skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two reasons why people who'd like to do research do PhDs. First, without PhD, it is difficult to get a job in research. At any big company or university it is pretty much a requirement and it is hard to go around this one. Not impossible, but very very hard.

The second reason, is that it's the environment that makes the researcher. PhD years are essentially the years of apprenticeship, in which you are working alongside with (hopefully good) researchers. It's just like in any other field. To acquire skill set, to get good at it, you need to work for some years with people who are already good. Engineering skills are essential to a researcher, but actual research skills even more so.

So if you manage to force your way in, and get a researcher job with only engineering experience (I've seen people do that), your contributions to a research project will have a chance to be on a negative side. Will even have a chance to derail the whole project.
It would be great if special forces like the Navy seals would only be deployed on missions of an ethically defensible nature. Unfortunately that is not the case. It's a real pity because I'm very much under the impression that most people that enter the services do so from the best of intentions.

'Your' side could easily be the bad guys by some objective standards and that is where the problem lies. If only it would be as simple as saying that 'our' side was always right.
"The marine corps wants killers"...

Well, that's a bit of an issue morally, however, if you want a REAL killer... get a machine. Those little flesh killers are puny and ineffective.
Great link, this guy has a ton of other cool projects too.
"I have a bunch of half-finished, partially working, user-hostile tools. I can't bundle or release them"

This was never a problem for the Autotools people
This post hints at one of the great advantages of being close to suppliers. When you're that close to the supply source, you gain all sorts of advantages like:

a) You can typically find the person actually building the damn thing, and ask about it.

b) You can probably get your hands on a large set of cheap, defective parts to play around with.

c) You can get your hands on the actual parts really cheap.

b and c together vastly reduces the cost of experimentation, and more importantly, reduces the cost of screwing up.

This is some of what you lose when you become just the end node of the supply chain. This is the type of 'magic' that some people speak about when they talk about when 'America (or insert your choice of western democratic country) built things'.
Consciousness Might Emerge from a Data Broadcast
It's too bad he died, because I'd love to see him shoved into the back of a police car for his wage fixing.

Meanwhile, Schmidt walks alive and free. Ah, life for the rich.
"I'm reminded of the current hullabaloo about Boko Haram and the kidnapping of several hundred girls from a school."

Yes. In Nigeria which is what... like the 5'th largest oil exporter in the world?
So who funds these problems that then have to be solved by military invasion? I'm always suspicious.
Incorrect data that you think is correct is obviously worse than no data:

a) You're likely to stop looking for better data once you have it.

b) You're more likely to act on it than acting on no data, and the work you do based on your incorrect data is likely to be either be less useful than is acceptable (otherwise you would have acted on no data at all and gotten a similar result) or it could even be harmful/counterproductive, depending on how wrong the data is.

c) Worst of all, you might help disseminate the incorrect data (and perhaps even argue against the correct along the way), compounding the damage demonstrated above.
Does anyone here get anything useful to happen by dialing ∗#0∗# on an iPhone? I just get the message "Error performing request: Unknown Error"
Many of these same values are instilled in the Marine Corps, although not with as much physical intensity as the SEALS (unless you are in MARSOC) - they are good life lessons to absorb.

Regularly, I see examples of people failing to cope with them. A lot of people are enamored with ideas more than action & responsibility (and/or difficulties) associated with them.
Good sentiment, but 'bravery' is not the right word. Those refusing to participate are not really risking much, certainly not their lives (or being captured and tortured for instance). So pretty much different.

Well, not here and now, but there were certainly times when that was not true.
But it's an uphill battle in an age where truth is determined by likes and shares.
This goes for most complex problems. The first step of any dev problem should be to make sure you understand the problem, the second to map out the main pieces and the third to make sure you are leveraging every (well maintained) library possible. There are, of course, issues with dependencies and tying yourself to code you didn't write, but what would you rather depend on--code that has had tens or hundreds of eyes on it, or code that you, and maybe one or two team members has reviewed?
Is there a computer, right now, that can beat any human alive at Go?
You just took the words "sacrifice" and "pride" out of context and used them to rebut an argument I didn't make. And, obviously, I didn't make an argument that it was wrong to object to service in the military.
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http://www.d116.com/spud/ Shows how someone did just that.

