skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it because that's the closest term I can think of where a single person gets so strongly associated with an organization that we attribute the qualities of that organization to the person. I guess it's not exactly right, but I can't think of a better term, either. Maybe 'personify'. I'd bet German has a good word for this.
I'm not entirely sure why this question was downvoted

Because HN is now full of people who already know the answer and who like to troll HN.
Art and music are not unusual things to get into. But computer programming is often not presented as an option to anyone, especially women. So plenty of motivated and talented people might not even be introduced to it, or take it seriously.
CMU is a top tier school. Why would you expect hot-shot programming experience to be relevant to their computer science program?
At first, I wasn't sure why you posted this, but I was too busy rocking out to mind.
The EU also has 8-10 year residency requirements, based on country. Malta is the shortest, at only a year, but you have to cough up € 1 million.
> "It is a weakness of mine that I don't like bosses, unless they are very, very intelligent."

I share your "weakness", but I don't view it as a weakness at all. Why would you want to work for a stupid boss anyway? I feel in the end you should enjoy work, since it's a large part of your live anyway.

"Life’s too short and too complicated for people behind desks and people behind masks to be ruining other people’s lives, initiating force against other people’s lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever…" - Jeff Buckley when talking about the background of the song Eternal Life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxq-EaNcgok
I don't know what Microsoft did to you personally to make you so bitter, so I'll ignore your tone and address your comments in the spirit of the post you replied to - I think the point is, when looked at from the point of view of sound engineering principles, isn't that behavior somewhat logical? Having one common operating system is just exercising DRY, once-and-only-once architecture... and Microsoft's 'embrace/extend' approach to 'not-invented-here' reimplimentation? That's just pragmatic refusal to take third-party dependencies, which any engineer can probably relate to. You can object to how that behavior manifests itself in the market when taken to corporate scale, but at least consider the validity of the analogy.
Seconded. I've been a long term Newsblur customer--even got a handwritten postcard!--and it's only improved over time. I _adore_ Newsblur.
There are just more people, plus the process of sharing tracks is easier than on what.cd (no need to create torrents and write info), so you will always find more stuff on Soulseek.
IME great developers and great managers are attracted to each other. The few times I've been on great teams (I'm a developer) when the top one or two devs left, the team fell apart. Same thing happened on other teams when the great PM left. The talented people with career mobility know when they're put in a bad spot and have the ability to get out.
There is software[1] available for mouse gestures, although it appears that it's third party and hasn't been updated in some time. Firefox has some very nice add-ons that do mouse gestures as well. For X11, there's Easystroke.

[1] http://briankendall.net/xGestures/
This is what I read after going to this site:

Hi, I'm a "creator/founder" looking for people to finish my cockamamie idea in which I can stamp my name all over it when it's finished. I use the old, tired "changing the world" slogan over and over. I'm basically what's wrong with the internet.
Which is impressive considering the size and number of contributors...
My alma mater, the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, gave the choice of three degrees: a BA (CS), a BSc (CS), and a Bachelor of Computing.
Maybe instead of rolling up sleeves and jumping into the democratic process, what techies really want to do is figure out how to get people buzzing about what they're buzzing about, and then jump into the midst of that process.
This is awesome.

Can `statement_description` also be supplied when attempting to `pay` an invoice? For example, with http://churnbuster.io/ we're frequently reopening and calling `pay` on 2-3 past due invoices for customers who have been receiving service while in an email or phone campaign to get their updated payment information. Currently we automatically generate an email to the customer explaining why they're seeing 2-3 charges in close succession, otherwise they'll email or call wondering why they were "double billed." However, it would be awesome be able to include "january" or "past due" when charging those invoices.
from twitter (@gardaud):

“What’s pip?”
“A python package manager”
“How do I install it?”
“easy_install pip”
“What’s easy_install?”
“A python package manager”
Supposedly Netflix is anxious to dump Silverlight on OS X as soon as they get an "HTML5" alternative that supports DRM.
This is great. Just met someone who works at the FoodBank and as she described some of her tech problems it became pretty apparent that some basic CRUD apps could save them many, many hours every year. I do not think this is an uncommon thing.
All startups should be looking at their form conversion rates and tracking abandonment at the field level to find usability issues like this to fix. Even though AirBnB has helped the host set an initial price, the biggest area of opportunity is dynamic pricing that adjusts based on forecasted demand.

I saw that one company was tackling this by trying to use local hotel pricing as a proxy of demand and then tune prices for hosts to maximize revenue.

