skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credentialism is about obtaining a title of nobility, a class distinction, not education or even job training.

To suggest otherwise is a core affront to their entire cultural outlook. What, you say that once the King creates me as a Baron, I'm not going to automatically be issued a Barony to rule? How dare you claim otherwise?

To some extent aided and abetted by some HR staffers who also buy into the credentialism / title of nobility outlook on life.

Although its annoyingly self perpetuating and popular, it can be a pretty toxic poison in a business setting.
It's more of an analysis of the structure of Redis' code.
> "By using the generated report from Google Analytics I could inject script code that was executed on mail.google.com"
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Looking at the bitcoin address [1] Baidu posted in the press release, it looks like a whopping 0.00326169 BTC has been deposited into their wallet. I know they just set it up, but I guess I would have expected slightly more activity by now. This makes me wonder if it's more of a PR stunt than anything.

I know that Reddit, after months of enabling Bitcoin as a payment option, still only got 3% of their entire revenue in Bitcoin [2]. I like the concept of bitcoin but as of now, it seems like many of these initiatives are launched by businesses to get "tech people" interested and to make news about their business. That's not a terribly bad thing though for bitcoin because businesses are still adopting it. It just would be nice to see Bitcoin used more than 2.5% of the time.

[1]: http://blockchain.info/address/1NtbQKVFxAPc8mmBoWwRzhg7o3EMC...

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1dkbix/bitcoin_usag...
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You would say transposition vs substitution but there a few different string metrics. I picked one of the most popular which treats substitution as the same as transposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

It shouldn't be hard to argue and force them to disclose what string metric they are using and what distance is the minimum if you're prepared to take them to court.
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One thing that bothers me with advices like this is the overall negativity. Yes, we all know creating a profitable startup isn't easy, but hearing over and over again "You will fail many times", "Its get harder not easier" and so on is really demotivating. Seriously, are there no entrepreneur stories that had a great idea from the beginning, executed them smoothly without any outside financing and achieved success? And by success I mean satisfying income that allows them to work full-time on their startup and live on a decent level. Not everyone wants to build The Next Great Thing, acquire hundreds of thousands users, generate mutli-million revenue and so on.
"Now I don't know anything about laying internet pipe, but lets say we gave everyone minimum service guarantees, how much do you think that would cost, and how much would you be willing to pay for a given speed? It may be completely possible that Comcast is fine with your seeding as long as you limit your speed to percentage of that number."

I think the cost of providing such a guarantee depends on the guarantee, and therein lies the problem. Right now, I suspect that a typical cable modem connection would only be able to guarantee dialup speeds, due to how massively oversold the bandwidth is. Of course, most people do not seed torrents or run web servers or whatever else on their home connection, and so we never see service so degraded.

"Would it really change anything for you if you found out that your minimum service guarantee was 768kbps at your current price point?"

Sure: I would have a much higher opinion of my ISP. Frankly, I would have a higher opinion if service classes were based on such minimum service levels rather than maximum levels: I would much rather pay for at least 768kbps than at most 20Mbps, particularly if "at least 768kbps" meant "at least 768kbps, and higher throughput when available."
Free trials are a must, but you may find that other mechanisms convert better than the Apple-provided one. For example, I would consider offering a free issue on first launch without making the user sign in with their Apple ID and confirming a recurring subscription.

Recurring subscription revenue is possible outside the Newsstand section, too; that was one of the points I was trying to make.
. We probably would not think it was inconsistent for a man whose female friend was attacked at a conference to remark that he felt comfortable in the tech community.

Well no, because men are rarely raped at conferences. But if men were savagely beaten in the stairwells as often as women are harassed at conferences, then we probably would find that inconsistent, even if it happened to a friend and not him.

Or perhaps she was feeling superior, not laughing it off.

Maybe so. Why then doesn't she take same attitude with women who criticize her? Why is she "comfortable" with sexism but feels compelled to complain that women can't empathize with her level of comfort?
You need to click on the comment's "link" before you see the "flag" for the comment.
I think visual programming works well if its geared towards a specific problem set. In the past I used Talend ETL to generate small java programs and it worked well. However I couldn't imagine trying to do something big with a general visual language.
Fun. This isn't really specific to Redis, but is a good introduction to the sort of thing that C programmers often get up to. You'll see this sort of function table in all sorts of C programs. Take a look at GNU stuff like make and you'll see the same format.

