skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
google cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.wnc...
Wow, he is a legend.

I don't understand, though, why he portrays "hackers" as guys doing the wrong stuff. He seems to condone the media's misunderstanding of "hackers" vs. "crackers" by calling himself only a hacker and not a cracker.
Finland ≠ Sweden
Site is up and down. Quick Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
1) Lack of desire. A lot of people don't have a desire to learn things on their own.

2) Lack of time. A lot of people are students or have jobs, and their free time is already taken up. Also, people need large chunks of time to Download the Task - http://www.collegeanswerz.com/downloading-the-task.

3) Poor resources. See http://www.collegeanswerz.com/rethinking-education for how to make it better. My plan is to make money with that website, and then start to implement these ideas with a Big Push.
If you believe in the liberty of people to live life as they choose, it makes it a ton less wrong. They are living life with goals in mind. Some of these goals might even be, dare I say, valid.

If you think the goal of society is that every single individual satisfies your aesthetic preferences for what makes a good life, then you're right, it doesn't make it any less wrong.
Mobile Fantasy Football Dangers, Spousal Spyware, and Trojan 'Bloons'
An Angel in New York: Rick Webb
The machine isn't the only thing at risk. Given this setup, it seems possible to use dropbox nodes to ddos an external target, just by uploading lots of documents, each containing lots of these links. It doesn't seem like they should be fetching external resources at all.
Thanks for the heads up. Apparently I can't read.
Except that "hazing" arguably selects for those driven by [extreme] greed and social pressure, since anyone smart enough to get into a junior banking position has plenty of more palatable alternatives if they rate "quality of life" higher than "net worth age 30". In theory, if not in practice, ability to rationally appraise alternatives ought to be more important to people making billion pound decisions than energy and sheer bloodymindedness. The only way "hazing" works as a selection effect is if junior analysts' actual work tasks are generally so easy that it won't mentally tax even the below-average ones without sleep deprivation. It's harder to fake competence when you're tired. It's also harder to fake competence if standards are set higher...

The more general excuse for overworking bankers is to limit the number of people accountable for a particular project, meaning no sharing of workload even when it would be efficient to do so.
>Also, lead. Don't use a drinking glass.

I can't check it for myself now but I assume this would also work with lead-free solder. Not that you should put any kind of solder in your drinking glass.
Do Tesla's Security Problems Pose Risks?
Non-Public FB Wall Posts Are Protected Under Federal Stored Communications Act
You're generalizing, when I haven't been. I'm speaking very specifically about individual stories related to the Snowden leaks.

This isn't about my life outlook or my political views or if my daddy loved me when I was a kid, it's about the flood of nontechnical stories being submitted, and the worthlessness of the subsequent comments sections.

What you don't seem to understand is that nothing on HN is going to change as a result of this poll. HN admins are holden to no one, they act independently of HN users.
"For simplicity let us assume RDRAND will only attack the Linux RNG."

Assuming the chip is detecting that the Linux RNG is in play is already way out of the realm of simplicity and frankly way beyond what a company like Intel is likely to be able to keep secret given the number of engineers that would have to be aware of this complex functionality.

This whole conspiracy theory hinges on some wild claims that I haven't seen substantiated in the least.
Ah yes that is true we can leave pretty much whenever we want for however long, as long as the work gets done. Thank you for reminding me of yet another perk that I didn't fully take in.
It's on Hacker News because 170+ people decided it should be.
> The obvious suggestion would be software development

Looking anecdotally at friends in software and in finance (I went to a school with a great reputation for both cs and business ) , a good software engineering (at a good company) is not trivial to get into. On the flipside, banking was what you did if you had no discernible skills.
Home Office rapped for illegal use of font in 'Go Home' ad vans
Though I disagree with them on this:

> Finally, we are seeing that Chromium is currently by far the most dynamic and fastest moving browser available.

I think Firefox moves better. Plus Mozilla innovates more with their Servo project. Though I wish Mozilla would support projects like these officially instead of ignoring them:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI

That's what is used for Jolla's browser in the upcoming Sailfish (it uses Qt for the UI with that IPC embedding).
Securing messaging startup Glimpse to file FOIA request for NSA records
I am not sure what to make of this:

1. Sure high school graduation rates are higher in Finland than in the U.S., can you actually compare those across the board? Is what a high schooler studies in Finland the same as what they study in the U.S.? Maybe there are other societal issues why people drop out in the U.S. compared to Finland which I understand has a homogenous largely white population.

2. So there is no homework in Sweden? So fucking what? There is lots of homework in India and China. If I understand correctly, those guys are supposed to be eating our lunch?

3. The teachers have masters degrees; yet it is not clear to me how adding two more years of education is going to magically transform our education system?

