skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why doesn't he have these jobs listed on his website? I have 2 friends who are unemployed one with a newborn who would be more then interested in those welding jobs he mentions. Does anyone have more information? Do you have to own your own gear? How much is school? Is there a lot of travel?
Shopify's Tobias Lütke Interview
Sound is essentially vibration. Challenge to making phone is to capture that vibration, transmit it for some distance, and then reproduce it. To make such a device you need to understand that. I think that is what makes this discovery fascinating. In advent of modern technology we often discount ingenuity of the past. Makes you wonder how many people hailed for making world changing technologies simply improved on what was already there.
Even though its a nice hack, its more of a css based filtering which can be used irrespective of Jekyll. A jekyll specific search should include searching articles. I've been wanting to build something similar using the excellent lunr.js. The idea would be to rebuild the index before each push to the repo, and a special page (search.html) that loads up the index via Ajax and shows the results as you type.

Still, cool hack.
That's not quite true - part of the problem is that we don't know exactly how, in the American system, to reduce the healthcare costs effectively. But I feel like I've read multiple times that the ACA funds pilot programs to try out many many different ways to change incentives to see if they help health care costs come down.
I think you might be a wee bit disingenuous as well. There are a few issues with so called "skilled labor" right out of high school:

1. Skilled jobs are hard jobs. They are often limited to men strictly due to the physical ability required (I used to work as a diesel mechanic and it was simply not a job that could be done by most women). This is obviously not universally true: machining, some welding, virtually all engineering can be done by women, but there's still a limiter for lots of jobs.

2. The work is hard. This isn't just an issue of "people preferring to goof off". It's hard labor. Given the choice of going to school and continuing that backbreaking work, I made the (wise) choice to go to school.

3. Because it's hard, it's not work for middle aged people. I live in North Dakota, a state that's attracting a lot of skilled labor right now, and it's predominantly young men because men into their 40s and 50s simply can't do it anymore. We need to consider the long term impacts of a workforce that doesn't extend into their 70s.

4. It's not always work that transfers well. Someone who is a computer programmer might be able to work for a long time and in many places, but a skilled laborer is more limited in their options. A machinist in Seattle when Boeing left? Tough break, move or find something else. Obviously this is true with many careers, and many skilled jobs have greater options (mechanics, some welders, engineers) but a skilled laborer is much more subject to the whims of nature than a white collar worker who's skills might be more transferable.

I think it's as unfair to say young people want to goof off at college as it is to say that companies want to screw over workers. Young people make decisions for lots of reasons and though I agree that the systems in place to help them make those decisions (parents, school counselors, etc.) could advise them better, it's certainly not because they are goof offs who want a free ride.
W/R/T who reads it, one of my best friends LOVES Valleywag and I ask him about it all the time. He thinks SV is just up its own ass (maybe), especially as it relates to social issues (yes) and that makes it like hate porn for him. I suppose that makes an ounce of sense, but the criticism of the businesses and innovation themselves feel out of place in that environment.

The other side is just haters, there's been a recent wave of really awesome startups that are growing fast and doing great stuff, and haters are looking for something to hate. I know some people don't like to see the term "hater" used like that, but man is it useful!
Have you looked at the ltree extension for postgres? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/ltree.html

It's quite fast.
#Starbucks accused of handing over customers first names to the NSA
I recently started programming in Elixir. I chose to rewrite the customized Hubot instance I'm running at my company from the ground up in it - it's been a great way to learn the language, and especially OTP.

OTP is really what makes Elixir (and Erlang for that matter) so impressive. Supervised, lightweight processes just seems so obvious as a solution to fault tolerance and concurrency - coming from C#, where doing multi-threaded programming is error-prone at best, Elixir/OTP is a dream. I do miss the type system from C# or Scala, but type specifications help to mitigate the loss.

The one other feature that has been really pleasing to work with is pattern matching. Scala is the only other language I've used with some form of it, and after using Elixir/Erlang's pattern matching, Scala's seems deficient in comparison. It's an insanely powerful construct, I wish more languages had it.
I appreciate the write up, it's why I popped into the thread.

That said, at least these folks are trying to protect against the NSA. What do you purpose we all do? Lay down and accept that they watch everything we do? Fuck that. Let's continue to build tools as a community. They may have a lot of people, but our community is bigger. So, fuck them.

People should continue to experiment, and try new things until we come up with various way to protect against the god damn NSA.
Just like saying you know how to program after learning basic Html & CSS.

