skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that in the UK, convictions become 'spent' (so that you don't have to disclose them when asked) after a certain period of time that varies with the severity of the original sentence. But for some crimes (>48 months in prison) they never become spent. And for some jobs, the 'spent' status does not apply. Those include working with children, joining the police or security services, and a variety of other things.
I've been hosting my personal blog on GitHub pages for a year now and it's been great. One shortcut I took is starting with Jekyll Bootstrap (http://jekyllbootstrap.com/) instead of starting from scratch.
I love (and host my blog on) Pages, but really can't stand Jekyll. The template language, Liquid, is incredibly restrictive because GitHub wants to sandbox you. I would suggest using nanoc, Middleman, Stasis or similar and compiling it locally. I myself use a hacked Rails app that spits out static HTML.[1]

Keep in mind that you also don't control things like HTTP headers, which are very important for a static site. You want to cache assets forever, pages for a while; and you probably want to fine-tune your gzip settings or precompile gzip files as part of your compile process. These things are possible with your own server and AWS but not Pages. Its benefits are simplicity and cost, but they come at the cost of power and performance.

[1]: https://github.com/devlinzed/devlinzed.com
I don't understand your disappointment. It's a reading guide, it's a description of the connections between the books - the story arcs and dependencies. It's clear that there are dependencies between the books, and lets you know where you can choose to start, and where is best avoided because of the dependencies.

Perhaps you could be a little more explicit about what you were expecting, and why this doesn't help.

And if you really want more explicit advice, if you really don't want to understand the story arcs, and just want to be told what to do, read them in order of publication.
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Anarki is more up-to-date: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
> One of the most exciting times of being an entrepreneur is the very early days after having the idea. You discovered a pain point, created an awesome solution, and now you have a whole world of potential ahead of you.

Having an idea and building a solution is innovation, not entrepreneurship. "Entrepreneurs" are business people who take what someone else built and compete with other business people to sell it to the greatest market at the highest margins, then flog the business itself to some sucker just before it tanks. Someone who imagines and builds needs to be quite profound, whereas someone who takes and sells needs to be quite petty, so rarely do you find innovation and "entrepreneurship" in the same individual.

So I would say innovators are bad at finding their competition, which is the "entrepreneurs". Innovators often get a shock at how vicious "entrepreneurs" turn out to be when the product's almost ready. Even before there's a solution built, many "entrepreneurs" roam around looking for innovator victims who happily advertise what they're doing or even posting their software samples online. "Business is war" to the entrepreneur. Anyone in business who's building and trusting instead of stealing and fighting won't last long.
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Congratulations on your discovery of something that has been around for ages. I'm sure you were also surprised to find out that the "computer" was not invented by Mark Zuckerberg in 2007, so keep it up, you're learning something.
"Religious" means different things to different people. It doesn't have to be US-style anti-gay anti-science fundamentalism.
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Actually, one of the most common things I repeat to myself is the first chapter of the Quran (it's only a paragraph) just because I think it sounds lovely when lyrically recited in arabic. So their tapes probably sound something like me talking to myself in French, answering myself in Spanish, and then bursting into a minute of Quranic recitation...

Before going full force into computer programming, I was mainly interested in linguistics, and threw myself into learning languages and traveling. So I wouldn't be surprised if my digital communications set off various automated flags, since I chat with friends around the world (Europe, China, Latin America, some in the Arab world, notably Saudi Arabia) on a daily basis in ~4 languages. I hope they take me off their lists when they realize we are just making small talk or discussing English grammar or {{ their language }}'s grammar.
This surprises me:

"Once I learned that I should give a little to intimidation so the other party feels in control and powerful, but refuse to be totally controlled because the other party wouldn't risk their early release dates to beat up someone for no good reason, then I did well. It also helped to be able to pay off the local gang leader once a week with a pint of ice cream from the commissary. Protection was relatively inexpensive, all things considered."

There are different ways of seeing things, if it was me getting the ice cream for the gang leader, I would not see that as being in lieu of protection any more than making a cup of tea for the boss in regular world is in lieu of 'protection'. It would be a friendly thing to do for someone that appreciated it.

Did you find that your relatively superior intellect, knowledge and command of the English language was valued more by those inside than those outside? I assume you did not have an 'air of entitlement' from having attended private school. Did this intellect thing not set you apart, outside the hierarchy?
That's a fairly bleak view of entrepreneurs simply as "takers" from innovators. Do you not feel they can be the same person?
you don't specify the real reason why you dislike this job.
Having made some poor choices and ending up with overrated people for the last several years over and over; I narrowed it down to two things.

