skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My nephew and his friends are 8-9 years old, and they're masters at building this stuff. The redstone, the logic, the machines, all of it. It's all they think about, all the time. Imagine what potential this early compsci education is fostering?

We just have to remind them when they're older and are running things and building amazing stuff that it's NOT OK to blow up other people's stuff with tnt.
The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O (2013)
It is hard to beat suits on the upper high end range in terms of price, but easy on the low to average range.

My suit cost me around 150$ though. I have several outfits which are comparable in cost and designed specifically to be informal.
Credits don't list gender, and they contain a very limited amount of information about a person's contribution to a project.
Linux Founder Linus Torvalds 'Still Wants the Desktop'
JVMLS 2014 – Lightweight Threads on the JVM
It sucks, but you really have very few alternatives, only 1 of which will actually get you onto the plane so you can get to where you're going and most of which will ensure you'll never get on a plane again.

The procedures may be stupid, but people do weight the options and can be surprisingly rational given that set of choices.

Given a choice of "get scanned and get on the plane" or "instigate an armed overthrow of the TSA checkpoint" I'm probably going to go with getting on the plane myself.
I haven't really needed a feature since they fixed the performance issues on hidpi displays. While I hope it's not dead, I am happy with the current state of the editor.

Oh maybe there's one thing: If you have a massive text file in your project, it will try to index it and things start to get slow.
In my opinion, techies make as much of a big deal of outfits as do the finance/business guys. They just do it by shouting about how much they are against dress codes.
Please find proper equipment to play them.

Using a microgroove stylus designed for vinyl will not do your shellac records any favours. Also the recordings will sound terrible.

There are several modern cartridges that support 78rpm stylii, and lots of vintage kit available cheap.

Also careful, they shatter somewhat easily, and like to get mouldy.
That's common in government work. It's usually for the purpose of emailing/texting at work and nothing else.

I know half a dozen people who have a separate work phone they turn off when they get home.
Mineception – MINECRAFT IN MINECRAFT
Exactly my thoughts. Licensing the ARMv8 is cheap, getting it to fab is expensive. And the current trends goes more advance nodes will be more expensive. Hence the move to smaller node will no longer be as much about getting cheaper. Until 450mm wafer comes out, which still does not have a proper schedule.
I suppose, but nothing's secretive, that's just the standard across all art forms.
I think designers are interested in doing good, meaningful design work, and some subset of designers are interested in/can afford to do unpaid volunteer design work, which could include open source projects if the project was pitched well and set up to accept design contributions: http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/
maybe it can be used as a cautionary tale. inspiration to build for the future, not the past.

(edit: wow, this is what becomes my first down voted comment on hn?! apologies to the blackberry crowd I offended)
Few hours ago there was 1KB model. Moore's law in Minecraft works really fast.
The tech industry is just a vehicle for money laundering by the rich now. At least IPOs gave engineers and workers a chance to win a lottery ticket.

Developers, stop slaving away for the VC's. You are wasting your time and have no chance of getting paid until we reform the economic foundation of our trade.
I don't like this article, but I won't say why because I don't want to start a flame war.
>> going to school helps prepare people for this kind of work

Is there some specific teamwork that goes on in a CS degree? Can't teamwork skills be picked up in the previous 14 years of schooling?
Hitler's Table Talk is a far more interesting read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_Table_Talk
As an NYC resident, I see cops helping people with directions and MTA cards all the time, often unasked. RE: being "horrible" to abuse survivors, again, I think your perceptions have been skewed by all the stories you've heard about this happening, and all the stories you haven't heard about it not happening, because it's not newsworthy when it doesn't happen. Do you have any evidence this is occurring in a majority, or even a large minority of cases?
Time ago function in JS
You're welcome. For the sake of argument let's assume your target customers are small teams. I'm going to try and pin you down on one area you keep assuming is true: "There's a wide variety of reasons people might want that." Can you name 3? I can't think of a single application a team might use that would require layer 2 connectivity. File sharing is done with dropbox, email and other server or saas solutions these days. Modern version control systems work across the internet. VoIP would be through a provider...

There are a lot of other areas you can apply this technology, but there are already tons of players in those spaces.
Any jobs one can do from home available on Internet pay well?
Are there any jobs one can do remotely available on the internet one can do from home over internet. Where?
This is actually pretty scary.
In my last gig we had to wear the whole tie getup even though we're crawling under desks or setting up servers. The funny thing is when they had investors and such come through the building they didn't let us downstairs - we had to stay hidden. What the heck was the tie for then.