Design is not on the visual, and certainly not on the app you use.
I looked into this a bit for the University of California system, and that did indeed seem to be the issue in that case. Tuition has gone up, but less than state funding has gone down. In other words, the university is getting cheaper to operate on a per-student basis, but nonetheless getting more expensive to attend, because of a large shift in who pays (from taxpayers to students). The historical public funding levels were around $25k-$30k per student, in present-day dollars, while today the state kicks in a bit under $13k per student: http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt

It's not entirely due to the increase in student population, either, although that's part of it. If you look at just the total funding column, it's gone down since the '80s, despite the state's increasing population and GDP. Someone should double-check my numbers, but last time I looked into this I remember a back-of-the-envelope calculation that California used to put ~0.3% of state GDP into the UC system, and now puts in only about 0.1%.
SMP: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/

FS: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

Some of magic you can do with it: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtorecoverdat...
There is also the difference between jobs and careers. For many it is not enough to have a job that pays decently. They need one that is stable. Preferably with benefits that can make future planning easy. (And, by easy, I mean possible.)
The dropdown is difficult to parse, alphabetizing would help. Or at least group similar procedures together under a heading.
The one thing I thought was missing from the python tooling for Neo4J was that because *.cyp files are so new they aren't yet handled by the standard documentation toolchain.
Two issues:

- Many people don't spend every penny they have. They spend every penny they can get out of their health plan. That's not a "market failure" by any means agreed?

- If they must pay out of pocket, and they have no kids, then why not? If they do have kids, then that seems a bit selfish to me. Maybe the right thing to do is save the money and buy cheap painkillers.

Not every sad story is Oliver Twist. And the argument that single-payer health-care will be cheaper is a crap-shoot at best. The countries that do it well do many things well. I don't see dramatic savings from US single-payer education. Or from single-payer defense spending.
Lua was made by three academics at a university in Brazil. I consider it more than marginally popular (particular in computer games).
Link to tutorial/instructions?
This is a terrible analogy; If I were a Java programmer who was unemployed, struggling to find any job at all, I would take your shitty $10/hr programming job in a heartbeat.

Of course I am not under/un-employed, so I have the luxury of telling you to take your shitty job offering and shove it. Your little scenario seems absurd to all of us because we all know that there are plenty of far better programming jobs available. We are not looking at a job shortage.
Time-series databases
Are you saying the New York Times is trash? If so, I disagree. Although I wouldn't put any institution on a pedestal, I would say that the NYT is demonstrably a non-trashy news organization. Demonstrable in part by the fact you don't love everything they write about your precious industry or coast -- that is in fact an indication that they're doing a good job, i.e. not pleasing everyone all the time.
http://norvig.com/performance-review.html

http://www.giagia.co.uk/2010/03/23/ada-lovelace-day-2010/
The book is free for download at http://graphdatabases.com/
There's talk around removing it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elixir-lang-core/HzU...
For a few of us, it reads as him basically blaming them for not taking the jobs he references time and again.

Maybe that is unfair, but it does echo in the rhetoric to me.
His whole point at the end is that there are millions of well paying benefitted jobs that are available without a college education.
This “college” fad is getting pretty big
Try emailing him. I bet a few HNers could throw something together by next weekend.
Spot-on. This article misses the point entirely - X for Y is just a convenient (if somewhat lazy) way of describing new concepts by reference to existing ones.

I was hoping that the author would really dig into the practice of startup clones - c.f. http://www.rocket-internet.de
Why DDoS is free speech
Out of curiosity, why did you get the patent?
Yes! So many websites are practically unreadable due to low contrast.
I thought I had read something you wrote once (5. Most investors are momentum investors. from http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html) implied that investor demand increases the volume of the more shallow type of copycat.
Wow. Next time shop around a little. We did and the hospital stay for my wife and baby was around 2800. Our doc was 2700. The anesthesiologist was a shocking 2500 though. Our doc and the hospital had to be prepaid, or else we would be charged higher rates. Some places call them "Stork plans"
Here's another approach: Make a templated JSON file that mimics a database-backend. When you generate the site (or just push to a GitHub Pages repo), the JSON file will be populated with the "search index" of your site. Something like this: https://github.com/swanson/lagom/blob/master/site.json

Then you can use whatever Javascript you'd like to search through your pages by pulling down the JSON file into memory and slicing and dicing to your heart's content.
We have a word describing this kind of "x of/for y" construction: "metaphor" (or simile or snowclone, depending on exactly how you construct it). It has a name because it's used all the time.

I think it's ridiculous that startups are getting slammed for using a common component of human language in their marketing.
I'm super interested in the chapter on creating reusable command line tools.

I've found the command line to be ideal for performing a lot of simple, memory-intensive tasks (filtering/munging/sorting/etc. a massive text file).

