skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Setting up thousands of students for success" is not the goal of a university. If it were, they should also offer majors in underwater welding, computer-aided machining, and other currently-understaffed specialist roles where a person with only one or two years' experience can earn good money.

It's worth remembering that "web startup engineer" is to Computer Science what those vocations are to Physics. It is a craft, not a discipline and best learned through experience rather than theory.
Can you link to a source regarding your claim that the AP wrongly implicated Sunil Tripathi in the Boston Marathon bombings? I couldn't find anything on Google, either by searching the entire internet or just ap.org.
Not the Best of Possible Worlds
We are based in the US and I don't think we will be eligible. From their FAQ -

Am I eligible to use MangoPay?

All companies registered in the European Economic Area can use our solution.
Satoshi Nakamoto says: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
Start now, work hard.
Google UX design with heart
Could you change the site so that the front page gives a very clear idea of how my CSS (and HTML if relevant) would look different? What size JS is included? Performance considerations (and if performance is poor, why this is so cool that I won't care).

It sounds cool, but maybe overkill for what I need, but the menu items don't sound relevant to me figuring out whether this is what I want.
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Graphene on Rescale
Two things I have found helpful:

1. Review collaboratively. If you have questions, ask other reviewers and the developers. By asking questions you aren't questioning their wisdom, just pointing out that you don't understand what they wrote, so be respectful.

2. Introduce new programmers to the process gradually and require more collaboration than you would for more senior programmers. This helps ensure that new people are brought up to speed with appropriate mentoring from their senior staff.

Review is a form of collaboration. It is a way to shake out logic before stuff gets into formal testing. Discussion is good.
Walmart Designed a Fuel-Efficient Truck
What supports my assertion are the two recent gigantic but shallow security holes that many eyes (except for the NSA's) didn't see for many years.
Speaking as a government employee, not a contractor, we are actually more efficient than my previous private sector jobs. But then again, we have a "build it don't buy it" culture here with a lot of love for open source throughout our services and really only use consultants on ultra specific jobs, due to head count caps from our legislature. Sure there's some union cruft here and there but I've seen similar dead weight in the private sector.

Perhaps you should consider consulting for less well-funded segments of the Government? The constraints make for ingenious solutions.
Stellar Death
Expecting Harvard to teach you how to be a hacker is about as far from the hacker mindset as you can get.
I don't deny he's now saying this. That's the substantial difference: argumentum is saying he earlier "didn't really say anything at all" which is frankly baloney.
Exactly my thought. People don't get taught to be hackers (at least not by schools), they either have the desire and aptitude to go beyond school work or they don't.

Places like Harvard and MIT produce hackers because of the students they attract, not because they teach "hacker oriented programming".

Zuckerberg didn't study "Social media websites 101" he hacked together a project in his spare time.
I wonder _why I wonder _why I wonder _why I wonder

I wonder _why I wonder _why I wonder _why I wonder
Real Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
If anyone is familiar with Qt's layout system and Apple's constraint system, can you comment on which you like better? I've thought that having QLayouts for my HTML elements would be really handy.
The new Satoshi Nakamoto communication is really interesting. There have been quite a lot of stories over time supposedly identifying the real Nakamoto, and there was complete silence over this.

So... did Newsweek get the real Nakamoto who is panicking now? Or did they get the wrong guy, and the real guy feels like this time (rather than those previous times) he has to step in to protect the innocent?

It's not really evidence in any direction.
HN dislikes ning.com; the new page is full of identical dead links to the primary source.
Totally nonsense picture, sure there are satellites in the sky, most of them approaching obsolescence, but satellites scaled to become naval carriers?

Satellites are only going to get smaller and smaller, check out Skybox Imaging.
A wide net, made in Canada, to capture all the fish. The number of hats(competitors?/opportunities?) we now can choose from just exploded ten fold:

"Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.

Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation." To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa....
Is it permitted to make an audio recording in a situation like this?
Calls to external services and hardware, or really, any external system. It's probably quite important that your code interacts properly with the system, but you also probably don't want to interact with it every time you run the tests. Not unless you have a copy of the external system running for every developer.
What is your story for the thought processes/internal processes at NSA that would have led to the creation of Bitcoin by them? I'm genuinely curious because it seems pretty out of character for an organization whose task is to protect the established elite to go out of their way to create something extremely creative that could endanger the established elite.
Funny you read "Dorian S."'s earlier quote and see something, I read it and see nothing. Or actually, not nothing, just not something that means anything.
Also keep in mind that there is value in being a rubber duck here. There's also a good chance that in explaining it to you, he will find an error during a kind of review that he wouldn't on his own code otherwise.
Please upvote when you comment if you find the post interesting, otherwise it will get "controversy banned".
Update: writethru is up with important details.
I, for one, am ecstatic. I started a project to catalogue every single live music event on the planet, no matter how small or big. That's one less ogre in the way. Enjoy your new leashes, Echo Nest.
There are also many reasonable ways for closed source software (or more accurately "non-free proprietary software") to make the sources available for review, but not give away all the rights. Like "Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure", etc.

