skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> until cash is in the bank I don't change my life.

if you're in sales, this is EXTREMELY important, doubly so if you sell for a startup. the deal isn't real until the money shows up.

customers will take advantage of your kindness, lie to you, manipulate you, appeal to your vanity, and they can smell desperation from a mile away. "give an inch and they'll take a mile" - these folksy old timey sayings don't come from nowhere.

there are all sorts of shitty people out there that will play napoleon for a day just because they feel they have power over you. it's sickening.

do not start work until you get the money. do not ship product until you get the money. do not pay your suppliers until you get the money. do not pay your sales people commission until you get the money - money didn't show up? well that wasn't a sale, now was it?

if they don't want to pay at LEAST a deposit, they're not serious. END OF STORY.

very simple in concept - very difficult in practice because there are some people who are just plain naive out there. one of the most important skills you learn as a startup is how to say no.
I find the part about Facebook ominous:

> There is an insanely huge difference between, “We’re making a site for connecting to your friends” and, “Privacy is a relic of the past, so we’re going to push people to open up their lives and share, connecting them together.”

This is "learning how to think"? If so, then I'm afraid the NSA, Google, and Facebook are far ahead of those of us who just want to connect privately with friends. I would say that Facebook has learned how to think about ways to exploit the human impulse to connect. Hopefully there is a business opportunity in platforms for private connections as well. It may take years for public awareness of privacy issues to reach that level, but I hope someday people will look back at Facebook as a relic of the past when personal privacy was exploited for corporate gain.
>He probably hastily sent them a bunch of documents when he was worried that he would be sent back the USA

Really!? You think that's probably what he did? You believe that it's more likely than not that he got all flustered with the USA's response, and sent a bunch of documents to Greenwald that he didn't want released?

That's just absurd.
Music played on a radio made from the RF emissions of the IBM 1401:

http://youtu.be/EPk8MVEmiTI
I actually think this has more to do with the textbook authors not thinking of those time periods as "history" but as "current events" somehow and hence not feeling like a "history" book needs to include them. If you were in school about 15-20 years ago, and the textbooks were about 15 years old (pretty common), and the authors were in their 40s or 50s when writing them, then events of 60-65 years ago, so the late 40s and early 50s, would have corresponded to their teenage years...

Once you get into the 70s or 80s, it's not just the textbook authors who think that way but also most of the teachers.
Great premise, if it weren't for open enrollment. Now whatever barriers a child has to get a good education are all but gone.

Can read about each state's open enrollment rules here:

http://mb2.ecs.org/reports/Report.aspx?id=268

Oh sure, the parent has to sacrifice a little by maybe driving little johnny across town to a better school, but if you value an education, these are the sacrifices parents make.

Although like the author points out, no reason to have your well educated kids going to a shitty school, just so they can help out a few kids who may or may not want help. Maybe little johhny wants to deal drugs and carry a gun instead of getting a high school diploma. No amount of smart suburban kids is going to change that.
Not to promote botnets but it does benefit TOR to have more nodes operating... Involuntary recruiting?
How on earth do you think you can you avoid including religious content in history textbooks, irrespective of the secularity of the school? You'd have to cut nearly all of it.

Besides I would have thought that a secular school would be one where you would see the widest range of religious content when studying history, as it would be less likely to be biased in favour of any religion in particular.

edit - the following is from a US lesson plan on Christopher Columbus for history teachers in public schools;

"In this unit, students will work with primary source documents written by Christopher Columbus around the time of his voyage to the New World, and with secondary source documents written at a later date. They also have a chance to write their own secondary source material in this unit. Using both primary and secondary source documents within a single unit gives students an opportunity to see the difference between these two types of documents. You may wish to have students work alone or in small groups to read and interpret these documents. Groups could be based on areas of interest (especially for analyzing the scholarly documents), or could allow students with stronger reading skills to help others work through the source documents."

and

"The desire to bring Christianity to native peoples was essential to European exploration. It is a topic that cannot be ignored in discussions of Columbus"

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/what-was-columbus-thin...
What I've found is most people don't see any beauty in what they do
That's NoScript helping you out in this case.
Other comments in this thread speculate about SQL-injection attacks, which are not a problem here because Hacker News doesn't use SQL. For interested readers, there was once a thread "How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

begun 1548 days ago, and that still makes interesting reading, although I'm sure the original vulnerability has been fixed.
This post articulates a problem that is an order of magnitude worse in East Asia. We are working in Cambodia and Laos (we gave up on Thailand, they're a basket case) to encourage tech startups and develop talent that can think on their own in the workplace.

People here are not just willing to learn but enthusiastic. But they are like Paul Graham's baby birds, they don't even know what to learn or how to begin.

