skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely.

Consider the Assistant Deputy VP for Administrative Affairs who just got sold an official $20M "Enterprise Scale" solution for course registration that worked about as well as healthcare.gov, and a kid comes along and in a couple of weekends, makes something that works better and has more features.

Now the 'unofficial' solution is getting more and more popular and your gold-plated turd of a system that you staked millions of dollars of Official University Budget on is getting mocked mercilessly by the student body.

What do you do?
What's the problem with graduate students having access?

Anything in the institution that the bureaucracy does not control completely, represents a "problem" to the bureaucracy.
This shit is already a spyware (at least for Android, where it even has a permission to modify system settings). I had 40Mb of background data usage for a 5 day (in a roaming in India, that's why I have noticed) while I never switched to it.
Funny piece.
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You can take a look at Discrete Optimization course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization

The next session will start March 4th 2014.
She just fired her second http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140116205043-64...
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The slang term you want is "wifi pineapple". You can even buy pre-programmed ones online.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+pineapple
love the racism(?) at the end - "We should have expected a famous cable manufacturer to make its best sounding cable the most expensive, but this is not always the case I can assure you. Sometimes cables are made more and more expensive for export markets and the increased price has nothing to do with sound quality."

because only those dumb foreigners buy cables because they are expensive...
An alternative is Google Viewer: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://noggin.intel.com/...
I left SF after the first Internet bubble burst - I needed a vacation from IT and went to film school. I finally ended up in London, which is a MILLION times better than the entire Bay Area. As expensive, but far more livable, interesting, and varied than a IT centric socio-ecosystem. Not that I hated SF, I'd probably still be there if I'd sold all that NSOL stock at the right time... The first bubble was something - it really felt like something new was being born. Now, it seems like everyone is just trying to get rich.

Based on everything I've read about this new bubble and how SF is changing even more, I doubt very much I'd want to live there. Any sort of 60s vibe that I did 'pick up' (that was one of the attractions for me) seems to have faded away. $250K for new grads at Google? God almighty. There is too much money sloshing about in the Bay Area now and money always changes things.

The fruits of IT are useful, at the top commenter points out, but I think some humility needs to be learned. Then more effort will be spent on useful stuff, and not making cold cut apps or figuring out how to manipulate users into clicking more ads. Man is a tool making animal, but happens when one's ego becomes tied up in those tools?
"vindictive" sounds nothing like "professional"
And it's even very easy to exploit. You connected your phone/whatever to an open wifi network once ?

Well, now it'll probably go looking for that network wherever you go, since the device will basically go and broadcast "Where is SSID XYZ ?". Making it easy for anyone to switch the SSID on their AP, turn off authentication , and your phone connects to it - and probably starts pulling updates from your services. Just hope that's done over SSL/HTTPS and that the app validates the certificates.
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No wonder corporations love it when we throw so many people in prison.

The profits are insane.

Look at what the phone company makes on a call from a prison.

By the way, where the hell are inmates getting $320 a month to spend?
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Is this a particular strain of satire that I'm not in on or is this supposed to be serious? Genuinely can't tell.
Oddly enough I've heard of location sound guys using CAT5 cable to carry analogue mic signals back to the sound recorder, largely because it's cheap and readily available on location. Their impression was that it was basically fine, so long as you have decent transformers at each end.

The audiophile folks would pass out cold if they ever learned about all the things that the signal goes through before it reaches their precious enclave...
Yeah, it was easy to integrate and use, was glad to have used it.
They do offer Paypal subscriptions[0] You can donate 10-500 per month, in USD/CAD/EUR.

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For those that are interested, I'm a data scientist and I spent a bit of time visualizing my Type 1 partner's data: http://statwonk.github.io/blog/2014/01/05/visualizing-diabet...
I like it. Clean and concise. Don't have to read through ten pages of bloat.
Very impressive, but not sure if one should depend on tools with a Bus factor of one.
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Doing keto for a T1 diabetic is hard and it doesn't change that much. Sure, you don't use as much insulin but there's also no effective way of getting your glucose level up without going out of ketosis. There's also the ketoacidosis problem, which is even harder to avoid while being on keto and being a T1 diabetic.

It's a great diet for T2. And I would dare to say that paleo is even better, you keto guys (going by what I see on /r/keto) need to eat more vegetables.
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That would be correct. In Portugal, university fees are around €1000 per annum. A private university costs around €5000. So by our standards, this is expensive.

