skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yeah, Eve has a ton of interesting business opportunities around it, everything from on demand computation/hosting (heroku) to collaboration and versioning (github). Consulting or even just building products of our own that are much easier to maintain/faster to build is also an option.
What ivy league and other private research universities excel at academically is scholarly opportunities outside class assignments.

This is actually true at any school. At large state schools, there are professors doing real research. The difference with the ivy leagues is very few students actually seek these experiences out. (I was one of four undergrads applying for a paid research position during my Big School CS undergrad. I got it as a sophomore because the competition was weak.) I still would have had a better experience at Stanford or MIT, but I think it's more a peer effect.

But instead that produced this arms race of people seeking lots of extra academic experiences purely for the sake of getting into college and then burning out and not wanting to continue once they got there.

This is very true. I was very surprised how many of my friends dropped their extracurriculars in college. The only friends who stayed in music were the ones (like me) who went to large state schools - in essence because we were doing it for it's own sake. Turning college admissions into an extracurricular quest (in addition to a "Don't dare get a B" risk aversion) seems very wrong.

My sense is that this gets sorted out in the end. After a few years of work, all the nonsense about school admissions is gone.
There may be millions of Wordpress installations, but how many run as CGI-scripts?

My guess is very close to zero. Wordpress is really slow as it is. It's also likely to be more complicated to set up compared to mod_php or FastCGI.

No, your bugs likely won't be in the direct execution of your web apps, but in their auxilliary functions such as processing received e-mail, handling print queues etc.
The oligrachs have little or no money to lose on those issues.

You used the word "extralegal." What does that apply to if not the use of encryption in mobile devices?
Yes, but that's no reason to not pursue it, right?

I personally like non-google options, and competition is a generally a good thing
The network you can make and the doors it opens are tremendous and without them you have to hustle in a completely different area than you otherwise would.

It's not that they give you a free win, but rather an advantage you can play later as needed. Getting a degree from a no name liberal arts school or a smaller state school is not going to mean the same thing for certain pursuits.

That said, an overachiever can do amazing things with limited opportunity. Advantage or disadvantage, it depends on how you use it.
Another reason to know what fortnight means is that it enables you to use the word "fortnightly" instead of "bi-weekly." With the latter I never know if the speaker meant "twice a week" or "every two weeks" without a follow-up question.
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I'm curious what happens if the markers are removed. For example, if one of the markers is that you've got too much X in your system, and you take a drug that binds to X and then is flushed out of your system - do you stay depressed?
The whole Manifold series is interesting. Each Manifold book stands in its own universe, but uses the same cast of characters with a different set of answers to Fermi.

I got on a Baxter kick after powering through his Long Earth books (ostensibly coauthored with Terry Pratchett, though Pratchett's fingerprints are rather non-existent after first book). As long as you're ok with Baxter's strong dislike of organized religion, he seems to be one of the better modern science fiction writers.
Why C++ is used intensively at USA Computing Olympiad all the years
FYI: I don't entirely agree with this article. But I posted it in part because I seriously loathe the AA "disease" model.

My dad drank heavily when he was in the army. He fought in the front lines of two wars. I think he did it at least in part so he could sleep because alcohol helps suppress dreams (and, thus, also nightmares). About four years after he left the army, he swore off alcohol and basically never touched it again.

I loathe the taste of alcohol and, for most of my life, rarely have touched the stuff. But I did have a nightcap almost every night for a year at a time when I was very ill and doctors didn't really know what to do for me. At some point in there, it was not unusual for me to have two doubles with dinner -- the equivalent to four drinks. So I imagine I could have been classified as an alcoholic at that time. But when I got some answers and started getting healthier, I was happy to stop drinking. Like my father, I never attended AA, never wrestled with trying to resist temptation or whatever, etc.

In my father's case, I think it helped with psychological trauma. In my case, it helped me survive illness at a time when I didn't have good answers and wasn't getting adequate medical treatment. I have read or heard plenty of other stories that look to me like they fit one of those categories.

