skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it depends.

You could have a classroom with 70 highly motivated students, and love it. You find this in Africa were teachers are scarce and respected, children are abundant and want to learn.

I went to visit a female friend that leaved everything in Europe(executive in a bug multinational, a good house) to help and teach poor children in Africa. After going there and seeing it myself I understood: those kids were the best students ever and they loved their teachers so much.

On the contrary in wealthy countries it is common to find someone in each class that does not want to study and does not want anybody else in the class to study too. That makes teaching a bad experience.
This guy made his $50M net worth by making films about the evils of capitalism. It's amazing.
This makes me sad. First we lost Byte. Now we've lost Dr Dobbs. The last of the great hacker institutions is gone. Supplanted by the amorphous blob of sketchy information that is the Internet.

Change is inevitable, but it isn't always good.
"During the past 20 years, companies [...] have been secretly taking out life insurance policies on their low- and mid-level employees and then naming themselves – the corporation – as the beneficiary!"

Wow, that's an interesting thing. Never heard of that.

Though, what exactly is wrong with this? Or why would people (and Moore) be upset about it? He makes it seem like they're taking something from the individuals, something that their family should get after their death. To me, it sounds like the company is not taking out "life insurance" but rather, some sort of "loss-of-employee" insurance in the case that they lose a valued, productive member of their workforce.
I'm starting a coding club for a few kids in my neighborhood and would appreciate any help with introduction resources!
Stories made with CSS3 animations (Crazy but working :) Feedback welcome
Ionic Creator: Build hybrid apps via drag and drop
No, that's not strictly true. People will always do what they enjoy whether money is attached to it, whether they'll go to jail for it, or otherwise.
I really like the Wappalyser chrome extension, it tells you with which technologies the site you browse uses.
Barrett Brown's sentencing delayed
DDJ and CUJ (C User's Journal) were two very good magazines that I used to read a lot. BYTE (more so in its earlier years) was another one on the same lines. Can't forget some of the regular contributors to BYTE, for example (and I don't mean just Jerry Pournelle, though his column was entertaining too). Heck, I used to read Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column out of interest, even though I was not into electronics. So well done, the articles, the photos, etc. I still remember, in one of the first BYTE issues that I read, a very good introduction to Huffman coding by Jonathan Amsterdam. And so many other such good articles, in all three of those magazines ...
I know a simple upvote should suffice but that's a really informative answer, thanks a lot for typing it up, I appreciate it.
I saw this coming after the printed version was closed down and as a former subscriber I am very saddened by this news.

I believe the need for a high quality publication oriented to professional developers there still exists.

Where do you think people would be going now that Dr. Dobbs won't be available?
Could you record the tests you perform with jmeter, and then run the tests against the sites in the future?

I've heard selenium is good for functional testing, I've always used jmeter though.
Not so sure. I personally love HN (I normally use a different moniker). In many ways, our recent success is in part due to HN and Proggit, which would drive readers to some of our articles. And, of course, it also gave us no shortage of feedback on the articles themselves ;-)
Yes. Madoff offered higher-than-normal returns but still something that looked plausible. Returns that could plausible food people.

There must be people who really think you can become rich just from trading stocks. But that's not how it works. When you have a lot of money, you can make more money by buying and trading stocks, index funds and other similar vehicles. Once you have enough money, you could certainly make millions a year in stock, but that requires you to have millions of dollars in the first place.

But the idea that you could take a small amount of money and a couple of years later have almost $100 million just from buying and trading stocks is not believable to anyone who has ever bought and sold stocks. This sounds like the plot of a bad (good?) Disney movie.

Most of my money is tied up in retirement accounts, but I do have some stock as well. If my individual stocks made 10% a year for several years in a row, I'd be very, very happy. With compounding interest and dividend reinvestment, that money can grow at a robust rate, but it's not going to make me rich.

This story almost sounds like the reporter kind of confused this with investing in IPOs and the current tech boom. You can make a much bigger return off of investing in startups early, but most random teenagers aren't able to buy into startups.
And your point is? Pointing the blame at a different source doesn't mean the problem isn't present. If a client needs IE support, what do you do? Write the code three times? Detect IE and redirect the user to chrome-frame, then cry when you don't get paid?

I don't care who caused the problem. Just that it wasn't me, I can't fix it, and I have a deadline to meet and constraints to follow. jQuery is a lifesaver.
$1 million is what a medium-sized bakery turns over.
What? No, that wouldn't make Windows a derivative work. We're talking about derivative works here. The 'reddit thread' I linked to isn't important; the point was that someone made artwork based on a TV show, and had that artwork turned into a Tshirt that is now selling at Hot Topic by the creators of that TV show, without having any choice in the matter. In other words, they have no claim to their artwork because it is a derivative work.
What interview questions to ask when hiring a Full Stack Developer
You are overlooking how powerful programming with types can be. This applies to Haskell, but even moreso to languages like Idris.

