skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference: there are a lot of people alive today with relatives whose lives were cut short by twentieth-century mass murderers.
Maybe at the entry level but what about scaling an application that handles personal info (and credit cards) over multiple servers (just for example)?

What's the most complex backend stuff you can think of? Perhaps Google or Amazon level engineering? There's simply no equivalent of that on the front end.

TL;DR I'm pretty sure the majority of the PhD's at Google are not writing CSS.
I found I had the exact opposite experience. There were just so many options everywhere that when I tried to change a few settings or edit book tags, I quickly got lost. I'd like it to be cleaned up a bit and streamlined, not necessarily conform to Apple/Microsoft/Google design guidelines.
We need new rigorously controlled experimental studies to tease out the causation patterns suggested by correlations observed in observational studies of human diet. The way to test a causal hypothesis is always, at bottom, to do a controlled experiment.[1] So we will tease out the effects of diet on different people by finding experimental volunteers and subjecting the volunteers to controlled diets, such as those planned for some of the experiments described in this interesting article.

This is very difficult to do, as almost all human beings eat when they feel like eating WHAT they feel like eating. Earlier human experiments on effects of diet in the 1970s actually required the experiment subjects to live in the laboratory long-term, and to have every gram of everything they ate during the experiment measured exactly by experiment team assistants. Even at that, those experiments came up with few clear conclusions, perhaps because the experiments weren't lengthy enough or didn't include enough subjects for strong inferences. Now the experimenting begins again. Whether the currently hotly debated hypotheses about human diet win or lose, it's important to put the hypotheses to the test of a rigorous experimental study to advance human knowledge.

[1] http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
What does "LaHaShem HaAretz U'Mloah" and "Tam V'Nishlam Shevah L'El Borei Olam" at the begging and end of source files?
what we want from government (and yes Americans, that means healthcare)

Who appointed you to speak for Americans? I don't want the government involved in or paying for or deciding who provides my healthcare. One of the reasons is I don't want it managed by the incompetence illustrated in this story.
Mueller, C., & Dweck, C. (1998). Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 33-52, is a big one (http://web.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/syst...).
Honestly, there are hundreds of sham trials and prosecutions in the US every day, let alone the entire rest of the world. The question is, why focus on this one in particular?
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Holy shit, I had not seen this information previously.

So it looks like Oracle (through a roundabout arrangement with Dell) was on price agreement and they entered into a time & materials contract with Oracle and paid them via POs. Jesus christ on a cracker. Now I wonder if the Legislature had to approve OHAs limitation like they did with my Agency? In other words, we had to get permission from the Legislature to spend our own money (outside of normal operating costs).

I had to budget my big IT expenses before each biennium and wrap them up into Policy Option Packages that then got presented to the Legislature to get approval to implement them. Yes, this was for things like new servers, hyper-v, etc.

What I find utterly unfathomable is that the state wrote ONLY 43 POs totalling 132 Million fucking dollars. That means that each PO was over 3 Million dollars (provided it was divided up evenly between each PO). Was there no chain of accountability on these POs? Who approved them? Who had oversight on this process?
Since when has losing an arm justified losing a leg?
The GSM standard mandates that 911, 112, and 999 (I believe...) be routed as emergency calls when dialed on a GSM cell phone.

I think some phones go farther and include 000, 118, and other lesser-used emergency numbers as well.
Geohash: text representation allows you to sort locations by proximity
Do you have any demos or profiles of your other educational projects? I'm working on project that uses a pedagogy similar to the Silent Teacher, I'm always curious to see what other people are doing in that area.
If you're sharing code among different clients, couldn't the exclusive license be a problem?
chromatic wrote up a great post on this kerfluffle - "why do govt IT projects fail":

http://outspeaking.com/words-of-technology/why-do-government...
Read the docs.

All they give out is the store location/pickup time for an RX# request, no identification info, no medication info.
Stalin is a beautiful proof of how much a compiler can optimize even "dynamic" languages under a closed-world assumption. This works because the compiler basically just infers all the types (EDIT: that it can, and that's sometimes much more precise than would be expressible in C, hence more optimization opportunities)

Another example of that, to me, is the google closure compiler for javascript (in advanced mode).

The PR situation stemming from stalin's name is a bit unfortunate, but you can always fork and rename it, if you want to work with it, right?

