skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you got me wrong, sorry for not having myself made clearer. I worked through college as an IT consultant as well, however as you noted under supervision of a consulting company with seniors. Hiring a college student directly, without a company attached that can be made liable, is just a bad idea, both for the customer and the student. Just imagine the customer had sued parent. I wasn't talking about technical competence - it's all about liability as well as having proper processes for design, implementation, review, testing and rollout in place - a thing that can easily he seen even before signing a contract.
Your explanation is possible, but there are other explanations, like people switching majors.
Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch accessory
Why stop there? To really get the point across, you may want to do:

if (((((a == true) == true) == true) == true) == true)

That way, you can be even more certain!
SyncAdapters were added in Android 2.x
It's actually very similar. I hadn't known zingaya.com existed, thanks for the pointer. Do you use zingaya? What do you like/dislike about them?
One coder used framework he didn't completely understand. Originally there wasn't password requirement for users. But when site got more confidential data password feature had to be added. Well how it was done? When user gave login and clicked ok, came page asking for password. But if you changed url at this point, everything worked. When I checked the actual code, the user form logged user in and password form logged user out if password was incorrect. Oh boy, I did praise that guy.
Same guy used base64 encryption, so urls would be unguessable. Guess if there's real authentication at all if you modify the url content correctly. - Well, of course there isn't.
Btw. Why there aren't negative recommendations at linkedin?
I am very surprised by the prevalence of "was graduated from". I have only rarely heard that in 'real life', is the NYT's style guide enforcing this usage?
The Journey Is The Destination
The benefits of taking the long view on life. Reflections on some short-sighted decisions and some little things that made a big difference for me.
Pixate (YC S12) is hiring an iOS lead
JanRain OpenID - EOL
"I wanted to reach out personally to let you know that we have made the decision to end of life the myOpenID service. myOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014." - Larry Drebes, CEO, Janrain, Inc.
Agreed. A simple list was wanted, but not found. Something as simple as the following on any of the pages:

Wordpress

Drupal

Joomla

CodeIgniter

Symfony

CakePHP

Laravel

Yii

Angular

Magento
Actually, Redis has a pretty clever failover solution now, in redis-sentinel: http://redis.io/topics/sentinel
School is a prison and damaging our kids
Sorry this article has everything wrong about it. Reading this article makes me feel bad for the daughter of the author. I mean seriously ? A classic example of bad parenting in my opinion. So you are not going to post anything online. great. What about offline ? What about living life ? Everything has a trail, everything. This online post by the author itself has a trail that can be tracked to their daughter if someone really wants to.

Kids are not some kind of machine or algorithm that you can program in certain way. Seriously, what's wrong with some parents. Teach your kids the value of privacy by taking a balanced approach and not doing crazy things like reserving domain names and what not. Just because you are not posting anything online does not mean there is no trail. There always is and who knows what the digital world will be like in 20 years.
> You can customize wikis to make them into MMO games, but then they're not wikis any more.

That's not necessarily true. I think it'd be interesting to make a religion-inspired MMO game that's about writing and rewriting a holy text. Use a voting system to make something sacrosanct and thus harder to make changes to.
prediction 1: we will soon see smartwatches incorporate biometric measurement full force. After all unlike a mobile phone, a smartwatch is (typically) always attached to your body, right up against the skin.

prediction 2: once prediction 1 starts to happen, and people realize that (1) there is a device measuring physiological signals from their body, (2) it also has a gps tracker, (3) it is also connected to "the cloud" and (4) if it is android based, it is potentially sending all this info to the google-borg, there will be (I hope) a new imperative to have an honest discussion about privacy

or not
It's not that easy. Not subscribing to the culture of most parents tends to result into isolating your child.
haha - they left this line of code in http://cl.ly/image/060Q0f132222
Well, I wouldn't trade my Omega Seamaster for it yet. Sometimes, I just want to wear a watch to tell the time, and
I'm used to a certain amount of weight on my left wrist. I
don't even see the need for complicated movements, but I'm
an old man in this tech world--45. My demographic is not
very important anymore.
Was this designed specifically for Katie Baker (she writes summaries of the NYT Wedding Section for Grantland)?
Not a Fan of Growth Hackers
Requesting Feedback on a Go + Redis ORM Design
Complete code rewrite is only good when you are in a learning stage or when the project is not too big. Incremental update is much better and allows new features to be added without halting all the project for rewrite.
MMS is coming soon but the network operators aren't always easy to deal with. Right now, we put a link in the sms, that way you can send any file type.
OpenStack adds new hypervisor to support Docker containers
Fair point, and a browser extension that would detect changes in he script would be easy enough to build. The point is, for the vast majority of users, freezing certs and such is not common (I didn't know you could do that for example) and they would rely on the site to specify the cert to use.
That's what I have in mind too. This would be so much easier for Latex beginners to pick up latex!
Well, if they look at their ability to make an effective insurance package as a competitive advantage instead of a necessary evil, I don't see anything absolutely wrong with an insurance company making insurance software, but I'll defer to your domain expertise :)