Did you hear about Haxl[0]?

[0]: https://code.facebook.com/projects/854888367872565/haxl/
Regarding the CLR, the document links to MSDN [1] where it says that "the runtime generates a specialized version".

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f4a6ta2h.aspx
News media companies are corporate entities, they have plenty of scary news every day.
It would be even more successful if it was possible to actually buy the boards.

I got one early on, and I would have more, but every time I've looked since they've been out of stock. A big part of the RPi success story is that they figured out early on that supply chain would be a problem and got the right partners involved to deal with that.
Well, success may not necessarily mean "rich". I think he means idle rich, who can live a lavish lifestyle without working, not millionare-next-door types.
<em> in a Title tag :(
I made app ethics[1] a while back in hopes to surface what some of the android permissions mean.

[1] http://appethics.org
I also have similar skepticism towards MongoDB. I hear more and more horror stories of a team that realy thumped the MongoDB, only to hear they've ditched it completely in favor of PostgreSQL.

Personally speaking, I'm surprised how good PostgreSQL is and I realize that a lot of the reason we use a certain DB is because of marketing. Had I know about PostgreSQL before MySQL I would've never even made the switch.
Disagree. I'd rather pay (a reasonable amount) for a subscription, than put up with cluttered UX.
Your second-to-last paragraph is a good framing, and your final question is a good question.

It's also a good example of why quick design help is hard, because there is no way for anyone but you to know what would be incrementally better or not for your users. All an outside designer can do is suggest things that might be interesting to test. You still have to try them and measure the change over time. A given designer has no specific knowledge about your market, and something can be well-designed in general but still have a lot of potential for market optimization.

( In fact, a colleague runs a service that is just that: he'll try something new for you, every month. https://draft.nu/revise/ )

Since only you have the data on your MVP, start there. Put together your customer lists. Make sure you understand their demographics and their usage patterns and why they purchased and what they were considering instead. Make sure you have ways to contact them for research interviews and if it's possible to go on-site to see them use your product live. Document how your competitors present and discuss their products.

Then, pick something. One small thing. A landing page. A particular form. A headline. Copy for a Google Adwords ad. Something you can measure your current performance on, and measure a change to afterwards. If you're not high-volume, this might be harder to find than you think, but go through the exercise of figuring out what you can collect enough data on now, and what can wait to change until you can measure it later (or what you don't care about measuring).

Then, you can take that one thing to a designer and say, "I'm looking to experiment with different changes to <X>. What are some things you think might be interesting to try? Anything goes."

You're not asking them to do any work. You're not asking them to stake their reputation on the line. Your language ("experiment," "different changes (plural)," "interesting," "try," "anything goes") all says you're willing to respect their time and level of engagement and also that you're prepared to handle their advice properly, that you're not looking for a silver bullet, you're looking for all of the lead bullets.

Say you ask for help with a landing page. A designer might suggest some copy or visual design tweaks for clarity (specific changes), but also suggest you test different headlines (without providing any), and also changing your format from short form to long form or vice versa (definitely without providing any content to you, but maybe they would be interested enough to sketch out some varied layouts). These are all great ideas. You should read up on A/B testing and test all of them in isolation, and also all together. You should test big dramatic changes even more frequently than you test small copy changes, because you don't want to be stuck looking for a local maximum. A UX person might also suggest ways to find out other things to test, research questions to ask, and suggest books or other resources so you can collect that data well.

A startup that came to office hours that well-prepared would basically almost not need design help at all.
Another fact that many commenters on this thread have overlooked is that U.S. schools operate about 175 days per year (compare that to 240 days for 52 weeks minus 10 holidays minus 10 vacation days).

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass0708_035_s1s.asp
That probably came from his experience, talking for himself.
It's much easier to use the bottinder chrome extension (or whatever it's called now) than dealing with the proxy. Really it's as simple as exporting the cookies, importing them into chrome, and firing up botinder.
Sure thing. What's your email address?
I totally understand being very cautious about their findings, but the wording of this paragraph struck me as odd:

> The ratio that Curiosity found in the Cumberland sample is about one-half the ratio in water vapor in today's Martian atmosphere

> suggesting much of the planet's water loss occurred since that rock formed

> However, the measured ratio is about three times higher than the ratio in the original water supply of Mars, based on the assumption that supply had a ratio similar to that measured in Earth's oceans

> This suggests much of Mars' original water was lost before the rock formed.

