skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berlin, Dubai, Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Chicago, and London.

In 4 of those cities they have no idea what a degree Fahrenheit is.

It is a good idea to be able to choose between different units. Most of the world does not use imperial units is something that lots of people forget.
Thank you for backing :)
In-state price at a good state school is about $22k/year with room and board.

Figure you work a minimum wage 40 hours a week for 12 weeks during the summer. There's $3480. Now, figure you average 10 hours a week for the other 40 weeks of the year. There's $2900. Figure you're an outstanding student, so you got a one-time $2000 scholarship payout from winning a bunch of awards in high school.

There's a good chance at many large state schools that, even if you're focused, you'll need an extra semester or two due to limited course availability. Not counting the possibility of recovery from a leave of absence related to (mental) illness or family emergency, etc. Let's say you do one summer semester and it costs exactly half of a traditional year's net price.

So we're looking at:

+ $99k in bills and spending
- $10k for 3 summers of work
- $13k for 9 semesters of work
- $2k in total merit scholarship payout.

That leaves us with a $74k education. If mom and dad aren't buying, then there's $75k in principal. At 6.8% over 10 years (the federal government's deal, but it's capped; your actual rate from the private sector will be worse) that's $102k in payments.

That's for someone who did the "responsible" thing: went to state school, got scholarships, and worked continuously.

Now imagine that you go to a private school where the price after need-based financial aid is in the $30k-$40k range. Or, worse, that you go to private school and your parents are rich, so you qualify for no need-based financial aid at all, but your parents still don't want to fund your education. Then you're looking at $60k/year.

See where this is going? It's easier than you might think.
FWIW, here's a fairly recent discussion of several options for deploying JS as a self-contained exe - things are getting better!

Turn Node Applications into Executables https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221233
CouchDB is already compatible.
For some strange reason, I want to get the him to review the website from this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440057 and then vice versa....
I would totally use this if the guy running it was closer to robot than human. A highly logical walkthrough of whatever problem I present is something I would value immensely, as I think anyone else who's watched any sci-fi films with all-knowing, oracle-like talking computers would.

But I don't think this is a problem that can be solved by ordinary people, and AI is nowhere close yet. Perhaps there's room in the world for Psychopaths-as-a-Service.
Not sure if that was sarcasm. In case you're genuinely interested; scripting/hacking/cheating. Instant Kass pentakill...
> "I know you're full of shit because I have connections in the elite crowd of the game hacking community. These are the two most popular games right now. My connections tell me it's impossible to duplicate items in either game, but you claim to have a dupe method for both. Don't waste my time by contacting me again."

For some reason reading this quote really bothered me. Probably be it reinforces the theme that hacking is some magical art that can grant nuclear access codes to some random 13 year old slamming away on a keyboard, and this site owner bought into that and praises this "elite hacking community".
If anything he's in a bit of a bubble based on his age, location and interests.

If I pay for honest feedback I'd like to get it from someone who is not exactly like me.
US National Youth Cyber Defense Competition
Are you really a head of Kwik-E-Mart?
"On Error Resume Next" lets you simply skip past errors

Is that very differently from "except: pass" in Python, though? Most languages allow you to skip past errors, the problem with VB was the culture of the users who didn't treat that as a red flag, not the language feature itself.
Their commitment to community is what really kept me hooked in the early years. Nikita (Nikasaur) interacting with the fan-made material was really cool. Having staff interact with players (ex Shurelia) in a way that isn't constrained (like CCP Games and EVE) also kept me playing unlike any other sort of marketing technique.

It all ultimately inspired me to enter into their first community contest (LoL Logo Lookout photo), and it is the only public contest I've ever entered online. Last I heard those entries are still hanging in the office somewhere.

I no longer play, as I got sensible about my time. But really, their commitment to their community is something I still respect from the opposite coast.
Very interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate_threshold
I did not say that clearly.

I mean if you like breaking things for fun, work for a digital security company and get paid to do it. Be the guy who is paid to do penetration tests and the like.

That's "Black Hat" work turned to the good.
I played long hours of counter strike, warcraft 3, wow, quake, starcraft 2, and I never liked the original dota map nor LoL.

I just think it's a bad mix of several games. The level format doesn't make a lot of sense. It has the disadvantages of a RTS while being some sort of a RPG (little or no persistence), doesn't have a solo mode, and doesn't even allow to control more than 1 unit. It's slow and boring. The content is quite ugly and the gameplay comes straight out of wc3.

The creep system is weird, unusual and just irrational.

LoL is a frank success because other games failed to capitalize on esport. But LoL is not a game I like to play at all.

I wish that in the future companies like id, valve and blizzard will be able to better orient their quality game towards more esport while satisfying gamers from all spectrums: the casual gamers like the one who like to spend time doing matches. Blizzard found a great balance between the two, but to me there's so much more to be done.
>>Exploiting games for profit is not something to be proud of.

