skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're wanting metadata, consider exiftool also:

$ curl -s http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MPv_CwvvwKQ/Ulrw3TfdgyI/AAAAAAAAAEw/YsRPmU6C5xM/s1600/trefoil_rotate_white.gif | exiftool -

Output contains:

Comment : Created by Wolfram Mathematica 9.0 for Students - Personal Use Only : www.wolfram.com
I don't think Kaplan is relevant from a credentials or networking standpoint. (My understanding is that it should help you get into a school based on how your score improves on a test rather than offering direct social signaling.)
We also live in an age of visas, rogue governments holding your (expir{ing|ed}) passport for ransom for stupid things like compulsory military service. Not everybody can change that part of the situation.
One-liners from Warren Buffett's appearance in Washington
This was very depressing.
What does the compile time look like?

The biggest thing about a real scripting language is that I have one step to go from edit to run.
Are there any examples of the types of hacks they're required to do for these hackathons?
I don't think they're "luring" them to stick around. But if the OS is still in use, shouldn't the (arguably) most used piece of software still be secure?
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XP is slim and minimalist.. the standard user just want to use the tools they are used to.. also XP will be economic about the machine resources it use..

Security for instance its more of a hacker thing.. to a more technical aware audience.. and we are a minority, in the tech consumer market..

I i were MS CEO i would have created a branch from XP and advanced in two lines of OS.. win 7 family and a XP family, of a more bare OS with less obnoxious things and that could bootup fast with a minimal UI..

I dont know what happen with tech companies down the road, that with time they forgot this minimalism, this zen way of doing technology that probably was the thing that make them sucesfull when they were tiny and irrelevant..

I think, thats one of the secrets that have maded Steve Jobs so sucesfull in the things he were doing..

So if we think well about why people stick with XP, its not just about the OS they got now.. but because of every "evolutionary" step in new OS's nothing really appeal to the real life user (not us, tech people and power users)..

Sometimes even the "new new" sometimes its a step behind, in terms of what the OS really offer.. (compare what you got with XP for instance versus ChromeOS)
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so divorce means you no longer have a mom / dad ?
> If this were true, we would expect to see large C++ codebases without memory-related security vulnerabilities.

OK, we're talking past each other. The linked article and my point was about C++'s suitability for achieving software quality in tasks that are traditionally done by "scripting" languages. Security analysis is an entirely different world, and I tend to agree that other languages have a head start there as far as memory safety.

But that said, "memory safety" is hardly a big contributor to the overall vulnerability list. C++ is much less used on web backends, and it's likewise true that almost no large web service codebase exists without non-memory-related security vulnerabilities. I don't know if there are any deployed Rust codebases of this size, but I'd expect them to have their share of whoppers too.
The MVP targeted orphans.
PG, could it be that the sense of urgency makes the passion of the team stand out?
Another hacker's perspective: no, they are not a scam.

Right now, demand is high enough in the bay area, that I believe these schools are a great value for someone who wants to start a career in iOS or web development. The tuition for Hacker Bootcamp is ~$12k, and they claim that 88% get job offers after graduating, with an average salary of $79k.

I recently met 2 people who graduated from hacker bootcamp. The first guy had a great attitude, seemed very curious, motivated, and interested in learning. He had multiple offers in the $80-90k range. He kept talking about what a great time he had interviewing with one company, which I'm pretty sure is the company he would eventually pick.

The other guy had a worse attitude, no offers yet and seemed like he almost felt entitled to a senior level job because he finished hacker bootcamp. Considering that I've been doing this stuff for 10 years now, it was hard to see someone with such high expectations for 6 months of effort not being met.

They won't guarantee you a job, but they are not a scam. This may be a little extreme, but I was reminded of this Vonnegut quote: “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
> In the end, while some graduates may have potential, I'd be willing to bet the majority are unemployable if it weren't for such a talent drought.

A couple of honest questions about this statement:

1. Is there really a talent drought, or is there an overabundance of companies looking for employees they don't need? I see a lot of companies seeking "rockstar" engineers with CS degrees and an insane level of expertise across the entire stack, but many of them are operating relatively straightforward CRUD applications at limited to modest scale.

2. If companies are hiring less-than-capable developers because of this perceived "talent drought", which the OP seems to be suggesting, what exactly are these developers doing all day? "Fake it until you make it" has very real limits. I don't care how intense a bootcamp is. If a company truly needs developers with a certain level of expertise, a rookie developer's lack of real-world experience is quickly going to become apparent. So if bootcamp graduates are being tolerated, it would suggest that, at least in some cases, companies can live with less experience and competence than they say they need.
Check out lob.com - not sure about UK shipping though.
> is there a reason why you haven't upgraded to Windows 7?