The page it used to host:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010922060837/http://d116.com:82...
etags , hateoas,hypermedia... definetly the hard part,along with security. Getting an API right is hard work.Still search for the holy grail...
Is there a Navy Seals action underway to rescue the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram? That's news to me, all I know is there were a few rumors.

The problem is not that navy seals could not be deployed to do good, the problem is that they are just as likely to be deployed to do harm.

Anne Frank has nothing to do with any of this, the dutch army was of no significance whatsoever (but the dutch resistance was).

As for me 'learning a little more', I think you have your mind made up about me. Your simple world with 'evil' and 'good' is not the world I live in. If only it were that simple.
Interesting! I dint understand why, though. Do you have a reference for this?
I'm guessing it's just his prompt. The Node/JS community has a bit of thing for using unicode characters everywhere.

Case in point:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/c247e1626118de41b3d40e2a...
I prefer the old standard of pen and paper for two good reasons:

1. I hate typing.

2. Handwriting aids retention more than typing.[1]

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110119095458.ht...
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The enemy is always at the gate, they care not that your heart bleeds for their children; they only care about making you and your children bleed so they can take what you have and destroy who you are and what your children could have become.
If that is horribly naive, so was Einstein:

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

> 1. There is evil in the world. 2. That evil sometimes hurts innocent people. 3. We need some way of protecting innocent people from evil.

That is true, but doesn't justify anything and everything. For example, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador making stuff up about Iraqui soldiers tearing babies out of incubators. "War is a racket" may not be the full story, but has it ever been refuted in a meaningful way? If so, I'd like to see that.

As for Anne Frank, she and others were hunted and murdered by organized, trained killers. To say "but that's different, because those are evil, and we are talking about organized, trained killers who fight evil" doesn't really help, because from the perspective of fanatical followers of Hitler, they were doing the exact same thing, protecting the world from evil and degeneration. So to bring up Anne Frank to justify glorifying the military seems weird at best.
How quickly we all forget.

It was not that long ago that telephones only had 0-9, *, #, call, and hang up. People texted like crazy anyway. Push the button multiple times to cycle through the letters, or enable T9 and let the phone autocomplete the word.
Slightly related: there's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FlaggedRevs
Joshua, I'd like to add that I know people who have had direct contact with Adm. McRaven. That's the "UT guy" you spoke of. I feel like you could do him the courtesy of using his name and rank.

And I'd suggest that MAYBE a person who leads highly-intelligent and committed individuals into dangerous situations where there is a significant chance that they might lose their lives knows something about "Leadership" that you might be missing.

If you have a problem with the US military and their use then I'd suggest you direct that opinion to the President, your Senators, and your Congressman. I looked over your press page and didn't catch anything even remotely connected to the current wars. Nothing. Is that the "leadership" you teach?

The problem isn't the military. It's the civilians that send them over to do a job they aren't willing to do.

You're a part of that problem whether or not you acknowledge it. You earned a degree from an institution that participated in the development of the atomic weapon. You are currently a part of an institution (NYU) that serves as a feeder for the NSA via the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. You're a part of the problem. How can you continue to be a part of an academic environment that refuses to acknowledge its contribution to the "corporate interests" that push us into war?

Don't forget that when a nation goes to war, it represents a FAILURE of the civilians of each of those countries to reach a peaceful compromise. It's YOUR failure, not that of the military. The military by itself does not go out and start wars. The bravest soldiers I know wish for NOTHING but peace. Go ahead and ask them. The biggest doves in the whole country work at the Pentagon.

Do yourself a favor and speak to a few veterans this Memorial Day. Like them, I know people who lost their lives during our more than decade-long wars. Ask them if they are regretful or angry. Ask them if they feel like they were taken advantage of. Spend some time getting to know people who wrote this country a blank check to include their own lives if necessary. They volunteered to serve. You didn't. Try and understand what motivates that kind of personal sacrifice. You might learn something.

Enjoy your day off.
urandom.
>> It would be a shame to go through all this and then be killed in the first hour of war by some stray bullet?

