skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The counter example is that sports are linked (hitstorically) with (very) successful Academic Institutions. The notion that "they have no place there" is historically way off the mark.

That's not a counter-example because you have cause and effect backwards. It's not that sports make the academic institution successful. Rather, successful academic institutions a) receive a ton of funding and can allocate budget for sports and b) their popularity helps them attract talented athletes.
What's the equivalent for emacs?
That doesn't sound like an unregulated system.

That sounds like a system where the regulation didn't work.

One of the reasons I'm much less gung-ho about regulation as the answer to everything is that I acknowledge that case exists, and must be considered carefully rather than unconsciously assumed away. Regrettably, this complicates things compared to a world in which we could just assume the problem away, but we don't live in that world.

Those who could have stopped it had their ability to do so regulated away: The board’s mandate, spelled out in the Medical Practice Act, recognizes a doctor’s license as a hard-won, valuable credential. Doctors’ rights are to be protected at every step of the process. The board can’t revoke a license without overwhelming evidence, and investigations can take months, with months or years of costly hearings dragging on afterward. (Quote is trimmed a bit; a justification follows, but is a prime example of how regulation failed to consider an edge case and then made damned sure everybody else was obligated to fail to consider it as well.)
Public schools in the US are egalitarian and as public institutions ultimately subject to the will of voters via elected representatives. However, they tend not to be democratic in a sense which would support your thesis in regard to sport.

The standard model for eligibility for scholastically sponsored sports at the high school level is wholly dependent upon were the child lives. Thus High School athletes typically are not free to choose a team which best meets their individual needs.

If the coach basketball coach has a bias against atheists [and in plenty of public schools team prayer is regular and expected] or there is depth at their position or the program simply operates on a seniors-get-first-priority basis, the player is not free to move on.*

In other words, public school sports are largely organized around exclusive geographic franchise rights and there are extensive rules to prevent playing for whom one chooses and severe penalties for doing so by circumventing those rules.

Furthermore, many high school athletic associations restrict how, where, and with whom a player may play in the off season - e.g. by limiting the number of players from the high school team who may play on a club basketball team together during the off season [and that's without considering restrictions on their ability to monetize their athletic fame or talent].

* NCAA rules also severely restrict player movement at the college level - while coaches may switch teams every season.
Just so everyone knows, the calculation with watching videos at BitcoinGet is wrong. They would be making 6 cents for watching 12 videos and not 60 cents. This makes it even less of an incentive to go there. I am surprised they do.

The site pays 40uBTC/video, which converts to
40*10^-6BTC = 0.00004BTC = $0.005(assuming 125USD/BTC) = 0.5 cents/video = 6 cents/12 videos.

Also, it is a Silicon Valley startup Virool that offers these videos, not BitcoinGet per se.
True on some abstract ethical level I guess, but under the modern corporate mindset also plainly irrelevant. They don't make a point of referring to us as "resources", after all, for a lack of a reason.

It is wrong to treat other people simply as a means to some end or goal.
Why would a data format not be very early in the list if ordered by simplicity or ease of learning? JSON is both..
The probability of a losing day is actually far lower since most of the trades a bank has on are non-directional and net out.
"We didn't figure it all out right away. For instance, it took us over a year to figure out arrays and slices."

And that might be how long it takes me to fully understand the difference.
That will be released on the iPhone 6.66
I've seen plenty of these submitted before. A couple of others for Vim, too. I suspect they're more common for Emacs, though: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsPresentation
This will be a much needed and welcome addition to ECMA 6.

If you're interested in a bit more of a comprehensive overview, Nicholas Zakas previously wrote an excellent article on arrow functions :

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/09/10/understanding-ecmas...
Especially since most of the links are just to the original projects' homepages...
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I got a different impression. The interview process isn't anything but a crude filter, and its wasting everyones time. Ernie's, AND the interviewer. Its hard to tell if someone is a fit, without actually working with them.

The article was peevish, but I identify with the author's viewpoint. I suggest they interview with smaller companies, where for instance you can meet everyone and chat more informally. Like a startup.
Those are state of the art graphics gaming engines. It's quite hard to make e.g. an RTS using any of those. They are too FPS specific.
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I find sports emphasis far less troubling than the author's focus on standardized test scores.
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This is actually a case of opposite of free market.

Like the article said, if it was easier to people fire him when he was still a student for example, without fear of being sued, this would be averted.

Also the licensing system is broken (ie: license is mandatory by law, law says hospitals can trust the license, licensing organization is broken and give broken licenses... what to do? Good hospitals will expend money to research the guy, but the average hospitals will trust the law, that says that if the guy has a license, he has right to be licensed...)
I can't help but feel sorry for all these chaps that are arguing. Do you all live in a fantasy land? I feel like almost nobody here has truly started from the bottom, but rather like to observe from the tower they were born in.