Kind of an odd way to put it. I need a reason to upgrade, not a reason not to upgrade.

A Win7 upgrade license costs about twice as much as the X41 is worth.

Win7 is much bigger. The HD in this machine is ~55GiB. XP only takes up 6x GiB of that. Win7 takes 3x - 5x as much in my experience.

I'm not aware of any new features that would substantially improve the user experience on this machine. I use it for writing in a text editor and checking HN from behind a NAT connection. I have zero concerns about security. The evidence I've seen of performance of Win7 vs. XP on very old hardware is mixed.

Best case, I would spend £100 and take a couple of hours reinstalling, finding drivers etc. for some likely imperceptible benefits.
It's true, it's true...some merely went along with it.
I thought there was a chance the author was being mildly ironic, but don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the Forest City, both in its history and its current iteration of commerce, culture, and identity.

I just thought it was flattering that my favorite city, being less than 250 years old with claim to no world-moving historical events, should occupy the same list as Baghdad, London, New York, and Washington in terms of historical and cultural significance.
If by "support" you mean IE8, or you can use the latest version of Chrome...
Your sample size of one is bigger than the guy who wrote this article, who admits to not talking to any schools or graduates. Poorly researched speculation.
I find this oddly motivational.
How about

#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

struct Line
{
string lineData;

operator string() const
{
return lineData;
}
};

std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& str,Line& data)
{
getline(str,data.lineData);
return str;
}

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
ifstream ifile(argv[1]);
ofstream ofile(argv[2]);
vector<string> data;
copy(istream_iterator<Line>(ifile), istream_iterator<Line>(), back_inserter(data));
sort(data.begin(), data.end());
copy(data.begin(),data.end(), ostream_iterator<string>(ofile, "\n"));
return 0;
}

And to inform everyone. Cling as a C++ REPL exists. http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling
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Unit Testing and TDD - Why You Should Care and How to Make It Happen
Well, there is this, by Joseph Needham, in 7 volumes:

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

If you have access to an academic library, they may have a copy.
The Upside to Building Products for Developers
Relevant:

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

Basically, it's impossible to completely accurately identify pornography without a human actor in the mix, due to the subjectivity... and especially considering that not all nudity is pornographic.
So what? The Unix Shell library consists of all the executables that are on the system - for me this is the beauty. There is not much of abstraction between the Unix Shell and the system under it. And shell is very tolerant to other programing languages as well - as long as they allow to represent data in text form and through streams or files ;)
Ah yeah, that'll happen. :)
It has been an amazing past few weeks. I've met some amazing hackers from around the country and have seen some places that I wouldn't normally visit. Congrats to UMD! Can't wait for the spring.
My mom has already passed away. I can't use this site :(
Hadoop 2.0 is here, and it comes bearing YARN
Is your impression of the content included in these developer camps based on personal experience? interviewing graduates? Or does this article only represent what you think that these camps are all about?
Your argument on Quora seems to be "if I make up largely-irrelevant categories, and then make up numbers, our program looks good". I'm not sure how that's supposed to be convincing.

"self-instruction period" - this seems significantly less important than total time-sink, which I'd guess doesn't run in your favor at all.

"the percentage that end up writing code for a living" - I honestly don't think I've ever seen a selection bias this big. You mean people who shell out 5 figures for education are more interested than people who dabble for a couple of hours at no cost?

"average starting salary" - These are much more strongly tied to negotiating ability, etc. than programming ability, although I suppose it could be considered relevant (assuming that there's still a disparity after accounting for things like other experience, other skills, etc.).

I'd honestly be interested in some actual measure of programming ability. These are very hard to come by, but it seems to me that you're in a pretty good position to find a reasonable method.
FTP has to die!
Making a website is so amazingly far away from the engineering feat of the Saturn V that it's insulting to the Saturn V engineers to make the comparison.
No, it means you see your mother x times a year and your father y times a year...
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So, does this get cycled back into new when someone reposts it?
> Because it is a very old OS that lacks new features, stability and security improvements.

