skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh GOD yes. I was assigned my current MSc-thesis advisor from the small selection of experts remotely close to topics I was interested in, by an admissions committee reading my personal statement.

Now that I'm looking at actually doing my MSc thesis (writing the proposal these days) and inshallah going on to a PhD, I'm having to think hard about where to get an advisor and what sort of topics to do.
A coworker of mine at a previous job had an office (shared), but it was next to the break room on the floor. People would frequently walk by for coffee. I thought the microwaves (smell and beeping) would have been the most annoying in that office.
I grew up in inner city Detroit, many years ago. It was terrible even then, and once I got out I never went back. I learned practically nothing in school and had to dodge violence everyday. I feel sorry for those that were never able to get away from there. (Class of '69 at Highland Park High School)
Asserting something confidently does not make it so.

http://www.aim.org/newswire/obama-sequester-ii-treasury-says...
Yes, I think so. It isn't something for me to get rich on – but more like something that I can show "I made this, I had this clever idea" while (hopefully) earning a small income on the side.

When deployed the app will run quite cheaply too – so I', not afraid of losing huge amounts of money on the project.
No, but I do have an address if you want, drop me a line via email please, j@ww.com.
> We started Safari Books Online as a joint venture with our biggest competitor ...

If you do not know about Safari Books Online [1], do yourself a favor and check it out! You pay a smallish monthly fee, and get access to digitized books. Want to learn about XZY tech, just head over to Safari Books Online and read the latest and greatest books, pick the chapters you want, and move on. Most university libraries will have access agreements, so this will most likely be free, or ask your company about a corporate membership!

I am not affiliated with them, just a very happy customer. This is the perfect use case for me, since I typically will read tech books only once, never looking at them again, and just google from that point on.

[1] http://www.safaribooksonline.com/
> Negative is actionable feedback, but positive has just as much value in a different way.

I guess "actionable feedback" was the phrase I was looking for.

> I'm not suggesting that we should all post meaningless words of encouragement to everything that comes along. But if you're impressed by something you see, saying so only helps.

Agree 100%. It's always nice and reassuring to get some positive feedback :).
Their Austin event was pretty bad. We thought it would be developer oriented but then it was just a 48 hour long sales pitch. Based on the other comments I'm seeing here, maybe they just dropped the ball in Austin.
In other words, it's the argument from FUD, and the FUD is entirely in the service of Gabe's own profitability.
I think that completely depends on your goals. Are you wanting to work for a startup company? Are you thinking an agency? freelance? Or are you thinking some large corporations? The answers will vary slightly, IMHO.

If you're thinking Agency/Freelance, I'd look at agencies that you'd like to work for. Check out any blog posts from the tech team, or current openings. Sometimes there's little tidbits in there if they're shifting tech directions.

If you're wanting to work for a startup, I'd suggest looking in the startups in your current location. They're may or may not be a correlation to the technology that's being used.

If you want to work for a corporation, you would probably be best to learn .NET/Java. I know that's going to annoy someone but for the most part companies want .NET.

You could also base in on the who's hiring trends if that's your goal.[1]

If you want to learn for heck of it, pick a technology that seems to draw you.

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/
Please explain to me the difference in outcomes between piracy and using Aereo. In both cases you are getting someone to retransmit you a feed over the Internet, while paying nothing to the NFL in exchange, yet one of them is stealing and the other is perfectly alright.

I find the cognitive dissonance fascinating.
Thanks! Admittedly, the title was a tad spur-of-the-moment.
Wouldn't the moon leaving the Earth's orbit give us a sell-by date too? I thought the removal of a large object like the moon would change our orbit as well, causing things to be dramatically different on Earth.

Is that wrong? What would happen to the Earth when the moon breaks away?
Keith, you are either getting false information from your partners or willfully misleading here. I prefer the former interpretation since I know for a fact this behavior exists at KV and specifically with Vinod leading the push. That's where the Bad Vinod reputation comes from and where people know to stay away.
Might not have been the highest quality comment but there are lots of companies out there that outright forbid GPLv3 code to be used for anything really.
Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined
Considering the paucity of games written for OS X I think its a stretch to see any number of games running on Linux. Even on OS X far too many are ports or wine type encapsulation and the OS X base does tend to spend more than what is normally attributed to Linux users.

On Steam now, there are 289 Linux capable games, versus 809 for OS X, and thousands more for Windows. So they have a lot of ground to make up
The current official rationale: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec#Why_Not_Wayland_.2BAC8_West...
https://plus.google.com/113883146362955330174/posts/PXc93m8n...

