skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad that schools don't prepare graduates for real
world jobs. Especially, for what they are charging. Personally, I don't know if most 10 yeared professors could
keep up with the pace of change in the real world. I think
what a lot of people leave out, when they are espousing their college degree, is the amount of self-learning, or who they know after graduation in order to keep/get their job? We still have a lot of naive Sheep who will judge you whether you finished that degree; so you will probally be glad you stuck it out and graduated? As to the dude above me who automatically put that Sales Person in a different "class" once he found she was a graduate of MIT--I'll give
you a break, but repeat a quote I will never forget; "Chubby--you need to stop judging people on they way they look?" by Louis Medlock(Deliverance).

When I was in college I knew it was 90% B.S., but society
expected me to finish the degree. Would I go today, I'm
not sure. You need to be exposed to a few facts in life, so
you don't end up believing in things that gave no scientific
validity. On the other hand my sister is a multimillionaire, and believes in Psychics? She is also once very attractive, and thinks nothing of taking advantage
of people for what they can offer her--she used to call it ,
"They would make a good contact!" Now--they call it Networking. Personally, I couldn't stomach it, but my sister doing great financially. Now if she could get her
family to like, or trust her, or a partner who actually liked
her for personality; she would have it all. Happy Holidays!
It doesn't. Money laundering is still illegal either way.
I think your second sentence supports my opinion.

As far as my experience it has been mixed, but I just know people care for this stuff here.
Neovim has a good chance to become the best editor. They are taking a really hard stance against all the cruft in Vim and have some really great features already implemented. I'm especially excited about their goal of reimplementing all IO with libuv. The lack of proper asynchronous IO has been a sore point in vim and emacs for a long, long time.
The other massively understated thing about Chicago's red light cameras is that Chicago, compared to other areas with similar or even much lower traffic volumes, has very few left turn lanes, and even fewer left turn arrows when they are there. As a result, the general population is habituated to only being able to turn left at the last second on a yellow signal, which complicates the short yellow timings even more.
But to be fair, there's also the potential benefit of not having to pay that debt back. If the feature fails from a market perspective, you've actually saved money by incurring the debt. That's the whole concept behind the Lean Startup.
> There is definitely a shortage of developers

Even this isn't quite true - I'd qualify 'developers' with 'good'. There are a lot of average/bad developers out there and companies don't really want to hire them...but many don't have a huge pool of candidates like Facebook and Google.
France.

From your experience, is it different in other parts of Europe?

Quite frankly I have a few friends scattered around Europe (immigrants), and while I will not trade my life in the states for another place, I can also say (in comparison) we are a bit materialistic here.
I think you are being a bit too charitable. If you send something which is being traded into and out of currency on behalf of someone else, or on your own behalf, you are have to ask the question if this is legitimate or not.

Now if you sell PEZ collectibles on Ebay for others, and find they start sending you back the same collectable you sold before, you have to sit back and ask, Hmm what is really going on here? And if you don't do that, then you risk finding yourself, like Shrem did, in a place which really wasn't a legal place to be. The key here was the judges observation, "months and months" of activity. If you do this and stop for a second and say "Hmm, why is this so profitable for me, what is the deal here?" a couple of weeks in, maybe even a month in, and you document seeking legal advice. Then you get off with a wrist slap. It was like the bitcoin for gift cards site that someone here said was "amazingly profitable", you have to stop and ask yourself where is the "value" here that I'm getting to keep so much of it.
Wow, such conditional.
I have a business idea will you work on it for free?
Do the monopoly patents let people die because they can't afford the drugs, or do they save lives because they incentivize the research to create the drugs in the first place?
Code (or system design) that has potential issues that may or may not need to be resolved in the future, but the benefit of not doing it now outweighs the pain of doing it later.
In this day and age when a person can create value from their bedroom developing applications (especially mobile), who cares about not being hired to build someone else's dream, just build your own.
Adam and Eve is a work of fiction.
The guy (Timothy Clemens) who started this used to work with me on Sage and in particular, the Sage Notebook (http://sagenb.org/), a few years ago. Anyway, he was very into volunteering to help with open source software.
I appreciate what you are trying to do, but I cannot agree with determining the cost of a drug based on potential loss of income/productivity. Should the CEOs therefore get first dips on life saving treatment because they have big impact on his/her employees? Do patients in developed countries have an economic right to better treatment first than people in developing countries? Are some lives worth more than others? I don't think we are ready to go down this route. Incidentally, a very expensive drug is posing these questions, implicitly. But explicit statements like yours are not politically practical or even humane. Ten years ago it was outrageous to hear a nurse to tell a kid's parents to pay up or watch their only child die.
There's also no unlimited downside in finance -- eventually you can't take out more debt, can't pay the interest, and default (creating counter party risk).

