skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's regional, and as the internet makes people more connected, people in other places are more aware of it?
nice! but i think you can add these:

1. customer-obsessed
2. knowledge management
3. cloud governance practice
4. ROI
5. release cadence
6. best-practice-based policy
7. change management
8. adoption
9. virtuous cycle
10. discovery session
11. social business
12. social customer service
13. on-demand workforce
14. customer engagement economy
15. C-suite strategy
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while your wife watches DWTS

You're part of the problem.
It sounds like your situation is a difficult one, and you've been set up to fail (not necessarily by Microsoft) if you have to support unreleased versions of Windows.
The HAL Project
1. Government profits from student loans. I.e., it does not subsidize them as a whole-- rather, it makes money off them.

2. In theory, colleges compete on cost as well as other factors. There exist private colleges and even for-profit private colleges (although the data shows us that for-profit private colleges often have the worst outcomes).

It's easy to blame government for problems. Easy, but not always correct.
A lot of Windows is UTF-16 or UCS-2, including Office, which forces their use for working with APIs or transferring data.
> How is the presence of a father relevant?

If modern society has taught men anything, it is never relevant.
Argh, why does no one include a tilde in the sample? A raised tilde ruins a font for me because of the ruby match operator: =~
What if there's two problems in the form? You generally just get one error from the database at a time.
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Interesting to read this. I'm a guy that played sports in HS and was very far from what one would classify as a 'geek'. Now I am learning programming and the reception from other more experienced programmers has been icy at times. It's interesting to see this - I would chalk it up to sexism, insecurity, and being territorial. If you're an outsider in any way, you will be told one way or another. Keep going!

On that note, my friends and I are working on a game that teaches game design, analytical thinking and programming. We're aiming to teach the skills needed to work in tech to people of all stripes. Check it out at www.betathegame.com
And for the next 6 month Susan get bullied even more by all the class for being teacher's pet.

I don't say the teacher should do nothing, but this just don't work.
I suppose just as an incentive to not default. If you keep the degree, in theory you are more employable. If you have to give it up to default on the debt, maybe you'd think twice?
I went to one of the University of California campuses in the late '80s. Back then fees were about $500 per quarter my freshman year, and minimum wage was $3.35. I was able to cover all my fees and most of my living expenses by working summers at a job that paid about double the minimum (with lots of overtime). A job in the campus cafeteria during the school year covered the rest. I took out one $2500 student loan for a rainy day fund but never spent the money.

There are a few things that have changed since back then:

* College tuition has gone up faster than anything else in the economy. Anything. The UC system was a great deal at $1500/yr, but back then you could go to Stanford for $13k or so. The increase has been driven mostly by easy money from student loans, but also by administrative bloat related to government dictates. Books have become an extortion racket - $150 for a stack of unbound pages?

* Almost 20 million illegal aliens have entered the country since I went to college, completely wiping out the low end of the job market. My 1986 summer job is now done by illegals in their late 20s, and they're making about $0.50 more per hour than I made 25 years ago. My old employer doesn't pay more because he doesn't have to.

* The rise of unpaid internships. You work a summer for free so there's a chance you can get a job when you graduate. I think this is another consequence of easy loan money. If you offered me (or my classmates) an unpaid internship we would have declined - we needed to get paid so we could afford to go to school in the fall. Between the low wages and easy loan money today you can almost see the wheels turning - "What the hell. It's not like a job at Burger King will make a dent in my debt."
It means Haskell is a declarative language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming
Yes yes yes... all my yes
Physics, physics ... isn't that just a branch of applied math?
> Aren't the same exact APIs are serving as backend to that "public version"?

Nope.
Yes, finally the riches a "not-for-profit, just-for-fun Wiki project" deserve will finally start rolling in! The only thing holding them back now is the amount of spamming they can do.
Looked great on the web page so I downloaded it, installed it, and set my (XFCE) terminal to use it. It looks like crap, for some reason, and I quickly switched back to my normal font.
I assume you went to either a private HS or Stuy? I know at my high school in PA, the programming teacher had an EE undergrad but was a math teacher who happened to be the most computer literate of the faculty. Our Cisco teacher was an accounting teacher, who I don't think had any sort of technical undergrad but was the most computer literate person they could find.
Anecdotally, I just installed this font on OS X and don't notice this issue. It may have been resolved, or perhaps was only an issue in Ubuntu?
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States are usually quite discontinuous, as in the transitions between solids, liquids, and gases. Usually a state has properties that apply throughout the material in bulk that derive specifically from how the particles interact with one another on a small scale. Usually, there are very distinct boundaries in therodynamic properties between phases. There are exceptions to this though, like in the case of pitch [1].

