skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a parent of kids who are headed towards being college age, you can imagine that I've got mixed thoughts about college education. It's going to be expensive. An outcome is not guaranteed. There are a lot of problems with higher education.

On the other hand, there's an anti-college "movement" that itself could just be a fad, or even fueled by a political "wing" that has always relentlessly attacked public education and higher education. The skill area that's often mentioned as accommodating of people with alternative training (Internet programming) may very well be a major bubble right now.

Edit: Removed gratuitous snark.

So while I'm willing to give lip service to experiments in alternative education for 18-22 year olds, I'll probably hedge my bets and advise my own kids to attend college while offering them a dose of realism about what they're getting into.
> I also thought it could be this particular company was fucked up, however talking to engineers from other companies revealed this phenomena is far from unique.

While it's by no means unique, that doesn't mean it's not fucked up. There are a lot of terribly-run companies out there. Misplaced loyalty keeps them alive longer than it should. You should quit whenever a company sucks; life's too short.
One more way to think about it is the propagation delay of a transmission line, or actually the opposite of that, which is the velocity factor, proportional to 1/sqrt(LC):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_propagation_speed

Coaxial cables are great for blocking interference because one conductor is inside the other, so external electric fields can't penetrate. But they have a high parasitic capacitance because the outside conductor has a large surface area.

So if capacitance is causing too much propagation delay, you can use twisted pair. It also works to avoid interference, but because the wires constantly change position in relation to electric fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair

The problem with coax for cable TV though is that for high frequencies, losses can be high because the capacitor begins to approximate a conductor (and TV uses really high frequencies!). So cable length becomes a limitation. Then you use fiber optic cables (I find total internal reflection somewhat miraculous, like an optical analog to superconductors).

Also in computer chips, parasitic capacitance is a problem because capacitance grows with area and shrinks with distance. But the conductors are so close to one another that even a small area results in a large capacitance. That's why the latency to memory can be orders of magnitude higher than say, cache. Optical interconnects would help here as well.

It's been 15 years since I studied this stuff though, so if I misremembered, somebody please correct me!
> The ACM, at least, allows authors to post copies of articles on their web pages. That's a not totally unreasonable policy (although the ACM Digital Library is pretty well locked down).

Does that include valuable stuff that's buried in conference proceedings?
There are many things that were worse in the 70s [bigotry; racism; martial rape wasn't illegal in all states until something like 1993; etc].

The surveillance aspect was only 'less bad' because it wasn't financially feasible due to the tech at the time. So yes, I'd say the 'big issues' of the 70s were partially fixed by generational change.

The generational change from that generation did have effects, it didn't solve everything. It never does.

However, if you have a better plan that will have actual results, feel free to publicize and encourage people to follow it. :)
I wonder what font was used for the mark and if it has been appropriately licenced.

edit - is the pi character from Times New Roman

http://www.trademarks411.com/marks/85785006-pi

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi_uc_lc.svg

I'm gonna trademark <a href= and see if I can get the internet turned off
Harvard Business School student here. I find this article fascinating, specifically because it highlights the challenge of transferring the case based method to the virtual world. Unlike regular lectures where you can sit and absorb, the case based method requires you to actively participate and defend your argument in front of 90 peers. You have to prepare, think on your feet and be ready to challenge and build upon what others have said. Each one brings his own experience to the table, and you find yourself learning a lot more than in regular lectures.

For example, in an average HBS finance class you will get input from former PE guys on how to actually valuate a company, the potential pitfalls and what is important to remember. In a global economy class (BGIE) you can hear from bankers who worked in Europe on how they faced the global economic crisis.

This creates high barriers to replicate the HBS model online. I'm not sure what the UX will be for replicating this discussion setting, and invoking individuals to share from their experience. How do you validate the quality of the comments? how do you highlight the takeaways in a situation where there is no one right answer? These are all though issues to solve, and I'm glad HBS is actively tackling it. I'm looking forward to seeing if they succeed.
One can not file for personal bankruptcy or "skuldsanering" for this situation. Both of those are for non-criminal situation, and has also additional requirements attached to them.

The damages from a criminal case expire once Statute of limitations hits in, which is in this case 5 years (based on copyright infringement maximum jail time). I do not know when the timer starts to tick, but I would assume it starts once he is serving his sentence.

http://lawline.se/answers/9089

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preskription
I wonder if it is relate to copyright issues associated with the sale of twitch.tv

As in Google saying they can't deal with these videos without proper acceptance of their terms of service.

The timing seems to indicate they are trying to offload the content ASAP.

From a cost perspective, they are already paying for it and 1 week vs 1 month would not make that much of a difference if it was a "product feature"
Anyone have the patience to mentor a true beginner in developing web apps? It would be mainly answering basic questions and advising on best practises. I feel with some interaction I could become a self-sufficient learner in a reasonable time frame.

