skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say, it depends, for me the answer was "I really hope yes".
I just started the MS CS in Georgia Tech (100% online, 7,000$ total cost, not per year, ranked 9 in US)

I didn't study Hebrew literature academically (although I like reading in Hebrew...) but my undergraduate degree in CS is from such an unknown college that I don't see how it differs from your degree in terms of job finding powers.

I also feel that although I might be highly regarded in my current job, it will not transfer easily.

So an MSc in CS from GT for me is some sort of a level up if you will, making my first degree Kosher.

But the real reason I do it is because I feel I need it for the learning, I took some coursera courses here and there, and even finished some, but the fact you pay (although not much) for the courses at GT, makes you more committed.

Bottom line, if you can afford to keep a full time job (or have enough savings to do it full time) then I would say go for it.

It will make a difference in your career options, especially in the "big" names like Google etc...

Having an MS is not a silver bullet, but it definitely won't hurt. There were times perhaps that I heard people say that they would avoid hiring MS CS students with no work experience. But times have hanged, MS in CS is no longer pure theoretical, the programs really make you a better programmer in my very humble opinion. And you have the experience as the basis, the MS CS is just a cherry on top.
Sorry but haven't you just become what you resist? Who are these 'bad teenagers' and why do they need to be punished?
If you like this sort of stuff you should definitely check out Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast [1]. Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo have great chemistry and the content is always interesting.
[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html
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>Many of those who were accused of wearing tinfoil hats because of their views on government surveillance turned out to be pretty reasonable after all, no?

No. In the security community much of this stuff was given serious thought and systems were developed to defend against these types of things (see TPMs). The only real surprise was the way it was being done to reckless abandon. There is a difference between the tinfoil hat approach of just envisioning things evil organizations/governments might do and assuming an intelligence gathering agency is gathering as much information as it can.

The more I think about it, your argument is so bad I wish I didn't even waste the time responding. You are just providing a completely unrelated example to try to give weight to baseless drivel. You could have just as easily used the same argument to support the argument that the moon-landing was faked.
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Lol, how does this degrade women? Are you a feminist or just drunk? (Is there anything that won't degrade women these days?)
"Your story is boring until proven otherwise." Lora Kolodny
It says she paid for the health insurance back when she was younger. It isn't free. She paid for it already.
>In a country of 300million people, I don't think that "get to know the person that you want to be president, so that you can personally endorse them" is a scalable solution.

It's not about getting to know them as people. It's about getting to know their platform, and pushing for this or that platform inside party processes.

>For most citizens, that would play out as "join a party, receive the newsletters in the mail, feel good about the direction the party is going, and get lied to every two years."

Well, then you ain't gonna have a democracy. It's an off the couch thing. You cannot have a democracy if you're not concerned with whats going on and voicing that as part of a power process every day.
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I've not seen this before. To me that reads like mixed tense, where lead (rhyming with steed) is the present tense of led
EBooks need to be Segregated
Another Spritz-like implementation: http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/speedread.html
Not if the commited and involved measure in the hundrends of millions (at least something like 10-20% of the voters) and are vigilant.
Had this idea for years, couldn't think of a way to make money out of it, and also the fear of drug trafficking, the need to clear customs, the need for an import export license etc.

The idea is nice, I'm an expat so I always ask friends who fly back home to bring stuff, especially snacks that you cant find here. But making it a business is really tricky. I would gladly use such a service if it caches up, but I don't have the energy to invest in finding how to do it right.
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I like a lot of these things for sure. The only thing that I really wish they'd do that I've seen no sign they plan to is move git-subtree from contrib into the main distribution. It's such a useful thing.
I made GPS navigation in SVG back in 2005: http://techinorg.blogspot.no/p/erik-itland.html
The Iberian peninsular was inhabited by arabic speakers for over 700 years, there are a huge number of words in castellano (the Spanish language), directly borrowed from them.[0]

In total around 8% of the spanish dictionary is derived from arabic.[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language_influence_on_th...

[1] http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/asele/pdf/1...
Hypothetically, if you stumbled upon some folks arguing about Lotus Notes R3, wouldn't you assume they knew the standard windows shortcuts?

(Trick question, R3 only had ctrl-insert etc OS/2 shortcuts!)

