skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Backup reporting app that pulled results from a backup status DB and used a local database of admins and projects to present reports in various filtered formats.
So what? What did that achieve?

I wrote an app from scratch that filled a need in backup reporting. If i expand in the way you say my resume is going to end up 5 pages long. I want the kind of questions you're asking - during an interview.
Apparently it was common in the south as well. Some writer who was fined in the 19th Century then lampooned the magistrate as "Monsieur Nonante-Cinque", the fine having been 95 francs.
Sounds great. Looking forward to trying it out.

The rb_to_exe never worked that great for me. I also tried Ocra, which works ok -- but the packages end up enormous.
Also, what would Apple look like for openly gay CEOs?
Tesla CEO threatens firings after dismal China sales – sources
I had the best success with Jruby for Rails 2 apps. Makes moving between windows and linux pretty easy.
What are the benefits of being on Subversion and Google Code at this point for a project like this? Or is it just that moving over is hard?
Haiku based social network
Please write more about making a career change at 30 if you can. I'm heading to that age and have been trying to make a change but I am fearful that it's too late to start over in a new field.
here there is a repo, public accesible -- although I can't be sure they are related

https://github.com/BtXin/cs241_mps
Jim Scott from MapR compares Apache Mesos vs. Hadoop YARN
https://www.mapr.com/blog/apache-mesos-vs-hadoop-yarn-whiteb...
Ordering multiple murders = safe? Oooookay.
A more fair comparison would be with other web based IDE's such as: Cloud9, Codio or Nitrous.
You'll probably be hard pressed to find GoDaddy fans here, yes. But I'm curious why you think nobody needs hosting?
> Smart TVs are a terrible idea for the same reason that combined printer and scanners are a bad idea but with the negative aspect magnified many times. The cost and life expectancy of each part is very different and you don't want their replacement/upgrade to be tied together.

I think combined printers and scanners are a much better idea than Smart TVs because (1) you get more benefit (footprint savings) from the combination with all-in-one printer/scanners than with Smart TVs, and (2) IME, printer replacement is desired more often than scanner replacement, and the printer is also the more expensive part; so you lose less by tieing replacement schedules together compared to Smart TVs, where the "brain" is the more frequently replaced part when replaced separately, but the display is the more expensive part.
Is possible, though I'd probably run Spark and YARN native on Mesos on bare metal.
Arvind Narayanan has made this observation in terms of the difficulty or impossibilities of anonymizing databases:

http://33bits.org/

However, he didn't propose a particular list of 33 questions whose answers are maximally statistically independent. Even with things that are totally uncorrelated, you do get some chance overlap where people happen to have the same answers on a small number of them.

For example, if we took the first 33 bits of the SHA256 of one's HN username, you and I happen to agree in positions 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, and 32. (So we could say that each additional bit of that SHA256 value doesn't actually provide a full additional bit of distinguishing power relative to the previous ones.)
I guess it depends on your definition of "high performance."

If a regular expression runs too often, even pre-compiled (as they should be), you'll want to replace them with code written in the native language. I've gone in and replaced a one line search/replace written in RegX (compiled), with just a C-style for() loop over the wchar array, and had the memory usage drop by near 80% and performance increase by over 60%.

So high performance is all relative. However RegX isn't something I'd describe that way, even compiled. It is a nice way to write complex string parsing code quickly however.
If you're interested in something similar for .NET / C#, check out my Regextra library, specifically the Passphrase Regex Builder: https://github.com/amageed/Regextra

As the name suggests though, the focus was on passphrase criteria and it wasn't to produce a DSL for general regex building. The library also supports named templates and a few utility methods.
The industry tends to swing from one extreme to the other. Long ago we had dumb terminals and all our work was done on a central server. Find a grey beard and they'll regale you with stories of VAX and other time share systems.

Find someone slightly younger and they'll share stories of using notepad and loosing whole projects because their desktop hard drive failed.