I wonder if AirBnB is trying to maximize occupancy or revenue when they suggest a price point for hosts?
Those are just the data races they found, though. There are quite likely many more.
Are you sure that wasn't a bandwidth issue?
Oh, man. Of course, AudioGalaxy was the greatest. The ability to queue songs up from anywhere and have them waiting for you when you got home! To this day, I think all song files should be in the format "artist - album.mp3"
"Making driving more expensive however, does reduce traffic and fatalities."

Citation? I'd love to see exactly how this correlation looks.
This is what the US can learn from the UK
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LOL. I know guys who have worked the last 20 years on Oracle, and they'll have no trouble finding work for 20 more. The same for Visual C++. Or a whole host of other things. The world isn't as simple as GNU ideology would have you believe.
That goes back to the perpetual debate between applied and theory classes. I'm not sure if it has to do with LACs vs research universities or whatnot.
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Sometimes managers will take credit without the person ever knowing. It's hard to take credit for your own work when you don't have a communication channel with people above you. Managers do and you can't stop them for saying a piece of work is there's when really a team member did all the real work and the manager just put their name on it. The manager knows that the likelihood of the person communicating with his peers is small or non-existent and the person will never find out.
Viruses? Never happened to me.

Incorrectly named tracks, sure. But not that often, and in any case I use Discogs.com and Musicbrainz Picard to get the titles correct.
Don't be so negative. Recruiting is hard. For small things that like this that might get attention and are entirely harmless? Let it go.
Wow, I hope that's not the impression we're giving.

These are scientific or charitable projects, not startups. We've already had a few nice problems solved. For example, a charity that does neuroscience training in Africa had its broken website fixed and now has some long-term help from developers.

Credit for the solution will always be given to the solvers.
Oh, man. Of course, Audiogalaxy was the greatest. The ability to queue songs up from anywhere and have them waiting for you when you got home! To this day, I think all song files should be in the format "artist - album.mp3"
> It was a classic tragedy of the commons

seven hells...
The main reason why Apple's solution is special is because it is intended to charge both phones and tablets.

The only real problem with it is that it is proprietary and not standard. Other than that, it is clearly superior to MicroUSB.
I am 28 years old, have no college degree... actually i didnt finish high school either ;)

Have been dabbling in design, development, seo, marketing and petty much anything web/business related since i was 20 years old.

I also felt that i was in between an average computer user and super technical genius and wondered how I could use my skills to move forward while there were so many highly technical people out there.

One day i decided to start aiming for higher responsibility positions that would force me to grow and adapt, i only did this because i knew that i was the type of person that picks up skills fast and sees the job through.

I went through a few positions as a developer/designer, content writer, marketing manager, SEO manager and finally after 6 years i stumbled into project management for a development/design company and now i truly feel that i am using all my past experience and varied talents, so the past feels like it was an investment of my time.

Our company is small, at around 50 people, with 45% of those people being developers and I am now learning skills related to PM and people skills like motivation, dealing with bad seeds and building relationships. I am able to use my technical skills to translate client requirements to our developers and designers and also able to consult with clients to provide solutions based on my past experience.

You'll need to simply put value in what you know right now and think to yourself, i've made it this far and am willing to go further, so..... where do i want to go? You may choose going more technical, getting a degree and becoming a full time developer, if thats what you see yourself doing then go for it, anybody can learn to code. But it seems that you have not went that far for a reason and so you should think hard about it before investing your time into something you dont want to do for a long time.

Good luck whatever you choose.

BTW, i make $80k+ a year and thats actually pretty low for my position.
>And why does he repeatedly belittle coding?

The same reason other articles on HN in recent days/months/years have: People spend their efforts on sexting apps and Candy Crush ripoffs instead of tackling "real change".

It's hard, complex, and I don't really blame young talent for going after the big money... but it can look pretty frivolous at times.
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Neuroplasticity primarily relates to the evolved ability of young children to rapidly, effortlessly acquire basic, evolutionarily critical behaviours - language systems and other core social behaviour necessary for tight social integration (and later various more complex but still critical secondary social behaviours) in a small hunter gatherer pack essentially - all picked up subconsciously from the social environment.

The important difference is that all of this acquisition is a result of tens of thousands of years of consistent natural selection. It's hard-wired because humans have needed these things, and children have needed them as fast as possible, for a long long time.