The Chinese education model is based on the idea that a student is an open vessel that the teacher pours their wisdom into. More often than not, that pouring consists of little more than route memorization of lists and facts. Computer education is little more than teaching how to operate GUI applications without any understanding of what they are doing.

Save a document? I asked my staff last year why you save documents and what happened when you clicked on "save" (no one had heard of C-c). No one had a clue. Digging deeper I found that half of them didn't have a clear idea what a file or file system was. And these were people who had graduated from technical schools! This wasn't the case even five years ago before Android and the iPhone became ubiquitous.

And that is part of the problem, mobile devices are little more than consumer electronics rather than general purpose computers. Everything is abstracted away from the user so there is less chance for people to learn how things work.

Last night my partner who is on a business trip in Tokyo, asked me to check his girlfriend's android phone because he hadn't been able to get through to her on Viber for a couple of days. When I checked her phone, it turned out that she had tried to install a new game, did a factory reset to free up memory, installed the game and then wondered why she had no email, facebook or viber on the phone...

When I get new staff, the most difficult thing to teach them is that if they have completed a task that had been given to them, that they have to hand in the work and ask for a new task. But it gets even worse. Many times, if they run into a problem in the task they just give up and don't tell anyone. When you ask them what happened, they give you a blank look and say something like, I couldn't open the file. So instead of asking someone for help they spent the next three hours on facebook until a manager noticed. Very frustrating.

The problem is that they have never been allowed to take responsibility for trying to solve a problem on their own. Traditional management and education systems here reward blind, literal obedience which is coupled with an abject fear of failure.

It's not enough to teach people how to think for themselves. They must have the freedom to fail, and be given the responsibility that goes along with it. We have our work cut out for us....
Exactly. I don't care about the document progression or the changes of words. I just want "versions" and "notes". I actually did a writing application for myself only and I had two windows, one on the left with the actual text, one on the right with the notes, also a sidebar with the chapters and progression of the book.
Surprised that people are actually trying this. IMO there are far better configurations out there if you want to try a pre-tailored one. Google for them, i'll add my personal favorite here since people are actually up-voting and installing this less than impressive config.

If you use ruby/rails try yadr https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles.
If you don't use ruby, it (imo) still has one of the best key maps/configs for beginners just delete the ruby plugins.

Make it yours:
:help every plugin and every setting if you don't know what it does. Change any key mappings you don't like. It will take about 40 hours to familiarize yourself with everything, that is if you go plugin hunting yourself. I'm not a believer that starting from scratch is the way to go.

Remove vim-snipmate, neocomplicache, vim-snippets, vim-colors-solarized. Remove nerdtree nerdtree, vim-nerdtree-tabs, use :e/CtrlP instead.

Add YouCompleteMe, vim-detailed, vim-notes, vim-slime, vim-numbertoggle, vim-abolish, vim-startify, vim-textobj-rubyblock, switch.vim, ultisnips, vim-airline, unite (check out unite plugins), vim-expand-region, vim-jsbeatify, extradite, vim-diffchanges, vim-speeddating, goldenview or golden-ratio.

This config probably won't run well on machines that are older than 2012, in total there are about 90 plugins. Remove any plugins you don't need. Look up how to profile your plugins, if one of them is causing things to be slow remove it. Don't install anything without reading the help file immediately afterwards.

Learning enough vim to match your current productivity is not as difficult as everyone makes it out to be. I was instantly more productive with this setup switching from RubyMine and I still have barely scratched the surface of those help files. Disclaimer: I had picked up the most basic motion / visual selection keys previously working over SSH. And I was familiar with window/buffer management from using tmux daily.

To everyone I highly recommend YouCompleteMe, vim-detailed, vim-notes, and https://github.com/rking/vim-detailed.
After taking an HCI course and reading The Design of Everyday Things, I also notice poorly designed things quite often.

BTW, there's a free course based off that book starting this fall: https://www.udacity.com/course/design101.
Forgive me for being the nitpicker on this article, but, dear author: check the CSS font-family on your <pre> tags. You have some proportional fonts in there, and for me on Linux, your code snippets are showing up as proportional fonts which makes them not line up.

Specifically, I'd recommend changing

font-family: Monaco,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Lucida Console,Terminal;

to

font-family: Monaco,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Lucida Console,Terminal,monospace;

The "monospace" at the end is generic and will always produce a fixed-width font.

Great post anyway, thanks!
I like this one: http://www.practicalcryptography.com/miscellaneous/machine-l...
People really need to start realizing not everyone is specializing in communication/social-interaction or business writing. And that does NOT make them horrible candidates for being more professional in other aspects of their work. These tests the HR departments keep making are not helping and detering very skilled and productive people who should have otherwise been hired.