I even got reprimanded by my manager's manager because my dress shoes did not match my dress pants.
Would Entity Framework qualify as a "built-in" ORM for .net languages?

edit I guess not, since it's a nuget package now. Maybe LINQ to SQL could have been considered a built-in ORM?
I feel like there's an expectation for me to dress up more than my husband or any other programmer I know, just to be taken a little more seriously. I don't know that many female programmers that wear tshirts except for promo purposes or at home/super duper casual settings either.

Not to mention most tshirts don't fit female bodies in an ideal way anyway...
The degree is, in the face of people's stunning inability to judge others, a prima facie way to decide whether a person is capable of setting a long term goal and seeing it through to completion.

It can, for less savory reasons, be used to pre-screen people who fit in demographics that do not have high graduation rates.
kohanz is not saying that college is the only way someone can learn teamwork, or that college is a prerequisite to teamwork skills, but merely that college is positively correlated to such skills.
DevArt: Co(de)Factory
Clojure/ClojureScript app for designing 3d art
Bop.fm's new feature alerts you when your fav artists/friends update playlists
A solid content strategy is crucial in the converging media world
For fun, WhatsApp was acquired for what, $16b? With 400m users? Or $40 per user.

Even if the user base continued to grow to 1/7th of all humans on the planet, that's still $16 per user. Over 5 years that's about $3.2 per user per year. Can they monetize that much?

Their fee is $1/year with the first year free. So assuming a billion people use it, it would take 17 years to get their money back in gross revenue terms. Who knows how long in net revenue.

FB has a little over a billion users, and makes about $6 per user per year in gross revenue with tons of advertising.

Is WhatApp overvalued? A little.
Of course, you could always use ActiveRecord's facility to drop down to SQL, and continue to use ActiveRecord where it is actually more convenient.
I understand why stuff like this had to be made in Flash in 1999, but in 2014, client-side web development is in a much better place.

Client-side web development (meaning HTML/CSS/JS) in 2014 is in a much better place than client-side web development in say 2009 or 2004.

Whether it is in a better place than what could be achieved with the main plug-ins in 2009 or even 2004 is more debatable.

HTML/CSS/JS has won, but I'm not sure that victory had much to do with the technical capabilities of the development platform or the quality of its surrounding ecosystem. If the browser+plug-in model hadn't been such a security disaster and if Apple hadn't forced the issue for iOS devices, things might have been very different today.

In particular, we might by now have evolved a safe, fast, flexible plug-in system to add rich content to web pages and control how everything interacts. Instead, we rely on underpowered HTML5-based alternatives like canvas, SVG, and HTML5 media elements, all controlled with only a single, far from ideal programming language.
I did Computer Engineering, but I assume they're similar. I think most post-secondary educations are filled with a lot of team-based projects (RTOS was a memorable one from my past). I certainly had team projects in high school but of course they weren't at the same technical level, with the same caliber of people.

It's not the only way to get that experience though. As I mentioned, if someone has several years of real-world experience working in industry, with positive recommendations to back up that they're good at what they do, then degree or no degree becomes more of a moot point.

It's the cases when there is not enough work experience, or diversity of experience, to paint a full picture, that one might factor in the presence of a degree.
Usually for software engineers, you are not getting 1000s of applicants unless you have 1000s of positions. It's folly to use cheap filters such as a degree at that point. Especially if your an unattractive employer such as the government.
I would say there is a correlation, which is not to say it is causation.

I'd venture to say that going to school and getting a degree in CS would increase the likelihood of one becoming a better engineer. That is not to say everybody that has a degree is a great engineer or the other way around.

So, in a sense, it makes sense to take that into consideration when hiring someone, but much like everything else in an interview process, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Show HN: Raincast – chance of rain or snow directly on your home screen (iOS)
There is the third option of "comply so that I can get onthe plane, but vigorously campaign (or at least write a single letter to my elected representative) to change the policy".
I think the point is not so much that RISC-V is better than x86 or that RISC-V with the same budget would be better than x86, etc. The point is that since RISC-V so simple, that you can produce _your_own_ customized cpus with a very small budget. Like adding special instructions, a special memory hierarchy, a special on-chip-network, whatever. It certainly made sense for digital signal processing, graphics and networking. It may make sense for other domains too.

These custom chips have the potential to be much more power efficient (for their special class of applications) than off-the-shelf general purpose chips.

With RISC-V it will be easier to start your own CPU design...
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IAMA 6'3" guy who doesn't need these shoes. AMA.
Good idea. It tracks with my experience working on the Hill years ago, too -- business casual (maybe with a tie) was fine in the House & Senate office buildings, but if you were going to the Capitol, you put on a suit.

