skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Ive seen too often the person who is willing to say X,Y,Z is wrong, but cant offer a solution to solve X,Y,Z. Its the solution that matters. Bringing your CEO or any higher-up a problem without a solution is just adding to the noise that busy person already has to deal with. The whole purpose of an employee is to take an existing or new problem off of the CEOs plate.
Not a normally distributed example, but:

(1,1), (0,0), (1,-1)

X and Y are uncorrelated but not independent.
Zenni seems to be moving away from Acetate frames to plastic which aren't nearly as nice.
Just because it's less than the perfect meritocracy we would like does not mean we wish to tear it all down. As most software engineers learn, perfect is the enemy of better.

Might I suggest you re-read the article? This point is addressed.
That your parents could theoretically afford to pay for college doesn't mean that they will pay for it. The usual rule is that parents are not obligated to pay anything for their children over the age of 18. Only in some divorce cases is the situation otherwise. Before you mention emancipation or a dependency override, check the requirements, they are quite difficult.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown, that's really interesting! Sounds like you were bitten by this? :)
The Ironclad project[1] claims to have created a formally-verified differential privacy database. I recommend watching the demo video, the development efficiency they saw using formal verification is jaw-dropping.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
This is an easily overlooked point, that's about how much debt I had when I dropped out of college to go into software development full time. That said I would have probably picked Make School over college if given the option....
Actually pretty fun! Is this game based on a preexisting game? (Not that it matters, an HTML implementation is better than anything else.)
Similar to Scotsmen, a true process(tm) is whatever successful people do to get work done.
One thing these stats don't capture is the effective tuition charged by law schools. Schools are raising sticker prices, but handing out more scholarships. From discussions with someone who tracks these things, effective law school tuitions have been dropping.

Law school attendance for most students is being subsidized by richer students and by those who haven't figured out that law school at sticker is generally a scam.

The higher the sticker price, the more impressive a scholarship can seem.

As enrolments drop, schools are pretty desperate for students at present. LSAT median scores and median GPAs are dropping at many schools. Eventually, some schools will have to close; they're in a bubble.
To add to your point: computer espionage is the first and often second to last step before computer sabotage. You could build a program protected by cryptography that without the key would be indistinguishable from spyware, but with the key would be very destructive. You can't know the intention of a computer network operation until the attacker pulls the trigger and releases the key and by then it is too late.

In conventional espionage sabotage does not have the same footprint as intelligence collection. They are easier to tell apart. For this reason merely copying the rules and norms of HUMINT and SIGINT into computer network operations is very dangerous.
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Yes it matters to me because the fact that some customers will do it won't actually matter in getting me my money back if there is a problem. The occasional customer going through the process of paying to take a merchant to small claims court(and if they are out of state it will be a considerable expense) isn't going to stop fraud or problems like the one below it will just cause the merchants to pay those specific customers off.

The problem isn't just out right fraud. Say you come to my online store and buy something. My warehouse screws up and doesn't ship it but they list in the system they have. You call up in a week and say "Wheres by foo" and I say "We shipped it". With chargebacks I am encouraged to go investigate and solve the problem. Without I am encouraged to trust my system.

Or say I sell you tickets to an event. For whatever reason I go bankrupt before the event can exist. With a credit card I'm still getting my money back. Without chargebacks I'm boned.

So then you say "Well only use trusted merchants like Amazon!" which is great if you want to centralize all commerce on the internet to one provider per vertical but not really ideal.
Cable Proudly Declares Smart Shoppers a 'Lower Quality' of Customer
I think your point is discrete by creating a dichotomy in which you are either "right" or "wrong" while i'd err on the side of "the world is more complicated than it looks".

You can't really win, but slowly morph the world from one view to another. In the process, your perception of what is right or wrong changes and thus, the terminal position is never the one you initially expected.

One thing I'm willing to bet on is that any extreme position will be seen as wrong 50 years from now on. The hive mind of the western global village might sway 180 degrees, like it did on the question of race in the 20th century. From genes to apology. But the "intellectual" belief about race is perhaps still as wrong as ever, and we understand comparatively little about its position in society.