I suppose net across the system, you could inflict more downside to others exposed to your default, but it's not unlimited unless you can wipe out the entire planetary economy (financial and non financial) with your bet.
I find it fairly surprising how certain the author seems to feel that getting a doctorate would somehow equate to higher income and job stability -- English Ph.Ds aren't exactly a credential in high demand. In fact, reality indicates the opposite is true.
"Xerox which many will remember invented but did not successfully capitalize on the mouse, the laser printer and the graphical user interface"

This suggests to me that author doesn't really care about historical accuracy.

Engelbart's team at SRI invented the mouse. No one doubts that.

Xerox invented the laser printer, and 'Gary Starkweather’s laser printer made billions for Xerox' (quoting Malcolm Gladwell's article "Creation Myth" in the New Yorker), or from http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/timelines/xeroxparchis... , in 1986 "Xerox's printing business, made possible by PARC's invention of laser xerography, reaches $1 billion per year."

Hardly unsuccessful! Granted, it could have done better, and it missed the transition to desktop laser printers, but that's a different point. Unfortunately, it seems that people conflate the two. I think it's because they didn't know these big photocopier machines used lasers, while personal computers started with cheaper printer technology.

"Inventing" the GUI is a toss-up, depending on if you think NLS from Engelbart's group, or Sutherland's Sketchpad was a GUI. I would like a more precise "desktop metaphor GUI", and yes, that was not successfully capitalized at Xerox.
Wow, while the article mentioned it a few times, they don't seem to actually find the pattern that would come up with a better title.

Gen-Y isn't a cheap generation, they simply have less money to spend or can afford anything. That's not cheap, that's being realistic. However at the same time, they are spending things on a luxurious items such as cell phones, not to mention the high cell bills, and so on. These are the things that are more useful to them than a car if they live in an area where public transportation is available and/or they can work remotely/walk to work.

I am not cheap but I am not getting paid enough to be able to afford car payments, health insurance, mortgage, loans, etc etc all at once. Even health insurance itself can be more expensive than a car payment and insurance is more important to me than a car. Give me free insurance, I'll be gladly to use a car instead.

I want a car, I want a nice house, and I want all of these things that is usually combined into "the American dream" but I'm realistic to know that I don't want to spend the rest of my life and my children's lives paying these things off.

Previous generations can afford to pay these things off by mid-life and pass it on to their children after they pass without causing a burden. We can't anymore.

Why in hell would I want to pay 10-15K a year for an apartment rent and get nothing of value in the end when I can get a nice house? Simply because I cannot afford the down-payment and the high rates and I don't have enough credit. I'm still building it up slowly.
Maybe because you cannot guarantee that noise will bleed?

If you detect bleeding, then great, you have a result.

If you do not detect bleeding, then it could be that there is a confounding variable or it could just be that the noise doesn't bleed. Similarly if there is a confounding variable then you cannot guarantee that the noise will bleed to both sets of observations. You have know way of knowing. Make sense?
Does anyone know the cost of development?
Just fyi, the word you're looking for is "tenured professors could keep up..."
There's certain logic to what happened to Khodorkovksy (and earlier to Berezovsky and few other people) - they all were oligarchs, they blatantly stole their way into their riches, but they were allowed by the state to use them. That is until they tried to use their money to try and un-sit those who let them become obnoxiously wealthy. They weren't the opposition per se. They were just former buddies that got drunk on money power and decided to play against their own. And they lost.
A startup has to make money, Silicon Valley bubble puffery notwithstanding. If you want to spec this out as a money loosing proposition for a charity, fine, bit then don't go wondering "why aren't the startups not flooding into a market I just said they can't make money in?"

My objection is not necessarily to your ideas, but to the absurd idea that startups should be piling in.
According to other people more in-the-know than I am, the CF Foundation is basically in bed with big pharma. They are not really looking for better care for people with CF. They are looking specifically for better drugs. So, most likely, that money is being funneled back into more drug research -- more of this type thing. I am not so sure that's really some kind of silver lining.
In which case, it seems like AirBnB and Uber could simply _call_ themselves insurance companies, sell a thing called insurance, and ignore all the regulations. They can say sorry later.
I would say this is the perfect example of the need for taxation.

The best solution for the people involved shifting money from the people to an entity that installs and maintains those cameras. So, to get there, you need some method for moving money from the people to said entity.

Let's say those cameras decrease property damage/hospital costs/costs of lost time by an amount of X, what is against taxation of the total costs of that are smaller than X?
Is there a .pdf of the latest version? Couldn't find.
Tlsdate – A secure NTP/rdate replacement
You're right, but there is a difference.