Of course it's better for software to be free / open source, but it's nonsense to imply that only open source software has the potential to be seen by "many eyes".

My eyes are still red and sore from staring at the MFC source code before the turn of the century.
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Edit over ssh using any including your favorite locally installed editor. No more FTP/SCP-ing files around.
And that (DoD work, or at least NDA-covered work) is exactly what Dorian thought was happening:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...
Just found this today. I love how I can set the brightness during the day as well. 5500K feels much better on my eyes than the default 6500K I was using before.
Man called Bitcoin's father denies ties, leads LA car chase
The other pages on that blog are just meandering prose with a link to another website, which makes me think that someone picked up the site for its PageRank to link to other pages. But despite having many inbound links, the domain's PR is 0. Weird.
Yes, it's a beautiful building in the downtown of St.-Petersburg

https://maps.google.com/?ll=59.935336,30.325956&spn=0.002389...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_House

Interestingly, it was built by Singer Corporation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Corporation

and essentially became the first business center in Russia [sic!] as lower floors were for Singer show rooms and the higher floors were rented out for other companies. Nowadays lower floors are housing the central book store («Дом Книги»). At the time it was built, its architecture was considered outlandish, but now it's one of the staples of St.-Petersburg.
Why limit it to Startups in the name? Do people outside of startups not play sports?
After World War II the world industrial base was either ruined or tooled up for wartime production. The great U.S. postwar boom lasted from 1945 to 1973, America was factory to the world during these years because it had huge advantages in workforce, industrial base, infrastructure, and money. Today the world has overcapacity in nearly all industries, margins are low, and cost cutting is the obligatory survival strategy.

The mass systems industrial revolution created the huge increases in wealth and wellbeing seen in the 20th century. This revolution began around 1900 when the marriage of science and industry was finally consummated, but it was mostly over by the 1990s. That means that there's minimal primary technological innovation now, so returns to investments in industry and infrastructure are nearly zero. The next industrial revolution is the robot revolution, but it's only just getting started now, all human systems will be transformed, and vast amounts of new wealth will be created in decades to come.

The world has been accumulating huge levels of debt for 25 years, this is debt that cannot possibly be repaid, but the accumulation is still continuing. Most of the world switched from industrial capitalism to financial capitalism (the capitalism of the Medici) in the 1990s with the end of the mass systems industrial revolution; one result is the rapid rise of oligarchies in many countries including the U.S., Russia, and China.
> Be sure to add tasks to the sprint for the code review to happen.

Just make sure it is a sprint and not a sprintf.
That's more along the lines of what a lot of TDD literature says.

Write adapters or facades that wrap external libraries, use those in your own code's unit tests. This makes you less bound to a specific library as well. Don't mock the outside world [0] for testing your adapters/facades/whatever, but do integration tests that cover your adapters using the real outside world.

You'd also do complete end to end tests where the entire system is used as if it were in production (acceptance testing). TDD makes a lot more sense if you think of it in those three layers: acceptance, integration, unit.

[0] Outside world means anything that's not your code -- networking, filesystem, external libraries, etc.
_why was known by more than just the HN community;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
"That is researcher's job" - Appeal to authority fallacy. We all can collect stats, run experiments, and draw conclusions. Some of us will have a better grounding in theory than others, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't experiment anyways. It's like saying "nobody but professional chefs should cook"

"Need at least thousands ppl's stats to get a small conclusion". - Not necessarily. It depends on the design of your experiment, the distribution of the data under question, and the desired margin of error. (Amongst other things)

But even if you only roughly estimate those things, you can gain conclusions that are valuable to yourself.

To make up an overly simplistic example: I spend two weeks not drinking coffee, two weeks drinking coffee in the morning, and two weeks drinking coffee in the evening. If the amount and quality of my sleep do not change significantly between the three experiments, it's safe enough to assume that I can consume coffee without influencing my sleep.

