skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All three schools will give you a top flight engineering education. As a Harvard grad you will have world wide creds and wont be pegged as pure tech nerd. I am a Harvard grad, albeit nearly half a century ago and have resided in Silicon Valley for 45 years. If I had to do it all over again, I would probably go to Stanford. Better weather and prettier girls. In January walking around campus in Cambridge, you're not even sure what species they are.
For the record, the right way to do this is to just log the request to your database, and have a background process pull the log and take appropriate action later.
It's also worth noting that not all usages of "blind", such as "legally blind", are the same as total blindness. It's conceivable that extremely poor vision (acquired through natural reasons or accident) could be just good enough to allow painstaking circuit construction with a magnifier.

I suppose a breadboard could be done by feel, as well.

Also, I'll quip that I've learned through hard experience not to trust that the red and black wires are used correctly. :-)
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Interested is too mild a word. This is fantastic, Jeremy Parish is also a legend in the retrogaming community. Retronauts (old and new) is a must listen to podcast.
gut instinct is a wonderful thing, don't ignore it completely :)

this sounds like yet another case of a non-technical person trying to strong arm a developer/designer/the person that does actual product development into signing away their rights.

in my very limited experience and from others i know, unequal equity split for co-founders usually always ends up with someone becoming sour over time that they're not getting their fair share. you may not think you might be that person, but if the app takes off or somewhere down the line the company is acquired, would you be okay with not receiving a single penny?

don't sign anything without talking to a lawyer. if you don't know what you're signing, you might even be worse off than signing a "standard NDA".

you can always say no.
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Agreed. When I read this article my first thought was, "What about dot"?

It can get complex, but the basic syntax is as simple as what this article suggests.
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The xkcd-style passwords may be less vulnerable to a brute-force attack, but they are more vulnerable to a dictionary attack.

There are (very) roughly 2^17 words in the dictionary, so if you pick 4 there are 2^68 possibilities, or 2.95e20.

There are 94 printable characters on a US keyboard. This means that an 11-character "hard to remember" password has over 16 times as many (~2^72, 5.06e21) combinations as a four-word xkcd style password.

But again, we are comparing two different types of attacks. I don't even know how feasible a 4-word dictionary attack is, or whether it's actually used "in the wild". Still interesting to think about.
Do you not know what "most" means? How does one anecdote invalidate his claim?
"There are more technical jobs open than qualified candidates to fill them."

I love how virulent memes just get reiterated as fact once they reach a certain critical threshold. This one in particular, is pure bullshit as has been falsified over and over again [1][2][3][4]. If you see people bring this up, please set them straight. This meme needs to be killed.

Labor has never been in such high supply, and it has never been cheaper. [5][6]

With regards to stupidly overpriced education, I recommend it to those who can afford it because it is an extremely enjoyable experience. Don't take out 300k of loans to do it though. Instead, use online courseware (EdX, Coursera) to build a useful skill set, work for a few years, then go to college if you really want the social experience and old boys network. Because that's the only thing college has to offer in this day and age.

1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

2. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/the-fake-skills-...

3. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myt...

4. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245494/What_STEM_sho...

5. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-demo...

6. http://inequalityforall.com/
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I haven't done any programming since highschool (AP C++) and recently did a self-guided online RoR course.

Simply put, I was frightened by how much I was forced to rely on my 10 year old C++ programming abilities to understand the principals behind what this online course was teaching me.

Someone without any programming experience would get more out of learning principals of computer science with almost any language than a high level MVC framework like rails - there's just too much magic that you'll never understand.
Wow this is creepy
Canonical has been trying to do that with Ubuntu. Unfortunately they and open source community haven't gotten along well enough and they haven't managed to apply enough polish to the UI.
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Everybody who has this problem should just get the dang degree. It's not very expensive and not that much work, assuming you've actually learned enough to justify one.

Some established licensed and accredited state schools that will grant a degree entirely by examination:

http://www.excelsior.edu/

http://www.wgu.edu/
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I think org-mode is a much better fit for what the author is looking for than mind-mapping programs, not least because org files can be literate programs.
Thank you so much for pointing that out. It did seem too good to be true.
Algebraicist, but I eat corn in discrete rings. Or just cut off the kernels with a knife.
I disagree with this. It drove me nuts when my first-year economics professor had a perfect Excel graph containing two crossed straight lines to demonstrate supply and demand. None of it made sense to me until she showed me a graph from her third-year course with actual data in it. xkcd-style graphs would have helped me with my understanding, as would drawing them on the blackboard.
ZZT was brilliant. So simple and abstract visually, but it was programmable! I don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for all the hours spent writing ZZT-OOP.
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Depends on the position. Is it more like sales? Or more like engineering? This is what the difference looks like:

http://www.bhorowitz.com/through_the_looking_glass_hiring_sa...
I used Coinbase but my name wasn't on the list.
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I went to a suburban high school in the southeast, and while I'd heard of Stanford, I literally had no idea where it was. I thought it was in the northeast. No one from my high school had ever gone there, and I'd never even met anyone who went there (not that I knew of, anyway). It's probably different now, that was the mid 80s.