Why is it that I was able to live on part-time minimum wage ($10/hr) that covered rent (rented a room for $500), food ($100 a month and I ate like a king, never ate outside, always home cooked), and my drinking? I was living fine. If you can't manage your money, that's your problem. Sure I couldn't buy the latest boots or iphone, but who gives a fuck? Buy a book, it'll cost ya $5 and last you for far longer than that stupid phone you slaved a month away working for.

If you manage your money well you will save little, by little, and you will invest that capital into bettering yourself and moving up. I saved money for online courses.

If you don't get out into the real world and hustle, you will get nowhere. Reading a lot of HN I can't help but feel that most HN'ers want their computer to be their absolute portal into real life.

It isn't. It's like, 1% of real life. Real life is face to face. Real life is personal relationships with people, it's respect, it's keeping your word, it's keeping calm, it's keeping your mind in a good state, it's building relationships that benefit both people, it's not being a bitch. It's not about you. It's about them, and when you enforce that attitude, that attitude spreads and starts to work in your favour. You start meeting people, and keeping those people. Nothing has ever changed anything for me than buckling down, making myself presentable, and being confident. It's hard, but it needs to get done.

I invested PURELY IN KNOWLEDGE. I then sold that knowledge. That's how you make money. You trade knowledge, for cash. I buy gourmet food now, because I can't cook it myself. I pay for university, because it's far easier to learn something from a professional in 4 years than ripping through books my entire life. This entire world is built upon this foundation.

I fucking hate seeing people argue this shit like it's black and white. The problem isn't the money, it's the people and the decisions they make. If you play your cards right you'll get to where you want to be.

I could have acted like a cynical poor ass like the world was working against me, and it was, but you need to rise above the victim mentality.
It should be ordered alphabetically, with the colour of the block showing the difficulty or learning order (simple/compulsory = green, hard/niche = red).
I long for an interview like that. I first left the tech industry due to having to deal with HR and the hiring process.

I became a chef, where the interview could be moved to having them watch me make a dish or show knife skills. Then out of interest, I went through a biomedical engineering degree and am back into the tech field.

Still, due to my negative experiences with the filtering process, I have stayed in the realm of freelance and contracting. I would jump back into a tech job if interviews, like the above, were more common.

Thanks.
It was probably media speculation. Since "Champagne" is well-known to be trademarked (only sparkling wine made in the Champagne region can technically be called Champagne), Apple likely never intended to call the gold version a champagne color. I never saw any leaked material from Apple referring to it as such, at least. It seems like the media settled on calling it champagne and the Champagne gatekeepers preemptively made noise about it[1], thus adding fuel to the fire.

[1] https://twitter.com/Champagne/status/370623172166430720
This + screen sharing over ssh. Watch out WebEx!
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Which is just some machine code eventually. It's just electric signals people!
It seems to be in order of relevance -- that would explain PHP being at the end. :)
Related: I also made a vim-based presentation tool, called git-slides [1]. The main difference between Vimdeck and git-slides is that vimdeck generates slides out of a simpler format (Markdown), while git-slides displays one WYSIWYG slide for each commit in your git history.

[1] https://github.com/gelisam/git-slides
It should be worth noting, taking someone's fingerprint and duplicating it is surprisingly easy. In fact, a duplicate print has been used to open door locks and even computer locks as the Mythbusters have shown :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hji3kp_i9k
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If its good business the right investors will poke 'through' your presentation to find the right answers. No good investor will skip on a break-through business because of a shoddy presentation.

It might seem that from the authors prose that they belive that their presentation skills got them funding - which is why this is all wrong and sends exactly the wrong message out. Most first time entrepreneurs who raise funding can't stop gushing how they were able to convince investors - the root cause is very rarely that simple. Fund raising is not about 'convincing' anyone - it can almost never be done - more often than not its more about 'discovering' the right investors and your ppt has no role to play.
Was that really an accident? I know many of the WS-* proponents liked to say, "This new web-based technology will be so much simpler than that crufty old CORBA junk." But in many cases it was the same companies with the same agendas doing the design and standardization work, so it's not too surprising that the result was more or less bound to go down the path of CORBA. The main difference, and of course the main motivation, was a protocol that would run on port 80 and have a chance to be "web-routable" through firewalls.
Data goes all the way back to 2009 and is limited to SEOmoz's blog section alone as I couldn't extract the remaining.