Good luck.
Came across this today.
http://m.thelocal.se/50030/20130903/
It would be a good thing for my students to have in their kits. I try to get them to make something similar for SMT footprints every year (to print out on paper) with varying amounts of success. It is easy to get confused on different size designations (QFP, TQFP especially), and there is not a lot of utility in making people memorize stuff like this.
A Multitasking Video Game Makes Old Brains Act Younger
I use a Dell U2711. Best monitor I've ever owned. Reviews say noticeable input lag, but I've never noticed any and I'm a fairly hardc0r3 gam3r.

More to the point, I'm a graphics programmer / researcher, so monitors with low Delta E are important for my work. The Dell U2711 combined with an i1Display Pro can be calibrated to exceptional color fidelity.
My point is that simply posting the 4-year graduation rate of women in the department in isolation is misleading. At my undergraduate school (Georgia Tech), only 31% of people graduated within four years (70% by five, 80% by eight). Big attrition rates are normal for focused engineering schools.
Most SMT resistors use a number code. Also, colorblind people.
The 1% series has an extra value band, which throws off their multiplier. Example: 1k 5% is brown black red (gold), but 1k 1% is brown black black brown (brown).

We do use a few 0.1% values in some cal equipment--about $1 each!
Scrum vs. Kanban - Rules and Workflows
Why tricking the nature is so often the first reaction of people around here?

Sleep helps replinsh brain cells - let's make a pill that does just that so we don't need to sleep as much! Vegitables are good for you - let's have a pill that has all their nutrients so we don't need to eat them! Exercise betters the mood - let's isolate those chemicals so we don't need to exercise! Being barefoot is good for you - let's all buy "barefoot shoes"!

I really don't get it. Why are people so averse to natural ways and ofetn simple moderation. I did not grow up in North America, so maybe it's just a cultural difference.
Please don't be a sarcastic asshole. pstuart [Edit: not you] said you saw "posts" that showed it was unsustainable, and provided no citations at all. The fact is that there currently isn't a body of peer reviewed evidence to look at about the long term sustainability of polyphasic sleep.

But it doesn't take much evidence to refute an absolute claim like "polyphasic sleep is unsustainable". If someone is sleeping for 2 hours per night for a five months and says they feel energetic, that's damned compelling. That isn't "It really seemed to cure my headache!" It's "I am still functioning normally after 20 weeks with only 2 hours of sleep per night."

You also can't reasonably compare the priors of homeopathy and polyphasic sleep. If homeopathy worked, we'd have to toss out just about all of the theory behind physics and medicine and start over from scratch. Polyphasic sleep doesn't contradict current scientific knowledge.
Isn't this basically saying "we're admitting more, less qualified females and fewer more qualified (relatively) males".

I used to think exactly like you when I was much younger. And I thought I was one of those "more qualified" guys.

Now I observe that if MIT's goal is to admit students who will use technology to make a positive contribution in society, filling the class with men who are "smart" in exactly one dimension ... is not the best way to achieve that goal.

To put it another way, if you want to maximize future impact, trading in 100 Math SAT points for 100 EQ points is an excellent deal.

And don't even start on "equality." If you're even thinking about MIT, you've had a hugely unequal leg up in the global birth sweepstakes.
Hmmm, meybe i'm getting this wrong, but... Isn't a color code too basic to be in a card in your pocket?

I mean, c'mon, i haven't used color codes since High School about 17 years ago and i still remember how to decode them. It's not that hard.

i feel that consulting a table is more time consuming that knowing how to decode it... Usually while working with prototyping you end up with lots of resistors, and i can't see someone checking each one at the time against a table to reveal it's value...

But maybe i'm getting it all wrong, someone?
Good for Uber, and I understand the want to prevent the players' safety, but seriously, that's ridiculous. The fact that this deal is in place says a lot about the maturity of professional athletes.
There were already search engines before those search engines (that exist side by side with Google). Stop complaining about free "stuff"'s existence.

What does the world owe to you?
Who in their own mind would ever wear a 4-pounds brick on his or her wrist? Am I having a bad trip or we're headed in a dystopian future where tech companies are managed by a pack of monkeys designing useless gadgets to strap on the lesser humans?
It had better not be unavailable prerequisite courses, especially since there's no excuse during that period for insufficient lab hardware resources (not true in the bad old days before most everyone can afford a laptop more powerful than a Cray 1). That's one of the reasons for paying the big bucks to go to a private school, and why many state schools are not so much the bargains that appear to be if you can't graduate within 4 or even 5 years.

