skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm glad that you think that being a sexuality studies major is a noble goal, but I'm interested in tech"
Most of those scholarships require an essay, nothing more. Next time, read before you comment.

"and I'd also like to point out that leading a gay youth initiative (as is often required by these scholarships"
The scholarships that I've run through that talk about leading anything only require leadership skills and experience. No mention of specific gay leadership. And even if they did, your example is exactly what they're looking for, and the exact reason that I received money in the first place. I was from a high school with less than 200 people, no parents in the picture, in the midwest.

I'm not saying that your life has been easy, I'm saying that your arguments seem very poorly thought out, and that you're simply grasping for someone to blame for your place in life right now.

"It's great that you had the resources to land a glbt [sic] scholarship, but they're mostly unavailable to disadvantaged students. You may want to rethink your ally status if you're going to go around bashing gay people for not trying hard enough when there's already usually quite a lot on our plates."
I was a disadvantaged youth. Homeless at 16, graduated from a GED program, went to community college and a state school. Now I teach at a university after a decade or so working in sales. I'm not saying that everyone can do it, or that I am even the rule, maybe I am just the exception. What I am saying is that these scholarships are EXPRESSLY designed for disadvantaged youth. That's who they're made for. I'm going to say it one more time - disadvantaged youth are who scholarships, grants and other sources of aid are designed for.

I never bashed gay people. Just you for not doing your homework. I can't believe that you are hiding behind your sexual orientation as an excuse. It's 20and fucking13; the youth of America don't give a shit about who you want to have sex with. Those youth are also the ones you're competing with in the tech industry. Stop using it as a crutch, and start taking responsibility for your own choices. Being an ally means that I support your good choices and am here to help you when times get tough. Being an ally also means that I don't have to put up with bullshit excuses from young people, regardless of sexual orientation.

As for this:
"Yes, there are scholarships for people in wheelchairs. I'm not in a wheelchair. My stuff is rare and has no funding behind it."

If you're willing to disclose what the condition is, I am willing to help you find scholarships/aid for sufferers of it. I guarantee there are scholarships or other aid available.
Idea: services that intentionally fuzz up your data. You pay them a certain fee and they make purchases for goods, entertainment, etc. in subtle ways (credit card purchases). You are aware at all times what was purchased by "you." These purchases would not show up in a way to the general public (i.e., people you know), but is the type of thing that credit agencies, insurance companies, etc., might datamine for. Mess with their data that way by creating a cloak of obfuscation.
You're focusing on the specific example, rather than the general idea that your purchase history indicates your riskiness, and an insurance company who has that data available to them will adjust your policy based on your behavior.

And why shouldn't they? It's the same concept as you indicating whether or not you smoke, how much you drive to/from work daily, how many driving tickets you have, etc. Questions you willfully answer today. We are already accepting of their interest.

The only significant difference here is you wouldn't as easily be able to lie, and people who do lead more conservative lives pay less, again a tried and true concept in the car insurance industry.

Maybe soon we'll see health insurance companies offering individual breaks to people who grant the company access to their purchase history.
Much more simple than that. Just take a cut from the profits your project generates or supervises. If the project doesn't generate or supervise anything just get a cut from the overall budget which is allocated based on how valuable the project is to the company.
I think that there's a lot of subtlety that gets lost talking about the corporate structure in Amazon. The levels were more or less correct, so far as it goes, but it's not the full story. For instance, a senior developer could be level 6, while his manager might be level 5. That doesn't mean that the dev gets to override what his manager says; they're different promotion paths.

This is key. If you want to work as a dev at Amazon, you'll go from level 4 to level 7 as a dev. I don't know if devs are ever integrated into the corpocracy, vice presidents and so on. I suspect that they generally aren't; at least, I've never heard of it happening.

A manager's levels are different. I'm not and have never been a manager at amazon, but the responsibilities at each level are different from the dev side.
This article is all wrong. I am a consumer, and the publisher should be interested in what works for me. While one can argue the merits of Newsstand, I've used it, and I've used standalone native apps as the OP suggest. I prefer consolidation to mess. I prefer a consistent experience across all reading material, much like the physical counterpart found in the magazine / newspaper format.
Gnews - A clean UI for Google news
Read the latest news (Google News) with a clean and elegant interface. All the annoyances that come with news apps are dealt with. No clutter, no ads, and it is free!
1. Browse/read pre-configured categories
2. Add/delete personal categories
3. Preview the summary of the news, before opening the news page.
4. Toggle full screen mode (by single tapping on the page).
5. Browsing (and reading) the news inside the app without having to open external browser.
6. Open in browser (if you like it anyway).
7. Enable/disable java-script

New:
- Added grid layout
isn't the hacker the first guy and the developer with experience the second guy?
Thanks for the quick reply, I've got the VAT plug in set up, but I can't see how to use the flat rate scheme.