So I guess a lot of water was lost both before and after the formation of the rock, and they only have ballpark figures for the hypothetical amounts?
Its the price of ad models that (generically) overwhelm content and users.
That guy is wrong.
Assuming equivalent spending Robots are a much better option. But, a manned mission is likely to get ~10-100+x what unmanned missions get so it's hard to say.

Also, those rovers did a really wide range of things for their cost. From driving around 40km and taking pictures to analyzing chemistry and even testing for "wobbles" in the planet's rotation that would indicate a liquid core. Sure, they cost ~500 million a pop, but compare that to 100's of billion for a manned mission that might never reach Mars and things don't look so hot.
Succeeding in a Mature App Store
And if you can't make head or tails of it, you may conclude "good, it seems encrypted. Unfortunately, that means I cannot tell what they send to their server".
Ask HN: How to keep marginal employees
I work for an engineering company that has been in business 30 years. I have been here eight. Occasionally we let someone go who is not performing up to par, and that is probably going to happen again in the first quarter of next year. I hear comments like "His work always needs to be checked," but I believe we should have much more checking of everyone's work. I know we pay recruiting fees on the order of $10K per new hire, but we don't invest like that for training or for remediation of under-performance. I would like to come forward with ideas and knowledge that can help these co-workers become better at their jobs so that they can be retained. I am in a position to make some sacrifices and I am willing to do that if I believe it will help make my place of employment a better place. Do you have suggestions or experience with this situation?
I really enjoyed the style in which this post was written. It was hilarious and really engaging. It was also interesting to read through all the details of the hack.
I guess my question did not emphasize the "non-standard" enough. I have purchased many domain names that fall in the $10~$20/year price range without any problem.

I am most curious about complex domain name purchases and the experiences people have had - things that work and things that have not worked.
Imperative DOM manipulation is a pain one way or another. React does a great job of alleviating this pain by allowing for declarative DOM manipulation, but it would be great to be able to do this without needing the rest of React.
The damage that a bad teacher can do to dozens (or hundreds of students) is incredible, and most of that damage is unrepairable.

But the people in charge only look at things statistically, and will gladly sacrifice those, if they believe the overall results are acceptable.

Bad teachers are bad for many reasons too. Some are incompetent, stupid, visionless, and unable to see what goes on in any child's head (let alone in 30+, each an individual), but some are toxic. Borderline personality disorder, abusive, bullying, dismissive.

And you can't even easily sort them. There's no test that will let you find any of the bad teachers reliably, or a test that will show only the good. If we throw more money at the problem, if we "pay them what they deserve", how do we filter the opportunists?
It is comical how often sources like crunchbase (and even the press) are wrong. Though it makes sense, private companies basically have no incentive to release any sort of data unless it plays to some narrative they are trying to create.

For example, the date the company was founded is often wrong in Crunchbase (it is reported as more recent than it actually was). Many companies raise money and don't disclose it for months (staying under the radar). Many acquisitions never publicly release the price (so the founders can claim it was a "success" regardless of whether it was).

It is just a tough space to be in to try to make something of the data that is available. Public companies are of course much easier.
And of course, you can always see if an app is uploading your contact data to their servers, even if that app is closed source.
There is nothing wrong with it, and yes it is common. And no, it doesn't change anything about the employee's personal life insurance.

The insurance is to cover their cost of replacing you. Finding and training a new employee costs money, sometimes a lot of money. From a developer's standpoint, it often take 3-6 months for a developer to be productive in a new environment...sometimes longer (and from what I've seen, knowing the language ahead of time doesn't really change anything, it is time spent learning the business problem).
> teachers, given smaller classes, rarely change their practice to optimize for the new situation.

Or maybe that given all of the increased rules, regulation, and standardized testing, they don't have the freedom to.
So the entire computer world had run like this for decade. why are people complaining about that now? Because Apple is doing strict verification of your code behaviour?

Yesterday adobe pdf viewer tell me that an update was available both on my mac and pc! So without asking my permission, this computer application (and many others) are querying the web...
Do wealthy countries like Iceland have this problem? They have very small class sizes and high-ranking school systems.
IPython Has Been Refactoring into IPython and Language Agnostic Jupyter
Stealing from who?
Are you aware of QuerySelectorAll? I think Sizzle does more but I expect internally most of it delegates to that when available by now - it should support all CSS selectors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Document.query...
Personally I would do like RailsCasts.com and ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com (now ChannelAwesome.com), two sites I frequent, did... offer pro accounts.