Paints a rather interesting picture if you look into their rebrand period etc.
Seevl.fm combines big data and the Youtube API for music discovery
Here is a nice listing of FreeBSD on laptops http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/
Not to mention benefits of being strongly-typed.
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I think the most compelling point about the article is the emphasis on stacking your cards for the first 5 minutes.

I've seen many entrepreneurs approach pitching like a rolling boulder, where they think they gain momentum as more time goes on. More often than not, this isn't the case.
It does do 1280×720 which is 720p, most people would call that HD.

True its not 1080P but at 700 frames/s at 720p you are going to get incredible pictures.
And what are those two?
Since a portion of beginners are interested in employment, I wonder how much of this sheet needs to be 'filled in' to become employable at a minimum, junior position?

I've found that the threshold between beginner -> employable is really fuzzy and that's a bit frustrating.
Maybe the traders are hiding their losses from their bosses, shoving them into mysterious accounts, and hoping to turn them around at a later date.

This is what Nick Leeson did which brought down Barings Bank, and what Jerome Kerviel did to SocGen. I'm sure it happens all the time.
Group buying a block of time drives down the price a bit, but much like everything else skydiving related; it is expensive.

I've only got about 15 mins of tunnel time logged. I've done ~60 skydives and was lucky enough to be invited to tag along with a friend who had purchased a 30 min block at the skydive AZ tunnel. We'd been jumping together that day and I'd been struggling to fall as slow as other people in our group. They threw me into the tunnel and in the space of the 1st two minutes had taught me how to adjust my fall rate WAY better than I had been doing. Getting instant feedback on your body position dramatically shortens the learning curve. Compared to trying to get coaching during a normal skydive, even when debriefing with video; where you have to repack, manifest for another jump, take the ride to height and then try to implement the adjustments you'd been instructed about some 45 minutes prior.

So yeah, "burning" ~$150 to get 5 mins of tunnel time seems expensive. I hadn't spent any of my own cash on it exactly because I thought it was too rich and I'd rather actually skydive. But now I see that investing that $150 to ensure I didn't waste another 4 or 5 jumps (~$200 including gear hire) learning to fall slower saved me a load of frustration and a bit of money.

That's why I think the tunnel is an amazing learning tool. When you're in the tunnel there is no distractions, you're in there to learn and improve. When I skydive I'm still trying to learn and improve, but mostly I'm doing it for pure enjoyment of the experience of flying bigger formations.
That's a bit different. Getting a patent on a similar new drug to replace the old one doesn't prevent the patent on the old drug from expiring. When the patent expires, the generic drug manufacturers can start selling the old drug at a fraction of the cost. The new drug can only succeed if the company can convince doctors and insurance companies that it's better enough than the old one to justify the extra cost.

What these people are trying to do is to extend the copyright on the original characters forever.
He does come across as an academic type. Did not say anything about accompanying frameworks/libraries, you know the actual practical stuff.
I'm always a little sad to see a case made against sports, since I do think that participation in sports can be an exceptionally positive force in a young (or old!) person's life - when the culture of sports emphasizes honest competition and respect for your opponent. It's about wanting to win but realizing that winning isn't the goal at all. You know, when it's match point, and there's a ball that was probably out, but you didn't see it clearly, and you know the rules - if you can't make the call, the point and match goes to your opponent. Go shake hands with your head held high. It doesn't matter if you're a crappy tennis player or a great one. You played hard, and you played fairly.

Unfortunately, what I just described isn't really sports in America. There's no way to tell this next anecdote without admitting that I watched "The Biggest Loser", so let's just get that out of the way now. Ok. so. There was this section where an NFL player shows up to talk about how the NFL takes fitness and obesity seriously, and so, they're announcing a "fifteen thousand dollar" (well, I don't remember the exact amount) donation to help fight obesity.

So, a league that makes billions off people who rarely exercise and sit on their sofa watching people play an expensive sport that probably badly harms people when played as intended and is largely inaccessible in the form played professionally (tag or flag football is a different thing, and is kind of fun in my opinion), raking in millions (billions?) in ad dollars by subjecting the non-exercising viewers to barrage of advertisements for empty calorie foods supplemented with a chemical scientists use to induce obesity in lab rats, is now going to donate 0.000001% of the budget to purchase some unused exercise equipment to help fight obesity. Ok, I'm not sure it goes exactly like that, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't go exactly unlike that.

And here's one more problem - I really like college football. I just hate what it has become. There may be a middle ground here.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/04/22/should-colle...

And supposedly (according to the NYTimes) watching pro tennis players does improve the games of amateurs, so maybe there's some benefits to watching instead of just playing. At least, that's what I'll tell myself for now...
How Congress could destroy tech innovation by adding two words to the law
NASDAQ and NYSE offer intraday crosses in addition to the continuous cross.