I can't speak about CMU, but I know there are basically no limits to what MIT will do to make sure every major can graduate in 4 years, and almost always take the courses they need when they want to take them. That has sometimes meant non-majors couldn't take courses intended for majors, but otherwise....
Great work! This will make more people start to see the beauty of LaTeX.
As I suppose the target users of this project are those who like WYSIWYG approach, they may not want to replace the default element in the text field one by one.
Is it possible to prompt the user in request for values before passing it to the textfield? Or let the user create their own default values after logged in?
What is the point of this? Is it some kind of odd "old-school" status thing? The upper class equivalent of being on the 8 o'clock news for a 1 minute interview? Although perhaps this is only for people already investing a huge amount of money into the wedding ceremony?
Economics of Money and Banking, Part One
I certainly believe that being given the option would be a significant improvement. How you execute that appropriately is better answered by a UX expert which I'm definitely not!
Can't wait for the 4" model.
I think culture is a big part of it and promoting the right people. Most companies when it becomes the size of apple are riddled with politics and the people on the top get there not because they create/design great products but know how to play the "game".

One thing that strikes me about apple is their culture of secrecy. There are departments within the same company that are not allowed to talk to one another. When you have no idea what other people are doing, it's very hard to play politics and the only thing you can do is just do great work.
Old slogan, booze bottle a day, keeps good code away.
> Isn't this basically saying "we're admitting more, less qualified females and fewer more qualified (relatively) males"

Not necessarily. What they mean by "more inclusive process" is:

In the past, admissions gave preference to
people with lots of previous programming
experience. The new criteria focused on
potential by targeting students who showed
science and math aptitude as well as non-academic
strengths like leadership. The department made
it explicit that no prior experience was required.

It sounds to me more like they fixed a flaw in their prior process. Remember, we are talking about Carnegie Mellon, one of the best computer science schools in the world, not some random trade school. As Dijkstra correctly quipped:

Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes

Yes, programming experience can be useful in some areas of computer science, and even if your interests lie in those parts of CS that do not involve programming at all your undergraduate degree will surely require some courses in those areas where it is useful, and so knowing some programming is useful to all computer scientists at some point.

However, as HN often points out (often as part of telling someone they don't need to go to college), you can become a good programmer and developer on your own with no formal instruction. The same applies to people in college--anyone with the aptitude to get into Carnegie Mellon should be able to easily pick up any programming they need in CS on the side.

Having programming experience be a significant factor for admission to a computer science program makes about as much sense as having welding experience be a significant factor for admission to a mechanical engineering program, or mental arithmetic proficiency for admission to a math program.
Two things:

1. What kind of EC2 instance are we talking about for MongoDB? If you're not using an SSD, comparing Dynamo and Mongo wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison.

2. I buy that the strictly technical costs of these systems is lower, but I'm not certain I buy that the overall cost (including engineer time to set these services up and monitor them) is lower.
> A developer hires an international 'starchitect' like Viñoly to design them an office block because the architects reputation for design helps them to get away with a larger building on the site and therefore get more net lettable area for their investment in land.

Ah. I've always wondered why people pay "starchitects" to design horrible, hideous, poorly designed buildings. I've always figured that they were paying more to get something of worse quality, but figured that people were paying the premium just to be in vogue.

The reputation allowing them to get away with a bigger building on the same plot of land is a new explanation to me, and makes lots of sense.
What this person said.
Fast Numeric Computation in Julia
Don't be ridiculous. Of course they QA their projects. Shit happens. This issue is of a serious enough nature affecting enough people that there will almost certainly be a proper route back.
Did you really mean to use the phrase "complete refactor" here? AFAIK, refactoring means modifying your code without modifying features. That's very different from a "complete rewrite".
Certainly to non-technical people, it's just digital cash that takes a bit of time to hand from one person to another? Isn't that a nearly perfect understanding for someone that doesn't want to know about hashing, blockchains, double spends, etc.?
You don't rewrite for features. You rewrite for better maintainability and productivity. After your rewrite you shouldn't have to rewrite it again. The balancing act is that a rewrite should improve your implementation velocity, so while it may be a setback, your velocity should be much higher than your competitors, so over time you would be able to surpass them and then gain a lead they cannot beat thanks to your higher productivity. As the technical debt grows, your productivity will get slower and slower, so you won't be able to keep up with your competitors anyways. That's the gamble.