4. The only thing that seems intriguing to me is individual attention. Good classroom ratios. Yet is that feasible to scale up in the U.S.?
Interesting discussion. At around 7 minutes in, he postulates that maybe we've already cured 20% of cancers. The problem is that we have cures that fail clinical trials because cancer is so varied and not generic enough to have one cure. One drug might only work in 10% of people while another cure might cure another 10%, and so on.

These drugs all fail clinical trails and are lost.
Appcubator (YC W13) Helps Beginning Developers Easily Create Their Own Web Apps
This is why I wrote this: http://qbix.com/blog

Don't rely on one platform.
I did pull a few all-nighters in college, and it was generally the crappiest work I did in my whole college career. I learned the least from it and in general developed a distaste for whatever it was I was doing during the all-nighters

It was also pretty rare. In the vast majority of classes I took, an all-nighter was never necessary so long as you didn't procrastinate. It was just in one or two classes where we'd unexpectedly get assigned huge projects at the end of the semester.
And the real reason that the "candidates are crap" is that too many employers no longer spend the time and resources to train their workers properly. Instead employees are expected to get hired with insanely specific skills and "hit the ground running" working for some clueless line and project managers who don't give a damn about what happens outside of their small-minded metrics.
That by all measures, was a shit interview.
"Your health is unlikely to suffer in any appreciable long-term way working banking hours for a few years in your 20's. "

That's an incredibly broad statement to make for the whole population. Everyone is different and have different tolerances.

I would agree with you to the extent that people are able to know their tolerances and stop, but that doesn't seem to be the case for banking.

I always say, Money (and hence career) is a solvable problem. Health less likely. You can't always solve away your chronic health issues by working harder, spending more money on it, etc.

It would be nice to ask all those people with chronic back pain, chronic insomnia, etc. that isn't easily fixable if the "opportunity" was worth it.
From someone who's organized multiple meetups in NYC, Hack And Tell being the most well-known, I would say just start the meetup. There's a high probability of lots of people in NYC thinking in the same direction you're thinking, but what you want to do is start letting them know there is a place they can find like-minded people.

Further, meetup will help get eyes on the event. They've been very helpful for my meetups. They're even willing to host them and buy beer / pizza for the attendees.

You'll know within a few months if it's not speaking to people, but more importantly, you'll know if the opposite is true.
Additional commentary on the Google pager from a practical marketing point of view:

http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/marrying-co...
One more reminder that normal is different for everyone I suppose.

Talking back is a cardinal sin in the south. It is not how I will raise my kids, but my parents even grew up with corporal punishment in catholic school, so I don't really blame them.
Your Phone is Suffering the Tragedy of the Commons
Is anyone out there using a touch-oriented Linux distribution with a convertible device like this one? Any recommendations?
Great point about asking pricing questions to customers:

They’re going to lowball you. Also, they have no idea. Instead, infer what they’d pay based on what they’re already paying for. Or try to get them to put a dollar amount on the value it would add to their life (could they make an additional $5k/year with their new job? $20k/year? Now you have something to base your price off of.

Having been on both sides - I couldn't agree more.

Keep rocking guys!

Jason
The method's name is actually "isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsSupported". That being said, it's nice to see developers at big companies having fun.
So does Adblock Plus, so does Noscript, so do the content filtering features of major browsers, yet those all have major pages. Blocking the people is just plain dickery on Facebook's part.
Come on... do you _REALLY_ mean they can't write a line of code? I find that hard to believe.
Interesting about the Master's Degree. In the U.S. teacher education seems unrelated to performance, including Master's Degrees. Which isn't how it should be. It makes me wonder if one of our great flaws here is in how we teach teachers.
For further analysis, I would suggest embedding something nasty into a .doc. [1] Seriously, why would Dropbox execute code in arbitrary files; the only reason I can see is some virus scanner heuristic. So then they could spin up a new vm, load the file and diff the vm with a clean one. Or as others suggested, generate thumbnails; that, together with the 10 minute delay, would imply that they are running remote code on some batch processing machine. ( Where a lot of other files are up for graps.) Either way, it does smell somewhat.

[1] I am not sure how LibreOffice does handle active content and furthermore I am not sure if there is a way to generate a ping back from LibreOffice without some kind of active content embedded. But to me at least, it somewhat implies that Dropbox, or whoever, runs LibreOffice in a not maximally locked down configuration.
No, they don't address the issue in that article, they carefully circumvent it. Like all shortage-denial articles, they focus on education rather than actual practical competence.

There is no shortage of STEM graduates. There is a shortage of people actually capable of doing the jobs which, amongst other things, require a STEM background. And for most software development jobs, the latter isn't even the most important qualification.

The STEM shortage is a myth created by people who want to deny that there is a shortage of qualified knowledge workers by equating "qualified" to having a STEM degree.