So I think the article oversimplifies things in suggesting it is just a developmental disorder, but I am thrilled to see a piece talking about the reality that most folks drink less as they get older, without getting any treatment. I really, really dislike the AA model.
We also see the same exact behavior. I opened a ticket with AWS earlier today and just forwarded them this thread.
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Yes that is exactly the point I am trying to raise with my previous question. Is this sustainable? Certainly not in the US where a student must take on massive amounts of debt to complete a degree only to make near minimum wage after graduation.
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MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines
I don't dispute the article's thesis, but a significant part of the reason why addiction is skewed so heavily to the young could be because the most severe addicts die from it before reaching an older age. As in, you don't "age out", you "survive".
Maybe, but try adding 2 numbers.
In Python, I can just type 3 + 4 and hit Enter, in Excel, it's significantly less intuitive.
Hiring a tutor that may or may not be in tune with the specific issue at hand that you need help with and the class/topic context vs going to a TA who is intimately familiar with the course and is likely already leading recitation sessions and exam reviews, and two widely different things.
It's nuts, I think I hear about a new Spark company, product, or service every few days. Where's the company name version of this? http://jezebel.com/imagine-typing-it-a-couple-hundred-times-...
Programming languages tend to be geared toward coercing the user to abstract data into symbols. Spreadsheets are the other way around being more focused on keeping the data in front of your face as a table.

Data can be a complex thing to understand. By forcing data to be explicitly displayed in tables, users no longer need to "read source code" as just a casual glance at a chart or a table leads to significant comprehension about what's going on.
Neither AWS nor Azure fully matched Google's last price cuts back in April.
* Can I import my keys?

* Where does the app look for keys? In official PKI servers? (e.g. pgp.mit.edu ?)

* Can you integrate something like https://keybase.io/ ?
This project looks great. I think it's a great example of finding one thing to do well, and doing it well (though of course, there are the other competitors you will have to catch up to, like SUTime, etc).

I also like that this project was attempted by the layman (no offense intended). I feel that a lot of academic projects have this "if you haven't been studying ngrams for 20 years don't bother" feel to them, and people don't seek to deeply understand, instead of just handwaving "somebody smart thought of this". That kind of thinking reduces new thought in a given field.

Will be using the library in my personal projects for sure, extra points for using Clojure (in my book), as I've been recently learning about it and getting into it.
>the car-mechanic school and the math-professor school.

Heh heh. Having worked mostly with math professors, I would say the code they write almost exclusively belongs to the car-mechanic school. Math professors never deck up their code with CT. The majority of the time a math prof has to write code, its to do heavy-duty applied math, engg stuff ( solve pde's, fluid mechanics, EE math, fourier transforms, gradients etc. ) or to display some cool visualization to the students ( here's how a vector space looks! here is what happens when you apply linear transformation!! here are all the elements of a quotient group!!! ) - those tend to be done in Matlab/Mathematica/Maple/Gap...and these tools have zero CT. The applied stuff tends to use netlib, gams, gsl, colt, apache math...mostly a lot of gsl these days...again no CT there. Most of them are very happy to declare giant matrices & happily mutate away.
Yeah, that's an important point to stress:

Whether you have been vulnerable to this bug or not is important -- for the decision to wipe and reinstall.

It's not important for the decision to patch, which should be done everywhere possible.
Well, I don't know if it's fundamental. I hope not. Perhaps you could change the constitution somehow. You could mess with term lengths or limit someone's tenure.

Or you could have a part time parliament like in Switzerland. That way the politicians need normal jobs and are not dependent on the voters for a livelihood.

The question is, once you have the current system, how are you going to get the incumbents to vote themselves out of work?
Everything he used can be found in a home workshop, especially the workshop of someone with metalworking experience. I'd guess you'd have easier time finding these tools than a home CNC mill that can handle Al.
I know Chris already responded to some of your concerns, but I'd like to weigh in briefly as well.

> By bringing investors on board, and promising Hacker News they're going to change the world

a16z constitutes the majority of our investment, and Chris Dixon at a16z is rather well equipped to help us tackle this problem. It has also given us access to a rather impressive network of very smart people who can help us. Yes, there is a trade-off in that our investors have a say in what we do, but given the small number of investors, and who they are individually, there is a low probability of micromanagement from them. Secondly, we never promised Hacker News that we're going to change the world; we said we have some ambitious ideas, and that we wanted to pursue them. Might they change the world? Sure. Might we also die trying? Absolutely. That's a risk inherent to... well, everything. Certainly a lot of things worth doing.

> The fact that the LT team is giving up on Light Table/I think the LT team should have worked themselves into a crying, bleeding, starving mess

The last time we had office hours with pg about LT, we didn't exactly leave with a warm fuzzy feeling about continuing work on the project. But we did, for another year, spending the remainder of the Kickstarter money and approaching the end of the runway, staying as lean as possible, and continuing to develop a product that pg, James Lindenbaum, et al, all regarded as a nonviable business. We may have to agree to disagree on how plausible it is to make an open source IDE a commercial success, but there was plenty of crying and bleeding before we came to work on Eve.