If a candidate had on their resume a blog link with detailed explanation of a technical exploit in a videogame and how they profited by it... that'd be a +1 in my book.
Not saying this is the case but if this guy is really thoughtful and insightful, then why not. The economics might not make a ton of sense. A thoughtful reply to a difficult question takes at least 15-20 minutes to compose. That's about $30-$40 an hour. You can make better wages as a counselor in private practice.
Related anecdote - I worked with a coder a while back who was a naval aviator before he went back to school, flying carrier-based transports. I asked him once about whether he would have wanted to fly fighters instead, and he said that just flying transports was already a huge amount of work, as far as flight plans, training, practice, and such. Flying fighters apparently involved doing all of that same work, plus a bunch more for weapons, tactics, etc, so those guys never had any free time. Apparently, flying fighters wasn't nearly as fun as it sounds.
meta = ana + cata

Creation and destruction. Build up of tissue, and burning of energy stores.
There are two main options at the moment, with many simmers enjoying both:

1) DCS World (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/world/) is the "framework" and comes with some free aircraft. There are paid aircraft options both 1st and 3rd party; DCS A-10C being the most popular.

2) Falcon BMS (http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/content.php) which is the successor to Falcon 4.0
Same problem here. To dodge w3schools I resorted to writing an /etc/hosts local dns entry, so I would never open it even by mistake.
What do you mean by backlog depends a lot on what you are selling:
- If it is software, usually you sells it in stage or you have to deliver customization/integration at a later stage:
- If it is SaaS is like before but you have also the following months of license (they usually ask for a minimum guaranteed lifetime for the SaaS);
- If it is hardware for internal use usually it is installed in stage, so you could have your sales spread over few months/years.
- If it is something they resell, you will have the projection of sales.
_ If it is a service, you have the service not yet delivered as backlog.
Obviously they can cancel when they want, but it is still your backlog until you deliver it or it is cancelled.
Thank you so much for your kind comment. Like mentioned in another comment, my post was primarily meant to be cathartic. I didn't expect it to get much attention so I've been kind of overwhelmed by the responses.
Paid version of "Nathan"
I'd guess on the order of 10%.

At a grocery store, selected items are discounted (usually to half off). At a restaurant, you might get every tenth meal free.
Yeah, squirrel obviously has a time advantage, is at least motivated by its appetite...and its offspring either don't eat saw blades or out-reproduce losses.
> Your first step should be to get a job, and QA sounds like a great place for you. You'd be surprised how easy it is to move out of QA and into dev if you can demonstrate aptitude for development tasks. Many people got their foot in the door this way, including myself.

I suspect scobar's main problem is location. I know most of the West coast focuses more on experience and attitude. The Midwest, East Coast, and South East not so much unless he's close to a big metro (like NY, Boston, Austin, the triangle, or Atlanta) or his degree or course of study was more technical. He may have to move.
I went to a state school over 15 years ago, and while I haven't done the math, I'm almost positive my total expenses over four years exceeded 100k even then. I was lucky enough to have money from my parents, good paying jobs (for a student) and some scholarships and grants, so I walked away with only about $20k of debt. But I think these days it would be really easy to rack up $100k.
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Ah, no worries.

To be fair, he's more or less already a "black hat" insofar that he's profited off of the arguably illegal use of computer systems.

I wouldn't be so hasty to dismiss HN's attitude towards his previous company -- I think if he tries to get a job and cites his "dupe" work, he's going to be surprised how few folks will be willing to work with him.

I work for a security firm (FireEye, woo we're hiring!) and while I'm not specifically on the consulting side, I get the sense that it's a very straight-laced bunch of folks who take their jobs incredibly seriously.

You don't want to walk into an interview with a guy who works with the FBI on the regular and confess to constantly, repeatedly, and profitably committing a computer crime. It's just not going to work well for you, all moralization aside.
This comment turned into an essay that I have no time to edit. So I'll repost it later as an essay. :)
This is a ridiculously awesome business idea. Either you'll make millions or nothing with that. But the costs aren't that high, and at least the buzz can be used for something else. Good luck!
Right? Would people react any differently if it was one company's accounts receivable trying to get money out of the other's accounts payable and the one owing the money was going bankrupt?

When you take out a loan the contract specifies what happens so long as you keep paying, and also what happens if you stop paying either out of choice or inability. I can't see how it's a moral matter in the slightest. You literally can't be violating the contract if the contract has language which addresses the situation you're in. You might be in default, but that's not a moral issue, it's a contractual one.
judge.me (YC16), specializing in honesty-as-a-service, is hiring!