The things humans attempt to learn in modern times however (non-native languages, formal systems of logic, the ability to argue and reason in complex fashions, the ability to program complex systems) are completely evolutionarily unprecedented, and the result is clear: children are not able to acquire these behaviours effortlessly. They don't just rub off. Instead they (generally) require focussed, extensive supervision and tuition from humans that have already put in the hard work of mastering them.

So the relevance of neuroplasticity still seems small to me.
I got a full refund on a $100-ish purchase last year that took too long to show up (I think they issued it on the 7th day and the package showed up the next day).
The 3/14 thing is called a 'hook [1] - a journalistic practice to make the article relevant to today. I just thought this was unnecessary as the actual science content of the article was, to me, very interesting in its own right. Thats all really.

[1] http://mediacareers.about.com/od/glossary/g/Hook.htm
Not at all. If production of dollars was competitive, they would be priced near the cost of production. I'm not saying there are no valid critiques of USD and our monetary system. I'm saying that it is not bad for the reasons monopoly is usually bad.
Soulseek is way better, and has always been.

It never went away, it has always been my number one choice for music downloading, whether it's incredibly rare releases, or the most commercial stuff I use for my DJ'ing.

Put simply, there's very little music you can't find on Soulseek, especially when you use the "wish list" function and have the program auto search for you at regular intervals.
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Politicians do this all the time and we never get any useful answers out of them as a result. Not sure it is an improvement.
How actively to pension funds trade? The HFT squeeze harms people who jump in and out of positions quickly. Don't pension funds buy and hold, and thus benefit from reduced transaction costs? One of the hardest things to do in the market --- shopping huge blocks --- is simultaneously something HFT is good at and something that inflicts costs on institutional buy-and-hold investors.
Thanks! I enjoy your comments, glad to hear you're excited about the campaign.
Switch to a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and do AltGr+PrtScr+H - if you've got Magic SysReq enabled that will print the help information (a list of commands with their (k)eycodes) to the terminal. If it doesn't print anything then you need to RTFM to find out how to enable it. AFAIR I had to do this shortly after I switched to Kubuntu as it was disabled by default - I often had to use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or AltGr+SysRq+K to kill X as there's a hardware bug on my Nvidia graphics card.

My 8yo has a mnemonic for it something about Elephants and Umbrellas but I've always done reissub (now with extra sync'ing power). For a time the process for him was login, Alt+F2, konsole, Ctrl+R, mine, Enter, AltGr+SysRq+R, E, I, S, U, B; then repeat the first part and you're finally ready to play Minecraft!
Neat. And next year it will be 3/14/15 in middle-endian.
"having to ship a substantial amount of gold continuously to France,"

And having to print Marks to buy that gold, at whatever price was being asked, from people who had no particular need for Marks.
The problem is that for most cases, management IS parasitic. It's only the edge cases with those great managers where they aren't.
I used to use Ctrl+alt+backspace but it doesn't work anymore on many desktop environments.
The relevance (to my mind) is that Angular tries to bring in MVC and other Patterns.

And I think any time you attempt to mix PoEAA style Patterns with weak Type systems you're trying to force a square peg into a round hole.

IME it's much more successful to focus on the Functional aspects, Declarative binding, and Modularization since with tools like jQuery these things are JavaScript's bag.

And Angular is about as far from a Functional style as you can get. So to me at least it feels very much like the wrong tool (JavaScript) for the job (building and using an MVC framework).
So, here's how I think about it:

Any program, of any type, has a synchronous story to it: data came in, then this happened to it, then this happened to it, then it left. If you follow the program execution, this is how it works.

It's very easy to reason about, right? And it's very easy to program this way.

One of the biggest breakthroughs in computer engineering was the idea of multiple concurrent processes (and nevermind that behind the scenes they were still running on a single processor!), and then later still true concurrent multi-processor architectures.

We developed operating systems and compilers and runtimes specifically to let us take advantage of that without the having to break from easy-to-reason-about synchronous code.

~

Node said, hell with it, everything is async all the time. This is really annoying at first, because there are many many times where sync is the best way to reason about something.

That said, there is some beauty in such a hard-line approach: if you are truly async, handling an error is the same as handling a task which takes too long. Once you've paid that price properly, you're fine. (This is also what makes Erlang kind of cool.)

The big frustration is that there really ought to be a way of writing synchronous-looking Javascript code (ES5) which--behind the scenes!--is multiplexed and made to run concurrently and without blocking. The mechanisms are all there for programmers to deal with exceptional failures (exceptions, anyone?), and so are synchronization points (functions having multiple arguments should probably join on the evaluation of those arguments before being invoked--that's something the interpreter should be doing already).