Having only discreet crosses would not remove the value in lower latency for trading economic releases. There have been a variety of services (like Pipeline) that have services to facilitate large block trades. I fail to see how this would increase liquidity.
"...avoid class hierarchies and inheritance..."

I love hearing this from OOP insiders. Virtual functions are particularly awful to track down, and are probably worse than GOTO ever was. At least GOTOs only went to one place.
This is a good point, and sort of supports the Author's thesis. Perhaps better than the submitted Article. The way to test if interviews are 'fit for purpose' is to see how effective they are in real use. If everybody is going around the formal process, by hiring friends/previous project-teamates/warm-referrals only...then that is pretty important observational data.
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From the link below, 17% of the loans in the last quarter of 2012 were longer than 73 months...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732364660457840...
>Get a feel for their personality, the things that motivate them, the things that annoy them, the things that inspire them, etc.

What exactly are you trying to determine from this? The problem with such open-ended types of questions is that all objectivity is lost. You end up picking people who mirror your own motivations, annoyances, etc. Unless you are sure your question will produce actual signal in an objective manner, you shouldn't ask it. You are just biasing the process in favor of people that will flatter your own ego.
Charging their laptop at a library intended for use by the public (which they are a part of) burns less energy than someone who leaves their air conditioner running while they go get groceries.

Most homeless people go out of their way to not waste public resources and services because they are used to criticisms like this, usually issued from a vantage point of indifference and ignorance.
In a diamond age of VC funding, his effort to crowdfund snowcrashed.
The Adult Education Market is Imploding
Athletes get better grades in high school because they are encouraged by GPA requirements to take easier classes, and because teachers are pressured to inflate athletes' grades to keep them playing.

Local sports can be good; I played soccer in a non-school league. School-sponsored teams only divide students and create perverse incentives.
Does the color coding indicate anything?
Sports and physical activity are not the same. The way sports is done in high school, alienates anyone who does not care to compete athletically and dedicate a good chuck of their time towards that goal. Sports is also not the healthiest option around. I have many friends who still suffer from injuries that they relate back to their days of football practice and such.

What high schools should have is a continuum of the physical education classes in middle school. In fact I think it would be much more productive a class in high school because by then the students would be mature enough to understand that the class is not just an hour of wasted time.
There was probably a political reason as well. Influencing developers and attracting them to your platform via a new language.
Linux has namespaces which seem a little bit similar to variable symlinks (in that both allow different processes on one system to see different filesystem contents).
I believe he/she explains it ("jails").
Out of curiosity, how many of your teachers were hired primarily as coaches in the sports programs?

"minimum GPA for sports participation"

You wouldn't believe the kerfluffle that caused in Texas[1]. As I recall, the result was rather predictable grade inflation.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Pass_No_Play
Lesniak: On Focal's relicensing troubles, CM, and the importance of open source.
I bet if you had walked out, they would have done something to expedite you. When I bought my Volkswagen last December, it was 20 minutes from when I walked in to when I walked out, even with being financed through VW. Some dealerships just suck.
Yes, the iPhone (and Android devices) are replacing Blackberries. Not desktop computers. If convergence devices show up then they will replace phones. The ones that get chosen will be the ones that make the best computers, not the ones that make the best phones.
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Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped into categories (e.g. databases, web frameworks, frontend languages, backend languages, style/presentation). If you use color I would make it meaningful (e.g. represent order of learning things with color something?).
I'm not the only one that chose that mobile OS, millions of others did, too. But, hey, if a restaurant wants to try and dictate my choice of technology, no hard feelings. There are plenty of other places to eat.

And "simply install flash"? It doesn't work on iOS, it hasn't been supported on Android in over a year, and has stability issues on Jelly Bean. I could almost be convinced that you're being facetious...almost.
WWII was a consequence. The large amount of untapped natural resources were the reason for the success of the US.
I can't say how many times I have been asked 'How can I start learning to build stuff for the web?' and wanted to give this as an answer. It's not perfect, but it's on GitHub!
And this illustrates my problem with Franken and all the far left -- government agencies are trampling over Americans' privacy, and his issue is whether a private company is taking sufficient safeguards to avoid making it easier for the government to trample that privacy.

As opposed to, you know, getting government to stop abusing its power.

Half of his questions are "what's Apple's legal interpretation of our abusive laws?" It doesn't really matter what Apple's interpretation is. What matters is the secret court's secret decisions about what those laws mean. It's good that Franken voted against renewing the Patriot act, but he should be sending this letter to his colleagues that voted for it, not Apple.