skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the "section" I'm talking about. "sed(1)" means that the man page for that sed is in section 1. "kill(1)" versus "kill(2)" likewise: the former is the command; the latter is the syscall. To distinguish between them, you need to tell man(1) which section to look in for the desired context.
I suspect you'll like this then: http://www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-...

(related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352864)
Getting funded in College is a sad goal to have, in my opinion. Your primary concern in College should be learning how to break out of the sad shell that you cultivated, by accident, in high school. Learn how to court the opposite sex, smoke your first blunt, gain 15 pounds, flunk 2nd semester calculus, or get a tattoo or disease that you’ll one day regret. Any of these options will do more to make you a successful entrepreneur, in the long run, than learning how to get funded…in College!

I know a few guys who got funded in College. One of them was the smartest guy in our CS program. He got some mobile app contracts from ABC, the New Yorker, and some other well known media companies, back when the first iPhone first came out. He made a lot of money those few years. His longtime and very sweet girlfriend dumped him, he lost most of his friends, and he gained about 75 pounds. He did have a Mercedes though. Back there and back then I never thought I would live up to the technical talent that I witnessed from him in our College years, but playing with one of his recent apps I see how much more talented than him I’ve become (I’m probably still not as smart though). Plus, he’s making mobile apps for a living now. Yuck! This is what happens to most of the people who are Wunderkinds.

There are a glimmering 0.01% who can truly do it. The Mark Zuckerbergs of the world. The fact that you’re asking how to get funded in College indicates, to me, that you are not a member of this elite 0.01% or even the constituent 1% from which it draws.
guess you don't read much
The story behind the CVV is something like this:

CVV is also known as card not present number. Historically it was printed on the back of the card, or on the front using unraised type. This way, if an impression of a credit card was taken (using one of those old fashion swipe back and forth machines), the CVV number would not be included in the impression. This provided some protection for card owners, as it prevented a merchant from using the credit card number obtained from an impression to say place an order using the CC over the phone. This is why you're required (or it's recommended) that you ask for the CVV number for any transaction where the card is not present.
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>If you self-identify as a government employee, then it is reasonable to assume that someone might take what you say as government policy

I disagree. Especially when you are at the bottom of the chain of command.

Would you expect a Starbucks barista, when speaking in an off-hours context, to speak for Starbucks? "I work at starbucks, but I don't think their coffee is particularly good, and my boss is an asshole." No. That's clearly the private opinion and gripes of a grunt. Now, if said barista said that on national TV, sure, they'd get fired. But nobody would be mislead into thinking that the Starbucks official message was "our coffee is bad and our supervisors are assholes"

The expectation that a grunt will stay 'on message' on personal time is... pretty goddamn silly, if you ask me.

I mean, sure, if a grunt goes counter-message at a company that demands slavish obedience, you are going to get fired.

Hell, if you go off-message in a public enough way, and embarrass your bosses enough, especially if you reveal real weaknesses in the system you are a part of, as this person did, you are going to get fired about anywhere. I'm not making moral judgments about that; it's just the way it is.

But, going "off message" on your personal time and embarrassing your bosses, while it might get you fired, is not in any way misleading to the public. Especially when you are just a grunt.
Founder arrested at starbucks for not buying coffee
With the sale of the phone business to MS, Nokia is pivoting to mapping and connected cars: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/28/top-auto-brands-tu...

Nokia bought Navteq for ~$8 billion a few years back. They're the only source for mapping data that is comparable to Google.
Yes, and it's amazing and ironic how many otherwise authoritative sources (i.e. sources worth reading and listening to) get this totally wrong -- they still think that the source of an idea can have a bearing on whether it is true. I think they are variously conflating three issues: (1) whether an idea is true, (2) whether one can (rationally) rely upon it in some way, (3) whether one understands it.
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A nicer pool would be "would you hire people who took CS in online courses?"
I realize this is a little behind-the-times. I saw it mentioned by AceJohnny2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7159395
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> I was pretty amused that a computer could attempt the most basic of tasks -- addition -- and come up with two kinds of wrong.

It's a bit ironic that addition is kinda the quintessential thing computers get wrong. Admittedly, not much of an issue these days - but the comment was amusing :)
Pick up Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming series along with Concrete Mathematics. I'm going through them myself right now (slowly, though) and the knowledge I've gained from those books is offsetting never having learned the fundamentals pretty well.
>Heads up: If you're in (say) Europe or UK, then American Express and Discover aren't a "big card issuer"

Do you only have Visa and Mastercard then?
College Drop-out.

My computer science teachers were like... well, the best one bragged about how he stopped studying and updating his knowledge at the time of punched cards.