1. Ego - Low Self Esteem and Narcisstic behaviour

2. Finding excuses not to get things done.
Health activists in India, observers the states push for pentavalent vaccines with suspicion. They are more expensive and does not really provide the cost-to-benefit.Also, experts are divided on the fact that there are 18 deaths reported on which state has confirmed 3 being caused by the vaccine.

EDIT: Context - gates pushes pentavalent vaccine being the exciting thing for next year.
[1] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/centre-confirms-three-...
[2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/penta...
[3] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/policy-draft-backs-new...
The number of people saying Internet when they really wanna say Web is too damn high!

BTW, merry christmas to you all!
Google must care enough about comment spam to clean it up because their algo still relies too much on it. If they just ignored comment spam altogether and their organic algorithm didn't rely on it then they wouldn't be spending time and resources to clean it up.
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Wait until he leaves the office and then do a poo on his desk.
Wow, from looking around with that search term, UPS has actually had it for residential ground since 2002. I guess I'm out of touch.

So, for the package in question, from where they shipped it, UPS Ground does guarantee 2-day shipping. At half the price of UPS 2nd Day Air. So... pretty smart.
So how did he managed to get an elephant to disappear on stage? Or how he nearly joined Rasputin?
I'm surprised that this is news, in that "contractor fails to deliver, customer doesn't pay" should be a headline in the Boston Globe.

A month or so ago I heard more than one story about how (as of mid-late November) Oregon's healthcare site had yet to sign up a single person. What I didn't hear was, "Oregon officials confirmed today that they tore up Oracle's (the contractor for OR) invoice as soon as it arrived".

I understand that there's probably plenty of room for finger-pointing from both sides in these stories, and that's the story I want to hear. Who gave bad/late specs? Who wasn't delivering? Was it a combination of both, and what was the ratio?
It may have no effect for some people. I practiced samatha/vipassana for over a decade at a Tibetan Buddhist center. This included daily sessions, one and two week solitary retreats, week-end and month-long group retreats. I met wonderful people but I experienced no change in attentiveness, clarity, calmness, or acceptance of my shortcomings. Meditation instructors said, "Just keep practicing." I did, but eventually lost interest and left the community years ago. My level of attentiveness does not seem to have decreased since. YMMV.
That article is so cringe-worthy. As if investing in McDonald's is in some way against the goals of the organization. The organization's goal isn't to reduce McDonald's stock price by a few points, or help people who can afford McDonald's eat more healthy. It is to combat, if not cure, Malaria, HIV, Polio, Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, various intestinal problems (millions die a year from diarrhea) and hundreds of other horrific maiming illnesses that ravage many places. It is to invest in technologies for vaccines, energy, clean water and attempt to end malnutrition (read: starvation).

Even today, 21 children die of preventable causes... per minute. The Gates foundation is attacking all the more prevalent causes (70%+). It is rare to see an article miss the point so astoundingly hard, while managing to be completely without empathy AND clueless. Just utterly detached from reality.
I really don't think teaching some basic syntax and some scripting is "computer science." It would help students a lot more if we started offering courses like discrete mathematics instead.
>>The education he needs is not in Agile, but in how to be a decent human being. He has learned nothing in that category.

Did you read the whole post?

"I learned many things from inmates that I never learned in my prior life. I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities. I learned that giving and keeping your word is the ultimate measurement of character. I learned that loyalty is easy to promise, but few really deliver. Don't be that guy. Prison is really a learning crucible since the reactions are so quick and amplified. If you have annoying habits, you'll find out fast. If you are not respectful to others, you'll hear about it and you may get a "tune up" to teach you respect."

He also discusses his background + the negatives of prison life in the comments.
benchmarking a web framework on an old macbook pro?
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Hm, disagree. Innovation is an essential element of entrepreneurship, just as persistence, boldness, business-acumen, if not the most essential one.

If you're not an innovator you also can't really be an "entrepreneur" since you won't be able to build new features for your product, nor scale your company.

What you're describing is more of an executive/corporate CEO that was hired into the company after a few years down the track I would say.

An example that comes to mind is Eric Schmidt. He's not an entrepreneur at all, he never invented something or created something new. However, he is a full-on CEO. He probably can scale up your company from $10,000 rev to $100M rev like no one else.

Imho entrepreneurs normally aren't good CEOs. They like to create new things, work on the product and usually don't want to bother talking with investors, hiring people or talking to the media.
Actually, they usually allow themselves a bit more leeway in the yearly Christmas special, a fine tradition.
If you're interested mainly in at-a-glance summaries, this might fit:

http://www.ipcc.ch/
Exactly, and now it puts the onus on the website owners to make use of the disavowal tool, which can only be done with extra monitoring on their part.
... it's just how you use it
It's the difference between the movie industry and TV industry.