In the flat rate VAT scheme I pay 14% of my turnover, instead of [VAT on invoices] - [VAT on purchases], this saves me a bit of money, but there's not much software that supports it.
asm.js does not break backwards compatibility, asm.js code runs exactly the same in all browsers (if it doesn't, that's a bug and must be fixed of course).

Firefox will warn about asm.js validation errors, but those are just warnings in the web console. They do not affect semantics of execution at all, and are undetectable by the running code. So the code will run identically in all browsers regardless of whether it happens to fall in the asm.js subset or not.
This is the exact comment I was hoping to add to this thread, but you beat me to it. This article begs for a straight up "No."
I'd be very careful there ... the notion of "structured transactions"[1] is about as wide-reaching as a RICO indictment, and can be used for just about anything.

Even a sniff of a notion that you did that to avoid any kind of tax[2] categorizes it as a "structuring" which "may be punished by a fine or up to five years in prison, or both."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

[2] Regardless of whether that's true or not ...
Awesome! Will do. Heck we could even work on it together :)
The Brand-Spanking New Forrst is Here
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This article was written on a keyboard.

kthxbai.
Hey actually emailed me to correct me, which was kind to avoid me the embarrassment, but I try to leave my shame up to force me to REALLY learn.
That's the point they are trying to make. No normal person can hope to lead a normal life whilst escaping tracking.
You're able to "delete" your profile now, so that you have to create a new one and re-add everything if you want to go back. You have the option of deleting after two weeks of deactivation. Whether it is truly deleted on their servers is up for debate.
Ugh, this is really upsetting. Are there similar alternative services available? I need to find a new host...
Welcome to Clicking Bad, bitch. 
don't use javascript, you cheater!
Quick question: Do you have an email newsletter? I didn't really see anything on your site. If not, start one RIGHT AWAY - and promote it via a popup that comes up after about 10 seconds. Email your subscribers once per week, with links to highlighted stories from that past week.

Your subscriber base will start out small but grow large over time, you will thank me profusely when that time comes.

P.S - I've created 4 different sites that have each attracted over 1 million visitors per year. Secret weapon in all of them has been email newsletters.
Favors near term profits far more than long term growth, which you could argue is not good for the longevity of the company. Plus, there would be competition over the seemingly most profitable projects. And there are projects that don't generate any profit, but has benefits that are very difficult to quantify.
If a country is big enough to have an air force then it is big enough to do something on its own about securing government communications.

How hard is it to write an email client?

With some calendar?

Is it complete rocket surgery or something in the realms of feasibly possible?

Wasn't gmail some 20%-er time by a couple of guys at Google? I don't think it took years or billions to get up and running.

I think you could have a tidy and secure webmail built by half a dozen people randomly chosen from Hacker News in six months. Sure it might not be as all singing and dancing as the oh-so-wonderful Microsoft Outlook but then again it might actually be better for the task in hand - facilitating communication for a government. Sometimes people have got to try rather than be all helpless. I am all for software re-use, open source and everything else deemed good software engineering, but, for a government wanting to keep their communications private some consideration has to be given to 'how hard can it be to write an email client?'
Not at all. It's "social media" in that there's a comments page that you can interact with others yes but not much more than that. It's just a link aggregation and I don't know any of you even remotely intimately.
So he hadn't deleted everything? I presumed he had not only shuttered the service, but also that he had deleted everything.
Obamacare: The Rest of the Story
Trying to remove tracks is precisely the wrong thing to do. You have to keep a trackable presence of some sort or you will look suspicious and receive extra scrutiny.
He also originally posted the video on the GoDaddy blog.
Reid Hoffman's Startup Advice: Reveals LinkedIn's Pitch Deck From 2004
Why would a user not be able to sign the address? Every wallet I'm aware of lets you prove you originated a transaction by signing against the originating address.
Does it help that I know far more companies using Chef and Puppet for that then Python and Java?
Pee ruins everything
Money rules the world. Certainly not everything. Not principles, morale and/or conscience. Does it sound too bookish?
Regarding web-server, I'm just using HttpListener class in .NET Framework (or Mono) which is ultra lightweight solution. As per web-browser, Manager doesn't bundle it. I'm just using whatever is available on target operating system, that is Internet Explorer on Windows, Firefox on Linux and Safari on Mac OSX. Lots of credit goes to https://github.com/picoe/Eto which allows easy creation of these cross-platform apps.
It's amazing to me how much money companies can waste hiring new people - albeit a not unwelcome redistribution of profit from shareholders to developers - yet once you're hired you're stuck in that role unless your manager signs off irregardless of other internal opportunities.