It would be more of a shame to not have tried, to give up, that's what I think the point of the speech is.
With strong tests, who cares about copy-paste though?
You seem very confident of your assessments. To the point you'll even suggest HNers who don't see things as you do are crazy.

Are you aware of the notion that expressed confidence tends toward being inversely proportional to competence? And that this is a key to insightful learning?

You've said you're a young developer, so perhaps you haven't recognized this aspect of mind yet, but there's plenty of solid science (as well as anecdotal examples such as your confidence/competence in this exchange may be) that corroborate the essential truth of this aspect of mind.

Of course, I may well be wrong about applying that knowledge to this scenario, so I'm not going to claim confidence or competence in applying it, just that it seemed apropos. :)
Given the domain name and the title, I was really hoping for an article on how to recover from a five-second loss of control in rocketry.
+1 bonus to FCC exemptions.
I'm not part of the Wikipedia community, but a thing I don't understand about wikipedia is the excessive deletionism. Plain text is not that expensive to host. Keeping this in mind, if an article is not vandalism, spam or nonsense what reasons are there to deleting it? If there is actually a vote happening to delete an article, why not just keep it: there are actually people who care enough to vote on it. I don't think that form of authoritarianism belongs on a website like Wikipedia. It's very demoralising for new users seeing the article they care about and spent time on getting deleted by a single click from an administrator. Even administrators quit after working on Wikipedia for years due t frustration with deletionism and similar issues. In my opinion, "too much" information wins by default. Before wikipedia is "all information" and not "information others find notable", there's still work to do.
One could try less risky things?
The requirements are reasonable in my opinion: the length range prevents too short of passwords, and the variety of characters range prevents some of the weakest passwords: 'password' for example. Not allowing whitespace in passwords can prevent a lot of headaches - say I wrote a password on a piece of paper. How do I represent two spaces vs. one space? Nicer for Yahoo to not have to have to deal with that type of problem from angry users.

All CAPTCHAS are a pain, but the reasons for having one are fair.

The phone verification is a more interesting issue. When I created an account yesterday, it never asked anything about phone verification. And some people don't perhaps have phone access who could be trying to register? If it is randomly mandatory, that's a decent pain and privacy issue. I'm guessing it's probably opt-in or opt-out though

Do I agree with all their decisions? Not really, but I can see why they were made
They are actually obligated by law not to talk about their operations. It's all classified.
True, but this article isn't about the Court's ability to reverse or distinguish prior opinions with new ones. It's about their practice of quietly sneaking substantive edits into opinions months or years after initial decisions were handed down.
One thing I've never quite understood is how a lot of Go code (including this blog post) handles package-level vars. Things like gorilla's CookieStore/Upgrader or application-specific structs like a hub, database connection, or websocket pool could conceivably be singleton package-level vars, and in practice it seems like a lot of small-sized servers implement raw http.Handlers and just stick to using package vars.

I'm not trying to start a Singleton debate but I like to avoid using them where possible, so I always wind up writing http.Handler factories moreso than raw handlers. This comment may be a bit outside of this blog post but I am curious if package-level vars and raw Handlers are more idiomatic in Go than using factories to produce handlers and prevent package-level vars.

Edit:

Calls in the original post that made me think of this are calls such as:

user.FindUser(usr.Email)

cookies.LoginCookie(usr.Email)

...which may very well be package functions instead of struct member functions.
Fun sort of boy scout's motto for programming mentioned in the article:
> My version of the static discipline, adapted for software, is that whenever you are making a modification to a piece of code, you should always leave it in a state of stability equal to or better than how you found it
I wonder if the incorrectly documented flag behaves the same way in all of the versions of Windows that the game is meant to run on.
>> The bravest to me are those that refuse to be goaded into harming their fellow human beings at the behest of others.

The problem is that the enemy wants to kill you, without brave men and women who serve voluntarily, you would not likely have the freedom to hold the idea that it's braver to not fight and give in and give up.
Helsinki started to host a festival for gamers in the early 1990s.

