skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can be made =)i figured you could just convert the index pages to text and then make a search utility over it.

PS: If anyone makes it, dont forget to post the link! (i don't mind making it myself but i got no server to host it on... Might make it on JS and post as a "static" website)
Hiring in SF? ;-)
I think his last paragraph sums it up.

"I have long been an admirer of Gladwell's; I wish I could put stories together the way he does. But I'm now afraid to read him. My work, my intellectual life, and even my social and emotional experiences with my family are based on knowing what's really going on--not Gladwell's made-up ideas of how things should be. I don't want to base my reading, or my life, on Gladwell's currency: things that might or might not be true, but which make possible masterful storytelling."

I often have a hard time remembering where I learned something so it makes it hard to keep strait why I think something is true. As a result, I try very hard to avoid talented liars.
That's exactly why Microsoft doesn't make it easy /easier for dual boot Windows /Linux machines. They want you to have more space available. Isn't that great?

;-)
"internal"

I don't believe for a second this document wasn't intended for public release from the outset.
i'd be happy if i could load "whatever os i want" on my phone.
android, windows, firefoxos, or a random linux distro. ;-)
Google and FB, too, make most of their money from enterprise customers.
And even shorter, just @100.5 if what you have is a literal. The parentheses are needed if you're boxing a value, e.g.: @(price + 100.5)

In detail: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html
How is Backbone faring against AngularJS these days ?
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Super cool. I hope more departments follow their lead. (Of course, most CS departments are not headed by women.)
Especially since this collection isn't going to change, I'm confused as usual why they don't include a 'download them all' torrent link. Torrents are wonderful for things like this - reduced hosting costs, often significantly faster download rates, and nearly perfect resumeability even in cases of extremely bad internet connections. Win/win/win but very few do it.
There was a TV show called Sex and the City, and that referred to New York.

I'd say either NY or London is fine for an international audience.

SF, not so much - and I hate, hate, hate how that reference shows the promise of the internet as a world without locality has been lost and turned into California, with the rest of the world as an afterthought.

(Australian here, for reference)
Why couldn't the person(s) in charge of reviewing the script(s) have prepared a presentation/document in order to inform the rest of the crew about it and _then_ collectively decided to publish certain information?
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Triple boot to iOS and I'll think about it...
How order management startup Lettuce got its start as fictional dog toy company
Fun story about we started Lettuce by creating a solution to our own order fulfillment problem...from dog toys to the cloud. www.lettuceapps.com
Wait. A gmail.com email address on an apple job listing? How can this not be some kind of identity theft/fishing scam?
Hmm. I've actually changed my mind, (though not about their rejection of npm) -- after digging around, I see that there's been more communication about how Meteor plans to make money, and hearing that they have feasible plans that don't sound like a conflict of interest with open source is better than any technical argument for assuaging concerns.

But about me 'imputing bad motives', or whatever -- I said "worry", and "almost adversarial", and I stand by that.

When a company pops up and says "Hi, we're from Silicon Valley, and we have a plan to monetize a framework made from your language of choice; we have VC funding and we leap-frogged similar community frameworks -- now, if you want to write apps with the new hotness, please use our new package manager instead of the excellent community one, and don't install our framework with the community standard method either" ...

You worry. You just do. I think that meteor/derby/etc style app dev is the future, so I'm worried by anything that might threaten to lock it down.

I'm glad to see that upon investigation that worry is diminished, though. And obviously I applaud your efforts in advancing that future (I just wish that it were done in an 'npm install meteor' way).
Like this: http://www.collegeanswerz.com/discipline-and-understanding.
I don't understand the downvotes here. On a device with 16gb of storage, 2gb or so for another OS that you may or may not be able to get back is significant - especially since things like "usable capacity" are rarely disclosed at the point of sale.
Cool Story. Crazy how things work out.
If you want it to be easily acquirable, the only thing that matters is simple ownership. If you as an individual own everything, there's no need to incorporate. You may want to incorporate for tax, liability, or employment reasons, of course; but you can usually wait for those to be a real issue (income tax treatment isn't a huge deal if you have no income)
Very insightful for me the most interesting part was near the end where it outlines -

"The most significant journalists and whistleblowers in the world (that) are either political exiles, political prisoners, or the targets of criminal investigations by an overreaching security state."

Many of these I had heard of but many more I had not... It's a little chilling honestly.
The G2 also comes in a 0.5mm and 0.38mm version in all colors. As a lefty I prefer the 0.38, but I've found the ball fails more often than the 0.5 so I usually just put up with the occasional smear.
Yeah... from the cited article[1]:

"Of course, there’s no official confirmation this type of deal has been discussed, so it must be taken as a rumor for now."

