skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently 17 and have done internships for both of the previous summers. Although getting experience was both edifying and fun, there was still a huge opportunity cost. I would have preferred to spend a bit more of my summer indulging my personal interests. Although it was certainly a great experience, I'm unsure about whether or not I'll look back in ten years and wish that I had taken advantage of my summers.

As for the second point, I'm not sure whether internships really create an appreciable advantage at elite schools. Based on anecdotal evidence and some cursory research, I would posit that most qualified applicants to elite schools will have one if not two internships for major organizations. Many will have done academic research. I know a guy who is attempting to get his research on binary star systems published (his first choice is MIT). Careers start early.

Internships are definitely desirable things to have, I don't think that they differentiate students. If anything, they are a prerequisite. Trying to get into college is hard. From what I've experienced, I'm not sure if enslaving oneself to the cult of standardized tests is worth it. The OP seems to have a fair idea of what he wants to do, and has a non-trivial amount of ability. He should think critically about whether or not college is worth it.

I would definitely not endorse the long, arduous process of maximizing attractiveness to colleges during one's high school career in the unequivocal way that you did. One's career aspirations and expectations are highly personal things.
As a former Montrealer, this is surprising given the popularity of Bixi there. Hoping that any problems are solvable.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He is powerless and inconsequential, we swear.

Look at how incompetant he is. He couldn't possibly be a threat to us. We can rest assured that any information he may (or may not) be collecting (we can neither confirm nor deny) is assuredly badly disorganized, and certainly won't be misused.

Let's all simply ignore him and go about our lives as if he didn't exist.
"Low" by whose standards and compared to what? Those who mistake success for happiness usually end up losing both. We recently had a wealthy corporate CFO in these parts who had pretty much everything everybody else wants jump off a bridge because... I don't even know why.
Definitely an odd choice. Asking for trouble. If you've put so much work into, is the marketing value from a hint of association worth the potential mess?
That's a great quote. Do you have a source? I can't find it online from him.
This looks awesome. Kudos to the author for doing this. Not a big fan of PHP, but I love everything else about this project - from a product perspective.

Not getting into the code.

I tried playing with the demo and the 'admin panel' (by pressing the dropplet icon in top left) didn't show up for me in Chrome on Windows 7.

The screen moved slightly to the right (say 2 px) so I knew it was supposed to move...but it didn't go the full way.

Not sure why that is.

Edit: It looks like some sort of JS error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'create' of undefined measureIt.js:120
(anonymous function) measureIt.js:120
I assume it was directly solely at Fox News as this is the line of argument I took. The op posted a link to Fox then I slandered the Fox network's good name. In addition, I don't live in the US and never see American news with the exception of rehashed Fox garbage, hence my angle.
Generating electricity from a sheet of paper
Pretty interesting reading, but (hopefully not unhelpfully) quite a few grammatical errors. I know you have access to word because you are importing excel files, so run it through a quick spell check!
I've never seen that one, but it looks pretty similar to the one I use, Mou -- http://mouapp.com/
Linux has a problem
Really? I started out doing CSS, and I still love it 10 years later. Sure, it has its quirks, but now that we have tools like SASS, it makes CSS so much more fun all over again.
As someone who lives in a western nation outside the US, I never use non electronic currency. Why do you still carry around so much easy to steal paper money when a debit card is so much more secure?
Fear white influx will erase West Oakland history
Interesting idea and cool presentation, I like the sliders and that I can play around with it.

I will probably use this at work.

edit: This is really good, I just accidentally left it on and had completely forgotten I was listening to the same thing. Very much works as advertised.
Now animate this using a border with an inner color like this:

http://cssarrowplease.com/
I'm not sure if this is a joke or a troll. I'll bite and link to everyone's favourite source. In addition, could you seriously read a Murdoch publication regularly and be ok with it? He is one of the most degenerate business owners in living memory.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversie...
My layman's understanding of the subject is that you want (and get) anything but a self-sustaining reaction with fusion, and that's actually one of its safety features compared to fission (where a chain reaction is allowed to happen in a controlled way -- if something goes wrong the reaction keeps going, out of control).

You do want to use the energy from one reaction to power the next, but not directly. No one's actually trying to create a star on the surface of the earth.

As with you, though, not my field so someone who knows better can feel free to correct me.
Wow, they've made almost a penny off me.
Oh, I like the functional stuff too, but the regex changes and grammars and some of the operator overloading - I feel like I'm getting to a point with the functionality where Perl's syntax will start to get in the way, which is not the point of the language.
It could be any of a dozen in the 2% range http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/ad
Fixing it on visual studio would still leave it unfixed the Windows API and for almost all other software, e.g. you can't open files with path > maxpath from windows explorer. Visual studio support would not help much.
Excel VBA Password Protection is useless
What I want to see is an open source markdown editor that renders the preview as you type where you type (not side by side).

