skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at my university, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was somewhat true generally. I think a valid comparison might be between a hard sciences student at a top school who's also involved in a lot of extracurriculars and up at all hours just to stay on top of everything, and someone working on an early stage company where there's always something burning. The opposite end of that would be the investment banking intern spending 100+ hours a week at the office spinning their wheels or college student who does nothing all week and then stays up to make themselves feel better about failing the exam. That's sleep deprivation for the sake of appearances.
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Just to clarify, it looks like the journalist is taking questions, not the author of the paper.
read this - http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/little-girl-spots...
I would say Deis's perceived value is:

1. Built using DevOps tools widely in use (i.e. Chef) so it integrates easily into most environments and is an easier sell to conservative Ops teams

2. Implemented with Django, Celery and other components that may not be as sexy as writing from scratch in Go, but are battle tested -- which is a big plus for application platforms.

In my opinion, there's room for both approaches in the Docker PaaS world.
bind-key | resize-pane -Z \; display-message "Zoom zoom zoom"

Useful, but displaying message introduces a sort of lag because it waits until the message disappears to fully resize.

I do

bind-key \ resize-pane -Z

Great post!
They're confident it will be approved?
It's interesting that Mark was just talking about this yesterday.
In Prelude to Ads, Facebook Tests Video Posts That Play Automatically
My one issue with this is that he was, by all accounts, alarmingly thin before the seeds did him in, and winter hadn't even arrived yet. It's hard to imagine him surviving the winter, seeds or not. So while the seeds obviously shortened his life, I doubt it was by a very large factor.
Twitter files for its IPO
I say this with some trepidation, but I wouldn't hire myself. Every company I've ever worked for has wanted me to perform some specific task really well, and I have ended up working with the CEO to change things around, been offered an equity position, or have been fired.

It's not that I'm against doing the work that I'm hired for, I just really suck at it. I try to shake things up - for better or for worse. The one time it was at a big company with 150+ employees that was definitely "for worse" - I didn't realize how strong politics and hierarchy could be and was fired pretty quickly for not doing my job and trying to do someone else's.
There are more meaningful pursuits.

Like Chris McCandless's one that resulted in death? Seriously, you can't hold him up as an idol of a 'better life' when his life was cut short very, very prematurely. I'm not qualified to judge whether depression and dietary diseases are better than death, but I think it's at least worth debating.

And few people pursue material gains for the purpose of simply having them. Like I said, for a great many people in the world, being a parent is hugely meaningful. It leads them to pursue material gains in order to provide for their children and watch them grow in comfort. That does not make them 'sheep'.

If they are then everyone is a sheep. You are an "anti-'sheep'" sheep.
The good admiral has a point, but I don't think it gets to the heart of the McCandless drama.

For that, I think I'd look to Norman Maclean's _Young Men and Fire_ where he talks about smoke jumpers:

"It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling...

"For many former Smokejumpers, then, smokejumping is not closely tied up with their [eventual] way of life, but is more something that is necessary for them to pass through and not around and, once it is unmistakably done, does not have to be done again. The 'it' is within, and is the need to settle some things with the universe and ourselves before taking on the 'business of the world,' which isn't all that special or hard but takes time. This 'it' is the something special within that demands we do something special, and 'it' could be within a lot of us."

If people here are reading this and haven't already realized some parallels between not just McCandless and smokejumpers but also entrepreneurs I'd be surprised.

Now, you can draw distinctions between McCandless and smokejumpers, too: the later train and drill and prepare, probably as well as Amundsen could be satisfied with. And their work has a practical end. But their work is still an adventure because they also operate in an area of high risk, and as a result they sometimes pay a high cost.

And they don't do this job for entirely practical reasons. They do it because they have a need for an internal narrative that settles certain things and establishes a kind of identity, they do it because they need something off the beaten track for middle class success.

McCandless was clearly looking for that. I think it's fair to ask if he'd been a little less romantic about it and a little more thoughtful whether he might have had both his survival adventure and his survival.

Then again, unless you're Batman or some other protagonist whose superpower is acute anticipation by authorial fiat, it's mitigated by the limits of the best laid plans.
This just means that their revenue is under $1 billion, not that they are valuing at that.
You seem to be making the same point as untog did in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376678

Therefore, see my reply to untog's comment.
An interesting example of this is Dejobaan "1, 2, 3 Kick It! Drop that beat like an ugly baby" which is effectively a mashup of their earlier game, "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!" and AudioSurf. They released a prototype to pre purchasers, which then they put on Steam (privately) for ease of distribution.