I wonder if having a more liberalized internal labour market wouldn't be beneficial; it's destructive in so far that being undermined by more popular projects keeps siphoning off your best talent, but if the alternative is "quit and find another job" it strikes me that keeping that person within the organization may be more beneficial overall.
Cool, a 404.
Hell, probably multiple "Go Blues" as well. But yes. "Hail" and all that. :)
What on Earth has virtualization got to do with input devices?
you haven't lived until you've put pdb statements directly on a production machine and kept restarting the web server to catch a bug after days trying to catch it the normal way.
Sadly I got an exception right after trying to add a company:

System.FormatException: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
at System.Guid.GuidResult.SetFailure(ParseFailureKind failure, String failureMessageID, Object failureMessageFormatArgument, String failureArgumentName, Exception innerException)
at System.Guid.TryParseGuidWithNoStyle(String guidString, GuidResult& result)
at System.Guid.TryParseGuid(String g, GuidStyles flags, GuidResult& result)
at System.Guid..ctor(String g)
at Manager.Objects.Get(String entityId)
at Manager.HttpHandlers.File.Upgrade.Get()
at HttpFramework.HttpModule.ProcessRequest(HttpRequest request)
at Manager.HttpModule.ProcessRequest(HttpRequest request)
Only an idiot would ask the question.
Exactly. Reasoning from first principles vs analogizing is a false dichotomy. As you point out, the two methods aren't even mutually exclusive.
I wish. Did that for a while, but when I told them when I wanted to finish, they demanded Word.

The worst part was that they didn't even use the track changes feature on anything I sent them.
> There is mounting evidence that the NSA had a copy of several ROOT-CA keys to perform SSL/TLS interception on a massive scale.

Has anyone tried putting 2 and 2 together yet from all the leaks about what NSA has collected so far, and how easily, to see if that is likely, or if they did it through other means?

DNS SEC alternative: http://dnscurve.org/ (Dan Bernstein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok
It's going to take a long, long while.
I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and I want to apologize for any misunderstanding with this post. Our intent was to highlight the business critical nature of payroll and the fact that we spend a lot of time making sure things are done correctly.

There are many definitions of the term "hacker" and I strongly believe there is no single right way to build software. Every team has to find the approach that's right for them and I want to sincerely apologize to anyone that was offended by the terminology we used.

We're proud to be a part of the YC and HN community, and many of my teammates are avid participants in HN.

If anyone wants to chat more with me directly, my personal email address is josh@zenpayroll.com.
I use feedburner for my email form now, but am changing over to mailchimp ASAP.

As far as the popup goes, I've read that the popup method makes people frustrated. Have you found this to be true?

Thanks!
"Next, I set my 1Password master to a combination of two passwords. "

OP made it clear one of the two items being combined is "short" and hence if the other item is known it would be much easier to brute force.

(In your lingo, it would be like knowing the password and then having to derive the salt, which is easy with a small salt.)
I still don't like Network Solutions but it's so rare that I run into anyone using their services it has become a non issue.
That's correct, nan boxing doesn't help for 64-bit integers.

On the other hand, Dart doesn't have required type annotations either and it has 64-bit ints, doesn't it? So it should be possible to introduce in JS.

Runtime overhead is likely, but then when you're in the JIT sweet spot the types are all known so you get JITcode that doesn't check types.
Riak 2.0 and RICON West
Do you mean the dead mans shoes/wizard levels thing?
Looks like a comma - ',' cause an issue in the business name.
Few of these points are particularly compelling.

The problem with Bizspark is that it does eventually run out, and once it does you have to license all of those Windows Server/SQL Server installs just like everyone else, which isn't cheap. When that day comes, you'd better have the margins to support a sudden rise in software costs.

That said, if everyone else where you live is doing MS development, it is going to be a lot easier to hire people if you do the same.
My impression is that Rich Hickey is seeking ways to allow programmers to solve complex problems, without writing complex programs. He's been fairly successful relative to other people who write new languages.

Excel is entirely programmable using the standard .NET stack and languages [from PowerShell to F#].

If the idea is to target the tool as a new IDE for experienced programmers, how does improve productivity over EMACS or Vim etc.? Or without it being an extension of one of those existing ecosystems, what is gained in exchange for all that is lost?

Which suggests to me that incorporating the functionality as an extension to one or more of those ecosystems might be more simple than competing with them for experienced coders.
I don't see graphics as a silver bullet, but I do think they're underused or misused. Graphics provide a wider variety of feedback; they let you see graph structures and summaries of data, and allow connections to be spatially represented.

All of which means that they excel at connecting the big chunks of the system that build on top of some model of service provision and protocol definition, but poor at engaging in the "direct dialogue" of imperative or applicative computation.