Congratulations on the exploring.
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Really? Resources would be far better spent providing uninterrupted electricity and clean drinking water to its citizens.
Instead India spends it's capital on trying to promote national pride and patriotism.
How do you know that they keep the bitcoins in the same place after they receive them? They could as well transfer them to other wallets.
I used to jailbreak my iOS devices just to remove it, now redundant in iOS 7 (thankfully).

It makes no real sense why Apple would segregate these apps, yet also allow a directory hierarchy for you to organize non-NS apps.

If Newsstand solves a genuine real-world problem, why do I not have Gamestand? I have a folder for all my games, surely a Newsstand-like UI would be a pivot on the original idea?

If it isn't scrapped in iOS 8, I don't know what's going on. The idea around the newspapers live-updating/downloading/streaming is great, carry it on without shoving it away on the back page!
It doesn't make it more successful or stable. Putin simply continued Yeltsin changes: more power to the government, suppress the opposition, consolidate the power in few hands. He haven't done anything new, except creating a new image of an iron man that Russia loves (Like Stalin, translated from Russian - steel).
jsPerf shows !!parseInt(str) and parseInt(str)? true : false as being decently faster...assuming I used jsperf properly.

http://jsperf.com/test-bool-cast
I'm buying a certain number of bits per second.

You are paying for a given usage profile, and the economics are based around that usage profile. A few leaches can exist for a given economic expectation, but beyond that everyone suffers.
> you could get straight-married (for legal purposes, obviously) to become independent from your parents under the law.

Is that all it gets? He could also, you know, sell his kidney, or something similar, in order to get into university. What kind of society are we talking about if you need to cheat to get something that you should get in every other civilized society? What other compromises would you be required to make in order to get an education? Join a political party, rob the bank, start working as a prostitute or porn actor?
Never depend on the client to do your validation. Client side validation is a courtesy and/or usability issue, not something you can rely on in any way. Always do server side validation.
You know what got me excited about programming? LOGO [1]

Still does...

Links to downloads in wikipedia page.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
It's possible to improve, but I think the key is progressive enhancement. Look at how IDEs tend to offer typing and implicit information in scala: it's there, it's very useful, but it doesn't stop you from seeing the plain text source code.
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Thanks. What do you think of this one? Is Swanson a good brand? You can't beat the price.

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-efas-super-epa-fish-o...
The state of comments - The Onion nails it
At his link, you can see it distinguishes between total received and total balance.
The Low Information Diet
"I would love to see such a program that did that."

I did that. Takes forever. Its called join the .mil in the reserves (ideally while not in an eternal war on multiple fronts, may not work so well in 2013), then get an associates degree basically for free with the GI bill, then get a "real" entry level job with tuition reimbursement, then night school the bachelors, etc. Just keep on upgrading till you're sick of it or lifestyle incompatibility.

It helps to have actual experience in computers / electronics / RF before you take the classes. How weird it must be to first use an oscilloscope in a classroom, or first run a compiler as a school assignment, or first solder something after you're old enough to drink. I never got to experience that, which must be stressful / interesting.
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Prof. Raúl Rojas about artificial intelligence and robotics
How does turning work? I've been curious if I could build my own omni?
> People have tried this. Over and over and over.

Seriously, it's the future and it has been for fifty years.
The subject matter aside, that is the coolest web page implementation I have seen in a long time. The rolling zoom with the mouse wheel and the map display on the side was just neat.
The !! mentioned in the article does exactly that.
Now this is going to be a story to watch.

I look forward to seeing if that guy ever posts again lol.
Looks like a similar concept to robozzle: http://robozzle.com.
Yeah, I can't help but wonder if it was built to appease (or appeal to) big media companies.