That being said, to me, this sounds more like a mixture [2] than a state of matter, unless there some sort of chemical interaction between the Laponite and water. But hey, the scientists probably know more than me about that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_%28resin%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture
> in the example you bring up, these new eDiscovery software providers are competing on different dimensions.

Uhm, most businesses compete "on different dimensions." What's your point?

> in fact, i would argue that they're carving out a new market (smaller law firms who don't need the cadillac)/disrupting incumbents through a simpler product that better fits the needs of a different type of law firm customer.

Ironically, you're providing a perfect example of the importance of domain expertise because I can tell from your comment that you're not familiar with this market:

1. Not all of the eDiscovery upstarts, many of which are engaged in offering hosted document review, are targeting smaller law firms. In fact, this really isn't such an attractive target market because small law firms are far less likely to have cases large enough to warrant the use of a hosted document review service.

2. Large firms have relationships with multiple eDiscovery vendors, so an upstart vendor has the opportunity to play ball without having to displace entrenched competition in one fell swoop.

3. eDiscovery is ultimately paid for by the client, so clients make the final decision on which vendor is used.
I don't think that's off-topic at all. Getting kids enthusiastic about computer science at a critical age, in an inclusive learning environment, with knowledgeable passionate mentors, is highly commendable and relevant.

Good on you.
I'm in the same boat, but I don't think there's anything wrong with me (or you) for making that assumption. It's a male dominated industry, and it makes sense to make that assumption without extra information, especially when the authors gender isn't really relevant to the story.
I wish he'd just said "I agree", so that you didn't find yourself a soapbox so high up in the comments...
The Value of Scepticism
> still smaller in UTF-8 than in their respective countries' favorite encodings

How so? AFAIK Shift-JIS is ASCII compatible just like UTF8, so does other double byte encodings like BIG5 and GBK.
I would offer that any potential or actual user of the API is an apt judge of whether the API has been offered "in a reasonable manner."

As it currently stands, one has the option of 2,500 requests per day for free or a minimum of $10,000 [1] and a limit of 100,000 requests per day.

Is it unreasonable to wish for at least one option between the two current choices of $0 and >=$10,000? The parent isn't being self-entitled, he or she clearly stated, " ... if you made it easy for single people to pay you to be able to use your data ... [emphasis added]"

[1] "What is the cost of Google Maps API for Business?" - http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html
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Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold
It wasn't a subtle accusation, because in my experience people who say school violence doesn't happen or they never saw it happen are/were actually bullies themselves. This post just confirmed it with the nice twisting of words, 'defense of rape as normal high school experience', oh really?

I was pointing out how much, much worse stuff happens in schools than just being told to 'make a sandwich' and trust me, I would have been a very happy little boy if only that had happened to my friends and me. To be honest, starting from the author of the article, this entire thread displays just how sheltered of a life many of this community must be living to start an Internet crusade (because this is what it is going to end up when the social justice warriors get wind of it) because of a boring class with an unqualified teacher.
I remember, as a kid, wondering whether the clicking of the rotary dial could be simulated by clicking the hook button rapidly. It worked! I could dial the phone by simply tapping the hook button.

At one point I tried connecting a simple speaker (from a little transistor radio I had taken apart) directly to the phone line. I got a dial tone. By connecting one wire to the speaker terminal, and tapping the other wire on the other terminal, I could dial a phone number. Those old phones were really very simple things.

No idea if the phone network still supports pulse dialing. I'd guess it does, but haven't tried it.
I experienced this kind of bullying not in school, but at work. I used to be very cheerful and helpful until in a particular work situation, I finally realized guys were randomly pinging me or stopping by to disturb me with how to write a quick unix command to do X or how to make some regex, just to see how cute I look when I'm stressed and how fast I can give them an answer. And I'm pretty good, and they joke with each other about it and keep doing it like you play with a dog. Its also the power thing, some people like demanding an answer from across the room. I totally relate to "quickly finish assignments and bury her nose in her book". Now I work in a less difficult environment, but this is basically how I deal with work now -- efficiently, then get out of there, offer nothing personal. I went to college that had a pretty good gender balance and was self-taught before that so I never experienced it before work. So in conclusion, this may be good preparation for your daughter good preparation for technical work in certain environments. There are many good workplaces but you can't be guaranteed that all your life, so dealing with this kind of thing is important to learn. You should tell her that this is a career that pays well. You may have to be smarter and a more hardworking than your peers to make up for the lack of networking, but actually the extra self-reliance that you need to exercise will make you a better and more confident programmer. Also as a woman, you need to be careful of accepting mentorship, especially male mentorship. Sometimes there's no reason for it other than the mentor wants to spend some time with a young woman.
College tuition sticker price has gone up a lot. The actual amount that students pay hasn't gone up as much.

