skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a family of 4 that had a combined gross income of about $45k, if that. We never had Government assistance. I saw my Father struggling at times, but it worked out great. He made it happen.

When I left the "comfort" ($26k/yr) of the military, I went from being in what was considered by the Navy as a "Highly advanced electronics technical field" to being unemployed. That was scary. I couldn't find a job. I was eligible for unemployment benefits for up to 24 months!!! I netted $800 every 2 weeks.

I quickly got a job as an Office Manager for a business my Father worked for making $17/hr which was a very high wage for the area. A friend of mine boasted at the time about how his Father was now making $23/hr with 20 years in a certain company (for relation purposes). My weekly take home was about $100 more than unemployment. Essentially, at that point I worked my ass off for $100 a week, at what was considered a fairly high wage.

There are less than 50 jobs in the area that pay $20 or above, and individuals sitting on their ass are getting paid $17/hr. There is no motivation to get a job. That is a problem that adds to the deficit, and needs to be fixed!
Reformation is unlikely to come from within the Islamic community.

In the clip below, from Norway, English-speaking Muslims ridicule and dismiss the Western concepts of moderate and extremist Islam. Their rationale is that the same beliefs are shared by the majority.

This should worry everyone.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZataEz_m73E
Linux: Some closure on a particularly nasty bug
What is .htaccess? how to start with .htaccess?
Real running Lisp Machines provided a C compiler (not C++) for example to be able to run the X11 software on them.
Interestingly the Japanese smartphone market had most of these fixed by 1997 or so; defining a sane http/html subset (as opposed to wap). Less ambitious than (some) current apps - but probably a much saner approach. Maybe it's not too late for Firefox OS and/or Jolla.

[Edit: on a minimal micro-scale of simplification, I just came across this article (and follow up tutorial article) on how to just use npm and eschew grunt/gulp/whatnot in automating lint/test/concat/minify/process js/css/sass &c. Sort of apropos although it's definitely in the category of "improving tactics when both strategy and logistics are broken": prevous discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721078 (but read the article and follow-up -- he makes a better case than some of the comments indicate)]
The majority only need be greater than 50%.

Note: I've never been to the Bay Area, so this isn't some "omg, we're all SanFran start-up bros" line of thought.
I remember reading this about 10 years ago, feeling old now.
Keepintouch – Command line tool that reminds you to contact people
These are the real hackers
New one: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2rml8a/update...

Older one: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_ke...
I wonder if there are more 'buffers' in the program if further optimizations are needed
> Me, I want to see tagged architectures return (to enforce dynamic typing and make math fast by tagging each word in memory; also has potential for security, and of course helping GC).

I don't think that the return of tagged architectures would have significant performance benefits, see my reply in this old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4643520

IMO the things that would provide the biggest benefit for GC are hardware read and write barriers.
I always thought that this article read more like "How to become Eric S. Raymond". There's a lot in here that is really pretty painful to read 14 years on; in particular, I find the argument that you have to start off by using a Unix in order to become a proficient hacker to be particularly disingenuous.

The general aspect that I dislike is the idea that there is only one kind of hacker -- the kind that fits into Eric S. Raymond's "the hacker culture". For instance, he gives the monoculture that all hackers speak English; but just a few weeks ago, we saw an article on HN about the old microcomputers of the Soviet Bloc (I wish I could find the link now). And, perhaps, maybe my all-time favorite hacks were executed by demosceners who spoke little-to-no English. Are these people not hackers? I don't think you'd find anyone who could argue that, but they are not part of Eric S. Raymond's monoculture.

The great essay that I have always wanted to read about How to Become a Hacker would be answering the question of how to find joy in the minutiae, and how to put all the little pieces together to make the most interesting things. But this essay is not that.
What would you say would happen to a budding startup if the founder or key-members acted and felt opposite to the way you describe most HN contributors as being?

Is there even a word for a virtual lynch-mob and subsequent media trial? These are very delicate topics, and individuals that are ambitious can not afford to misstep in that regard.

Of course, you could be right, and these individuals are simply unusually kind compared to how kind (or not) we perceive the general public to be.
How about how we give a direct, unfiltered feed to Israel with a "promise" to discard things like emails between US government officials that accidentally make it in there?

Seems like a sound practice to me! The Israelis would never break the terms of such a contract!
Actually basic income will benefit HN visitors. And everyone else. What you earn at your job is on top of the basic income. Or even better - basic consumption allowance.