Just because Facebook was written in PHP doesn't mean that the code was unmaintainable. I don't know if it was or not. The problem they had was that it was unscalable, and they didn't do nothing about it. They wrote a PHP to c compiler, and that's a monumental task. So they paid their technical debt in a different way that they decided was the most efficient way for them to deal with it. If the problem isn't scalability, and is maintainability, you may not have that luxury. Unmaintainable code's problem is inherently in its structure, and the only solution for that is refactorization or a rewrite. The code may be so unmaintainable that even refactorization isn't really possible. The best offense is a good defense. Deal with technical debt from the get go. Sure, write your MVP in a weekend just to test it, but rewrite it early for maintainability while it's still small and possible.
The Worst Things About Working At Facebook
Not much, since for the most part our ancestors did not have illumination at night
Most users have no idea what a plugin is or how to use it.

That said, it might be nice to have an optional plugin to easily discover annotations and add your own to pages as you browse.
Parameterized Docker Containers
See: http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff (read all the way through).
It's generic, not in the Java-generics sense of the work, but in the sense that x and y are generic names - they don't tell you what x and y are. Yes, they are of type int, but are they apples or oranges? In the example, they are indeed just two numbers that we chose to keep together, although the name and field names suggest that the author has a point in mind.

rationals.Pair is still a poor name, it's a pair of what and for what purpose? Assuming you're referring to rational numbers, ratio struct {p, q int} is better.
I think people, deep down, know the difference between real and fake threats. People like getting worked up about fake threats, because they know they don't actually have anything to fear -- any more than from a scary movie. If the TV was always going on about real-life stuff that made you feel uncomfortable -- who wants to watch that?
Ask HN: Why is the title bar sometimes much darker/redder?
#ff6600
So what seems to be the problem?

Many of the best technical minds from the top schools are going to Wall Street and to companies that help you share cat videos with your friends.

Some people think that's a problem (for society). You may or may not.
Relevance and recency are not always directly proportional.
Everyone outside the US says that, and I agree that nice European chocolate is notably different than Hershey's chocolate, but I've had both American and European KitKats and they taste identical.
Domain names are about as close as you can get to infrastructure digital world - so, they may matter - but perhaps not.

Instagram? Who's to say - but my hunch is you're right.

We purchased a few name related domain names for our firstborn - if they're useless or unwanted, so it goes, but the downside risk seemed minor enough that I decided to go for it. I mean, when you compare it with all the other kid gear that gets used for 2-12 months before it's outgrown, domain names are a cheap extravagance. (Even when considering the holding cost)
At least you have sidewalks!

It amazes me how many communities (here in the USA, at least) just completely omit them altogether. They're so car-oriented that they actually deny the possibility of walking altogether. You get the feeling that they'd ban shoes if they could. Depressing.
This is so true: Steer the Conversation Towards Value, Not Price.
This is dumb beyond belief.

Amazing how important some people believe themselves and their little angels to be. If my 3 month old daughter grows up to be significant enough that my bathtub picture of her somehow has impact on her future then I hope to have raised her well enough to recognize the humor in that situation.
Finding Out You’re a Sexist, Misogynistic, Homophobic, Classist, Racist Asshole
I'm not sure how they intend to police photos of their daughter as taken by cameras not under their control, or on accounts not under their control, or other information posted about her by friends and family. Given the technologies involved, it would not be terribly hard to infer the daughter's photographs and personal information (name, etc.) and connect the two. There's also the very real possibility that she may not be interested in their idea of her personality and identity by the time she's grown up.
Steward Brand has a documentary and book on "How Buildings Learn". A building isn't made for architects, it's for people to use, and people over time are going to use their building for different, often very different things. Even such trivial things like "roof shouldn't leak" can be handwaved around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0
This really feels like a "because we can" product. Given the specs and features, it seems to be purely a companion device...and for $300?

After reading the press release, I'm still trying to understand what legitimately useful functionality is provides beyond your phone. I'm amazed they didn't at least include some bio measurement capability (beyond accelerometer). I would have thought it would be a key potential application.

As noted in the PR, a watch and fashion icon apparently:

Standalone Watch and Iconic Fashion Accessory

Yes it's version one, but surely they can do better.
It weighs 74 grams (or about 0.16 lbs).
> there will be (I hope) a new imperative to have an honest discussion about privacy

No, people will be excited that they can have a Fitbit, camera, and phone all in one.
Your allusion to the Holocaust demonstrates why this analogy is not helpful in this case, nor in most other cases.

The comment specifically says "As a general rule, it's pretty safe...".
Undergraduate women in computer science (1997)
Source for "4-pounds"?
Using separate numbers for two-factor authentication
Backend Scala Engineer. Full time position. Palo Alto, California.
The Coase Theorem is widely cited in economics. Ronald Coase hated it.
Galaxy Note 3 Specs
Personally I prefer it. Dark text on a white background (aka, the norm) often requires me to turn down the brightness on my laptop.