skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'boomerang kids' are just people who were socialized to see a middle class life as beneath them. Offer these young adults 40k to drive a bus for a living and they would turn it down. They will stay at home and hold out for that job that pays a political science major $100k starting. The middle class is being decimated because no one aims for middle class.

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Perhaps bus driver was a bad example. I do know plenty of people who lead comfortable middle class lives as electricians, installing garage doors, commercial fishing etc... I don't know how many would describe it as their 'passion'.
I don't know how fast my middle-school daughter can type, but she doesn't touch-type. Her school does insist that they spend a lot of time using computers for research and writing, and they even take some standardized tests on computers, but they do not teach the kids how to type. Seems to me if you are going to have the kids using computers, then typing should be an early skill to teach them as well.

On the flip side, I can see that for kids these days it must be much harder to learn to type. So much of their time is spent using computers, and so even spending an hour a day on touch-typing lessons is going to pale in comparison to the amount of time spent not touch typing because you don't know enough yet to touch type all the time. And that has to make the barrier much harder to overcome.
How did you get so fast? I seem stuck at around 55 wpm.
Ah, so "Well done" doesn't mean you're actually done. I needed to actually draw the lines between the three points to get to the next level.
I'm in SF! My restaurant is in east bay (around oakland airport). It's fast food - nothing fancy at all - but if you're ever planning to be in the neighborhood feel free to drop me an email :)

I chose to go with something simple because I'd love to expand in the future to bigger and better but if I don't even have basic experience with any kind of foodservice biz, I'm pretty fucked. Also the take-home profit is not that different anyway ;)
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Thanks a lot. I've applied for startup school in London. It's great to see YC initiatives in Europe!
The thought that comes to mind after reading this is "protest to much" and also in a very aggressive and condescending way. Not something I would have expected in tone from an accomplished academic.

Plus the repeated use of the first name like this: "Come on, Jill, tell me! No!" is clearly unnecessary and parental in tone. Especially considering not only do they not know each other but he has never even met her (last part of article).

I think Christensen has been living in his ivory tower to long and getting to much esteemed attention and he simply was completely knocked off balance by someone (of I'm guessing near, or equal, stature) taking issue with what he has said. I'm sure there are many people who have taken shots at his books or theories but not a fellow colleague at Harvard.
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Back in college, I dictated the bulk of my (humanities) papers using Windows Vista’s built-in speech recognition. It unlocked a new paradigm of revising where I could speak an entire paragraph, delete it without hesitation, and re-write, all in a minute’s time. Including pauses and corrections, I probably got less than 100 WPM. That alone isn't impressive, but it came with minimal fatigue and friction. It was very liberating to edit my logic and reasoning at a multi-sentence level.
Honest question, do you think it has anything to do with ensuring absolute stability in their GHE product? Is GHE a very stable offering to begin with?
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Staying with your parents as long as they'll let you is often the smartest financial move you can make. With student loan debt skyrocketing, housing prices high, job market weak, and wages stagnant, there's almost nothing economically to encourage kids to stake out on their own. Moving to a different city in pursuit of a job is unlikely to be worth the financial risk over keeping the job you have near enough to your parents and living without room or board expenses. That would have to be one hell of a good paying job to justify a move.
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I'm pretty sure iOS Chrome is only WebKit at the core because of iOS restrictions. All other version of Chrome on all platforms use Blink.
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and then it doesnt run on windows...so much for run everywhere...

the best way to distribute a package is to create a proper package for each plateform and encapsulate any java "gimmick".
Yeah, I think people tend to make assumptions about the competence of others with regards to the tools that they personally are so adept at using that the action has become mostly subconscious.

I do it myself all of the time. It seems to be the result of the way our minds make associations, and an inability to properly 'empathize' with others, that is, to view the action from their perspective of being relatively unpracticed at it. This is where, in fact, I think a large part of 'imposter syndrome' stems from.

I personally have difficulty viewing the ability to launch/maintain web applications, provision a server for deployment, write SQL queries, etc, etc, etc... as anything particularly 'novel' or requiring ability; and indeed, in the context of this web-site, it isn't.