Cash can be easily used to launder, but it has to be done physically and generally requires in-person interaction. Cryptocurrencies can be used to launder but can be done remotely and through various forms of proxied mediums.
Funny you should mention that, as in the United Kingdom each pill would only cost the end user ~29p (about half a dollar) thanks to our National Health Service capping the price of a prescription.

Interestingly, it 'only' costs the equivalent of $650 per pill for the NHS to purchase [1], rather than the $1125 cited in the article. I expect it used its buying power to negotiate a more favourable price - yet another benefit of this nationalised, socialised health care system.

[1] According to the British National Formulary.
U.S. Asks China to Help Rein In Korean Hackers
"The philosopher Daniel Dennett has pondered a revealing scenario: Someone is undergoing surgery without anesthesia but with absolute knowledge that afterward, she would receive a drug that would erase all memories of the event. Would the pain be less agonizing if she knew that it would be forgotten?"

I've only been under anesthesia once, when I had my wisdom teeth out. A few days beforehand I was struck with this same thought - what if they anesthetics simply paralysed you, rendering you unable to respond to pain, while temporarily interfering with your ability to form new memories? What if all the pain was experienced in full, and you were simply unable to remember it afterwards? How could anyone know the difference? This made the few days prior to surgery very uncomfortable.
1) Insurance companies mitigate a lot of risks that are a lot rarer. It's pretty common to do a short-term rental, rent out a room to a roommate. Doing the occasional Airbnb rental is essentially the same thing.

2) Insurance companies should have a straightforward answer to a reasonable question. Not covered, covered if rental income < $15,000 , needs a rider, etc. Of course, at some point you're operating a B&B and you need to get commercial insurance, and they should be able to tell you at what point it would be considered a business.

3) If Airbnb's secondary coverage is predicated on a primary coverage that is not standard or impossible to get, then yeah, it's denial. If it's predicated on a normal homeowner's liability policy with a standard rider, seems pretty reasonable. Maybe I'm missing something.

4) If the liability is hard to predict now that Airbnb is as big as it is, there probably haven't been that many claims.
It's possible for them to do both.

It's also possible to imagine a system that does the good one without the bad one.
I wouldn't even say we have a shortage of "good developers." Like commenters pointed out a few days ago on the "how to make it in the tech mecca" post, there is a shortage of "ideal" developers willing to work for less and a strong employer willingness to pass on 100 or 1000 "ok" or "good" candidates that they could train in favor of that "ideal" candidate.

So I would argue that it's a problem with an asymmetrical job marketplace and poor long term decision making on the part of employers.
> but was designing and tailoring the site to facilitate illegal behavior

So if I have booths built at my nightclub that make it easier for dealers to sell smack without others being able to see...

It's a crime to build furniture?

How is that sane?

We're at the point in the drug war where it's such an unspeakable and incredible failure, that the government feels empowered to twist laws or even make them up on the spot to get the rare PR victory (that will of course mean no real world change).

It's sick.
Nonetheless, he was poorly cast.
Only criminals that the government doesn't give a shit about get off on technicalities.

Those that they've got a hard-on for, well, for them they don't even have to have a rational theory of the crime, nor does the crime need to be a crime.
No, the crime would be making it easy to deal smack in your nightclub. And then taking a cut of the sales.
Using Go in production

Launching more products

Open sourcing more of the node.js code/systems I have written in the past year, I am working on this now.

Primary income from product based revenue instead of consulting
I had an H11 in high school (late 80's), but it was already an antique by then. My wish-I-still-had-it computer is a little known machine called the "Interact", my first computer from my elementary school days:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1004&st=1
What should they have done when to stop it?

Complaints might be delayed by weeks (if customers only notice the problem on check-in) and unless it is an easy to find leak on their end, investigating what is going on will take time as well. If the hotels got hacked or phished instead of Booking.com, they are not even directly involved.
Getting a Research Internship
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
This looks very useful, and there are some things on there I didn't know you had to do in bash. Here's a SublimeLinter plugin: http://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-shellcheck
For anyone curious about the behind the scenes of the studio during production, especially surrounding the tireless work of Miyazaki, the Making of Princess Mononoke documentary [1] is a superb watch. The film was translated by a Youtuber, and missing a few parts but very much gave me a great appreciation for what goes into creating one of their films.

[1] http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/11/making-of-princess-mon...
In the Bay Area it all but completely disappeared a week after it came out. A real shame too, I was looking forward to it.
My wife's current medication:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemtuzumab

When sold to treat MS it has a 10000 x markup over the same medication sold to treat cancer.
Christmas 1914: The day even WWI showed humanity
How to (Actually) Mentor Someone
I'm enjoying beego. It provides most of what I need. I don't use the ORM because I like the flexibility of lib/pq + sqlx.

I could do without it, but I like what it offers. The bee tool is nice. It lets you quickly bootstrap an app and using bee run provides hot recompile when your code is changed.

