skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SFTP is the correct answer.

WebDAV is terrible. Run, don't walk, away from it. Nobody at apache has any responsibility for it, the mod_dav author is totally MIA ... it's just a mess. Further, every single DAV implementation[1] is both broken and completely unique.

[1] Like DAV in Finder, or DAV in MS Word or in MS explorer, or in IE ... they are all completely different ... and also all of them are horribly broken.
use. I'm from the UK, living in Canada and I find the UK numbering better, esp since I can distinguish between a mobile phone and a land line.

I understand that calling a landline is the same thing as call a cell in North America, but it's why there is this mess of incoming minutes vs outgoing minutes allowances and "roaming" charges for leaving a state. Annoying as hell and means you can't get a cheap PAYG sim :(
I've had an exact opposite experience. The couple of people I've interviewed who had graduated from a dev bootcamp of some sorts (I don't remember exactly which one any more) had really poor understanding of software engineering principles and only seemed to really know how to use Ruby on Rails for building relatively simple web applications under heavy supervision.

Maybe the program they went to was a poor one, or they didn't have programming talent, but there's no way we could've hired those folks to do any work for us.

Obviously my sample size is really small as well.

It's encouraging to read comments on this thread mentioning positive experiences though. I think when well run by competent mentors/teachers, these things are very useful for all concerned.
No problem, I was guilty of the same error myself until I got curious enough to look it up.

...and that's what happens when you ignore other studies in favor of STEM :P
Technically, its a (rare) precious metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal
17.5k/yr for the lowest package was what I was quoted a couple weeks ago. It was actually not a terrible deal compared to most of the alternatives as far as value goes... but the starter package is way larger than you would need for most things. They essentially price segment the small startups out of the market. OTOH, many of the other GIS server licenses push 100k+, so that is why something like mapbox is getting people excited.
This is Bilal from Science Exchange, and I help with the Reproducibility Intiative as well.

I think that in general you're right, with the assumption that p=0.05. However, each of the studies being replicated is composed of many intricate experiments. We will be reproducing most of those experiments, so while the odds of a single validation experiment failing are certainly not zero, I think the chances of an entire paper's worth of reproduction experiments being false negatives is much less likely. All of the protocols and reagents used, and the data from the replication studies, will be publicly available when they are complete, so that everyone can see what we did and how we did it.
A 60 mile ride on flat roads at a leisurely pace of 12mph would take about 5 hours. College cyclists ride at 20-25 mph. Pros ride at 30+. On my weekend rides were I average 19mph on the flats I regularly get passed by some very old riders. The point is: 100km a day is a difficult but achievable goal for a reasonably fit 70 year old.
There is a (imho) very emotional song about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5r2spPJ8g

I really love the text, it's so beautiful when you get towards the end.
I'd like to see Bootcamps with transparency over graduates and contrasted against college or tradeskill schools:

1. How many students land jobs in the tech industry or go onto other things (personal projects, adding skillsets to their employ, etc). What's the breakdown of success?

2. How much they were offered? How much in a year?

3. Follows up to the length and stability of their employment. Did you keep working for longer then 3 months, 6 months?

4. Did you have pre-experience in tech?

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I'd like to see these things, because while the programs generally provide some eye opening experience. They miss the mark at getting people a job. Business are reluctant to hire these unexperienced students (not to confuse experience with training here, I mean work experience).

They fail in providing a big picture to potential students, it all feels partly snake oil without some necessary objectivity.
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Thanks! I did a guest post for SixRevisions a couple years ago, that led me to a designer that I've since done a few projects with. It works!
You can use a house or lifestyle metric to determine who is richer or poorer. A house or your lifestyle is about as public as it gets.
The part where F.lux removes brightness magically, then.

Bring your laptop under your covers one night. Load up a completely black page. Can you still see (hint: probably)?

There is between almost none and a whole lot of white light that leaks out of monitors, regardless of what each pixel is set to let through.

Does that matter? None of these linked studies have examined that, to my knowledge.
I disagree about the college student thing. I didn't train at all and biked from DC to Pittsburgh, doing 80 miles a day about. It one of those things where you can push yourself a lot further than you think.
There was definitely a noticeable presence from Canadian hackers this season. Waterloo and Toronto are both in the top 20 schools actually.

MLH will be working with those schools and potentially others to get some Canadian hackathons on the roster for the spring.
Where did you get track and field from? Since everything is about Cross-Country Skiing in this post, I kept myself on the topic.

Sprint is one of six types of skiing in the Olympic Games.
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Its really not that crazy. Its probably 5-6 hrs at a modest speed. Doable if you break it up. If its not too crazy hilly you just need some reasonable fitness and a conditioned rear end.
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This is why I wish all programming interviews would just put me in-front of an Ubuntu machine and let me start up vim.