Importantly, what they really mean is a festival for multimedia programming, the Assembly demo party: "The first Assembly was held from July 24 to July 26, 1992, in Kauniainen. It was organized by the Amiga demo groups Complex and Rebels, and the PC demo group Future Crew." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_%28demo_party%29

There's a chapter to be written about the last year with the exits including Nokia Devices to Microsoft Mobile, Supercell to the Japanese GungHo, and Moves to Facebook. These prove the existence of liquidity and create more for the next startups.
Here's what Shapiro says:

"The word "hacker" in its well-known computing sense has a first citation of 1971 (contributed by me) in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang. Here is an earlier citation, not precisely in a computing context
but obviously the same term"

I interpret that as the only condition on the citation being "the well-known computing sense." He's definitely not saying "with negative connotations."

Even the phreaking stuff from the Tech is "not precisely in a computing context". I don't think the TMRC citation qualifies here, it's a very specific and different context (check some of its sibling entries), even if it shares some of that early magical MIT spirit.

But even then, the TMRC does also say:

"HACK: 1) something done without constructive end"

So, all in all, even taking the TMRC into account I think the origin of the word was already ambiguous, which it is. I think the small dash of mischievousness adds to the flavor of hacking.
CSV files are MUCH easier to search and inspect using tools like grep and less. It's the accounting people that want's Excel, but as a developer CSV is easier and more flexible.

We process csv files containing payment information, export csv as product feeds for perhaps 10 different partners. It works, it's faster than XML or JSON and is easy for non-technical people to inspect using tools like Excel. Most cvs data exports are not something that's made up on the fly every day, it batch jobs that create the same type of CSV file each and every time.

CSV is alright. XML is bullshit.
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I've noticed a phenomenon happening quietly on Wikipedia: articles are being copied to Wikia and then removed from Wikipedia.

For example, there's an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "Unfriendly Skies". Once upon a time, there was a Wikipedia article for that episode. I know, because I contributed to it. Well, that articles is now gone from Wikipedia and the text I wrote is on Wikia.

http://csi.wikia.com/wiki/Unfriendly_Skies

I'm fine with Wikia copying what I wrote. The CC-BY-SA license allows it. I am not fine with Wikipedia deleting it.

Wikipedia needs to decide what it is. Is it the sum total of all knowledge or is it just the subset that the deletionists deem "worthy" (or "notable" in their jargon)?
True, Nokia got a lot of phone (maybe even most) networking and mobile phone technology from the government company Televa which it cunningly took over in the eighties.
Companies' histories are often little known.
Pride comes before the fall. Wikipedia is in terminal decline because the software and design sucks, the number of editors is declining, and the core structure of how information is treated is unreliable. For those interested, check my series on the site's problems: http://newslines.org/blog/
Graphic of Computer Evolution – What's missing?
I thought soldiers had a little more self-respect than describing themselves as dumb tools used by others. No mind of their own, just following the civilians orders?
HN: can we please get a repost filter?
Wikipedia isn't geocities. It's not there to give people a voice or let them write about whatever they want. The point is to keep the aggregate quality high enough that people trust it as a resource and are willing to contribute high-quality material. That means culling a whole lot of crap.

I've participated in a large number of AfD discussions, and the vast majority of the articles that get deleted simply didn't belong there in the first place.
This is in stark contrast to Finnish music and physical education traditions which have large parts of repression, humiliation and army-like strict control. Depends a lot on the teacher you have...
It’s funny how many different connotations can be conveyed by something as simple as fingernails. The cocaine pinky, false nails in pornography, some varieties of massage, as a status symbol, and classical/flamenco guitar playing come to mind.
What ... on earth is your point? That everyone who drives a car is responsible for those poor children? I pray for their safe return.
Who says they won't be able to? In fact, rationalizing may be the easiest part - the rules of logic are few, and computers are very good at using them fast.

Building new concepts from raw inputs is the difficult part at which humans are better, but now computers are showing that they may be able to do that too.
look at the charts, its simple. VTSMX > VTI even after that expense ratio.
I am located in Europe and share many of the aspirations of the thread starter. Could you please elaborate on your ideas?
Find places to upcycle your old clothes
Wampum is a search engine for anyone looking to get rid of old clothes or household items. The search results are comprised of NGOs and socially conscious ventures that will put your old things to good use.
My favorite is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728843 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728844, where two people post the exact same article within presumably minutes of each other, and manage to achieve sequential ids.