In the real world though, there's a dearth of 'incompetence', but unless you actively interact with a menagerie/distributed-sampling of society, it is very easy to convince yourself that the average person is as competent/intelligent as the people you surround yourself with on a daily basis. The fact that the internet allows everyone in your field to collaborate only serves to exacerbate the situation.
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Would like to see HighRam+HighIo too and that's definitely what I'd want to use for a database server with lots of data, but I'm guessing there is a constraint like space inside the chassis that forces a choice between PCIe flash or lots of RAM. Hopefully someone from Rackspace will comment.
Not just forcing them into a career about something, but e.g. being disappointed (or, more precisely, showing that in frobt of them) if they don't express interest. Of course you should get as much people you can to try out as much fields as possible to see if they fit. But in my case, I knew from the first two months of studying chemistry I don't like it, and likewise, from the day I wrote my first VBA Excel macro I knew I loved making computers do things.
>This is absolutely on point. My observation among my circle of friends (I'm 30), is that we are if anything more pessimistic and pragmatic than our parents.

That's true now, but was it true the day you graduated from college? Finally finishing school is always a splash of cold water, but my impression is it was especially so for people your age.
You left off the better part of the story!

On the drink [finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on an empty stomach] mentioned above.

"I recommended this way of drinking coffee to a friend of mine, who absolutely wanted to finish a job promised for the next day: he thoughthe’d been poisoned and took to his bed, which he guarded like a married man. He was tall, blond, slender and had thinning hair; he apparently had a stomach of papier-mache."
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Near-mandatory moving out is also a common attitude in Scandinavia, not a purely American attitude. If anything it's stronger in Scandinavia: it's pretty unusual not to move out by 18, and even seen as a bit weird not to, unless you have a good explanation for it (e.g. really sick parents). But that's partly because the high minimum wages and strong social system means that it's unusual to need to live with parents for economic reasons. So it's become a cultural expectation here that you won't.
I think the main difference is that this paper outlines a method to possibly find time travelers that weren't necessarily intending to publicize their existence, while Hawking's method presupposed that the time travelers

a) Had access to that specific time

b) could get to his specific location

c) did not mind it being known they were time travelers

d) viewed his party was worthy of their attention.
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It worked at first, they probably blocked the IP. You can do it yourself with a MITM proxy.
How do you do that without a credible threat of kicking them out on the street? I'm serious.

I don't pay rent to my landlord because I feel like being independent, I do it because otherwise he'll evict me.
> That's a vacuous statement. She said "big" gaps. And I'm saying that she's making errors that no one with a background in CS (e.g. a degree) ought to make.
I have no idea what your agenda is in lavishing all this unnecessary praise on Morgan Phillips, but it's gross. Please stop.

Is your name Linus Torvalds by any chance?
I believe he is referring to the fact that iOS Chrome is the only version still using WebKit
I do not know, but they're surely not a true HNer with that attitude!

What a boring website this would be if we all thought like that.
I understand that it has to be a good fit both ways and both parties have to sell themselves to the other, but "I don't" implies you're wasting everyone's time. Even "I don't, yet" is 100x better, and that's still a really lame response. If you want to be pitched to, just say so.
If you don't get a job in you field within the first few years, your odds of ever doing so become much smaller.
Can't edit, so correction: "...no reason why such a journal should not exist..."
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That was fast! Thank you
This is especially interesting to me. I've been relearning how to type on an Alphagrip and for much of the process (20-50wpm) I have felt like it was dumbing me down because my thoughts all have to wait for me to slowly output them. Now that I'm past 50wpm on alpha text the effect isn't as bad, but I still feel hindered. (But.... that's worth it for not exacerbating carpal tunnel issues, right?)
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Novikov's self-consistency principle implies that we can change the past as long as we don't know it's been changed. (Well, maybe more accurately, the time traveller has "always" done whatever it was he did in the past.) So even if causality is a requirement, it isn't necessarily violated.

Likewise, lots of time travel in fiction actually has the hidden assumption of a second time dimension. If a second time dimension existed, causality could be maintained along that dimension while seemingly broken in the time dimension we know and love.

And there's always the possibility that causality isn't a given and is simply how we experience the universe. Just because it has always been observed and it makes intuitive sense doesn't mean it is always true. :)
i spent a lot of time on the net (irc) as a kid, and even then my typing didn't go above 50wpm until i actually sat down and taught myself how to type correctly, and then practiced deliberately. i remember i went from 40wpm to 100wpm in a single summer.

most people never actually learn to type correctly, they just keep doing the wrong thing forever. of course, once you actually learn to do it right, you're practicing all the time and after several years you can easily get up to and past 120wpm if you sit in front of a computer all day.
You could, but that requires doing my own research. This site has my browser sending the request to yo-hack instead of yo.
I'm not at all saying the ends justify the means, just that their argument that these tools are useful is valid, and we will need to help them realize that they are damaging us far more than they are helping us.
"I use rvm to run multiple rubys, and that shit breaks all the time for me."