Also, someone should develop a vim & emacs clone with super big font so it'd be good on a big-screen for coding-interviews.
Can you share the link for that? Thanks.
There's no reason why, for instance, Java and C# require type annotations all over the place.

Wouldn't their type systems be a big reason why? ML and Haskell have type systems very different from Java specifically because they went for systems that were inferable. F# has an iffy "just assume it is int" step to make it work with the C# type system. F#'s inference algorithm doesn't work as well, and it impacts how the language gets used. For example people tend to overuse the pipe operator because it helps the inference engine get the right type without annotations.
Thanks, very interesting. It was silly of me to assume that the p-value could be used in that way when, as you explain, it's not measuring or indicating that at all.
most excellent! I needed something like this.
I like using Mozilla's Persona library https://login.persona.org/. Very easy to integrate, you actually get the username they registered with, and (IMO) it doesn't have the trust baggage that comes with using Facebook/Twitter logins
Remade in the 90's by a Santa Barbara alternative band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU

A little harder-rocking, but no less emotional.
... and they won't put impact sensors in their players helmets to track potential brain injuries.
Color screens have been around a long time, but staring at them all day has only recently become common behavior. And the solution to a problem can be obvious even if the existence of the problem isn't obvious.
I don't know about you, but I spend approximately one third of my awake time at work. One third of my conscious life. I'm going to make sure that I enjoy that time, and having enticing colleagues has a lot to do with that in my experience.

There are tons of interesting, very professional people around. There's no need to stick with the boring ones you find along the way, so yes, I would also avoid them.
> (I know you're from Reddit because you use carets to denote quotations)

What? People have been doing that for very many years. Here's TBL doing it in 1991 (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoW...)
I agree with most of these points, but my team lead brought up an excellent point while we were interviewing someone - my team lead had the candidate do a stupid easy algorithm question just to see whether the candidate was the real deal, and explained to the candidate is that anyone could list a Github profile as part of their resume.

The candidate was understanding, and did it - he didn't have to have exact syntax, I was happy enough seeing psuedocode since I already took a peek at the Github profile that was a part of his resume.

It only wasted a few minutes of his time whiteboard coding, and it wasn't intense, so it gave him a nice easy way for him to explain his thought process. I asked relevant questions to the code that he wrote, and it lead to a good discussion on some things.

I felt that we were mutually happy with the experience, as he subsequently accepted our job offer.

On the whole though, asking stupid questions is a waste of both side's time.
Ha! Joke's on you, my Mom died this summer.

Oh. Right. :-\
Thanks for weighing in. Its not a matter of whether I can do that, but rather, how to break into an already heavily-marketed-to vertical full of crappy vendors with aggressive marketing and sales staff, so that's what I'm hoping to gain some insight on.
If 37signals were to release basecamp, this would be a better comparison. At that point, I would probably call 37signals an opensource company, even if they ran a SASS model.
Ugh, I turned 25 last week and had already felt awfully mortal without this. Thanks, I guess, but ouch.
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Of course, it all depends on the volumes. If someone uses the site 10 times, who cares about the $0.22? 100 times, you might start caring. 1000 times, you might not want them.
The API that c0 [0] provides is closer (though still low-level) to what is provided by more modern languages.

[0] http://c0.typesafety.net/
I guess I should say restricted gooling. I like take home interviews. It's harder because you are given more time and more personal space and psychology tells us we will try to design the best algorithm, the most scalable, yet complex solution. If I were to conduct such interview, such solution can be a red flag.

But you know, interview is hard. I also think interview questions don't have to change a lot. I heard Box always asks people to design an evaluator. I thought that wasn't so hard but when I started thinking about an evaluator, I started getting distracted by all the cases, even when I wanted to just implement a state diagram.
Definitely $30,000 dollars well spent, I cant wait to see all of the much needed change this will bring to mine and others lives.
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He is right though, in spite of your examples Chinese mathematics lagged far behind Western mathematics. E.g. By the 1700's, mathematicians were solving Newton's equations using sophisticated approximations, to calculate the future position of the moon.

I'm not inclined towards bold explanations of these differences, but the facts are clear: Western science and mathematics was far beyond anything else in the world at that time.
This has been my experience with my last two offers. In the moment, I was just glad to have gotten a job. My current position offered less than 80% my previous hourly wage, but they had told me beforehand they couldn't match my last job, but that I would get more hours (which I do). It came out to about even, and I got a 17% raise after 4 months, so now I'm making more than my last job, taking hours into account.