A second disadvantage is that American degrees are not automatically recognized here - you have to ask for an equivalence; and very likely an online degree would not be recognized, because it does not follow a traditional format in terms of course attendance and examinations.

The only advantage of this degree is the fact that you can take it online, and that is not very compelling, as you can find most of this material for free.
Brilliant post and brilliantly timed for me as I've been thinking about ways to expand my own operations test suite into the realm of web service behavior.

To address the folks who say just use Nagios, well I say use the right tool for the job and the right tool for your existing processes. For some environments and tasks Nagios is a great choice. For others a scripted Rspec style solution is more appropriate.

And for still others (like mine) a combination of a traditional monitoring system with some scripted TDD-style tests (which can also tie into the central monitoring agent, btw) is the right solution.
What is your goal? Do you want to create a theme, plugin or do consulting?
The newer courses seriously lacking any tangible depth or usefulness

Interesting. I have to admit that I didn't participate in one of the newer coures yet.

Sure, good ideas != good execution.
> What would be an example of a language with weaker OOP capabilities?

Something without the concept of objects built in? C?
In my experience (Type 1 partner), it's repeated and severe lows, say like 4 or 5 in a week, that will give you hypo-unawareness. It's definitely possible to experience that and still have a high A1C, but I don't see it causing hypo-unawareness. I'd highly recommend a pump to get more control.
I agree with you on the breaking windows guy but not with the Craigslist Flipper in the pure form(just buy and sell locally with no shipping or repairing which would add value besides flipping).

Why does the Craiglist Flipper add value? The Flipper takes away the random luck factor and distributes goods to those who can best utilize them.

Consider an iPad 1 listed for $10 on Craigslist by someone who just wants it gone. Almost anyone would buy just for the heck of it and take it away from the market even if they already have iPad Air and 3 other Android tablets gathering dust at home.

However, if the Flipper buys it and puts it back on the market at say $100, the person buying from the Flipper will actually have to think before making such a purchase.

So a reasonable Flipper adds liquidity and stability to the market. Unreasonable Flipper (one either putting prices too high or too low) does not stay in business for too long.
Sorry to say, but that is complete BS from the technical point of view.

May he should have talked to an electrical engineer first, before writing this BS.

There are 2 things the quality of an Ethernet cable has an influence: jitter on the cable and signal quality in terms of that the Ethernet frame may be recognized as corrupted has to be repeated, which again comes down to jitter. Jitter is also introduced by the communication that goes on in parallel. As the Ethernet cable has no influence on the data itself (bit flips are covered by the CRC) there can be no influence at the higher layers at. If that would be the case you couldn't trust any communication at all.
Fully agree.

To reinforce your point, many are unaware that the various forms of reference counting are also GC algorithms in CS speak.
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Given that we've failed to educate doctors and nurses about the effects I don't like the odds of being able to educate everyone.
I think a reality check is in order, not?

There was NEVER a time Skype was secure for people going against law of any kind. Unless you were clueless, you could ALWAYS expect your data to be handed to the authorities in case an investigation was ongoing. This is how things work in the real world of companies, government and law.

I think we are confusing "mass surveillance" and "bulk access" (all without probable cause in NSA's case) with lawful information sharing in criminal cases. I don't support the former the least but the later is a requirement. Please try to imagine a world where law enforcement could work efficiently if companies could simply tell a judge to f* off and withhold data that would help in an investigation (a lawful, very specific case... not the ghost hunts that the US/NSA/CIA does).

People have lost perspective with the NSA scandals and want to throw the baby with the bathwater. This is short sighted.
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My favorite bit (talking about a setup where your music server sound card is plugged directly into your DAC):
"In that case only commands are send over the LAN and access to the internet is limited to metadata and covers. A decent CAT-5 like Pearl will be fine"

So the author is at least willing to concede that spending much more than £30 for a 1.5 meter network cable doesn't add much to the vibrance, color and quality of the downloaded album covers and metadata.
The Stand Your Ground laws are highly relevant to the Trayvon Martin case, since they provided cover for local law enforcement to initially decide they wouldn't be pursuing any charges against Zimmerman. Which led to the outrage and the public court trial.
Also the debt cannot be gotten rid of by declaring yourself bankrupt. It is a 'federal' debt.

