skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother, who is an awesome, gentle, smart, great dude, is training to become a police officer. I haven't talked to him much about it. I'm not exactly sure what to say. Your statements rings very true to me, though. For the first time, I'm a little worried for my little bro.
Not in the least. E.g. there are those who are making concrete plans to kill large, Blue cities wholesale http://www.bob-owens.com/2014/02/i-swear-you-write-one-littl...

For the Drone Menace, well, the people who make, maintain, supply, operate and fly them have to sleep somewhere, sometime. The US has never fought a war where it didn't have a safe and secure far rear area, modulo the Civil War at times, and for the South at the end. No drone can detect someone carrying a concealed firearm, or a small anti-personal IED.

For more, check out this book written after the brutal suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolution by a Swiss officer at the behest of the nation's Non-commissioned Officer's Association : http://www.amazon.com/Total-Resistance-H-Von-Dach/dp/0873640...

If our betters try this sort of stunt, they'll experience Total Resistance, alright.
Just keep in mind that if you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer.
Show HN: A simple booking requests manager for Instagram users
A Single Fire Can Cripple America's Aging Air-Traffic System
The problem is that the code is largely undocumented and not easy to follow. People have tried contributing and found that the ramp up was quite steep. You can read the experiences from the author of the Gorilla REPL here https://github.com/JonyEpsilon/gorilla-repl/issues/132 and here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/light-table-discussi...
I'm very excited about supporting Scottish colloquial expressions! Working on it now, thanks :)
I could have gone to an Ivy League school and didn't, and I consider that to have been a very big mistake. The environment would have done me a lot of good.

Anyway, anecdotes are anecdotes.
Hearing Sacca live re-write his pitch and deliver it back to him 100x better in episode 1 was amazing.
When someone came into my office and said they wanna be a manager, I asked them, “How did you sleep last night?” And they said, “Oh, fairly well”. and I said, “Good, ’cause that’s the last good night’s sleep you’re gonna get.”

Having your underlings work to the point of sleep deprivation and estrangement from their families so that you can get the acclaim, the adrenaline rush, and outsize stock market payouts isn't "brilliant", or "intense." And it certainly isn't necessary to create good products. It's just egomaniacal bullshit, period.
I don't think it's enforced at all. I know several people who worked abroad for years and didn't start paying until they came back.
There are creatures that are resilient to radiation already on the earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
My main concern isn't formatting or searching, but truncation, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2011986/does-syslog-reall....
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Cool hack! How are you driving the furby?
I like the idea (perhaps with some guidelines about what would or would not be safe to attach to one's dashboard), but be careful you don't rouse the metric enthusiasts with this 1/4-20 talk.
I couldn't agree more with your #4.

I was waiting for LT to become a tool I can recommend to beginners. It's far from being ready, and it now appears they just gave up. If LT was too hard for them, what are they even talking about with this Eve thing?
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Big Idea: Withdraw.

Eliminate the need for their money. They are expecting you to come after them, pull away. People want what they can't have, you are the prize. Good read on managing the Pitch process by Oren Klaff> http://pitchanything.com/book/
Princeton has Brian Kernighan as an academic advisor http://www.cs.princeton.edu/ugrad/becoming-cs-major and their undergrad CS theory courses look incredible compared to the univ I went to, and I paid only $10k/yr less in tuition than a Princeton student.
Likewise it doesn't know what a fortnight is.
So it randomly highlights one of those... buttons?

The code:

function explain(){
if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
document.getElementById("shiftState1").innerHtml = "On";
document.getElementById("shiftState2").innerHtml = "Off";
} else {
document.getElementById("shiftState2").innerHtml = "On";
document.getElementById("shiftState1").innerHtml = "Off";
}
}

Is this a joke?
Umair is a total bummer and is being misled by his own intelligence. He's Nostradamus but with better marketing.

People have been saying the world is burning for as long as there have been people, and they often have compelling arguments, yet we are still here. You'd think after 10,000 years of buying losing lottery tickets, we'd stop playing that game.
> "[Create] a Code of Conduct for Hacker News." This helps all community members share clear expectations of appropriate & inappropriate behavior.

Hacker News has a set of guidelines that provide clear expectation of appropriate and inappropriate behavior as it regards submissions, comments, and flagging.

Presumably, the author of this piece isn't just complaining that the "Guidelines" aren't titled "Code of Conduct", and actually prefers different specific expectations than those that are currently specified. But, to make an actual actionable suggestion, concrete changes need to be identified.

> "After providing clear guidance for what kinds of comments are acceptable to its values, YC must fund a means of consistent enforcement when content is posted outside those bounds."

Heavy handed centralized moderation rather than relying primarily on community moderation is an actionable suggestion, but there is no concrete evidence presented that (1) community moderation isn't working, or (2) heavy-handed centralized moderation would work better.

> "[YC] must publicly accept its complicity in building and maintaining a business asset with these negative externalities."

Except for handwaving at vague anecdotes and stating the authors personal opinion, there's no support for the existence of the asserted "negative externalities". But, yes, while it lacks justification for action, this is certainly an actionable suggestion.

