skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide sort of occupies a different space with a strong stigma (and in many jurisdictions, legal barriers that can go as far as involuntarily committing someone to forcibly prevent them from committing suicide). Though that's culturally variable. There are many people who would not lift a finger to avoid a heart attack if they had the ability to do so, but who still would not actively kill themselves. A fairly common in-between is elderly people who choose to stay at home rather than go to the hospital, even if what they have is potentially treatable (they sometimes also have do-not-resuscitate and no-life-support orders entered, just in case someone takes them there).
Why would he/she leak this? First of all, it doesn't have any new information, and secondly, this would probably get him/her fired...
I'm with you there. I was here for Bubble 1.0 as well, and there was a similar frenzy around hiring and job seeking.

The big difference now for me is that in 1999, the tools were much more primitive. Then, it was more plausible to me that somebody smart with a little technical training could just leap in and figure a lot out. Now, though, the technologies are much more elaborate.
The income stream is tiny or nonexistent. Microsoft recently challenged Moto's demands and ended up paying a royalty for every XBox. The royalty is so small that Google will end up having lost money on the litigation. And reasonable reading of the patents involved show that the royalty was grossly inflated. One of the patents was literally a patent on a number.

The purpose of patents in the smartphone wars is to force your competitors to deliver second rate phones or collect billions in damages. That's what Microsoft and Apple are doing to Android manufacturers. If Google can't retaliate, the patents are worthless in this context.

FRAND patents will never block Microsoft and Apple from using common, obvious functionality on their phones. Therefore they're worthless.

Microsoft have ignored standards and instead patented obvious necessary functionality and user interface elements and mathematical operations. Since prior art and obviousness are a dead letter at the Patent Office and the courts, these are the patents that are useful and valuable.

Essential technology patents based on research and development are worthless. Bounce-to-refresh, search boxes that actually search, long filenames, and other trivial or long known elements that can be forced past exhausted patent examiners are worth everything.
We joke about Apple controlling their software, but Google is moving toward the same. The Android fracturing is getting to them.
The literal translation would be something along the lines of "if they rule to arrest drunk people, they'd have to arrest everyone in the city."
What is the bar here?

If I sell a self-help book for many thousands of dollars and people mistakenly ascribe undeserved value to my books, is California going to attempt to step in to protect the poor chumps?

I suspect not.
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As a graduate of Hack Reactor, the one program that places 99% of its students, I find this comment offensive.

I've known students in every cohort from the first one (which was halfway finished when I started as part of the second) to the current group. I was in the interview pike at Google, a Japanese game company and a number of start-ups when I took my current position. One of my classmates took a position at Adobe. Many of my good friends from the program took jobs at YC companies. Google has been interviewing pretty much everyone from the two most recent classes. Not to mention the fact that a few students are already profitable on their group projects before even leaving: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/honeybadger/

Hack Reactor has been extremely active on Quora answering exactly how their hiring rates are calculated. The stats only include base salary and don't yet include the most recent couple of classes, which have done even better. The mean result is significantly over 100k/year and are a far better ROI than any credentialed degree I know of.

The level of transparency Hack Reactor offers is unparalleled. Their directory has been updated to include what every single student from the first three cohorts was doing before and after the program here: http://www.hackreactor.com/engineers/

I do not work for the school and have no financial incentive to say this. I've kept close to the HR network out of gratitude for what truly was a life changing inflection point for me. Doing the program was one of the very best investments I've ever made. It saddens me to see the school threatened by reactionary bureaucratic regulators and it angers me to see people like pmorici quoting their extremely conservative report on student outcomes and making accusations of false advertising.
These bootcamp are nothing but scams.
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"If I try something, and I feel better then I try more of it."

Conclusion: laudanum for everything!
I'm inexplicably bummed about this.

Perhaps because in the PC industry, where vendors like Dell install crapware like McAfee trials, we've been trained to prefer our software without 'improvements' from intermediaries.
Anything is better the uniquitous Helvetica Neue, such a dystopian font.
I participated in App Academy. The program had strengths and weaknesses, but to their credit, they culled the class at the halfway point, and gave folks who had no chance of getting hired within a reasonable timeframe a full refund of their deposit.

There was some bait-and-switch with regard to their "free unless/until you get a job" pitch. I think the competition for students in the space is increasing pressure, and oversight is probably a necessary thing.