True story: I worked for a while in the office of a Midwestern Senator who felt very strongly about this rule. He'd actually fired people in the past over it, apparently. But at one point my boss (his communications director) needed someone to help with a press conference he was holding in the Capitol, and I, who was not wearing a suit, was the only one available. My boss decided I would do because the Senator wasn't going to be at this particular press conference, so he'd never know. So off we go to the Capitol.

Then, halfway through the press conference, the Senator ambles into the room, unannounced and unexpected. My boss' faces turns white as he realizes that if the Senator realizes I'm from his office -- I was too far down the totem pole for him to recognize me immediately, thank God -- we're both screwed. So to protect us both, he does the only thing he can do: he physically grabs me, pushes me into a wiring closet, and closes the door.

This was surprising, but at least I was smart enough to stay in there and keep quiet until he opened the door and let me know the coast was clear...
Ansible Tower 2.0 released
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I'm thankful that women + video games is an issue that is continuing to get talked about - with a young daughter I hope that introducing her to one of my pastimes will be something that we can enjoy together. Games like Broken Age and Animal Crossing seem to have done well on that front.

One small criticism for this article - personally, I feel that these kinds of articles tend to conflate two issues: 1.) Women working in the video game field (or STEM in general), and 2.) Video games intended for a female audience.

Both are very important, but speaking about them together may give the impression that forward progress on one is required for the other. There is little reason that an industry largely populated by men cannot make content that is suitable for women. Conversely, when we reach gender equality in the gaming industry, we should not assume that gender-equal content will follow.

Generally, I'd love to see less of the "made for girls = everything pink" approach. I guess it probably keeps the lights on, which is better than nothing. The gaming industry's trajectory is promising though.
DevOps tool ansible UI platform Tower updates to the v2.0.
New features:
- sleaker UX;
- realtime job status updates;
- extended cloud support;
- tower server monitoring functionality;
- Red Hat support included;
- More appropriate pricing for startups(99$/100 machine). 10 machines free tier remains.
Indeed. That's the idea behind things like solar sails, for instance. Check out the article here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure
and scroll down to "Radiation pressure by particle model: photons" if the top is confusing.
> There doesn't seem to be a correlation between "great engineer" and "got a BS in CS" -- let me re-state that; you can be a great engineer without the paper, or a lousy one with the degree.

What you said after "let me re-state that" is not a restatement. The first statement (there doesn't seem to be a correlation) is much stronger.
Technically, what it means is that you need to sell the app and an offer for the source code. It might be semantics, but it's not really accurate to say you have to "give the source away" -- you could also say that you sell access to the source and give away the binary as an added service...
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Why would you want to work for an employer whose board of directors, Congress, regularly uses employees as hostages when they threaten to shut the government down?

I'd wear a clown suit if the work was steady, interesting and well paid.
Fascinating stuff, but was this a problem in need of a solution? Was Dropbox seeing that many issues with people running the install on their local machine? Were they able to differentiate between those who felt the install was a hassle versus those who simply opted to not install it?
This is less true in company-town DC than it is in places like SF, NYC, etc.
> If you need to deliver faster (and in most of the cases BETTER), go with the language and tools you know more!

A little related: http://pablocantero.com/blog/2014/04/20/i-coded-a-backbone-a...
It's there to show scale. Like when people put a penny next to an object in a photograph.
Why does acting like a grown-up literally involve acting like an adult. Suits are basically playing dress-up for adults. And don't even get me started on ties.
I cant wait until we have minecraft running on a computer built inside minecraft ;)
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> What you shouldn't be doing is interleaving data access, business logic, and presentation all in one file, which is what straight PHP and JSP usually consist of. This is called "spaghetti code" and it's been widely regarded as a really terrible practice for around 10 years.

"spaghetti code" actually has a much broader definition than that particular kind of lack of structure (though I agree that that example might be viewed as a fairly modern example of "spaghetti code") and has been considered a terrible practice for much longer than PHP, JSP, or even the web itself has existed. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code
Wow impressive. Looking at that I found this video which shows a full computer implementation in Minecraft, capable of 32bit graphics and has a basic instruction set and could be programmed with a high level language. WTF!? Is it real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go5qdMKZs-M
here's more info about it. http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/re...
This is not at all unusual, and I would be careful about thinking it has any predictive power.

It's extremely difficult to become a professor, so tenured or tenure-track professors at mediocre (but decent) schools often have degrees from big-name places.

Also, Olin College isn't even mediocre, just small. From what I understand it's pretty selective.
The biggest issue with this is reliability.

