skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is a story why he does no longer value a PhD. And a PhD is a huge investment, both in time as in money, and you don't walk away lightly. So even assuming that the email is a comprehensive account of his reasons to quit his PhD, he did still go from believing in the university system to deeply disappointed of the university system, a system he did spend a huge amount of time in. ( And this is essentially the best case.)
I can't find PDF or any software except this link: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/3Sweep.asp. This link looks very cool but I wonder if this is just demo ware.
Our studio has been using Unity for the past year or so for iOS/Android game dev and we love it. For web games we've been using ImpactJS fairly heavily and really liking what it offers.
As FilmOn is shut down by courts, all eyes are on Aereo
high school students taking CS class != programmers. I would have thought person talking about logic would be more logical.
This same problem manifests with Java as well, where some methods that claim to return UTF-8 on closer inspection actually return “modified UTF-8”, which is broken the same way. Notably I ran across this in with JNI function GetStringUTFChars, but may come across in DataOutputStream's writeUTF etc.
Testicle size 'link to father role'
I was thinking initially that this is more for making 3D models for 3D printing. Is that a probable use of this technology?
I don't disagree with what your saying, however all security when there is a third party involved who can see what your doing in the clear is based on trust. We do everything we can to make sure that the only people who could possibly see what your doing is us. Should you trust us ? thats up to you. But ask yourself why we would risk everything we have built just to steal your passwords/keys ? If we did that we would be the most expensive and elaborate social engineering attack I have ever heard of :) anyway - come to the platform, do some not so serious stuff then over time maybe we can gain your trust ?
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Because what does partial trust actually mean?

If someone sends you an email and you partially trust the key, how does that map to the contents of the email? How does it map to executable code? Source code? Images? Digital signatures?

It's like saying some people's trust is a square circle. It's a correct sentence but it doesn't map to any meaning usefully.
Chasing partnerships is usually a mistake for startups.
Yes. Look at the slides Snowden released when he blew the whistle.

http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/06/prism_vend...
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Monaco is my favorite as well. Actually I think it's slightly less readable then bitstream vera or consolas, but Monaco has some kind of angular personality to it that makes more emotionally satisfying to read and program in, than the others
First, Dancing with the Stars is one of the highest rated shows on TV; the fact that it has a 2/3 women audience indicates that very many women will make the time to watch it.

Second, setting aside households with two TV's, only one spouse can enjoy passive entertainment at a time. Presumably while we watch football, women can do something fascinating and productive.

Third, political correctness is a phenomenon of white liberal prigs who go out of their way to take offense because they have nothing useful or productive to contribute to the public discourse. Of course they would react unkindly to being called out on it but I would advise you not to take their defensive lashing out at face value.
The odd school here and there can get away without accreditation if their reputation allows it. For example, at least one of the founders of Pixar came from my former university, which has an unaccredited CS program (at least at the time I attended).
I don't know why the question mark. Here is Microsoft's own guidance on what is supported:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/hh487282.aspx

When you go from having a Visual Studio release every two years to every year or year and a half, and each version brings an increment to the .NET runtime, the issue of not supporting older run times directly (without any hacks) in older versions becomes much more important.

I understand and appreciate that to some extent it may be a technical issue and support needs to stop at a certain point but a lot of it seems to be business driven.
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Loan default rates were also mentioned.
Hello, today I'm coming with a very simple article, but with a curious image. This post doesn't have a technical explanation, it is just something that I want to share because it was funny to achieve this thing Cixtor GitHub Contributions (https://github.com/cixtor).
Was this letter really written with the intention of giving the high school teacher a message? Or was this just a way to showcase her daughter's (as well as her own) accomplishments?

What was the purpose of writing this as an "open letter".
Very interested as several apps I use regularly - screenshots (⌘-Shift-4), webex single-app sharing, screen flows, where this tool would be much much improved over SetResX + Display prefs.

$8 seems like a quite a bit, but is actually not that bad for the convenience. Love the preview, just not the bouncing zoom animation.
You might want to check out Tim Ferris's How to learn any language in 3 months: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-lan.... It's been on my plate for sometime but I haven't personally tried it yet and so don't endorse his method.
I did not read the tardis paper, but the mass distribution gives you at least a upper limit, in the sense that if there is not much mass in one direction, then there is also not much deflection. At least in more or less normal models.
Okay. But moving forward that's not a bad outcome.
First question, are you certain there is no keylogger on the computer you are typing the password on?