Pitch: Bringing experts and non-experts together, making non-experts feel bad and sucky.
I'm nowhere near the level where these people compete, and my thing is road biking, not running, but I did notice the best day for a ride up and down the hills is: low temperature, dense clouds, maybe even light intermittent rain (barring any traction issues in corners).

BTW, strength-based sports also take a toll on the body. Maybe even more than long distance running. You can keep doing long races well into advanced age, whereas weight lifting after 40 is a bit sketchy.
Geez - just run downhill. Problem solved.

EDIT: OK, now that I actually read the article, it turns out the Boston Marathon is ineligible for records for just this reason - it's overall downhill. With that attitude, why not just require galoshes while you're at it?
They won't know how to use specific libraries, but they can sometimes help with things like how to install iPython on a Mac or Windows machine.

It does seem like some of this would make a good online course. There's some good stuff here http://faculty.washington.edu/rjl/classes/am583s2013/notes/i... which goes with the "High performance scientific computing" Coursera course, and of course there's the Software Carpentry site.
How is the procedure for "installing" new programs?
Adding a local directory with javascript commands to the PATH will do it?

What about saving the state of things. I want, for example, to `mount` my local directory with psty everytime I open pigshell, and I wanna have my PATH set automatically. Will a `/local/.config/.pigrc` do this? (This raises another question: file editing. Where is the file editing tool? Maybe a web-based editor somewhere). Well, maybe a gist will do it.
But Reddit is not private - it's a public forum.

(unless you're sending [unsolicited?] private messages there)
The whole article is beyond stupid. It's impossible to seriously discuss athletic records in 2014 and not mention drugs. No discussion of steroids, blood doping, hgh, nothing. For context, the major marathons just increased their drug penalties [1]. The second they get serious about testing they'll discover they have the exact same problem as bicycle racing.

[1] http://www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/news-and-media/news/20...

curun1r: steroids are useful for the exact same reason in the tour de france: decreased training recovery times, joint protection, etc. See eg nordic skiing [2]. You don't take the same doses as bodybuilders do because your goal isn't hypertrophy, but it still helps. Or see this quote [3]

To boost their strength is not the sole reason athletes turn to steroids,
Yesalis adds. "They have been taken for at least 45 years by endurance
athletes to recover from workouts rapidly. With steroids, a marathon runner
can run longer, a swimmer can do more laps and a cyclist can spend more time
pedaling." In sports where endurance is everything, the ability to last
longer during workouts and competitions confers a definite advantage.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news71508517.html#jCp

Also -- and I missed this mention amidst the scrolling -- while the article mentions epo, it proceeds to discount epo, and avoids any other drugs

Doping with EPO or blood transfusions is one way of boosting an already-high
VO2 max—and it’s possible that cheating may have contributed to the drop in
the marathon record, and could even be the “secret” that allows runners to
approach sub-two in the future. But Radcliffe’s numbers offer a reminder
that such tactics aren’t necessary to achieve boundary-breaking
performances: Her VO2 max was already exceptional when she was a teenager,
and it stayed at a relatively constant level throughout her career.

Steroids and other drugs help, as demonstrated by baseball, basketball, football, hockey, powerlifting, olympic lifting, bodybuilding, tour-de-france cycling, time-trial cycling, cross-country skiing, nordic skiing, judo, boxing, and mma. Every athletic endeavor that has been seriously tested has found record-breakers using steroids. The point isn't that having an off-the-scale vo2 max isn't required. That's table stakes. Steroids plus other drugs take that exceptional vo2 max and turn it inhuman.

[2] http://www.steroids.info/2012/10/09/documentary-looks-at-ste...

[3] http://phys.org/news71508517.html
those courses are ineligible for records
But you obviously haven't read, for example, Ben Jonson's English Grammar (1616), who says, in his description of letter 'o', 'In the short time more flat, and akin to u; as... brother, love, prove', indicating that prove was pronounced like love, not the other way round. I suggest you do bit more reading.
He would have to respond to a lot of messages (100 000) to reach a million.
Exactly, it's one person's opinion, and you know next to nothing about him, so why should you value his opinion.

But if he makes money from giving people unqualified advice on random subjects, good for him I guess.
As does the new Tesco* Hudl2 tablet, against ARM in the outgoing v1.

Released this week, if it follows is predecessor it will quietly sell a million units in the UK and never even register on the radar of most Android tech blogs.

* a big supermarket chain in UK & Europe, which also tried to venture farther east.
Idea Fail, Internet's collective intelligence can do this better than 1 person plus these website are free to use:

1. UX, Design: Dribble, Behance
2. Code : Stack Overflow
3. High Level Architecture questions: Stack Exchange
4. Business Idea etc : HN, Reddit, Quora
5. Miscellaneous other questions: HN, Reddit, Quora etc
How much do publishers pay folks who are writing books?
The article is in an american magazine targeting an american audience.
The Majorana discoveries are condensed matter physics, not particle physics.

