skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it was BT's own ISO 9000 based system we spent about 7/8 months on the design/spec stage then 2 of us plus an oracle contractor did the development in a 12 week sprint - so it was a sort of hybrid approach.

SMDS/ATM was fairly new at the time our system was designed to manage the kit in the exchanges so that you didn't have some one accidentally shutdown the entire janet university network.
You ask three questions, I will address each of them.

1.) You are a little late as most people started this a little younger. However that means nothing as development changes so much, especially on the web side of things. For example PHP 5 (the only version you should use, not PHP4) only came out about 9 years ago. I would hire you but ONLY when I see your coding skills. (Tip: if you don't have a github account, get one now. It is free and then you can also get ahead with thousands of other developers. Also a "see me on github" on your CV will really stand out as a good thing.)

2.) It looks like you only have done HTML and CSS... both of these have changed so much that if you want to get serious with either of them you shouldn't really use them in the "traditional sense". By that I mean that you should rather use a framework that works out really nicely. Responsive design (works on all sized screens, mobile, iPad, etc) is currently a hot topic. Try out Foundation. It is a really cool framework for front end design. (and much easier to learn than Bootstrap) http://foundation.zurb.com/

3.) If you want to do actual programming, I would still recommend PHP. It is still the largest server side language... and hence more jobs available. Just some companies that use it: Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon and Apple. However whatever language you do end up using, if you want to get really good at it and get noticed in the job market find yourself a framework and get good at it. For PHP I would recommend symfony2 http://symfony.com/ as it has by far the largest community.

To sum up with, I would say that if you push yourself really hard, keep abreast with the technologies and most importantly practise coding you should be rather good in just a few years
So the question is ...

How many apps are worth $0.50 to a million people?
s/wikipedia/any media/
It seems you're also trying to muddy the waters: a) It's not the quote (i.e. what somebody actually said or written) we discuss but the "interpretation" written by unknown or known Wikipedia troll b) The mentioned interpretation uses "the advance of scientific knowledge" not "scientific progress." Public is trained to recognize that being against the progress is bad, but the same detectors aren't triggered by "scientific knowledge" against which ID explicitly fights.

The only quote that can be properly written there in Wikipedia citing the video linked would be "Intelligent Design is philosophy of ignorance." That's what he actually said there.

The actual quote and the manipulative interpretation are by no means interchangeable.
Maybe I'm missing something, but most of your comments seem to be focused on limitations of the sensor, not on the lens itself. (It's hard for me to picture how a lens would behave differently at low light intensity than at high intensity: the light rays all bend the same way regardless, right?) Your point about diffraction-limited resolution is well taken, but for two lenses with the same aperture projecting onto identical sensors it sounds like this technique could make low-end products more competitive with high-end ones. (Let me know if I've missed your point.)
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Let me ask you a question (assuming you are a man)

Would you like to be called a boy?

Imagine being addressed like this (in a group of 90% women)

"Hello ladies and boys"

Wouldn't that feel insulting? And weird?
If you'd prefer to listen to an audio version, here's http://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/319368
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'Use strict';
People aren't going to vote for a congress member based on an issue they don't care about. You have to get people to care first, that's what the rally and associated media attention are for.
The imaginary part can be grabbed in several ways.

The Lytro camera is the closest I'm aware of to bringing such things to market.
minus all the capitals which add no value and make it harder to read
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Really awesome . Just loved it. Keep it up
You can edit the HTML manually to tweak anything as desired:

http://www.immersionmedia.com/blog/customizing-and-styling-g...
> Saying that handing over money to them somehow = human rights isn't much better than the people who say that PRISM = protection.

I think it's MUCH MUCH BETTER.

> For all we know the founder is just some wacky libertarian taking an opportunity to give the gov some bad press.

Needless FUD. For all I know you're an alien from outer space, for all I know we're all in The Matrix, for all I know everyone here is an automation-script and HackerNews is an experiment in how long they can keep me, smtddr, believing that I'm talking with real humans. You can't live life in FUD. I think it's more likely that you're a NSA/USgov shill who just created this account to post this comment... than the Lavabit founders set up all this encryption to a point that even Snowden trusted them, just to turn around aand give the government some bad press. And seriously, "wacky libertarian"? Define that for me. And "just to give gov some bad press?" Why? What do libs have to gain by giving USgov a bad name just for the sake of it? The USgov has given itself a bad enough name just by the NSA leaks, they don't need any help from any "wacky libs".
One of the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory is that pretty much anything, including evidence against it, is actually evidence for it - because it's all part of the cover up.
I was able to delete my google+ profile without deleting the associated gmail address, but I think they have some small text thing to never show the google+ set up thing again.
That might be true - but she should do it only to prove that those kind of investments are worth it, and to gain trust from her boss/team.