TV has always described resolution in "lines", because only the vertical direction had a fixed number of lines, the horizontal was analog and thus there wasn't a specific number of lines (there was a maximum frequency it could display accurately, and thus a minimum feature size, but no discrete "lines"). So, SD NTSC is 480i (i for interlaced), PAL is 576i. Actually, NTSC was really 525 lines, but some of them were not visible and part of the blanking interval. When you started moving into HD, they kept this convention, referring to 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc.

When movies started being distributed in digital formats, the movie industry chose a different standard of naming the resolutions, calling it 2K for 2048x1080. I'm not sure why they chose to focus on the horizontal rather than vertical resolution like the TV industry, but there you go. So the 2K/4K terminology comes from the movie industry, 720/1080 from TV.

Just be glad that we're using this term and not the computer industry term for it, which is WQUXGA (edit: sorry, QFHD, WQUXGA has 2400 vertical pixels, not 2160, see how memorable these names are?), though it is frustrating that "4K" is used for something that doesn't actually have over 4000 pixels in either dimension. In fact, this doesn't meet the official definition of 4K, it's actually just 4 times the size of 1080p, so it would be more appropriate to name it 2160p or QFHD instead of 4K. But for some reason, 4K has become the de-facto buzzword for this generation of resolutions, so it's what we're stuck with.
As people in Tech industry we should be very proud of Bill Gates and what he has done with Microsoft and his charity work.

A lot of people totally miss the point when they say "hey anybody could do all that if they have enough money". That is simply not true. Charity is not just about throwing money at poor, it is a far more difficult job than say building a company. Working for profit is simpler where clear regulations, contracts are in place and a government which has an interest in making businesses work.

Charity is a different ball game, I remember I was in Pune-India when Bill Gates quietly flew there in his private jet sneaked into local red light area to meet the health workers and monitor the progress. No one knew about his visit, when media reached there his private security somehow managed to make him disappear. He had a review meeting with health workers and key government people, and then simply flew out. He does this in all the countries where no sane minded Billionaire would set a foot.

Throwing money and feeling good is simple. Achieving results is very difficult. Pune's red light area has benefited immensely by his efforts. There are at least 3 NGOs who have successfully managed to reduce AIDs and help the children of prostitutes rehabilitate in better professions. Over last 10 years, the sex workers in this area have reduced.

Bill Gates is actually very stingy when it comes to money. You cant simply setup a NGO in red light area and get funding from him. The whole process by which he chooses whom to help is the real USP of his work. That is something takes a lifetime to build and he has done it well.
So, is it computer science or computer programming? This is only going to add a truckload of fuel to the already huge fire that is the confusion between computer science and computer programming.

But to be less pedantic, let's actually focus on what this will entail.

First of all, "learning to code" is as ambiguous as "learning a [natural] language". Not all natural languages are Latin, and not all programming languages are ALGOL.

Second, I am highly skeptical as to the intentions of this movement. Yet criticizing it is bound to get you labeled a cynic, a Luddite, an obscurantist or a combination of those. After all, teaching kids to code? How benevolent of them!

Not when you realize that the big moguls standing behind this are probably more concerned about having typists who can write instructions, rather than skilled programmers and computer scientists. I'm not saying this out of spite, but because of how they've presented their agenda (I'm referring to Code.org, primarily). The sugar coating, the testimonials from everybody besides actual computer scientists and their setting of sex quotas and affirmative action to create the illusion of desiring equality.

Notice how they all focus on the code. They rarely even use the word "programming". This should already set off an alarm.

As the proprietary software giants are standing by this, they are very likely to focus on proprietary platforms. They don't talk about this, of course. It's all about the code. About imagination, creativity and dreams. Have fun fulfilling your dreams on a locked down tablet with a TPM chip. The issue of software freedom, I believe, is more important than bashing instructions, which is a skill anyone can pick up, if they so desire. But there will be none of that. How many of these kids will be taught about GNU? I'm assuming none. But I'm sure there's going to be lots of Visual Studio and C#, plus iOS and Objective-C.

Ultimately, this will either drive away children from programming (depending on how it's taught, but let's face it: compulsory schooling is notorious for just how apt it is at sucking the life and fun out of learning... even more when Code.org is pushing for pay deductions on teachers whose CS classrooms consist of <40% females), or it will reduce the general quality of labor. Many will be uninterested, many will refine their skills, but many will become 9-to-5 enterprise monkeys as a direct result of this.

I really want to support this. I do. But it really keeps looking like learning to code is just a facade. Of course, the children will learn something, but the ulterior agenda and how their perception will be skewed is something distressing.
Your first two paragraphs are the most beautifully written I've ever seen on HN. I would go on to spend more time reading http://sonsofterra.com/, but you've inspired me to get back to work on my project.
Wow, haven't seen that. Agree it appears unprofessional and frat-ish. On the other hand, he may have found this colloquial tone is more effective than a professional one given the specific audience they are communicating with (people that publish youth- and music-oriented blogs).