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/microsoft-wants-windows-...
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me too: http://cbldf.org/
You see this shit? It's called Graphene.
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I don't do too good with 'motivation' or willpower. I do good with habit. For me, motivation dies and willpower fails. Most of the shit that worked out well for me is stuff that I just kept with.

We had a real good day at the office, I wanna say, Tuesday? After a string of really good days. And I had to physically stop everybody and go get a couple beers from the corner store and HAND them to people to celebrate our rad success. Because it was boring. It honestly was. We do what we do every day, and sometimes we get the bear and sometimes the bear gets us, but if we work hard enough we live another day, and eventually small stupid wins pile up.
I worked for a consumer startup that fit the profile. CEO would come up with an exciting business model, raise money with the dream, staff up, fail the execution and then 6 months later lay off half the company to go lean, pivot and repeat. They've squeaked by with 4+ years in business doing this, raised tens of millions from good investors. I could definitely see why any VC firm would want to steer clear of a business like that
Out of curiosity, how many drone accidents are there per year that don't involve the drone pilot?

I have never heard of a single accident, yet everyone wants to regulate them heavily, even in situations where only the participants in their usage are at risk, like the boat video linked in that article.

They really only need to worry about defining privacy limitations. It should be okay to film in public spaces or private spaces where you are authorized to film.
You're missing a lot, but you would have had to peruse the commits that have been happening over the past year to know how much has changed.

I'm not sure how to proceed with my own LayoutManager plugin. Hoping someone will PR a fix making it compatible, because my initial attempt told me it wasn't going to be trivial.
This stuff is well worth supporting. It annoys the heck out of me when IEEE and ANSI hold standards hostage.
Of course, if you study a lot of medieval history, "The City" always means Constantinople (later Istanbul).
I agree, I would be super motivated if that was the case, because it would give me a concrete deadline. But it's hard to simulate desperateness, because I could always bail out (unless I gave all my money away, which isn't a good idea). It's not like I'm rich or anything, I just saved up enough money to do exactly this (work on this project full time) for a while, and yet here I am, sitting around struggling to do it.

I want to want to work hard.
I just really need to learn self-discipline.
wikipedia says it average 3.5g... we should usem them as batteries.
We use Sentry as well but I have yet to see a full stacktrace come out of it... unless I have it misconfigured or something.
I had a day and a half off in DC this week during a business trip, my first visit since grade school. Of course all the museums and monuments are closed due to the shutdown, and who knows when I'll be back.
After being on just about everything that can be prescribed, I can safely say that they all make you into somebody you're not. Yes, it might make some people happier. But, you know what? So does heroin.

In the end, the only thing that can fix you is you.
Am i not getting something i thought that fat was created by Marc Macdonald?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_...
or ember.js?
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Unfortunately, I can't really do that, due to the nature of the project. It's a game, and I'm building complex part of the engine, and it won't be interesting all until this giant chunk is complete. I have friends that I work with who motivate me, but we all had to move to opposite ends of the world for unrelated reasons, and so now we're working remotely.
Out of curiosity, I tried doing an 'npm install meteor' and found that it actually exists right now (but it perhaps isn't official, it hasn't been kept up to date (meteor 0.5.2 compared to the current 0.6.6), and I don't know if it is equivalent to installing meteor the official way).
What are the issues you're seeing with LayoutManager? Are they reflected in the changelog or hidden in commit messages?
It's exciting to hear that your personal subjective experience with "everything that can be prescribed" generalizes perfectly to the other 7 billion humans on the planet. This should save a ton of time and money on medical research.
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Microsoft is taking something out of Google's playbook. Google is doing something similar with their Chrome apps on Windows, just that this is a lot crazier and resource intensive.
There may be more than you think, for instance:

Stanford Computer Science is headed by Jennifer Widom.

Berkeley EECS's Associate Chair is Tsu-Jae King Liu.
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But does pfs protect meta data as well?
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flapping certificates?
The return values change matters if you are chaining actions anywhere, which isn't that uncommon.

And yes, some people do have lots of views. In my current codebase we use Backbone.View as the base of all our frontend web components. This won't take us a day to update, but it's far from trivial, and we will have to regression test every component.
I love your post. Not just because the Weeds reference made me laugh, but because not all of us are living a lifestyle far and above everyone else.

Because some of us have trouble going on every day, but we have to give it everything we have - or, at least, we know that's what we need to do to progress beyond where we are - and it's motivational to know that even people who aren't Success Factor Superhuman Outliers 10X Winner Ass-Kickers are out there, too.
If we are comparing Valve to Google, then Steam-machines/SteamOS is more akin to Android than Chromebook imho. Valve provides platform/appstore, 3rd party devs provide apps.
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http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95....