I'd heard plenty about all the ivy league schools, and kids from my high school went to them.

I was very aware of MIT as THE best tech school (in the reputation I'd heard), but I also had heard of CalTech at the hardest school.

Other schools that were on my radar did include Harvey Mudd, though I had no clue at all where it was. Colorado School Of Mines too, for some reason. Probably more because of the weird name than anything else.

I did well on the SAT and had a large box full of brochures schools sent me, so I got exposed to a lot of lesser-known places that way.

There was one that had me utterly fascinated, Deep Springs College. It's a 2 year school out in the desert. You basically work a ranch and take a sort of custom curriculum, then transfer to another school to finish a degree. I was too chicken to go, but if I could change one decision in my past, I'd go. I think it would have made for a radically different experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Springs_College
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Full disclosure: I'm an ASF member and one of the httpd developers and PMC members.

We're actually planning an experimental migration to nginx as part of Apachecon this coming weekend.
No, it actually didn't actually exist in Rome - for example, see the Wikipedia article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Ancient

The examples were apparently satirical, and had no legal standing under Roman law.

The exceptions were a few Roman emperors who had...interesting....whims.

But hey, it's the emperor, who are you to tell him what's legal or illegal.

Fast forward a few thousand years, and the one other exception is history is one Spanish priest in 1061.
IANAL - It's always upsetting to see the 'idea-guys' knock the engineers, so here are my $0.02.

So who owns the IP? If you haven't created a legal entity where you have signed over the IP, then I think technically it is yours, or at least 50% yours.

If that's the case, signing something like this seems a little shady. If you call her your co-creator, that implies you are part of the creation process, and if that's the case, I feel that signing this may not be the best idea.

Additionally, I always think people should have the difficult conversations first, and I think by not signing this, it's not like you are <em>fucking</em> her over, but instead laying out a difficult conversation on the table. I think all founders should be comfortable having conversations in the beginning about equity, and if she isn't comfortable with that, remember that you are part of the reason the product exists to begin with.

On the other hand, if you want to give it, I agree with ggchappell -> it sounds like you're giving her a gift. Yet there is still no reason to sign something like this.

I don't see the signing of this document helping you in any way, but hey - IANAL.
For tree data you may want to look into various XML designers / editors. You can easily define a recursive XSL style sheet that has the structure you want, after that there are various editors that automatically read that structure and give you a GUI from it.
It's been a few years but I found XMLSpy to be fairly decent. http://www.altova.com/xmlspy.html

Edit: The simplest tree editor is probably the file system on your computer. However, the problem is for proof's I suspect your going to want to have some sort of graph structure.

PS: If your willing to do some light coding XQuery/XSL-FO let's you transform the raw XML into various more user friendly formats like PDF's. However, if your structure is really nested that quickly get's hard for people to understand.
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It's an April Fool.

Anyway, I don't think it makes any sense to treat fingerprints (especially, but other biometrics too) as sensitive. It's a repeat of the social security number fiasco, except it's worse, we leave them everywhere we go.
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Yea ok, I got your point :)

Now we just need to make sure the data came from coinbase directly, which they refute. They say data comes from other services - mostly bitcoin related ones.
Normally the day I side with Serbian nationalists is a cold day in hell, but vasac is right. This is the end result of one of the worst kludges of the 1974 SFRY constitution, a master class document in doublespeak and not actually resolving issues between parties. Case in point: Hungarians and Albanians were "nationalities", not "nations". Why couldn't they be "nations"? Because they "already had one". Way to make your minorities feel disenfranchised at one fell swoop.
This ticket is linked from the second word of the article. What does this comment add to the discussion?
To be clear, the syntax I suggested in the article is what I want it to look like, not what I want to type in. It takes far too long to type most of those (except the lisp-style one).

I would like to be able to add nodes as easily as I add cards in Trello.
I just put a doc together on how to migrate from svn to git on my blog at http://jmoses.co/2014/03/21/moving-from-svn-to-git.html for all who is interested.
As I get older, I think it's best to hire someone who is most professional...that is, even if they aren't passionate about the specific task at hand, or even the long-range goal, they are committed to doing what they signed up for, and to do it as if it were their passion.

(And of course, I would hope that this hypothetical "professional" is also skilled).

Passion is nice, but it cuts both ways. Nothing is more frustrating than working with someone who is passionate...so passionate that they'll spend 36-hour-sprints hitting their head on the wall...leaving you to be the asshole who has to tell them, "thanks but no thanks for all your wasted energy." The risk is that they think "hard work" is better than nothing, when some situations place a much higher premium on "work smarter, not harder". And of course, hard work in the wrong direction is no good for anyone.

If an apathetic person joins you, knowing what's at stake...and proceeds to not produce...then the fault is both yours and theirs...you for not being clear enough on your goals and needs, and the skilled partner for either being dishonest or sociopathic or naive.