Leading up to Portal 2's release, with the potato promotion, a still unfinished "Kick It!" was involved as part of the promotion, with users needing to obtain a certain ingame achievement. However, it was not at all made clear to users that this game was still in alpha. Tons of users had a bad experience, and a game that wasn't even really intended to be played yet ended up getting exposed to the games industry at large, of course, with a horrible reception.
If this were the case, would you not expect to observe these evolutionary steps in other organisms today?

Why? Just because one life form developed a feature doesn't mean that other life forms will have it.

As the article mentioned, there are other solutions to the same problem that other insects evolved. Probably the gears solution is statistically less likely.

Then again, if this was just discovered, how hard have we really been looking?
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It certainly is a very dividing topic. I estimate that the comments on my personal trip to the bus [1] are split 50/50 between people that admire Chris' story, and people that think he was a dumbass.

I think the argument boils whether Chris was unprepared (mentally and equipment-wise) to go into the Alaskan wilderness. If you read "Into the Wild", and the newer "Back to the Wild" book which has entries from his diary and photos from his cameras, I think it's clear Chris was very prepared mentally - he knew exactly what he was trying to do, and he knew exactly how dangerous it was. He spent months working out, climbing mountains with his heavy pack, and researching wild edible berries and game in preparation for what he wanted to do. This shows he had a clear mind going in.

So essentially, he was trying to do something dangerous, with the minimum amount of gear possible.

This is no different from the countless people that attempt to climb Everest or K2 without oxygen and perish in the attempt. Those people are not considered dumb asses. Neither are the countless thousands and thousands that perish getting out there and pushing themselves as best as they can.

A person's level of preparedness for any life adventure is clearly their own choosing. Who are we to say that someone was foolish for attempting to push the boundaries of what they thought they were capable of?

Even worse, if someone were to be the first to summit some mountain or other without oxygen, they would be hailed a hero. If they died, they'd be a dumb ass. The outcome should not have any baring on if they were "prepared enough" or not - only they can make that choice for themselves.

--

As a side note, have you even spent any time in Alaska or with Alaskans? I live up here. If you were to go more than 10 yards from a highway and didn't have a quad, rifle, chainsaw, axe, saw, three pairs of boots, sixteen gloves, spare everything, spare gasoline, 300lb wall tent & stove, sat phone and a spot satellite messenger and you so much as broke a fingernail, Alaskans would very quickly point out you're a complete dumb-ass for being so horribly unprepared. Even worse, you go by yourself.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus
Yeah, revenue != valuation.
Twitter has filed for its IPO
Going Public In Private: The Boom In Secret IPOs
It didn't before? Well in that case I can report that Close.io <http://close.io/> now supports full 2 way email integration with Outlook.com.
Agreed, although I must say I was positively surprised that I could actually try out the game before having to sign up in the first place. More people should definitely do something like this.
Hushmail: In my experience, if the email address is xyz@hushmail.com, it's a fraudster 100% of the time.
Twitter announces that it has filed for an IPO
I get the same thing from geeks on Reddit regarding Windows 8. Usually a fair bit of nasty language clears up any /r/HailCorporate connotations.

It's so sad to see people who, on one hand will wax poetic on the subject of rationality and open mindedness,will turn around and join a tech bandwagon with no real reason and certainly no real knowledge.

Win8 is better than 7, even if you hate Metro. Objectively, statistically, the OS is more performant than 7.

Of course, openminded geeks never let data and stats get in the way of the anti-ms bandwagon. I'm sure they'll come around for the next windows, "because Windows is good every other release, donchaknow"!
1.16B in funding, any ideas on profits and how much they ask to get via IPO?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
But why "just under" $1 billion? They could at, like, $500 million in revenue?
switch back to old version, old is gold
We must have different experiences with the religious right.
Do we even know that this is a true statement about the facts of the world? Or is this something that the author just makes up, based on anecdotes he knows? (We have already had this same article submitted here before,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6368032

from another online source, by the way.) There are no reliable statistics here about how various companies hire, and indeed no reliable classification of companies into those founded by college dropouts (what if a company has more than one founder?) and those that are not.