> "YC must submit to accountability for improvement."

This is a vague statement, not a specific, actionable suggestion.
Yep, that's the proper link.

Disclaimer: I made the post in HN but (unfortunately) I'm not the blog author.
I have to wonder if there is anything like this available in the US aside from MOOCs? I haven't explored far, but even the ostensibly bare bones community colleges I've looked at were trying to emulate the typical inclusive social experience model.
I don't know, I've only used Labview a couple of times, it had really nice interfaces to temperature sensors and some other physical things, you were able to throw together a quick ui monitoring a number of sensors, had a start and stop button and tools for data export. We were able to pick it up in a few hours. Programming the experiment took a couple of hours too, obviously it was rather trivial but I doubt we would have had much luck interfacing with all those different sensors in a C program without major headache.
Education timeline:

Graduated Highschool - 1995

Graduated Undergrad - 2003 (not a typo, I was usually the oldest student in class)

Graduated Grad - 2010 (also not a typo, I went back after some career time to figure out what I wanted to do)
Actual German here.

There actually was a Facebook clone (among others, with millions of users) very much in widespread use here before Facebook officially started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StudiVZ
Steven Pinker offers a very convincing dissection of the referenced Deresiewicz article [1].

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119321/harvard-ivy-league...

TL;DR:

- Deresiewicz is willfully ignorant/misleading in his pursuit of being controversial.

- Ivy league students are smart, but there are smart students everywhere.

- Admissions to Ivy league schools is not as objective as it should be. There is too much focus on fluff and not ability/potential (e.g., meaningless "volunteer work").

- College isn't for everyone, but if you're going to go, an Ivy tends to be the best place because they have the most resources (and therefore are often counter-intuitively the least expensive).
I'd 'update' the software to include a feature they are asking for along with some DRM. Get creative, make it hard to reverse engineer (Maybe write some critical functions in Python and then load them from a webserver or something). Wait until it gets loaded into production and pull the plug.

But then again, I'm an A-hole.
Why do they deserve the broadly desired services of doctors, nurses, professors, etc for free while doing very little for those doctors, nurses, or professors in return?
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Yes, I'm getting 15 posts as a single JSON object. I'm going to try these things. Thanks for the help!!!
By parents and students? Absolutely not.

By the world? Yeah, obviously. The average IQ at a good state school is about 120. In the Ivies, it's about 125. The standard deviation at each is about 13 points, so the 95th-percentile state school student would be 89th-percentile at an Ivy. That's not a huge difference. It's a lot smaller than the difference in job opportunities.

Here's the biggest (and underdocumented) advantage of having an elite pedigree: when you're presumed smart, you can put 100% of your energies into social polish. You don't have to (a) prove your intelligence, and (b) make the investor/patron feel important and just-slightly superior. You can focus on (b) alone, because (a) was taken care of. That's a huge advantage, because you're not serving two masters.

Within a couple hundred words of conversation, I can prove, to anyone intelligent, that I'm smarter than 90 to 99+% of the pedigreed (depending on how we define "pedigreed") people out raising seed rounds, but it's hard to do that without being a show-off and seeming like an arrogant prick.

It's like the decorative swords that noblemen used to wear. It was valuable to wear one, but unsheathing it and proving you knew how to use it was not always considered acceptable behavior.
It is OK to build on the JSON standard and say that an order matters. It will make it more difficult to interoperate, though.

Dropping the requirement to double-quote key names completely abandons JSON, though.

And once you do that, it is not at all clear to me what the point of this is. If you can't parse it as JSON, you get no lift from JSON and you can't use any existing JSON-based code, so why then accept the constraints of JSON?

A specification that used completely standard JSON with no ordering in the keys would make a lot more sense to me.

Further, were I going to do that, if I cared about order, I would use the construct in JSON that indicates order. It seems to me the natural sexpr -> JSON conversion for

(a b c (d e f))

would be

["a", "b", "c", ["d", "e", "f"]]

as thrysus says, with an option on

[{"type": "quoted", "value": "x"}, "y", "z"]

for special quoting forms and such. Or the quoted goes around the whole list or whatever makes sense.

All things considered, this proposal would require much more work before it could be useful to anybody; right now it tries to straddle two worlds and isn't successful at either of them. And I'm afraid I don't just mean "it's not very good at either"... I don't think it successfully covers either one at all.
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Requirements:

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* Strong familiarity with modern server-side architectures

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to be fair, I would imagine that on balance, kids from MIT (especially in STEM degree tracks) are more intelligent than those at a small liberal arts school. Honestly, probably most schools outside the Ivys and known tech schools like Urbana-Champagne, Harvey-Mudd, Caltech, etc.
A custom housing could certainly be on the order or more expensive than the optics, but if you were using catalog parts the mechanics should not be the largest cost.

For example, a "cheap" 1" notch filter from Thor would run about $500, whereas a kinematic mount would be somewhere closer to $40.
Oh, don't worry, nobody will change their opinion because of me, nor would I expect it ;)
I think the (relative) success of RubyMotion as a paid product puts the myth that programmers won't pay for software to bed. I haven't bought RubyMotion yet because it doesn't meet my present needs, I would buy LightTable (for an RM order of magnitude price) because it does. What LT will probably not do though is sell in a way that pays back VC's looking for a go big or go home hit.
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> there is no evidence as of yet that says that fugly functional abstractions provide for lower error rates.