The idea of "a good old newsstand full of newspapers" is something only journalists still hold.
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I think newsstand works quite well on the iPad. But on the iPhone it makes no sense.
Actually, yes. And if I read something for entertainment, I don't tell other people they should read it.
Yeah, it's a pretty shallow introduction. I'd like to write more articles on the Redis code. The sorted set skiplist stuff is really interesting.
Confessions of a living room CEO
Not yet, but we plan to add a correspondence table between OpenSSL and GnuTLS. Any contribution is most welcomed.
"You can get any book, ever written, in the world, online!!" certainly not
I recently picked up DevOps duties on a project that is running Elasticsearch and MongoDB and have implemented, roughly, this exact strategy for migrating nodes to different hardware configurations within their respective clusters with similar results. Very neat.
Because a plastic 3d printed gun wasn't dangerous enough...

This would be really cool but kind of goes with the point made by the author of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6551278
I liked the road progression on the left too.
JetBrains is actually from Czech Republic, not Russia. Yes, they have offices in Moscow and SPB, but also in Munich and Boston - that does not make them German or US company either.
The Internet and OpenStand: The Internet Didn't Happen by Accident
Anecdotal evidence vs Anecdotal evidence. I guess its a matter of picking your preference.
Boxy! Downloaded it to play around, thx.
And of course the handy Time Traveler's Poster from Topatoco ...
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I've spent the past year "working" within graphical programming, and I have to say it is a slow form of torture.

I have been "writing" IVR applications for a call center. The interface is far from intuitive, and it is jsut too easy to miss what is actually going on. The loops and if statements are all there, but you have to click through on the item to actually see what is going on.

Forget trying to find an easy way to locate where something is. at least in my case (VXML) I was forced to use grep to at least give me an idea of where to look, then spend 10x the amount of time it would take in plain ol code to find where to make the change.

ugh.

give me ASCII code any day
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What are these more direct ways?
You're joking, but if we take the statement seriously... Perhaps the mechanism works like this: The further we move away from skeuomorphism, the less correlation we'll see between industrial design talent and UX design talent.
Footnote [1] If you're going to be pedantic, be correct. Not only is your use of words incorrect (pedantic/ly), the logic is insufficient to be a valid argument (on substance). The seperation of the political seat of power (in both california/sacramento and the us/washington DC) was (as historical fact) done in repsonse to desire for a seperation of political capital from financial capital (her being used in the sense of assets) to minimize potential corruption. The presence of capital (assets) in a city is what makes that a capital (descriptive) city. This is why you can have non-political Capital cities (like NY, SF) without speaking illogically or using incorrect grammar.
Ender's Game is an Understated Story of Uncertainty
I tried it and have several newstand magazines. But, my biggest gripe is the inconsistency. Some magazines and newspapers have apps, others are in the newstand. If all news and magazine type apps were in the newstand, I'd be fine using it.
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Why is he "inventor of..." and the others are just "creator of..."

Personally, I think using "inventor" when related to writing software is a little over the top.

Still, not as irritating as when people call Crockford "inventor of JSON" I guess...
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And I'd add that all the non-newstand apps are grouped in their own folder anyway.
Why are you trying to recall when the data is available in the link?
He should probably add "in the western world" to the article too. Go to any third world country, sub-Saharan African country or anywhere in South East Asia and you can see those forgotten skills at work everywhere. Labour is still very manual, everything still created mainly by hand. If something breaks it doesn't get thrown away, it gets fixed someway, even if it means some fabricated patch.

When machines are expensive, power is scarce (or unreliable) and much more difficult to transport - cheap labour will win.

I wholeheartedly agree with your post though. It may not be as common in the western countries as it used to be, but it is not lost.
But not to be trusted to drink :-)
> So I'm the maintainer for Linux's /dev/random driver.

Excellent, I can ask instead of going to read the source!

Does the code managing /dev/random make any effort to detect hardware RNGs where available and use those to feed its pool? That way an available proper" random source is feeding the pool as early as possible, before any user-space tool pumping data from a generator to the pool could be started. It is increasingly common for chipsets/CPUs to have some form of HWRNG circuitry built in.

Or is that deemed an over-complication (and potential point of failure) for something that is not currently available on most devices? I'm thinking of chipsets like the SoC used in the RPi which has a built-in HWRNG that is easily accessible once the appropriate module is loaded, and recent Intel CPUs which have one (though I don't know if that is as easy to access ATM).

