skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why when the government wants a website done, those Shove ready jobs are just waiting for us all.

I find this an insult, sure american programmers are far and between but this is not going to help. I Program but I have work for hours using everything I can find online. I have gained a DevOps job without a Degree in CS.
I still don't see that dropping the foreign language requirement would immediately lead to an increased take up of programming languages. I don't understand why foreign languages are what should be dropped.

If there is limited time for learning and there is no space for programming then any changes should be discussed in light of the full current curriculum. The original post suggested that foreign languages should be dropped in favor of programming languages, there may be other subjects of the curriculum that could be dropped instead, especially if the yardstick of economic value is the measure to be used.
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So what do the rich do every day that the poor don’t do?
I am not going to support much of what this guy said (and apparently the guy was a plant and the whole incident was a false flags operation?) but I have to say the "How long have you lived in this city?" line really boils my blood.

Maybe it is just because I am biased, having been born in a rural area rather than in a city, but I don't think growing up in a city gives you any sort of special rights. Nobody is a higher class of citizen just because they have lived in a city longer than others.

Their apparent false flags operation has succeeded in making both sides look bad.
Perhaps they want to understand what users mean too.
> it should move up and down by no more than 1-2%

1-2% in what period of time?

EUR/USD pair can move 10% in less than two months. Which it did Feb 3rd -> March 28 this year. It moved -20% in 3 months (24 Jul -> 25 Nov, 2008).
No doubt. I wonder how many people have the sound off on their computer's until they actually need to hear something?
good news:

UPDATE: Rodriguez writes that the "Google employee" was in fact a union organizer, staging a confrontation.

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/09/tech-worker-to-san-francisc...

Still doesn't solve the very real issue of relationship with SF community however.
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While I agree with your premise, the didn't-take-early-offer-and-run seems doesn't provide strong enough evidence.

For a super successful startup (a la dropbox, stripe, etc.) -- why take only $50 million and leave the rest (possibly hundreds of millions) on the table? Especially with investors chewing their ears out about going for the home run. And, possibly, with an opportunity to cash out partially (a la Groupon, airbnb, etc.)
It is actually incredibly easy to see how smart people tasked with solving complicated societal problems arrive at false flag operations as a viable solution:

Imagine you have a credible imminent threat to your society posted by a danger to which the society is not familiar enough with to fully grasp and take seriously.

Do you wait for the threat to play out and take your chances with the society sufficiently changing its attitude towards it in time? Or do you galvanize things with a false flag operation that will cause less damage than the real threat but induce the much needed urgent action against it? Almost like a vaccine. Innocent people will die either way.

It is incredibly paternalistic in a way, and a morally gray area. Ultimately it is a lack of faith in the people the operation is trying to protect, a lot of times it is flat out wrong or backfires in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways - for example Iran.

And yet. And yet, not always. And when it works you'll never hear about it.

Thought exercise: You are a marine biologist who has become convinced that over fishing is about to cause a sudden, sharp, and potentially irreversible collapse in the sea food supply. Millions will starve. But meanwhile tuna cans remain cheap and abundant in supermarkets across the world.

This is a long standing serious issue but now it is coming to a head, do you wait for the crisis to unfold and hope international politics find a way to avoid it in time or..?
Even if the yelling was fake, the problem and the protest is real.
Umm what do you think google's revenue is based on?
that's because you have competition. Most of the places have no chioce. They are either stuck with optimum or verizon dsl. So you are in a minority. Also, clifton, nj is a rich neighborhood, thats why probably you have both fios and optimum.
Talk about a passionless plea. He should be more passionate and the message should be education in general i.e. inclusive of math, literacy, etc.

Anyone notice how tired he looks? His eyes are swollen and red. Rough job.
You either have a retention problem or you have a problem with your hiring process. If you're getting great people and enabling them to do awesome things, you'll always have other companies sniffing around.
It's nice that he likes programmers. But the talking heads from DC should be encouraging people to learn job skills in proportion to the numbers needed by the economy of the future.

Clearly, an economy entirely composed of programmers is not viable. There has to be at least one other person to dig out all the basements.
You brave bastard!
Is this viable - Easy long key encryption + air gap "Cryptobox"
My original statement is quite helpful, if you're trying to get yourself out of a financial hole. Restaurant eating is savagely expensive. I learned that the first time I had to loop a paycheck. It's not complete advice, meaning that not eating at restaurants alone won't lift you from poverty, but getting into the restaurant habit is a good way to stay broke.
I assume the number of shuttle bus stops * fine for stopping in a bus zone ($271) ~= $1 Bn
So frustrating this site is unreadable on the iPhone.
You're right, I do need to support my hypothesis with more data. Consider another data point:

My dad works for a government contractor where the profit / margins are fixed, so essentially a "limited" growth company. He's been employed for over 30 years.

