skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a Cal State for undergrad, and had a great experience. None of my engineering or math classes were 'seminar-style', I always had access to my professors, who generally knew me by name. Most of the students come out being able to put something together on their own. I ended up going to to a private school for my master's, and was surprised to see so many people who wouldn't know which end to hold on a soldering iron. BUT - the student body was generally much more engaged and interesting, and I ended up having a much better time there. I just wasn't blown away by their academic superiority :)
Ah, I was hoping to avoid this argument. If your students aren't doing well, having a "questionable" measurement is better than nothing.
Netflix is also making a huge mistake in its product strategy on the device front that will probably haunt them forever.

http://statspotting.com/the-one-mistake-that-might-haunt-net...
Most dedup algos do compare the data. If you just use the hash, there's a very small chance of a hash collision causing file corruption / data loss. And depending on how common that block is, the corruption could affect a large number of files.

Its a byte comparison.. so you still wouldn't use libreoffice to compare files.
In case you're interested and missed it, I wrote about my time as an analyst a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6255290
Jonathan from CB Insights here. We published this report in partnership with Silicon Valley Bank and Orrick. For startups, investors and advisors interested in the NY ecosystem, we hope it is helpful.
I think this is a great example of why we should ask question about cloud security & privacy. I've written down some thoughts about this: http://vuongnguyen.com/personal-business-cloud-security.html

-V.
I'm a bioinformatician at a translational cancer research institution & have some sense of the stumbling blocks and opportunities in this space.

First off, doing away with clinical trials as we perform them now would certainly speed up pairing drugs with patients but it's not going to happen unfortunately. Drug trials aren't designed to minimize search paths, they are designed to minimize risk.

With terminal diseases like many cancers the rules are bent a little but what's important to understand is that these are real people making the decisions ultimately. Sometimes the most information can be gained by withholding drug, and isolating another treatment's impact but if you are a patient with a terminal prognosis, or the doctor trying to treat that patient, are you going to choose not to take something that might help you?

This is a point of frustration for many in research fields because it means clinical data is hugely noisy. Patients are often cycled through different drugs quickly to find something that takes hold, while at the same time going in for as much chemo/radiation treatment as they can bare.

I'm not saying these approaches aren't relevant, they just won't happen as a grand reimagining of our drug approval system. What is starting to happen however, is reclassification of cancer 'type' based on genetic profiles meaning ovarian cancer may have certain genetic similarities to lung or pancreatic so instead of treating melanoma, you can treat a cancer with a disturbed MAP pathway.

All the same, I'm glad he's working on this problem because it's huge, and I look forward to seeing the point of view of the HN community.

edit: Though obvious to some, I should also mention this problem is complicated by the fact that genetic information is private and dissemination is highly restricted. Patients can release this info but it does often inhibit massive cross-patient research.
What's the average salary for a plumber 10 years into their career?
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Looks like you spilled your Alphabetti Spaghetti on your blog post there
I agree -- It's the same concept but much more efficient.

I'd set up a docker to accept a single HTTP post with the document, and to return the thumbnail. The docker can then be shut down and a new instance spun up to wait for the next document to process.

It might be wasteful to spin up a new docker for each instance, but it's the only way to prevent some exploit in LibreOffice[1] that might leak information somehow. A leak could be as terrible as embedding an entire document in the next thumbnail, or as simple as returning the wrong thumbnail (like from a previous request).

[1] LibreOffice was the user-agent that phoned home in the article.
r/shitredditsays over on reddit.com - basically, take Tumblr feminism (radical third wave) and elevate it to the point where it becomes a parody of itself. It's a meta-sub (a sub who's point it is to comment or link to other subs) that puts on airs that they exist for calling out shitty comments on reddit.

In reality, they're known for invading threads, vote abuse, a level of dogmatism and doublethink that would make a Christian fundamentalist blush, and generally being a net negative influence on the site.
No kidding, That's about the 6th time I've read about it these last two years. WHY doesn't NASA begin by establishing WHAT is it exactly that makes a solar system official "boundary" before producing press releases every time they find something interesting in the readings sent to them by Voyager.

ADDENDUM : Ahem, Thanks for the downvotes, but the inner workings of space discovery are not the subject of my comment. As an engineer, I'm more than mindful of the back & forth & general messiness of discovery, peer-reviews, control groups, & the like. I'm talking about press releases & headlines targeted towards the GENERAL PUBLIC. A public that has a lot less of an appetite, patience or time to follow NASA's inner deliberations or the intricacies of the scientific method. The fact that this is the 5th or sixth time that they've heard that "Voyager has left the solar system" might leave them a little bit confused.
peterwaller got it right, but let me try and give a little more color. Deis is provides a private Heroku-like platform powered by Docker & Chef.