Also we are engineers - we love to solve problems and try to not moralize much the solutions. We approach a time in which laborless production of material goods will be solved problem, so we need basic demand for the economy to chug along.
Certainly not in my recollection.
The EU net neutrality rules include that a neutral network can use throttling tools in order to handle temporary network congestion.

The key word here is "temporary", which mean a ISP can't oversell their capacity and then use throttling in order to continue selling once the capacity is full 24/7. You turn throttling from being a tool to generate profits, into a technical tool for handling congestion and establish reliability of the network. A term that technicians has in their tool belt, rather than business executives.

FCC decision is about policy. Deciding whom and why throttling is used is in my view the core issue being described with NN rules, and is 100% political in nature rather than technical.
Snowden warns that US cyber warfare strategy could backfire
How to choose a data extraction service provider
>>Why can’t we start a movement to walk away from these tests?

>Because a ton of scared people think the tests are the safety net of education. They are the last resort. If you got a bad education and can still past the test, it's a quantifiable bare minimum.

Why does test-driven development enable the efficient creation of software that works, but the same isn't true of education? For example, asking a student to read some text and answer questions about whether they've understood it is a simple way to see if they're actually literate. An assert() if you will.

Test-driven education has resulted in an American literacy rate of 99% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_r...

The SAT is a test that heavily influences University admissions in the United States. (Not all countries have college admissions exams.) The most selective universities in America are some of the ones who give it the greatest weight. It is hard to argue against a causal link given the level of scholarship and research that is produced in American higher education.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

I am not going to weigh in on what kind of tests should exist. But the idea that testing is a last resort, and you can 'get a bad education' and still pass the test, is like the idea of a function that doesn't work, but passes all the tests. Not to put words in your mouth, but in essence then you are essentially arguing that it is impossible to test an education.

If so, what makes you think a bad education exists? Perhaps all educations are perfect?

Granted this last example is a bit glib of me, since perhaps there are things that are infeasible to test in a normal test setting. But overall, I would say the type of things that make you say someone got a poor education, are also the kinds of things that can be tested for and are, in fact, tested for. You don't mean they can't make an omelette without getting it all over the floor.
No mention of Responsible Disclosure .... really hope that was done!
Job survival in the age of robots and intelligent machines
Scroll Slow. Have Fun. Get a new pair of eyes.
I rarely see any nuance given to the rants against admin staff. My response above yours here was to a former professor's supposedly serious past suggestion to dismiss all admin staff. It is not the first time I have heard this idea. All staff are so frequently painted with the same broad brush, with no effort to distinguish as you have done here.

These folks running the Campus network command rather good salaries by EDU standards, though less than their commercial peers. Is it ok a network engineer who maintains a world class 10Gb or faster research network serving 100,000+ nodes with a dizzying variety of uses be compensated more than junior professors?
If you ever watched Fear Factor, you might remember that pretty much anything is edible, including blended raw cow eyeballs and such :) It's always a matter of whether it's enjoyable.
A Look inside Google's North Carolina Data Center
The best ping story I've ever heard
It's basically parkinson's law[1].

As a project manager you are also supposed to pad your project schedule a bit without showing your client or engineers the padding.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Don't make the mistake of confusing rhetoric with action. Republicans haven't meaningfully shrunk the size of government since Eisenhower. Nixon grew the government substantially (EPA, HHS, Dept of Education), Reagan talked small-government and acted differently, HW stayed the course and W was a "compassionate conservative" who added what was biggest healthcare entitlement in the last twenty years (Medicare Part D).
Kay, not Kaye. Roman concrete is universally considered superior to modern concrete.
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I choose not to smoke or drink my self.

What others decide to do to themselves within a safe context that does not endanger my self or others is the business of the consenting adults involved as long as it is only them involved.

I fully support legalizing, regulating, and taxing everything. Some things might be too dangerous to allow outside of carefully setup environments.

There will of course be things that someone could come up with which shouldn't be allowed and obvious reasons for that. However there are vastly many things which are safe, or dangerous mostly because they are not legal, and may be interesting that are not presently legal in many places.
Unemployment is not welfare, it is insurance. Your employer, including the military, pays into a pool. People who lose their jobs are entitled to draw from that pool. As you realized, the payments from that pool end after a certain period of time. Finally, benefits and that length of time vary wildly by state. For example, Texas unemployment insurance pays a maximum of $465 per week for a maximum of 52 weeks. The "motivation to get a job" is that benefits will end after a certain time and that time is almost never able to be extended.