In any case I apologize my paste-buffer foibles denied you my three paragraphs of immense wisdom regarding the good & bad of an obsolete end-user friendly distributed database system that went out of style a couple decades ago.
>And that is echoed in various other economic comment in later years. So there is an uncomfortable lack of research.

Seriously? You use the words "almost certainly" and are now trying to weasel out when simply asked to back up your statement? The correct response when you don't have data is to say - I don't know at the moment.

>So given both that model and the lack of evidence, to say an increase in availability of goods, with a still strong level of production, is a good thing, seems very reasonable, does it not?

Lack of evidence is just proof of lack of evidence. You don't get to make any wild assertions because they sound reasonable in your head. And even if you do, you have to qualify them with the appropriate words - you don't get to say "almost certainly".

>What does that even mean? Really, what?

Perform my thought experiment.

> If people buy more coffee machines and make coffee at home, perhaps coffee-shop owners are going to say they are losing 'potential income'. Oh no! we had better ban the use of coffee-making machines!

Thats a rather childish way of twisting my argument. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand and does not deserve a response.

>The law is not there to ensure certain businesses make as much money as they think they should. (Well, sadly it currently is, but it ought not to be.)

If you don't like the law, get it changed. What have you done in that regard?

--

There is a solution for your problem that doesn't involve breaking laws just because you don't like them.

1) Support artists who put out their work in non-copyrighted form. Perhaps they could have a new model like kickstarter for music/movies/games with people pledging money.

2) Help reduce piracy of copyrighted material and get people to support above artists.

3) The vastly increased sales of those artists will attract even more artists to that model creating a nice feedback loop.

4) Copyrighted forms of entertainment will diminish in their importance and the MPAA/RIAA could perhaps cease to exist.
I think that the king of miss-pronunciation is prof. Joseph Stiglitz. The guy is genius but the way he pronounces the words 'state', 'etcetera' and many others is hilarious.
Why spend time increasing the amount of unsafe code in the world, if comparable speeds can be achieved in better designed languages?!
Windows Performance Recorder.
Chromium on Linux replacing GTK+
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I was talking about the tl;dr guys :P
Mind sharing some config details? Does that minimap work in the terminal?
As a Smalltalk enthusiast, I am really glad to see lively-web in actual use.
Good advice...

I am new to the development community in most ways and have only recently learned that GitHub is important in demonstrating experience. (although pretty obvious when put in that light...)

I have worked on a project that I started, designed, developed and shipped (well, it was deployed in-house at the company I worked). Actually the whole thing is kind of a crazy story but I won't bore you with it here. Important thing is that I hadn't really thought about it and can't say for certain I would have brought it up, your notes will ensure I do.

And yeah, I definitely need some work in Objective-C, especially if I want to be considered a programmer in closed-toed shoes and a sports jacket...

Side Note:

Realizing that it may be extremely obvious... what is an API chaser?
I haven't seen the second meaning used in English. But in Dutch they could/would correspond to "klieven" (split in two) and "kleven" (glue together).
Because the goal should be to use productive safer languages, while increasing the code quality of their toolchains.

Many languages that have native code compilers (AOT or JIT) can be used. It is just many seem to think only C and C++ are the only game in town.

Personally I look forward to improved code generation in alternative language compilers, so that we go back to the time where C and C++ were just two among many languages with available compilers one could choose from.
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Are the laws designed solely to maximize levels of service to consumers? Are they amenable to change at all due to technological adaptation? Or have they morphed into protectionism?
Lol, even the AI failed :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwdmj5rbgvackls/Screenshot%202014-...
Etymology of the color "orange"
I have heard native English speakers in the U.S. with a habit of attempting to pronounce the "h" in words that start with "wh". "white" being a notable example. Furthermore, in their efforts they transpose the two letters, so "white" comes out as "hwight" rather than "wite". I've always thought this to be some sort of affectation intended to elevate themselves above the hoi polloi, but maybe there's some historical basis for it.
I agree! Overall I truly prefer git subtree over submodules. I've noticed that most devs seem to have strong opinions one way or another.

Perhaps git subtree just seems so good because submodules are so clunky. If only someone would invent a "best of both worlds".
Data IO, formatting, pre and post processing and presentation.

My standard approach is to use python to read in all my data, parse it, format it and beat it into the shape I want. Then, if I need the performance, I pass the data to a highly tuned C function for slowest number crunching parts. Then I take the data back from C and parse it, format it, summarize it and write it out to the file formats I want using python. C may be faster for number crunching, but python is much nicer for data handling, and there the performance difference is negligible.
The latest iteration of the language, yes. Fifty or a hundred years from now, we'll see. I think (hope) that we'll see a backlash against merging and simplification. Perhaps leetspeak will be the new Esperanto.