In particular, when they say that they've discovered "a new particle" it's important to understand that this is not going to appear on the Standard Model of Particle Physics at any time soon (unless, say, neutrinos, which are already on that model, turn out to be Majoranas).

We've discovered excitations at the end of nanowires which appear to behave like Majoranas were supposed to, and we've worked out some theory which predicts that they were supposed to be there, and if they are there then they're "topologically" protected from a lot of the usual sources of noise, so we might be able to make long-lived qubits for a change. That's about what we know about Majorana fermions, minus some details.
Bastard! 2 hours later and I'm still reading that...
I don't think that's a major issue. It should be straighforward to disambiguate: make separate units for imperial pint, liquid pint, dry pint, etc. If this is cumbersome, provide an option to set aliases for these in a meta tag, for example. If the writer of the document is sophisticated enough to be using these tags, they should be sophisticated enough to look up what the proper name is for the unit they're using.
Why is it that drafting is allowed in world records? Why not just break the record by having a big draft train like in cycling? Cycling records don't count if drafting is involved, in fact.
This demo appears to be running on an emulator instead of an actual antique piece of hardware but you can get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

the AI winter is something you don't hear too much about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Heh, the comments are piling up, and I'm willing to admit maybe my experience isn't the norm, but what you're saying does make sense.

Like I said though, I know a bunch of post-grad folks who aren't hitting $100k. It's just a big clash with what I've seen, to hear 100k after just four years.
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What you can't get, not easily, is brutal honesty and privacy about your eponymous self. This is typically what psychologists do, although they're more reassuring and comforting, not telling you the hard truths.
or one.

Question: "Would you like a million dollars?"

"Thoughtful reply": "Yes."
It is not as useful as we thought. I had it implemented back in 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4ADTCZc8E
If he's in your target audience it could be $10 very well spent. He's not in mine; it was helpful to see the rundown on his background.
It also has an absurdly low center of gravity due to the batteries being mounted along the entire bottom of the car.
Is there software that makes it easy to put together a presentation / design like this? (e.g. wysiwyg / point-and-click)
That's the thing about business ideas where revenue is directly tied to the work you have to do: scaling is super easy. getting more questions than you can handle by yourself? hire some friends to help.
This one got reposted to Gizmodo, with a saner interface. http://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-targ...
That reporter was an idiot. His entire experiment was qualitative instead of quantitative. How did he know that his performance improved? Because he reported that he felt like he was going faster. Useless.
An important attribute of an e-sport is that it should be entertaining to watch. Since LoL is a game where a player controls a single unit, it's easy to follow along for the spectator.
Holy shit, without fail the top comment on a Quora story is a rant about their design. Get over it. Don't click if you don't like it.
Another step towards immortal mice (breakthrough for diabetes cure in mice)
Looks like we got more brutal honesty from the comments than your site.
Don't get me wrong, tics like 'grep -v grep' are suboptimal, and indeed that's why people invented killall, and xargs -0, and so on. But in practice, there exist zero systems without workarounds and grotesqueries, and the unix philosophy, rather than any competing philosophy, is the entire reason why you're able to use any of the networks or computing devices you use today.

Can we do better? Sure! One could imagine a reformation of the unix philosophy to center around strongly typed streams that could totally work after you put about 20 years of effort into replacing the existing tools. All too often, though, the reformers are people who don't understand the philosophy and want to try a weird collection of ad-hockery instead.
Can we trust this post? Or does that cost $10?
Perhaps you are looking for Spock-as-a-Service?
Does anyone know anything comparable to this that isn't Virtual Studio / runs on linux?
If you find ultras interesting, watch a documentary called _Running on the Sun_ (trailer [1]). It's about the badwater 135: a 135 mi course run in 120F weather through Death Valley with 13k cumulative feet of elevation gain [2]. The runners are insane. Current course records are just below 23 hours.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-e4bOLAuXg

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon
What if they (the big, bad corporation, that is) didn't keep up their end and the only recourse you have is to not pay? From what I understand this does happen from time to time, or maybe even a lot!

Do you think it's possible for a company to keep perfect records and never make a mistake?

I once worked for a company that absolutely had to keep track of physical items for our customers. We barcoded everything the second it came through the door and scanned everything before it left. Even so items occasionally went missing. If we handled 20k items in a month and "only" lost 0.02% that's still 4 items that can't be accounted for. 0.02% is 1/50th of 1% and a 1% error rate in many, many types of businesses is quite acceptable. So we did a 50x better than an acceptable error rate but it would still be unacceptable if it was your items that got lost.

Now what if it's your debt that accidentally didn't get canceled out but should have, and it's for $137 and it would cost you $400 an hour to get a decent lawyer (you live in a big city, say) to write that company a letter telling them to go to hell? What should you do in that circumstance?