skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If so, does it have to be a nice college?

It needs to be (at a minimum) a program that is ABET accredited. And is likely to keep their accreditation until you graduate.

Other than that, it doesn't need to be somewhere like Stanford unless that's something you really want and have the brains for. A state college, a smaller private college, all can be good places to attend. Where you went to school and the GPA you got only matter for the first (and maybe the second) job out of college. Afterwards, employers will give you a pass on it.

If/When you do a college visit, talk to the CompSci department and ask about the faculty, and what areas of concentration they have - graphics, databases, algorithms, etc. And see if that matches what you have an interest in. Call ahead and make an appointment with one of the faculty advisors - the usual university tours will just hand-wave at the building on their way to showing you the glitzy student center. As a point of reference, the CompSci department at universities usually got created within the math, business, or physics departments before being split off. So their syllabus will reflect that heritage.
Given the purpose of the key, this doesn't necessarily seem like a security flaw.
If individual owners ssh on to the system, then it is a flaw, but if the primary purpose is to allow system updates, this seems like a perfectly reasonable approach.
Probably. Acoustic velocities in tungsten are quite a bit higher than in gold. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeds_of_sound_of_the_elements...

It should be straightforward to make an acoustic time of flight go/no go meter you could place on a gold bar. Piezo excitation transducer/fixed distance/piezo receiver/process signal propagation velocity -> light up red or green light.
How are these templates parsed? I mean what code goes through these and decides which word to use?
Except that there a some quite good reasons why we do things like regulate cabs. You don't get take make statements like this without discussing why the same thing which happened historically that led to the current laws won't happen again.

If you don't regulate them, you wind up with a race to the bottom and have unsafe cars, untrained drivers, lack of insurance, etc.

And, gee, once Uber wasn't paying top dollar to drivers anymore, the quality crashed and all the problems appeared that everybody expected. Go figure.
"As someone who would like to avoid going to the trouble to implement HTTP2 (...)"

Good luck with that. Google has been incredibly adept at using the leverage of their search engine to make webmasters adhere to best practices. ("mobile friendly" e-mails lately, anyone?) Once HTTP/2 lands as a default in Chrome, Apache, Nginx, and Netty, of course they'll push HTTP/2-friendly sites higher in search results.
That's called "spintax" and the overall approach is known as article spinning[1]. There's a small industry of software tools that facilitate that sort of thing (e.g. The Best Spinner[2]). Seems to be dying out as that kind of posting is more likely to get you penalized quickly nowadays rather than produce any real results.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
[2]http://thebestspinner.com/
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We always see these performance benchmarks, which are great but are low on the totem pole for technology choice.

Really good questions to ask and statements to reassert:

* Does is scale well?
* Will this framework / library help me in my career forward?
* How hard is it to implement features?
* Is the framework / library enjoyable to work in?
* Does the framework / library lend itself to allowing elegant solutions?
* Does the framework / library provoke a thoughtful and/or refreshing pattern or style in your code?
* Is the framework / library sometimes blocking solutions to problems?
* Can a new team member readily understand this, explore and contribute after a day or so of training?
* How easy is it collaborating with others?
* This framework / library is simple and understandable enough to get started quickly
* I am intrigued by this framework / library.
* There is a lot of support and resources
* There aren't a lot of grey areas

As far as I know, React knocks these out of the park.
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"If you can weigh the bar accurately, then you can test for purity by essentially dropping it in a bucket of water and seeing how much the water level rises: a gold-covered tungsten bar will displace more water than a pure gold bar. "

I'm afraid that either myself or the author doesn't fully understand fluid displacement.
Mint (Intuit) does not have Two-Factor Authentication
I wish instead of a protocol improvement that focused solely on network resources, the next version will also include improvements for users such as encryption by default and doing away with cookies.
I am getting a message when I push stuff to Github (or any remote) because there is a git config value that I need to set. I just did a search to try to understand the effect of each option for this value, so I could pick the one that best fits how I want git to act. I am approximately 90% sure I understand what each one does, however all of the explanations of them have some element of confusion or lack of clarity. This is the problem of using git.
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You can begin today to do away with cookies on your own sites and services. Start implementing richer clients and leveraging Open ID Connect and OAuth2.

Cookies solve real use case problems. Unless we all start building and experiencing and improving the alternatives, progress won't be made.