For the history, abandon all hope ye who enter here:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxNzI
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec?action=diff&rev1=3&rev2=4
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxODY
(I sleep in hammocks pretty often)
If you set it up taut and lie diagonlly (eg head on left, feet on right, stomach on middle), you will be pretty flat.
Sounds like you have done your research, but if you haven't heard of hexa-yurts, check them out! Here's a picture of different designs:
http://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt.com/all_yurts_edit.j...
Page Height, Scrolling and Responsive Web Design
Tendril: the CIA might have a use for smart power networks that could detect non-authorized devices (bugs) drawing power.
Exactly. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit

Basically, in this scenario the moon would either come down in chunks or would form a set of rings.
> Financial discipline matters. It really matters.

oh god yes. money is like a blind spot to me - but this line speaks to me best in a whole article that reeks of good advice.

thanks Mr Oreilly.
Interesting. But could you please be more clear about what particularly unique features you have compared to many other similar apps you can search by querying: android sms autoresponder
I think part of it is the fact that this 5-acre land plot has a giant moat encircling it. When the zombie apocalypse hits, they'll be glad they spent the cash, though.

Also most human cultures either grew from river or coastland - the availability of fish and other resources that a large body of water provides is very comforting to us descendants of those peoples at a very basic level, I imagine.
Exactly, which means 2k8 is actually 2800, and not 2008.
> Not really. It's a matter of drilling carefully.

Oh my god. Tynan & Co. are LARPing Dwarf Fortress.
> I don't personally know anyone who's taken the time or energy to move all his data off of bugged U.S. servers onto bugged European or Asian ones or attempted to host it himself ...

Hi there. This is, in fact, exactly what I've been working on over the weekend.

I have ~8 GB of mail spread across three e-mail accounts hosted by Google (excluding my original @gmail.com account, which I never use). I've now got my own server set up and about 0100 UTC today (Monday) I "flipped the switch" (changed MX records) and have been keeping an eye on it since then.

I did an initial run with imapsync to move the bulk of the mail over and, after 0100 UTC (when the TTL expires) I'll do another run to make sure I've gotten anything that ended up in the mailboxes on Google's servers since then.

Afterwards, I'll delete all of the messages in those Google accounts and, finally, remove the whole domain and such. I'm sure that Google will still have a copy of all of that for a good while but, at some point, they'll delete it.

In the grand scheme of things, I know that it isn't really going to make a difference. It's more symbolic than anything but I can feel a little bit better knowing that my data is more secure/private than it was.

I've been meaning to do it for the last few months and I'm happy that I finally devoted the time to making it happen.

(For the curious... a RHEL derivative, configured according to the CIS RHEL6 Benchmark and DoD/DISA RHEL6 STIG (for the most part), running Postfix and Dovecot (w/ SSL/TLS and a "real" certificate although I'm starting to think I'd be more comfortable if I had just made my own) w/ AMaViS and ClamAV thrown in as well.)
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Rich Hickey Interview (2011)
For me, I just like being helpful. The rep is nice too. Stupid internet points are pretty motivational, but I also review edits, and you don't get any rep for that. I would be flattered if an employer had noticed me on there, but I don't think it's likely to happen. I've been active on SO for longer than I've been active here, but I have gotten many friendly recruitment emails from here and none from there.

Prolog is an extremely small niche. Most of the questions are pretty basic and from students. I don't like seeing students being told odd things about Prolog, with a dismissive air of "Prolog makes no sense, you just have to feed it this nonsense to make it go." So another part of my motivation is to keep this sad religion alive and inviting. Haskell has a much larger community of people working very hard to make it inviting.

The hiring angle probably works better for other niches. Every Java EE question is answered by BalusC. I imagine that pays dividends for his consulting: he's the most helpful guy in that area and I'd hire him in a second if I were in charge of that kind of thing.
I can understand your angst, but at the end of the day you have two choices: keep going or stop.

(Note I'm considering "pivot" under "keep going".)

Not knowing what your market is, I'm still pretty confident about a few claims:

1. Most of the target market hasn't heard of either you or your competitor.

2. No customer cares who had the idea first.

3. There's almost certainly room for two different takes on this product. You're not going to be 100% the same as the competitor (and even if you are, then you're competing on execution).
I have a friend who investigated the possibility of this, he owned a small island off the coast of another larger inhabited island. Although he wasn't far enough off the coast to be declared international (ie international waters) he did tell me that in Canada he could issue commemerative coins (although not his own currency) and stamps.
What Should You Expect from GNOME 3.10
6 people. Sales people are downstairs. Just me and one other developer up here. All I usually hear is the AC and the train. Come winter it'll probably get a lot quieter.
The Three Types of Malware that Scare, Threaten, and Abuse
"Ada" stands for "Ada Developers Academy" which follows in the great history of geeky recursive acronyms.
The last few ArsTechnica articles posted to HN have had really terrible writing.

This one doesn't even introduce the patent troll (Lumen View), but just mentions their name with no introduction, as if everybody will know who they are and that they're the patent troll.

Ars used to be really good, it's unfortunate their writing quality is getting so bad.
This is a risky investment as it was.