Sure there is. Compare the incidence of buffer overflows in C programs vs Haskell ones.

> performance is part of correctness for nearly any real word example.

No it's not. See the definition of correctness [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness_%28computer_science...
In review, I wasn't clear: accidental deaths with guns numbers in the low hundreds, if that high. Tragic, yes, every one of them, but so are falls down stairs and swimming pool drownings (comparable numbers).
The fact that you're moving on from Light Table is perfectly fine. The problem is that you're not bothering to provide any sort of handover strategy.

A lot of people are interested in the project, would like to contribute to it, and would be happy to take over where you left off. However, this is difficult to do due to lack of documentation and any support from yourself.

You can read the experiences of one person trying to contribute here (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/light-table-discussi...) and here (https://github.com/JonyEpsilon/gorilla-repl/issues/132).

Since you're not going to be actively working on the project, why not involve the community find individuals or an organization that would continue developing and maintaining it.

Surely, this is not too much to ask and it would be a responsible way to transition from the project.
Where's the bracket?

Based on the name and the logo, I assumed this would be setup like some kind of tournament bracket.
They're likely Googling stuff like:
"darcsweb filetype:cgi" Or just "filetype:cgi"

Interestingly Bing is either blocking "filetype:cgi" or their filetype moniker just doesn't work very well (I am actually leaning more towards the latter after some additional testing).

Ditto with DDG, their filetype: filter just doesn't work at all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that on Debian (7 at least) /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin/dash.

The issue is so wide spread because usually /bin/sh links to /bin/bash...

I don't know if Debian and Ubuntu are the only *nixes using Dash instead of Bash.
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Right, but these are the exceptions for a reason. Something life is exposed to only every hundred(s) millions of years or so is so infrequent that evolution selects against so long as it introduces inefficiencies (and nothing is free). Evolution is an extremely dumb optimization process, and will simply drift away from rad-protecting features as soon as the event is over.
I'm in complete agreement. I've been using Docker/Dokku to do the heavy-lifting lately. Not related, but is Vagrant more mature?
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (would prefer not, but am willing to)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Node.js, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, RoR, MongoDB, SQL

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Email: kyle@kylek.me

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I am definitely a generalist looking to use some modern technologies (Node.js/Javascript and maybe even Meteor.js development) as my full time job. I have numerous ongoing personal projects and I constantly pick a new language/technology/framework for each project to experience that 'a-ha!' moment as I figure out some concept new to me. I am the author of this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musicality-music-p...

I'm looking for a startup that is somewhere around series A funding round in size, but I'm flexible. I want to be a part of something that makes a net-positive impact on the world instead of just feeling like a cog in a machine.
That was my first question after I learned about GRB. According to wikipedia you linked, atmosphere might be sufficient to protect from gamma rays, unfortunately at a very high cost to stratosphere.

"The greatest danger is believed to come from Wolf–Rayet stars, regarded by astronomers as likely GRB candidates. When such stars transition to supernovae, they may emit intense beams of gamma rays, and if Earth were to lie in the beam zone, devastating effects may occur. Gamma rays would not penetrate Earth's atmosphere to impact the surface directly, but they would chemically damage the stratosphere."
Thanks, but I definitely want to emphasize this takeaway, I could have worked harder than anybody else in history, and if it wasn't for a few people giving me opportunities to jump on, I'd be a farmhand today.

From the guys who hired me into my internships and helped me afford school and payed me enough to get by, to some nameless group of politicians who passed the laws that helped subsidize my schooling and put in place the grants that made it all possible.

Without all of those people coming into play at just the right time and in just the right sequence, I'd be hardworking, just in an entirely different life and at a greatly reduced standard of living.
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Wow totally jealous. I'm of German descent (last name: Schroeder, 3rd generation in the US), but we have it very bad in comparison.

We have these parasitic institutions called "for profit" colleges that are typical capitalist greed. Their goal is to extract as much money out of students who can't do math so well and end up with unbelievably large loans. Most state ran colleges are respectable, but the most all of the best colleges in America are private or private "Ivy League" colleges. Becoming a professor requires a PHD and many years to attain tenure. I simply don't think the pay is competitive for public colleges vs private "for profit" colleges that are money making machines. Most of the best professors work for places you've likely heard of like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. None of those are state colleges. That being said, some state colleges are wonderful (USC is a great example). It is just different, and unfortunately a lot less of a possibility for much of America's working class.

US primary and secondary schools are mandatory and free, but college/university (no differentiation in the US) are becoming prohibitively expensive for all of the lower class and much of the middle class. It is bad.

The US has a few military colleges such as westpoint and the US Army War College, but those are only open to soldiers and officers, so are a different thing altogether.

Note that I work in technology and didn't go to college. Not because I couldn't afford it, but because after 4 years of military service, I was able to trivially get a job in technology. I get paid to write code.