That said, good luck on getting rid of cookies all together.
I read the whole book recently (almost obsessively) and I think the font is great. I don't think there's some technical thing going on, I think you (and other commenters here) just don't like the font, which is your prerogative of course.
It probably just chooses a word at random from each {} clause.
Say you found your $100M worth of gold is salted. I am guessing you wouldn't advertise it in public too eagerly. You'd probably want to offload it and turn it into some other asset as soon as possible and make it someone else's problem.
This is very interesting. Why don't you like mobile ads? The conversions aren't good?
"Nerd" isn't an attempt to lower people's status. I'm a nerd too.

That aside: your comment isn't responsive to mine. You're just repeating the same point you made upthread.
New users can make suggested edits, which are sent into a moderation queue before being applied. Once you reach a certain level of reputation (2000), you can edit other users' content without moderation.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/edit
> PHP was saved because it decided to look like Java,which neither Ruby or Python do,which allows writing these huge codebases like Doctrine or Symfony.

What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.
At least it wasn't for a software testing-focused master's degree.
Once in our CS department (not CMU), we had given PhD acceptance to a wrong student (call him Student2) since he carried the same name+surname with the candidate we intended to admit (call him Student1).

Instead of rescinding the acceptance, we let Student2 join. Of course we also admitted Student1 to the department as well.

It turned out that Student2 (the candidate we admitted by mistake) performed much better than Student1. :-)

Regehr notes a similar observation.
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/147
Yes, that was my point. There are people who don't have a CS degree, that should use source control. For example, designers should use source control for their work. Explaining git to them is not feasible.
I imagine payoff is about building an astroturf to spawn adoption or increase SERPs - essentially gaming search engine algorithms.
Gold density is 19.30 g/cm3, Tungsten is 19.25.

Given two gold bars, one adulterated with Tungsten, and one not, either the weight will differ or the volume will differ. So, given equal weights (i.e. standard 400oz bars), you can check the displacement to establish purity.

If you use a container that is filled up to a spout, and you measure the displaced water by collecting it in a measuring cup, you can just directly calculate density, and then compare it to gold.
Great suggestion on the first one. The second one is more tricky given the type of site we run (local news).

Maybe there is a local e-commerce play...not sure.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28volume+of+1+kg+of+tu...
Well, not really. Then you have all the funding agencies above them.
I believe the number of hours required to become an expert depends on both the nature of the field and the competition in it.

Although there are a lot of table tennis players in Britain, probably not too many devote significant effort and time to master it. Thus, the effort required to be in the top echelon is not that great. The same cannot be said for, say, American Football in the US or soccer in many countries.

The 500 hours or so he spent on table tennis is woefully inadequate to master mathematics as well, but for a different reason. (Mastering math requires knowledge and skills on a huge amount of materials accumulated over centuries.)
It was the aggressive hyphenation of words that really did it for me.
Yeh I stumbled across this before. Thanks for the hifi version though.
Degree-less engineer here. It can be done, but you have to work hard. Your college educated peers will have a basis of classroom-based learning that you didn't get, and it'll hurt you early on. Once you get enough years of relevant experience, that degree matters less and less, but you still have to hone your craft more than your college educated peers.

If you want to excel without a degree, you have to build a reputation for being "the guy" that people go to when they get stumped. Is it hard? You bet. In my opinion, it's best to grind out some time at big name companies while you build your reputation. Don't aim for a Facebook or Google, because you'll get round filed quicker than you'll get an interview. Besides, if you get good enough at what you do, they'll come looking for you, with or without the pedigree.

source: I'm a degree-less engineer in the Bay Area with recruiters hitting me up on a daily basis.
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All of the above are what I have examined, but we are a local news site - so that would be a 'no' to most of the above.

There may be a local commerce play that we haven't examined fully yet though.
The { grammar | word choice | punctuation | sentence structure } could really benefit from some { improvement | modification | proofreading }.
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I can't imagine what those applicants are going through.
Could your "problem of using git" be a result of "doing a search" instead of reading the documentation that Git provides? `git help config` gives documentation on all of its config values.
I don't understand, what's the point of such spamming? It's not advertising a brand or a product at first sight (I read it casually).
How are the examples in the article exclusive to the computer field? Pretty girls are hit on by older men in every profession. Even Margaret Thatcher had to tone down her high pitched voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28_0gXLKLbk

I suppose the next headline will be "Man in dress harassed by peers. Sexism in computer industry to blame."

Go ahead, mod me down. Throwaway account.
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Sounds like early Wikipedia. It started out fun - people from all over working together and helping each other out to create something that was going to change the world. My contributions may not have been the best quality possible, but others would edit or offer suggestions for improvement. Sometimes others would start something and get stuck, and I could offer an edit or suggestion to get them going again. To see the entries grow and improve, and be a part of a group helping each other to become better and achieve more, was one of the great things about it. Together, we made something from nothing.