I think programmers should be paid to not only do the crappy grunt-work, but also for automating it away, even though there will sometimes be cases where it turned out not to be worth it. To me, the automating is part of the job.

And sure, I remember when I used to think I could rewrite entire applications in a few hours the "right way", but that was pure inexperience on my part. For a junior dev, they might want to run it by someone more experienced, but otherwise, these kind of tangents can turn out to be some of the most valuable time spent on a project.
Every job comes with pros and cons. I used to be a Chef - I loved cooking, but there's so much tedious work associated with it - prep work, inventory management, hiring/firing, etc...

Now I'm transitioning into the business world, and finance. I absolutely love trading stocks, and the thrill that comes with it (especially when you're on the winning end of a trade), but of course there's plenty of downsides too (reports, spreadsheets).

And of course, I write code for fun and to automate certain tasks, but even that can be tedious.

There really is no perfect job, but there are good ones. I think it's more important to maintain work-life balance than to be overly concerned about how much fun your job is...
Why go with WiFi instead of bluetooth? Wifi is hard. If I was to give a tessel to a friend pre-programmed, how does he enter his wifi SSID/Password?

Bluetooth avoids all that. Use a smartphone as a proxy to the web. If he doesn't have a smartphone, you could even use Twilio with MMS to send data to the 'cloud'.

Other than that, really cool idea/product. Heck even though I'm a compE I will always choose JavaScript over C/C++.
I did not receive a refund for my lavabit service that was interrupted, but after seeing the situation I really did not mind (I may not have received a prorated $3 of my $8 yearly subscription fee - I think there are much bigger issues at stake here). The lavabit shutdown is even more of a reason to give a privacy-respecting company support. Godspeed lavabit!
Duh. Never said it didn't. I'm guessing you didn't actually read anything I wrote. The choosing of 10,000 years ago was to the earliest known establishment of a state. That was pretty obvious in my comment.
We don't need terrorists when the government is doing such a great job of it.
I think this was only a poor example because the method under test was a "director" style method (not sure what the name of it would actually be) that simply forwards a bunch of messages/commands to other objects and doesn't do much actual logic/computation.

Tests for these "director" style methods must by nature assert that all the right messages were forwarded to the right objects under the right circumstances, so yes, you do end up with tests that look a lot like what they're testing.

Agreed that ideally you are only testing ins and outs though, but I think this case was exceptional.
Indeed. If an article is an edit war, just split it into two articles or sections "Criticism" "Interpretation B". Admins put the hammer on editors who destroy instead of produce". Repeat as needed. We have the technology.
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How did we reach the point where we suspect a country's privacy regulator of engaging in a publicity stunt (why? what do they gain from publicity?) while ignoring the point they're making - that Google waited for the last day of a 90-day deadline to amend its privacy policies to comply with French law, only to question the regulator's reasoning.

Is it not possible that the answer could be the simplest one, Occam's Razor and all, that Google doesn't want to comply with French privacy law because it interferes with its business model?
If you don't fear deleting words you wrote, it's unlikely you'll be able to finish writing a good book. You're either be too paralyzed to write anything, or you'll write garbage (because all first drafts are garbage) and then be unwilling to revise it.

I don't think prose maps neatly to programming. With code, the endless abstraction features of the language make the ratio of LOC/# features very fungible and gaming the former often doesn't help the latter.

With prose, sure, the structure and outline of your book will affect its size, but my experience (60k words into a ~90k book) is that a certain amount of material takes a certain amount of words and you just have to work to get through them.

Writing is a marathon and it helps to have some mile markers.
So, the appeal is "take it or leave it" simplicity.

While the various choices at a normal grocery store have certainly caused us confusion on an occasion or two, I'm trying to remember the last time it did for us. Once you get into a routine over the months, particularly if one member does the bulk of the shopping, how hard is it to remember?

And we do like some variety. We switch things up a bit and try different brands/styles on occasion.

Oh well. Those types of things rarely appeal to me anyway.
Yeah those shareware disks were such a scam... So much promised and so little worked... And so many copies of PKUNZIP!
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It was a fun surprise to casually read through this and then see my blog mentioned. Glad my work is an inspiration! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
I regularly travel to the US for work but with every visit my originally burning desire to move ebbs further. Between a political class willing to destroying the functioning of your own government over a petty squabble and a terrifyingly out of control security state even visiting is increasingly feeling like a bad idea.
Then let's try this again.