Also, I'm pretty glad that I live in a time where people are free to argue whether jokes about genocidal dictators are acceptable and in the place where I can read them doing so, from the other side of the globe.
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A nice syntax that makes things easier to read is a nice to have. It doesn't make writing or reading programs substantially easier, though. IMO.
People make jokes about Hitler all the time. I've seen him appear in various comedies and sketches. I have yet to feel like the holocaust was trivial though.
I actually wrote one of those a while back:

http://pcmonk.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/phlisped-an-experimen...
just wait until I unveil my Caliphate static analysis tool next week
The question is are you inheriting genes or memes?
Yeah, happens for me too but I never noticed until now. I guess I just always thought that this was the way it was designed to look. The UI is more than a little bit jumbled/ugly.
They weren't better, there is just lots of rosy tinted tunnel vision from aficionados. We had good reasons for not going in the directions tried out in the 70s and 80s (e.g. Smalltalk images), while some of those directions have been nicely subsumed into current IDEs (e.g. Smalltalk's fix and continue).

If you truly think the old systems were better, then prove it! Don't just tell me about some magical system that existed 25 years ago. Show me.
the whole point is to have vector math, not raster, particularly to well support zooming in and out on small devices
Should one -- moi, specifically, a journalist -- upvote the approved anti-narrative? In terms of making a modest living, I don't see much middle ground.

Both sell newspapers/pageviews. There's all the room in the world between approved objectivity and calculated dissent. It just don't pay.

The recently butchered James Foley said he'd cover local planning commission meetings if that was his last professional option.

Idealist? Chump?

Who else is going to do it, and do it well -- who informs the polis, so that a half-ass democracy can at least pretend to function?

Crowd-sourced event coverage is cheap and easy and sexy. But it doesn't provide context.

Sadly, for-profit media seems determined to capitalize on free YouTube and Twitter feeds at the expense of paying professionals to pay attention and make sense of complex issues.

Nothing new here. Move along. News at 11.

Did I say that out loud? Again?

(Edit: I'm also a big fan of The Dish View From Your Window Contest, which leads this discussion. Interesting media model at The Dish: curate/create great content/commentary, and ask readers to pay. So far, so good.)
Did you contradict yourself or am I missing something between the first and second sentence?
A readable popular article about this research, "The Effort Effect," was published right after Professor Carol Dweck moved her research base from Columbia University to Stanford University.[1] And Dweck has written a full-length popular book, quite readable and helpful for parents, called Mindset: The New Psychology of Success[2] that I recommend to parents all the time.

[1] http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...

[2] http://mindsetonline.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/...
my experience is very different: often problem projects are in that situation because of problem clients. How do you work out the difference before committing?

edit: though I bet not dealing with clients that quibble about billing rates excludes lots who didn't learn their lesson the last time
It might even be possible to use a knowledge base as detailed and broad as Google's to start making accurate predictions about the future based on analysis and forward projection of the past.

Hello Hari Seldon, psychohistory and mathematical sociology!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_sociology
Best of luck getting this program back on track.
I strongly recommend an Acer C720. The conversion is mostly painless and the portability is incredible. Aslo, once it's set up I've had to do nothing.

At least consider it. For someone who works at the office on a MacBook Pro retina with 16 gb of ram the 2gb isn't a cause for concern either though you will notice it while compiling anything.
A lot of people sleep in shifts, wherein one gets a full night's sleep during what are considered "normal" sleep hours (like 10-6) and the other gets additional sleep after (10-6 with interruptions, then 6-9 uninterrupted.)

Also, some babies sleep through the night starting pretty early. Ours was maybe 4-5 weeks old when he started sleeping through the night consistently, or needing attention once during the night at most. (I sleep worse now that he's 4 1/2 years old. He gets up at 3am and wants to LARP 2048 with me. "I'm 512. You're 512. We make a 1024!!!")
Well, that is not the point though. He is just pointing out the hypocrisy.
Mostly unrelated, but I just met a guy last night who's working in state govt (NC). Is working in a dept and is being told he only has access to Windows servers, and is required to use IIS and SQL Server. They're already bought/paid/licensed, and he has no option. But... there's no budget to get him a licensed copy of Visual Studio. So he's been writing PHP with some free editor and cobbling it together on Windows/MSSQL.

He seemed to be unaware of Visual Studio Express options, so that's a little bit his fault (or more likely, the fault of whoever is overseeing his group).

Again, yes, unrelated to the Oracle thing, except yet one more anecdotal illustration of just how poorly run govt programs can be. I know private enterprise can be as well, but we're not having to fund those directly, and in many cases the market eventually sorts them out.
Does something like this exist for MySQL?
Too bad I don't have Pages.
Nothing wrong with the syntax, it's just that if you're going to create an entire mirror of your database, you might as well use mysqldump. (Plus it'll actually be portable).
> It's tricky stuff... Feynman was (is?) a hero of mine, and I struggle to put this stuff in context.