There are dozens if not hundreds of ways to break crypto on hardware that can be done in laboratory conditions. But these are in laboratory conditions, not somebody touching your laptop in a coffee shop.
Ask HN: What are the best audio tracks/podcast worth listening?
I am not talking about music and stuff. I am talking about interviews old and new, podcast, speeches, lectures and all these stuff worth listening.
Rails lover here, but the original argument against used to be "you don't need foreign keys"
Good luck catching your flight :-)
This reminds me of the attitude of a former employer. It was a small tech company, the CEO/owner was an old school business type. Always well groomed, nice suits, the car, etc.

He often had visitors come in to the office to see him, and he'd give a short tour on the way to his office. He'd stop by the sales area and introduce whoever was around and then he'd bring the visitor to the entry of the open office style room that had 4 of us software developers and say something like "And this is the bigger room, with a couple programmers" in such a way that it was as if he was showing off exotic pets or automated machinery. As if we were literally sitting there punching in the correct sequence of buttons in order to program a VCR.

"Programmers" are low status, and now when we are at the White House it'll be easier to tell who we are.
jeez some people here have thin skins and would not survive long working in the city in hft/quant's where the end customers will think nothing of spending 2k on a pair of hand made shoes.

It's quite possible to be a hacker and appreciate fashion and good quality tailoring
There were similar substantial discussions a couple times in the last year or so:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=police%20milit#!/story/sort_by_dat...

(the articles from the New Yorker, Salon and the Economist)
To point out that the stifling of politically-incorrect speech and speech critical of certain topics has a chilling effect.
That seems like a reasonable compromise. Where are the 18F and US Digital Service offices? I'd imagine you could be more low-key at some nondescript office park in Bethesda versus working in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building or some other all-suits federal agency HQ in the center of the city.
OP here - I came up with the idea for the app during my walk to work. In the morning I found myself consistently opening multiple weather apps to find out the chance of rain for the day and using this information to determine whether or not I should bring an umbrella. I created the app to simplify this process by making it easy to answer this question simply by glancing at the home screen or receiving a daily alarm that will alert me before I go out the door. The inspiration for this app came from the Fahrenheit app, which is an indispensable app for me and has held it’s same spot on my home screen over the past couple of years.

The app uses the background app refresh feature to update the badge and fetch the latest weather data, so if you are the kind of person that likes to force quit all your apps this might not be the app for you!
Uber is a dirty company. Well then.

I hope you don't wear t-shirts made by slave kids in Honduran sweatshops, eat food fertilized by Monsanto, or buy anything that gives money to the Koch brothers. I hope you never drink Coke, since they kill unionizers in Colombia and Guatemala. While you're at it, I hope you never use Eclipse, since IBM supplied the Nazis.

Every company is dirty. Every single one. Even your YC-startup is taking money from VCs taking money from east coast money guys making money from all of the above. Capitalism is a dirty game.

Realizing this, you have a few alternatives. You can try to smart-consume your way out of the situation, which is laughably futile; you can turn libertarian and start justifying it in terms of economic efficiency; or you can realize that we have no option but to play a rigged game while there isn't another game in town and start creating something better.

Choose wisely.
...Wow. I appreciate HN, but I'm really put off the negativity sometimes.
I suppose I was mistaken then, thanks for helping me understand.
You get a degree on your own merits at passing exams its not a team thing.
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Mind blow.
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When I spoke with the lawyer, he mentioned we can open it but being on H1B, founders cannot work on it unless LLC sponsors H1B visa. We have hired some unpaid interns to work on the product and a director to manage our company. We are kind of Non Managing founders
Because it's a poorly written article and the media on this issue is in a really silly place right now, but no one sane wants to deal with the hysteria currently associated with mentioning a burger chain so it's hard to construct well-reasoned yet diplomatic criticism.
The linked article says that they haven't been able to acquire one for testing.
I think this is a good example of a place where different people can just have fundamentally different values. I don't see wearing more formal clothing as "acting like grown-ups". Similarly, I don't see the White House as being a place particularly deserving of special treatment when it comes to being there as a programmer. Clearly, you (and many others) might disagree (and not-so-subtly imply that others are immature children...), but neither one of us is right or wrong.

Guess this is what causes culture clash :)
My kingdom for a sarcasm detection algorithm!
All I can say is that I didn't 'set a long term goal' going into college. I just did what I was told and eventually picked a major, riding it out as the path of least resistance to graduation. Let me put it this way: given my cultural upbringing and inset fears at the time, it would have been harder to drop out of school than to stay in school. Pretty sure that holds for many college graduates.

I'm not against screening for college grads as a policy, though I think that it could limit you from finding amazing underrated candidates. I just think that popular argument about 'seeing out a long term goal' is simply not true a lot of the time, though I benefit a lot from it.