of the class to drop. They couldn't find enough TAs for the class, and were forced to rework the curriculum, as well as get enough people to drop to try to alleviate the overcrowding.
A good read. Is the recent speed improvement in TOR due to this being done?
A formal proof? ;-)
"First one that comes to mind is its length. Unlike the Gettysburg Address, this isn't some short speech that could be easily recited from memory."

You are probably not learning it for recital to prove how clever you are, you are presumably reading it for study and analysis.

"Secondly, there is a lot of religious imagery in the speech. I could certainly imagine people objecting to having the speech presented in a secular school."

On what grounds? On that basis you couldn't have US school textbooks with translations of the letters of Christopher Columbus in them -

"In conclusion, to speak only of what has been accomplished on this voyage, which was so hasty, their Highnesses can see that I will give them as much gold as they may need, if their Highnesses will render me very slight assistance; presently, I will give them spices and cotton, as much as their Highnesses shall command… and slaves, as many as they shall order, and who will be from the idolaters. I believe also that I have found rhubarb and cinnamon, and I shall find a thousand other things of value, which the people whom I have left there will have discovered…

This is enough. And thus the eternal God, Our Lord, gives to all those who walk in His way triumph over things which appear to be impossible, and this was notably one. For, although men have talked or have written of these lands, all was conjectural, without ocular evidence. ... So that, since Our Redeemer has given the victory to our most illustrious King and Queen, and to their renowned kingdoms, in so great a matter, for this all Christendom ought to feel delight and make great feasts and give solemn thanks to the Holy Trinity, with many solemn prayers for the great exaltation which they shall have in the turning of so many peoples to our holy faith, and afterwards for the temporal benefits, because not only Spain but all Christendom will have hence refreshment and gain."

- The conclusion to his letter to King Ferdinand of Spain.

http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/Columbus%20to%20F...

"Finally and probably most importantly, what do speeches really teach us? They aren't particularly valuable outside of context."

What someone in the past said. Is part of learning about stuff, which is the context.
How is this degrading? Its merely strict.
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/SPCC10_Fu.pdf
This administration just has a history of broken promises.

War, marijuana, spying, etc.
Oh wow, this is great. Many thanks! I intend to use it :) I see you already have most of my requests listed, so I'll just leave it at that and say "awesome work".
This is what through me off most - I assume he means that you'll be dropped from the class and is just trying to ramp up the fear factor even farther.
The full text of the speech is in the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
Most of those using well-known privacy tools for "privacy" do not realize that they are painting a target on themselves. The elite hide data in plain sight. I am not elite, btw. I stay the hell out of it, and I suggest you do the same if you don't know what you are really doing, or even if you do.

God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Totally different. "Cities" like Houston grow outward like the suburbs. Houston has almost 3 times the land of Chicago. Population density of Houston 3,623/sq mi, Chicago 11,864.4/sq mi. One is a city, the other a glorified suburb.
Published in 2010 so I doubt it...
This is an amazing resource! Working at an accelerator, I know it is very important that both sides are transparent with each other to make sure the program/session is effective and enjoyable.
I have heard (second hand, but from people who work directly with Berkeley staff) that least in physics their issues are this severe. Required courses are being made biannual and filling completely so that students with bad luck lose even the option of a four year degree.
Beyond Teaching Computer Science
I think the most profound thought I had from reading that article was "Animal Farm"
Geek Gossip! Never thought this day will come.
You know what's crazy about Snowden? Every time the guy releases something, people freak out.

Why? Because nobody knows exactly what he stole. The even crazier thing is, this could all be a huge misinformation campaign and nobody would notice because we're all

Snowden takes documents, gives them to press, and they release them. How do they verify their validity? Oh yeah, they can't since it's all top secret. What a grand one-way street this guy just built for a bullet proof story of his own liking.

I think it's strange nobody is questioning the veracity of the documents he's releasing. They just accept them as de facto truth.
I'd bet its even less than that. I remember watching the comets fall on that stupid icon and waiting... and waiting... only the truest of nerds tolerated that nonsense.
PG didn't use SQL. Not sure why, I would love an explanation from PG himself. He's a great programmer and can teach us something while explaining his reasoning.
It shouldn't affect the stock price. According to the article the other employee was moved to another division so no problem now for Sergey, at least on the face of it.
I'm sorry but this vision of a "thinker" who is always imagining the future so he can "out-innovate" his competition is a little ridiculous. PG's point is a psychological one: many of the founders he encounters are lack the self esteem to thrive when they have control.

The startups that win do so only very rarely because a visionary founder innovatively guessed the future trajectory of culture. In my opinion being good at running a company mostly requires the usual mix of soft skills plus a strong, unconflicted motive to succeed.
Are long commutes bad for democracy?
At one company, they gave a personality test in two sessions. The test gave everyone a color, green, yellow, blue or red, that determined if you were better in sales, management, tech, or whatever. Techs were supposed to be green. Well, the first group took the test, and we were able to figure out how to game the test so that the score would come out exactly centered. Everyone in the second batch of tester scored exactly in the center. Boy was the HR manager pissed! He was fuming! It was so hilarious. They too used those kinds of tests to determine whether people would be promoted or fired.
"On that basis you couldn't have US school textbooks with translations of the letters of Christopher Columbus in them"

I don't know what your point is, most school textbooks don't include Colombus' letters either. And it's not that history textbooks can't include religious content but the more religious content there is the less likely you're going to see it in a secular textbook, grandparent is precisely right.
The nozzle of the gas pump is on the right side. That's your indicator that the tank filler is on that side of the car.
What would prevent them? Didn't they relax the cross-compile restrictions like, 3 years ago? Adobe has a cross-compiler, that I know for sure.