And this is coming from someone who is from US and natively speaks English. Social awkwardness is in a sense showing intelligence, however it is hard to convey speech articulate for some people. Some people are much more wrapped in the news of now and what is going on the world than others. And people all have different ways of jumbling facts in their head and through speech, so it's not exactly fair to say one person is smarter based on them using cleaner and more syntactic language.

But generally companies do need to hire people that they can at least get along with. That I can understand, because if you can't stand a person who is there by your side for 6 hours or more then you can't really work with them.

Companies that are looking to hire people based off of speech and writing are looking at it as a communication issue. This could be good or it could be much worse. They need to realize the trade-off between communication and talent being there.
This is interesting. It looks like government damage control.
totally unrelated, I think. :)
I'm actually going to be talking to some Los Angeles accelerators in October/November. Your story is concerning. Can you reach out over email? My email is in my profile. I don't need any of your personal details, but the accelerator name would really help me out.
Ask HN: Have you ever tried to find clinical trials for yourself/a relative?
If you have, what resources did you use? How did you find it? Any tips? Were you able to find a trial?

A friend of mine has been in the medical industry for a while and is working full time trying to solve this - he searched for 12 months trying to find experimental trials for his grandfather because the prescribed drugs weren't having an impact, unfortunately to no avail.

If you are in PA/SF I'd love to email/skype/meet/eat/coffee/etc :) (and so would he!)
I'm confused. . .I agree that we should be spending more on scientific research. And I understand that, according to the article, we have reduced our spending on scientific research as a % of GDP. But. . .we are still spending more in real dollars than any other country. So. . .where are those scientists planning to go. . .when other countries are spending less in real dollars?
It reads disconcertingly like a patent application.
Democracy would be nice, but I'd rather have a technocracy than a plutocracy, which is arguably what the U.S. really has right now.
But having a search engine staffed by psychics is almost undeniably more useful.

Certainly more creepy, and not a tradeoff many people would be willing to make, but incredibly useful.
I'm currently living in Chiang Mai and curious what made you give up Thailand?
Singapore does that kind of timing pretty well.
So I was always told that (as beambot points out) the number of credits was based on lecture time, and moreover that you should expect to spend 2-3 times as much time outside of lectures as you did inside. So your generic 3-credit course (nominally three hours of lecture, actually more like 2 1/2) would require something like 9-12 hours total: 3 in lecture, 6-9 at home.

Now in my experience, this was much more accurate for humanities than for math/science classes, where the amount of time the class took depended strongly on one's ability and preparation. I remember in particular one math professor whose problems were tricky: if you had the right insight, the proof was usually very simple, but if you didn't have that insight, you'd struggle and struggle. (And then there were the classes for which I was way under-prepared, and on which I spent way more than 25 hours.)

Add on to that the fact the time spent in lecture (on which the number of credits depends) doesn't necessarily track the difficulty of the material, and you have a recipe for wide variation in the amount of time one spends for a certain amount of credits. (Labs are notorious for taking way more time than the number of credits.)

And then you get into how some classes are more efficient than others in terms of how much learning you get for the amount of time you spend, and this doesn't match up with the number of credits either...
Faster CI builds by caching installed bundle to AmazonS3
tldr: we are special snowflakes
Exactly.

I went to a talk by an Intel engineer saying this very thing. Fortunately it's not dead, and Intel has done more than anyone else to keep it from dying!!!

OTOH back about three decades ago I attended a talk by a Verbatim marketing guy (they built floppy disks) that predicted that magnetic bubble memories would soon kill floppies.

Well, he was right that floppies would die. But so did bubble memory.
Mulder, Bowles, et al. 2009 (Science)
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Papers/Bowles1...
"We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population’s long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to which its most important forms of wealth are transmitted within families across generations."
The worst is psych "tests" without context. What are we supposed to feel from x sentence, but without a given contextual situation? That is bound to go wrong.
This might not be the best place to mention this, but here goes anyway: I started reading The Design of Everyday Things, but I've been disappointed so far. To be fair, I'm only 50 pages in, but I haven't read anything mind blowing in any way yet. The book so far has been a compendium of author's anecdotes regarding poorly designed things/systems/manuals/etc. I certainly agree with what he says, absolutely. At the same time though, it doesn't keep my attention because it just seems like story after story, no logical foundation that he's building for creating a well-designed product.

Here's to hoping it gets better!
These Tiny Tailed Robots Could Be the Future of Collecting and Monitoring Data
He did explain that at least once here. Someone brought it up about six months ago when they updated to the new Altair. Here is a related discussion from around that time. Sorry I couldn't find the one from PG. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673

IIRC HN runs off a flat file, and doesn't use SQL, or anything else fancy simply because it isn't needed, and or because it adds unneeded complexity.
Thanks Alex! I'm working on some lessons around push / pull / rebase right now that I think will be super helpful for learning the next steps.