Think the UK has sort of got this right. Your tuition fees are a debt (at very low interest rates) that you never have to pay off unless you start earning significant amounts of money. It's repaid as a percentage of your salary above a certain income level.
I think masters of great works are pretty well-recognised in Japan. Matsuo Basho, for instance.
Backbone may or may not be right for you. Fortunately it's small, and fairly easy to read. The annotated sources [1][2] for BackBone and Underscore are fairly accessible.

Also, I would highly recommend adding an AMD loader like require.js to your "basics kit". Code organization gets very important very fast, and it helps to think modular-and-reusable from the beginning.

[1] http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

[2] http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
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It was never secure. Closed source and with no end-to-end encryption, so supernodes could always listen.

The supernode design isn't compatible with having lots of mobile devices, that's why it was changed. It's only marginally easier to intercept.
Looks really nice, good work. I like your documentation style too.
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Well, Java Concurrency in Practice certainly isn't low quality but it is boring and outdated. An alternative would be Clojure For the Brave And True :)
I don't mind the law, but they shouldn't be collecting data in the first place. No data - no problem.
I am certain you will find any number of lists, narrow and broad, on Reddit, GoodReads, LibraryThing, O'Reilly (blog posts), Amazon listmania, StackOverflow, HN etc.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/results/re...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reddit+web+programming

Some stackoverflow tags have a really good info tab, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info

Others, not so much: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/web/info

Hacker News: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22reading+lis...
It's free on the Web… in the US.

With my UK account, I get "You're out of free music. Subscribe now for unlimited music."
Note, this is the study referenced by the article:
http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...

The article does not jive with my personal experience. Everyone I know in IT can walk off the job and onto another one without batting an eye. Even the crummiest developer I know got a new job in a couple weeks of looking. Every software company I know says they have difficulty finding qualified applicants.

"In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations. "

I wonder how they calculate this. If someone goes to write software for a finance company, does that count as being "in the field"? What are these computer science graduates doing that has more opportunities than software development?

Anyone have any insight into this? Are current college grads with CS degrees really having so much difficulty finding jobs that they have to go find jobs elsewhere, and if so, what are they doing?
The linked site as is (whether intentional or not) contains an annoying spam script that periodically redirects to some spam game on the iOS AppStore.

I can't find a "flag" or "report spam" link, though, which is why I'm posting this as a comment.
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You're preaching to the choir, mate.
I went back to part 1 and looked at his conclusion...it's painful to read. Here's an excerpt:

"Beats me why music files differ, but they do! The only explanation I can come up with is that the zero and one values represent a lower and higher voltage in the cable and in the sender or receiver. This is actually an analogue signal when we look at it on a scope. We audiophiles agree that cables sound different with analogue signals, so why not with Ethernet data? Next, any interface for Ethernet has a correction circuit for errors. With many errors this interface has to work hard, that will result in a greater need for current from the power supply and the processor heating up. A bad cable, or one that easily picks up interference, introduces a lot of errors so that might be the cause of a change in sound quality. "

An audiophile and his money are soon parted it seems.
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Just another reason I found it strange that Opera dumped their browser engine for webkit. I suppose it might look even worse..
So why have both in the language?
Well its solid core, twisted pair(properly so) cheap and rated to 50Mhz.

The main difference between expensive mic cables and cheap ones is the amount of string packed in to it to make it coil better. Most mic cable has a few tiny strands of copper flung together.

More importantly they tend to carry a bit of capacitance, which means that when you run phantom power along it, it turns into a very dull microphone. (someone drops the cable there is an audible boing gernerated by the strands of the cable moving around.)
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"Foreigners" are not necessarily of a different race.
JavaScript, holds PDFs hostage, adds zero value (my browser can display PDFs just fine, thank you very much), operates a business based on copyright violation.
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Ask HN: Why does Amazon allow multiple accounts with the same email address?
We noticed a few days ago that my girlfriend has two accounts on Amazon (UK - not sure if that makes a difference,) each of which can be logged into with the same email address. The only differentiator at login time is the different password used to log into each account.<p>If she enters one password, she logs into her older account with her old address. With a different password, she logs into her newer account with our newer address, a Prime account.<p>There's no information shared between the accounts, the order histories, names, addresses and so on are all separate.
At least this is the internet; if the creators remained anonymous, it shouldn't be too hard for them to continue providing the service in spite of the administration's wishes to the contrary. Especially with for instance something like Tor, assuming that's still functional.
I really wish the pages for projects like these would devote even a small section of their documentation to accessibility. I know it's not usually top of mind, and not everyone is bound by Sec508, but it is an oft-ignored best practice.