Poor stock holders are getting screwed by this. If you are holding, sell as soon as you are able.

I'm always amazed when a company can have such a high share price when it hasn't proven it has a profitable business model.
How to protect yourself from hackers
My coworker insists the email address was never validated and no one else ever logged in from this email address. After registering, the account came up with nearly 100 following and followers, none known by my coworker. The standard new user demo never happened. My coworker then changed the user name, and user profile information as a precaution. The actual owner of the account would likely now be able to login or re-register with their user name, but their followers would be gone.
I think people forget that Gabe started his career at Microsoft, and spent over a decade there.

It may have been a million years ago by tech standards, but I think that subcontext makes his statements about Linux even more interesting.
Which is a sort of capacity to absorb the extra spending and acts as a downward pressure on prices.
I'm amazed that it's only 5 years old. In those years, it's redefined both how software development works and the terminology we use to describe it. Honestly, it's helped me to become a better developer in so, so many ways.

What were SO-coders doing 5 years ago?
It is absolutely the case. City income taxes and property taxes do add up though. Any property you purchase you have to check to see what the lien is against the property. Anything for a dollar (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/30/despite-astonishi...) usually has a large tax lien that must be paid if you purchase the house.

If you're not afraid of the locals (have a CCW permit and a shotgun), it's not the most ideal of locations.
Double Click, Which was known to being a privacy nightmare in its time -- if i remember right; - Glad to see $1m of that money is going in fighting a patent troll.
Very interesting title: "Ada Developers Academy"
> a recursive acronym
> Ada is also the name of another language, I thought this was about Ada programming.
> Named after Ada Lovelace, like Ada.

Where did all the women go?
Adele Goldberg - Smalltalk
Grace Hopper - COBOL
Oh, and Ada Lovelace
Because my submissions haven't gotten anywhere in the past 6 months, here's the more recent submission that actually made front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395274
Perfect- Thanks!
I don't know if that's the reason, but there's no reason formatted output HAS to:

1) block at the caller, ever

2) have its data parameters pushed onto the stack

3) print all or nothing to a single buffer

4) identify the data type or modifier by the first letter of its English name (int, long, etc)

5) have its core modified to add functionality
Confidence Intervals of Activity Rates from Sampling Social Data
instead of term limits, make it you have to win each election with 5% more of the electorate?
> The US problem is worse than Detroit's, because Detroit can escape via bankruptcy and the US can't.

"Bankruptcy" is just the sovereign conditionally permitting a debtor to repudiate (some or all of) its existing debt, and is only relevant because, in the absence of bankruptcy, the sovereign would instead be enforcing the existing debts.

As a sovereign state, the US doesn't need bankruptcy; if it chooses to repudiate its debt, it just does so, it doesn't need to ask a higher sovereign for permission or terms (it might choose to negotiate with other creditors to maintain good relations, but that's something any debtor can do short of bankruptcy.)
Knowing nothing about resistors, though, 2k8 intuitively means 2008. So I like this way of doing it.
The important bit is that it's not a system any serious gamer would ver consider using, even if t could handle modern games.
Maybe you should visit the Android app store, see how may apps are nearly identical, serve the same audience in only slightly different ways. And how rarely one hears cries of "copycat!" (Not never, just rarely.)

If you think negatively, you might say, "Oh, people will see me as a copycat." If you think positively, you might say, "I guess my idea wasn't so out of touch as I worried -- here's someone else trying to serve the same need. New let's see if I can do it better."
Here's a good primer on hammock camping:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00639GF4C/ref=wms_ohs_prod...
Adding demand and thereby liquidity to a market creates a windfall that wouldn't have been there otherwise. Whether it's because you were sitting on a bond that was impossible to sell and now you have money because you sold it, or because you would have gotten $1000 for it and now you got $1200, that's a windfall.

Whether that money goes into buying groceries or buying other securities, I assume most of it will continue to circulate in the economy. If it doesn't, then it's pretty much a failure as a quantitative easing.
It was really great having to chance to meet you and your team at PennApps. Really neat concept! My team (texit) was next to you during demos.
As John T. Harvey says:

there is 0% chance that the US will be forced to default on the debt.

We could choose to do so, just as a person trapped in a warehouse full of food could choose to starve, but we could never be forced to. This is not a theory or conjecture, it is cold, hard fact.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/09/10/impossibl...
Mr. Cellophane, the web developer
The Massive A380s
Unlikely, unless the output stream's buffer is full, in which case you pretty much have no choice but to block. stdout/stderr are two channels one generally should not write to in a nonblocking fashion.
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Towing is Extortion
Haha nice head-fake in the intro. You had me going.

No matter the municipality, the "smart" money will always be in favor of the most outlandish deal the market could possibly bear. After all, it's the general public's money at risk. In 2005, you could refinance your mortgage at a drive-through window. I doubt they would have used that language in 2009.