While today we have a distributed source control system, powerful desktops and powerful servers. I too fail to see the logic on moving back to running a thin client for development.
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More power to you! I worked in fuel shipping and bunkering, and the fact that many times a day I had to haul a typewriter up 60ft of rope ladder to produce receipts to be signed by the captain/chief eng. because the only tech they trusted was CARBON PAPER in the year 2008 simply boggled!
Flagged. Quoting 'dang:

This is not a good HN submission. It doesn't teach us anything; its purpose is to arouse indignation in favor of what one already believes.

In other words, it's a riler-upper. Please don't post riler-uppers to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011285
This reads more like a ramble than something that resembles an argument of any coherency. For example, why not assign some blame that the consumer hardware technology is not up to snuff, or why bring in CoffeeScript as a counterpoint to JavaScript's flaws, CoffeeScript having some arguably worse problems? The JS examples are particularly contrived, since most serious developers avoid many of the approaches, if not all, laid out in the code snippets.
I wanted originally to go for board diversity, but haven't found that data set yet. I believe Morningstar has some of it, and am hoping to get my hands on it sooner rather than later.
SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Using Serpent on Augur to Build Prediction Marketsa
Clearly built for nerds, but no DVORAK option? Come on.
US Healthcare Is So Screwed I Fly to Britain for My Medication
I'm not sure.

Given what the author says about the data (it's all gathered from public sources, a lot of it is very old), it shouldn't matter whether the domain names or service names were there or not.

But then the data would go from being mostly anonymous to somewhat personal, and I couldn't defend that as much. Practically speaking, the risk of harm should still be really really low, but it just seems like a bad practice to distribute information that might be used to identify someone that's had their password leaked somewhere.
Two things immediately jump out at me - you need English localization, and your carousel is currently broken (no matter which touchable button I select, the text is always for the car button - running Chrome on OSX.)

As for the idea: I think it's quite neat, I think physical things people have to deal with 'in the real world' work better for behaviour modification than just notifactions which are easy to dismiss.

Is this out 'in the wild' yet?
Docker will be the predominant way we package our applications for the next 5-10 years

Disagree. I see their scope as too narrow, leading to a design that has far too many already evident growth problems to resist strong, broader-scoped competition.
How HHVM Uses Modern C++ for Fun and Profit (2014) [video]
In the first cut of your analysis (without rebalancing) the portfolio actually goes negative (I'm looking at the first graph in the notebook). An equity portfolio cannot go negative unless you are using leverage. Then from late 2012 to 2015 the portfolio rises by 400%. Looking at the companies in the portfolio, I don't see how they could have generated that kind of return. Is this algorithm using leverage? If not, I don't see how you can get those results. If the algorithm is using leverage, then comparing to a simple investment in the S&P is not valid.
thanks for this, as someone that is emigrating shortly I may have to bite the bullet and swallow my high horse and join up.

most of my cohort have already emigrated so not sure I will join, as I survive without it. currently use emails of various lengths - from a sentence and a html link - to quite wordy ones.
We updated the submitted title, which referred to source code instead of code samples.
He definitely has a massive battle to fight with the Greece's problems. I'm quite interested in what he does and I think it might work. My understanding is they want to finally put an end to this loaning money and looking the other way while they kick the can down the road. It's a gamble but at this point there is no way they can pay back the debt anyways.
I might be interested - let me think about this. What do you do?
Plagiarism laws aren't just about whether you copied from someone else. A lot of times, certainly in all the universities I've been part of, they will penalize you if you did not take reasonable precautions to ensure that others did not copy from you. There's nothing unreasonable about this.