But I find it easier to figure out skilled people who may flake out, rather than passionate people who, with the best of intentions, ruin your plans.

A startupy simile might be this: Passion is to skill as Couchsurfing is to Airbnb. Couchsurfing is inspiring, and often works out well...until you run into hosts with unsaid and unrealistic expectations of the couchsurfing guest. Whereas with Airbnb, sure, it ends up being like any other sterile monetary transaction up front, but both the guest and host have agreed to terms and conditions and there's less risk of a blowup.
If you are an expert in some niche and are known in industry, not having a degree is not a problem. Bill Gates does not have degree and I am sure lots of companies want to hire him (even for board of directors). On the other hand if you are regular software engineer with average skills, not having degree will definitely close some opportunities. It does not mean you won't find a job (in this market you have to be really really bad to not get any offers) but you will miss promotion here and there or not called to interview for some better companies.

In the last seven years I have interviewed more than 150 people and only 2 or 3 did not have relevant technical degree.
I think instead of error bars, one could use blur to describe error http://blog.velir.com/uncertainty/index.html
Small correction: The MinnowBoard MAX only has 8MB of on-board flash, not 8GB. (It's an SPI chip to hold the firmware)
From that same page is the essential "Don't Make the Demo Look Done" post by Kathy Sierra:

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/1...

It drives at the same point as the original author, just from a different angle.
I've done a Google Ngrams API that generates plots in XKCD style here:

https://github.com/econpy/google-ngrams

and a webapp version with slightly more advanced XKCD tweaks here:

http://xkcd.culturomics.org

Everything starts with matplotlibs xkcd lib but has been tweaked to produce plots based on the output of the Google Ngram Viewer.
This is certainly an important point. There seems to be more potential in mind mapping software than I thought, but extensibility is key.
Ironically meta, considering how Threes was accused of being a clone of 2048.
I can see a talking meter being useful for even sighted people. Often you have to take measurements in awkward positions (like working on a car) so it'd be useful to just hear what the reading is.
Things go a little sideways at 1920x995, the clouds start to disappear/flicker on movement and the ropes they are hanging on are gone.
just to drive a point home about "calling out stupidity". Your follow up statement is the equivalent of stating "I'll never ever ever use a Windows product because several years ago I use Windows M.E. and it was so bad and they wouldn't fix anything so they can't possibly have fixed any of the issues I may or may not have actually experienced".

It really irks me when people use this sort of logic. I can't say what their support was like several years ago, but I have heard nothing but fantastic things about their support and service offerings over the last 2-3 years, and not by the general web user, but by us "nerd elites". So dude, chill the Eff out and don't be such a hard ass against something that happened admittedly several years ago.

Oh, and you call out "what could they possibly provide me after so many years", well you have a direct response from a customer support person who has offered the ability to "make it right". You do not know what they would be willing/capable of doing until you ask. So get off your high horse and just ask. They might surprise you...

/rant
I know Firefox isn't the 'hip' browser chrome is these days, but the responsive styles are completely broken in Firefox and IE.

Pretty amateurish.
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Doesn't actually matter. Go where you like the people.
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How would you compare Kanter's writing with Jon Stokes' writeups on ArsTechnica (back in the day)

(For example: http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/09/intels-next-must-hav...)
This is impressive and gorgeous, but it's so confusing. Seems like a terrible idea for business websites, but would have been perfect for something like the website for the TV show "Lost"
I use them on my site for each product's outfits, because it was the only way to always see the outfits next to the original products rather than scrolling down and seeing the outfits out of context. I can't think of a better way to achieve this, what do you think? whatgoestiththis.co is the site and click on any product to see.
One thing I've always wondered - has anyone written something that works over UDP but offers fairly basic TCP-like reliability functionality? So you'd have the speed advantage of UDP, however you could test the validity of your data, for instance.
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Yes, with these newly moved goalposts, I agree, and I mentioned it earlier today: Coinbase is giving your ID not just to people you've interacted with (which makes sense) but to people who have expressed the vaguest desire to interact with you (might might not make sense).

But in the comment I was replying to was pointing out that Netflix never gives your ID to anybody, which is not a fair comparison because Netflix is in an entirely different business. Netflix customers never interact with each other. Coinbase users do interact, and identity is usually essential for interaction.
But not very human-readable and therefore it is inadequate for editing.
You're the one being ridiculous.

- There was no email leak from Coinbase. The source of the email list used against the API is unknown at this time.

- Someone who's savvy enough to call an an API in a multi-threaded fashion but doesn't know how to: cat email_list.txt | sort | uniq ? meh, unlikely.

- User enumeration hardly equals a vulnerability and the name you put on the account doesn't have to be your real name. I have "SMTDDR" on it. All you'd get is "SMTDDR".

Really, this is some kind of political-mud-slinging at Coinbase. Wake me up when you can pull my banking info or transfer my coins out of my account.