O yeah, keyloggers don't have to be in your computers software either https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-...
The strengths of the academic enterprise
No processing necessary. Just upload JSON.

The Quirrel language is much more high level than the API for ElasticSearch. It comes with things like machine learning (e.g. clustering and linear regression):

http://precog.com/developers/how-tos/machine-learning/

Even without libraries like machine learning, you can write somewhat readable queries which do some impressive things:

http://precog.com/developers/how-tos/common-analytics/
You are not building equity when renting. If you plan to be in a location for more than a year, it's worth buying a home. Mortgage payments (minus interest) are then just going back into your own pocket vs. rent which is going into your landlord's pocket. Even if you never want to do your own maintenance, you can pay a handyman and still be far ahead in cash.
I was asking what you mean by "support." What functionality would you like in VS 2010 which is not present?
>is just funny

Why is it that people misreading comments to call them out almost always come off as bigger asses than the people they're replying to?
"However... you can't just give a team of coders a year's supply of whiskey and tell them to get cracking."

http://xkcd.com/323/
Where is restroom?
This is cool man. I use an MBPR and never knew how to get back down to 1x resolutions. Just saved me a couple of steps in my workflow. Wasn't sure how useful the animations were going to be, but turns out very much so. Solid tool; much obliged.
Maybe the solution is for the non-five to quit, and all form a new organization. Maybe one day they're let the five join.
The girl does a lot to please her mother and chooses to communicate about important subjects over email.

Let's put it this way, I am not Dad yet, but when I am, my daughter or son will not be bullied in school because:

1. They would know how to deal with bullies.
2. And if they ever have problems dealing with it on their own, I am going to help them by doing something more then writing a letter on a tech blog.

And no matter what time of day or night it is, I would make sure that my children know they can CALL me any time they need to.
Time to start a new underground and un-sold out place.
Do you have any support for these figures? I've never heard of so many salespeople making so much money, and all salary reports I can find most certainly do not support your claim of this being even remotely typical.
Full Sail Graduate here. You are correct. Avoid Full Sail. It's designed to pump out students like crazy. I'd say it's one of the most greedy schools. In the end I wish I could take it all back and never go there.
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You can't be different than other kids and visibly better than them without becoming a target of harassment. I've been better than other kids in anything computer, math, physics or chemistry related and I remember I had to tread very carefully even while I was helping them. Same way as when you give a good ideas to your boss, your concern should be not only about him accepting your idea but also about him not hating you for it afterwards.

And I don't even have any discerning features that could be used as a trigger. Being only fat, short, tall, ginger, 4-eyed, girl can get you seriously in trouble if you don't pay attention to social dynamics.

The thing is such targeting should be noticed and properly countered by the teacher and almost no teacher knows how to do that. I have no idea what's the proper response to usual lord of the flies school environment.
The students can always leave the country to search for a better life.
This is really BAD. First institutions ask for loads of money to provide education, then this kind of thing happens. Well we are just making this world worse. Human Knowledge belongs to the world. This makes difficult for students who come from backward societies.
I would like to point to Dijkstra's excellent article (The strengths of academic enterprise) -- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EW...

The OP talks about a bunch of problems in academia, may of which stem from an attempt to run universities like corporations. In his article, Edsger Dijkstra explains why that's not a good idea.

PS: If you'd like to discuss this, I just submitted this article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6358342
By open and friendly you must be talking about small pet projects released by single or small groups of engineers that didn't take much effort to produce.

If you are expecting unlimited free access to some thing like maps which employs many people and probably millions of dollars to produce, without expecting any type of return to sustain further growth...well it's time to rethink your strategy if you plan on staying in business.

Why does HN believe companies that spend millions of dollars to provide services, many times for free, and for pay with restriction are somehow "evil" (since we're talking about google this feels like an appropriate time to use this irrelevant phrase again).
I still believe for enterprise development Microsoft is very viable so I don't see myself necessarily moving away from the platform.

At some level, you can't avoid having to upgrade to the latest and greatest Visual Studio but in some ways I am trying to move away from all Microsoft offerings. The biggest is on the database side. I think PostgreSQL running on a linux machine as a database is a very good solution. I would say at this point, this would be the biggest change. I also prefer to use http://www.llblgen.com/ for an ORM instead of Entity Framework.