It's not a sound experiment, because it doesn't control for any number of variables. It has a wide margin of error. I have not really looked at the sample distribution of sleep duration/quality. And yet, I can make the assumption that drinking coffee in the evening will not affect my sleep.

The point is, it doesn't matter if it's 100% correct. It's roughly correct, most of the time - which is good enough to plan your life around.

It's of course not good enough to make any statements about the general impact of coffee on sleep patterns. But that's not what self-measurement tries to achieve.
If what you want is "intensive courses on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Objective-C, HTML/CSS and JavaScript", save yourself four years and save your folks $200K. Drop out and get a public library card.
Survival depends on you being able to compete in some manner because resources are finite, and for every life form that lives there are thousands, millions, maybe more that don't live because that life form had the resources. The idea that humans are somehow excluded from that is itself a religious tenant or rationalization, or perhaps more accurately, an illusion brought on by this moment of overwhelming wealth and power humans have amassed for themselves. For this brief moment in geological time, it is possible to successfully "compete" for resources by, for example, drawing this bizarre thing called a "disability claim", which hasn't exactly been around for very long, and has no guarantee that it will be around for any particular period of time into the future. But you can only do this because of the wealth generated by the incredibly successful competition that humanity has developed... and it scares me both that the boundary between this life and the more normal order of affairs is so thin, and that there are people, like you, who treat it as some sort of natural law, to the point of mocking people still in contact with reality. History shows when there's enough people like you, the prosperity goes away. Alas, history doesn't show us a way of preventing that from happening... here's hoping the march of technology gives us an exit this time.

It is a wonderful thing that humans cooperate enough that we can build enough wealth that some of us, even many of us, can forget this... but the fact that the human strategy is ultimately one of great cooperation doesn't change the fact that the human cooperation lives on a substrate of vicious, no-holds-barred competition, induced by the physics of how this universe works.

Realizing the world is built on competition is not what breeds viciousness... it is what lets us successfully build the secondary layer on top that shields us from it. Those philosophies that try to take a shortcut and declare that the world is not a competitive place have the paradoxical effect of exposing us all the more directly to the raw competition again, because it causes people to build structures that, in their denial of the nature of reality, therefore fail to insulate us against it.

The first step to solving a problem is ever and always clearly identify the problem, not refuse to see the problem.
What a crazy bunch of events in the Bitcoin world today.

Of course, this isn't necessarily proof that Dorian isn't Satoshi. (I personally don't think that he is, but I guess we'll see.) Regardless, it sure will be nice when the media stops hounding this guy. Especially if he really isn't Satoshi. This could have the potential of completely ruining somebody's life, particularly one who seems rather private like Dorian.
This is likely to be the admin of the site perhaps? Or a hacker?

I would have expected the real Satoshi to sign a message from his known address making it certain it's him.
You seem upset about this story, but as someone with no stake in Bitcorn or anything else related to this nonsense, I struggle to understand why you care so much who is outed as its creator?
Direct link to Satoshi's post:

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
HN won't let me reply to your next comment deeper in this thread. Re: "Resources are finite" - They aren't really though. I fairly recently wrote a blog post on this idea - http://mattamyers.tumblr.com/post/72715425291/capitalism-and...
I wasted $25 on seeing Mark Cuban inflate his ego in-front of a bunch of people
I saw Mark Cuban speak at the Merchandise Mart for $25 in Chicago. It was literally him pumping himself up for an hour, not really sure what I expected.

At one point he says high frequency trading is wrong and serves no purpose to the retail investor. He forgets to mention that he made 99% of his money dumping $5Billion dollars of worthless stock to Joe Public (valued at ~$10,000 user). He could say no one knew it was worthless, but he dumped the stock as fast as legally possible in what is called one of the best trades of all time.

How is making $5B dumping worthless stock on the public better than high frequency trading, which very debatably adds value to the markets?

I can't wait to buy Mark Cuban's book so I can never buy toilet paper again.
I think the parachute cord is already taut when this scene takes place (see 1:08 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLcIxcSaik), so I don't see how it can run out of slack beyond this. And in your version, where does the tension in the tether between Bullock and Clooney come from?
Perhaps we should all click on the link and immediately close our browsers, making it appear like he hired a botnet to click links for him. With enough clicks, his affiliates will boot him out.
Someone bought the domain for SEO purposes. The article about "how to get [his] wife a bit more excited about ‘adult’ activities" mentions he "found this other site about attracting women called The Attraction Institute", which just happens to be selling an ebook about how to attract women.
BGP route visualizations in ThousandEyes now include both public and private feeds
Actually, more like Batman saying "I am not Bruce Wayne."
If that judge had been on HN he would have been cited for 1 count of 'appeal to authority'.
Love F.lux; congrats on the update. Has it fixed that nasty Mavericks multiple display bug that filled the console with thousands of these lines?

