skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can sort of see storing the score as an unsigned char, since that's larger than the largest real-world score. I have no idea what's going on with the 266 value, though.
It's certainly not necessary, but my guess is that it follows from the "Don't Make Me Think" school of UX design. If a majority of consumers have been conditioned to expect a credit-card-selection menu (or series of clickable icons), then the absence of such might confuse them and cause measurable drop-offs in the purchase completion funnel. It seems a little farfetched, but I'm sure at least someone has done the tests and proven this to be the case. (And if not, then there is truly no reason for the continued presence of these menus.)

Anecdotally, I've noticed that more and more sites are using autodetect features based on the first 4 digits entered. It certainly didn't put me off as a shopper; in fact, I found it a lot more elegant. But I'm an unusual guy, as are most people who work in tech. We can't assume that what's appealing or efficient to us is necessarily the same for the broader masses.
Just so I understand, your complaint is: if you enter a number that isn't a credit card number, but that can't actually be differentiated from a valid credit card number, the credit card widget isn't able to determine that it's not valid? You seem to be expecting a great deal from this widget.
It reminds me of the old Tex Johnson 737 Barrel role.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE
Maybe vertically integrated ISP service doesn't work as an investor-owned enterprise. Maybe all last-mile facilities ought to be owned by the municipality and multiple providers can be chosen for ISP services.
"Interesting how the game score counter can't go over 255."

They just didn't expect anyone to play against the Dallas Cowboys. Rookie mistake.
This is a great quote and I can hardly believe it's from 30 year ago: As Cablevision's Charles Dolan warns, "As an industry, it is really bad for us to have an articulated view that cable can operate successfully only...in a monopoly environment. That view is an invitation to a regulatory response that would set us up as common carriers,"[7] just like telephone and utility companies.

Side note: I bet splashing out sketchy comparisons to Orwell's 1984 was a lot more fun back when it was actually 1984. On balance it was a good piece but the whole first section can be safely skipped.
OK but the photograph was taken from another plane, which had no other reason to be in the air.
Or it's from back in the day when Madden used an 8-bit processor, and the code for scoring has just never been updated to use something other than char.
You can use Wolfram Alpha to try and predict the Super Bowl.
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Can we agree that, to a certain extent, both are necessary?
I'm going to hijack this comment to ask a question that I haven't been able to google:

What is the number after the command called? For example, when I look up 'man sed', I find a manpage for 'sed(1)'[0]. When I look up 'man kill', I find manpages for 'kill(1)' and 'kill(2)'[2].

Can somebody tell me what that number is called so I can look it up? Thanks..

0: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
1: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
2: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/kill.2.html
I am hiring, not being hired.

Artists are the main thing.

God says...
I'm_impressed Greek_to_me absolutely I'm_not_sure hit I'll_think_about_it
joking Shhh I'm_off_today persistence here_now You_da_man
so_he_sess in_other_words wrath make_my_day later class__class__shutup
basket_case do_over anger never_happy yikes

I hired an artist a couple years ago. I am saving money to hire an artist again.
Perhaps not that extreme, but I'm not aware of an inalienable right to fly on an airplane. Don't want to answer a few questions about your trip? Fine, you're either a threat or you're just being a jerk. You don't get to fly. You're coming up with problems with a theoretical implementation that doesn't even exist.

And let's not go overboard on the "ask anything they want." These would be educated, skilled individuals. Asking inappropriate questions would not be per procedure. It is in everyone's interest to have safe flights, and if you're being difficult just to be difficult then tough shit, that's what you get.
New Google patent: automatically sending your videos and photos to law enforcement
What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?
I have a few ideas and I (think) I have the skills to build initial prototypes but I'm really confused about how to "just start." Should I be looking for potential co-founders in college? Should I learn more programming? What do I do after I build a good product to attract investors? Anyhow, sorry for all that rambling.
What market? I know I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but video games are only a good business if you're making the games themselves. The hardware is low margin, and you don't really make it up on the licensing anymore either since gamers have so many platforms to choose from. Worse still, you can't form a dominant platform through the methods Microsoft traditionally uses: you have to convince consumers directly. And video games are just a "good" business, never a great one: they are very risky and the maximum payout is limited. EA and Activision both made about $5 billion in revenue. Combined they made as much as half of the Server and Tools business (and at much lower margins.)

Microsoft's core strength is licensing software to businesses. Hardware and game consoles are a foray into a high-risk, low-margin business (well, low margin relative to software.) By contrast, Microsoft's operating margin on enterprise software is close to 50%. The margin on their entertainment and devices division is currently less than 1%. Comparables would say that a good margin in a hardware business like that is 10-20%.