For an example check out http://mangomarkdown.com/ (which powers foldingtext).

There are a few projects that do this, but not open source, that I can find! It might not be that hard to change the current ones that go side by side to do this.

(I am planning to work on one, but have not gotten around to doing much, and will probably take a different approach to it than this)
No one like a non answer even though it is the right answer. That being said it is true that many will waste countless hours when a CMS is perfectly viable and could significantly reduce headache.
It is a bit insane, however this allows you to change the color, dimensions, transparency at runtime. A raster doesn't allow you to do this, and, while SVG is scriptable, browser support is spotty.

This hack on the other hand will work in every browser all the way back to Netscape Navigator or earlier.
This seems completely legit. Thanks for the information.
Mystery Solved – The Skeleton Lake of India | Science, dummy
Freedom of speech. For real this time
Power corrupts... absolute power arcs profusely.
If you are a non-US student then you must still submit a TOEFL score. From the FAQ:

If my country’s primary language is English, do I still have to provide a TOEFL score?

Yes. TOEFL scores are required of all international applicants, except those who have spent at least one year in residence and enrolled at a U.S. college or university.
I really like this.

I use simplynoise's noise generators to drown out noise at work (oscillating brown noise usually)

But I like having an equalizer.

I've opened up multiple tabs and superimposed the noises, it downs everything out. Hope you can spare the traffic.
> Err... there is a Chinese space station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1

The Chinese space station portrayed in the film is Tiangong-8. Not number 1.

Thus, the movie takes place in the future. Actually, too far into the future. The Chinese are currently planning to launch their modular space station as Tiangong-3. They're not planning to go through 7 Salyuts first.
Not the best quality, but http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pms.106.1.35-42 seems to be the full paper.
> Generally there is a reasonable limit on the number of billable hours you can have in a week and be productive.

I actually haven't found this even when working about 80 hours a week (~60 externally billable). The key is splitting it between 3 things: 1 primary employer; smaller contracts; building my own startup. The variation in work definitely keeps things interesting and productive.
Founder of controversial Snapchat won’t allow ‘controversial’ questions
Show HN: animate-helpers.scss
Oh this is beautiful. Those textures are better than music at times. Loved playing around with the ocean waves [1], I was able to get close to the sound that used to make me fall asleep as a kid.

[1] http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/oceanNoiseGenerator.php
Dan Boneh's Cryptography on Coursera covers attacks on key reuse in first week. Actually, the very first programming assignment gives a few messages encrypted using the same “one-time” pad and asks to decipher one of them (indeed, with no access to plaintext). It's cool to see a real-world example of such an attack.
width and height are automatically 0 if the element is inline (i.e. a span) or absolutely positionrf (which is usually true for these kinds of triangles)
Yep, I read that the Intel 82599 can/can't (I forget which) hit line rate for packets that are a multiple of 64 bytes. (Care to guess the DMA burst size?) These kind of quirks have been documented in almost every NIC.
Capitalism is just private ownership of goods + a market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism I think you're describing something a lot more specific.
That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Having been inside some really big data centers and seen a bunch of Siemans gear that only worked with Windows XP controller software for monitoring. Generally not as mission critical though as the stuff used in Natanz.

I've also seen my fair share of mis-matched power provisioning and loading, it can be very hard on the equipment. When I did a quick look at a bitcoin mining setup with 700 GPUs I was pretty impressed at how big a swing they had in terms of power consumption. At NSA scale something like that would be really really impressive and real pain to get right.
Very few media outlets make anywhere near $10 CPM these days.
It's the libertarians who, more than any other group, take reality into account by acknowledging that we can't engineer a "perfect" society by using force against one another.

I doubt anyone reasonable even claims that a perfect society is possible - someone will always feel wronged regardless of their circumstance. I don't think it's unfair to say that the main function of a society is to reduce the likelihood that a person of said society gets wronged. Which brings the question of how does a society do that without enforcement of laws? If we accept the NAP is a law, who reprimands those who break it? Who actually defines what it is in the first place? Undoubtedly there are many different interpretations of it and it's not possible to achieve a feeling of fairness in a society if not everyone agrees on its basic structure and laws. If you feel like these are too basic of questions, feel free to link me to what you would consider a definitive explanation.
I don't think anyone will care. Most recruiters won't check out every company you ever worked for. Even if they did fail, so what? They're not all going to be successful.

If those recruiters do have a problem with it, they'll ask you about it, they won't just assume you are lying and throw your resume in the garbage. I'm sure you can dig up an old W-2 from your taxes or something (in the US) to prove you did work there.
Show HN: Puppy - The curious puppet doggy
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity.