I'm my username at gmail.com
How do you know beforehand what smells others dislike?

What happens when the cumulative dislikes of food smells makes it impossible to bring in most meals?

My partner is a vegetarian and doesn't like the smell of meat. Would you stop eating all your meat dishes in the office?

What happens when someone who was "banned" from eating or heating their food in the office fights back by suddenly banning other foods?
>>big warning not to sell outside those areas stamped on it

I only graduated back in 2011. During sophomore year I found all the international edition textbooks on ebay. US Retail $100+ would often be ~$40 itnernational. Only thing different would that it was in black and white vs color.

Average semester cost of books usually ~$200, if I had paid full price it could easily been $500-$600. The bookstores only give 20-30% back most of the time and heaven forbid if a new edition comes out and the price drops 90% on resell.
Sometimes ignorance is just as bad as malice.

I also note that your argument could be applied almost verbatim to women working in predominantly male environments. Or any other case where there's a minority surrounded by a entrenched majority. "It's just how things are" is not a satisfactory approach imho.
It's hard to argue with a country that has such low criminality rate. The options are strange from an American perspective, but they work. Naturally there are many many other factors influencing crime rates, but the numbers point towards our position being the correct one, not the other way around.

Then again, I don't think we ever had a serial killer. Maybe one, in the sixties, still unsolved. It's just probabilities at work. At ten million citizens, the odds are low.
Kernel panic that crashed HN
Shell scripting usually means writing in your shells (e.g sb, csh, zsh) native script. The author is using it to mean small scripts that he runs in a shell, which is fine with me.

I'm starting to use Go for these sorts of things because it's really fast. I'd try objc but if I want to move my programs to a Linux server, I'm out of luck.
There's no actual claim that anybody is spending any money to fight in any courts. Just a nastygram to a website that took down the products proactively. Every western country has trademark laws, and you could send a similar letter in any of them.
OP here. I got this link from HNStatus twitter: https://twitter.com/HNStatus

Let's discuss.
...or perhaps a certain threshold of translation requests triggers a flag on the resource, and it's regarded as a high-traffic asset, and gets queued for mechanical turk translation and review by a professional translation service?
It's all about demographics.

I might advertise in magazine/newspaper X because I want to reach people who actually read magazine/newspaper X.

If you're reaching out to the high end / older demographic, that might just be the best form of ad spend.

Nowadays, advertising in Print is just another form of niche advertising. The ad spends don't justify it as a form of mass market advertising.
Why Quora joined Y Combinator
The thing about ingrained racism and sexism is that it's rarely done out of malice or in an obvious, "WHOA THATS RACIST/SEXIST MAN," way. It was bullying and a expression of power, whether or not the participants were aware of themselves enough to realize it.

As an American, it's best to understand this.
> They may still playfully poke fun at you because of it, but that's just part of American culture.

That isn't professional. As far as you know the person has had alcohol issues in her family and doesn't want to carry it into her work persona. Or she may believe in a religion that forbids it and doesn't want to be known for her religious views at work.

Drinking a shot when you deploy or explaining why you won't should not be a requirement for a job as a software engineer.
In Boston I could tell people that no matter how many cars you add to the train, taking the T from Harvard Sq to Park will always take 10 minutes.
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
How to live up to Elliot Rodger, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold coding standards
Inappropriate how?
As for quantum entanglement, it's not going to help.
Think of it like a pair of dice that always sum to 7 when they are independently rolled. Yes, that requires spooky action at a distance, but no, you can't transmit information faster than the speed of light using the dice to communicate.
I don't make oatmeal, so I don't know the exact procedure, but if one is bring the water to a boil before putting in the oats, then the simple solution is just to use your serving bowl — the one you will eat the cooked meal from — instead. I do that with pasta, for example.
You won't find helicopter - air is too thin (one of the reasons why rescues are hard). But maybe a plane could give you one.
Once is chance, twice is coincidence, third time is enemy action ^H^H^H an opportunity to improve your business practices.

1) You appear to have been working for startups with no money. There is a word for devs who work for startups with no money. It is "technical cofounder." If a startup does not have sufficient money in the bank to pay you, tell them you're happy to continue the conversation after they have raised money.

2) Startups with money in the bank are frequently amenable to e.g. 25% deposits for first-time clients. You can even offer them a trade: 25% deposit means they get scheduling predictability, otherwise the engagement happens subject to your availability, and -- since we're all businessmen here -- we're all clear that in case of conflicting desires about scheduling the client willing to pay a deposit wins.

3) Your computer just developed a really strange bug where elaborate excuses in emails regarding payment cause it to shut down and not be able to boot until your bank says the check cleared.
tptacek is a breath of fresh air in this trucrypt funk.
Couple of decades.