A half-decade ago, Stanford waived tuition for students from families of income less than $100k [1]. Median household income in the country is roughly $57k.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/21/us-education-stanf...
In the specific example of the elevation data set, the data for the United States looks like it's public domain (USGS DEMs). The rest of the world may be more difficult to get high resolution but there is STRM which is reasonable ok for a lot of uses.
not sure why your criticizing Visual Basic, it is a good language for Intro HS courses
A similar job today would likely only go to a graduate of Harvard Business School, Wharton, or something similar.

Actually that's not true at all. High-performing salespeople in tech (and other industries) are extremely well-paid, and tend not to have fancy degrees.

Sales is still a career in which hustle and results are valued over book smarts, and there is no branch of a company that is "closer to revenue" than sales.
Exactly. My church helps build inexpensive (~$10,000) homes in central America, and this looks like an interesting option.
And when Go no longer feels as hip as Django once did, you'll switch again?
That's easy to say but the world isn't so easy. being a teacher is hard and not paying well means you don't always attract the best people to do it.

programmers also have job security of knowing they are basically always employable right now unless completely hopeless. and programmers have ethical responsibilities which are frequently ignored too.
This is the first time I've seen "rhubard" used as a verb.
I'm not sure what you're asking here? The articles are sinocentric in the same manner Medium articles are typically occidental in nature.
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Some people on reddit started looking into this: https://pay.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1kno70/i_think_...

but they stopped looking perhaps...

If you look at the link to Crunchbase's profile for Paladin Fund - that company seems to be funding all the DOD contracting tech services companies....

Edit: Also - look at every investment In-Q-Tel has made.
I have a different perspective. Rather than thinking it's remarkable that they could do that back then, I think it's a disgrace that we can't do that today.

Harvard's tuition back then adjusted for inflation is around $18,700. Assuming 10 classes a year an using an average class size of 40 students (which is what Harvard reports), that's a budget of $74,800 per class. You should be able to run a college on that, even taking into account some overhead for libraries and such. Yet Harvard today charges more than twice that.
Person 1: "I have a great idea! Instead of thinking critically about how we use technology and its impact on our lives -- good and bad -- let's just make some arbitrary restriction that'll actually probably retard our kids in this modern technological world more than it'll help them. Because, as we know, the best way to get children to do anything safely -- from driving to drugs to sex, or all three at once -- is to give them absolutely no preparation or understanding of these things in advance. (Although, to be frank, the mullet thing probably makes sex less of an issue until Junior gets his first used IROC-Z when he's 31.)"

Person 2: "I have an ever better idea! I'll write a short article about it as if you're making some big statement about our over-reliance upon technology that in no way considers what you're actually doing in a thoughtful way! Like how you're losing work which translates to less money and might impact your children's abilities to attend institutes of higher learning, or in a bad economy could cause you to lose your home or worse! Or how you might be negatively impacting them socially! Not to mention making them less able to operate in a global economy which, like it or not, basically requires low-level understanding of modern technology! Because, y'know, iPads are all, like, annoying and stuff."

Person 1: "Gnarly!"

[Fin.]
We are pretty open about who is staff and who is not. if you don't like what we are doing thats your prerogative. Simple fact is we offer you a dev environment with root on your dev VM for free. All setup and ready to go in seconds. No one else is doing this, so call it spam if you like but the number of users signing up daily and enjoying the service disagree with you (oh and yes I am staff).
Definitely fixed. Was fixed quite a while back as I've never experienced this and I've been using this font for 2 years now.
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You are not contradicting my post.

The savings of $70B comes from eliminating a profit layer that was enjoyed by the banks.

The government insured the loans before and after the change in 2010. So the taxpayer was on the hook for losses. Now it is still on the hook for losses, but also benefits from profits.

The $70B is simply from cutting out the middleman.
io9 sensationalism. It got you (and me) to open the link and read the article.
From your telling of the story, he was referring to the set of unwritten rules that I personally refer to as "the social contract," which you absolutely broke by selfishly reserving a table ahead of a family that, by your own admission, had their ice cream and was ready to eat before you were.
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Yes we support SSH and SCP. Yes we also have browser based editor. Just need to go to the main site. We also give root etc. As long as your using the VM it will not shut off - however it will shutdown 15 mins after you logout.
I think you skimmed the article too fast. Try reading most of the words.
It would be if you assumed the purpose of college was to impart information. It's not. All that stuff about "teaching students to think" is just bullshit, frankly. The real reason you have to go to college to get a good job is the school you went to gives employers an indication of how smart you are.