If we are just slinging personal opinions around here, and that is the most the author of the article kindly submitted here is doing, then let me express the opinion that RESEARCH about what hiring procedures work best for companies might be a good thing for companies to look at. The research does not show that requiring degrees for jobs does much to guarantee hiring better workers. I have summarized the research in a well liked Hacker News comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

that I am currently updating for posting on my personal website.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test.

(Links and citations to sources available at the earlier HN posting linked above.)
Doctor of medicine here, with basic notions of chemistry and biochemistry from courses I took 16 years ago. I sure know what I'm talking about!

;-)

More seriously, I had inferred the squeezing from the videos I linked to.

If I understand properly, the mechanical constrains on the ADP, Pi and AA residuals involved result in the formation of the high energy covalent bound between the two phosphates.

Thus mechanical -> chemical energy.

I thought that the pressure between the electron clouds of the two molecules caused some superficial electrons to hop, resulting in the new covalent bound (that's what I meant by squeezing), and the dehydration.

Is this mostly correct (with possible intermediate steps where either the Pi or the ADP end up in a temporary covalent bound of even higher energy with subunits of the ÀTP synthase), or is this pure hogwash?

Also, thanks for the explanations regarding the flagellum, that's very interesting :-)

> I'll grant you there are no canonical gears as a mechanical engineer would recognize them. I wasn't talking about the motive coupling. But a number of the physical structures (proteins) that couple the anchoring to the moving body have gear like properties. These are used to orient and clock the moving body in its cycle.

Is it mediated by alternating, matching stripes of charged or polar AA residuals?
It's certainly a filter, but is there any real evidence it's a good filter? I would guess that is, but I really don't have much to back that guess up with.
Your comment sounds like he harmed other people with his stupid actions. He was harmless to everyone but himself.
And the consequence, he paid it with his life.

The nobel part is that he actually left everything behind while most of us are drowning into urban life.

He wasnt a hero in traditional sense of 'saving, helping' other people. He is a hero who had what it takes to leave society behind while we cannot let go of smallest of things.
I'm about to commit an HN faux pax here, but, citation? Off the top of my head I can think of traits which do not fit your assertion: vision in the 390-700nm wavelengths, hair/fur, eye placement (think predator v. prey), etc, etc.
Follow the PHP-FIG standards: http://www.php-fig.org/

Never use mysql_connect() or any other functions from the outdated MySQL driver. Use PDO.

Use prepared statements. And transactions.
I'm skeptical about Tech IPOs. I wonder if as many people are going to buy into the hype as they did with the Facebook IPO.
that would be "confidently", i think.
Oh, and read this: http://www.phptherightway.com
>Did you even bother to read the article, which despite mentioning this detraction, has nothing to do with it?

In fact, it invalidates those criticisms against McCandless.
Ask HN: What crowdsourcing as a service have you had success with?
I am looking to crowd source very basic activity, categorizing the image a person is looking at.

What I need is the fastest response as possible, and a large volume of work to be done (1000 jobs a day).

What are some crowdsourcing services you've used, what was the task, what was the cost per task, what was the response times per task?
God is real.
I love that Twitter announced it via a tweet. Good work dogfooding their own product :)
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My twitter page, twitter.com/vla, returns an error for weeks. Even when I login, I cannot view my own page, though I can send messages, and view recommended tweets and who is following me. Can anybody at twitter help out?
This is one of the strangest threads I've been involved in on HN. I feel like we're just being baited by a clever troll. Attacked with adhomenens and given strawman agruements. Just to say - I'm aligned with your views and I know it doesn't matter - but it's annoying to be insulted by a hypocrite.
Isn't FB now at a high a year after its IPO?
I am proficient in all three of those technologies.

I was about to object... but yeah, you're pretty much spot-on. I still say that, except for the omgwtfbbq databinding stuff, Winforms was a fine technology for its time. It's just that its time is past and MS doesn't ever update anything, they just abandon-and-replace with something horribly baroque.

EF is my definition for "so close, and yet so far".

I have no idea what the heck happened with WCF though. Seriously, I can't even find the kernel of good ideas that got corrupted in the process of implementation like I can with those other two.
Firebase is hiring core devs. Help us reinvent the database
At Firebase, we're completely reinventing the database. Every database to date has been built using a request / response paradigm, and it has been intended for use only be servers on a local network. Firebase is different. It's built to be accessed directly from client devices, and it uses a real-time synchronization approach that makes building modern applications radically easier.

Firebase-powered apps can be written in a fraction of the time, require only client-side code, update in real-time out-of-the-box, and scale automatically.