However, after data collection (and munging), data science is typically A LOT of _exploratory_ analysis. I think it's extremely important that all practitioners approach analysis with the mindset of making it easily reproducible (and if possible, flexible - don't hard code date ranges, file paths, etc.).

I tend to stick with IPython Notebook (and heavily recommend it). I fear that heavy analysis at the command line would consist of too many one-liners and thus be difficult to read and maintain.
Feynman would be proud of your explanation.

Douglas Hofstadter, "Analogy as the Core of Cognition" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
Hades is a place without memories, colors, and will. You lose all of that when you cross Styx.
Three 20-year-old programmers build a working Obamacare website in just days
In 1995, it was changed from 17 years counting from the issuance of the patent to 20 years counting from the earliest filing date. It is not clear whether this should count as an extension or not--it is 3 more years, but the clock starts running earlier.

Before that, the only extension of the patent term was from 14 years to 21 years, which happened in 1836. In 1861, it was shortened to 17 years.
The patois of misattribution is, often times, a rather fun deception -- to see who will share the meme.

Things like "The internet is full of trolls" are captioned to a photo of Abraham Lincoln, for example. Or, more recently, the phenomenon of attributing moving quotations to Taylor Swift, or Barack Obama, where the actual source was Adolph Hitler.

In short, you're not wrong that these things occur, but in some cases, they probably occur as a means of exploiting our collective ignorance, and/or our willingness to share things that we think are attributable to someone we might idolize.

Summed up in a Hitler quote (attributable to anyone): "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
@stinkytaco fair point. "Goof off" was a poor choice of words.

You pointed out that the work is very hard. I agree but why is that bad? I think that is one of Rowe's biggest points. Doing hard work should be glorified, it should be honorable, it should be something we admire. But American culture has made it a bad thing that should be avoided at any cost. I don't think that is a good thing in the long run.
Do you think citing the definition of it from some dictionary is of any relevance to their popular use?

It seems you are as happy to quickly dismiss something on inane reasons as I am :)
I love it. Everyone in this thread is on the defensive because the post is so incredibly spot-on.
Yeah, I really like the different percentages for 'past 24 hours' 'past week' and 'past month' - it gives you a lot more information than just one number.

But then I'm a service provider.
What show has smart jokes for adults?
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One thing you come to appreciate through the study of history is that people weren't stupid. Just because they don't have iPads and blogs doesn't mean they were less capable, as individuals or as a group. If you compare the current state of elected officials today to 200 years ago, you'd come to appreciate it too.
Your right to be forgotton - Are you in control?
I'm not going to doubt that... I'm just saying there must be some underlying economic reason why that's true. Seems that things are in an equilibrium, but maybe not the optimal one (blasphemy, I know).
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How would a language's support for garbage collection make it any harder to compile a non-garbage-collected language into it? Why would you think that?
That's generally accepted today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850697

I already tried this subject on HN and failed miserably. There are a few things in life that I kinda trust my gut-feeling more than science[1]. Or rather, in the same way there was a time where jewelry was made from radioactive material because science couldn't detect the danger yet; one day science may find that previously undetected thing that cellphones emit and the human body absorbs. I have no proof and this "logic"(fear) could be applied to anything. It's just a gut feeling I have.

1. This probably already qualifies me as insane & absurd by 98% of HN readers. I just don't think the science of humans can completely capture & comprehend the universe or even the human body. I think we're more than the sum of our parts, but don't ask me to prove it. I can't. :(
Bitmessage addresses aren't secret. They are even being broadcasted to the P2P network when you create them. Of course, one can keep in secret (by not announcing it) that he/she owns a particular Bitmessage address but the addresses themselves are not secret.
if that's what you suspect then you're grossly ignorant of world affairs for the second half of the 20th century
I do not intend this as a contradiction but merely a tangential tidbit: Devil facial tumor disease [0] is an example of an actual, transmissible cancer in mammals, showing that it is at least possible.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
While it's true that tuition is a larger source of revenue than it used to be, most of that increase can't be explained by falling subsidies.

According to this http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?submeasure=68...
total inflation-adjusted revenue per student went from $5,846 in 1991 to $11,016 in 2011.
Your comment is being downvoted not because people disagree with you but because it violated the last two points at the end of the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am always reminded of the famous blog post about a getting a PHD wherein all you can hope to do as an individual is make a small bump on the giant circle of human experience and knowledge.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Likewise, backseat drivers to the expansion of the human existence, fail to grasp the basic understanding of how startups, knowledge, experiences are created. It is all through evolution. That is why there is such a high failure rate, that is why it's so hard to predict, that is why moving forward we will continue to use the x of/for y to describe our ambitions and ideas because all great things we have done are built upon those that have come before.