As far as the rest of your comment goes, maybe there are some cases when students are unfairly penalized for hard-to-follow policies. But the instance here seems pretty clear cut. I also think shady behavior from students more often than not goes unpunished, so your fears of a power-drunk university arbitrary destroying students' GPA just for the heck of it, seem unjustified.
Chromium itself moved (is in the process of?) to git, so I'm inclined to think it's the latter.
This is less a problem with startups (except in the most stringent PG sense of the word) and more a problem with VCs. VCs aren't looking for a quarterly distribution of profits, they're looking for a 10x ROI in cash and stock. There is a huge incentive to sell, even when VCs have a minority stake. If you have VC investment and get an acquisition offer that will kill your product but give your VCs 15-20x ROI and you turn it down so you can chug along at 20% gross margin for the next decade, you will never ever get VC investment ever again.
Isn't the solution to this just not having an internet-connected TV? I don't know about any of you but of the TVs I've used to run apps, the ones with an Xbox/PS or Roku/Chromecast/AppleTV run YouTube/Netflix/etc. a lot better than the ones that run these apps natively.
An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos
Just because you opt out of letting Facebook (or Linkedin) see your contacts, does not mean your contacts have done the same thing.

e.g. If you are someone@example.org, and others have someone@example.org in their address book and they let Facebook see it, they've got you already.

For this reason I use a dedicated email address for each social media account.

Also, while I'd normally recommend 2-factor authentication, giving these guys your phone number is a really bad idea if you value your privacy. Try to limit it to firstname lastname and one throwaway email if at all possible. If you're really paranoid, you can get a VOIP gateway that supports SMS for fairly cheap, certainly for cheaper than buying a burner phone.
What I carry with me every day: Matt Mullenweg
In this case the "punishment" (seriously?) had the immediate effect of forcing them to change the design they stole.
And what about US legal? Or Architectural Sizes?

Nevermind folios (and quartos and ovtavos).

It's a big diverse world with room for all sorts of paper applications.

[Architectural Sizes]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#Architectural_sizes

[folios]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folio_%28printing%29#Size

[big diverse world]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#Other_sizes
Samsung may just feel they haven't good luck this time. Compared with it, I personally prefer Chromecast or Apple.
Not true, at least outside the US where using other sizes is easy. It all "just works", so it's used all the time.

Age 5, my school work book is B4 size. I can glue the a A4 sheet (or two A5 sheets) the teacher hands out.

A little later, and the work books are B5 sized. A4 sheets fit in if folded.

I want to make a poster at home. I set the document size to A2, design it, press print, and four A4 sheets are printed, exactly the right size. I can change it to any other A-size very easily.

I want to photocopy / print some A4 documents, but save paper. Two (or four) sheets fix neatly on one page. Or, I can enlarge it to A3 — most photocopiers in most offices have A3 paper in one of the drawers for this. There's an A3 laser printer in my office, it's useful.

From my desk, I can see things laser-printed by me in A4 and A3; things produced in A5 and A6; and notebooks in B5. If I need a poster in A1 or A2 size there's a printer upstairs.
The content honestly isn't great. It looks like you have some experience, but you haven't told a potential employer about any of your projects or accomplishments.

Your bullet points read like job descriptions, and anyone else who submits a resume that has had a job remotely similar to yours will sound about the same. Focus on your projects and accomplishments while employed, and make it look less like a job post.

I know you aren't emphasizing the front end skills, but leaving them out in the open if you aren't great, and aren't up to date with your front-end skills (tables, adding classes to make paragraphs look like headings - just use headings) can make any semi-critical resume reviewer cry "eek!.." Showcase what you are best at, and don't try to justify your hiring with things you "kind of, sort of" know how to do.

As others have said, tailor your bullet points to the job you are applying for. I don't care about your systems engineer work if you're applying to be a junior dev. Talk about your internal tools and app development. Those should be your bullet points - not that you "started and completed projects" or "were a member of a team".