The context is that there was no such thing as no-fault divorce in the United States until 1969, and as a result, it was not uncommon for people to invent phony stories about abuse and submit false testimony to the court.
My guess is that it's less dishonesty -- though no doubt that occurs -- but far more often there never was an agreement. The two parties thought they had one but it wasn't fully specified, and now they have discovered that the two sets of unspecified assumptions in their heads don't match.
Here's a paper by Dr. Dweck on the topic [1]. Thanks to dfabulich above for suggesting the right terms to google. I'm no expert at evaluating claims in developmental psychology, but this seems like credible research after a quick read through.

Note that the claims supported by the research here are closer to something like "praise of a certain kind makes children more likely to answer followup questions a certain way," rather than "there are two well separated groups of people that adhere to meaningfully differing mindsets in a persistent way."

Claims of the first kind are much less problematic, but as far as the latter, remember that there are many, many instances where the spread within a group of people is much larger than the difference between groups of people: that should be the default assumption whenever there isn't strong evidence to the contrary.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/syst...
The panama canal is 50 miles wide and has an elevation change of 85 feet. Construction took 10 years.

It would be vastly more efficient to have a pipe line which would still be ludicrous.
For another compact format (exclusive to homogenous collections), checkout JSONH https://github.com/WebReflection/JSONH
From the lawsuit:

"one formal Oracle employee said the solution "literally garbage" that was seemingly configured by "a kindergartner.""
i think. there's also a difference in the supply/capacity part. transport services are usually scaled to meet average load or perhaps somewhere a little more than that..i think they're usually not scaled to meet peak load. on the other hand, disasters are like a sudden decrease in supply. perhaps news of the decrease in supply will drive people's expectations..perhaps to imagine it will become worse..but demand could be largely the same.. the expectations part is fairly interesting..it seems to say that people dont trust the government to be of help when there is a disaster. or something like that.
The topic here is seminal work on whole-program compilation. Comments about this work, or about whole-program compilation or Scheme compilation in general, are welcome.

Indignation over the name is off-topic. So is indignation about indignation over the name, and so on.
Don't accept LinkedIn request from recruiters - ever.

Reason: Your linkedin relationships/connections can help you find people you have in common - your old colleague Bob can vouch for you to Mary who works for a company you'd like to work for. If you accept a recruiter, now your LinkedIn connections list is polluted with hundreds of 2nd level relationships - people you have nothing in common with except that they accepted a linkedin request from the same recruiter.

You can remove these "bad" connections after the fact so its not the end of the world.
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Chuck I don't know you, but I always look forward to your posts whenever I read the comments on a HN post. This was another excellently written one, and timely for me because I will be going through these scenarios very soon. Thank you.
Maybe the word 'substantially'
Does anyone have a decent webapp to replace this? Interested in building one since I haven't found a viable option. As of now I use Calibre and set my folder to Dropbox so I can access books.
HPC costs vary significantly with the hardware and size of datacenter, if you want to break it down. It's probably best to ask them what the cost would be if you weren't a federal employee. Otherwise, ask them for a total cost of ownership for a server or total cost of operation per year per server, and you can divide that out by compute-hours (cost per core-hour).

Worst case just take the EC2/Google Cloud/Azure numbers, since that's your market comparable providers. Any papers or ROI calculations you can fudge with "approximately" or "at least". I'd guess that your HPC provider isn't as cost optimized as EC2.
>I've never seen sugar implicated as a cause of type II diabetes.

Sugar has been implicated as a cause of type II diabetes by many people [1]. Whether they are right or not is up for debate.

Even my great grandmother, born in 1915, used to warn that too much sugar would cause diabetes. According to her this was conventional wisdom when she was young.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/28/173170149/sugars...
Stalin is also just a Russian surname; probably craploads of them in the Moscow phone book.

Randomly googling for "Igor Stalin", I found a Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Are there famous Stalins besides the well-known tyrant? Wikipedia informs me that "The Stalin" were a Japanese punk band, and some rapper called Jovan Smith took on J. Stalin as a stage name, and an Indian politician called M. K. Stalin. All of these names are derived from the infamous dictator, though. So it's very hard to connect anything which uses that name to anything else.

"The Stalin" chose their name evidently because "Joseph Stalin is very hated by most people in Japan, so it is very good for our image." LOL, facepalm
Somehow, David Graeber on anything economic, is likely worth about as much as his description of Apple's founding.

http://www.businessweek.com/finance/occupy-wall-street/archi...
Suggestion: Show both the JSON and LCON representation for the examples. This would help illustrate the difference between the formats.
Ask HN: Interviewed for Developer and offered Tester position
First off, I am a beginner programmer trying to break off into a programming career.. I am currently in a SysAdmin job..

I recently interviewed with a company for a developer position and after all the Interviews are done, their CTO suggested me to get into Automation Tester position before moving into development since they are using Python (I program using python) for tests and GO and Node.js for development..