In my opinion, students who went on to A-list companies probably could have gotten a job without the bootcamp. But the offer is still compelling if you get a couple months of intense introduction to an in-demand framework, and don't pay anything out-of-pocket (App Academy collects when you get hired).
The government has elected representatives. It's not totalitarian.

In a state with zero government regulation, you have just as terrible atrocities.
If you infringe, you have to pay.
investing is gambling. If the investors didn't know what they were buying they shouldn't have bought it. If they were being lied to then it's a case of fraud.

I don't see anyone who wants to bail out people who bet on losing horses in the kentucky derby.
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> Your experiences of the world will cease to exist. Therefore, the only rational investment would be in life extension technologies

It is certainly not the "only" rational investment. It might be the only rational investment for a person who shares your views on the importance of staying alive and your optimism for SENS research, but there are plenty of people who fail one or both criteria, and they're not all irrational. They're just optimizing for different criteria.
at my startup, the dress code is casual/sandals-ok except when meeting with clients.

as a rule, you never want to be under-dressed when meeting with people who you want to give you money. being wrong on this even once could cost you money, possibly a great deal of it.

if you show up in a suit and tie and everyone else is wearing sandals, the proper etiquette is to say "mind if i remove my tie?" and then remove your tie and jacket and unbutton your first shirt button.

instant business casual, which mixes fine with sandals. this also demonstrates social competence which may or may not be a factor in your hiring.
Are there really tech giants that are totally ok with our current patent system? I was under the impression that no company was happy, just some (e.g. Intellectual Ventures backers) are making due with what they can.
So it could mean that they get jobs at companies like Google and Adobe... such as McDonalds. That is also a company.
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1. I did provide a link to a slide deck of examples.

2. This is a well written about issue.

3. I do not consider my claim absurd if I did I would not have made it.

4. If you do not have experience writing significant amounts of code in a dynamic language I don't expect you to agree with me nor do I think that I could convince you with some half baked micro examples. It is the type of opinion which emerges out of years of writing code in both dynamic and statically checked languages.
I understand that he has schizophrenia, but they're people with thoughts and reasoning, too, though they may be more loosely aligned with the consensus style of cognition. For example, the statement he made makes perfect sense semantically - it's just said in a way that a lot of people find offensive.
Same sort of thing targeting low numbered ICQ accounts back years ago. I had mine stolen from under me and while it doesn't actually matter anymore, it did upset and make me angry at the time.

I guess if they can't resell it they do it for shits and giggles, and because grabbing a low numbered/low lettered anything these days is a decent trophy to have.
I feel like GA's involvement was seriously underplayed, and even made to look like a more valid option than the others.

I think I know why: The author Christina Farr is really good friends with the growth/community manager of GA - Olivia Clement.

They even have a club together (Ladies Who Vino): http://i.imgur.com/JJsUmTw.png

This really seems like a problem with collusion among press and tech companies in the valley. Tough luck for anyone not included.
realistically, at 27 one is a long way away from senior.
Would Google be able to keep the tax benefit of Motorola's losses for 5 more years after they sell Motorola off?

"[Robert Willens, a New York accounting and tax expert] estimated that through the acquisition, Google can expect to reap $700 million a year in tax deductions from future profits each year through 2019."

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-motorolamobilit...
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>I understand your meaning fine

You do?
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at my last job we had an unofficial slogan of "don't fuck with it friday"
Congrats to Tito on raising a round - by their description it sounds like they got excellent terms.
It's not really hard to figure out.

Read it as "99% of the students we chose to survey and who answered our survey said they had jobs."

Survey your good students. Then throw another in there so it's not 100%.
I don't see what any of that has to do with my point.

To reiterate, the Madoff scandal was a decades-long failure of government regulation. Regulation eventually prevailed, but only after thousands of investors were defrauded. The fact that Madoff was ostensibly regulated lowered the perceived risk of investment, thereby increasing the harm that was ultimately done.

Had the SEC not been in essence vouching for Madoff, many of his victims may have been more cautious and therefore avoided becoming his victims.
I also participated in App Academy, and there was no culling. The students went on to successfully find well-paying jobs in the tech industry.
I think you just started a new Agile-like trend:

'hyper-committed disaster recovery testing'
Cheers, I've enjoyed the discussion. I'll have a look at that book, though I will admit that I would be surprised if he can surmount the issue of abuse of force with out setting up an external construct that is some form of compulsory governance on it's use.
It was a fraud, and the comparison with gambling is a strawman. It's not a matter of bailing people out if they take one of these crash courses and don't profit from it, it's a matter of preventing the courses from defrauding people and holding them responsible if they do.
What happened in this country to personal responsibility?