Since we're trading anectotes, I'll share mine here:

When taking words from another language, the process often falls under one of two types: loanwords, which are taken intact from their native language (e.g. doppelganger), and calques, which are literally translated as idiom (e.g. flea market).

What's the anecdote? Loanword is a calque of the German lehnwort, and calque is a French loanword.
I'm sure many mental related illnesses can be described this way though. We know a lot about the brain but not nearly enough to form a clear categorization.

Does something like [this](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22983386) characterize the described differences symptoms report?

Anyway, when it comes to health issues, the burden of proof rests on ethical issues. It's better to explore all these problems people seem to have. Years ago in biopsych we were shown that early age treatment was important for preventing much worse symptoms later in life. Unreversable but treateable.

If that IS the case, then there is a _great_ problem with people that make a big fuss over children not being treated.

But I'm not a neuroscientist or a doctor. The claims of "over-diagnosing" seem unfounded if there are treatable symptoms that we just happen to currently call ADHD. Comparing diagnostic rates to an earlier time is just silly.
Which OpenGL flavor to support 2.x, 3.x or 4.x, followed by which GLSL level to support, and which GL ES flavor to support 1.x, 2.0 or 3.0 and their respective GLSL levels.

Not to mention vendor specific extensions and workarounds driver bugs.

So one ends with multiple code paths, if several versions are to be supported. Similar to how HTML or POSIX are portable, but then again not so much.
15,456

Yup, this one works very well.
Where does it say >$10k?
If you still have one, here is my email: g.kanoufi@gmail.com
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I've been using this for 2-3 months already. The fact you can send magnet links from chrome is what sold me on its usefulness. Thank you dev.
Another good example how dynamic languages can be made to execute faster with good native code generation support than having to force people to use C or similar.

Looking forward to Julia's JIT improvements. This is only the early days.
Maybe it is the other way round. He didn't want to damage his professional reputation which could have happened if important and vocal members of the crypto community had declared that they thought the project ridiculous.

Just like Carlo Pedersoli renamed himself Bud Spencer so as not to damage his good reputation as an olympian athlete with his movies.
Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
Recently I've had an enlightening discussion with a colleague about notation in maths and computing. I don't want to "lead the witness" so I'm not going to repeat it here, but I'd like to ask about the internal understanding of individuals in this community.

What do you understand by the expression "6 x 4" ? I fully expect that I haven't covered all the possibilities, I know that self-selected polls are useless for proper statistics, I know that some people just click all the options, etc. All that not withstanding, I'd be interested to see what people think.

Thanks.
Six lots of four;
Six, four copies of;
Four lots of six;
24;
I don't understand the question;
None of the above;
Something entirely different.
A big chunk of wood.
> Facebook evacuation

At first glance, this conjured up mental images of users worldwide being told to log out of their accounts and not use the site until further notice.
Since the image is actually rebuilt server-side to reflect the current rotation of the earth, it's simple to just rotate it with CSS based on the current time:

http://jsfiddle.net/4taWt/1/
Perhaps because talking about that doesn't invalidate the points he's making? It's a hard business.
> Of course French elevated this spelling conservativism to a fetish, proving that you can go to[o] far.

A funny way to respond to English inserting a spurious 'b' into the French dette / dete.

> I find it sad that languages like German that reform their spelling to make it more phonetic saw away the history and meaning from the words and force you to memorise, rather than deduce, meanings

(my emphasis)

This is overstated to the point of complete absurdity. You are always forced to memorize the meanings of words; that's the difference between words and sentences. To a great extent, if you don't have to memorize the meaning, it's not a word. (There are word-level syntax bits, such as arguably the re- prefix to verbs, but really the fact that the meaning is arbitrary is the essence of a word.)
Go to namecheap, click on "new TLDs" they're rolling out every week.
Dons tinfoil hat Obviously a distraction created so that the NSA could thoroughly bug the place.
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Hello,

It looks looks, however Spritz went a little further, the sweet spot of the human eye is a little to the left of the center, that is where the "red" character should be.
On your example you see the larger words do jump around a bit and it is not as efficient.
If your pure Darwinian vision of the future were to manifest and hence there was no threat of prosecution, I'm pretty certain you'd be offed rapidly due to your savage annoyingness. The rule of law and the social norms that you decry are actually what is protecting you.