Once Deis is up and running, developers deploy with `git push deis master` and they automatically get a configurable number of Docker "runtime" containers spread across multiple VM hosts, a set of Nginx proxies that route traffic to the Docker containers, resulting in a fully functional distributed application.

How does this work? With Deis the ops folks initialize a "formation" that includes multiple VMs/instances for a) hosting Docker containers and b) proxying traffic into those containers. When a developer creates a new application, pushes a new build, sets an environment variable, etc.. Deis automatically builds the Docker image, distributes it, executes it and reconfigures Nginx proxies to route traffic to it. Chef is used to store platform state and orchestrate changes across the formation.
Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox
Show HN: 1,053,713 buildings in New York City, shaded by year of construction
As a team lead, this tool provides me with a way of visually follow multiple parallel backlogs and keep everyone in sync with the project goals. It covers the gap between the daily work and the general strategy.
Jumping insect discovered with gears in its legs.
US party line seems to be 10 minutes per grade:

http://www.nea.org/tools/16938.htm

But many parents report that their kids require far longer to complete the assignments. When my son had more than 15 - 20 minutes of homework in 1st grade (5 repetitions of "write a sentence in Spanish that includes the following word") last year we told him to stop and we sent a note to the teacher. I have a friend whose kid takes 2 - 3 times longer than his classmates to finish his homework. It's hard to tell if it is helpful or not for him, but he's definitely not happy about it and he's still a small kid.
"... how many grads do not have a decent grasp of elementary algorithms and data structures, and are not comfortable with code."

This is more a fault of computer science education than the student. I was taking 16 credits of upper division CS courses at [not renowned but not bad university]. Half-way through the term I had yet to do any programming. I realize that CS is about more than programming (my four classes broadly were proofs, computer hardware, methods of software engineering, and stats for scientists/engineers). But the only way to become good at programming is to do it consistently. One or two big projects towards the end of the term leaves you brushing up on old skills instead of building new ones.

I'll be attending Hack Reactor this fall because I want to become a good programmer, not vaguely familiar with everything CS has to offer.
I certainly expect to be able to choose which option I want to use, specially if Apple wants to keep my business. I have no problem remembering long complex passwords and have adapted to the phone authentication method as well. For our own sake, it would be best if we continue to use things ONLY we remember, to authenticate ourselves, otherwise we may be in trouble.

For instance, I recently heard of an older couple who allowed the husband's brother to visit them to talk about a new business he was in. Essentially he wanted to visit the couple with his "mentor" because he needed to "practice". At the end of their visit the couple had been persuaded to: join the "business" as members, for a monthly fee, which was going to be charged to their credit card. THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY A PYRAMID SCHEME! Anyways, after the visit, the terrified the woman immediately called the bank and had them cancel the card, so everything ended up being okay. Imagine if they had handed over their fingerprints! You won't be able to call the bank to tell them to send you a new fingerprint.
Hmmm...

First we had the 'how to shoot yourself in the foot in X language' jokes.

Now we'll have jokes about what cocktails different programming languages would be. Not bad, I might compile them in a page some day.
I think cbhl's point is perfectly valid, in the presentation of the feature, Apple states that about half of people leave their phones w/o a PIN. Touch ID is for these people and in general will make unauthorized access to iPhones more difficult.

Touch ID is optional, if a user feels particularly concerned, about legal implications of this, it is perfectly valid to revert to a passcode. I am glad that this article/discussion exists though, it is good to know what risks may exists using new security systems.

[Edited to add: just read somewhere else that after 48 hours of inactivity or a reboot, user must re-enter passcode before fingerprint will unlock the device. This would seem to protect from the case stated in the article.]
I know a Ph.D. in economics who can't balance his own checkbook.

None of these anecdotes mean anything. Humans have strengths & weaknesses, experience & inexperience, interests & disinterests. Match the person with the job or train them if they aren't a 100% match.
It might be a good idea to prompt for rights to use that feature, same as with the webcam or fullscreen.
Of all the companies out there, Facebook is the least arbitrary and inconsistent I know! Just imagine they're a perfectly rational, self-interested actor who plays realpolitik all the time and plan accordingly.

For example, how does FB benefit from your product? Does it hamper them in any way? Even the name (Social "Fixer") does not align with FB's interests.

The rational thing to do would be to shut you down. If you had leverage or tied into a broader strategy they might not. But you don't, so they did.
Your Venn Diagram guide to tech bro misogyny
I see. That's an interesting distinction. Presumably AMC exercised some sort of exclusive rights to Breaking Bad? Does that mean that the fact that Netflix has Breaking Bad right now has nothing to do with AMC?
This is provably wrong. When stopping Cymbalta it is common to suffer severe withdrawal symptoms.
>Furthermore, it's my personal policy that anyone who creates an infographic with a bar graph that starts at 520 and goes up to 570 should be ignored.

