skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really wishing there was a down vote option on stories right about now. Passion and a desire for money are not inherent opposites. Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling, and Larry Ellison are all great examples of passionate people that achieved great wealth and then were able to help way more people than most of the rest of us can.

This quote from the article is just plain insulting and ignorant, “Then there are the others. They have no passion and have deep love for money. The most common example of this is a lawyer or banker.”

There are a multitude of lawyers that are passionate about many things and offer their services pro bono to support their cause, whatever it may be.

Bankers can advise people to help them prepare for retirement, create budgets, make sure they are not over paying on taxes, grow the economy and create jobs by lending to early stage businesses started by people that don’t already have a silver spoon in their mouth.

At the end of the day people are just people. Some are good, some are bad; I would like to believe more good than bad. Some are passionate, some are not; if they are without passion we can not change them.
He raises a good point: What about the people that used SR for legal purposes? Are any of the charges against DPR for running the SR, per se, or are they all for peripheral activities, eg conspiracy to kill people. If not, this puts the site in a funny state of limbo, because the site itself wasn't doing anything illegal?

Can anyone with more legal knowledge comment on this?
I do this across all programs. My status is always "online".
Sure, some of these examples are pretty academic (eg ` Array.isArray( Array.prototype )`). But can you truthfully say you never get bitten by basic JS arithmetic fails, given how many ways it's possible to accidentally coerce numbers to strings?
Show HN: Why sign a NDA when you can just pinky swear instead?
I think it has to go further than that. For example, if a school makes no claims of employability, but they do claim that a class will teach a skill and then (as in mindcrime's example) it turns out that the professor is ten years old and spends the whole class time playing League of Legends, surely that's fraud too.
This is kind of gross to think about - the FInancial District, which is FULL of red, is supposed to be one of the classier areas to eat around the city? Right? I mean what about all the business lunches that go down here?
You're right, kafkaesque may fit better.
Exactly my thought, and I don't unbderstand it. WebRTC solutions work in all browsers (but IE). Like for example https://talky.io/ which is also open source: http://simplewebrtc.com/ I'm thinking about adding it to my personal website actually.
You are confusing unsaturated with saturated or transfats. Unsaturated fats are amazingly healthy.
I don't understand how the latter is "bad" advertising. I don't think in 1999, people would have been searching for "where to buy a smartphone"
Have not checked out Yandex in awhile. Seems like they are up to some interesting stuff: http://beta.yandex.com/ (Wish I could read the webpages in the video though)
From what I've read, a lot of the profiling is by country of origin and somewhat by ethnic group.

They won't come out directly and ask if you're Jewish, but they will ask you where you were born, where your parents were born and what their last names were.

If you're Jewish you're in the "low risk" bucket. If you're not, you get extra scrutiny. I wouldn't be surprised if an Arab from Palestine gets a lot of scrutiny.
> The best thing is to learn about different sorts of reasoning and how they work in good cases, and pick up a feel for some fallacies along the way. At the end of the day, reasoning is an art.

Do you have good suggestions for learning about different sorts of reasoning?
If you find it odd you haven't worked on any large projects that have enormous backlogs of bugs and features to build which need to be prioritized. Bugs that will never actually manifest in normal usage should be far down the list of things to fix, particularly if they are in 25 year old code that is battle hardened and in the critical path.
Too bad in germany the big privately-owned ISP's (tier1 DTAG being among them) have very little interest in upgrading to new technologies, making city-owned ISPs pretty much your only option if you ever want to get FTTH or VDSL (the village even offered to pay some money to DTAG to implement it - no thanks - the next closest city's utilities company had to roll their own network to get it done).
What's wrong with just using a library?

Scala learnt XML while it was still young, when XML was just as popular as JSON is now, yet incorporating XML into the language is now considered a mistake.
And those agencies, they're all working for the consumers best interests and not their own, as is what the system you're advocating for would dictate they do without regulation, something your arguing against?

Who's going to create those agencies? In your advocated system the companies being investigated are the ones more likely to make the agencies than outside individuals because their isn't enough incentive to enter that market. Especially because without regulation companies can decide to open their facilities to agencies that are on good terms with the companies in question.
Yes, it would be great if everything always just worked, and libraries always had your desired behavior as the default. Google should implement that right away.
Google assemblies ignite networks
Any plans for non-heroku build instructions? Is there really much to it that Heroku is doing that can't be easily replicated, or was that just for speed of deployment? I'd love to self-host an instance of this, but that part threw up a flag for me. Thx!
And when none of the consumer protection agencies preform satisfactorily there are no more consumer protection agencies.
Nuts and jerky are the only healthy things on that list. It's all garbage. Really, if they had added Buffalo wings, that would be #3. Triscuits are okay.
Legal internships require you to be in a degree program, so it's not a good path for those of us who are older and looking for a career change.