What do you think of? Is it possible to switch to development once I'm in? How much coding will I do at the Testing job?
I love yaml because I can see it, and it (usually) makes sense. Same thing with Markdown. They both visually represent the data/content in a manner that my brain gets.

This seems less obvious (or slower to digest) but I've stared at yaml and markdown for a while now.
Of course sugar is literally a poison. So is water. I think what you mean is in practice it doesn't really matter.
> Sadly you only get to raise your kids once,

You're not A/B testing?
I was speaking of individual rights, not necessarily democracy. One can have a non-democratic political system where individual rights are respected, for instance a republic ("government by laws, not by men"). Citizens in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore in general had far more individual rights, especially economic rights, than those in China.
> There's no reason that "you're smart" can't work in the same way.

The difference is that exercising intelligence takes a lot of hard work, whereas anyone can "accept stupidity." So it's definitely not the same kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, even if it is a self-fulfilling prophecy (though all of the research I have seen claims otherwise, that people who are praised for their intelligence tend to give less of an effort).
This is compact, sure, but I have a hard time reading it.

I'll stick with JSON.
Hong Kong may not have had democracy, but its citizens had strong protection of their social and property rights compared to Mainland China. Individual rights is not synonymous with democracy; the whole point of a republic is "Government by law, not by man" - pure democracy can potentially even by detrimental to individual rights, if the majority of the population don't respect certain rights (for instance, the Germans who elected Hitler).
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I didn't mention democracy. It's quite possible to have individual rights without a democracy, for instance if one has a benevolent dictator who respects them.
Agreed, but I'll stick with YAML.
That's transliterated Hebrew. The first one means "The world and everything in it belongs to God", the second "The end, praise God, creator of the world."

No idea why they are there.
I've met a lot of people who say that calorie counting doesn't work, but I haven't met a single person who consistently and meticulously counted calories over a long period of time, eating at a caloric deficit, who failed to lose weight.
I use json when I need to read it and messagepack when I need to send it over the network.
Aaron Schwartz introduced me to Dweck. It has been an integral part of my life ever since:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck
I loved that version RCT2, when RCT3 went out I got disappointed, the control feeling was lost...

Looking through those alternatives makes me believe that maybe I'll can enjoy one more time that game...

Parkitect is the real evolution of RCT2, like Gangsters 2 the latest version Omerta has great textures and graphics and the original game style, I hope that Parkitect can reach their goal on time as a Kickstarter project
If someone paid your company $240M, even with shoddy oversight, knowing that the health of millions of people depends on reasonable engineering (one website), you'd deliver a decent website.

This is appalling. The fact that so many here are jaded - I'm jaded too - doesn't change the fact that if you take $240M of a customer's money, you'd deliver a website.
For anybody who wants a little bit more structure than LCON but less clutter than JSON, I'd recommend checking out CSON.

https://github.com/bevry/cson
> The human body doesn't run on calories, it runs on food.

This and other "the human body is immune from the effects of thermodynamics" arguments are... well, wrong. Otherwise there is a breakthrough in physics waiting to be found and potential unlimited energy.
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> High insulin levels cause fat storage.

You need to read more than your confirmation bias-laden sources if you believe these things. Stop reading Taubes and pick up Aragon and McDonald. The best way to actually learn the truth is to read something that runs counter to your viewpoint and analyze it.
I'm emboldened by comments like these, and I don't mean to be harsh or dismissive. Maybe time to give it another try. But I'd like some acknowledgement of the problems, which I think is what the OP was after.
At first, I thought they were partnering with Heathkit; I want my Apple Hero One robot!
Depends on the company.

I would not hire any programmer who only knows python. I am a silicon valley CTO. This shows a technologist at the very earliest stages of their development.

Going carefully through online courses in Node/Javascript, Java, Scala, Objective C, Go, Ruby, PHP and writing example programs in each one should take you more than a few months of nights and weekends, but is the kind of work a programmer enjoys. In my first 10 years in the valley, I worked most weekend on my own projects, I would occasionally take a full weekend off. I still have to learn new things many weekends, just to keep up.

The good news: no one cares about "certification" or "classes". The bad news: you're on your own. Learn a few languages.

Should you take the job? If you want to be a programmer, what's the environment where you'll be able to learn on your own? Which gives you the most free time, and access to Gurus?
The actual reason is because he has investors willing to place their faith in him, as he had made them money in repeat successful exits. He had sold Zip2 and PayPal before starting Tesla and SpaceX. While I don't doubt that he has a first rate mind, all that is required for his "diverse" companies is to know how to hire the right people and understand what they are saying.
Standard ML is not a dynamic language.