The part that makes people say "it never works" is that we're almost always thinking from an inverted model, where we know how things scale up and down with text, and apply that learned experience to graphical systems. Subsequently, our engineering instinct leads us to put a similar degree of granular agency into graphical coding and allow the standard constructs (looping, branching, subroutines) to appear in it, which massively increases the complexity of the system and brings us away from problem domain thinking.

My recommendation now is - figure out a data structure that could be interesting to visually edit. Make a good editor for that. Allow imperative code a runtime model for accessing it. Allow imperative code to be called from it. Then it stands at least some chance of not being a bad wheel reinvention.
what a load of rubbish.

I have seen absolutely no evidence that Ruby is dying or even ill.

This article provides absolutely no evidence but just makes a completely unsubstantiated claim.

Saying startups aren't bragging that they are using Ruby as proof that it is dead is pretty dumb. Sure Ruby isn't the hot new thing anymore, it's not as "cool" as it used to be and the people who always want to be trying the latest languages aren't experimenting with it and writing blogs about it. But it's very much alive and kicking, just much more mature and less sexy. Which is inevitable.
This is the opposite of my experience! I still had to write essays and jump hoops. Also, my community college didn't know how to fill out transcripts or forms for colleges out of state (they looked at the common app like it was from another planet) and as a result I got called a felon by one of the colleges I applied to. As it turns out, my CC people weren't checking off the "to my knowledge, not a felon" box. When I found this out, and asked them to check it, they told me that it wasn't their department even though it WAS the department that handled those things. Ok, whatever, but if you are too lazy to take it over to the right department, could you at least tell me I need to take it there to get it done before accepting it for processing? Geez. The receiving college was pretty rude about it too, the lady seemed pretty convinced the unchecked box was proof of my criminal status (I've never been arrested!).

I also had a hard time getting them to mail anything to New York because the address "wouldn't fit" in their computer system, so after two "lost" transcripts I found out they'd left off chunks of the address and thought this wouldn't be a problem. My suggestion of "write it by hand" was rejected. Very annoying. Of course, I was told "our transcripts always arrive" at the in state college. Well, thanks, I totally want to stay here after the crap your college system has put me through.
This article is poorly sourced and fails to establish any evidence for it's main point, that it's "difficult to climb Amazon's corporate ladder," which is probably true considering it's a Fortune 100.

Instead, the article paints a picture that Amazon as a place ruled by fiefdoms and popularity contests, but again without any actual evidence, no you have to buy the book for that.

I have a feeling that if I read the book, that I would find that there is nothing here salacious, but that's not how you sell a book.
Bing with IE-11 pre-render tag
demeaning and offensive? Don't you think animals or other possible future species should have rights too? Shame on you.

"It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?" - Stephen Fry

I'm done here.
Sophomore year of high school, in a Computer Programming course with a math teacher, a set curriculum, and specific grading rubrics mandating building to a specific set of guidelines, we built at best ANSI-blocked windows with titles to prompt the user for their name and maybe a dice roll.

Junior year in an independent study, with access to teachers but without worry for grades or blueprints, I built a robotic plotter/scanner with a PHP-based interface down to a C++ serial library from somewhere in the Linux kernel code.

I didn't get that much smarter in a year. The difference there was between a typical US public school and a progressive (albeit still public) free-thinking magnet school.

It's felt like the presumption was always that you could give the smart kids more freedom and they'd find more ways to grow. But this article has me thinking that's backwards: better to give everyone* that freedom and let them all grow.

*special education and dealing with particular learning disabilities being separate and not dealt with in this wholly unqualified opinion.
This is cool. Is there a survey-ad-unit company for places other than mobile?
I know what a lot of future startup pitch decks will look like :)
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Might want to look at https://www.authorea.com/ as well.
Uh the subscriber details is what they want and what they don't get. They aren't going to be able to monetize my IP address or whatever else technical data they get from the app.

So basically Apple handles all the billing, and my data is safe.
Yes I agree going to MIT may feel like more pressure but perhaps (forgive me if I'm wrong, I obviously don't know your personal background) you, and your like minded friends, were from more modest means (i.e; not millionaires) and attending MIT was a real sense of achievement.

However, for some students attending Harvard, Stanford, Oxford or Cambridge can be an expectation and a realistic one at that if they have been given every opportunity to increase their chances of entry thanks to their parents influence and wealth. I understood the Author to be addressing these students. Perhaps they're a minority, but looking at the ranks of politicians and World leaders (from wealthy families I might add) coming from these institutions, it looks like more than just coincidence to me.
I think if you start from "making it right" there is a bigger chance of not getting anywhere at all due to the tendency of over engineering the solution. Can't speak for everyone, but I've seen this hapen quite few times.
Would be interesting to see a break down by world region as not all services are available everywhere at the same time. But nice never the less. :)