I make around 35k, I'm 22, I've dropped out of 4 colleges/universities, and I'm an IT tech with a couple years experience (small businesses, so higher quality experience than level 1 or something). I had very little power to negotiate anyways, but I was irritated with myself for not rehearsing a "let me think about it" spiel or at least vaguely asking if they could do any better.
That DLink bug (masscan)
I was going to say.. the website says I'll see my parents close to 1300 times... however, I believe that unless I make drastic life changes, my father will outlive me - I'm overweight and have heart risk and have a relatively low salary and long working hours, while he's extremely fit and lean and very well off, and only 18 years older than me.
100k a day is.. routine, not even challenging for anyone who cycles regularly. They say cycling is a sport where you can peak around 50. The guys I cycle with are all well over 50 and some of them can seriously outpace me (I'm 31)
I am sometimes overtaken at sportives by very old brown skinned skinny men on bikes. I'd say one of those guys would be able to do 200k a day np. (last sportive I did was 190k with 4 category 1 climbs in one day)
The NFL was only mentioned once in the entire article.
FWIW, 0.1 is valid.
Gotcha. I can relate. It took me a long time to move to Windows 7. Moved because my laptop gave up and I had to get a new one which came pre-installed with win 7. There was no point in downgrading it to XP. I admit to feeling uneasy about the new UI for a few days but then I grew into it. One thing that still awe me is how stable it is. In the past half a decade, I only had one BSOD crash!!

Also on a similar note, a few months back I did upgrade my media center machine from XP to Windows 8. I can can vouch that Windows 8 feels a lot lighter than Windows 7. XBMC+Windows 8 is great combination.
Completely agree with Matt. You should get your house in order before aspiring to do automation or continuous deployment. I worked with one client who was trying to check off a list by trying to implement a continuous deployment on a system that he was planning to retire in a year. Bottom line is if you have system problems, fix them first, lay a good foundation and then move on to automation efforts and continuous deployment.
I don't think you need to be social at all, but it is helpful to have meaningful work samples for potential employers to evaluate. Github's just the easiest place to put those. It's similar to a design portfolio for a designer or writing sample for a writer. Otherwise, people end up making decisions based on their interview impressions, which can be very inaccurate.
People seem not to realise that children take only what they can understand. If you show a 6 year old violent porn, they won't be traumatised by the porn but by the violence. If you show a 6 year old "normal" porn they'll ask lots of questions that you'll find more or less awkward depending on how puritan you are.

The conversation with the 6 year old is easy. It's the conversation with the 13 year old that's the problem. Liberals have "the talk" early. Right-wingers have "the talk" late. Very few people have talk regularly as the child grows up.

I'm not sure what your last sentence has to do with the argument.
My parents ride with a group some of whom are in their mid 60s, and have no problem doing 100-150km/day. They are outliers, but it's by no means impossible.

The worst part about a random person riding for 7 hours straight is being unused to sitting on a bike for that long. If you ride all the time it gets much easier.
Another thing you can do right now is to start asking your parents about their life. It's one of those things you never take the time to do, and then one day it's too late.

If you live close to your parents, do it in person the next time you see them (and bring a voice recorder, your grand-kids will thank you some day). If you live far away, I built a service that makes it easy to do over email (http://www.storyworth.com).
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Don't forget writing. Before writing (in some form or another), humans just had to remember things. Writing allowed them to recall things over a much greater period of time, as well as share them.
There's every reason not to follow your heart, if your heart doesn't know how to make money.

You've gotta have something for retirement...
Is the debt ceiling a stupid idea?
Hi this is Bilal from Science Exchange, and I help with the Reproducibility Initiative.

You are right that the per study costs are cheaper than normal as the original protocol is already developed, and there is less trial and error involved. In certain cases, we may not need to validate every aspect of a study as well, only those specific experiments that warrant replication. And depending on the study, those experiments may vary in cost (i.e. a mouse model component would be expensive, but RNA extraction and western blot testing relatively inexpensive).

Additionally, we will leverage expert labs on Science Exchange which perform experiments regularly on a contract basis, allowing for bulk savings on reagents and supplies.
Filter by C# tag fails!

Why do all new sites fail at this? Is # a stopword in your basic search functionality?
Also Dennis Luxen, developer of OSRM.
I'm a recent grad of General Assembly's program, had a good experience, and would definitely recommend a bootcamp for some other people looking to learn quickly.

I totally understand where you are coming from. I really respect the open and helpful culture of the developer community and want to give back without expecting any money. I had tried to learn on my own for awhile but was never able to dedicate the time needed to get to the next level. The course gave me that opportunity and set me up to be able to continue to learn. That said I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, just like I wouldn't recommend college for everyone.
I'd be interested to know which studies they are targeting. Is SciEx testing a key figure from an expansive publication, or the entire methodology from discoveries with few tests? To me, this seems to be a conceptually difficult decision to make...most discoveries do not discuss the number of years (or failed attempts) that goes by before obtaining the quantifiable result.