Worse still, selling consumer electronics and media properties to consumers requires a sales channel that Microsoft has still not mastered. Windows and enterprise software are sold through a reseller model: Microsoft makes products and advertises them to a network of people who have discovered they can make a living selling and implementing Microsoft software (be they PC OEMs or consultants.) They have never been good at consumer marketing or retail sales. They've never had that "cool" brand image you need to succeed there, and the amount of money you have to spend on marketing is insane compared to their more profitable cash cow.

There's still plenty of room for them to innovate in the enterprise space too. Oracle and SAP suck donkey balls to use and Microsoft is actually really good at delivering rock-solid enterprise software with a good blend of usability and power. I just fear that if any new CEO focuses too much on the consumer side of the business, there are a lot of much more profitable options on the enterprise side.

The consumer side is a huge distraction to Microsoft, one that has produced a lot of red ink but never really any profit. Look at their historical results since, well, ever, and you'll see that the consumer products consistently lose money while the enterprise software keeps growing margins and top line.
Looks like I might have to revisit the South West via words alone. Thanks for the recommend. Powell's book looks good too, with a touch of Shackleton grit to it.

I too second Desert Solitaire as a must read, it is not a novel like Monkey Wrench Gang, it made me think again about values of freedom and what it is to be alive without having to suspend one's belief in a way that pure fiction demands.

I also recommend walking down the Grand Canyon and up the other side carrying very little and without knowing what is going to happen to you. By very little I mean a light snack, some water and a picnic rug to sleep on (under the stars at the bottom of the Canyon).
But if someone first says they are a government employee and then immediately follows that disclosure with "That being said, all of what I'm about to say represents my opinions and my observations and in no way should be interpreted as the official position or policy of the agency that I work for", it should all be kosher and protected under free speech, no?
Agreed. I'm about 99/100 of the way through a BS, yet I voted as a high school graduate. It's the truth.

Hopefully this poll tells somebody something, because it doesn't do much for me.
My last day. It’s official, I quitted.
Dropped out and still regret it, even though I am a CTO 5 years later.
See also Valve, Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, who were let go but allowed to take the tech they were working on to start CastAR:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/cast...

It's a pity that these situations are notable and not the default.
that must be the best company

I don't think this is the case; they only need to infer "better than average" or "not a lemmon". The problem is everyone else is trading-off the research of others and abnormal volatility# results, which has dis-utility to the companies involved. In fact, it eventually would become a dis-incentive to join YC. It is this latter outcome that surely YC wants to avoid. They are not going to benefit from the pricing of current companies, so much as they would lose long-term value of their franchise. Ie, if it becomes a very "hit or miss" investment of Founder's time, the more capable founders may seek to mitigate their exposure to such a process.

# Not bias, per-se
Sounds very promising, will definitely give this a spin. Hopefully something like this will make its way into PHP by default.
Patent troll CEO explains why company wants names of EFF donors
For a while, I was the same. I got an Associate degree and started working. Though I eventually went back to school (online) and finished the Bachelor degree.
Incredible that 3 white males were able to succeed in America! This shows that merit comes first in Silicon Valley!
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Currently in high school
Wasn't Madden 25 recently released? And score is still kept in eight-bit storage?

And the Innovative Title of the Year award goes to...
Currently in college for Bacherlors/Associate degree
Currently pursuing Post-Grad degree
But if all the splinter third party candidates got their
act together and mobilized themselves and developed a
solid platform, they could certainly make a run
themselves.

Not really. For example, the League of Women Voters used to run the US persidential debate. They've stopped, because the Democrats and Republicans demanded such unfair terms that it would have been a farce. So now the Democrats and Republicans together control the debates.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/debate4.htm
I'd really like to know why they chose to do this instead of trying to make spltypes and type hinting more robust. Annotations seem like an ugly way of doing this.
Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours
Neither did I, I'd like to know more about their setup.
A minimal security response process
I hate annotations in PHP. They feel very tacked-on. I'd much rather see actual enforced typing in the language.

This is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough, in my opinion.
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What about the legacy-style search?
Yeah, the threat models are different, and again, scale.
Nice. Can you add contact info in your profile? BTW, we share the same name...
MkDocs – Project documentation with Markdown.
You're grossly overstating the commercial aviation fields in the US.

TSA applies to commercial aviation. Most of those US fields are general (civilian, private, noncommercial) aviation, and the overwhelming majority are little more than dirt strips (33.3% were paved as of 2006).