This awesome mapped survey data has relevant visualizations if you need them:

95. What is "the City"?

a. New York City (46.99%)
b. Boston (2.60%)
c. DC (2.25%)
d. LA (1.88%)
e. Chicago (4.57%)
f. other (41.72%)
(9965 respondents)
I think it's obvious that any psychoactive substance will change one's self. Hence the word psychoactive.
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We paid over $500M for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404
What happens if your program uses classes from the .NET Framework, like List or Dictionary? Does the framework IL get translated to JavaScript and sent to the browser too?
You have:

- no particular financial pressure

- deep technical skills

- loads of experience

- confidence you can succeed

Why waste all of that on a 'relationship' with someone else's startup vs. doing something yourself? It sounds like you should be building something and then looking for people to fill in your gaps not a startup that needs technological-saving (which is unlikely vs. needing users/a valid business model/revenue etc much more than 'perfect code').
Doh, completely whiffed on chaining. I can see that breaking in weird ways. Thanks for the insight.
Not to mention the highly disputable value judgement that someone crippled by depression is somehow more authentic.
They can always use the backdoor themselves and use the information decrypted to provide hints to local law enforcement on where to look for evidence via parallel construction
There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with heroin if it's used in a reasonable manner for something it can actually help with. It is, in fact, quite useful to deal with some kinds of physical pain. It's been eclipsed in recent decades by other kinds of opioids, but that's a difference of degree, not kind. Heroin isn't magically evil just because it's become a bogeyman 'substance of abuse' over the past few decades.

The point is that drugs are not inherently evil. Some drugs might be more harmful than beneficial, but that can only be determined by trials and evidence. Demonizing the things is the exact opposite of helpful.

In fact, I'll amplify the point: Injecting morality into things without a moral dimension is very harmful. It prevents people from looking at things rationally, by clouding the issue with emotional noise.
The opposing philosophies haven't changed - AngularJS really wants you to live in an AngularJS world and is a framework, whereas Backbone is more of a library and can be used to enhance your app (or parts of it) as well as providing structure.

Subjectively, they're both very popular although Angular seems to be growing faster while Backbone has been mature for a while.

If you're comparing them, remember it's apples and oranges - my company used Backbone recently in a mobile app and we loved the flexibility to use the parts that were helpful (Views, Events) without having any enforced application structure. It feels very light-weight but leaves much of the decisions up to the developer (there are frameworks like Marionette that provide more structure if you want it)

On the other hand Angular (or Ember for that matter) is great when you want to use it to drive your entire UI, and makes a lot of sophisticated behaviour easy to set up.

So I'd say they're very different solutions to client-side MV*, and not really competing. You'd use the one that suits your problem and how you want to build your app.
I think I need to elaborate / clarify my earlier words:

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For comparison, my family lives in a "suburb" 20 minutes or more away from everything (and 25 miles / 40 minutes from the nearest Walmart). When I was in San Francisco, I wouldn't have thought much of driving 30 minutes to Walmart (because of my background), except that SF doesn't exactly encourage, or even tolerate, car ownership.

Then again, I could (when I was in San Francisco) walk 10-15 minutes to Macy's, Nordstrom, or Target.

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I'm not sure why you bring up Mountain View, as I didn't mention it and in fact was not referring to it in any capacity. My family lives in a "beach community" with one store, of which I do not know the name. Besides the store, there's a church, a school of some primary-or-kindergarten level, an outpost of the public library, and a fire department. I have also heard the location described as a "suburb". Going anywhere at all is a hassle; there is nothing nearby. It is possible, given the right wind, to smell the fertilizer that the local farms apply to their fields.
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I find it's best just to call it "San Fran" to disambiguate.

And for the entertainment value of indignant inhabitants of the area gasping like goldfish out of water as they prepare to tell you that no no no, it's not 'San Fran' and only someone completely ignorant of the most revered status of their fair (or foggy) city would make such a horrible faux pas :-)

"Frisco" works, too.
Backbone is so much lighter than these frameworks, it really can't be compared directly. Angular is very popular lately, but you have to do your own research of the available choices and determine which project best fits your needs.
And being paid to be able to eavesdrop. Didn't the government have a huge bounty back in the day for anyone providing a way to decrypt and eavesdrop on skype?
I agree and have no qualms with people's use of heroin, and have dabbled, myself. It was only presented as an example.

To amplify, there is nothing morally wrong with anti-depressants either. However morality is not the issue of my concern, the deadening of true self is.
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Eighteen words: better or worse than Google using their deep pockets to make free alternatives until there aren't alternatives?