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
class Feminism extends Marxism {

@override
public Conflict getConflict() {
Conflict genderConflict = super.getConflict();
genderConflict.setEnemy("Males");
return genderConflict;
}
}

(I don't necessarily believe this, but I thought it was a funny joke)
Um... Do you actually understand the difference between "Computer Science" and "Computer Engineering?" You seem to imply that there is a difference in terms of rigor, which is untrue. The difference between each major depends case by case on each college, and most/many colleges only offer one or the other. A common, but hardly universal, difference is that CE might involve EE/hardware classes while CS might involves fewer such classes. I have never heard of an instance in which CS is less rigorous than CE at the same school.
DIY Easy and Budget Friendly Project: White and Gold Vintage Tray Makeover
I'm told modern gigabit ethernet devices derive practically no benefit from jumbo frames, and the pitfalls of using them are legion.
I really don't there's a need for a special application for this; I use Emacs's markdown-mode, python-markdown, and xhtml2pdf along with a docview pane to edit and preview Markdown, and I can't imagine a smoother experience with a dedicated editor — plus I get to use the editor to which I'm generally accustomed.
Hardly. Without knowing more details, it's impossible to know why you didn't get in. But certainly pg has openly acknowledged that there is a higher bar for older/more experienced applicants, and that's because more is expected out of them.
> That appears to be an accident handling the output of an isotope manufacturing reactor, not anything involving a power reactor.

That is irrelevant to my point, which is that the biggest risk to reactor safety with current fission tech is human error and negligence.

> compare almost any form of mining

The only form of mining comparable in terms of potential environmental damage is ocean oil drilling[1], which I also oppose.

The point is - human nature (re: greedy and negligent idiots) makes current reactor tech unsafe. The potential fallout (pun intended) is not worth the significant risk.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
It's a quote from the movie Margin Call, IIRC.
If you build a working system with Meteor and then re-implement some or all of it, doesn't that mean you are in fact re-inventing the wheel?
It's not a hack, margin: 0 auto is how you tell a non-table element to center itself.
Sure, there's some oddities to CSS, but if you understand the box model it's not that foreign.
Ok I may just be overtired but how would changing a define cause this? Its a static number - you make it bigger and ordinary programs just can't see the extra length in buffers. They're not going to be assuming they can execute memory they didn't allocate, and Windows won't allocate them memory from a buffer string that's already been handed out.

Even if they're just looking for a null terminator, they'll crash when they overrun the bounds if written properly.
While I agree with your conclusion, one household of data isn't particularly relevant to what most children do.
Officer, arrest this man, he removed copy protection that was useless and didn't do anything!
I also said:

> (and with all that said, the most important thing to consider is this: what tool will best allow you and your team to build and maintain your intended product?)

I'd defend the statement you quoted like this: all languages are type. Dynamic languages simply have exactly one expression type, "any". Specifying multiple types affords you strictly beneficial abilities. Static type checks is probably the most significant. Performance improvements and highly specific and accurate code editing assistance (e.g auto suggest) can also be significant.

But yes, you're absolutely right. Nothing but sincere effort, lots of practice, and critical thinking can make you a better programmer.

At the same time, a great carpenter becomes even so much better with a properly weighted hammer and an accurate lever.

:)
It's from "In Praise of Idleness"
Preview Firefox's project Australis build
Yep! :)

The North Korean (supposed) counterfeiting operation is pretty fascinating all around.
Oakland Neighbors Crowdfunding Private Security
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I took that as Chesterton taking a jab at the "Success" books and their authors.
Nobody proposing very specific technologies here seems to be taking into consideration the cost of the resources who have competence with those technologies, and how easily these resources can be located and recruited.

A good CTO will always look at non-technical considerations of this nature because, in most cases, your ability to deliver is not just about the technologies you select.
Thinking of opportunity costs in general is usually a downer in any context. It's a "could have" and wherever there is a "could have", a "should have" is not too far behind. Regret is never a good thing.

Also, a lot of people recognize that time is money, but rarely do they think that money is time. They never use their money to buy back time. Instead they use it to make more money. And now they have to spend more time protecting, managing and investing that money because if they don't, they'll feel bad about the opportunity cost of their money sitting in the bank and being eroded by inflation.

And enough people know how to earn money, but most people don't know how to spend it. When I say spend, I don't mean waste or reinvest. Consider: if you give someone X dollars, he will start by eating better food; give him 2X and he'll dress better; 3X and he'll buy a better car; 10X, a better house. This is usually where people's imagination start to fail them. 20x? Er... buy an even better car and a better house. 50x? Buy two cars and two houses. 100X? Buy a yatch. 200X? Buy a private jet.