Enough said.
I am not sure about that. Yes, they are oriented towards the West, but they too were in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union for a long time, except Western-most regions that were part of Poland until WW2.
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recently, yahoo web search has been integrated into tumblr (which has the worst possible search system I have ever seen).

That should provide some boost, but I wonder if it's considered in the market share statistics.
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Before and after: https://mediacru.sh/1a4491899f11
The garbageman is the smartest person in the Dilbert comics ... and I've learned the lesson those strips are promoting. Performance in school can not be directly correlated to performance in the workplace.
He wonders why the score shows up as 266 when it should be 262.

Well, 262 % 256 = 6. So if you have very old scoring code that expects the score to fit in an unsigned byte, it's going to think the score is 6.

So that explains the 6 in the ones column. The 6 in the tens column, well, that I can't explain.
Depends on the country, but those are moving towards being structured as masters degrees by the end. Many U.S. universities now have the 5-year engineering option structured as a "5th-year masters" add-on year, on top of a 4-year engineering degree. And the Bologna Process in the EU requires that the old 5-year degrees (Diplom and similar) be split into BS/MS as a 3/2 split.
Pedantry aside: plain text.

Edit: ObPedantry: mispelled "pedantry".
I don't think they would even need to get your agreement to do this. Getting data from other vendors and matching it to their own doesn't breach any existing privacy laws, is my guess.
I agree with all the problems of adjuncts - extremely low pay, no benefits, no input into university decisions, etc.

But I disagree with the primary reasoning in the article: "when you have an adjunct professor instead of a full-timer, you are getting a substandard education"

Students actually learn more from non-tenured faculty than tenured or tenure track faculty: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/09/study-finds-st...

Partly that's due to things like adjuncts may not have research obligations and can focus more on teaching, and also of course those adjuncts who get worse student ratings are not re-hired. Universities should give more job security and more pay to instructors whose main job is teaching instead of research.
Maybe not the bset HN submission type -- I'd rather skim a blog post than watch a YT video at work.
Not that I am so sure about he usefulness of this, but there is at least a double of this question:

[typeof null, null instanceof Object]
I don't know, can Yahoo! buy Google? I don't think she can write that check.
Only commenting because I have a weird combo of votes. Left school at 16 (the then-legal end of "high school" in the UK). Last year, back to education for the first time, starting an MSc, aged 32 (industry experience related to the subject being my way in). So high school "dropout" and pursuing post-grad(!)
Holy fuckaroni JavaScript is a mess of a language. I did terrible on this test.
I dropped out just before graduation. Never looked back.
> but i'm up against "we all use MSWord™ because we all use MSWord™" and there will be no getting overworked academics to invest the energy in anything that doesn't look like the tools with which they are already familiar.

MSWord has the additional problem that it can't be used together with my favourite Version Control System.
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Note, I agree that packing your cellphone in a box was a mistake either way. But if you are primarily an operations/sysadmin type? that would be a really big deal kind of mistake, one that you probably wouldn't make very often. To a Developer type who saw their operations role as secondary, sure, it's still a mistake, but it's a smallish, forgettable kind of mistake.
Try Go; get back to me on the beauty.

"Beautiful async code" is where the async is essentially invisible, because everything just is async.
It's important to note that this study is based on perception of health - not the actual nutritional substance of the product. None of these are very healthy, with the exception of the mixed nuts, which are limited to a handful per serving.
I know how whiny this sounds, but please deinterlace before you upload to youtube. I get a headache just looking at this video.
I got it right the second time!
So... one degree in engineering, and one degree in liberal arts? ;-)
I didn't even know what BIRGing was before you posted your comment. I know what #12 is meant to refer to. My observation is that "BIRGing" often accompanies the whole "#12" thing.
Completely random string of characters.

I use PasswordGorilla: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki
I found these questions awkwardly posed. This could just be "what is the `typeof null`" and not be two questions in one in the form of an array.
Yup. In the same boat as you. Considering returning this year, but it's so damned expensive and I don't make much money.
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They change things. See what works. Iterate.
College Grad (liberal arts BA from UPenn).

If I could go back and do it all over again, I'd at least have minored in CS.
I am so glad someone posted this.

I am personally NOT passionate about programming.

I am passionate about creating things!

It seems counter to evolution and human nature to be passionate about staring at a computer monitor all day long in sensory deprivation.

The problem with tech is that it encourages unbalanced people and unhealthy lifestyles due to the unreasonable expectations of knowledge acquisition placed on your average programmer.

And you get bizzare mole people in China who just program all day and google cultures where you live at the office and code.

I don't know what the solution is. We seem to be good at making other peoples lives more efficient but we can't make our own lives more efficient.
Well I'm not proposing that we detain people who won't answer a question. Again, I'm not proposing a carbon copy of the Israeli system.