I feel that being able to communicate in a traditionally-professional manner increases overall chance of success. But this is only because it is generally accepted that such a tone can signal trustworthiness. So even more important is the ability to communicate trustworthiness, whatever that may precisely mean, and the exact parameters of this vary by correspondents. If the people you truly value are skeptical of symbols of tradition and establishment, then a good marketing practice would be to adopt an anti-establishment brand.

So while I'm aware of tone, I try to refrain from overreacting to it, and try to give the content/actions a fair shake. All that said, in this particular case of collusive link building, I do find him shady and abusive/disrespectful toward the internet community.
Let's see. He's the expert. He controls the money. He has the rapport with the board. Maybe he helped get a lot of the funding? Sounds like he's pulled a lot of weight so far.

Maybe he's not pulling the weight, but like a movie the other day, a Washing Machine works hard, so what.

Think through if he's benefitting the company in his total contribution. If you want more from him, ask. If he won't do it, explain it's unacceptable and go to the board.

Like badclient states, it's going to come down to perception based on asserted facts. Those facts will be interpreted through the lens of relationships.

I have been through this before, I can help if you want someone to bounce things off of real time.
Definitely. For example, some people call writing tests the boring work, even though they're very important.

I have a co-worker who would rather write tests for code on a project he doesn't work on, then write the feature the test is for. He just loves it.
Well, I think Sainthood is given to those people who work out of their religious beliefs and are busy glorifying poverty and suffering (Example: Mother Teresa). Gates is a not a saint he is just a philanthropists and a good one at that.
Hopefully others can add insight to my findings, but it seems to me that when I sit down in the morning and do what I'm "supposed" to do, I find an unexpected reward is presented later in the day.

Yesterday, for instance, I sat down and coded for a few hours, when I could have been out drinking with friends. The surf looked crap, but I decided I wanted to get out for a surf just to get my head away from the code for a bit. Turned out to be a great and unexpected session. My small reward for doing my work.
> Code.org is pushing for pay deductions on teachers whose CS classrooms consist of <40% females...

Who comes up with these things?
Look up 'agent'. Pull up uses of 'CIA agent' in discourse around the world. Both the logical composition of 'CIA' and 'agent', and some of the extant uses, will be of people generically working for (or alleged to be working for) the CIA regardless of their title or nationality or formal employment relationship.

Just the search ["CIA agent" Snowden] will turn up a variety of writers, foreign and domestic, who have described Snowden that way.

Searching for ["CIA agent" Waldheim] shows multiple sources (including the NYTimes) addressing the speculation that Kurt Waldheim, former president of Austria and Secretary-General of the UN, may have at some point been a "CIA agent". (The latest and most official evidence: he wasn't.)

Also check out the passage "Agent or Employee" in the 'Encyclopedia of the CIA':

http://books.google.com/books?id=1Jc9wBsImOIC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6...

It pretty strongly confirms what I described: in common usage, 'agent' means anyone working for the CIA, but in some contexts it also applies to foreign nationals helping the CIA. (Apparently, in the CIA itself, 'agent' is specifically reserved for helpful foreign nationals. But internal bureaucratic distinctions can't override the plain meaning of 'agent' and global usage, to mean both that and more.)
If such a thing existed, it would be wasted on internet forums.
sorry to be late to the party but this is typically the kind of situation that requires you to "manage up" your board. DO NOT wait for the board meeting to address all this. Talk individually to your board members before the board meeting; present the solutions that you are envisioning and next steps. Ask for their input - that's how you're gonna make them feel better and confident that you're on top of the situation. If you go to the board meeting and present the situation then, there is absolutely no way this results in a healthy conversation. Everybody will look at you in a wtf-way and it's going to be very awkward. Prepare your board - so when you get there it's more of a follow up conversation.
I'm not sure if you're accusing me of disinformation, or if you're expressing shock at the frivolity of the idea.

Either way, it's happening: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/11/24/187255/codeorg...
There were two offerings as far as "SunGrid" was concerned - either the public-facing 'retail' iteration powered by N1GE which was launched as network.com ("$1 per CPU per hour!") and also a B2B commercial version which offered a lot more flexibility, i.e run your Linux distribution on Sun's hardware. The latter was built at scale using AMD Opteron-based SunFire V20z's for compute, for example.

The former certainly suffered from platform constraints and a fairly rigid 'stack', but the latter was far more flexible and various teams within Sun worked closely with several potential customers on the proof of concept. Unfortunately this fell apart thanks mainly due to the commercials and some concerns with how the platform was configured within the context of security and ensuring appropriate segregation of data.