I have the aptitude and experience to do well in an internship, if I could get one. Having to go from bootcamp to internship would cut off the only structured path available to land a programming job, short of going back into a degree program which is both undesirable and financially not feasible.

I'm in a bootcamp right now that I don't entirely need, but I'm building up my GitHub account and looking at following up with something like thoughtbot's Apprentice.io or (if I'm crazy lucky) getting into ThoughtWorks' junior developer program rather than trying to get a job with a large salary. I want to learn the ropes in this industry by consulting.

Edit: Also, if anyone reading this is looking to hire someone junior (and degreeless) and is committed to training, we should talk. Relocation is not a problem and neither is making an extended commitment on my end (as far as time and/or compensation). I do have a tech background, just not in dev. (Sorry, I gotta hustle! :D)
So all that they could manage, over the course of twenty-five years, is to grow (or keep unchanged) the size of their bug list?

OK...
The TSA removed the backscatter machines as of June 2013. There are millimeter wave machines in use but I've only seen x-ray machines lately. (And not one terrorist incident on any of those flights...)

Some of their rules are dumb but that was my biggest complaint.
Is there still people willing to use Dart instead of Javascript for web now? (no irony)
Thanks. We believe this can replace a subset of what people do with Skype—quick calls with friends and teammates.

The hubot script will let people do audio conference on chat clients which don't natively support it. The community script is here: https://github.com/dhfromkorea/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src...
What would really hit universities where it hurts is if people stopped going into academic fields where their only career option is to be an adjunct professor working for peanuts. A PhD in English Literature may be a reasonable choice for someone who lives off a trust fund, but if you need to earn enough money to support yourself, it's not a very viable option.
Thanks but that is '13 and earlier. was asking about W14 (and previous batches).
The lack of easy serialization is pretty strange. Even on stodgy old non-dynamic versions of C#, YamlDotNet does a really good job of translating arbitrary objects to and from YAML/JSON just using reflection.
100k is huge, period. Whether or not a huge dependency is acceptable depends on the project. Yes, we know it depends on the project, that was the point of the site. The whole point is "if you are making a library, and don't really need jquery, please don't force that extra dependency on users of your library".
Your Technology Knows You Better Than You Think
Once the fibre (if you don't buy junk) is in the ground upgrading becomes very very cheap. And given that the required access speeds aren't very high (100M-1G), they can be had rather cheaply second hand/new. So you can direct all the money from the cost savings to upgrading your backbone, where it does get rather expensive.
No I'm not. PUFAs have clear links to immuno suppression, cancer, and low metabolism. Seed oils are best avoided.

Saturated fat is benign. You can eat about as much coconut oil as you care to and the only concern would be excess calories.
You're right, I'm sorry. Having one centralized consumer protection agency with the power to shut businesses down, an agency that people cannot stop paying to (with their tax money) will create less possibilities for corruption and more choice for the consumer.
This is more complicated than it seems.

First, how does it work with minimization? In Dart, string constants are not minimizable (will be included as-is in the source code). Symbol constants will be minimized. This includes all method names, field names, and things like named parameters. You can see this in the arguments to noSuchMethod; the named parameters map has Symbol keys, not strings.

Probably something could be worked out, though. Maybe put an annotation on the customer class to tell the compiler to save the original field names?

But a second issue is how it works with inheritance, including mixins. If a class is serializable, does that make all the superclasses and subclasses serializable as well? JSON doesn't have a standard way to represent a type tag, so does that mean we should invent one? If we do that, what happens to JSON interop with other languages?

Also keep in mind that Dart supports types that don't interop with JavaScript like unlimited precision integers. (Well, okay, that only works with the Dart VM, not dart2js...)

It gets worse. What if your class has a field type like List<dynamic>, which could contain any object? Does that mean the Dart compiler now has to preserve all symbols because any class could be serialized? And keep in mind that with optional types, all lists should behave the same when not in checked mode.

Having seen the mess that resulted in GWT-RPC, I would recommend just saying no to default serialization. Serialization and object inheritance don't really mix well which is why specs like JSON and protobufs don't support it.

(And now you know why language designers don't throw things into a language just because it seems like a good idea at the time.)
I would expect that would be bog-standard fraud (I suspect that most of the actionable concerns are).