Progress has slowed a bit since work has ramped up, but now that intern season is over I'm expecting to make some progress
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
Would there be a way to automatically link this article to any post about women and computer/programming?
I read the abstract. I'm thinking this attack is mitigated by increasing Tor popularity. The more total Tor traffic, the less likely that deploying high-bandwidth ingress and egress nodes will grab the specific traffic the attacker is looking for.
Indeed, there's a world of difference between reading religious texts or listening to material that may make reference to religious matter, for the purpose of comprehension or understanding historical context etc, and it being used for proselytism.
LOL, true. Pedantic haters gonna hate pedantically.

Also:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2205-there-is-an-inverse-rela...
Computer Scientists Figured Out How To Execute The Perfect Reddit Submission
tl;dr Someone with no apparent expertise in education research/theory/policy/history debates someone else with no apparent knowledge of education research/theory/policy/history.

In a world where there are hundreds of high-quality research-based books on education, thousands of academic studies on education, dozens of books on the history of education, etc., these sorts of baseless opinion pieces get boring really quickly.
> mindless worker bee

A little bit respect could be nice
We don't know this for a fact. There are quantum annealing algorithms for factoring numbers.
Funky. Backdoorish?
This is a good idea :) I'll probably add in a module for phonetic matching when I get the time.
New Study shows alcohol boosts Creative Problem Solving
After a while the ability to edit your comments is removed. Not sure exactly how many hours.
They won't have a problem with it, I'd bet on it. That's not their concern really at all - the people who look at confirming apps look at human interface guidelines, functionality, crashes (although we've had an app that doesn't even launch it just crashes everytime approved), and if it meets their guidelines.
115, the Newest Element on the Periodic Table
The W3C have a draft API for hosted JavaScript cryptography:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/

Netflix, of all people, have implemented a flavour of this at least once for Chrome:

https://github.com/Netflix/NfWebCrypto
The edit window for a new comment is only about two hours long.
Actually, one of my related pet peeves are all cars where the fuel fill cap is NOT on the driver side of the vehicle. It is always just a little bit easier to not scratch the side of your car on the giant concrete barriers that way.
In my universe! Instead of receiving emails from my IT dept* to warn me of SPAM that I shouldn't click, including a FWD of the spam with the link that shouldn't be clicked, I'd receive, I dunno, pretty much anything else would be fine.

* No, really, this went on for the better part of a semester despite a diverse array of advice to the contrary.
You can dump your google cookies frequently or blacklist google.com from setting cookies.
Can you recommend a good review article or similar that gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in terms of education research? I am somewhat interested.
Are you aware of [http://www.shellcheck.net/]? Its pretty slick, and you may be able to work wit tat a little bit.
I was using the words used by the article, not my own. i'll put quotes around it (since I generally disagree with this analogy anyway)
"Startups ruin you" can't be rewritten as "It ruin you," though, yeah? It could be rewritten as "They ruin you," however. "Startups" is plural. "A startup" or "that startup" and so on is singular.

"A startup ruins you" would be a fine English sentence.
Weird, my pet peeve is cars where the fuel fill cap is ON the driver side of the car, Since I'm used to driving the right side of the car closer to things on the side of the road I feel like I can position that side better.
Surely the sudden spike in entry and exit nodes would make the attack obvious. The central directory authority service could be modified to blacklist nodes from the master OR directory list that join within too small of a time interval.

On a more practical note, few cloud providers are going to let their network suddenly become a massive transit space for Tor traffic.

Before this could be successfully deployed in the wild, the problem can be easily corrected.
That's assuming that search preferences are homogeneous, that everyone in the world uses DDG, or that the people currently providing click data are a representative sample of the world. The first and last things might be true for a few terms, but even then, the order of the search results is a very tricky thing (e.g. NYTimes or WSJ editorial page first? the difference in traffic between 1st and even 2nd or 3rd on the search results page is huge).

The only real benefit is that you and your neighbor are in the same filter bubble.
I'm in favor of reasonable gun control laws that aren't a reaction to circumstance as well.

Side note: I have a friend who grew up in Northern Finland and was hunting small game since a very early age (I think he said six or seven). He's introduced me to a lot of great Finnish things, like Paleface, salted black licorice and gravlax. I hope to visit there someday.
Yes, until interdistrict fighting occurs and one district decides to end the brain drain by refusing any further transfers, forcing families to move districts so they can go into better ones.

So, open enrollment: great in theory. Not as real in practice.