I will tend to pick an open source equivalent for certain functionality instead of relying on Microsoft's version. For example, nunit for unit testing, log4net for logging, Quartz.NET for job scheduling, etc.
That's the path to mediocrity and failure...
The setting is irrelevant to the situation IMO. It could have been any environment that was heavily teen male with a teen female outclassing them, the animosity is sexist in nature. The tragedy is someone that had a passion seemingly lost it because of bullying. As a society what we can and should do is teach that this behavior is wrong and harmful. This has a lot less to do with the tech industry and a lot more to do with high school and lack of maturity.

From an individualist perspective we can only encourage her not to give up on her interests because of the cruelty of others, and that she may receive this treatment often because she is above average. This is an unfortunately common scenario anywhere for anyone.

If this was a white girl in a black history class or a guy in a women's studies class the tone to this thread may be a little more compassionate I would imagine. It just so happens that the anecdote of female encountering sexism in tech is so often repeated and posted here, it's made a number of us callous to it.

As for the author: If she has a problem with 'get back in the kitchen' I suppose I can legitimately raise a concern with her characterization of all the boys in that class as brogrammers... which is just as sexist. Takes one to know one I suppose.
That's a rather US-centric remark.

'less' is an acceptable comparative for both countable and uncountable nouns in all modern dialects of English except for US-English, where it's strictly expected that fewer be used for countables.

Perhaps caiob is from the UK, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand...
This is similar to a proposal by the Obama administration to prevent loan-milling by Wall St. owned private schools.
Walls that can survive a moderate-to-severe thunderstorm would probably be a good first step.
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Are you forgetting about gene therapies? Or noninvasive surgeries? Or the incredible medical imaging techniques that are routine these days?

Have no fear, medical advancements are still coming as fast as ever.
> You read code when you're programming. The only difference is the mix of characters you'll see near each other. General readability matters -- when is it OK for a regular font to be unclear about which character (a zero or 'O') you're looking at?

The difference in mix of characters reflects on the design decisions made for the font type. Target use is important. Some types are great for titles, some for text bodies, some for logos. It makes sense to me that code is another category.

Yes, readability is important, but it's not binary. The level and aspects of readability required for a novel body are not the same as for an article title.

Differentiating between zero 0 and uppercase O is critical for code (and work terminals, and perhaps data tables), but IMHO isn't interesting when designing for text bodies. Same goes for 'rn' and other issues that have ever annoyed only programmers.
whoops that 404 is a regression. Just fixed - thanks for the heads up.
Any wire-serialization format that wants to send arbitrary data should really have a "raw binary payload" type. XML has CDATA. ASN.1 has bitstrings. BERT has Binaries. But JSON doesn't really have anything like that.

I wonder... at some point, Javascript could get a convenient literal syntax for creating pre-filled ArrayBuffers, which would basically be the format JSON would want to adopt. But would it? Are changes to Javascript literal syntax folded into JSON, or is JSON now its own thing that doesn't track JS any more?
>I was furious when I was confronted for the reason.

Can you reword this sentence? I can't figure out what you mean.
Great, now I'm gonna be up for another three hours! Thanks for your feedback.
Are you trying to get sued?
Health, housing, education. What's the next sector for the relentless blood funnel?
A few people have asked if they can switch off the continuous bouncing zoom animation. I might be able to add that option in an update.
Paypal further simplifies in store payments.
At some point the banks will recognize that you won't ever pay all of the loan back, and then they have to write off a large portion of that debt.

If that realization happens too quickly for too many student loans, then there might be a sudden crash. Doesn't look like it yet though.
I'm surprised to hear this. Of course there's always more going on under the hood but I've had nothing but totally positive experiences using Exec Errands.

Curious if anyone has some more insight into what happened. Not enough demand? Money-losing?
This was my reaction too. It's Unicode all the way down... :)
For Play: http://robfig.github.io/revel/

For Mongo: Most people use mgo http://labix.org/mgo

For precog: dont know, but there might be something, but probably not.
Linus's response is pretty angry, as usual:

“Where do I start a petition to raise the IQ and kernel knowledge of people? Guys, go read drivers/char/random.c. Then, learn about cryptography. Finally, come back here and admit to the world that you were wrong. Short answer: we actually know what we are doing. You don't. Long answer: we use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool. So even if rdrand were to be back-doored by the NSA, our use of rdrand actually improves the quality of the random numbers you get from /dev/random. Really short answer: you're ignorant.”
> "UPDATE: It appears I got #rekt, petition closed."