At that point, it became what Jamie aptly described as a matter of return on effort. There isn't much sensibility in spending countless hours to solve the wrong problem, and running out of money didn't strike us as the optimal way to continue working on a problem we genuinely cared about. Instead, once LT became open source, we forged ahead into an area that Chris Dixon called a "Vietnam" of software, and while Eve may be particularly difficult, it brought us new funds precisely so we don't have to give up.

> I truly hope they succeed

Thank you, so do we :)
> [...] just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers [...]

You're assuming that one can only be a free thinker or a free man after 4 years of university, as opposed to the ignorant slaves that are the rest. What makes you believe this?
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If they don't think that Light Table is going to be profitable for them as a company long term then yes, that's a problem with the current product/strategy. You're making a lot of assumptions about what the company can or can't do when the writing seems to be on the wall - They didn't feel comfortable moving forward with Light Table as a business so they are moving into a space with similar goals but (hopefully) a much larger opportunity.

It's a company full of smart people backed by smart investors, if there was a way to make LT work at scale I'm sure they would still be working on it.
Thanks for the link - although I'm referring more to the (potentially false) analogy with present-day digital computers as opposed to the claim that the brain is a type of computational instrument, which is hard to find fault with. It's interesting how different eras apply their own en vogue technologies to understanding the mind. (I.e. Descartes and other late 17th and 18th c. thinkers visualized mental functions as clockwork-like mechanical interactions, the 20th century witnessed lots of "brain as factory" imagery, and now we're stuck on the brain as a network of computers).
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Some terms forms require you to scroll to the bottom, but they don't need to. Clicking "I agree" is good enough for you to be bound by the agreement.
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"and admitted that Lacrosse helped him get in"

Indeed. Once you factor in the athletes and worse, legacy admits, Ivies have real trouble building an all around good class by the metrics most in this discussion are using (by their metrics, they're education the future leaders of the US and world, so...).

MIT and no doubt CalTech have a great advantage in that the first calculation in admissions is "can they do the work?"; that, which is a rather high bar, plus tremendous self-selection in applicants, results in a somewhat different student body. Or at least compared to nearby Harvard by my observations.
I know, I don't like web GUIs. Also this cannot notify me during work.
I doubt it would help as those mmarkers are more likely an innocuous byproduct than a cause of the problem. RNA is something that does its job inside the cells and I'm actually surprised that they can get useful markers from blood.
Thanks for checking it out Jonah - you're absolutely right that integrations are key. I've been working in ecommerce for a while and the one thing I figured out is that absolutely everyone has a different setup - which is why we went API first.

But you're totally right - we've got integrations with Bigcommerce and Shopify on the roadmap so users can pull in their products and make getting started easier.

For inventory, API is the best bet for now. When we launch our cart integrations, we'll probably treat the carts as "the truth" and decrement their inventory levels for wholesale transactions. Our early users are telling us they use their carts primarily to manage inventory.
A demon is something scary that lives inside of you. I think it's an OK metaphor.
I am not a fan of their support in general.

I've had to rescue a few people from NFS after a well-intentioned but short-sighted web developer somewhere set up their client's website on NFS, and then the relationship fell apart or the web developer moved on, and the client is left with some issue at NFS but not the technical knowledge to deal with it.

NFS has an entirely inflexible policy towards this situation: nobody but the account holder is allowed to access the account or contact support on the account holder's behalf, period, no exceptions. This is still in their TOS: "You may not set up a membership for an individual other than yourself, access any membership other than your own, or let anyone else access your membership."

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The end result of this all is that I have to lie through my teeth when dealing with NFS and go through a song and dance that isn't necessary at any other hosting service. (I even like GoDaddy better in this regard; I call up all the time saying, "Hi, I'm a technician for your customer _____, I'm working with them to ______, their account number is _____ and their password is ______...", and it's never been a problem.)

I was an NFS customer about 7 or 8 years ago. It's an OK service. I don't dislike them except for this one obnoxious support issue that bites innocent people in the ass.
Nope, sorry, we have plans of some (optional) better integration with github, anyway the API of taiga allow you to do anything you can do from the web client, and the GitHub API is great too, anyone can write a sync system between taiga and github issues/milestones. But take care, we use milestones for user stories, not issues. You can sync github issues to taiga user stories.
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