Likewise, we don't have any clue how the human mind is affected by being closely connected through the internet. Or for the fact that the private individual was eradicated for the public group. Or for the total persistence of information from every human being connected via IP-addresses to everyone else in the ultimate peer-to-peer network ever envisioned.

It is so easy to blame someone as a reactionary who won't understand the position to which the world moved. But reality is perhaps that they have seen things oblivious to everyone else.

In other words, I think the human society is so complex we don't really understand how little we understand of it.
your comment doesn't hold up if you like it.

Other authors, writers, etc., have again and again spoken of the need to focus, some of them go to a cabin (forgot her name), others go to a hotel room (again, forgot her name), others go to a small office a couple of blocks away from their home (forgot his name), just so they can focus.
I get 404, from a canadian IP
Interesting data, but I'm not sure the title is supported by the conclusion.

The title reads "US students are fleeing law schools and pouring into engineering." This is backed up by data that shows law school enrollment declining and engineering graduate enrollment increasing.

However, it's not exactly a secret that engineering graduate programs have higher international student enrollment than law schools. So we'd need to know where the enrollment growth is coming from before we can conclude that US students are fleeing law for engineering.
The article doesn't answer how she gets her news currently.
I think it's also missing the obvious, "they don't know what they are doing when they are playing in other orgs". It's sort of implied that helping someone is something the CEO doesn't have time for, but it's a little unclear that they might not need the help, and their job is to just coordinate, make sure to hire the right execs, and remove friction (+ raise funds).

Some of the best advice I ever got (not for exec things) was "just be sure everybody thinks you're helping, no matter what they do".
Facebook Employees Rally Around Foxes And Earn a Certified Wildlife Habitat
I would characterize Warby Parker's relationship to Luxottica a bit differently.

You have correctly identified Luxottica's value proposition: "You don't know how to get into eyewear, but we are experts on it. Partner with us!"

However, to even move the needle for Luxottica, that brand partnership has to be worth many millions of dollars.

Warby Parker is not competing against Luxottica. They are not trying to do white-label eyewear for other fashion brands. Warby is simply another fashion brand. They are competing with the other brands that Luxottica is making glasses for.

There is another company (which I used to work for, called Eponym, Inc.) who is a closer competitor to Luxottica in terms of trying to capture the market of fashion who want to get into eyewear. Though the success of selling glasses to individual customers is important, Luxottica is more of a B2B partnership whereas Warby is B2C.
People confuse entry level programming with true computer science. I'm sorry, but there is no way a few months at some "hacker school" will replace a four year degree heavy in mathematics, theory and design.

Schools like these are producing mediocre coders, at best. Which is fine if you just want to write a few small apps. But you REALLY need that CS experience and education to effectively work on large scale engineered systems. There is no way around it.

On a side note, I also got a CS degree debt free. I served my country to get it. People want so much for nothing - there are no true shortcuts in life.
I went to Community College and you're going to have to try really hard early on. I highly recommend looking for companies in your area and trying to establish relationships with some of the people there. Attend Hackathons at bigger schools in your area, and establish an online presence for yourself. It's great that you're concerned with this, you're already ahead of many of your peers. I don't recommend going to Community college, but like myself you probably have little choice in the matter. At a bigger school it's much easier for you to land something. Good luck friend.
Sounds more like a browser than a website. E.g., like a screen reader. And/or add a service part of it, where filters aid in delivering the content more cleanly. Actually it sounds like Instapaper. I would start there.
RoboVM 1.0 released, create native iOS apps using Java/Scala/Clojure
This goes to the point that time off is something you have earned. It is literally part of your compensation.

So, having a policy of "take only what you need when you need it" would be akin to giving everyone access to the same bank account that runs the company and trusting them to use only what they need and/or feel is fair.
He has a $90k/year job. Working for two years should give him enough cushion for a couple years there.
Amazing experiment using WebGl
It's the vertical integration.

There may be obvious online sales channels, but optical prescriptions are only available in person, and Luxottica has done an excellent job at making sure the most convenient optometrist is also an affiliate stocking their eyewear.

