skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing his point. With Twitter's tax break, they're paying less taxes to the city, and without Twitter's tax break, they'd likely be paying NO taxes to the city (because they were planning to move out of the city). In the near-term, there's no reduction in the city coffers.
The first thing to check is whether your former employer has a need for part time. Both parties are validated, and there is little to no ramp up needed.

The next I'd look at is mobile development. Now that there are multiple platforms to support (iOS/Android/WinMo), the demand for part time specialists is huge. There are a lot of companies that support a subset of those platforms but would like to add more (if they only had the expertise).
According to the BLS, the outlook for chemical engineers is only 4%, way below the average [1]. Other STEM fields, such as electrical engineering, are also in decline [2]. Software developers only increased by 19,000 jobs total. Students are graduating with the skills you list as desirable, but those skills aren't actually in demand.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/chemical...
[2] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245494/What_STEM_sho...
CSS has race conditions?
This unfortunately happens fairly routinely even at high level universities. Not always as publicly, though, but it does happen.

I'm a faculty brat (professorial parents) at one of the top public universities in the nation. There are always students that will complain to professors that things are too hard, or that grading schemes are unfair, or etc. with very little cause. Possibly worse is that sometimes people's /parents/ will call or email their professor to appeal a grade.

It does seem to be somewhat major dependent: I have /never/ seen it occur in a math class, for instance, whereas it apparently routinely occurs in my mother's English classes. (She's known for grading more stringently than many other English professors. Complaints also don't usually work.) However, I think that it's a mark of an experienced teacher that they don't let bullshit like that faze them: the one time I've seen it really affect how a class was taught, it definitely made the class worse as a learning experience. (Some vocal computer science majors thought that an algorithms course was too difficult, and the professor made it easier, which definitely was a net loss for everyone. I'm very glad that I wasn't enrolled in it.)

I think it's disgusting. Sometimes professors make mistakes: in class structure, or assignment load, or grading something, or the like, and bringing that up politely is appropriate. But if they know they are assigning hard, long assignments, or the grading is fair, or the like, then it's usually for a good reason. The professors who don't care about teaching usually also don't teach hard courses or grade harshly, because it means more work for them.

I agree that generally the people who do things like this are less likely to do well post-college. Either because their parents are hovering over them (see parental phone calls) and they won't ever learn self-discipline and reliance, or because they expect that if they complain, the world will magically bend itself to their will. I think some of it happens when people are taking courses they don't want to take for a requirement, but I agree that there are a good number of people who get sold on the "college degree -> good job and happiness and money."
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Or sign up at polarhome.com for $10 (sorry to steal your sale)
I was under the impression that one of the major challenges faced by Nest was running off only the power available by safely drawing from the existing wires.

Without that constraint, it's a much easier problem.
Right now though, I have this intuitive belief that when I close an app, it "pauses" and the card I'm seeing is a frozen state of what the screen looked like when I hit the home button.

I don't know if that's how other people perceive it, but it does feel extra-wrong when you hack it to try to convey timely information in the switcher.
It's definitely the spectrum, not autism itself that I was refering to - I apologize for not being more specific.

And I would recommend Jonathan Haidt's book "The Righteous Mind"(if I gave offence, I apologize) for how differing political mindsets define fairness - it was quite illuminating to me when I read it.
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Best way is to get a full time job that you really enjoy. After months of drought, the offers for high-payed consulting work (that you can't take) will suddenly flow in.
Many are by choice, aren't they?

I know a lot who studied "just anything" in college, because, well, I've gotta go to college, don't I? They didn't have a career path or anything planned out, just picked something, took some classes and graduated.

Then they decided what they picked wasn't anything they wanted to do for the rest of their life.

I know someone who studied business but soon realized she hates the business world, because you have to be cut throat to get ahead.
This looks to have been heavily inspired by Medium and their ilk (who were in turn no doubt inspired by the simplicity of the SVBTLE network).

If anything, it confirms the importance of the hard work that the Medium team have been doing w/r/t online article UX, and it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
Is it only me?
http://imgur.com/0REtwjW
Which was not in anything I posted. I simply said that stating these companies are malicious is a bit far fetched.

That said, there's microcontrollers and firmware in all programable thermostats (not to mention the heat pump). Most people today already rely on third parties to heat and cool their homes.
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Ask HN: Best way to whiteboard in an online meeting?
I am going to be teaching a bunch of highschool student web programming online and want to use some sort of device (wacom?) to draw on the screen. I want to be able to whiteboard diagrams to explain concept and want to use a pen-based devise because drawing with a mouse would be very ineffective.

Has anyone used any of the wacom tablets with gotomeeting or webex?