Nobody actually in the business ever complained about a STEM shortage. We complain about a shortage of competent people.
'Disillusioned' website worker to pay $50k for 260 contract breaches
The video is really well done. Any Idea on who/how it was made?
How to Build a Rasberry Pi Twitter Bot
So uncheck it?

Have I done something weird to my Mac? 10.7.5 Lion here, when I press the power button it comes up unchecked by default.

"Edit: since 10.7.4, the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox has stayed unchecked if you uncheck it once, so the hacks below are not needed anymore."

Update your Mac.
You may be interested in this excellent course (be warned, it's pretty controversial). To me it is more of a "documentary series" than a college course. https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind
If you're not studying stuff related to what you want to do when you get out of college, on your spare time during studies, you're already losing. It's not enough to come out as a grad. You need to set your sights on a very specific job, and start learning for it. All throughout my undergrad I studied mobile to death and did a ton of work in it. Had no problem landing a 150k+ job right out of undergrad, because I was incredibly skilled.

Not too many companies care about your GPA + the courses you did, the ones that do, will put you into a mediocre role loosely related to your profession since you have no specialty.
I've noticed my battery life as more to do with how many notifications I get over any other usage.
I really dont agree.

Breaking Bad and Mad Men are ending shortly.

Walking dead seems to be tapering off fans, turning from less of a zombie show to more of a drama ( each episode is 95% talk, 5% zombies ).

The fact is, both breaking bad and mad men would make the price of AMC unrealistically high. If Netflix did want to buy them, they should wait until the season after when both shows are no longer on and get it for a song.

A much more astute purchase would be HBO/Cinemax/Shotime
I hope you also have read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369626
>The flaw is in the assumption that every STEM degree holder is a qualified candidate for a STEM job.

There is also a flaw in the assumption that every STEM jobholder is qualified for a STEM job.
Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die.

It may not have killed you, but somewhere along the way, something you did, or something that happened to you cruelly robbed you of your critical thinking skills. The non-sequitur in the above sentence is so obvious, it's almost shocking that you don't see it.

Also:

If you leave work at 5 and start at 9, and are sensible and live within 20 minutes of work (which you can on a banker's salary, at least in NYC),

20 minutes? If you live across the street. Or in the same building, maybe.

that's like 3 whole hours of sleep.

When he said that all you have time to do is take a shower before heading back to the office, he meant just that.

You aren't just "quibbling" with his definitions here; you're playing semantic head games.
Followed closely by Facebook.
> It's not common in modern times for any of this

Any of which? Please, be more precise. You mean that it's not common for certain keys to be mixed up in console applications? Please...

> You can measure it by noticing that most modern computers since 1980 have

Oh well, you have a curious definition of measurement then.

> some spoilsport may mention that the entire exercise is unnecessary

You mean editing text is unnecessary? Or what exactly?

> I started out using vi.

I came to Vim after using Visual Studio, Komodo IDE and some others...

> Then I dumped Apple Writer for a more efficient editor that supported a mouse.

...then I dumped it in favor of Emacs, which supported much better scripting language.

> the pointing devices that have become popular since 1970

You still didn't provide any kind of evidence that editing with mouse is faster than using pure-keyboard interface. Or do you believe that it was text editing that drove mouse adoption? Are you completely sure that it was working with text that demanded mouse and made mouse popular? Is it that impossible to believe that once mouse became popular thanks to other kinds of programs the editors started to support it?

I'm glad you wrote your Apple Writer. I'm less amused by your mistaken beliefs you insist on advertising in every Vim related thread. You may be a reason I finally check out this script for not showing HN comments of specific people.
Infogr.am, Watchlater and Cobook have amazing consumer traction and will definitely be great exits for HackFwd in a couple of years.
Some other companies like Yieldkit or my own Filmaster.TV have pivoted towards a b2b model and generate proper revenue in their niche (we help cinema exhibitors and television providers learn about their customers tastes, personalize marketing communication and grow their audience).
Others like Visualnest and BeamApp are fascinating pieces of technology still looking for the right application.
I believe only FlockOfBirds has officially closed down.

If you have specific questions about any of the startups, let me know, I'll be happy to help.

@michuk
Most posts about the future of the "Golden Age" of TV indicate that AMC is about to drop off the scene entirely. Breaking Bad and Mad Men are titans but they are on their last legs, Walking Dead has been getting worse and worse. The new goldenboy on the scene is FX but it seems like they have their own plans (they recently segmented into two channels, one for comedy and one for drama).

I am not sure what Netflix gains content wise from buying AMC - they already have rights to Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Orange is the New Black and House of Cards both seem to be better received than any of AMC's new programming (Low Winter Sun is getting skewered by blogs/critics).