> is that when userspace tries to generate long-term public keys immediately after the machine is taken out of the box and plugged in, that there isn't a sufficient amount of entropy

I've wondered if this is something we can at least partially address by adding a property to those assigned via DHCP or similar protocols so as well as telling a new device what address it should respond to (and the usual other properties such as name resolution settings and potentially hostname and so forth) would there be room in the protocol to include a small block of random data? If the network setup is done early enough during boot then there will be at least some entropy in the pool before other process start needing it.

Of course this would require that the device handing out addresses and names had a sufficient entropy source of its own, potentially a HWRNG, in order to be able to provide this random data at the rate needed by the prevailing network conditions (the worst case being at if all the hosts on a large subnet pop online at the same time due to recovery from a power-cut and so all want their block of bits at the same time). Also it wouldn't help devices that might not have any network access on first boot but might still need to generate keys ready for when access is available.
Boy. This is not at all the truth. Anecdotally, what I've discovered from a year at MIT is that the norm is feeling like you don't belong (e.g. here is some previous discussion about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890267).

Saying "understand that you are here through very little of your own merit" is a recipe for causing already overly stressed students to do something rash, like jumping out of a building: http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/www/mit-suicides/ (this list isn't even up to date).

Motivating people to work hard to feel like they've earned their place is a completely different thing than reinforcing the doubts and insecurities almost all of them have anyway.

The pressure at this place (and it's the same at any top-tier place) has been almost too much for me to handle sometimes, and that's without foolish words from foolish people designed to increase it.
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"Additive manufacturing (or "3D printing") has already revolutionised the design of plastic products."

Well additive metal manufacturing is not new [1] and already revolutionized the design of metal products. The Amaze project is just joining forces to think out new designed components.

[1] Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApmGFDA6ow

Edit: There are 3 methods (I know of) for 3D metal printing:

Metal powder is fused with a laser, layer by layer.
Metal powder is sprayed at the focal point of a laser and fused / added to the object.
A ceramic mold is 3D printed and molten metal is cast into the mold.
"Total Received" is the amount that address has received ever. Even if they transferred the money to other wallets, the "Total Received" amount would not go down.
I hate Newsstand. Mine has one app in it: The NY Times. I use it frequently - any time I'm eating a diner breakfast, or taking the train into the city on the weekend. I don't want Newsstand, I just want the NY Times app in an easy place to get to.
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Same here. Lost it on the day when Jobs died trying to get at least something different on the front page.

Also I've been long suspecting that my downvotes don't work either. I have the arrows and they are clickable, but they seem to do anything. Pretty annoying actually.
I think that at least some of this is historical based on how the capabilities in the platform developed. For example, HTML is declarative and, in theory at least, something all but the purest artist/designer understand. The same is generally true about other traditional communication mediums - Designers for magazines understand magazine printing and often have related tools, for example.

Likewise, CSS is not only declarative, but a rules based DSL for presentation - definitely in the realm of designers (and conceptually an underpinning upon which you could build even simpler tooling).

Where this has broken down and caused the kind of confusion i think the article discusses IMO is that the creation of HTML is very frequently (almost always traditionally) assembled via another system which is less so - asp/jsp for example were Turing complete languages mixed with templating. So it took engineers to make the dom serialization in the first place. Then as things moved client side we had script managing the DOM too. Combined with very limited semantic/expressive powers in HTML and CSS, the marriage between the three often put the two disciplines at odds with one another. I think that new tags, web components/shadow dom combined with new capabilities in CSS like regions, grids and pseudo-elements may put things right and make the web have a much better story for cooperating disciplines of engineering and design/ux.
I like that they did use real #s in addition to polemics. You're right in that they didn't capture influencers. It would be good to see metrics on that too. I do know that I refuse to try anything requiring a credit card # - I wind up forgetting too often. But my data point is just an anecdote.
Besides the content, Is anyone going to mention the beautiful use of the line as a scrollbar with the SVG? Its nice to see more and more articles beginning to use more interactive web technologies as opposed to just a static text and pictures. There's more of a reason to read content online than just having the latest content.
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Other: Antisocial (https://github.com/thraxil/antisocial/), which I wrote the weekend after hearing about Reader shutting down. I like it much better than Reader, but it's extremely opinionated, so it will probably only ever work well for me. I wrote more about the how and why back here: http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2013/03/31/My-History-...