Thanks.
I think people forgot that the original reason there was a FISC order to turn over the phone records was because the telecom companies had already been doing it, and were quite happy to cooperate.

But they felt there would be recrimination if the fact that it was voluntary on their part came out and so requested to be ordered to do so (if that makes sense).

But you're right, at best there will be a third-party private company setup to hold the records and act as an "independent" review of the request, since none of the telecoms want to maintain the records themselves, since now that it's public it would risk discovery motions in every random case until the end of time.

And now that we would have an "independent" third party watching the NSA, who watches the watchers? At least NSA analysts are trained from Day 0 about the Constitution, USSID 18, FISA, etc. Who monitors the shell company to verify that they're not doing evil things with the database? Perhaps we could have FBI constantly monitor their comms and at least spread the risk around.
http://www.offete.com/files/zeneForth.htm
That really was single-handedly THE most boring, uninspiring speech in his entire time in office. There was nothing of substance to it and a real sense that he's not willing to fully accept the mistakes that have been made. His general nonchalance towards issues of privacy is astounding and will go a long way towards shaping how his second term in office is recounted in history books: not good!
This looks to be the home page only. Video pages are working.
Well that just sunk a big chunk of my argument, hah!
Complaint<generics>("write a bunch of extra boilerplate functions in order to sort a list");
We've had a few previous discussion on this and peripheral subjects. Here's a good one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6224982

I'd also invite you to read my comment on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226836

The "studied the wrong subject" stuff has surprisingly come up in this thread, so I'll just sum up the answer to that one here:

'About the suggestions that these people studied useless subjects: true, many of them did. What, however, would happen if they all decided to go into STEM instead? Assuming they all did amazing, we'd wind up with a glut of people with degrees in "good" subjects, which does nothing to magically create jobs (having a STEM degree does NOT mean you're going to start a company!) - it only helps where there are shortages. Once those are filled, we're back where we started (and wages may get pushed down due to a talent glut.) That's the best case scenario, too. What would be worse? What would the reality likely be? If everyone did rush into STEM, a good portion would fail out (not everyone is cut out for it. Really, some people just do not have the attitude, mindset, demeanor, worldview, interest, etc.) and be left with no degree (or they'd switch to one of those useless ones) and still be debt - right back where we started again. For some real world examples, just look through some other discussions on HN about this subject about people in countries who DO exactly this and they're stuck with unemployed and underemployed STEM grads up the wazoo.'
It wouldn't have the same effect without auto-play. This is essentially a smarter GIF. Looks like the CPU suffers from all the videos playing simultaneously, maybe pausing videos as soon as they go off-screen could solve that (while browsers don't get to optimize this).
That's a very big and sufficient use case, significant enough to warrant making this "concealment card" the norm unless there is a reason not to. Not the kind of thing you want a customer realizing after the fact.
Huh, I have always referred to them as "pucks".
I've never seen an init.d script that tried to restart something automatically, and attempting to do so within the script itself is folly. Any init.d script that gets into an infinite loop would be deleted immediately. The init.d script should be starting a daemon and then it should exit. If restarting a service like this is required, then the init.d script should spawn something that monitors the daemon (there are numerous tools that do this). Recent syslog-ng comes with one built in.

There's so much confusion over /etc/rc, /etc/init.d, /etc/rc?.d, init(8), inittab(5), initscript(5), what they are and how they are related. Getting the machine setup an in a usable state should be divorced from the services that the machine runs, but this is a fine line. Personally, I consider a machine "usable" if the filesystems are mounted, the machine is network accessible, and a configuration management system starts and/or sshd is running so one can login (and even then, this last one is not a strict requirement). Service management beyond that should be handled as just another process running. It's unfortunate that systemd is being pushed as an init(8) replacement, and doesn't seem to support running as a service itself. This being the default, with the option to replace init(8), would most likely lessen the controversy and reduce risk as systemd is developed and rolled out. "Look, you've been doing process management of individual services with systemd already, and you see the benefits; did you know that systemd can also replace init, to get those benefits system-wide?" It's not presented like that, however.
> They obviously wouldn't lie, would they?

The only lie would be if they said they were going to stop monitoring foreign Internet comms completely.

Beyond that, if you're assuming the government will lie as a matter of course then it doesn't matter what Obama said in his speech, as there's nothing he could have said to conclusively guarantee anything you'd want.
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Bad algorithms are bad and misused feedback is misused and competent advisers are competent.
NASA is just scratching the surface.
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Who's going to DjangoCon Europe?
It's in the French Riviera this year. Does this announcement that Adrian and Jacob are stepping down as BDFL's change your mind?
Wow, yeah. This is pretty bad. The example doesn't even make logical sense. Why is ByLength a type? Shouldn't you just want to pass in an array?