I agree that Amazon and Netflix are in the midst of the original content battle. Netflix is taking the analytical approach, whereas Amazon Studios seems to be scaling the typical production process to the web (scripts -> pilot -> pickups).

In the end, I think AMC needs Netflix more than Netflix needs AMC, so I don't see this kind of acquistion happening. But still a fun article to think about. Thanks for posting!

PS If you are interested in this kind of meta-TV stuff, check out Andy Greenwald's stuff on Grantland: http://www.grantland.com/contributor/_/name/andy-greenwald
For even more fun, JavaScript can use unicode characters as variable names, provided the first is alphanumeric. I'll let you use your imagination with that one.
I've got an app on my iPhone 4S w/iOS 6 that hasn't been updated since late 2008 (pre-iOS 3.0). It hasn't even been in the app store for years. Still works fine. Hopefully it'll work on iOS 7, too, but I haven't tried it.
Why buy AMC? Netflix can just bid on the shows themselves, and have them directly. Or is AMC itself actually making the shows? My understanding is that there are show companies that make them, but they pitch the show to networks until they get funding (or maybe even create a bidding war for hot properties in the business).
This is a view I've held for a while... that the shortage isn't with people holding square pieces of paper with fancy latin on it proclaiming competence. Rather the shortage is a talent shortage and degrees are a very poor indicator of talent.

There was another article on HN a while ago and it stated that only about half of STEM workers have a STEM degree. Meanwhile, 75% of STEM degree holders didn't have a STEM job. Maybe the problem lies with the process of getting a degree?
While not themed after languages and such, I keep a gist of my favorite cocktails I either want to try or the recipes me and my friends have come to enjoy: https://gist.github.com/dylan/6093669

My engineering pals think me using a gist to store recipes is funny... :P
> I for one am tired of people being shouted down because they dared take issue with draconian policies.

You speak of Facebook as though it's a democracy or a public service. Facebook is a business, not a charity, and not a humanitarian enterprise.
The author forgets to mention that buying AMC might be interpreted as declaring war on other content producers. Sure Netflix has dabbled a bit in funding productions, but starting to slice into another pie will just make their core business model more difficult to maintain if misinterpreted.
Why Is Zambia So Poor?
It's a concerning trend. Lot's of people go into the fields looking for high salaries and job opportunities, and then have no interest and thus talent in the field. There's so many totally inept people with even graduate degrees in computer science.

At the same time, look into some of the top University's CS exams and they're writing code on paper. They're not training effective and talented programmers, they're training effective exam writers.
It's so much about what they currently have as that they have shown for a channel, with what is presumably a much smaller budget that the big three premium channels you mention to turn out hits.

I personally think the author is onto something here, as AMC obviously knows how to do production at a high level, and the point is they need volume of shows as well.
Well, whether you do or not, if it's the sole platform you build on, you're at their mercy.

Violating the TOS means you should expect to get burned (and you've done it to yourself). Either they utterly failed at any kind of due diligence while designing this product or they're lying about not understanding Facebook's actions; neither really engenders sympathy.

I'm not a fan of FB, but this clearly is not some arbitrary evilness on their end.
And indeed are the verges of motorways (highways) in the UK, where stopping is prohibited unless in an emergency and a strip of land leading up to the hard shoulder is fenced off. They are excellent hunting grounds for hawks and other raptors.
Melting point of lead 327.46 °C, melting point of Iron 1538 °C. Additionally, I would assume that you have a lot less tolerances for bearing balls than for shot. So I assume that the much better process control for cold metal techniques is necessary for bearing balls.
From my limited understanding of the industry AMC doesn't actually make the content, they just buy it.

Having finished Orange is the New Black I think Netflix has the right people to make decent decisions as to what to buy. It would seem to me to make more sense to invest directly in the content rather than buying a purchasing team.
Am I reading this right? A third-party service that protects you from third-party services? And you have to install it everywhere? And it's not FLOSS? Please tell me I'm reading this wrong.

Edit: Okay I see it's based on FLOSS and that's great, but as far as I can tell they're still asking you to install binary blobs, which makes the whole thing pointless.
One more reason to work as a consultant/freelancer or for a small business (startups included). In these settings you have a lot of control over the tech stack and can optimize your skills for the changing market. You can also devote whatever reasonable amount of time you need to learning new things as you go. In most of these environments, polyglots are rewarded and encouraged, which means much less career risk, since you can hit the ground running on a wider array of projects.
This isn’t my best post.
Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’
I appreciate the civility.

But please keep in mind what this is. This is not a startup company or a business who was shot down, this was a hobby project by one guy[1]. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.. better I suppose since nobody's livelihood was wrecked over it.

SF is not a threat to Facebook in any way - this is just plain old dickery hiding behind the rule book as an excuse.

[1]: http://socialfixer.com/about.php