I'm just speculating, though; perhaps you would be crowned King of All There Is and paid the fealty you are so surely due, as you have responsibly planned whilst the impoverished clearly have not. All hail Nirnira, may the bones of the weak be used to grow his giant throne!

[apologies for feeding the troll, he's just so cute but ideologically dangerous]
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As a rule of thumb, English is choke-full of Anglo-Saxon/French redundancies that rarely come to light due to a register separation. Anglo-Saxon etymons tend to the lower registers of language, French (along with Latin, although the line between a word that came from French or straight from Latin can be very blurred, and Greek) ones to the higher.
I think someone who read about FB "donating" money for extra police officers decided to "prank" FB and the county police department. The timing is just too precise. One has to question whether FB is really under any threat and whether internal security is enough or not. i spoke before that if FB couldn't keep strangers entering the building or walking pass the campus, that's the fault of the security contractor.

I think there are only two real threats: data thief and employees' mental health under pressure.
Wait, are we looking at the same graphs? Doesn't this show that for large problem sets cython and julia are pretty much equivalent as long as you choose the best algorithm?
This API wasn't available until Ice Cream (4.0). I don't know WhatsApp user makeup, but I wouldn't be surprised if this "system" is a holdover of what was available to them in Eclair.
Thanks; you're right.
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But wait... cattle and kine are the same thing, much like cease and desist. Kith and kin aren't the same. Do you also think it's strange to say "friends and family"?
For the record, he talks like this in person, too. Then again, so I do, but usually with slightly fewer syllables than Devin does.

(also, @devin, doppelgänger, ;) )
This is nothing new - I've been using this app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....) for ages to sync my SMS and call log to Gmail, and for the past year or so, it's also been able to sync Whatsapp messages.
<fx: Grin> Thanks for that - really helpful. Reveals some of your background nicely. Related, I was seriously tempted the other day to apply a "Clue by four" to one of my customers. Hard to resist ...
"Straight out of university I started freelance developing."

You have done freelance development. You have seen the worst. You probably have more experience working with other people than people who only worked in a single (large) team.

Chill out. They have much to learn from you.
Any chance you could outline the downside of subtree? I've always thought it was better in every way.
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Well... they're certainly being merged as to spelling. As to pronunciation? Are juice and jews close to being homophones? Moss and maws? Place and plays? Fuss and fuzz? This is a pretty robust distinction in english.
Puppet and Chef fall in different places on imperative/declarative spectrum. From the Chef docs (http://docs.opscode.com/chef_why.html):

> For each node a list of recipes is applied. Within a recipe, resources are applied in the order in which they are listed.

So it reads in a declarative fashion, but it doesn't actually build a dependency graph (and a static representation of config) like Puppet does.

Anybody who's done enough systems programming can put together something similar to Chef--it's the same old imperative stuff everybody else has written, except with an idempotent sugar-coating and a client/server model to distribute the script^H^H^H^H^H^Hcookbooks. ;-)

I'm not putting chef down--the fact that it's plain old ruby instead of a slightly-odd DSL is a definite advantage in some cases, but I don't think that anything else out there is really in the same category as Puppet.

Of course, there are things about Puppet that bug me, but I really think that it's the Right Thing at its core. The idea that it's not "good enough" seems like a consequence of incorrectly conflating Puppet with the systems that it manages.
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I love you made something and open sourced it, however your multiple mentions of $3.5 million ignores a lot of what goes into software development:

- Most of Spritz's work went into the R&D, not the actual code. Anyone can copy the end result.

- Zethos ignores a lot of the science that makes Spritz work so well.

- Spritz does localization, not just best-guess-English.

- Usability (as in, how do I even run Zethos on, say, a book?) is important.

- Spritz has an SDK for Android, iOS, JavaScript and more. They support Google Glass, watches, etc. Ubiquity is important.

- Marketing, bizdev, support, design, QA, legal, HR.

- Money raised is a horrible metric for code. Even revenue wouldn't work here.

Think about it this way: a ton of people cloned Flappy Birds in HTML when it came out, but none of them are worth anything. I could do a decent rendition of Facebook in a few hours, but that doesn't make me Mark Zuckerberg.
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