Can any "idiomatic" Go programmers here give a better example of how you would do this?
Not that I know of, but javascript does.
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Thanks for that. Very interesting read.
You are probably not using the word "cloud" enough when you speak about what you do.
Are you saying that the cop was wrong and that the citation was unwarranted under the law? If so, and if that is true, then I agree with you. However, that's not obvious as far as I know. Glasses which are essentially monitors are a pretty new thing, and California has existing law which states that "monitors" within the view of the driver (an exception is provided for mounted GPS) are illegal.

What I'm saying is that I believe the cop was within his rights to issue a citation. If that is true, then he did nothing wrong. He has discretion. If you're going to argue with the person who has a choice in whether or not to punish you then you should expect to be on the losing end.

It's no different than getting pulled over for speeding. Assuming that you were in fact speeding, the officer is allowed to issue a citation, or not. It's up to him. If you're a jerk then you're going to get one. "Tyrrany"? C'mon.
It's JS, check the gist. The race condition is with image loading. I don't think CSS has race conditions, but someone please prove me wrong here :)
Well, since you refuse to use english on a level that can be understood by a reasonably well-taught non-american i can only tell you that while i have heard all the words you use before and understand their individual meanings, i have no idea what those sentences are meant to communicate when put together.

I give up.

Also, quite honestly, your claim that monads have no why makes me strongly question your understanding of the subject matter. Also see Einstein: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins383803....

I thank you for your efforts, but can only ask you to reconsider your approach.
I think you lose a lot of context. The screen shots help you remember what you're doing. In most cases, I would rather see the last state my app was in.
I know I have a twisted mind, but I envisioned a quad copter delivering a grenade, a bomb or a shot to the head. Creepy me, I know.
Would it be crazy to suggest it might not be a rock? They're always looking for life on Mars, could this be some kind of animal?
@simoncion you've been hellbanned in this thread for some reason.
Why is LensKit written in Java?
The cliche cynicism is contradicted by the fact that these rulings led to dozens of trials of Guantanamo detainees, and most detainees have either been released or given trials. The remainder of detainees are a minority that are politically intractable to deal with, but their treatment doesn't clearly contradict the Supreme Court's Guantanamo cases.
I missed that important bit, my apologies. Though it seems a little fucked up that public places can just sort of be snatched up as restricted zones.

Also, I didn't realize that DC doesn't allow carrying of legal weapons. That's unfortunate. What if this had happened somewhere else?
Yes I remember that as well, all you have to do is set the UI you want to be screenshotted in the applicationWillEnterBackground notification/application delegate callback. This has been around since fast app switching (iOS 2.3 I think, the golden old days :)) but has gotten much more prominent with the new app switcher.
Pen and notebook (paper type, not a knee burning laptop), with a checklist of things to do tomorrow works for me. q
Nest thermostats seem to be around $250. If you want thermostats that you can control with Applescript, Perl, mobile apps, etc., check out these Insteon-based ones for $150:
http://www.smarthome.com/2441TH/INSTEON-Thermostat/p.aspx

One problem with the Nest is that if your thermostat is in a poor location (more of a problem with central heating), the motion sensor won't see you. With the ones I suggested above, you can programmatically link those to ~$40 motion sensors installed in the correct locations that will actually work.
I don't see how you draw that conclusion from the data.

A slightly larger percent of graduates are working the "Joe-jobs".

College graduates have increased as a percent of the population.

Everything looks to be in order here.
> (having a STEM degree does NOT mean you're going to start a company!)

Having studied STEM subjects sufficiently to get a degree increases the probability of you being able to serve as technical (co-)founder for a company in a technology related field.

It doesn't do anything magically, but there is plenty of reason to expect that, ceteris paribus, more-STEM graduates => more and better innovative technology companies.
I would surely never take these complaints to a go-specific discussion board. That would be disruptive and rude. But this site is not that. I will react to stories on here as pleases me, and it pleases me to constructively criticize certain go design choices sometimes when the subject comes up.
I think this is the most important bit "dependency model of systemd is easier to understand,
explain and work with than the event based counterpart of upstart.". IMO upstart is over-engineered to say the least.
When I saw "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" I thought... the shell, the file system and the kernel. And if you know what I mean by that, then you, too, are old.
I've found that introducing yourself as a "full-stack cloud" is the best opener.
For these kinds of numbers they tend to use 1000mAh for AA cell, what used to be call 'heavy duty' and this radio is 20-25mA, so you are looking at easily at least 70 hours on alkaline cells.

http://ukradio.info/SRF-59/
You'd probably end up with a lot of people who have the degrees but, in practice, aren't very competent. I don't subscribe to the belief that anyone can do anything they chose as long as they try hard enough. Individuals have individual skill sets, and some simply aren't all that skilled.