What does it mean to be '#rekt'? Is it the phonetic spelling of "wrecked"?
Worth reading and/or listening to is a classic public debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston, originally broadcast in 1948:

http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/p20.htm

http://www.philvaz.com/RussellCoplestonDebate.mp3

It's great stuff. And if you're not familiar with Copleston's mult-volume history of philosophy, I highly recommend it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Philosophy_(Cople...

AMDG!
> the reason he gave was that it was against "the rules"

That's not how I see it at all. He informed you that there was not a jacket rule. He did not in fact make up any rules or tell you anything about said rules or in fact acknowledge that there are table-reserving rules. I don't understand where you're coming from.
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I believe the biggest problem of working remotely is not solvable by technology. Yes you can share you screens in multiple ways, communicate using im, voice, email etc. but you still dont have real human interactions. You sit alone at home behind your machine (probably in underwear) only connected to the world through a wire. This can be dangerous in the long term so my advice is to get into a co-working space or get your human interactions elsewhere. For example by switching the places from where you work from time to time or use your breaks for a bit more social activities (workouts!).

This oatmeal comic summed up the good and bad pretty good imo http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
> local bash in the browser is technically not possible for now.

Yes it is, and I've seen it. It was posted to HN a while (like about a year or two) ago, and could run emacs etc. It was done by emulating x86 in Javascript and then running Linux on the emulator.
I hate that. The spanish flu killed my great grandfather at 28 years of age right of the boat and people tell me "flu vaccine is bs. Vaccines are bs. Flu is a bunch of shit. I'll do fine against any flu.". I don't know. The ignorance bothers me. Most of these people haven't even heard of the Spanish flu much less know it killed around 50 million people including plenty who were very fit, young, and healthy.
A monitor typically has a _maximum_ resolution.
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This idea you need to live physically near a place to have an IT job needs to die. I'm working (at Red Hat) with a large team, several of whom I have never met, many of them I will only meet twice a year at most. We've got the internet - video conferencing, chatrooms, asynch messaging, distributed source repositories, distributed code review, remote shells. We all can and do work very well remotely.
This all sounds like someone replying to them-self.

Edit: 15 comments besides mine, and 15 employees listed on the site. /conspiracy
Lying about what they are doesn't change the underlying issue:

> they're integrity errors, a query is putting the db in an invalid state and thus rejected. Because the state is invalid, I'm not sure how the db would progress to get more errors.
While this would be cool, I'm not exactly sure under what circumstances this would be useful.
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't parse whether you were being sarcastic ("let the non-five quit and form a new org") or serious ("maybe one day the non-fives will let the five join")? :)
Definitely a possibility. I was figuring that as well, along with super realistic video game scenes :D
lol...nice catch. When I received my acceptance letter, I had to call them to see if I was actually a member; they had sent me someone else's test results. Nobody is above looking like a dumbass from time to time, either. =)
"This isn't really the intended use case, sshing from your Koding VM to other servers"

Yet in your own site you say: "Stuck on a Windows machine and can’t stand using PuTTY to SSH into work? "

I have to agree with OP, using this for any SSH work would be asking for trouble even if one were to use SSH keys with passwords.
Well, I think yes (mimetypes at least).
It's not 'perverse' to have different standards on what qualifies as punishable bullying. You're using some kind of false equivalence here. Yes, both an insult and a beating qualify as 'bullying', but that does not mean we should categorize them similarly.
that appears to be the case: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rekt
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You are probably referring to the work of Fabrice Bellard?

http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Didn't everyone grow up facing some kind of regular harassment in high school? I expected things to take a serious turn for the worse in this story and it actually doesn't seem all that bad. A mother is upset that her daughter was slightly harassed. In one class. In her entire high school experience. Obviously it doesn't make it okay just because many people have faced worse, but dragging the teacher through the mud for it seems unreasonable.

" Sadly, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and you, sir, created a horrible one for girls in computer programming. "

No, he didn't. Not by any reasonable definition of "horrible". Nor is it his responsibility to create any particular impression for any particular race, gender, or religion. Your own pet issue is not his concern.

While on the topic of things horrible, that seven point list is horribly patronizing.
Complete with little insulting gems like this:
"Good grief, man — how were you even able to make programming boring?".

So glad I'm not a teacher. Must be excruciating at times dealing with the entitled, self obsessed parents, let alone the students.