How do energy/transportation costs make Mars the natural industrial hub of the Solar System? You have made a hypothesis, now justify it.

I can come up with no scenario where that's possible in the next 200 years. Indeed, the only way I can do it is to have a sizable population on Mars first, so it builds upon its own internal economy rather than through any sort of trade. It's expensive to get people from Earth to Mars, and there needs to be a big enough population to be self-supporting, even in terms of education and training, so we're talking generations to get to that point.

And if we can put a nucleus of 10,000 people on Mars, to start that colony, then we'll have developed Earth-to-orbit technologies a lot better than we have now.

The explanation you gave - "based on energy/transportation costs" - has not a good predictor of industrial control in world history. Why should it be a given in the Solar System's future history? What is the essential difference between space and ground?

At the very least, you have to show that life-support costs do not dominate the equation. Why wouldn't we have automated mines on Mars, with at most a skeleton oversight crew? Why is it economically more feasible to have a self-supporting colony instead?

Over and over again, in reading about asteroid mining and Lunar and Martian colonization, the answer I read is at best "we have no idea if it's economically feasible" and more often "not economically feasible". While you posit that the answer is obviously weighted in favor of Mars, and not in need of further explanation.

Give me at least a vaguely reasonable scenario for how Mars becomes the natural industrial hub of the Solar System. Otherwise you're handwaving your religion at me.

And for any argument you give, explain why the Moon isn't a better choice.
Comic Sans is freeware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

Installation is trivial (apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer). I think it is a default package.
In the part you quoted, it's clear that Obama didn't start the surveillance state. He just didn't "rein it in".
We talk about it a lot, but what IS social media? Here's a definition.
Sure - but you can probably get similar experiences in other ways as well, again for much less money.
Clearly neither me nor OP is arguing against basic education. Nor that college or advanced degrees are a good thing, so please get rid of that straw man fast.

Additionally, the discussion on the authors post was primarily about those who have developed some capability to "do" either outside the conventional school system or at a particularly early point. This clearly limits the applicability of the discussion to those who have in some fashion achieved access to information and processed it well. This likely rules out illiterate people, non-English speakers (specifically in Tech) and many others from the discussion. I am not saying that their exclusion from information is a good thing, clearly it is not. However, taking the median Indian and saying that the best move in their situation should be encouraged universally is clearly wrong, as is doing so in any culture/country, and I interpreted the article to only be complaining about the dogmatic attachment to that "best path" even in the face of demonstrated success.
GREAT to see Hireart making moves. I've used them in my job search in the past and have always had an awesome experience.
Of course I agree that there is the possibility that autoerotic-asphyxiation is an art that is enjoyed by many more than most of us appreciate! Sometimes it goes wrong.

However, there just seems to be worrying number of people who are linked to the British security services.

Other notable names (non-security services related) include:

- David Carradine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine

- Kristian Digby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Digby

- Kevin Glibert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Gilbert
I would contribute if I didn't need to give out my credit card details. I wish that they supported paypal or payment via amazon.
According to the CNIL site the maximum fine is 150,000 Euros, or 300,000 for a repeat offense.

I'm not familiar with the CNIL specifically, but normally this kind of decision would be subject to judicial review if Google felt it merited it. Or they could refuse to pay, in which case the matter would ultimately go to court.
The company has to pick one or the other. Swearing keeps out some, not swearing keeps out others. Why should either be more correct then the other? I see no problem with the company stating this unless you happen to be offended by developers cursing at their code on occasion.
I wasn't trying to muddy waters, I was trying to type on a phone, so I paraphrased from memory. The terms I switched are interchangable to me (anecdata).

ID absolutely does not vilify "scientific knowledge" per se. The whole point of ID is that it is a pseudoscientific rebranding of creationism, run by "Discovery Institute" that purports to find evidence for God.
Man I'd love to be able to play half an hour of table tennis to chill when stuck on something. Instead I do equally unproductive things like commenting on Hacker News - which isn't even good for my health...
The author uses both pro- and anti- Israel examples.
That's what they WANT you to believe.
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Man, that website is hard to read with the light grey/light blue text on the white background - almost as hard as the headline here on hacker news..
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I support the cause, as I believe all people should have the right to privacy. However, I'm not American, and we have our own battles. Increasing awareness and visibility however, is something we all can do.
Why should lavabit be on the hook? Their operations were destroyed by a rogue government agency, ergo that agency should be on the hook.
Forgive me, I hate to be a pedantic bastard or take away from your message; but something that's bothered me about a few of my acquaintances since grade school is their inability to understand the difference between lend and borrow.