Why has he stayed? Because he can work 40 hours a week. His pay is good (EOY bonus is tied to a project success). He holds a position of value (to him not just to the organization). In his career he has seen more product failures than successes, but his successes were large, and he uses the knowledge from each to consult other projects in the organization (eg, he feels valued).

My takeaway is to look at your career in totality - it goes beyond equity and a worthwhile project because in a long career, you'll have many worthwhile projects and many that are not. And for the vast majority of startups, equity is worthless. It also includes interaction with team members and how you want to shape your company's future, and how your company wants to shape yours.
That's a particularly cynical response to something I consider to be incredibly positive, but I think there's a lot of scar tissue in the industry from bad behavior so you may be right to be wary.

Let me tell it from my perspective. I was a finance guy whose only coding experience was a couple of CS classes in college and some excel coding at my job in ibanking. When I decided I wanted to start a company, the first thing I did was spend three months of teaching myself how to do some basic coding. I did the Udacity classes and Codacademy. I read up stuff online and did bash tutorials. I spent 4-6 hours a day doing this because I wanted to be serious.

Today, I'm the CEO of a lightly-funded startup that just got our TechCrunch bump last week. I do all the front-end design and development because of resource restraints (I'm okay at it; not great). But the biggest takeaway from learning to code was not the work itself, but how to talk to developers and manage their time and resources. When I draw up requirements for our dev team, I have a baseline knowledge of what's easily do-able, what's quick vs. what's long, what we can hack and what we need to build to scale. If I started a company in China, I'd expect to learn a little Chinese. Why isn't this the case for people who work in technology?

Now back to the President's announcement. As he stated, software is eating the world and if we want a generation of consumers to have some knowledge of how their world works, then a baseline education in software is critical. Thanks for reading.
Not to diminish the issue, but many items were not 'governments' but rather members of govt covering up errors.
The FBI can turn on your webcam without you even knowing
Cloth effect with pure css
For those interested, the source of MDN is here: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma
Here in North America, these sorts of signs are attached to any pole that can handle them, but powerline poles are favourites because they're wood (and therefore staple-friendly). Toronto has community posting boards that have started going up (put up by our beneficent advertisers, Astral Media, who would love to get out of that obligation and just advertise more).
Understanding Storm: Low-Latency Processing
It's an XOR encryption, with a largish key - 12 bytes if I make the old hacker news comment correctly. If you do the standard known-text XOR key finding algorithm, you need a 24-byte known text.

That's some brute forcing, if you ask me.
Tack: Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys
I freakin' love Obama.
I never really thought about it before, but this new layout immediately made me realize that there's just a single letter difference between MDN and MSDN... the layout is rather similar to what the latter was using a while back. Not that it's a bad thing or anything, just thought it was amusing. MDN is a fantastic resource, so it's great to see some love and care being poured into it.
The title should be updated to reflect that this was not a Google employee, but the shouting match was staged by protest organizers.

See updated article.
I'm maybe too much of an optimist , but I've always felt like we're(Americans) a bit less realpolitik than the rest of the world, and that if it were to come to shooting Americans for political gain, somebody would say something. I think the biggest proof is in the Snowden revelations, american politicians seem to be the only ones complaining about their own country's systems. We seem to have a good culture of protecting government institutions above politics, even if our politics end up being pretty shitty anyways. Other countries are loud about the leaks, but only to hit on other countries. I've heard nobody in France complain about the DGSE's complete unfettered usage of everyone's data.

I'm also of the opinion that there are enough incompetent people in every part of the government that we'd somehow end up hearing about it anyways.
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Still with the mental gymnastics. Which part of "taxation is extortion" was not clear?
Depending on the definition of "healthy."

Eating normal food, with some organics but not all, is reasonably affordable if you're willing to cook.

That takes longer, but results are better.

I don't know how people afford to eat out. It seems that unless you go Taco Bell (and there's no shame in that) two people is $25-50 per meal.
To comment on a different aspect of the article, I really liked the use of the animated GIF to demonstrate the spring design. Loaded without plugins, high-def, and looked beautiful on the phone screen.