You are doing it wrong then.
Actually the policy sounds quite sensible and doesn't sound like it will lead to a permanent ban--just a policy about how you can or cannot annoy your fellows in a commons.

As the sky gets fuller, it will be less and less likely that users will be able to get away with acting like they are the only ones flying.
Btw, I would recommend this (learning a new keyboard layout) as a refreshing exercise for anyone who has forgotten what the learning process feels like. I imagine trying to read a book in another language is similar.
You misread. It says "hit tab OR click stop". So just hitting tab out of the text entry box stops the timer.
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I normally type somewhere in the region of 85-105 depending on the app, and I was only getting 85 on the app embedded in that page. It has a slightly higher frequency of long words than most colloquial speech, typical of discussion fora like this one.
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"which I attribute to that typing class. Had I just been left to my own devices to hunt-and-peck my way around"

I learned on a manual as well. But by using a book. It took about 3 weeks. I actually stopped at the part where you practice numbers (and regret it to this day).

"that we could only use in a blinding snow storm while walking uphill"

I was lucky to be able to convince a college instructor to allow me to bring in the manual typewriter so I could type the answer to an essay instead of using one of the blue books. Same blinding snow storm that day!
Great read. I have a friend in the startup trenches who I respect, and his sentiments echoed this article strongly. Thanks for writing this up!
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I know a number of places where the acquisition price was enough to perfectly cover whatever amount was needed to cover a majority of VCs on the board.

I.e., five people on a board, from VC group 1, VC group 2, VC group 3, the founder, and someone else. The VCs invested $44,140,000 into the company and get that at a minimum from any acquisition. Then the company gets acquired for $44,140,000.

I'm 99% sure this violates the fiduciary responsibilities a board of directors has, but, who the hell is going to sue?
Take a look at one of the tutorials on writing a Ruby DSL. E.g. http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/11/30/how-do-i-build-dsls-...
wow, really? 240k for a DPT? My wife graduated the last year her school offered the Masters program, 2007 I believe with something like 7k in loans. Granted, her parent's pretty much covered everything, somehow.

I walked away with my CS degree (CIS, really) with ~80k in debt in 2008.

Average income varies I think, starting salary for her in 2007 was 45k, but that was Mid Missouri. Here in the Seattle area, it's a bit higher, and as a manager of a clinic (also practicing PT) it's close to twice that. I think as a non manager, 70k is about right here though.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921995.
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> the two probably intersect more often than you think they do

One of the reasons I like more terse, concise languages is because it allows me to get the idea represented quicker, so I spend more time thinking about the problem and solution and less time transcribing the solution.

There is,of course, a downside in legibility, but I believe that's mostly mitigated for people familiar enough with the language.
I am not exceptionally smart, but I am a "hard worker." I often work nights and weekends, and I don't hate it.

As a result of my efforts, I am more skilled, and consequently enjoy a more lucrative position than I otherwise would. If I were a mediocre developer I could earn half as much as I do, or less. My nights & weekends developing software for my employer are investments in myself.
I think most potential students are encouraged and told that it will work out - we see all our peers doing it and only hear the success stories. It seems more common these days for the people to at least have heard of not going to college; but when you're in high school and trying to figure everything out you have a ton of people you probably respect explaining how college is what ALL successful people do. They make it seem so possible that if you pursue your dreams you'll be successful. No one who's guiding these students wants to be the person to say "maybe you should pursue welding". They often don't even know that trade-schools do offer a higher probability for a good ROI.
Unless you're a professional typist, 40 wpm as an average speed is definitely OK.
Realistically there are few people that average over 120 wpm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute).
As far as schools go, I hope they stick to using pens, as I don't know anyone who got RSI after using one.
They have features like deploy status api which they consider to be in beta.
https://developer.github.com/changes/2014-01-09-preview-the-...

It makes sense for features like these to be not on GHE. But I am talking about features like new auth interface/webhooks etc which have been on github.com for more than half an year.

We made the unfortunate mistake of tying up too much of infrastructure to GHE and now are hostage to their whims. They give you back a canned response if you ask them about a missing feature in GHE through their support channel.