Of course, it wasn't long before obnoxious pedantic tyrants swarmed in and took over, reveling in their chance to get a cheap power trip. Volunteering to contribute wasn't fun under a constant barrage of rudeness from people who contributed nothing and couldn't even be bothered to offer alternatives or suggestions while insulting and deleting other people's contributions.

It would be an interesting case study for someone to find out how Wikipedia survives despite the best efforts of its own moderators to destroy it.
Back in a days I built something like that, albeit as a exercise (never used for spamming):

http://www.25pix.com/organic-text-generator/
lol I've totally seen that in the wild
Did Student2 know he was given a pass due to the mistake?
"We're seeing any sort of competition, or even just dissent, being highly discouraged, suppressed, or even prevented wherever possible."

Could you please elaborate on this point?
I would guess it's automated to establish a 'legitimate' posting history so that any future actual spam is not so easily detected.
I'm guessing the username / URL link back with a keyword to some kind of page that is needing ranked.

Example:
Name: "Red T-Shirts"
URL (optional): "http://red-tshirt-site.com/"

Then they'll perform better for that keyword (maybe--google eventually penalizes this).
"As a writer, the biggest po­ten­tial waste of your time is not ty­pog­ra­phy chores, but Medium it­self. Be­cause in re­turn for that snazzy de­sign, Medium needs you to re­lin­quish con­trol of how your work gets to readers."

Amen. Finally, someone has put this simply. The issue here has nothing to do with type. The author does a pretty good job of pointing out why Medium's pandering to design is clearly B.S. — but most importantly it's a complete ruse. It's a distraction from the fact that they own you.

Edit: If you'd like to downvote my viewpoint, I'd appreciate that you offer some kind of insight into why.
Also published by one of the authors: http://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/
It is not a bad protocol for what is in there, it is bad for what is not.

It seems like it was built for the big players to eek out 5% more performance. How about the average website? What is in there help standardize authentication? What is in there to help protect privacy?

In the end it looks more HTTP 1.2, with header compression being the only new feature. The rest of what makes up HTTP 2 is basically implementing a new transport layer protocol at the application level.
What, run up and down the street naked, yelling Eureka?

Actually, I'm agreed that you could measure the density, but somebody could fiddle with the density too by adding just a touch of this or that to bring everything up to the right weight.
It depends, I suppose. The last time I used IRC in a technical help channel, someone asked for a simple way to open a bare X screen. I gave the answer I knew, which I got from a mandrake system script. It has worked for me for years on Debian and Ubuntu:

xinit -- /usr/bin/X :1

And right away, a group of 3-4 clueless people or trolls told the asker that I was attempting to harm their system and not to listen to me. It wasn't very productive or fun.
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One option is to only buy directly from a government owned mint that pours its own bars. e.g. http://www.perthmint.com.au/investment_bullion_bars_coins_ba...
No, as far as I know. Only some faculty knew, until it was divulged at a graduate review meeting.
Often you'll see wordpress comments where the comment is some generic praise to make it seem legitimate and avoid deletion, and the "website" field is filled out so their username is a link to wherever they want.
This has been proposed today in Spain by the liberal party, Ciudadanos. Does anyone know if there have been any trials in the US? It seems like a promising alternative to what's been said about Universal Basic Income. [1] It aligns productivity and wealth redistribution in a very efficient way, in my opinion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Yeah... it really shouldn't have been downvoted.

Should have just been purged.
The author doesn't describe much of the aftermath of that firing, except to say that basically everyone lost their jobs anyway. I would have liked to hear about the remaining 10% of (the last group of) employees who were not fired. Did they perceive this incident as poisoning the well? I would guess so, but maybe everyone was just happy with their severance packages and got on with their lives. The effect was what I wanted to read in an inside story like this one, but it just wasn't there.
“Abel, put that camera down right now!” Armstrong screamed on the call. “Abel, you’re fired. Out!”

You can listen to the actual clip here (I wouldn't say he screamed at him, but it was forceful):

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/11/audio_reco...

And the HN discussion on this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197081
That's one ugly EKG in the logo...
I've always wondered: why do CPU caches only key off the low-order bits of the memory address? e.g., DDR controllers generally key off a linear hash of most of the address.

Is gate count really that tight in L1, that they can't throw a few XOR taps in front of the cache bus? Or is it simply to make cache collisions more predictable?
Fancy words that cover up the fact that efficient markets are not necessarily the best ones for human beings.
With that said, the English is actually quite good compared to most of the spam I see (although some of the synonyms don't make sense, so were probably automatically generated).
It would be interesting to look back and see what indicators might have indicated Student2's success that was not seen by the department.
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Both sad and ironic!