My thought is that many of the people enrolling in college should actually be pursuing a career in skilled labor.
There's nothing dirty about shipping.

10x means shipping - and nothing else. It's just one trait - being able to attack small chunks of work and finish them before moving to the next one - and it doesn't say anything about the quality of one's work. Here's why: you can learn to ship.

Being a "10x" is half of Joel's "smart and get things done". Don't ever forget about the other half.
Why are "begin" and "end" functions now instead of methods on the iterator? Do they consider it better because now you can pass around functions, but not methods?
All of those need pretty deep knowledge of Unicode in general and the language you're working with in particular. Counting "characters" (really, code points) is going to be the least of your worries.
this is incorrect. Gnome depends on logind which is one component of systemd and which has ALREADY been adopted by upstart itself [1]

logind is basically a much better replacement for Consolekit (which is not actively maintained) and the Gnome devs want to use the other part of systemd (e.g. "systemd --user" ) to manage user sessions rather than write and maintain the code. It makes complete technical sense.

[1] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?78518-Ubuntu-Plans...
> A few extra lines for sorting

It's not just sorting, it's any parametric polymorphism: generic operations or non-built-in containers (not just in the sense of "array", an atomic ref is also a container) for instance. Go only lets do these in verbose, clunky ways, and losing much of the type safety Go is supposed to provide (what with being a statically typed language)

> no-one's trying to claim that the shortest code wins.

No one is indeed, so that's an irrelevant strawman.
Did your cpu usage spike?
You can't put methods on a type from a different package (or in this case a builtin type).

Instead of methods, you could of course write normal functions taking []string, but only methods can fulfil interfaces.
This is the idiomatic way. It's actually the only way.
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Yeah, "all men are created equal" ... except "the merciless Indian savages" Britain is keeping us from exterminating (also in the declaration).
Chrome Win7 as well. This page makes all 4 (and 8 hyperthreaded) cores peg 100%. But strangely it still feel responsive in scrolling etc.
You learn the basics of those two things? You are going to do okay, no matter what your degree was in.

A friend of mine didn't know what to study while in school so his dad told him to study English. He said no matter what, knowing how to read and write properly is a good thing. At this point my friend has worked in IT for years, and is now the CTO of a decently sized company.
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Hey,
Sorry, but with my "archive" of emails all email-clients suck :(
Thats why I am still on gmail :)
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> The real problem is getting all that stuff out of the world at large and into a processing plant.

The problem with plastics is its cheap acquisition costs and expensive disposal costs. One of the good things about living in a developed country is we sorta manage the disposal costs well. In developing countries they don't manage plastic disposal at all. In all my travels one of the overriding themes I've seen is plastic on the sides of road, in rivers, on the beach.

When I removed the wooden door from a house we didn't need to call the city to send a special truck to dispose of it. We chopped it into pieces and used it for bbq. Then we mixed the ashes into the compost. Disposal was $0.

While plastic is cheap in the short term I think there are a lot of long term costs that get ignored.
"And when I licked those hands, they tasted like sweet apples and flaky pastry, just the way Mom used to make her pies."

I can't stand seeing the political shams where the VIP comes in and pretends to be an ordinary person talking to other ordinary people. Of course, there is also that schadenfreude when they utterly fail to pull it off.

But I don't blame the politician; that's just what they're made to do: I blame the journalist. Rather than summarize the meaningless show of a politician gladhanding and baby-kissing his way through an audience, his hands felt like a baseball--your favorite baseball, because a true American would own several. Really? Are you sure it wasn't more like the soft leather from well-worn bootstraps, lightly marked by salt stains acquired while walking the wintry streets of Chicago's south side? Ridiculous.

It's just as bad as Bush Jr. trying to pull the Texas good ol' boy schtick and the media egging him on. I want my watchdog back, even if he's jingo yellow, not a toothless yappy lapdog.
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There is runguard [1] from the DOMjudge project. It may be able to do what you are looking for.

[1] https://github.com/DOMjudge/domjudge/blob/master/judge/rungu...
Depends what you mean, I guess. I am "normally" employed with one company, not a freelancer, but I work "part-time", i.e. 30 hours/week. Getting that type of gig is likely different from getting the freelance/consultant type work.

(For what it's worth, the way I got mine was that I was hired for full-time/40 hours, did that for about nine months, then went to the manager and said "hey, how about I only work 30 hours?" and he said "ok".)