We're making some bold claims, and we need some bold engineers to help us build this future. We're especially interested in people with strong algorithms backgrounds. If you've previously worked on the internals of databases, you've spent time optimizing networking stacks, or if you feel you're an especially strong algorithms programmer, give us a shout!

Why should you join Firebase?

First, we're one of the few small companies who are tackling tough computer science problems on a daily basis. We're in the business of handling the hard technical aspects of real-time data sync so that our customers don't have to. So, while every startup says they have hard technical challenges, we really do. You'll get to design new synchronization algorithms, invent new languages, use cool new data structures, optimize network stacks, and more.

Second, we care a lot about cultivating a great work environment. This is our happy place. We're friendly people, we have a light-weight engineering process, and we have a sweet 3 story penthouse office in SoMa.

Third, you can have a big impact here. We're a small team (but growing very quickly), and you'll have a big say in the direction of the company. And, since we're serious about changing the way software is built, you could have a big impact on the way all software is made. We won't stop until the "refresh" button is a thing of the past.

If you're interested, send us an email at jobs@firebase.com.

You can see more about our open positions here: https://www.firebase.com/jobs.html
Looking for counter strike maps in real life
I've always wondered how effective Facebook is at enforcing its policies. I've seen plenty of pages that I know are gaming likes, and while I report them nothing ever seems to be done.

Are Facebook really serious about stopping abuses of their system?
It is for beauty like this that I believe all living things were originally designed by some intelligence, somewhere.

Perhaps designed to mutate and evolve, or perhaps that was a limitation in the source materials, but there are some beautifully engineered living systems on our planet.
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My startup was acquired by Dell. Without a college degree you couldn't get promoted. That was a decade ago though.
That's amazingly easy to do when your stock tanks out of the gate.
Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal
I'm not sure. I lived in Houston for three years and we left because of the crime in the part of town that we lived in. We could have moved to a "safer" area, but it was "safer" because it was a socioeconomic monoculture with defined borders and a private police force, not because it was actually safe. We chose just to move to a different city rather than embody "white flight"...

In the part of town that I lived in, which was the Energy Corridor along I-10 between Beltway 8 and George Bush Park, racial tension was pretty harsh. You had haves and have-nots. Most of the have-nots were notably of one culture or another (depending on which block you were on), and they were pretty merciless about taking advantage of the haves, which were also a monoculture based on the area.

Houston was the first place I've had my car broken into repeatedly, to the point that I started leaving the doors unlocked and the windows rolled down regardless of weather. (A plastic seat cover is cheaper than new windows.) Houston was the first place that I've been very happy that I owned dogs, and considered owning a gun. I grew up not locking doors; Houston made me form a routine of checking doors, security bars, deadlocks, door blocks, and window locks and setting the alarm before bed. The Energy Corridor was NOT cheap to live in, and we rented a modest sized house. That part of town has 1980s era architecture where few, if any, windows face the street. I grew up with block parties and knowing your neighbors and talking at the mailbox. Everyone in my neighborhood in Houston, regardless of color, rolled right into the garage and the door came down.

I don't know why it's that way, but I suspect it was that cultures self-segregate instead of mix. Personally, I hope to never need to find out, because I'm not coming back, even to visit.
Perhaps the point is to preemptively stem the tide of lionization of McCandless.
Which leads to the classic answer to the age old question of how you make a car last forever: buy three, one to keep, and the other two for parts.
ShowHN: Real-time spam-testing for blog comments
A few years ago I wrote a service for testing comment-submissions on blogs/forums for spam. That code used an XML-RPC testing mechanism, and clients were created for Trac, Wordpress, ikiwiki, and similar CMSs.

Today I've deployed a new version of that service, transitioning away from Perl + XML-RPC to node.js, and JSON.

The code for both services is very similar, and both are available for you to run your own instances if you wish.

Performance with node.js is significantly better. Woo.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Blog-Spam/

https://github.com/skx/blogspam.js/
Yeah it is, but you didn't make nearly as much money if you bought during the IPO than if you got in when the stock fell to $17-$20 range. It was highly over-valued at IPO
Because I can already sync EAS mail on my Android device?
I agree with you. But only if you think Walter White isn't doing anything wrong.
in both cases true freedom is constrained by a background set of rules enforced by the state

No Lord God Mises necessary. The rules for "pure" capitalism are the minimum set needed to allow free exchange between individuals.
I think what he's saying is that it's at all-time high, inclusive of IPO price.