Aren't those emails somehow legally binding?
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This article would be more useful if it contained any sort of facts about or reasonable estimate of what the frequency of fake gold bars may be.

As a glass flameworker, I and my colleagues buy gold, cut it up, stick it on rods of glass, and put it on the flame to deposit gold vapor onto glass. We would notice fake gold right away, but I haven't heard of that happening.

(Though, the typical flameworker doesn't buy whole 1kg gold bars!)
The point there is that you can make a computer that's very good at predicting StackOverflow results or Jeopardy, but it won't be able to tie a shoe. If you want computers to be skilled at living in the real world, they have to be trained with real-world experiences. There is just not enough information in StackOverflow or Jeopardy to provide a meaningful representation of the real world. You'll end up overfitting to the data you have.

The bottom line is that without sensory input, you can't optimize for real world 'general AI'-like results.
This is easier than one would think. Say you have many large shared-memory regions (e.g. queues) with control structures at the start. Bam, all those control structures, and therefore your atomic accesses, are now sharing cache lines.
Interesting! I wrote mine in LaTeX and merging what I got from proofers got a bit difficult at times.
FYI: your address is not in your profile.
I don't know anything about this case, but it could be there's a bunch of air trapped inside the bar with the tungsten, assuming the forgers didn't alter the outside dimensions of the bar.
Ah, I get it now. It's not just the authentication step, it's the fact that the data is encrypted so only the original client can read it? That's right?
This is pretty outdated tool to cheaply generate "unique" versions of the articles in order to fool search engines in terms on "link juice". What you normally do is hire someone for $5-100[0] to write an article and manually or using a tool generate spintax version. During posting bot would simply select a random alternative from the spin list.

When Google started to use machine learning to filter out machine generated content this out this method quickly lost effectiveness. However, it is more effective on less sophisticated search engines so using this will show some benefit.

One of the more current methods is markov chain based article generation with provided keywords. And perhaps more importantly paying people to write content.

[0] With internet proliferation this has dropped substantially.
That was definitely not a scream. Maybe it felt like it, but it wasn't.
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I'm on MacBook Air too and it does look weird. I'm browsing on Google Chrome. Here's the screenshot: http://imgur.com/jI4bqd9
IMHO having everyone call in to listen to a pre-recorded message telling them they're fired is just as bad as the public firing Armstrong gave. At least have the decency to have a face to face conversation or meeting.
This reminds me of the novel _Small World_ where the main character is a young researcher who got a position thanks to a mistake like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Roman...

In that story, however, Student1 didn't get the position.
A third degree friend of mine resigned from her job as soon as she received acceptance mail. She received rejection mail in the morning & was devasted. As depressing as it could get.
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No, you usually need an offer on letterhead from the dean of the graduate school (or similar).
I don't think the current economic model can survive 50% unemployment and to be honest I think social unrest would take its toll before we even got that far. We may even see a partial collapse of society in some developed countries leading wiping out the advances of last century.

The bigger question is can we as a species evolve into a more altruistic species and move beyond capital. Some days I don't think we can...
Many people don't realize that although they've given their email to manage their account, it only shows in their profile if they purposely insert it there, as well.

So it's not just you.
A certain pedantry forces me to point out: Listening to the speech at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNbfa1QyYg, I find there are two discrepancies from this transcript: "fighter" should read "fighter plane", and "This, I repeat, is" should read "This is, I repeat,".

My apologies. At last, the record is set straight!
Yeah, sorry about that. Took us a while to track down. We think we've fixed it in 4.4 (but it was one of those bugs with multiple causes)
Do you know how much it cost before Apple came in? It was about 70 to 80% that you gave the publishers. And that was if you were lucky to get accepted to develop apps. Which happened to only a few big companies.
This was also the case with Digital Ocean's droplets on Debian for a time (they were re-imaging without re-genning keys.) It's not as uncommon as it sounds.

Userify (cloud ssh key manager) is getting a feature to force re-generation of server-side keys across an entire cluster remotely.
This scary, I got my admit to UW last week. I just hope they don't rescind it.
The thing that pisses me off the most is when you put the effort into a question that doesn't have an existing solution anywhere on the Internet, including on SO. Within a few seconds of posting, it gets a downvote but no comment. Getting a downvote results in immediate loss of visibility. It really puts you off using the site again. Its happened to the last several questions I've posted.
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