I mean like, if a paintball arena claims to let you play paintball, then after you pay them they hand you some water pistols and tell you to have fun, that is surely fraud. I doubt we'd need to have any sort of special regulation to tackle that sort of issue.
True, although didn't that happen only after many years of them using regular PHP in production? IIRC, HipHop dev only really got going in the 2010s.
And if others listened to people like you, we would all still live on trees.
This is only effective if you do SSL pinning too.
What about as an abbreviation for "index"?
Introducing WebBook: Browser Based eReading with Binks
Google became popular because of their excellent performance on the long tail. Yes ~30% of all queries are for the same 50 search terms, but 50% are unique or nearly unique queries.
`a.class` is explicitly legal in ES5, which is the spec that explicitly allows trailing commas in the `[,,,].join(", ")` question, so it's at least a bit confused about which version of JavaScript it's quizzing.
Why? Why are there no more?
"Legal internships require you to be in a degree program"

Fair point, so let's take this a step further and make it something other than an internship. A training program, perhaps. An apprenticeship program, wherein you're paired up with a recognized master/mentor on a team, working on an actual product that will actually ship.

Seems to me that the biggest hurdles are the regulations surrounding what an "internship" requires. So let's hack internships.
If you hand me some code to run, I'll run it. Otherwise my test risks not being the same one that you used to make the claim.

The onus is on the person making the claim, not the person trying to verify it.
How much of the short duration of these bootcamps is teaching to the test that is the modern software developer interview? I have a really hard time imagining that somebody coming out of a 8-12 week program, even with some prior experience, properly understands the depth and breadth of material that should be necessary to get through a technical interview. It seems like most of them are focused on hacking applications, and not necessarily the fundamentals of data structures, algorithms, software architecture and design, working in a team, etc.

I think it's great that these bootcamps are options, but have long been suspicious that the statistics they like to share are only indicative of either who they decide to admit, or who they decide to let graduate. For instance, how many people who make it through these bootcamps have a strong technical background, perhaps even a computer science degree, and only need the short time to dive deeply into modern web application design and implementation?
Which is why, every time I travel, I end up with all the cards blocked. I hate you visa.
> Bill Gates has fundamentally changed more people's lives than a million middle-class volunteers combined.

Data?
Good job Kunal and team Plivio!

If anyone is looking for a audio+video demo that works similarly, I built http://OpenTokRTC.com and the code is on github at https://github.com/opentok/OpenTokRTC

One feature I included is dynamic frame rate so that in cases where there are many people streaming video, a user can type "/focus" in the chatroom and everybody's video quality will degrade to save bandwidth and stream the optimum quality for the focused person's video.

It's also available on iOS, although I believe the iOS app needs alot more work. I apologize ahead of time if you experience bugs on the iOS app. The app name is OpenTokRTC and source code is here: https://github.com/opentok/OpenTokRTC-iOS

Hope someone finds this useful, if you have any questions please email me song@tokbox.com
This site needs a solution to bad commenters that doesn't result in discordant comments like this.
The standard buffalo wing, fried and smothered in sauce, doesn't seem particularly healthy to me. Good source of protein of course, but a metric shitton of calories I'm sure.
It might have worked? He was just un-hellbanned.
Conversion rate isn't the only thing you optimize for. I helped a company reduce its fraud/chargeback rate by asking for the type of card without error correction. A type mismatch was one of a dozen or so scoring items that, if over a specific threshold, tripped a second level of verification.
I'm developing buzzsumo.com, which focuses on searching for fresh content on a topic.

So when you search for "startups", you don't get official sites about startups, but rather the most popular stories about startups that's being shared the most.
"not really a question. closed."
I don't disagree, as written... though the guy did seem to fear being put on lists and harassed. To the extent that you think that fear is justified, this would be a first amendment issue. But as written, it doesn't sound like there has been retaliation.

I was just taking issue with this idea that a reasonable person would think that a grunt speaking off-hours was speaking for the corporation or government that employs them.

(I also have pretty strong feelings that complaining about your boss to people who aren't your boss is a reasonable sort of thing to do... and maybe even a fundamental human need. But that's not really relevant to the discussion at hand.)
Thx anonhacker, just replied to your email :)
> The point is that these things are faults of leaders

The leaders were driven by the ideology. Their actions were driven by a desire to achieve their vision of a communist utopia. People went along with these plans because the ideology promised them a better life. By your logic, was National Socialism not evil because the Holocaust was the fault of Hitler and his Lieutenants?

> Just look at the world today- distinctly more socialist than it was 100 years ago.