I'm not saying this is inaccessible - it looks like it would be okay at least as far as screen readers are concerned, though there may be color contrast issues depending on the image (here's an idea for a cool project - analyze the image and set a color on the caption that meets WCAG AA contrast ratios). It's just every time I see a some cool new css/js wizardry, the only way I can find out whether there's any accessibility compliance is to poke through the rendered markup, test out hover states, etc.
fear of foreigners is called "xenophobia" not racism.
Which I knew that at the time :) I hit the last level when only 200 or so people had finished (I think, from memory) but I gave up on the jitter front. I don't have much experience with the lower level networking side and I ran out of time to dedicate to it. Having said that, I learnt a load along the way. Really looking forward to the next round.
I'm guessing due to prohibition aka War on Drugs.

I'm rather in favour of legalising and taxing all drugs. Then releasing all prisoners convicted on drug possession/supply.
what does feature creep look like?

Discourse forum platform's desktop UI is a good example. [1]

[1] https://meta.discourse.org
20,000,000 people used our software last year. Perhaps 100 of them know who we are. I find this oddly gratifying, in some variety of Wizard-of-Oz type fashion.
Is she logging into the same domain? For instance, I have to use "amazon.co.uk" but most of the time, I land on "amazon.com" and wonder why I can't login. Perhaps she has two accounts one on each site? That happened to me before I figured out each domain is totally separated.
Is it supposed to be satire? Anyway, I don't think Facebook can be dead without an obvious challenger. There's presumably still a need for people to chat with each other in the way that Facebook does.

(Also can't believe I'm defending Facebook here ...)
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It's funny, even as someone who knows js really well, having worked with it for a decade (actually, longer!), the explosion in the ecosystem took me by surprise.

I left my web agency role over a year ago to work on my start up with a friend so I've been in relative developmental isolation (lots of python and js, not so much keeping up with the latest trends). I came back to help out on a project recently and had to spend a day researching all the new tools. Particularly around package management, bower, grunt, yeoman, node, npm etc. A year ago a js lib was generally delivered as a js or min.js file. Now there's the whole system to sit around it; every project on github now seems to include the config for each of the different package managers. Even a vagrant file so you can get it all up and running on a brand new vm.

Something as simple as adding bootstrap to a project. It's not totally obvious when you first look at it. Where does the code go? How do you compile it in such a way that you don't touch the vendor src itself but you can customise it etc. I have a method that works for me, but I had to play around a little to figure out how to fit it to my needs.

Once I got through that stage I was really happy with where things were at. JS libs are nice and easy to install and version control now, dependency management with bower has worked really well for me so far. Grunt makes the automation side of development nice, contained and easily shared. All in all it's a really good transition.

I'm lucky in that I've been developing for the web since people were changing files in ultraedit and ftping to the live server to see the changes. When each new thing comes along I only have one new thing to learn. Step away for a year and suddenly there's a lot to figure out to get back in to it.

I can only imagine how daunting it could be for a complete newbie trying to find their way.

As ever these tools can be great, but you ultimately you really want to understand what goes on underneath so they don't limit you too much. Amazing talk on this subject posted by another HNer in a comment the other day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw
Please don't confuse Type I with Type II.

Type II is caused by external influences, such as unhealty life-style, old age, or other medical conditions (which include genetic defects or other genetic variations).

Type I is genetic. If you have the faulty genes, you get it. Regardless of lifestyle, health, country and whatnot.

Another thing many people are confused with, is "severety of Diabetes". You can have "very severe Type II" or "just a little Type II", but you cannot have "severe Type I", Type I is binary: you have it or you don't.

As a Type I, I'd love to see the medical world and then the rest of us, using a different term for Type I Diabetics, because the deseases are entirely different: the cause is different, the effect is similar.

As a Type I, people often blame me for my desease. Often people think it is because of unhealty lifestyle. "Ah you are a diabetic, many programmers have Diabetes, guess its because they sit around all day, haha". This is infuriating. No matter how healthy I am, whether I am a programmer or bycicle-courier, I'd have gotten my Diabetes anyway. Type I is one of these deseases that you can do absolutely nothing against, other then not passing on your faulty genes to children.

Edit: clarified the sentence where I am blamed for having Type I.
Edit2: As pointed out below, Type II can be influenced by genetics too, made that more clear.
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