They don't only own the Lens Crafters peddling Chanel and Prada frames, but also Sears and Target Optical selling "discount" versions with only slightly reduced margins.

There's also a law requiring a prescription less than one year old to purchase eyeglasses or contact lenses, to send consumers back to the sales floor as often as possible.

See above for people discussing how difficult it can be to even get a copy of your prescription to order online with, despite it being federally mandated.
So sad to see that being debt-free causes a headline.
http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/ this works (Italian IP)
I recently watched a 65 year old woman use an iPad for the first time. One thing I noticed right away about her interaction was she struggled to realize that many blue text words were actually buttons (see the Send button in this screenshot[0]). IMO, this has been one of the biggest design failures of recent Apple software.

[0] - http://313e5987718b346aaf83-f5e825270f29a84f7881423410384342...
The Apple Watch is an overpriced gadget and an underwhelming luxury product
Works in the US for those that may claim 404 elsewhere. Perhaps it is a region release or the respective data centers have not been updated yet?
New solar installs beat wind and coal two years in a row
There are more open source projects than volunteers. Something has to be pretty awesome to attract people's passions and time commitments.

My impression is that a job is more attractive if the work includes working on popular open source projects used in-house than in-house projects that are open sourced.

Lastly, many big companies will still need lawyering for anything open-sourced under GPL because they are targets for lawsuits and GPL is so easy to violate. GPL and other copyleft license compliance is not passive from the perspective of software developers, just from end users.
Been there. Large bookmarks with mobile website versions. Adblock proxy on wifi router (even /etc/hosts blocking could do). Advanced version is GreaseMonkey with some scripts/styles to customize often used websites.
Technically it does - on an iPad with a slow connection.

Granted, it's a little lacking in peripheral details, like whether that's her only news source...
What’s inside the first new US nuclear plant in two decades
I'm not understanding how 3d printing the frames would reduce costs over traditional manufacturing methods.
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KeePassX (Mac) + cloud storage and unique "low security" derived passwords for each service1.

I made a clone (lazypass.com) of passwordtable.com, so I could use a custom no-look-alike's character set (sans-"iILl1...o0O", etc.) and to improve lookups -- but the improvement, in practice, seems to be somewhat negligible.

I feel that important passwords should to be stored on paper or encrypted for a close friend/parent/spouse to recover should you get dead... is that kind of a similar concern?

1 Until they tell me to make a new one that can't be the same as the previous. :(
Yev from Backblaze -> Customers/files are striped across multiple vaults for added security, so odds of all data from a single user going poof are fairly high and would most likely come from the datacenter falling in to a surprise sinkhole.
After "defining module:" the page doesn't load.
$999 (32G) and $1299(64G) I am not sure I would buy this, the spec looks ok
You're 100% right and I definitely should have said that. Presenting a good solution to the problem is critical.
Baobab should at least in part mitigate this by not committing changes immediately, but rather in batches as a single change:

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab/wiki/Options

"When you use the mutation methods of Baobab (push, set, merge etc.) it will batch up these changes and make one single commit, which then triggers update events."

I haven't worked with Om on a non-trivial project yet, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Om might also do similar optimizations (i.e. batching updates and sending notifications in sync with its render on requestAnimationFrame flow).
There were an interesting report about manufacturing lenses using 3D printer - for original shapes, which then are additionally processed. The article described covering 'layered' lens shape with a film which makes the surface smooth and then using that for making a form for final casting of the transparent plastic. It wasn't a complete replacement for lenses - but still an interesting step towards automating the process.
CNBC are reporting Apple made the following statement:

“We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning. The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. We’re working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience.”
Google recently put a tool called RAPPOR into production that's partially based on differentially private randomized response for collecting usage statistics about Chrome users.

Code is here: https://github.com/google/rappor
Paper is here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
This is exactly what I want for Linux (headless), but I haven't been able to find anything like it. The closest thing I've found is attic, which, while amazing, requires a daemon to be running on the remote end (which is what makes checking, deduplication and deltas fast).