It doesn't lack anything I use it for.
Agreed. My average is also 0.
I'd argue that the unpolished application videos are the best. I really like the video that the guys from DirectedEdge submitted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTFBO5lvGc). This video demonstrates that there is chemistry between the two founders, identifies the problem/opportunity, and clearly explains their solution. I wasn't in the room, but this video appears to be spontaneous.

I can't speak to the timing of it all. But, given the data points available I'd say rough videos and applications free of marketing speak are the best.
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There's no required list, but here's the list of all PennApps Fall 2013 hacks: http://pennapps.challengepost.com/submissions

And a list of all MHacks Fall 2013 hacks: http://mhacks.challengepost.com/submissions

And a list of all HackMIT Fall 2013 hacks: http://hackmit.challengepost.com/submissions

hackNY Fall 2013: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/fall-2013-hackny-stu...

HackRU Fall 2013: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hackru-fall-2013/hac...
This Dev Bootcamp phenomenon negatively affects Ruby and Ruby on Rails community disproportionately more than any other. I think pretty much all these training courses sell Ruby on Rails as the goto platform to learn. If this trend continues, Rails will be where PHP is now (no offence to smart people doing PHP, but you know what I mean).

Ruby/Ruby on Rails community isn't new to dealing with other people bad mouthing them. Remember Zed Shaw declaring "Rails Is A Ghetto" (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto) in 2007? Despite many haters, Rails penetrated through Java/.NET duopoly, and it has gained a lot of respect since then. All the bad mouthing didn't matter back then. Rails had so many talented people. Really smart people were coming from Java and .NET world into Rails and some of them were very passionate about making the technology better. This trends is on a notable decline now.
Why is it that when it comes to this issue people feel completely comfortable with telling other people how to live their lives?

Wanting to spend more time with your parent's isn't a moral absolute. It's a social pressure that has proved hardier than going to church or getting married while you are still fertile.
The concepts of both Europe and China are pretty problematic.

The classical Greeks and Romans, for instance, would be utterly flummoxed if you called them Europeans. Their civilization was something much closer to what we might call the Mediterranean world. Even if you asked them about other civilizations they knew about or were competing with, they would have pointed out Persia long before places like Britain, Germany, or non-Mediterranean France, which are the North Atlantic nations that people are really talking about when they discuss the rise of Europe. And even today, the lived experiences of Greeks are much closer to the lived experiences of, say, Turks than they are to the typical Englishman.

And the "cultural and economical uniformity" of China is easily overstated, and developing it was a long process of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and state building. With hindsight its easy to project our current conception of China back several millenia, but we shouldn't mistake convenient teleologies spouted by the Chinese state as descriptive of the ethno-cultural state of people in that expansive geography two millenia ago.
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Is there any chance for that most-used software to be secure if the underlying OS is full of holes?

(I'm not completely sure myself. But I'd rather err on the safe side.)
Are you sure about those numbers? That's massively expensive, and it's hard to imagine ever even being profitable. If you charged your users 60 dollars a month at a minimum for access to that line you'd still need a minimum of 33 people, for one area. At just the rates you describes. Let alone the 33 cents per foot for the cable lines going to peoples houses and additional expenditures.

How on earth is the internet even possible at these rates?

Googles charging people 70 a month of gigabit up and down, those are sparsely connected homes throughout Kansas. The monthly maintenance cost alone for one block must be enormous, and for what? Two or three homes each block?

I was willing to accept that they were losing money on this endeavor, but not as catastrophically as this!
Agree with you, without knowing F#. I guess F# is related to Haskell and in Haskell you have static types, but you need them only where the compiler/interpreter is not able to infer them.
Yep, Permanent Magnet AC (PMAC) motors are common types of synchronous motors. They are generally more compact than induction motors for the same power output. Induction motors are generally less expensive.

An official (not forum post) article comparing the two: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushles...

DC Brushless and PMAC are interchangeable. Oh, and nowadays, you don't need sensors (hall, encoder etc). 'Sensorless' motor control is possible by sensing the back emf of the motor or reconstructing the motor current via (super inexpensive) shunt resistors on the legs of the inverter.
If that's the point, then it is moot. If one person, one time, goes on a raging bender, then they probably would have done so regardless. It's an individual and rare issue which should be judged independently of the whole.

We're not children, we're adults. Generally people know how to drink responsibly, if they choose to drink at all, and while I'm aware that there are a very large number of people who do not they are still very much a minority, else there would be pandemonium in the streets every time a liquor store comes to town.