Pro accounts could:

1) remove all advertising from the site.
2) have access to content early like drafts of upcoming articles
3) have access to revised or updates to articles
4) allow people to recommend articles

the list could go on, you'll probably think of a thousand things that I couldn't since I'm not in marketing.
UI/UX Feedback for App Design
Josh Parkinson's Rap
Worth noting is that some HN users ARE rich, or will be rich some day. Still most of us aren't / won't ever be, but even then a majority are (hopefully) at least being well paid.

While his tone is a bit dreary, I don't think he's wrong. Being rich is part of the American dream for many, which you can see from how popular lotteries are. But for the most part, people aren't going to make the leap to riches in their lifetime, and those that do often fall right back.

There are definitely forces at play to help keep it that way, some of which he outlined. (I find the life insurance thing to be hard to believe because, of how creepy it is). But its no coincidence the middle class has eroded while the divide has widened.

Still, I've got a computer that works, a room, some heat, cats and a piano; and I don't have to pinch pennies to feed myself. It's not wrong for me to want better for myself, but it's not wrong for me to be happy for what I have either.

But equally true, as he identified, is that I can't do a lot to help my mom out and am just getting by in a lot of ways myself. So for me, getting rich would mean being able to take care of her and give her some independence and take away a lot of the stress.
How to build a human
It's unsettling that in some cases it may be in the best interest of the company for you to die
You're describing the concept behind channel bound cookies. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5929

As far as I know, it's not supported by any current browser (I welcome feedback to the contrary) but is included in SChannel.
Given that we've only recently (arguably) gotten away from SSLv3, I don't have high hopes that it will be viable to require channel binding in the very near term.
You've never heard "trust the free market," "just deregulate <problematic sector>," or "the government is just a bunch of thugs with guns looking for an excuse to take your money"? How long have you been on HN :P ?
Not necessarily. To some extent the administrator for an even larger school district/unit is there because of their excellent bullshitting skills.

The laughable part is that the goals that the administration pursues are, at best, tangential to the goals that everyone else has for school systems.

They want their children to have an adequate education... but the principal made sure no one was laid off, and that morale was good among the employees.
The balance of what I've read does not make it out to be that great a place to work, but who knows. I'm not interested in working at large companies in general these days.

In any event, I think it's a very interesting company and one I wish I knew more about.
I was trying to tell multiple times here on hackernews that you should not listen blindly, but have the vision and push until you make it reality. Everytime I got down-voted by lean followers. People often do not know what they want and are IRRATIONAL. Let the down-voting continue.. just like NASDAQ and S&P today :)
Here is Django's documentation, including notes on the compatibility stuff we ship:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/python3/
I love how we legitimize the past and current commission of a crime by saying "here, let me give you identity documents".

They make it sound like the poor "undocumented immigrants" are being unfairly punished by having their cars impounded. WTF, really? They are here illegally. They should be deported. If they want to immigrate then do it LEGALLY like millions of other people.

Do I think we should change the immigration laws to make free movement of people easier? Hell yeah.
Do I think we should be obliged to follow the laws as currently written? Of course.
If you do something illegal you get punished, simple enough.
when i saw the spaceship i assumed you were going to use if for a 'entering light speed' kinda of animation
> On your commute, you're passing a McDonald's store every day. You know it's there, but you never buy food there for whatever reason. Are you stealing?

That analogy doesn't work very well in this context. A more realistic example would if they were giving away cookies in exchange of you getting inside and see their advertising and one friends of yours gets inside and take several cookies so you and your other friends don't have see the ads.

It wouldn't be stealing because the cookies are "free" but still you might feel like taking advantage.

I am agree with you and I would rather pay for the site but many people won't and that's exactly why several content providing are having troubles with ad-blockers.
This is develops into a discovery conversation. You may be open to a variety of scenarios.
There may be one thing companies might be willing to pay for that is specific to Dr. Dobbs. If you read that advanced article on C++ a few days ago, and you are now reading this in-depth description of scaling Linux internals, I very much would have a job for you. What other site can say the same?
Where's ReactJS?
The problem is things like worldwide coverage, though - an individual journalist cannot provide great coverage everywhere.
Are you trying to discredit the author because he's wealthy? or are you saying he would have good insight into the problem because of his knowledge?
and slowing down your website
That's not true. If you index with 0 you get a zero length vector back
Search for "React", which is the variable name React exposes itself under. It's also on the trending data page.
What is the current height of your horse?
Could you elaborate on why you find that amazing?
Yet it's still valid to say that almost everyone reading the article, or 95% of people, will never be rich (having the wealth of the top 5%). You can be a rich elite and still realize that your position is not an "everyman" position that can be attained by merit alone.

Bill Gates or Warren Buffet hypothetically telling me that I can be in their shoes is a blatant lie
The value of the advertisement is not just "# of people who click and pay money", it is a very complex thing to analyze.