I guess it makes me mad that they are working on new features without fixing months old features which they consider to be unstable for GHE( if that is the case).
I know Java well, though I'm not primarily a developer. As a DevOps guy, there are a few places where I'd love to be able to write a quick program in Java to take advantage of one API or another, or to ensure compatibility with the app I'm trying to manage or what have you, but between the boilerplate, the classpath, the compilation step, and the awkward command line, it's almost never worth it, and I write it in Ruby or Bash instead.

The complaint about overstrict PKI libraries is spot on as well. Dealing with Java's PKI infrastructure for https URLs, etc, in a systems level setting where, you know what, sometimes the CN on the cert ain't gonna match the internal name, is a huge pain. Other languages are actually pretty bad about this too, and so too often I resort to calling out to curl -k because it'll just shut up and do what needs to be done.

It's clear that this is all because Java is built around the assumption that you're creating a big program and you're going to use an IDE and you're willing to deal with multiple steps before you have something that'll run on the server. That's fine and dandy. If the Java community wants Java to be more useful for smaller tasks, then Tim's complaints here are dead on target. But if not, I long ago gave up trying to use Java in this way, and I think Tim should do the same.
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Pretty much my whole graduating class is shipping off to San Francisco immediately. The pay is literally 3x more than you can get in Canada and everything but the rent is cheaper.
At some point I just sat down and did some deliberate practice. I'm actually still not as good at typing as I would like to be, I have some glitches like only using my right thumb for the spacebar and sometimes using the wrong Shift key. There are a lot of programs out there that will help you do deliberate practice, it's just a matter of putting in some time.
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If we have more women in STEM then we must have less men in STEM unless we grow the total number of STEM jobs by the same amount.

So those men who would otherwise be in STEM must move to other professions, which means they either move into other male dominated professions and make them even more unbalanced or there must be an equivalent push to move them into a female dominated industry.

If we do the latter then a possible outcome is a system where we are allocating people to jobs based primarily on demographics rather than interest or aptitude.
I've not tried it, but the linked article claims c# is supported. Quote:

Languages support for Awk, C, Cpp, Chapel, Csharp, Css,
"Demoscene is all about creative, pragmatic ways to solve problems by making the most of available resources"

It probably doesn't hurt that nobody expects a demo scene app to adapt to radical changes in requirements, or to interoperate with other things that are changing as well - for that matter, to even conform to any specific requirements other than "being epic".

For instance, the linked 8088 demo encodes video in a format that's tightly coupled to both available CPU cycles and available memory bandwidth. Its goal is "display something at 24fps".

Not that I'm a fan of abstraction-for-its-own-sake, but putting scare-quotes around real problems like premature optimization is an excessive counter-reaction.
That's a lot of assumptions piled up into quite an edifice... just like Lepore's article.
In the earliest iLuminate photo I can find, Miral is hacking on an Arduino prototype board and staring at piles of glowing EL wire on the floor. Barely anything worked back then. Five years, numerous televised appearances, and 400 Off-Broadway performances later, the company is still doing amazing stuff at the intersection of art and technology. [1]

Miral is the reason why. She can code, she can choreograph, she can manage and inspire people, she can dance, and most importantly, she can pursue a vision relentlessly. She's a great example of that "formidable" quality that pg ascribes to successful founders.

So, while I get why Google is trying to inspire more women to code with this story, there's inspiration here for all of us. Build something you love and don't let the hard stuff stop you. (There will be lots of hard stuff.)

[1] Seriously, go see the show if you're in NYC, it's mind-blowing.
Absolutely, if pursued with intent, they'll be very evident. That doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything (inside the protocol) against them. The orphaned chain could be the victim of a 51% attack – or a failed attempt at a 51% attack, or an inadvertent side-effect of network lags. But by design, to converge on a shared serialized history, nodes eventually trust the longest chain as the winner-as-chosen-by-hashpower.

To have nodes consensually adopt some other chain, you'd need some other nice converging criteria for preferring a shorter chain. Those are hard without adopting some other centralizable or monopolizable authority role (like trusted timestamping).
I agree this was a great call by the National Park Service, however I hope it does become a permanent ban- the only people using drones in the National Park should be Park Rangers.

Civilians have no place operating drones anywhere near a nature preserve.
TextSecure is very open about the crypto protocol and provides details that independent researchers can evaluate. It's also made by a well-known expert that we trust to do it right.

Wickr is pretty shady about their protocol.

They also make me uneasy because they use the term "military-grade encryption" a couple times on their site. This is a pretty common snake-oil security term...so it makes me uneasy since the protocol details are nowhere to be found.