Microsoft can't stop the success of other platforms as we've seen repeatedly in the 8000 years since that catchphrase hit the intertube forum messages. Interoperability will happen eventually regardless of whether MS initiates it or the EU demands it, because one day someone's going to be pissed off they're expected to "re-buy" half their apps and forget everything else just because they bought a new phone.
This cannot be stressed more. Microsoft's business practices have not changed, nor has their mission, this is just another ploy to lock consumers into their ecosystem....
How do you see your friends? Do you just not know anyone who lives over a mile away from you?

For me, though obviously it doesn't necessarily apply to anyone else, I miss singing in the car. :/
Should money go digital?
Etcd and CoreOS look really great, but I'm still missing a fundamental question. If I've got a set of CoreOS instances running on EC2 with auto scaling on, how does a new instance add itself to the cluster when it starts up? How does it know which other servers to associate itself to, and how do these server know to trust it?
Of course they'll change one's self, that's the point. Also talk therapy (hopefully) changes one's self. More specifically changing from depressed to not depressed. But that completely different from your original statement of "make you into somebody you're not".
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Of course it's over budget. Once you get past the $100 million mark for a web app, your estimation skills start breaking down a bit. But it's good when you have a client who can print money and the private players in the DOD as inspiration. Why not go over budget? You aren't doing a government contract right unless you are going way over budget.

I would love to send out an invoice for over $100 million. Even better would be to pick up the phone and tell the government that you are burning through the cash and you will need another $100 million to keep going. Who is their senior developer? Kobe Bryant? Their development team? The L.A. Lakers? "Sorry, Kobe is refusing to write another line of code until we renew his contract."
I'm not too concerned if my "true self" dies, growth means change, and change can mean death of a previous "self"
You can't start with the hypothesis that "the universe was constructed by a conscious creator" until you have some clear evidence that such a hypothesis is warranted. This is where science conflicts with religion. If you're going to say something exists, or that a certain event or entity caused an effect, you have to prove it. Just because we do not yet understand multiverses (or whatever is out there) and what happened before the big bang, just because we do not yet have sensors to see beyond the scope of space-time, does not let any self proclaimed philosopher fill in the gaps with whatever they happen to read from the nearest religious text.

It doesn't matter whether you call yourself a theologian, philosopher, or scientist, if you're going to make an assertion or assumption, you have to back it up. If you don't, you operate outside of the human body of knowledge that can be confirmed as true, or even remotely accurate.
Thank you for this. What's interesting is how dramatically gaming improved between 1994 and 1999, and then it kinda became incremental. I also enjoyed being able to see how the graphic design (page layouts, colors, fonts) of the magazine itself has evolved. I wonder if current trends can be extrapolated.
Great magazine.

If, like me, you lack the specialized knowledge to understand most of the articles, there was one monthly feature worth reading anyway -- a detailed postmortem of some multi-year, multi-discipline game development project.
Isn't that rather racist? You assume that if the person isn't being called an "expert" then he's from Pakistan? Are you trying to imply that security researchers in Pakistan are third rate?

PS: A security researcher from Pakistan has been bagging a lot of Bug Bounties recently. Look up news on Rafay Baloch
I'm impressed by his scientific endeavors, but I have a hard time forgiving him for Paypal.
Here's an article from 2006 that quotes $100k without overtime.

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/02/news/adna-sand2

The young guys probably make 125-160k, the old guys get overtime preference. IMO they deserve it -- it's a really dangerous job.

In any large scale project, any issue cascades and costs a shit-ton of money. For government contracts in many states, you have stuff like "prevailing wage" (where the gov pays too much for labor), "project labor agreements" (where the gov agrees to employ X number of people), minority and women owned business quotas (a big pit of corruption).

Also remember that governments are run by politicians, and politicians embrace magical thinking. Painting a rosy picture to get something approved and blowing huge money with no tangible result is a good way to raise capital in govt. (whoops, $X didn't do the trick, but to avoid wasting it, give me $X+Y)
This is great. But I’m not coming back to your awesome web-app after signing up.
How big is Harvey Mudd's CS program?
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This article is based on rumors that are not even very likely. I'm surprised its voted up so high. I guess when its about bashing MS, the facts don't even matter so much.
Couldn't they sue the film-makers for defamation / libel / slander (whichever one it is) for the "2,000 informants harmed" claim?

Be hard for the "Based on a true story" defense to work for that I would think.
Huh?

NYC had a runaway project where they spent something like $300M on an employee time card system (google "city time"). There was no consequence until some bank teller noticed that two guys were literally stuffing duffel bags of money siphoned from the project into safe deposit boxes.

The prime contractor was SAIC.