I strongly disagree. It's misleading to shift the bottom of the graph some, because it still looks like an unshifted graph. But if you shift the bottom of the graph all the way up to the lowest value, it does not look at all like an unshifted graph, and should not mislead anyone. Finnish children are obviously not getting scores 20 times higher than other countries.
This is equivalent to an appeal to authority.

Content is not modified by the context, a fact is either true or it is not. Everyone has a motive, it reminds me of how people call into question research sponsored by corporations as if people who work in government sponsored research are some how automatically saints with no ulterior motive.

To trust someone based on affiliate links is a quite silly line of deductive reasoning.

From the information provided it seems simple enough to verify, embed an image via URL into a doc file, upload to dropbox, see if the URL is accessed. No need to argue about motive.
It wasn't even true 20 years ago.

"Bob Costas" is playing the same stereotypes he claims to despise when others hold.
Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'
Whether or not it is reasonable is besides the point here -- I was responding to a bad analogy.
>> what other choice do they have but to fetch it?

Firewall unexpected outbound connections on machines doing their processing.
Curiously missing from this post and most of the subsequent comments is AMC's Hell On Wheels.

Maybe I'm the only one watching it, but it's one of the better shows on TV, in my opinion.
I wonder if Facebook will come out with these features soon
The Dubuque shot tower does not operate anymore.
10 minutes per grade level is actually the rule of thumb that's taught in many education programs and is advocated by the NEA (a national teachers' union). Some longitudinal research has borne this out.

Whether it actually happens or not, I don't know.

Research: http://rer.sagepub.com/content/76/1/1.abstract
Press info on research: http://today.duke.edu/2006/03/homework.html
Haven't read the full report yet, but sort of surprised that USV didn't make it into the summary. On the other hand, not surprised that the top 2 funded startups are both fashion related.
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hah! My startup is doing a similar platform in a little bigger scale. I realized I did pretty bad on the hackathon :( http://on.aol.com/video/jarvis-2-0-demo-at-hackathon-sf-2013...
Ahem... http://xkcd.com/1189/
You know, if your base is $80k, and you're regularly working 100 hour weeks, your hourly wage rapidly approaches $16 / hour ... which is about what the fast food workers are currently striking for.

I do not think I could be coerced to work 100 hours a week regularly for less than $50/hour of cash and equity, and the lower bound might be closer to $100/hour.
In general you're right to mistrust the oft-repeated headline. But this is actually a big deal. Voyager I really is exploring a new part of space for the first time.

It's also worth noting that Voyager I entered interstellar space well over a year ago, but that only now have we been able to confirm that fact. So if it seems like this has been repeated a lot lately, it's because the scientists have been sifting this data for a long time before they could be sure. (Again, this is uncharted territory for the human race.)
Nothing quite that juicy unfortunately (disclosure: I'm a co-founder of CB Insights). But it does provide rankings of VCs and angels in NY based on their investment activity. And some breakdowns by industry areas of focus. Also, has a ton of trend and financing data and investment syndicate analysis as well.

If you're a startup evaluating NY or already in NY and going to be fundraising, we hope and think it'll be a really great resource to help you determine who some of the key players are.
So the perceived value of Flynn vs. Deis will be that it's:

1. implemented in Go vs. Python+Ruby which means no dependencies, easier install, etc.

2. Modular architecture: in addition to Docker will also use CoreOS and etcd.
do you guys track companies in the energy sector specifically? It's hard keeping track of M&A in that sector and would love to have some data that consolidates that kind of info and other metrics like you have in the almanac report.
NAT-is-a-security-feature is such a zombie meme...
Countering Trojan Horse Attacks on Compilers
If Netflix buys AMC they should only do it after they see what comes after Breaking Bad and Mad Men (i.e. AMC's golden goose) since they're both ending within a year's time from now. Maybe AMC won't be top dog for long if they can't replicate their success with new shows. Everything that goes up, must come down. I wouldn't bet the farm on 'Walking Dull', er I mean, 'Walking Dead'.
Why do you take that as a given? A bad measurement can easily lead to you going further in the wrong direction.
Does anyone know if this would allow you to use outlook.com with Outlook (on the desktop) and send mail from your domain without the "on behalf of" message?

Previously if you used outlook.com with Outlook for desktop you had to use the Hotmail connector. Sending emails to others they would see from you@outlook.com on behalf of you@yourdomain.com
I can't keep track of all the MS rebranding - is Outlook.com the same as Mail.Live.com, which used to be Hotmail.com?

(random aside about Microsoft's rebranding - if you want to get to the photo gallery associated with your Live.com account, you have to go to SkyDrive, because if you search for Live Photo you get the Windows 7/8 desktop application)
What did you do as far as projects that would have such a intense timeline?