Beego docs are pretty good and the developer is very responsive to github issues.
You can be a small insurer and survive disasters. That's what the reinsurance market is for. Otherwise, local insurance companies would go bust every time there was a geographically localised disaster.
A small IP range is not relevant these days. Almost every fuckin' telco uses NAT and proxies for their mobile customers, at scale.
> Another dataset relates to the daily snowfall at Whistler in Canada and contains measurements of temperature and the total amount of snow. Obviously temperature is one of the causes of the total amount of snow rather than the other way round.

This isn't obvious to me at all.

It's true that rainfall causes trees (and that drought can kill them). But it's less obviously true that trees (in massive numbers) can affect the regional climate enough to cause rain. They do this by pumping water out of the ground and increasing humidity, by changing wind patterns, etc.

When trees cause rain, it's a lesser effect than when rain causes trees, but it's still there.

So when someone tells me that it's obvious that hundreds of thousands of tons of frozen, powdered water laying on the ground doesn't cause the temperature, I have to wonder if they're a retard.
How is that a crime in the philosophical sense, but more importantly, which statutes actually make this illegal and what is their legal wording?
I'm 43.

This article hit a very strong point.
I remember being told point blank at 32 (by a boomer company owner) that even though I was doing the job and had the capabilities, I simply wasn't old enough to be high level management yet. So a short time later I offered my resignation, and he responded by trying to give me a substantial share of the company with the option to buy out the rest over the next decade.....

Hilarious.

At any rate, I'm not threatened by companies that won't hire people my age. I've seen plenty of people my age that have grown fat and grey and are burnt out and lazy with the spark gone out of their eyes. But I've also seen enough to know that time keeps marching on, and the foolish and trivial is shaken out before very long. Many of these types of companies won't be around long enough for the law to take action. Those that do last will find they are soon enough full of... fat grey middle aged people protecting their jobs and going to meetings....

I happen to agree that young people are on average smarter. (As in mentally faster). But if one is exceptionally mentally fast to begin with, another person does not automatically become mentally faster by virtue of youth alone. And as for bad judgement and a misunderstanding of how the world works.... well, that's a subject for another post...
Technical debt is an elegant analogy. However, I find the majority of systems on which I work are not loosely coupled. And yet, judging from the notes left by my antecedents, "loosely coupled" was the ideal for which they were striving. Is there a metric, or at least a heuristic, that can be applied in this situation?
> I've seen some

Please elaborate!
If you're comfortable with it of course.
Okay, Brittney Bronson, it is what it is... You teach the young grown-ups / old kids at the college, and then you shuck it in your part-time service job... It is what it is...
Especially if your clock is synced with every other clock in the world.
Note that mitmproxy, which requires a Python install, is not necessary to monitor what is being sent out from your computing device.

The same results can be achieved using only socat and the openssl binary.

While I understand the terminology is popular, I would not call this "reverse-engineering"; to me this is simply viewing your own traffic.

I believe users have a right to see the traffic they (or the apps they use) are sending, and for security reasons alone they should monitor what is being sent. https plus third party CA usage complicates such transparency, making proxying techniques necessary.

I wish more users would view their own traffic.

Keep up the good work.
I've always been skeptical of the suicide issue. We don't know what happened to Alan Turing at the end of his life, but of all the available options suicide by far makes the most sense.

I'm having trouble finding the sources now, but I could've sworn I remembered reading that no-warning, no-note suicide is not at all uncommon. And it's especially true with men, I thought.
OT: Is anyone else unable to zoom in Chrome on that page? The rest of Popular Mechanics' site works well, but for some reason CTRL+/-, CTRL+Scroll, or Zoom through the settings menu is completely locked.
Sony Emails Say State Dept. Blessed Kim Jong-Un Assassination in ‘The Interview’
Dudes... I don't really care... I just want a way to synchronize my VPS clock with that of other, established, secure clocks... because DigitalOcean (okay, go ahead and downvote me) is not quite synched, and neither is Linode, and my server!!! Oh good Lord my server don't know the time at all! Dudes... just agree on something that I can install SIMPLY... 'cuz the infighting between ntp and openntp ain't nothing that I care to be involved with... JUST MAKE IT EASY!!!!
I see this miscommunication also extended to within the schools. Both my daughter's schools (elemetary and middle schools) have STEM specific programs but they are entirely focused on the Science or Math aspect (where job prospects are not easy to come by) with virtually no emphasis on technology or engineering (where job prospects are more available).
When I asked my daughters teacher who is one of the STEM chairs how they would better incorporate technology she said she hadn't thought about it. We've created this acronym when really we need to be bumping up the TE as I feel the already existing availability in primary education of SM is sufficient.