The perpetual auto-loop is not quite perfect, but I can't think of a better alternative. I wonder it's hardware accelerated on most phones or if its sucking battery. I assume the browser is definitely smart enough not to render it when it's off screen, but the loop is too tight to try to 'test' that by timing it while scrolling.

I'm not at home but I'm curious what the bitrate is, what tools are used to produce it. I know anigif is popular on reddit and tumblr, nice to see it getting used in this way.
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I upvoted it as I agree.
Victor points a software design that can be implemented, two mice, even two text cursors if designed that way.

What about today's tools isn't alighted with Engelbart's vision? Everything? That seems a bit too broad
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they realize what they have to do in their jobs contradicts the high idealized patriotic beliefs of what this country is about

This is extremely uncommon.

For example, I used to be a submarine officer in the Navy, and I left as a conscientious objector because of this realization. In an average year, less than 100 active duty service members will apply for conscientious objector status (there are over 1 million active duty personnel). If you take a look at [this graph](http://izbicki.me/blog/most-conscientious-objectors-are-not-...) based on GAO data, you'll see that the number of conscientious objector applications dropped significantly after September 11th. This is despite the fact that the wars afterward have been much more controversial and less just.

Why is [NSA moral] low?

I'd bet it's not because of any ethical conflicts. Instead, it's because 100s of man-years of work is going out the window. One of their own betrayed them. This would be demoralizing even for the most ethically unquestionable teams.
Rather than a hosted/solution - I would be think a program language specific (node/php/java) solution would be more useful. For example - something like $199 for lifetime use for account/oauth/etc system that you can use on any project. Maybe even have additional "packages" like invite friend, etc. Just a thought.
The War For Your Wrist
Years ago I sent a message to a stranger. I received an auto-reply saying "I got your mail, spam is hard, click this link to deliver it and prove you're human".

For a second I thought it was a cute solution to spam, then I realized we'd be in a world of pain if we mailed each other, and both of us replied in such a fashion.

I never mailed him again.

If I have to do work to contact somebody? Well I'll just ignore that person. Sorry.
Not if you go to Facebook, etc. directly.
2 hours? Is living in SF really that great? Or is there just nothing interesting close to Google?
True, but what fraction that is, and the time needed to do this in a safe and waste free manner actually matters a lot when you are on the margins.
This just looks painful. Not the problem, the 35 million line XML document. Which probably will not validate after eating that line.

None the less. I'm sure the constants are a bit off here.

head -35185222 infile.xml > OhGodThisIsHorrific.xml

tail -n+35185224 infile.xml >> OhGodThisIsHorrific.xml

I'm guessing a 35 million line file, is like, what, enterprise Java version of hello world? (just kidding, sorta)

(Edited to fix the line spacing. Also the double greater than is not a typo)
Umm...

Couldn't one spoof the signal, to make Alice and Bob each think that the other doesn't have a CyanogenMod phone?
>You can minimize failure if the point of a system is not output but process.

If the point of a system is process then you have the classic "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the bureaucracy" situation. At some point you need to look at output.
The primitive jewelry inspired ‘Perles’ necklace
The new ‘Perles’ necklace collection by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec uses naturally occurring stones with a machined aesthetic to create elegant wearable shapes. The design duo has a history of woking with repetitive module forms and this new design is in line with their vision.
Some other things that should be considered in work-life balance are flextime, working remotely (even if just for one day of the week), and (paid) maternity/paternity leave. Many companies still don't offer any of these.
No matter what you say about the NSA watching us, Google would still probably keep it more secure.
Nice. But I would prefer if he first stopped torturing people and putting his own citizens on kill lists.
Sure. But I can pay Cheapair for a return ticket $1343 with my credit card and get the fraud protection or pay the exact same price at prevailing Coinbase exchange rates (plus mining fee) and not get the fraud protection. Or, in the example I picked at random, find whitelabelled $1008 or Scandinavian $1212 returns running the same search on Kayak.

Only a shill, or someone without a credit card, could argue that paying in BTC was an advantage in this instance.
World of Spycraft? The NSA on World of Warcraft
It's a fake. The guy is an activist and is named Max Bell Alper.

http://www.makingchangemedia.org/about-the-team/

http://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/occupy-wall-stre...
I agree that a basic understanding of computers would help people; I think that the clarity of syntax, and logical operations would help many people reason more clearly. I also think that schools should teach the history of the transistor with as much emphasis as the history of the industrial revolutions (or maybe even the civil rights movement), because of the enormous impact Shockley's innovation has had on human welfare.

I am not sure that appreciation of complexity is a worthwhile or even an achievable objective.
It's easy to point to the feel-good topic of education and cry foul when anyone is against it.