Refi once, you might be fine. Refi twice, you might be fine. Keep going, and you'll lose your house.
sounds like every other hackathon.....
You might like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355488
VERY useful site-- thank you!
Governments are not households? Who knew. Maybe you could rebut some statements I did make?

Tags: strawman, appeal-to-authority
Random tips from my own private island experience…

People may visit when you are not there. In the US, the shoreline up to some strangely defined highwater mark (which is higher than you expect) is public. Canada has a similar deal related to crown lands (you may own the island, but the bit under the water, not so much). These visitors have every legal right to hang out, have a picnic, play jarts, whatever.

When you aren't around you will get more visitors. (I have pretty good camera surveillance, mainly to enjoy from afar, but I also get to see the visitors.) These will be bolder and walk around and look at the place.

If you aren't around and the local environment is right, you may get hunters. We get duck hunters and goose hunters. We generally give a few people we know permission and kind of rely on them to discourage anyone else. Hunters are territorial. One year it was posted with "No Hunting" signs nailed to the dock, but not by us or anyone we know, a good attempt by a hunting hacker to secure himself a private hunting area.

Have a medical evac plan. I've used mine in weather that I would probably not have used an Amazon boat.

Have a "pinned down by weather" plan with respect to food and water. I know a couple that was reduced to surviving on popcorn and bloody mary mix for a couple days. Also, know when you are pinned down by weather.

A food digesting composter keeps your trash bags from getting disgusting.

If there is cell coverage, but only for odd carriers, consider an "island phone" that just stays there. If there is no cell coverage, get a VHF that can reach some emergency agency.
It's crazy to me that there seems to be a backlash against this project being licensed under the GPL. Thank you for choosing copyleft.

Also, if I got it right, an outliner is a note taking application? The best note-taking application I know of is, by far, org-mode in Emacs.
> There's probably some much cooler stuff I'm forgetting, but hey it makes perfect sense he'd be part of an island buying crew.

He mentions these and more on this page: http://tynan.com/about
I look at the k as a algebric constant, i.e. SI prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#List_of_prefixes

so 2k8 is 2000 +8,

2k1da3 would be 2013
Eileen Shapiro's shell companies:

http://www.plainsite.org/tags/index.html?id=704

It's not clear to me where the case mentioned here was actually filed. I can't find it on PACER. Anyone?
Although, maybe breaking almost every site on the web for IE lte 9 isn't such a bad idea...
I trust what google says about browser usage over any other stat counter.If they still think IE8 is popular it must be, even if it pisses off webdevs.
I don't know if the article was edited after you made this post, but Lumen View was introduced further down the article.

Lumen View is owned, at least in part, by Eileen Shapiro, a Boston
executive who works at a company called the Hillcrest Group. She
has a co-inventor named Steven Mintz, who FindTheView also believes
is involved with the operation.
Literally survivor bias
Perhaps in such a society, the case against that proposition would just need to be made in more convincing fashion?
High share prices come from estimated potential. Everyone is speculating on potential.
Thanks! It was great meeting you guys too and congrats!
Yeah, but it's my ONLY island.
Note that there are tests that would catch this, but Intel specifically chooses not to test the hardware RNG using them, according to the paper. (This is ostensibly to guard against attacks on the RNG using scan mode. That could very well be true; I don't have enough domain knowledge in designing secure hardware to know whether this is a common practice or not.)

Detecting stuck-at faults is one of the main applications of scan testing[1]. Generally coverage isn't perfect, but by spending more time and making particular implementation decisions one can make coverage pretty close to arbitrarily good.

Moreover, I can always choose to randomize my scan chains if I think this is a threat, and then an attacker will have to assume that he's only allowed to modify gates that can't be covered by any possible scan chain. Remember, the attacker has to modify the mask, so that means I'm making a large number of chips that all have the same flaw. So if I detect stuck-at faults using randomized scan chains on any wafer in a lot and I'm paranoid, I can re-run the failing scan chain on other chips from the same lot to determine whether it's systematic or random failure.

Lest you think this is an inconvenient test to perform, almost all digital chips are scanned because it's one of the fastest ways to detect manufacturing defects. Unlike rewiring a chip, generating stuck-at faults is a really bad way of being sneaky if the target circuit is being scanned, because as I said above that's a type of error against which scan is quite good.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan_chain
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Ah - living in the UK I thought that would be some kind of weird spider or snake or something. Thanks for that.

We don't have weird dangerous stuff here except for the politicians and bankers.
I was thinking the same thing. His hard earned thoughts carry much more wisdom than, "We should have followed the lean principles that we ignored. Whoops!"
Rise of SO and time span of its rising is really amazing!!
It's going to be part of classic cs literature. already recruiters ask for SO reputation before hiring.