After unemployment benefits end, you are at the mercy of whatever local social services exist for you. In virtually all cases, as a result of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, if you are not totally disabled you must be doing something defined as "work," be it looking for work, going to school, or volunteering at an assigned location. That only lasts for so long, provided you are not disabled. At some point, usually between 6 and 9 months, benefits for people who are looking for work and who don't qualify for unemployment end.

Then there is what is known as the benefits cliff. Almost all benefit programs have a bright line limit between "qualified" and "not qualified." It is some multiple of the federal poverty line based on household size. If a person or household earns even $1 more than that line, benefits are stopped on that date, even if that is a net loss for the person. A common example: A single parent can receive a $400 child care subsidy provided total household income is less than $19,000 per year. The parent makes $18,500 per year ($9.25/hour) and can pay for rent, food, and transportation out of the rest, but the child care subsidy is a definite need. If the parent works full time and receives a raise of $0.25 per hour, or $500 per year, the child care benefit is immediately forfeit, resulting in a new net expense of $4,300 to the parent. What incentive is there to then take the raise and for the parent to work to improve?
There are many great things about the open nature but it also leads to a very diverse experience, depending on which subreddit and thread you visit. Discussions range from asinine to profound, and casual visitors are often quick to generalize their limited evaluation to the whole site.
Reminds me of a lyric from an old rap song. "Drive slow, homie". Ready and eager for downvotes on this unproductive comment :p
The main purpose of a hard drive is to read and write data. When one is much worse than one of the other alternatives they use, that adversely impacts the performance of the whole computer. Things that directly affect the user like that should be disclosed.

Would you be okay with one screen having twice the resolution of another on the same model laptop with the same part number?
Some Thoughts on Go and Erlang
The FreeBSD game collection had some tunes you could play on the PC speaker around 2004-2005. So I once found myself playing the simpsons tune on the PC speaker of a server (yes it had a pc speaker) on repeat, and going into the server room to find the damn thing.
There's nothing in that article that says you can't write a driver which utilizes certain addresses as registers and other address ranges as visible sections of a mass storage device, for example. That's just one hack workaround I can think of that would allow you to put flash into a DIMM. You could combine that with DMA to read data out of your flash DIMM and into your RAM DIMM.

At that point, reading data would be a matter of setting up your paging registers and then queuing a DMA operation to copy data out of the exposed segment of your mass storage device and into RAM. Your flash DIMM would then be just another memory mapped hardware device.
no software is truly safe until the amount of testing code exceeds the amount of main code...
Yes, the jargon file and this article are mired in specifics that are probably bad. I also don't think the weirdness the jargon file gets into near the end regarding personality archetypes is very valid, interesting or useful, and it has always felt a little creepy to me. But I would say the core principles mentioned at the top of this article are pretty valid:

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

4. Freedom is good.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

That seems to capture the hacker spirit pretty well.
machining teaches skills to the mind, body and soul.
> Why does test-driven development enable the efficient creation of software that works, but the same isn't true of education?

What do you test - memorizing or understanding?

Does it test the required minimum, then passing it corresponds to the lowest positive grade (whatever that is in your school system).

Or do you also test "nice-to-have" knowledge? Then why do you test it?
> It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their economic status quo.

If you dig around the author's Google+ account, his wife appears not to work.

I'm not casting stones re: single worker households - particularly if they're living within their means - but an American household wanting to do more than just scrape by requires multiple incomes. That's been the case for decades.

Anecdotally, I have some teachers in my family, and as far as I can tell they really do get summers off. It wouldn't be a crime for any of them to get a summer job, imo.

I'm not commenting on teacher pay in general, just that working two jobs is not always a horrible injustice.
Yes, I admit there is an element of hyperbole (for 30 seconds probably read 30seconds - 5 minutes depending, and that alters if a candidate [ie for a junior position] is nervous and it takes time to get them to relax somewhat).

Appearance is important, and I've never been in an interview situation where it wasn't? Unless you're insinuating choice based on ethinicity (more aimed at _pmf_'s response to your comment). Which is completely irrelevant, as are accent/sex/other discriminatory factors that make zero difference to how someone is likely to work within a team.

As I've said in other comments, there is a serious element of external preselection based on geography and company sector, there's nothing particularly underhand going on.
I imagine punchy is the opposite of muddled?
>admittedly most of that performance is likely due to unmentionable factors.