Focus on your strengths and your goals!
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Like everything else in the world, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Yes, in a certain lens, we are digital serfs bound by companies' TOSs forced by none other than our own listless volition; people don't care where the data is going, they just want the service. Yet in exchange these services allow us to do more, live more. Using Kayak instead of a travel agent saves me precious hours for going on a trip. Next time I want to take a trip, I use the knowledge already gained through Kayak to book it even faster instead of futzing around with another person's schedule. Do you want convenience, or do you want your digital "rights" to be respected?
The FQA specifically mentions how nice QT is, about the only positive comment on C++ in the entire thing.
Quite useful tool – CSS generator
I've found the tiny-house movement fascinating to watch from the outside. It's got a real appeal to me that's only increased as I've gradually transitioned from my youthful can't-wait-to-be-uploaded outlook to a much more reluctant relationship with tech and the always-on life.

My concerns about trying it myself:

1) The country-living variety defeats any small-ecological-footprint appeal, unless you live like depression-era or earlier farmers (i.e. don't underestimate the ecological sensibility of a studio apartment in the city)

2) The urban/suburban variety is much harder to make work if you don't want to live illegally in someone's backyard, thanks to zoning, HOAs, et c., plus the cost of land very nearly ruins the money-saving angle.

3) Health care is really, really expensive. I doubt I could make enough money to cover that for my family, on top of other unavoidable expenses, while living a disconnected life in the sticks, as much as it might appeal to me otherwise, even with the savings from not having rent or a mortgage. That goes beyond "roughing it" to "irresponsible".

4) I've got a tickle in the back of my mind that a large part of this is a marketing ploy to sell mobile homes at a premium by appealing to "economy" and "eco-consciousness" when both of those would be better (or at least similarly-well) served by buying single-wide in an ordinary mobile home park, which for some reason[1] rarely comes up as an alternative. Incidentally, if you've ever been to poor rural areas along sleepy back-woods highways, you've undoubtably noticed that you can do the trailer thing and the dirt-cheap-land middle-of-nowhere thing, too. Of course, they're ugly and couldn't possibly be mistaken for Thoreau's cabin.

Your pop-up camper approach seems sensible (though I, also with a family of four, can't imagine living quite that small full-time without going insane—a few weeks a year, sure) but it's not the kind of thing you see blog posts gushing about, covered by documentaries, or featured on magazine covers.

[1] Class, almost certainly; trailer park = white trash redneck, "tiny house" = creative class, educated.
Expressed gender is not a good measure of a person's ability to create (or maintain) a good working environment.
Google's worst user experience item is the combination of productivity apps. You use one, you can't escape the others. You have gmail? All your contacts (including people you emailed once) will be synced to your Android phone, not to mention the many duplicates. A terrible experience when you combine all the mediocre apps with the ones that matter.
UX Revolution = the product shifting based on user experience in real time
All they have done here is produce a head that can produce a new support structure pattern, but I don't see the advantage of this pattern. The build layers are isolated by the support so you are left with only thin spider web type filament designs. Furthermore these designs can already be accomplished with other styles of support structures in filament style 3D printers. I think what they have done is a cool innovation but I don't see any novel application for it.

I will say that putting a print head on a robotic arm could lead to more industrialized FDM machines though.
(Full disclosure, I work at GoDaddy)

I joined about a year ago, and the only reason I did so was because most of the executive team, including the CEO, was replaced about a year prior to me joining. The new CEO is Blake Irving, who seems like a great guy (I had dinner with him a couple months ago) and did an AMA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23v7f3/hi_im_blake_irv... . He also wrote an open letter to the FCC in support of net neutrality: https://garage.godaddy.com/godaddy/news/net-neutrality-ameri... . A lot of GoDaddy's senior leadership team these days is made up of people from Microsoft and Yahoo.

I would not have joined GoDaddy in its previous form, but it has made serious improvements to be a great tech company over the last couple years.
you know what else can represent all regular expressions? regular expressions.