Was it basically deals going on that needed to be analyzed quickly so they could make a decision?
Also there's a possibility of processing embedded links which point at your internal network.

"How did this HTTP GET go through to my 'firewalled' PHPmyadmin site?"

You have to treat all user input as if it's toxic.
Well, first let me say that the US health care system seems like the worst one in the Western world. We skip comparing with that.

[Edit: In Scandinavia] If you pay taxes for health care etc -- then someone else decides the priorities. This is potentially very bad for you. After paying taxes, you won't have enough money/insurance to go do expensive treatments in other places.

(Edit: Let me put it like this. Health care is centrally planned. Consider the size of that system per million people and realize it is very, very hard to make it work.)

My standard example, from me and others I know:

Sweden (and probably Finland) are internationally acknowledged to be bad at catching health problems. Doctors have lots of administration and just don't have enough time to do diagnosis for individual patients.

The worst part is that the doctors will tell you something, anything, to get you out of their hair.

(Anecdotally, Swedish doctors take jobs in Norway partly to get a chance to do their d-mn job.)

Me and others I know have had decades with e.g. losing your favorite sports (easily treated knee problems), tiredness (undiagnosed food allergies with few symptoms, lack of X, etc). And so on.

I have no idea if 0.5% or 10% of the population get their life quality seriously lowered by this. And no one else know either, since that question just isn't examined...
According to Kevin Spacey, Netflix was the only buyer that didn't want "House of Cards" to do a pilot, which, when you think of it, would have been an immense waste of time, talent and money.
From "The West Wing", around one of the last times Voyager left the solar system:

"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages and a collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him when he was seven by throwing lye in is his eyes after his father had beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."

It's pretty amazing how far we've extended our reach, if not our grasp.
I wonder if the fingerprint will ever be used to prove that you were at the location your phone recorded you at?
Just click on the arrow in the bottom right corner and then "Default to full screen". Unless you are looking for something different?

http://lifehacker.com/gmail-finally-gets-a-default-full-scre...
There are several different localized shortages, but also a general glut.

If you're trying to hire well-trained software engineers with high-level CS knowledge in the Bay Area, good fucking luck, and make sure to pay plenty because you're getting nothing otherwise.

If you're trying to hire medical device engineers in North Carolina (pulling this out of my ass, but you get the point), there is a glut of unemployed medicine and biology grads to choose from, many with top-flight skills and work experience.

Why do we keep employing these overly large categories that conceal more than they reveal?
The first char has to be a _letter_, $, or _. Letter can be one of the letter classes for any language.

ಠ_ಠ is a valid javascript identifier.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9337047/35338
They say that so much, that I will consider news when they say Voyager 1 is in another star (or in another... whatever it finds along the way!)

THEN I will consider it news...

Even because some scientists consider even the oort cloud (that is hell far) still part of solar system anyway.
Nice! This time it's real because we have an artist's depiction of voyager going from non-ionized almost void to ionized almost void.
What are more great examples of funny startup videos?
Yes - we track all types of private company financing and exit data - energy, life sciences, tech, etc. Sector, stage and geo-agnostic.

Email in profile so feel free to reach out if I can be helpful.
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> Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes?

That would be like criticizing The Walking Dead because you don't see as many vampires in recent episodes.
Since it's easy to confuse, it's worth explicitly highlighting the benefits of, above all, ultimately, maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

You and the author, together, are correct.

Someone may achieve 'balance' at 30, 60, 80 hours a week. YMMV. But the operative phrase is 'balance'.

I also consider the phrases 'unnecessary' and 'signaling problem' far too light to describe the ill effects of '[glorifying] getting no sleep and eating like shit'. It is a fucking cancer.

As an industry and a niche, we're really bad at promoting this.
Uhh ... that's exactly what they are doing: attempting to establish what the boundary even looks like. We thought we knew what the boundary would look like (even though we have never been there before). It turned out we were wrong. In science, that's good thing.

Some people may not want to hear anything until the science is over, but I think a lot of us actually enjoy being on the inside of the scientific process for a change.
MintBox 2 mini-PC ships with Mint 15
http://linuxgizmos.com/mintbox-2-ships-with-intel-core-i5-and-linux-mint-15/
List of Companies that Protect Data from the Government
The only thing that came to mind was that MOST of the craigslist postings were fradulent, just like my friend's.

This is the basic assumption, yes. It's why most of us don't job-hunt on Craigslist.
Some of those have already exited and for barely getting their money back.

Square is the outlier. But Dorsey was proven by that point. His success certainly isn't Khosla.

Again, don't just look at KV. Khosla has been at this for a long-time starting at Kleiner. Where are all the companies he made? Those aren't that...