Notice that after the lower levels of Marslow's hierarchy have been satisfied, people just don't know what to spend their money on. All they can think of is buying bigger and bigger versions of what they already have. You can't eat away a $100 million no matter how much expensive food you eat. You can't live in all the rooms of a 50-room mansion. All you can do is use your money to make more money or waste it. Not many think of spending it to buy back your time -- spend it doing something you like.
Are you still at Microsoft?
lesson learnt for sure...
US releases $100 banknote with new security features
The Rusticon
This sounds like it's straight out of Dan Ariely's "The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty". Well, the experiment. Not the lackluster description of the experiment.
Same here. No actual quotes or other indication of quoted text, but context was enough to figure out when the quote began and ended.
There are many (important IMO) feature requests for LaClojure in the Issue tracker. Any plans to implement at least some of those?
Any chance you can make this a sonos-accessible station ?
There is an unfortunate belief that any programming system which is significantly easier to use must automatically have caveats that make it unfit for 'production' use. And another similar belief that such systems are unfit for use by 'real' engineers. For example, if AngularJS had come up with an easier-to-understand way of creating components (directives) then it may have been dismissed as just another tool for novices. But some aspects of AngularJS are sufficiently complex that it is acceptable to 'real' engineers.

These are false beliefs and one of the reasons that (this is obviously an estimate off the top of my head) about 95% of programmer time is wasted solving problems that have already been solved numerous times. I see people hinting at security or other concerns related to using Meteor in production, but I have yet to see an example where one of these concerns actually caused a production issue.

I would be very interested to hear if anyone had actually tested Meteor in production, or had specific concerns related to security or anything that leads them to the conclusion that they must come up with their own different/more complex solutions to problems that Meteor solves.

Taking advantage of a system that solves 90% of your problems rather than reinventing six wheels is not lazy. Its just sane and mature.

The psychology of programmers related to tools and frameworks is childlike. Its as if everyone is in a playroom with a bunch of tiny blocks of different shapes. Every once in awhile a kid figures out how to construct generally useful connector shapes or recognizable objects from the smaller blocks. Then when another kid wants to use the larger pre-composed structures to play with, everyone makes fun of him because he is 'cheating' and must be too dumb to use the tiny blocks.
With a little digging, you can find this:
http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/faq/documents/TOEFL_Require...
Ok.

I think it's very unwise to do this given it's how DPR just got busted. You can disagree or not, but this is a question of consequence, not political theory. If you don't think publishing a project called Silk Road 2.0 will get you on a watch list, then ok. If you think this is the way to organize against the state, then good luck. But if you think this is just the comments section, and nothing's really going to come of it, then here's what I have to say:

DPR doesn't have millions of people rallying for him-- because he was a drug dealer. He put a hit out on an employee, and he made $80million by taking a cut. There is no more clear way to flaunt the law than to do it for a large profit, and that's what he did. Whether he used Tor and Bitcoin or kept a notebook ledger and walked between houses, his message would be the same: that'll be 5%, please.

Free action does indeed break barriers, and new technologies change the world, but if there were ever an industry that got better treatment by a government, US Tech would be it. I don't have a problem with fighting oppression. I have a problem with squandering privilege while tying yourself to the oppressed. If you are in this conversation and you're not afraid of ramifications, yes, you have a privilege.

Sorry to be rough about it. Just how I feel.
Agreed - not only is this cool, but the audio samples are pretty high quality. Great example of HTML5, too. A few years ago, this would have required Flash ;-)
I actually started off with Mou, but I've found Haroo to work a bit better for my needs. It's got better shortcuts (although I don't need them) the interface is a bit nicer and it's got more customization. Plus since Haroo is built using node-webkit, it runs cross platform.
Article shows a "Thor Data Center" in Iceland. This looked awfully familiar and it turned out to be owned by Advania: http://www.advania.com/datacentres

Found via: http://www.datacentermap.com/iceland/reykjavik/thor-data-cen...
It's great you're exercising daily, aim to make it part of your daily routine, it'll pay off very well in the future.

When I was your age I had days and even weeks during my summer breaks when I would get bored out of my mind. Believe it or not there's some benefit in that. It allowed me to find new ways to entertain myself and definitely boosted/developed my creativity. Try to get bored every once in a while, it feels nice :)
I wonder what percentage of equipment in a US government datacenter is not made in the USA.

It is possibly 100% or high 90s.

And probably a no-bid contract since only a few suppliers would be trusted enough in the first place.

I always though the best way to take a datacenter offline would be though disabling its cooling system but I guess power is a good approach too.
I like random adjective + random noun. Doesn't jump out as generated. (Well, until now.)

Actually, part of me would like that to catch on for pseudo-anon usernames, so I'm not quite as trackable between accounts.

Ideally I guess I'd come up with a few dozen random name systems, and hop between them for each account... such a hassle.