Prior to Griggs v Duke Power employers could just give you an IQ test, and all the big ones did. If you wanted to work for IBM you could get a job even without a college degree if you did well on the IQ test. But with that single court ruling employers had to cast about for another way to rank applicants, and the most obvious solution was by college exclusivity.

So if you went to Harvard they want you. Not because you were likely to learn anything at Harvard you couldn't learn at State U. It's because they know you have to be pretty smart to get into Harvard as only one in about twenty applicants is actually accepted.

So Harvard (with the highest rejection ratio) can charge whatever it wants (and it's worth every penny), whereas schools that take everyone can't charge more than enough to keep the lights on.

It's hard to establish a new school. Parents will want to know "Is it a good school?" Since this is one of the biggest decisions in Junior's life, they're going to go conservative and try to get him into established colleges with solid reputations. Your new college has a chicken and egg problem - you can't get a lot of applicants unless you reject a lot of applicants.
What was Knight Capital's security problem?
See my lengthy (and evidently well liked) recent comment from another tread with detailed recommendations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302816
I just started working at Mobileworks. I know we are sometimes are in need of remote developers to fulfill our client's needs. Drop me an email (it's in my profile).

No guarantee doc, but I'll ask tomorrow!
From what I've read about the US health system, I thought you don't get much in the way of medical treatment unless you have medical insurance.

In other word the insurance covers the cost.

If that is the case, where is the debt?
> Bullying is generally punished in schools.
Missing citation.
In this economy, someone with any worthwhile amount of knowledge and interest in programming has better opportunities than being a schoolteacher. And that's on top of the mediocrity-enforcing effects of the unionized teaching profession.
The government insured those loans before AND after the change. It was on the hook for loan losses before and after.

The indirect effects are MASSIVE BENEFITS for taxpayers, not losses. College graduates have lifetime income of $1M+ more than non-graduates, and this income is of course taxed at each individual's highest marginal rate. They have half the unemployment rate of non-graduates so they consume less unemployment and incur fewer other costs to government.
Why do you think that UTF-16's corner cases, by which you presumably mean surrogate pairs, are less likely than UTF-8's corner cases, like invalid code units and non-shortest forms?

I would argue that the UTF-8 corner cases are more rare because they are harder to produce accidentally, and also more serious because they have security implications.
My mistake. I would edit it but I don't see an edit button.
Am i the only person that see's those types of numbers, and correlates them with the type of students the school attracts - the student who did not - or could not - enter into an accredited 'regular' university?

Which is not to say that should necessarily impact the degree of scrutiny those schools receive. But perhaps worth considering - if they are serving students who are likely to get no education at all, is it better / worse? Honest, question - no implications here. Just think its something worth discussing.
This is the first time I've come across this font. Tried it and I really like it; it comes across as clear/sharp without sacrificing the smoothness (this is based on what I can see on Win 7 with Putty and ClearType enabled). I think I'll continue to use it.
I was asking whether native speakers could give an overall scope of what the articles were about since one-by-one translations are hardly 100% accurate and likely to miss important subtext. I was looking for whether there was additional motivation behind the articles that didn't seem obvious at first or was it a hodgepodge the same as Medium.
I'm only going to pay attention to a single method anyways, so I don't need much on the screen. It's very lovely to read at that size and I don't need to strain my eyes at night.
Or you'd just tell your employer you had to give it up in a default. He's not going to care whether or not you still have your official slip of paper.
I think the idea is to still find your vulnerability in the browser as usual, but abuse the unrandomized Dropbox DLL for executing the payload.

So, the DLL isn't directly attacked. It's simply used to circumvent ASLR.
How exactly has Stanford had its business impacted due to a security breach? I'm only thinking in terms of people wanting to apply, and I can't imagine how that'd be a deterrent.
The mass distribution isn't necessarily a good proxy for the deflection. Lyman alpha lines are from absorption by hydrogen gas clouds; the average effect of those on the path of light is likely to be close to zero, because the clouds are diffuse and more or less homogeneous (i.e., their average density on large length scales is pretty much the same everywhere). The "Tardis region" model requires large deflections of light at the boundaries between the "Tardis" regions and regions of normal density, which will not average out since there aren't enough such boundaries between us and the distant supernovas that are our main line of evidence for the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Ive tried installing it in Sublime with no luck - See screenshot- Am I doing something wrong? http://imgur.com/NUaNjWO
Not sure why you'd think that at all
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