I guess what I'm saying is...why don't JS interpreters do lazy evaluation and late binding?
Reserves are the cash on hand available to pay people able to demand it. Since in practice, except during a run, only a fraction of a bank's liabilities are called in at any given time, it is safe to keep less cash on hand than the entire amount that could be withdrawn instantly.

The rest is converted to assets with equivalent value that have worse than instant liquidity, but a higher return on investment. This keeps the balance sheet honest with respect to the total value of assets and liabilities, but technically, the bank cannot honor all of its commitments in the worst case scenario. That's fractional reserve.

Mt. Gox does not even have the imaginary, illiquid assets to balance out its depositor liabilities. That makes it bankrupt, not fractional reserve.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...
These days isn't BS more or less shorthand for "took calculus and a real lab science" these days?
People on HN tend not to understand that the beneficiaries of the pre-HFT trading regime were, basically, rent-seekers that profited (often collusively) by increasing the costs of trading.
I've spent at least a year after a 3 month course until I've felt that I wouldn't get lost in a programming job. But my own standards are rather high and I wasn't looking for a job where I also need to do dirty deeds like photoshopping and fixing windows boxes. It did quite a lot freelancing in my first years. I got my first paid position after 3 years iirc. After around 8 years I got my first senior position. Someone more progressive can get there faster.

I wouldn't expect any company with a serious software department to hire someone with less than 2 years of experience. Internships are possible, of course.

Things that may change that:

* awesome references (hobby projects, github etc.)

* background that overlaps the companies domain

* proven uber talent

* FoaFs

Either look for companies with low standards or paid internships. Also freelancing is a good opportunity to get yourself started.
Thanks Nancy! :)
They can and do. By the droves. Great engineers come not only from liberal arts but from a variety of disciplines. The best engineers I've worked with did not have CS or CE degrees and neither do I. Some of them had nothing but a high school diploma or GED. Formal training is certainly not needed, and in many cases, it's a hamper. Also, the money wasted on such is much better spent elsewhere, especially considering the curriculum and many colleges/universities, one that is hardly up to date and does not prepare students for real world development.
Numberphile's Pi playlist: highly recommended! http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C
On the Mac it works brilliantly. I don't know about the QT port on PC, but I would assume it has surpassed the old client by now, after all these updates.
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Please do ask her to post on Solvers. If she needs help formulating the project just ask her to email us: team@solvers.io
Hum majors who take up coding are more than welcome to try,but they should be warned: programming is hard. It's easier than multivariable calculus, but there there ARE right and wrong answers, and you WILL come a point when you'll hit a wall and be frustrated, and you need to have the perseverance to get through those points. If this is to be your career you need to commit to a virtual lifetime of learning and growing.

Also, start with Python. I know some of you think it's neat to jump right in with JavaScript and make cool animations and dynamic web pages, but -- I'm from the future. You should start with Python.
Thanks for trying to diagnose my computer over a web forum, but I am competent enough to identify when and how my computer has failed. I'm not interested anecdotes from users. I develop video drivers. Am I allowed to experience these lockups now?
Timezone hell is, of course, followed up with the three-headed hound of locales, charmaps, and keyboard layouts. And if you pass by that, you drop into the river of cache coherency...

(Esoteric software-engineering topics could make a wonderful video game, you know?)
Would you mind to elaborate in which way the use of AES-CBC makes the encryption insecure?
Follow what makes you happier.
We had such a problem at the company I worked last year.

The RnD-Director was a dev and wanted to develop and not to tell people what they should do or don't. So he went back being a dev and gave the position to another one, he probably still got the same pay but with a job he found much more pleasing.

The CTO of the company left it, because of the same reasons. He thinks of himself as a computer scientist and not a manager. He wants to solve technical problems and don't talk to the big bosses of customer companies or manage people around.
But he believes that the U.S. House — rather than state or local government — is the perfect place to start. “I’m running to tackle the issues that most affect families in South Jersey, like too few jobs, too high student debt, the need to act on climate change and the opportunity to make vital investments in education and infrastructure,” he says. “On those and many other issues, the leadership of the House of Representatives have obstructed any attempts at moving our country forward.”

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Thinking like this is why we have a gigantic, anti-Constitutional federal government. Why can't he work on infrastructure in NJ at the state or local level? Why can't he work on jobs programs and economic incentives for businesses in NJ?

Climate change is the only thing listed that needs action above a state level.