6/3/14 21:37:52.209 Flux[26626]: CGSGetSizeOfDisplayTransfer: Invalid display 0x0424e64d
Exactly. I think there is a place for applied courses at the tertiary level, but that isn't the role of top-tier research universities.

And I am not being snooty, I only have a diploma from a vocational college (I studied CS a long time ago but dropped out).
Turkish prime minister weighs ban against Facebook and YouTube
Considering the current president of South Korea is the daughter of the former dictator (and still speaks positively of the dictatorship), not too surprising.
My team and I run a boutique production studio in NYC and we love composing music to visuals. Shoot me an email at "josh at soundassociation dot com" and let's discuss your project!
As an undergrad I found myself thinking similarly. Looking back, I definitely think I rushed some things and agree with most people in this thread. The stuff you described won't and shouldn't be taught in schools. You're there to engage in thoughtful discourse that will help you come up with better solutions to the worlds problems. Node, RoR, etc. are just tools to make those ideas come to life. You can be a code monkey, but that doesn't make you a good software engineer. Find the right balance and I think you'll find the quality of your hacks will improve as well.
Really interesting insight, Steli. Did you ever offer a discount up front to get reluctant customers to introduce you to a new business[1]? If so, could you share how it turned out?

[1] those who likely know a business to introduce you to and are seemingly willing to do so, based on the maturity of the relationship with you and them.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but assume you are showing a picture of a programmer to someone from the past. One hundred years ago, the person would probably recognize a computer as some kind of type writer, and from his background then assume that the person is a typist. 200 years ago, there were no jobs which could be described as 'sitting in front of a box,' so the person would have no frame of reference to understand the picture. ( And it seems likely to conclude the same into the future.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6206086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804870

The plausibility depends a lot on the competence you anticipate from such processes. But such contradicting signals of competence are pretty typical of large organizations, especially ones that are silo-ed to some degree.
http://www.soundassociation.com/work showcases some audio scores we created.
Ideally he would have posted this with Dorian on live TV...
Mostly right.

HPHPc produced the C++ code and that was compiled into a single binary executable. The deployment process involved using bittorrent to distribute the blob to all of the production servers.

HPHPc wasn't abandoned per say, it was only deprecated once the performance improvements brought on by HHVM were significant enough to justify the transition.
Wouldn't prove anything.
From the About page:

Why "startup" sports club?

--------------------------

Startup people generally enjoy trying new things, networking with one another and live in dense clusters. If you aren't in the startup community that is fine also, there is no actual requirement.
I would like to order one infinity of energy from you, then. Please deliver it to my email address, as I'd rather not actually receive it directly to my house.

I'm actually the first to say that A: it's all energy and atoms in the end and B: the universe is awash with both and it's mostly our own stubborness that prevents us from claiming both since we don't "like" nuclear. However, even a Kardeshev Type III civilization will have to contend with the fact that its resources are finite, and as rapidly as its ability to exploit them grows, its desires are likely to grow even faster.

It's not capitalism that causes that, either... a great deal of our desires expanding faster than our resources predates the entire concept, and the problem will likely outlast it as well.
> iptables is powerful but definitely not simple.

> Maybe someday I'll learn about iptables

Hmm...

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ALLOW
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ALLOW
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ALLOW
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ALLOW
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP

So complicated...
Sometimes "elegant" == "obvious"
"That's just what the real Satoshi Nakamoto would say!"
https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
Hahaha looking at the picture I realize there is no way the "object", let alone the tether and astronaut, could be rotating fast enough to create such a force.
We are upvoting these threads because HN is subject to playing paparazzi as much as any teenage ditz and consequently devolving into a tabloid. This happens when John McAfee goes nuts in Brazil, too.
Too late. Whether he his or not, the court of public opinion has already judged him, and he's being chased around LA by "journalists".

http://gawker.com/bitcoin-inventor-denies-newsweek-story-aft...

This is Gawker, so take it with a truckload of salt. It's mostly just a rehash of several sources.
That's exactly what it is — if by "exactly" you mean "not exactly":

> 1 in every 9 Americans–or exactly 11%
He had to connect with tor right? His brother said he would never admit to being the creator of bitcoin.
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