#dumb
Well, the statistics I've seen say violent criminals make up less than half of the prison population.
I've been a middle school and high school teacher for 20 years. I've been teaching an intro programming class once a year for the last 5 years, and I've been paying attention to how CS ed is done in general throughout that time.

I'm happy to answer any more specific questions here, and my contact information is in my profile if you prefer email. But you'll probably get some good responses here if you post some more specific questions.
People who need hosting pay for it, but they usually pay a hosting provider for it, and shop around for one of those. The people who pay their domain provider for hosting are usually people who just accept the default add-ons in their cart and don't care about digging into the extra monthly costs, and then go on to either not use the domain, or hook it up to an actual hosting provider anyway.
This role requires a level and type of trust which Facebook does not have.
The at-large population of Florida is also loaded with people I would want to keep away from my loved ones.
OneCoin, a cryptocurrency Ponzi scam
Startup Priorities
HTTPS for the blog itself?
Huh. I kind of wish they had rebranded at that point, if that's what happened. I don't think any developer with decision-making power will go anywhere near the GoDaddy brand for years to come.
60fps does matter. We've just all been taught that 60fps and sane use of CSS and the DOM (as currently standardized), so as to allow browser features to work properly, are mutually incompatible... which might be true. Using canvas certainly sucks for the reasons you describe; I wouldn't do it for more than a proof of concept. But long term, do we really need to hang the success the whole Web on the backs of some old and very ugly APIs? Can't someone come up with an alternative?
Yet another project moved from Google Code to GitHub.

Is there any reason why Google isn't trying to use Google Code to compete with GitHub? Seems like it wouldn't require many more resources, and could give GH a run for its money with some niceties (free private repos, plugin to their cloud platform, etc)
Ah, so America is special again? No, many countries had standard sizes before ISO/DIN.

Britain changed from "Imperial" sizes: http://www.papersizes.org/old-imperial-sizes.htm

France had these before 1967: http://www.paper-sizes.com/uncommon-paper-sizes/old-european...
My main problem is that it's longer than "tens". And I have 10 fingers. And I use base-10 for everything, including counting the dozens. It's just more logical (and I say that without reading through the wiki page, so sorry if whatever I say doesn't make any sense with that in mind. I'm not good with words).
VikPik. Life (Unfiltered) Launches in App Store
Agree with you here. Currently companies are selling technology with massive power for oppression to whoever has the cash. Creating a framework to hold them accountable is a win for freedom.
A lot of other languages borrowed words too. Some even more than English.

Polish is half Latin, 10% German, Italian, French and Russian, and now it becomes a lot like English too.

But it has consistent rules and after a word is used enough it becomes polonized: computer becomes komputer, and we don't ever have to wonder how to pronounce "c".
> Also, the semicolon key is not working for me. A fun toy nonetheless!

on my keyboard, I have a "ñ" key there.
It would be awesome if you could use keys "hjkl" instead.
> Why not just say "we failed, sorry guys, we are going to get job elsewhere". They would have my immense respect had they done that.

Because that is poisonous language in a large segment of the business and investment ecosystem, and the internet is written in stone.

Saying it might earn your respect, but your respect is worthless because you're not writing the checks.
I could reply point-by-point, but it's pointless (pun intended).

Here is one thing I learned over the years.

There are people of type A who believe there actually are meaningful things in life. This belief requires to acknowledge that there are also meaningless things. And yes, sometimes identifying those things can get a bit depressing.

There are other people, type B, who believe there are no meaningful things in life. This same statement can be given a positive spin by negation, but the essence remains the same. This is the type that lectures everyone on how subjective and relative everything is, like it's some kind of revolutionary idea we have not heard before.

But that's not it. What I really learned is that having a conversation relating to meaning or value of anything is entirely pointless if you're speaking with people of type B. Eventually, they will fall back on stating the same core belief (the one I just described above) in a myriad different ways.

And here is a question worth asking. If people of type A can have a productive conversation about things that type B considers non-existent, which belief system makes more sense?
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