For commercial transport, you want to look at the "certified" line of that table, which shows 547 fields. From the footnote: "Certificated airports serve air-carrier operations with aircraft seating more than 9 passengers. As of 2005, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) no longer certificates military airports."

According to Wikipedia's list of US airports, sorted by enplanements (this is apparently a word), there are 87 airports with > 1 million enmplanements/year. At the low end, that's 2740 daily, or about 30 largish flights (100 seats each). CHS, Charleston International Airport (South Carolina) is the 87th on this list.

Another 296 airports are listed with traffic ranging down to 1,124 passenger boardings/year. Of these, 201 have more than 100 boardings/day on average.
Finished high school and got a job at the start-up I've been looking for last 1 year (1½ years since graduation).
The original concept of the adjunct professor has strong grounding, and is actually very valuable. I remember learning from adjuncts as an undergrad, and often, they were much more down to earth, current on the subject area, and practical with their advice then tenured professors. Tenured professors were often out of touch with the current state of the practice, and more focused on the theory. Adjuncts were often much better leads for internship referrals and job opportunities as well.

I now work full time in the technology sector, and teach at most one class per semester for a well-known state university. This is generally how adjunct teaching is supposed to work. I get paid a flat rate, no benefits. In essence, it is very much like an after hours consulting position. I don't need/want health benefits, union representation, or any of the other things requested in this article. I treat it like an after hours consulting gig, as it was intended.

The humanities, however, are an entirely different story. Too many unemployed PhD's with little job prospects outside academia are crowding the field, driving down salaries and saturating tenure positions.
I don't think Array.prototype.forEach.call(el.querySelectorAll(selector)) is complex enough to pull in a new library.
This looks really useful for validating rest endpoint data. Thanks!
Technically both HS dropout and undergrad (MIT) dropout. I apparently could attend many European grad programs, especially in the UK (LBS/ICL econ or MBA would be interesting); I'd be tempted to drop out for the trifecta, though.
They offered those same deals to any ISP that wanted to offer the same services, guess how many offered?
In many jurisdictions, the term "engineer" refers to a licensed professional. So a software engineer would be someone with the requisite education and professional experience to obtain that license and be endorsed by their local regulatory body. It would also mean additional professional and ethical obligations. In Canada, for example, you can't have the term "Engineer" in your job title without being a licensed professional engineer. However, this rule is poorly enforced and mostly ignored.

Now mind you, most software engineers are NOT engineers in that sense, but I still think of it that way. Most software engineers are really software developers, but the engineer title is more appealing for whatever reasons (status?). Programmer/Coder is just slang for Developer, IMHO.
no, but I want to take care of user management myself and not store all my app users in the cloud
I need an "other" button.

I have a Certificate in GIS which is the equivalent of graduate level work but I never finished my Bachelor's (in Environmental Resource Management). I also have an AA in Humanities and a spiffy certificate my former employer paid for that entitles me to call myself a "certified life and health insurance specialist."

I also took 4 years of college level math between 8th grade and 11th grade to "prepare for college" only to be screwed by the system when they told me I now needed 2 MORE college math classes to actually get my degree, even though I already had more math than most folks with a bachelor's. I ultimately CLEP-ed college algebra many years later and took an intro to statistics, which was at least new info for me without requiring me to take math like a physics major or some nonsense.

For some people, these questions are not so cut and dried. Can I pretty please haz an "Other" button?

Thanks.
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She clearly has a point there. When a person identifies himself as TSA employee he is using TSA brand to say something that is his personal opinion. 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.
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This could have been really cool, but looking at games from the 90's as a predictor for the current SB?? Sports results from teams (and players) long past is not what I'd call useful longitudinal data, lol.
Interesting thought, can you please show an example of an Amazon sold item that offers two different prices for prime and non-prime?

Unless sold by a third party vendor, I've not seen anything to that effect, and Amazon is still cheaper with its prime items than buying locally (or even from other online shops, frequently).
YouTube has very many videos of people being awkward assholes just for the sake of it, and then being outraged by the response they get no matter how mild and polite that response is.

While it probably would be a good thing to drop the security theatre and to have better training there are going to be a bunch of Americans who resent the idea that someone is asking them a question before they board a plane.
Feds: If you mine or trade Bitcoin on your own, that’s totally cool
Nope - HNSearch never worked on my Blackberry. I said so several times, but they didn't see it, or didn't care.
Dropped out because it was oh so boring. I wish it was like Coursera classes, but we didn't get to start actual programming until maybe third year, and I didn't have the patience so I dropped out on second year. Don't regret it, although I partly regret choosing a local university instead of trying harder and maybe going abroad. On the other hand, I really enjoy doing actual work in the field and it would be hard to forget about it for several years.
Wouldn't have expected this to show up on HN, but this entire 'season' is hilarious if you have even a cursory interest in sports video games -- there's a lot of (hilarious) frayed edges that get exposed when Jon pushes Madden to its limits.
This is my favorite thing about simulators: using them in unconventional ways.