But here is the reality.

America already overproduces scientists and engineers. The whole notion of talent shortages is generally hot air from special interests (in this case, tech companies) who want a cheaper supply of labor and cannot bear the idea that skilled engineers actually cost a lot.

A lot of effort is put into trying to turn ordinary folk into high-caliber professionals, with things like "everyone should go to college" or in this case "everyone should learn to code". It's not surprising educators are happy about this as it provides a steady customer base (students). Politicians are happy to support it too, after all what could be bad about more education?

The problem is that Joe laborer simply isn't a good fit for STEM fields and no amount of education will change that. He wastes his time and effort trying to become something he's not. In that time he could have been doing something productive and meaningful instead.

I've heard good things about the German model of apprenticeship, which accepts the reality that not everyone is cut out for rocket science. I'd like to see something more like that in America and less bullshit like "coding for everyone". People are different... let's encourage them to do whatever they are actually suited for.
> I don't find it insensitive.

You don't get to decide that ;)
The "which events to attend" thing is already up and running
Ask HN: How do I interview better?
Over the past 4 months, I've spent dozens of hours talking to internal recruiters, developers, and product managers while interviewing to various tech companies. Apart from an offer that I regret turning down from half a year ago, I haven't made any progress or gotten offers at the companies I want to work at.

##Details
First, some details about me.

- Programming seriously since high school
- Graduated in 2012 from middle tier CS school.
- Working for almost 2 years.
- come across as young at 23.
- Lots of Android/AOSP/Java experience, moving towards: automation/web scraping/"data science"/"machine learning"/Python.

2. Organizer of 2 separate programming meetups in NYC.
1. Meetup #1 is educational + adults
- Consistent weekly meetups.
- Going on for 11 months, since January 2013.
- At least 500 attendees, possibly much more.
- I helped start it up as subsection of bigger meetup.
2. Meetup #2 is educational + kids
- Once a month 3-hour workshops.
- Somewhere on the order of 500 attendees for 2013.
- We create our own curriculums.

3. No outside work projects.
- I talk about the projects at my current company.
- interesting projects I've seen other people work on.

## Feedback
I've done some analysis on myself. Here's what I've deduced.

1. I suspect I'm too bubbly or enthusiastic. Maybe I come across as really young? I've been rejected from companies because I don't have enough experience.
2. Algorithms and technical questions are a bit of a chore. I'm weak at this.
3. I interview better when I express less interest. It's a little parodoxical for me.
4. Not going through my personal network. I am a significant part of 2 meetups, I should take advantage of that.

Can I get some feedback regarding this?
Failing to Get Traction and (Almost) Giving up on the Road to $1k in Revenue
You have no location history for December 9, 2013You have no location history for December 9, 2013

Feels good. What can I do to stay that way?
Right, it doesn't move in this version. This is a mod of the full game, which does move quite a bit. I wasn't going to rewrite the entire core render loop for the original game just for this weekend hack.
My views on religion? Um? Both my parents grew up in families with 9+ children because all of my grandparents thought birth control was a sin. That's my experiences. That's in an urban setting. All their large family neighbors did it for religious reasons too. I don't personally know a single large family that isn't doing it for religious purposes. There are also some large families who are doing it for religion in the media such as The Duggars as well as some public movements for large families such as Quiverfull.
Bio Programming: Hacking DNA - Compiling Code For Living Systems
Mixergy interview with Steli Efti from Close.io (YC W11)
Hour of Code: 5 million students in 35,000 schools for CS Education Week
The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection [pdf]
Ask HN:  How to job-schmooze U.S. east coast during holidays?
I'm going to be visiting within about an hour or two of NYC and Philadelphia (and with friends in Boston, so easy to get/stay there) for three weeks from mid December through the first week of January, and would like to use some of that time to either get a job or make contacts for possible future job opportunities. I have an academic science background but am transitioning out of academics, and have some programming experience (self-taught, my own projects + some remote contracting work, Python).

Due to the way my travel plans shook out, I have too much free time during this period and want to make the most of it. So, given this region, any specific suggestions for what I might do to take advantage of this time effectively in terms of job hunting or making contacts?
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There was a period of time where Android made a sudden unannounced change to an app's ability to access APN settings on the device, which prevented MMS from working.

We now prompt users to configure their MMSC for their carrier if APN details are not available from the device.

If you have problems like this in the future and would like to help the project get better, please file the bugs you encounter on the GitHub issue tracker so that we can get the information we need to fix them for everyone.