As others here have already pointed out, if you go to a lawyer and ask for an enumerated list of everything in your office that could become a "massive liability" then you'll probably decide to just shutter the doors before the list is even half completed.

Stop applying unfounded "what if" morals to a perfectly legal and benign office perk. Trying to act in the "best interests of everyone" will ultimately serve no one, your office will end up being another cookie cutter cubicle farm that the legal department has determined is the statistically least likely (but not entirely!) to cause problems and all your talent will eventually get tired and move on to greener pastures.
I was doing an install of a bunch of computers for a local company's call center in 2009. Old throw-away machines that didn't need internet access but needed a browser to view the intranet and play media files (they did phone surveys for radio stations and would play music over the phone). I was brought on for my Linux experience, but there was one box out of 28 that we could not get working with Linux for one reason or another. They had me install Windows 98, and the only browser that would play media from their intranet on Windows 98 was Firefox 2.x (I can't remember the exact version).

It wasn't a fun experience, but color me surprised that Firefox 2.x would work on Windows 98.
You'd also have to wonder whether how the liberal/conservative labels would work out. Maybe IDE users versus emacs/vi (text editor) users?
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I'm going to Japan in 2 months, for 2 weeks, to see my wife's parents in Japan. (I live in Los Angeles.) They are getting up in years and their health is declining so this will probably be the last time we see her dad, and maybe her mom too. The trip will cost $6,000 minimum for the 3 of us to go. My father lives in Texas, and we went this spring. That cost $2,000. Next summer, we may go to France for a couple of weeks to see my mom and a bunch of other relatives. That will cost another $6,000, at least. So, at a minimum, we'll spend at least $14,000 in the space of 15 months to see relatives. Can't do that every year, or even every other year and hope to fund our retirement and my son's college fund.
I may have not been clear that I think the US is failing badly at handling all of those things, and it will cost us in the long run.

If what I was saying was clear, and you still disagree, then by all means down-vote it.
That's a bad example.

When trying to get a job an interviewer could possibly see a bad review that a student left of your school and assume that means the student may not have the skills necessary for the job. Also, presumably at your school as students and instructors are interacting personal relationships are being developed (ie. networking) which could be beneficial in finding a job. If the student then gives a bad review of the school it could burn the bridges that they built while in the class.

On the other hand, when someone is grading a standardized test, they grade based on how you answered the test questions. They don't do an internet search to see what kind of preparation you had for the test. It's different than a job interview because a test is judging what skills and knowledge you are demonstrating at that point in time, whereas a job interview is judging both where you are at now and what you will be able to do in the future. Also, hopefully in a test prep class there is no direct advantage to be gained by networking as that would defeat the purpose of the test.
Worst part is their max-stack isn't optimal. You can do it with O(1) additional space.
Happy boss means happy job and happy life (Proven research studies) -
Fortunately, you can average X and Y, or take the more pessimistic answer and use min(X,Y).
Huh. I never noticed that. Thanks
It's normal here because of the ubiquity of dollars. Germany has nothing to protect making the hunting of barter market participants just another government cost.
You may want to check http://www.nsfwcorp.com if you haven't already. Paul Carr of old techcrunch fame is the editor, and the writers include a lot of the old eXile staff, along with others. They don't cover all topics, but they definitely write some interesting articles. I've been subscribing for about a year.
You can always buy a software intended to provide some service. A good example is telecommunications - it's always needed and provides continuous cash flow. A good example is VoIP or SMS sending software. You can check such software here: http://www.itstripe.com/smpp-server/
And what's to stop him becoming a citizen Kane like the others? The thing that's missing for me is the history of behaving with integrity. He's no Zuckerberg, but he's no patron saint either. eBay is not a beacon of virtue.

Is the idea that having the "right" popular journalist = unbiased reporting? I struggle to see the masses being convinced - or maybe it's just me.

Just another Citizen Kane.
Nanex was wrong: There was no great fed robbery
The data is from this dataset:

http://php.app.com/fed_employees11/search.php

...obtained by Asbury Park Press via a FOIA. It doesn’t include FBI, CIA, Defense Department, or IRS employees, or employees involved in security work, nuclear materials or national security matters.
I agree with you that C++ is often "safe enough" for tasks that aren't security-critical: log processing or scientific computing, for example.
Sounds like you've been using VPSs for a while. Do you have an opinion on the virtualization tech used for various hosts (xen, virtuozzo, etc).
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Computers to the rescue.
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5 tips for women new to the workplace
In addition my parents were born in and currently live in different countries.