What happened to fraud being frowned upon? If you take someone's money in exchange for something you can't follow through on, that is fraud, pure and simple. Shouting "caveat emptor" doesn't change that, and doesn't change the fact that fraud needs a remedy.
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I remember the day after the acquision of Motorola Mobility was announced. Some people showed up with any Google-branded merchandise they had at home (tshirts, mugs, etc). Everybody very happy and hopeful about the future.

Six months later, apathy had dominated, people were leaving on their own, the office floor I worked at had only 2-3 people, from the previous 70-100.

It's good to see it being sold to a company that demonstrated it can revive operations where the previous owner didn't care much (IBM with its PC division, and Google that only wanted the patents).
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I simply said it ruled the roost, you can't doubt the ubiquitousness of headless unix machines running ssh or simple config management programs (and /no/ means of direct remote management).

I don't doubt that such things are possible in windows land, I feel most programming these days is so far removed from the kernel and how it handles the hardware that it's much of a muchness to decide what you'll use.

the lack of licenses certainly help with linux things if you're not in need of support though.
Security questions don't even help. Some of the support reps from various companies can see your answer and with enough prodding they will just tell you it over the phone.
It's just a title and has nothing to do with the age.
>"and where seeking consent was not practicable," //

As they have your contact details and next of kin details then seeking consent must be quite practicable.

I expect them mean "commercially financially viable". Those people the NHS can't simply look up a phone number for (from doctor's surgery records) and ask (or ask their guardian/parent) must be in the few hundreds [of those they have sufficient medical information for to be used in a scientific study].
You sound like somebody who has never actually tried suing somebody.

Lawsuits are hard. They take years, are very stressful, and you generally need significant up-front capital to make them happen. Then if (if!) you win a lawsuit the cash doesn't magically appear when the judge bangs his gavel; there's a whole process for trying to extract your money. And if they have spent the money and are now broke? Well, basically, tough shit.

And of course, winning a lawsuit and recovering money doesn't actually turn back the clock on the lost time and heartache. It just means you've managed to get some of your cash back. Which may feel like a very poor return, and is certainly a waste.

And that's even before we get to the various theoretical reasons that regulation makes sense here. For example, there's an information asymmetry: these instant schools know a ton more about what they're selling than their customers do, making it much easier for them to exploit. Plus they're selling training; students, by definition, are missing a lot of important knowledge and are outsiders to the industry. The normal feedback loops of commerce work best with repeat purchases; one-time purchases greatly restrict the invisible hand's power. And if nothing else, we need a regulator to make sure that the statistics are solid.

As somebody who has hired developers in CA and will likely do so again, I think this is great. I don't want bright young people getting fucked over. I want them to enter the industry in a way that gives them a real shot at a career.
kudos this is an awesome tool!

Maybe personal data forensics is the next big market
> Why female only in this point in history?

Of all the reasons to be suspicious of "learn to code" bootcamps, your aversion to women-only programs has me confused.

"Why female only...?": Probably because the founders of those programs would like to see more women coding. Same reason organizations like "Girls Who Code" exist. The fact that those programs are geared towards an underrepresented demographic shouldn't raise any red flags.
The problem here is usually the people doing this are just kids in the "scene". They go after original names on all different mediums like xbox live, twitter, instagram, etc. Usually the accounts sell from $100 up to $1000+, but they don't really realize the potential of what they could do with this.

They could easily put their minor SE skills towards hijacking high quality information, but instead they use it to get known for stealing usernames.
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Culling sounds kind of like they either needed a longer course or a deeper applications pipeline. It's definitely not a thing at Hack Reactor.

As an aside, I met most of the first class of App Academy. I was really impressed with Ned's teaching as well as the progress Hugo and a couple of the others were making. It was seeing that that lead me to go to an immersive school and it was one of the best investments I've ever made.
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Sure, but Californians also have absurdly-low property tax rates and sales taxes as low as Texas. Prop 13 made it essentially impossible to structure taxes the way other states do, so Californians pay lots of income tax and little property tax (which is what most normal states use to fund things like schools, police and libraries).
Of course fraud is frowned upon. You seem to be jumping to the conclusion that these companies are definitely up to no good. Can you provide any evidence of that anecdotal or otherwise that they are defrauding people?
No .com?
Only after the fact. Successful lobbying has a very high return on investment, but it's also pretty risky.
Oh yeah, filing a civil suit and outright stealing from people are totally the same thing. Great comparison, bravo.
Looks fantastic, hope to see this soon
Fair enough, and a good point.
This billing system probably wouldn't work if all of Linode's customers tended to spin up more servers at exactly the same time, which is what utilities deal with when e.g. it's a heat wave. They need the infrastructure to support the peak load, even though it's quite a bit higher than the typical load.
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"A secondary flow (turbine drive gases) is exhausthed throug the nozzle base and adds to the recirculating flow to increase the base pressure and the overall nozzle efficiency."