It reminds me of being a kid and trying to build a city in SimCity without roads.
Why do you regret it (unless it's too personal)?
> But if all the splinter third party candidates got their act together and mobilized themselves and developed a solid platform

Yeah, but, see, the Libertarian Party and the Socialist Party (and those aren't even the most divergent among the non-major parties) aren't going to unite around a common policy platform. In fact, each of them is closer to policy commonality with one of the major parties than they are too each other.
My only issue with this is that it's not expressly stated; Sure, it's probably indirectly stated through the Terms we all agreed to without reading.
That number refers to the section of the man pages that the command is in. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections for an example list; however, it seems the list is not the same between systems.
I have a Bachelors in CS but just cannot imagine doing anything more in terms of formal education. MS/MBA/PhDs are not my thing. Nothing wrong with them but just not for me.
Are you located in the same country as the jobs you are applying to? Sometimes "remote" means, within the same jurisdiction when it comes to employment laws, taxes, etc.
>Don't want to answer a few questions about your trip? Fine, you're either a threat or you're just being a jerk. You don't get to fly.

And if that was the extent of it, fair enough. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a little less "you don't get to fly" and a little more "I'm sorry sir, but we're going to have to detain you for several hours of invasive questioning".

>These would be educated, skilled individuals. Asking inappropriate questions would not be per procedure.

Maybe in CandyLand, this would be the case. Here on Earth, things do not always occur according to ideals.
Partners who decide that they are not going to follow the rules to the detriment of the founders, and therefore YC and other partners, would likely be excluded from participating in future batches.

YC is in a strong enough position that they are likely not dependent upon one particular partner, and most partners would prefer to have access to future batches. They probably don't need to have a contract that slaps on additional legal damages, because at such an early stage the small gain for favoring their own investments does not outweigh the longterm gains from continued early access.
I would suggest making Associate and Bachelor degrees different options, rather than lumping them together.
I feel weird saying "College Drop-Out", or even (on other forms) "Some College", since I took one semester at UIC (psychology 101 and political science 101) and then bailed.
The closest thing I can think of is an email client's "send as". Apart from that I've seen some phone apps and browser extensions that focus on helping you manage multiple accounts on a given service, like Reddit or Twitter.
Only according to the dictionary. It's pretty common parlance in this context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding
> You have a First Amendment right to speech. You don't have a right to a government job. It's hardly Orwellian.

It's not "Orwellian" (the term doesn't make sense here), however what would you say if the TSA fired someone because he was a muslim, for example. I doubt the following:

""You have a First Amendment right to follow any or no religion. You don't have a right to a government job""

> If you self-identify as a government employee, then it is reasonable to assume that someone might take what you say as government policy.

No, that's ridiculous. If someone says, "I work at the TSA, and the official policy is X", then perhaps it's "reasonable". Also, had he not identified himself as a TSA employee, none of what he said would make any sense: he was describing his experiences as a TSA employee.
Panasonic have created the unthinkable, a suit with super hero qualities.
Free speech does not guarantee employment.
>These would be educated, skilled individuals.

I'm pretty sure TSA was created with the same thoughts.
Twitter employee is mad someone jumped in front of caltrain today.
he's so mod
Moreover, unless you know for a fact that the specific text you're using doesn't have any non-ascii characters. "It's English" doesn't quite cut it: what about façade, coördinate, '✓', or even '£', all of which are non-ascii.

(Of course, I'm assuming that you meant this, so it's not a correction -- I'm just taking the opportunity to explicitly mention it.)
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It is also a bit of a "fuck you" statement as well though.

UK Ministry of Defence as well as the Security Services have a policy of drilling hard drives if a machine is leaving their control.

I heard a story, which I think came from Dell, who had a machine sent to them from the MOD because it had intermittent trouble booting. Standard practice was that the drives were drilled before the server was sent to Dell in Ireland. When the engineers tried to boot the server it of course wouldn't boot. When they pulled out the drives they were drilled. Report was inconclusive.

Thus the Guardian's were quasi-mimicking the MOD. I.e. taking the piss.
I don't fully buy it. The government would likely find a huge amount of value in knowing exactly what was leaked.