And where is the peer review in this process? I suppose as soon as something turns up unreproducible we will find out.
Some business-critical DSLs are indeed this bad. Think "business process modeling" tools that are intended to be programmed through a GUI.
Hm. How?
that actually sounds precisely like D's sweet spot - a C++-like language, but with decreased boilerplate and some high-level features that you'd expect from a "scripting language".
If you like that you may find this interesting:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html
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The reporter is wrong in his characterization of IDIQ's. They are not some little used or known loophole of government procurement. IDIQ's are extremely common especially for IT services.

IDIQ's are also competitively bid. When the IDIQ is solicited multiple vendors compete and a single or multiple awards are made. In the case where multiple awards are made, as in the IDIQ used for healthcare.gov, each awardee then gets to compete for the individual task orders issued under the IDIQ. With a multiple award IDIQ except for under limited circumstances an individual task cannot be directed awarded to without allowing all contractors on the IDIQ a chance to compete.

The particular IDIQ used for healthcare.gov was the CMS ESD. This IDIQ was a multi-award with the 16 awardees being: Northrop Grumman, CGI Federal, EDS, CSC, IBM, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, ViPS, Buccaneer Computer Systems, IDL Solutions, Quality Software Services, Maricom Systems, 2020 LLC, iFed LLC, Alta Systems, DCCA. Now some of these companies will actually be partners on the contract so the total number of competitors for each task is not 16.
I assumed that wasn't the problem as the excel file will open up then freeze as it grabs the data from the links.
No it isn't, somebody is paying something to someone. Square is just not charging the people who exchange money... yet.
One thing this does not take into account -- seeing your parents in person is not the only interaction that is meaningful. Yes, I agree that seeing them in person is a good thing to do, but for some people that is difficult to do, and very often it is not because of a lack of dilligence on the child's part.

So send your folks a long letter or email. Call them on the phone. There is no need to feel guilty because you can only see them X times a year -- for some that is just a fact of life. Phone calls, emails, letters all have meaning. Letters and emails can be read multiple times (and often are). You want to really show your parents you care? Write one or both of them a poem or a song. If you have no skill in that area, write a long heartfelt letter. I wrote one of those letters to my dad years ago and he kept it forever.

It is good to remember that life is short and to use your time wisely. Remember the things that are important. But personal visits aren't the only way to do something about it.
Startup recycling bin?
Does anyone know of reasons why up-and-coming startups might not want to buy technology from failed startups in the same or similar markets? What about reasons why the founders of failed startups might not want to sell or license?

The technology seems useful, often similar, and re-using it could possibly could save time and cost. Of course, tech founders would need to see and be comfortable with the code base, but it seems like a lot of good technology ends up in the bit bucket because the company failed for reasons unrelated to technology.
People who don't follow your favourite programming paradigm are mediocre? Did you mean that or is it just a poorly constructed paragraph?
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More generally, do they have any statement on "conflict-free" sourcing of minerals used in their electrics/electronics?

http://www.enoughproject.org/conflict-minerals
Not sure if it has changed but when I was using XP, chrome and firefox were still using the SSL and TLS stacks from the OS, which meant no support for SNI. Most webpages would fail to connect at this point. Also BSOD once a month was common, not sure if it had anything to with me running Visualization softwares regularly. However, with Windows 7 I have seen maybe one BSOD crash in the past half a decade.
That sounds like whatever user interface allowed you to use the remote account as a source was equally to blame.
It isn't well defined? I always thought a scripting language was evaluated/compiled at runtime (therefore slower, often allowing dynamically generated code to be executed, no low-level memory management like pointers), versus traditional languages which are compiled (either to assembly, or some intermediate representation, but dynamically generated code in the original language is necessarily out of the picture).

Obviously the name "scripting" comes about from the fact that such langauges are intended for "scripting" automating interaction with "objects" (application scripting, HTML scripting, shell scripting, etc.), and that high-level features and on-the-fly execution are more important than performance.

I've never met anyone who thought Python wasn't a scripting language -- I mean, you run the Python interpreter on the script file. And I've never met anyone who would call a compiled language (C, Java, etc.) a scripting language. The distinction is pretty clear to me; maybe other people can think of counterexamples?
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I'd risk a debit card on this technology only if there was a small amount in the account and no overdraft capability.
My parents are dead, you insensitive clods
"faster than any non-JITted scripting language" <- why not JITted actually?