Anyhow, the important part about math isn't the memorization. It's the process.

Geometry and trigonometry aren't that useful by themselves. Even Algebra is marginal. Probability and statistics are way more useful. However, all of it comes together when you hit calculus which is VERY useful.

Can I integrate from memory anymore? No. Can I solve a differential equation from memory? No.

I'm going to use Mathematica if it's a one off. I will bone up on the process if I'm hitting it too often.

However, I'm always doing Bayesian probability estimates for all manner of things in programming, business, manufacturing, etc.
You can customize the Moto X from any carrier now, the exclusive ATT deal ended last year.
Our local school system looked into hybrid buses a few years ago. Amazingly they did a rather unbiased analysis and found that there was not a financial advantage to be realized and they stayed with conventional gasoline and diesel buses.

Natural gas is likely the cleaner but still practical compromise. Remember school buses are also used for things such as transporting athletic teams, bands, orchestras, etc. to events that are farther away than the range of an electric vehicle.
Many of the arguments you use could be just as easily used to allow GPL works to be derived from and distributed in ways against the license. How do you reconcile that?
I assume you got tax records to support that PRQ is earning money like crazy? I am going to assume that the tax collectors know their job and is not letting a crazy revenue source continue going untaxed.

For TPB advertisement, do you have numbers on how competitive advertisement space is for a website like the pirate bay? Would startups here forexample be willing to pay top dollars for ads there? Willing to use untraceable methods to pay for it?

I personally have a hard time seeing either PRQ or TPB as massive revenue sources at this point in time.
DNS and IP are not encrypted by TLS, right? So passive monitoring will see traffic to that site even if the specifics of each packet are encrypted.

If visits alone are problematic, it seems to me that the only possible solution is Tor.
Worth noting, this post was accidentally published. This release may still be baking.
To the extent that we're relying on "cost" as a way of avoiding otherwise undesirable missions, that's only an "answer by accident"; it should be fixed properly, but that's not a reason to reduce the cost.

That argument is the same reason we continue to have pointless programs like Selective Service registration, which actually somehow saves the government money by allowing them to avoiding paying some tuition benefits that our "draft dodgers" would otherwise qualify for.
Ask HN: FU Money: What is your number?
I'm guessing HN is going to have a lower number than the general population because it's relatively easy to get a new tech job.

But anyways, what is your figure for FU money?

EDIT: I see people are putting down their early retirement number. For some people, "FU Money" is just a year.
In the past few years tech like 100G Coherent DWDM have reduced latency by 10-20% on longhaul fiber links, as dispersion compensation fiber is no longer needed.

Other companies have simply opted to pull out the slack in the fiber to decrease latency. It's basically "you get what you pay for"
Thanks a lot!

Yea, I felt like a total n00b when I came to the web startup world a few years ago. This sounds ridiculous, but one and only database I had used until that point is kdb+ (kx.com). I had no idea about the performance/tradeoffs of any other databases.

I agree with you that properly-structured SQL databases can scale horizontally/vertically. That said, I've noticed that the set of people who know SQL performance well and the set of data analysts/statistically inclined folks do not overlap much (myself included), and frankly, data analysts should be able to focus on analysis, not SQL optimizations.

In a way, this is the problem Impala (and other MPP databases) solves at many companies: it's not that their data analysis cannot be handled with MySQL/Oracle, but it's cheaper and quicker to throw all the data in HDFS and query via Impala (sans some cost associated with setting up/maintaining Impala).
I've connection from a tier-1 network in India. It's a 6 mbps dedicated line (a luxury for most) connected with fibre. ping 8.8.8.8 has delay time of ~40 ms. How's that possible considering the calculations given in this article?
You're not out of luck when it comes to using objc on linux, you just have to forgo a lot of the newer APIs. But if you're using it on a server, chances are you won't miss the GUI APIs that GNUstep lacks.
I got a Moto G and I really like it.

It was cheap enough that if it broke, I wouldn't be too upset. My rule is if I have to get insurance or if I am afraid of breaking it too much, then I can't afford it, and Moto G was in that range.

I've had it for about half a year. At no point in this time period, for example, have I thought "Gee I wish I had something more powerful". Granted this is the most powerful phone I've had, so maybe if I handled an iPhone I would be blown away, but so far so good, I am very happy with it.
> We can't stop the world from innovating the only way to maintain a reasonable balance between privacy and safety is through policy and where to draw the line is definitely something that reasonable people can disagree on.

I agree.

Getting to the "in public view" point, private use of drones is becoming increasingly common too, and the law seems to be loath to prevent the police from legally doing something that J. Random Citizen could also do just as legally.