- If you have something that someone else wishes to use, you lend it to them.

- If someone else has something that you wish to use, you borrow it from them.

I don't know why this in particular has bothered me so much, it's just a small thing. Apologies for any offence, none intended.
What if your email host was also your 'attorney'?
That willingness is nothing new. Around the turn of the last century, it got so bad we had to modify the constitution and completely change the way we elect senators. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/S...
"Define specified and explicit purposes;"
What does this even mean? For every piece of data they have to detail where and how it is used? I don't think any major company could do this reliably.

"Inform users with regard to the purposes of the processing implemented;"
Seems like an extension of the first.

"Define retention periods for the personal data processed;"
Forever, but valid.

"Not proceed, without legal basis, with the potentially unlimited combination of users’ data;"
What? Are they saying that the use of data can never change?

"Fairly collect and process passive users’ data ;"
A good one.

"Inform users and then obtain their consent in particular before storing cookies in their terminal."
Their cookie law is freaking ridiculous so they should probably get their head out of there ass to begin with.

Most of this seems like FUD - are there any companies that have these policies in place currently?
An AI-complete motivational prompter... I think, for writers, these are known as "agents" ;)
> How did we reach the point where we suspect a country's privacy regulator of engaging in a publicity stunt (why? what do they gain from publicity?)

Are you new to the world? Or just hopelessly naive?

It's called politics & lobbying.

> Is it not possible that the answer could be the simplest one, Occam's Razor and all, that Google doesn't want to comply with French privacy law because it interferes with its business model?

Occam's Razor doesn't apply here. It never applies to law, because law is not about simple, concise rules of logic. And second, it doesn't apply because your scenario doesn't make any fewer assumptions than other scenarios.

It's possible that French law is right and Google is wrong. It's possible that Google is right and French law is wrong. It's possible that Google is right, French law is right, and the regulators are wrong.

And really all of those are equally likely possibilities.
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Forgive me for being naive, but don't the HR applications scan for keywords?
I will concentrate on javascript. Thank you, you helped me a lot. Thank you to all the others also.
It's not. It's an excuse.

That's just it. There are no "good ideas". Every idea may or may not work. You don't know until you try it. And execution is 90%.

Good execution of a marginal idea will likely succeed. Poor execution of a good idea will certainly fail.
I used to be on the Google indexing team. Disregarding limits on the length of URLs, the size of the visible web is already infinite. For instance, there are many calendar pages out there that will happily give you month after month ad infinitum if you keep following the "next" link.

Now, depending on how you prune your crawl to get rid of "uninteresting" content (such as infinite calendars) and how you deduplicate the pages you find, you'll come up with vastly varying estimates of how big the visible web is.

Edit: on a side note, don't crawl the web using a naive depth-first search. You'll get stuck in some uninteresting infinitely deep branch of the web.
This does not however make it any more palatable, nor reflect any more positively on a populace will to (re)elect people willing to engage in such destructive brinkmanship.
Not being a french company I think you mean ;-) guess which companies got raided over the 35 hours law a few years back.
Right, that's why I said "carte blanche". There are limits, not a simple 1-bit binary distinction.
Thanks. I knew it was a pretty big risk at the time but I spent about 2 weeks obsessed with it and doing my homework. Pored over the source code, forums, docs, concepts etc. (it probably helped that I'm a programmer). By the time I was done with that "homework" it felt less like a risk and more like a sure thing... although BFL at the time was also a big risk.

It took MANY emails with Sonny and Josh over there, back and forth, before I felt comfortable forking over that amount of cash. (They ended up giving me a discount, too.) The tone of the emails and the seriousness and some voice calls helped reassure me a lot that they were serious. I don't think that aspect of it can be discounted.
Critical thinking. Read both sides of every discussion. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
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It may tell you that the job is anti-diversity, but at least it's honest. If there's a weekly whiskey (or tequila or chocolate brownie) hour at the company, wouldn't you want to know in advance?
Hmm. My course is on Udemy (i didn't want to create my own platform). I've got over 1.5hrs of video content, worksheets, examples, quizzes and live workshops. I'm struggling to quantify the right amount to charge for it.
As I mention in the post, I'd also be perfectly happy with the original if the rest of the application was small and simple. It's hard to come up with an example that's both meaningful and not too long for a blog post.

As for the testing issue, we have a controller-like object there, and a controller’s job is to coordinate sending messages between collaborators so I don't think a unit test for this object should test anything than these interactions. This also might be a consequence of using a simple example.
Nobody is forcing you to use gMail.

Use something else - maybe a paid service where you then might (as a paying customer) have some influence over the offering.