Maybe in CandyLand, this would be the case. Here on Earth, things do not always occur according to ideals.

Well, yeah, of course, but there's nothing you can do to prevent that. You could make that argument of literally any system. Of course some people will do the wrong thing. The idea is that you correct it and do what you can to prevent it.
It's not even specific to America, my very European government ask the same of its employees. It just make sense honestly.
It's not precisely the same thing as regular competition, but I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea. One model I like is for the public sector to provide a baseline level of service using public funding, and then let the private sector compete to provide premium service.
Having this enabled in development and testing environments sounds like a good idea to me, any thoughts? Will definitely try it out locally asap.
Well I suppose I'm hoping for good execution.
I wish there was a 'JavaScript Under the Microscope' like 'Ruby Under the Microscope' by Pat Shaughnessy.

I think I would have a much better understanding of JavaScript if I knew how a good javascript engine works.
Assuming a 15 minute quarter(though most Madden games have shorter quarters, especially if they're multiplayer), to get 255 points in a quarter, a team would need to score a touchdown + 2 point conversion every 30 seconds. For a full game, that's every 2 minutes.

Any given play generally takes 10-20 seconds, and you're going to be running, bare minimum, 2 plays per 8 points(1 for touchdown, 1 for 2 point conversion). So that's about 25 seconds per score.

If the teams are remotely well matched(i.e. aren't a Breaking Madden team), they'll take at least 2-3 minutes per possession, since you're most likely going to have 4 downs, which have a play clock of 40 seconds(most teams use around 30/play), so the "average" shortest possession is something like 2 minutes.

The point of all this? The Breaking Madden games are really an outlier that you'd have to specifically code for.
It’s not the job of university professors to motivate/entertain you; being motivated to learn is the students’ job and every minute the professor spends entertaining disinterested students is a waste of time for those who actually want to learn things.
Other: Grad student drop out.
Not sure I understand what you're getting at... there exist people trained to cue in on the behavior of others. What does race have to do with it? Care to elaborate?
it's like a riches to megariches love story
This is a tired joke, please let it die. Liberal Arts get shit on by everybody around here. Arguably, it's much more important than learning how to make fancy toys for rich people.
Reading this, wishing Facebook's Hack lang was OSS so I could really have a chance to sink my teeth in and compare/contrast these tools.

Edit: Clarity
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But the nature of being an ISP is to run expensive (both in outlay and maintenance) cable/fiber to your house, and it doesn't make economic sense to run 2 or 3 or 4 lines to a customer that only uses 1 ISP. It follows directly from your argument that a person should have a healthy market of water companies serving their house, or sewer companies, or electric companies.

> running big telco networks is hard, capital intensive, and requires a lot of expertise that municipalities don't really have

Capital-intensive, expertise-intensive things is exactly what municipalities do well. They do water, sewer, utilities, police, fire, EMS, etc. My city spent just over $3b last year, meanwhile Time Warner Cable spent roughly $3b on capital expenses in the entire United States.
It says "public domain," but then says:

"If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that some photos do require a model or property release..."
Why I don't have a 5 year plan
fyi this is open sourced https://github.com/box/augmented_types
in the movie "Aviator" there is a scene where PanAm almost successfully gets monopoly on international flights. Watching it i could feel only "WTF?". The same way we'd be feeling couple decades later about monopolies that weak [in particular to the influence of industry] governments at all levels have been granting to telcos.
snide remarks about people who choose an education to broaden their horizons? is it just me or does that strike you as just a little bit... narrow-minded?
The very rich (Mark Zuckerberg included) use their wealth to influence government, therefore the answer to #1 is yes, the average person is worse off because they don't get the same opportunity to affect policy. #2 is an odd hypothetical which is unlikely to be the case and without further context (what is defined as poor? etc.) it's a useless question.
> What about World Cup parties? that's the closest analog in soccer/international football.

The soccer culture is to drink, not to eat :)
I have a Bachelors and Masters in Music Performance (classical guitar). Did one year of a doctoral program too before I figured out I liked building things more.
Computer Science is almost a liberal art anyway.
This could be a great move. Google has moved focus on its search to advertising.

When searching "Hotels in San Francisco", the first organic search term is below the fold for me, which is a 180 from where Google was even 3 years ago.
on the other hand, nothing is more demotivating than an unmotivated professor.
Ask HN: Help! My First Impressions Suck.  Any advice?
I want to do more tech. I want to be near people who love tech. I live somewhere where tech isn't much.

My problem? My first impressions suck. I don't think I can change that. Like some people have a hard time loosing weight, I have a hard time changing my first impression.

For the people who know me well, when they reminisce, they tell me how awful a first impression I gave them but due to location and how we were forced together, they completely changed their mind to enthusiastically recommend me.