A culture of forcing children to study for hours every night at home and go to school 6 days a week?
Don't forget transmeta either. Unfortunately they didn't succeed either. Did employ Linus Torvalds for a while though.
> Well, some things people should remember - how to calculate the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, or who the parties were in WW2, or what makes a metaphor different from a simile.

This line of thinking is IMHO a lot of what's wrong with modern education: none of that stuff matters if you don't understand what's behind it (how you get to the formula of calculating the hypothenuse and why people fought WW2). To use the WW2 example, the answer to "who" is "Germany&allies vs Russia&allies" (an oversimplification), but it's far more important to know why they were fighting (a fight between different political ideologies, including Nazism and Communism). Education focuses too much on (possibly useless) facts, and far too little on the logic behind them, or why they matter.
Actually, test-driven development is a pretty decent analogy. Including the shortcomings of TDD, such as the fact that you pass the unit tests doesn't mean you have a working product, which in education translates as students passing tests but not being able to use the subject in real life.

You can reduce the delta between passing tests by writing more, better tests, but again you quickly run into a problem - you spend so much time on testing that you start to lose the time to actually learn / write the actual project code.

So that's some ways in which the analogy is good. But there are some glaring errors in the analogy. In education, a student can have perfectly mastered the material, but is just really bad at passing tests, getting stressed out by it. In TDD, you can make your test environment match the target environment very closely. For most student exams this isn't true - most applications of higher learning are not done in a race against the clock, and you always have access to the Internet to help you out when you're stuck. By their nature, tests can't validate your capacity to work in a team with any fidelity. So, some of the very important skills that are needed in the application of knowledge are very difficult to test, making tests less valuable as a means of judging a student's acquisition of skills. There's a reason why PhDs require a thesis and a thesis defence, rather than sitting an exam before they are awarded.
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This talk blows everything out of the water. It's like the current culmination of the work from Douglas Engelbart to Bret Victor. Maybe just maybe there could be a rebirth of personal computing coming out of this research, it looks at least promising and ready for use - as demonstrated by Kay.
C isn't as bad for compilers as it is for servers.
Drive higher voltage into it to burn a few wires in it? No need to open it up to void warranty or whatever.
learn how to learn and you have to be naturally curious. The rest follows.

This to me(subjectively) defines a hacker. Rarely do you reach dead ends when you know how to learn.
Yes, they have. You don't find it in Google News since Muslims condemning these acts isn't "news" and doesn't usually get covered by the media.

Muslim leaders and organizations around the world condemning the attack: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/46-examples-of-muslim-out...

Some of the greatest Muslim scholars (who the masses follow) had to say about it: http://www.onislam.net/english/shariah/special-coverage/4816...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/muslims-respond-cha...

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/leading_muslim_scholar_...

I can go on and on but I think you get the picture. Practicing orthodox Muslims (notice I didn't say "moderate Muslims") are NOT quiet on this.
As a former academic, myself, all I can say is: Amen.
I'll bet they have less gun deaths though.
Are you getting some customers? If so, I'd concentrate on them and finding others like them and simply forget the cheap ones.

> price objectors who demand a whopping 86% in discount, yet interestingly enough they are the MOST demanding when it comes to support and feature requests.

patio11 has written about the same thing: the people who are cheapest are often the biggest PITA in terms of "do it now! I want to talk on the phone right away! It doesn't do this - it sucks!".
> I stepped into the classroom around the time of a major worldwide recession. As the individuals and institutions responsible for this recession escaped accountability for their actions, school districts like ours went into survival mode.
> Six years later, we’re still there. We have no plan for the future.
> Earlier this year, the school board held its annual budget meeting. I left my second job early to attend and asked board members one simple question: “Is there any cause for optimism?” Each school board member, searching for a silver lining, effectively answered “no” by the time their reasoning caught up with them.

I think that's quite the same everywhere. Here in Austria school budget gets cut every year, local media are always bashing the teachers so the social standing of teachers isn't very good, therefore it is hard to get good/motivated teachers and you're struck with unmotivated teachers (and even motivated teachers don't hold their motivation for a lot of years).

Most important would be for the community to recognize that education is the most important thing we have for future generations and start investing (financially, socially, ...) into it. However I have no idea how that could be reached.
1) Grants already exist for those who cannot afford college.

2) The savings you get at a community college are going to get spent in a couple semesters at a regular uni. This goes back, though, to actually dealing with the root problems. Yes, it reduces their borrowing burden, but it should not be necessary.

Thank you for the article.
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