We are creatures of evolution and that expands beyond just the layman biological applications to encompass all of what we have and will do.
He's spot on.

We Americans focus so very very often on how we disagree rather than how we agree. If you look at both parties, they broadly agree on so many things. Instead we focus on unimportant social issues, shaving a couple percent off government spending, and so on.

The educational system we have now is largely a scam, it promises that if you spend tens of thousands (or more) dollars on a 4 year degree, you'd have a good job waiting on the other side, and its largely BS. We need vocational training, we need training for non white collar career options, and no one is really working on it. I make a salary of that of a skilled professional - with no formal education beyond high school - it's been a long fight to get here though, perhaps it could have been easier otherwise. The other problem with the current college education program is a lack of correlation between cost and outcome, it's something that needs to be looked into.

He also hits on a point - the government doesnt create jobs, so it doesnt matter what congress does, or what the president does, its the job of the government to create a stable environment (regulatory and otherwise) so the economy can go and create jobs. I believe our government is largely failing at this.

On to the skills gap - I disagree with him on one point, companies are largely unwilling to train - there are jobs for which I'm broadly qualified for, but can't get because I'm missing one specialized skill or another for. If companies were willing to train, they would be able to fill most of those unfilled jobs.
I couldn't care less about the warm words in that pledge. I'm fearful of the mindset of the person that wrote it.

We all fancy the "meritocracy" mindset, but we can't just ignore that there are very, very important factors at play (your gender, the color of your skin, your upbringing, the wealth of your family, the social standing of your family..) that determine a persons success regardless of their conduct, determination or other internal factors.
> The trades do not pay well until/unless you specialize into certain areas.

A problem that makes this particularly bad is that many now don't pay at all until you manage to become qualified as a high-skill specialist. A lot of the low-end work has been automated, which has gutted the traditional pipeline where you start with low-skill jobs and move upwards. It's not just that low-skill welding jobs (say) don't pay well; they simply don't exist. Only high-skill welding work is in demand, and a beginning welder is very likely to be unemployed. He or she might try to get free work to improve, but even that is iffy. I'm not convinced the odds are actually better here than the (already not great) liberal-arts degree -> unpaid internship -> office job route. If you really want to DIY a trade without a college degree, I'd recommend learning PHP or web design before I'd recommend trying to break into welding. Or learn something about CNC machines and get a job servicing the machines that replaced those low-end trade jobs...

I looked into this at some point out of personal interest, and really the numbers don't bear it out. There are a lot of anecdotes about how we "need skilled tradesmen", but the pay and jobs just aren't there. When you take into account the lack of training opportunities, the high risk of injury, the generally short careers, and the unstable unemployment, the expected earnings from taking up a trade are much worse than just getting a college degree.
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1. Electrodermal Activity Sensor
2. Electrocardiogram Sensor

So, we can rest assured that the embedded system and controller board will be equipped with software that defaults to an always-upload mode, dumping all data to microsoft.com. The device will be completely unusable and it's data inaccesible without a one-time prompt agreeing to the EULA.

Is Microsoft trying to convince women to submit to continuous lie detector monitoring, under the auspices of weight control?
It's okay, so long as people behave rationally equilibrium will come ;).
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Not really seeing the problem with #2, but #3 has me mad. There are plenty of bad jobs that wear down your body and mind while offering subsistence or below-subsistence wage, and offer no or false hopes for advancement.
re: training - are your skills white collar or blue collar? He seems to be talking about physical labor jobs where employers are willing to train. I don't see that much on the IT side of employment, for example.
In researching the history of musical instruments, I discovered that many distant cultures independently developed hunting bows and it is believed these are the original of stringed instruments.

So, the concept of a taught string bound to a resonating body, simple as it is may have been a precursor.

It is possible gourds where used as mounting points on some of the contraptions, and the ability of hollow spaces to resonate was probably already known... which leads to Capoeira-like instruments...

but the next leap of getting the thing to pick up voice is imo a larger conceptual leap. Of course, by then, written language was widespread and ideas could maintain a bit more momentum...

Yet still, notice how the bottom of the cup is of a different material and not tightly coupled to the rest of the cup. It's attached with a woven or knitted "sock." That's where energy leaves the system instead of bouncing energy back into the twine like bows. That's a great conceptual leap, considering it's not totally obvious to most people today how the bridge of stringed instrument works :)

I imagine they had built large string and hollow-body resonator combinations...

Yet it's yet another step to make it "input-"sensitive to human voice :)
Unless you were collecting unemployment, in which case the shitty $10/hour job would result in a net loss.