From what they tell me, I sound like an idiot when I first talk to them.

Because of this problem, I'm having extreme difficulty passing the telephone interviews (yes, the easy part!) of companies in tech hubs. It feels like I could hear the disappointment in their voice when they talk to me.

What can I do if my first impression suck? How do you continue the interview after failing the phone interview? How do you get a job someplace far away?
I dropped out of high school in 2000. I'm 31 now. I built a hosting company from scratch (hosted Gatorade, almost all of Pepsico, Arthur Anderson), sold it, was a Director at a consulting company at 23-24, worked on data taking for the CMS detector at the large hadron collider, and now am a VP of IT Operations.

I'm not sad at all I missed out on everything a CompSci student learns. If I want to learn it, a problem presents itself, and I learn it.

If you want to learn the things you mentioned, learn them! Our industry allows us immense time leverage. Work 10-20 hours a week at a high dollar amount, and spend the rest of your time learning that which you're not going to learn on the job.
Probably to add the surcharge? Vendors pay AMEX a % of the purchase.
I'm just mystified as to why someone would type up an email in Word and then copy-and-paste it to Outlook to send. Did I enter a wormhole and end up in 1998 or something?
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Yahoo buys DuckDuckGo.
"You got 2 out of 5 answers correct. When you try this quiz with a sorry quiz-taker like you, that’s the result you’re going to get."

Sassy. Jesus Christ.
Getting YC Partner Buy-In sounds like pledging a fraternity.
Search is really really hard to do, isn't it? I mean there aren't that many search engines, and even more prominent "alternative" engines (like DuckDuckGo) are often pulling results from Google and/or Bing...both of which have made fairly gargantuan investments in the technology and infrastructure behind their search engines.

Could there be some other technical genius way of doing it? Well...I'm sure there is, but would Yahoo really have the in-house talent to discover it before Google or Bing (or another wealthy potential Search entrant like Apple or Facebook)?

Sure, Marissa has been buying up talent, but that has primarily been mobile devs...
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Is anyone else kind of rooting for Yahoo? I can't really explain why, because I hate most of the things Yahoo makes: Yahoo Answers, Tumblr, etc. but I guess I can't help cheering for the underdog.
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Basically, I listened to their organizing procedure, then I made a game theory matrix and determined that the only way for me to win was not to play.

Had I cooperated, I probably would have been fired within a week, and homeless the month after. That was actually the equilibrium point. This was mostly because the union could not protect the anonymity of anyone supporting the organization effort. Then I asked what would happen when I got fired. When I heard the answer, I just started looking for better jobs at other companies.

I won't repeat what they said exactly. You couldn't possibly believe it as hearsay. What you need to do is contact a professional organizer, and get them to explain how things work to you.
The closest analogue is the European Champions League final - an annual event with a slightly higher worldwide viewership than the Superbowl.

There actually is a certain food culture within the stadiums: pies and tea in England, bratwurst and beer in Germany. Amusingly stereotypical, but extremely popular. For viewers at home, not really.
> Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours

... and it shows. What an overwhelmingly sloppy, poorly executed site. I took the first few questions of a quiz about Chicago; rather than having me "explore" the city's culinary offerings, it just blasted me with a bunch of questions I couldn't possibly answer about a restaurant I've never heard of before. A number of the questions were unanswerable (all of the questions had duplicate answers), and all of its knowledge about local restaurants is obviously pulled sloppily from Yelp's API (it offered such scintillating questions as "which Yelp review corresponds to this restaurant you've never heard of?" and "which picture, pulled from Yelp, is of a dish served at this restaurant you've never heard of?").

The idea is neat but this website is awful.
I dont think TSA can prevent him expressing his own opinion, they have all the right to prevent him from using the word TSA whenever he speaks.

So he can speak, just as long as he doesn't provide any verifiable credentials that might actually make him credible?

There is a difference between speaking for the TSA, or any other employer, and merely speaking personally as someone with personal experience of the TSA, or any other employer. It's reasonable to prohibit anyone from falsely claiming to represent someone else when expressing a personal view. As a general rule, I don't think it's reasonable to prevent them from making factually accurate claims about employment that support their own authenticity when speaking personally.

There probably needs to be an exception to that if there really is a genuine reason to avoid identifying an individual as part of a certain organisation for security reasons. However, given the tendency of governments to exaggerate "national security" and similar arguments, it would have to be a pretty compelling case and I would suggest that employees should have to be notified of it in advance so it could be properly challenged. In any case, it's hard to see how any of this would apply to a typical front-line TSA employee.
I got it wrong both times. Ouch.
It'll be very interesting to see if she can manage to get out of the deal. It'd also take a monumental effort in recruitment and research to make a move like this a success, in my opinion anyway.
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