So to the extent that your random hobbyist could use drones we should expect that the police will not be far behind either, just as helicopters and planes are not forbidden to police use.
Data on quality of life in U.S. cities
FWIW, I keep my Internet situation tenable in Goa, India by having two ISPs. Haven't had a down day since.
This explains the math. 140 cal/28g. Prep time <5min.

http://andrewskurka.com/adventures/alaska-yukon-expedition/f...

Also, on general Considerations in Food Items:

http://andrewskurka.com/2010/the-5000-calories-per-day-wilde...

A worked example in more detail (see "Daily Rations"):

http://andrewskurka.com/2012/food-planning-for-multi-day-hik...
Well then, it looks like this won't happen since it was introduced in 2010
Any company that tries to throw out traditional processes needs to have a very clear understanding of why those processes/rules existed in the first place, and why they're irrelevant.

Certainly there are differences between highly motivated technical staff and many other professions, but it's not like most companies go around making rules and processes to make their lives harder.
Looking at the budget for Wikipedia, I can not see a headcount cost. There is hardware and bandwidth costs, which should be very similar to the running costs TPB had when the trio ran it.
Okay then, what if apple had an app that shows a list of temporary apps in the area, and you can choose which to use or even to download the app?
WhatsApp emerges as big share driver for publishers
Interestingly enough, organic LED (OLED) technology uses dyes instead of semiconductor materials. OLED display panels can be 'printed' like ink-jet printers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
Why do you think it's too early?

My company is running it on production with no issues.
Just curious what would you think has good syntax that you would enjoy?

I always thought Python to be one of the most approachable for example. Then maybe C. I also like Erlang.

More in depth:

Python is closest to pseudocode. As in, if I sat down and wrote an algorithm, in some pseudocode language, it would probably look a lot like Python.

I like C and Erlang because they are relatively small and self-consistent. Think of it as chess, there are not too many rules of the game, but the game can still be very interesting. Erlang is a good example of a practical functional language. I really like pattern matching in it.

I don't like C++ for example because the syntax is too complex. Too many exceptions, rules and corner cases.

I don't have an opinion on Lisp/Scheme/Clojure/Haskell just because I haven't tried using them in depth.
> The army on foreign land during an invasion has to treat everyone like a potential enemy that can take their lives.

That is not true at all. The U.S. Army occupying Germany in 1946 didn't treat the locals as murderous criminals either.

The COIN mention by parent comment was not gratuitous: If you bother to go through the relevant Army and Marine Corps doctrinal guidance on counter-insurgency you'll see that gaining the support of the local population is the mantra.

> As an army man, have you ever thought about why the army is not allowed to act on US soil?

They are allowed to act on US soil. What they're not allowed to do is to act as police on US soil.

And even that prohibition (Posse Comitatus) came from Congress in the 1860s, and only applies to Federal (Title 10) forces, not Army National Guard forces under the control of a state governor.

And even with that, the Army is allowed to conduct certain missions on U.S. soil under "Defense Support to Civil Authorities".

> Because the army is a much more aggressive brute force sort of authority, and that's not acceptable in a democracy

The army has the capability and training to kill more people and break more things, sure, but that is not their only mission.

Remember, in an actual war one of the core responsibilities of military forces under international law is not just combat, but military occupation, which is inherently a policing role. That can be in conjunction with local police forces, but the responsibility still belongs to the occupying army.

Soldiers typically don't like that role, sure, but to say that an army is designed only to put bayonets through torsos is paranoiac at best.
If anyone is looking to do the same. Our office in Davao City, Philippines is open and free. We have Internet, coffee and meetups monthly at least.

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Ah that clears up a few things for me. Thanks.
This sort of exists now.

If you go to the App Store and click on "Near Me", you can often find apps related to where you are. (i.e. if you do it in a BART station, you'll see BART apps and if you are just in Berkeley itself you'll get SpoonRocket (which started in Berkeley), several AC Transit apps, and BerkeleySide.)
Totally agree. I left the company after one year and joined an MNC. Although the BigCo has its own issues, but the upside (stable income, more resources, clearer roles and responsibility, etc.) keeps me until now.
You realize that Motorola has been sold to Lenovo, an asian company?
Is this really the top comment on this thread? And I thought HN had come so far.

This is an amazing website! Kudos to the creator(s).

It's exactly the way I wish I could browse Amazon, and since it's currently swallowing the HN firehose, I'm impressed that it's up and working. Given that it's so useful I will actually use it for shopping from now on, I feel like we can definitely cut it some slack on its day-one execution.
so patents on these can not longer be valid!
> Am I misreading this or are you actually advocating in support of monoculture?

Aren't politically correct companies doing the same thing in the end except it's more like a non-culture than a monoculture?