I'm not criticizing socialism, I am specifically criticizing hard-line communism as practiced in the past by the Soviet Union and in the present by nations like North Korea and Cuba. The fact that the Soviet Union collapsed and the People's Republic of China moved away from orthodox communism is an indication of how valid that ideology was.

> My parents have lived in both communism and capitalism and believe a mixed society is probably the best

And that's what we have today in most western countries. In fact, that's what we had in the west even during the Cold War. Again, not saying that any semblance of socialism is inherently bad. I'm saying that orthodox communism has, does, and will always, lead to suffering for the general population.
The two companies that I mentioned are doing a good job at that but they're surely outliers. Also, only making $12/hr for 3 months in New York City is a big hardship, but not as big as paying for a bootcamp.

I think the biggest problem is most selection processes will merely maintain the demographic status quo for the industry. How do you rank older people pivoting careers and folks with the aptitude but no degree or industry experience where they'll be on a fair footing with all of the new CS grads who will be applying who could otherwise land a job anyway?
thanks for this, I think i might spend some time and $$$ going for this challenge
Welcome back into the land of the living, Mandatum!
I'm a big fan of Rowan Atkinson's TV series Blackadder. It follows the Blackadder family over many generations. "As the generations progress, each Blackadder becomes increasingly clever and perceptive, while the family's social status steadily erodes." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder

I used to work on Wall St., and in my experience wealth and intelligence aren't correlated. Luck is more important. Family's socioeconomic status is important. What school one got one's degree from has something to do with it (but not good grades or what one's degree was in). And, unfortunately, being "ethically challenged" was often the key--scammers and fraudsters have a much easier time making the Big Time.

RE: Tom Perkins... In any economic downturn, there will be scapegoats. The poor scapegoat the rich. The rich scapegoat the poor. Social conservatives scapegoat foreigners, non-Christians, women, gays, non-whites...anyone not like themselves. It's not simply that nobody likes to take personal responsibility or that it's easier to blame the other guy...

In the West we associate self-criticism with depression and anxiety, and we seek to suppress it. Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124511712673817527

Worse, self-criticism is associated with Maoist Communism. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/28/china-se...

However, there's certainly a tradition of self-criticism in the West, rooted in its canonical texts: "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7:3-5&ve...

My point is that we need to be a little more self-critical and a little less quick to scapegoat others for our problems. A little self-criticism might go a long way to making us both smarter and wealthier!
Here is my open source WebRTC project. https://github.com/imomin/videoChat
They want to get student that are actually programmer but don't have enough confidence to get hired.
Yes. For some use cases the speed of development and rapid prototyping is worth it.
Math Ph.D. Continually turning down offers to do Linux system administurbation. Prefer programming.
SharedCoin: A Coinjoin implementation (Bitcoin mixing)
What? That's the whole point of the article.
Have I argued for centralized power?

The problem you have is that you can't see a situation where people aren't consumers, and where the acquisition of wealth isn't the only goal of everyone. The problem is that the current system encourages corporations instead of cooperatives.

Treating humanity like a collection of profit-maximizing individualists means the only possible solution to you is more competition. Were humanity only a collection of profit-maximizing individualists we'd still be uneducated cavemen. Society moves forwards because it realizes that it needs to work together.

Did the Great Depression occur because of too much governmental power? Did the 2008 crash occur because of too much regulation?
Your mentioning "ALTER" made me think about a dialect of BASIC that I once used (STARDOS BASIC on a "Micro V" computer, back in the late 1980s). This BASIC dialect had an "XEQ" function that would pass a string to the tokenizer and execute it as an immediate-mode command. If you started the string with a line number you could create self-modifying BASIC code. It was dizzying to my young mind.
But that's not how we define freedom of speech. You cannot just say anything without a context, for example inciting panic at a movie theater by yelling fire.

But more relevantly, one is allowed to say what one wants in government - one just has to be ready to take responsibility for one'
s actions. That is far from not having freedom of speech.
But if you want to go to "school" there is just one right way that is build upon many years of experience.

Just because your doctor does basic screening and tells you you have flu doesn't mean you can be a doctor if you learn those basic screening skills, my friend
Facebook is doing something similar, but instead of annotations they are breaking syntax compatibility (for the better, I think). This talk is unfortunately the only reference i can find: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history relevant part starts around minute 22.
Weight gain has nothing to do with calories in calories out. It is controlled by blood sugar and insulin. Read the book "why we get fat" about how our bodies work if you want to learn more.
Is there any way I can donate specifically to appear on this list? I enjoy trolling trolls, and if the EFF gets some extra money, I'm certainly not going to complain.
I mean google around. It's not "it's definitely from Fortran" more like "it has been repeatedly suggested that...".