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Had to curl it, since pdf.js always froze before loading it. For some reason the column layout is broken so quoting the text required quite a lot of hand editing.
Sounds fantastic. So how is it living in Cuba? When are you moving there?
I hope that someday, saying garbage like this is considered the same as saying that women aren't as good at math as men, or black people aren't as hardworking as the chinese.
I disagree. As someone who owns a Chromecast, I think you're doing a _huge_ disservice to the AppleTV. The Chromecast isn't a standalone device. Period. Full stop. It's basically a mildly improved AirPlay device that still lacks many features (even in the way of AirPlay). Off the top of my head:

1. The streaming isn't system wide. Developers need to incorporate the streaming ability into their apps whereas Apple has it builtin to the device.
2. My parents are unable to understand the concept of "flinging" content; they want it to be a DVR-like device. The AppleTV allows them to rent, purchase, or view previously obtained iTunes content.
3. Music sounds terrible through it. It lacks an optical audio out port so it just uses the TVs speakers which are obviously not great.
4. This is probably a personal issue, but Chrome tab streaming constantly drops out after a short period of time. I've yet to get it working fully.
5. AppleTV can support games being flung to the TV while using the iDevice as a controller. This isn't a selling point, but I'd like my N5 to do the same.
6. My TV (while being a 40" 1080p flat screen) is lacking a USB port so I do have to plug it in.
7. Am I missing where I can stream my Android device's OS on the screen? I know iOS allows you to stream the entire device's OS so you can give presentations and the like.

There are many, many things the Chromecast can't do. It's saving grace is its price point which lessens peoples' expectations but I wouldn't start saying the AppleTV should aspire to be it.
A heat sink engine could work in pulsed operation.
And, if I understand him correctly, the ceiling is set by the quality of the country's institutions. That's really hard to fix.

Gates may be right that most countries will be out of absolute poverty. (In fact, I hope he is right.) But I suspect that Kay is right that most countries still won't be in the "rich" camp, even by 2014 standards.
I think people completely forget the CAN SPAM act. It really does enforce companies to make unsubscribing easy and accessible (ie no logins).

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/spam-unwanted-text-messages-and-em...
I'm curious as to what sort of things you are building with Node.js in the context of systems programming.
Thanks for your perspective. You are correct, I have never personally sued anyone. I was given a great opportunity by one of these such programs and it has completely changed my life for the better. That's not to say all of them provide the same for all students, but I believe they deserve a fair defense at this point.
I thought the overall meaning was clear, no matter how poorly stated: "Doctors do not do calculus" -> "medicine is not a hard science" "People who are not in hard sciences should not be trusted"

Then he has the output of a markov chain or whatever that he seeded with biblical texts. You can safely ignore those sections.

Basically (racist language aside), his comment boils down to "Anyone who isn't STEM sucks." It would be an extremely low-quality comment even if it were articulated well.
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> But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview.

Why? Are you saying that some company will give you a hard time because you are wearing a suit? That would certainly be humorous.

Humorous as in "Haha, I have no intention to work in such a place, ever".
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Not me, but a co-worker at an internship I held:

Said person entered the number of metric tons of concrete 3 magnitudes higher than it should have been. Imagine the cost difference between 1.0 * 10^6 and 1.0 * 10^9 metric tons... Our boss was not pleased, to say the least.

But imagine how easy it is to enter a few extra zeros in an excel data cell. Yikes!
> For all intents and purposes, it's an electronic scrapbook.

For at least the next 3 decades. But maybe after that...
That's what happens when our legal system makes every byte discoverable. All it takes is for one Googler to send an IM to another that says, "I'm not sure the sale complied with [regulation xyz]" and then, even if the two of them had nothing to do with the deal, and don't even really understand law all that well, the archive of that chat can get dragged out in court as evidence of .. god knows what.
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