In fact, I did a quick Google search before submitting this reply. Relevant quote, from an Apple press release in 2010:

> In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
Reminds me a lot of the PhD-student experience; for years you sit in courses in a relatively strict environment to finally get your BSc (or your MSc or whatever), and you start your PhD - and suddenly you're on your own, you have to plan your own time, outline your own research, you have to make sure that your program stays on track, deliver results on time etc.

Not many people can handle this sudden shift which is why a PhD is not something for everyone.
Not-so-compelling examples of Unix command line idioms that are needlessly baroque: cp, man, ls, grep.

Great examples of Unix command line idioms that are needlessly baroque: find, ifconfig, route, netstat, lsof.
I'd say having spelling agnostic search would be crucial. I searched yesterday on google play music for an artist I'd heard of that sounded something like "n door" so I typed that and he came up as the top hit... "Youssou N'Dour". For this ferret search engine all I get is "Nas".
Like Bitcoin? ;-)
Paying someone for access never ends well. Do you think the people whose access is being sold are happy with the arrangement? By definition you're entering into a sleazy area. This is why apartment brokers selling access to apartments are sleazy.
Wow this is absolutely ridiculous and a horrible way to recruit people.
I have never rented a car where the rental person didn't do this with me. Nobody is going to remember what side the gas tank is on though a week later when you fill it up.
Well, at least someone is willing to defend Ballmer in public. Microsoft's revenue and profit increased tremendously over Ballmer's tenure. But that still doesn't make Ballmer a good CEO. The profit was mostly from continuation of monopoly products that existed before Ballmer became CEO.

What follows is a rant that I posted on the linked website:

You have neglected to discuss the many many failures Uncle Fester was responsible for.

Here’s a simple failure: Zune, the brown bar of turd. Born purely from Apple envy. Even my pre-teen children knew it was destined for failure, why couldn’t Fester figure it out? Did he surround himself with toadies who were afraid to give him honest advice? The posters at Mini-Msft seem to think so.

But it’s not just Zune, it’s obvious to the most casual observer that Microsoft can’t be trusted (in the Zune arena or in any other). Why did they abandon PlaysForSure when they introduced Zune? How could they be trusted again after doing something that stupid? Microsoft has been stabbing customers and partners in the back for decades. It continues with how Surface just stabbed all their hardware partners in the back. And still failed. To me that’s long-term failure, nothing to be proud of.

And then there’s stack ranking. Which means Microsoft can’t ever put together a team of ten star people to achieve something more than mediocrity. Because in six months only one or two of those ten will be considered a star, seven will be “meh”, and one will be in the process of being pushed out the door. What a brilliant plan for long term success. Stack ranking is almost universally despised within Microsoft, and yet Fester still thinks it’s a great idea. That’s not being tone deaf, that’s gross stupidity.

I don’t blame Fester for failing at big things, such as missing mobile. That’s something that the visionary Steve Jobs got right, but many others failed at. I blame Fester for failing at simple things that even teenagers know are stupid.
I usually take a few pictures, but video should work, too.
T.I.L.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
elementary OS.
Current UC Berkeley EECS senior: I would apply to Berkeley but suggest you go to a better funded smaller school so long as its top ~15 if possible. Me, I had the choice between Berkeley, Illinois, and Carnegie Mellon. I do wish I had gone to Carnegie Mellon. The only two things that Berkeley really has going for it at this point is: it's close to tech companies (so tons of recruiters) and the degree still has a prestigious ring to it. Classes are packed even in upper division CS courses; I'm still waitlisted for 3 classes and have no idea which ones I'll get into. And it's only going to get worse as more people flock to CS and as the budget tightens.
The presence in Clojure of persistent vectors and hashmaps, which are very, very fast, and are used pervasively throughout the core libraries and Clojure code at large, makes it way more interesting to me than other Lisps I've seen. Does modern Racket have anything comparable to Clojure's collection primitives?

My introduction to Lisp, some years ago, was reading The Little Schemer, which I loved. Afterwards, I was very disillusioned when I needed an array and learned the canonical solution was to use mutable arrays and set! (as if adding a bang after its name made it less of a sin). I understand why it's like that: persistent data structures are tricky to implement efficiently, and Scheme emphasizes simplicity of implementation. But it still bums me out.
As someone who worked at startups, started my own, and had a great time and good outcome, I'm considering going back into a large company for some time just to see what it's like.

I think this article is true in the sense that startups cause you to lose any sense of being satisfied as a mindless "worker bee", but I'm not willing to rule out the idea that in some larger companies non-"worker bee" types who are driven individuals who want to make a dent can actually get a lot done with the resources of a large organization at their disposal. If you're in a good position mentally and financially, you have the luxury to just walk if the place is a dysfunctional mess or isn't letting you accomplish your larger goals quickly enough.

I think there's a certain point where you do need to step into the pool of ideas again: startup culture is pretty insular and at the end of the day if you are always working with a small team of like-minded people you are likely to not make the connections necessary to produce real innovation. Startups are certainly challenging in many ways. But there's a certain type of challenge you get when given a specific task by a mentor in a large company that seems impossible at first that really levels-up your skills. I've found that a lot of the type of learning in startups I've had has been rising to challenges that materialize out of the need to ensure the survivability of the product and business. These challenges are of a completely different flavor than those crafted by older and wiser mentors who have an interest in passing on their skills and throw you curve balls intentionally to make progress towards a larger goal while pushing the limits of your technical skill.