Does anyone know an Arq alternative for linux?
As an existing customer, I'd pay for geo-site redundancy at double the current pricing.
I had an idea for something like this, it would be like a daisywheel typewriter from the early 90s.

http://www.typewritersupply.com/brother_printwheel.JPG

But it might just be easier to use a parallel linkage, two small steppers and a 500 mw laser diode. Although not faster.

Not sure how much power a mems mirror could take, but it might speedup writing fancy glyphs.
I can definitely relate to this post - There are a lot of factors to weigh when considering self-termination.

Czechs mix is right... When I make music, I only care that I like the sound. For tackling an idea with execution, I imagine the concept is similar.

I decided I'd rather be happy and on a budget, working on things I enjoy, rather than somewhat financially stable and no time for what I'm passionate about. This has been a gradual point of realization for me.
Show HN: Something I Made with Lob's Check API
I wonder (a) how many simultaneous connection the balloon can sustain and (b) how they're storing power.
Van Gogh is perhaps one of the most notable for artists whose work in person doesn't translate remotely the same to in print or on the internet. Go see some sometime if there's an art museum nearby that has some, if you haven't already, as it is quite awesome for the texture and colors.
Your evidence of astroturfing is somebody saying "there's astroturfing"? And lawnchair_larry's top voted fake comment?

Maybe I'm missing what obviously happened.
> On a side note, I also got a CS degree debt free. I served my country to get it. People want so much for nothing - there are no true shortcuts in life.

I'd argue that you paid a higher debt in some ways. Glad to see that it paid off though.
Actually, CS degrees have little to do with programming skill. I work with hacker school graduates that write cleaner more maintainable code faster than others with CS degrees and 20 years of experience.

EDIT: Actually, the fact that you mention "large scale engineered systems" is interesting. Generally, I have found large, monolithic, tightly coupled systems to be very unmaintainable. "Building a small app" (or a bunch of them), along with in-house libraries tends to be the way to go if you want maintainability. "Building a large scale engineered system" might actually be a red flag when it comes to code reusability and quality.
Checkitron is "bring your own bill-pay", and hopefully a lot nicer/easier/cleaner than your bank's. Plus, if you have multiple banks (business/personal), manage all the bill pay in one spot. It works... and it's free!
That's a terrible thing to say to your leader. Indeed, if you really believe it, you should leave, roughly for the same reasons in the OP's article! That is, you don't have the time or the knowledge to mentor a CEO.

Far more actionable is when an executive seems to be operating under an incorrect assumption about the world (people, customers, technology, etc) and you offer what you believe is a solid refutation of their incorrect belief, ideally without ego or rancor. Employees that can do this consistently are extremely valuable to an organization.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-dept-of-retro-warns-we-m... Appropriate onion article if you change some nouns :) Can't disagree with you, sadly.
Meet the Updated Chromebook Pixel and the New Google Store
Loads okay in the UK. Maybe it is markets where the product will not be sold that are 'barred'.

As for the device, it fixes the problem of all-day-battery which is a common feature on Chromebooks (e.g. Dell) but wasn't on the original Pixel.

I am glad they are continuing the product. Initially everyone laughed but, as time goes by, Chromebook is quite acceptable for 'serious web surfers'.
True. Normal distribution is a way a set of data is distributed. That can never imply independance.
Think about a scenario: there is no correlation between growth in sales revenue and growth in website traffic. But that does not mean that the two datasets are independant.
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As a previous owner of a Pixel I have to say it was one of the most beautiful and well crafted laptops I've ever owned. The Pixel had some major flaws, the CPU and overheating was a killer. However the biggest problem here is the underdevelopment of ChromeOS, such promise but it seems to be going the way of most of Googles products.
That is your social proof. Try passing one of these hacker school grads off in an engineered environment at Google scale - they fall apart quickly.

You proved my point, though. Programming is only one small aspect of computer science. Engineering, mathematics and theory is the biggest part which you can't get at a 6 week school.
Jar of Ireland for St. Patrick's Day
Exciting that there's a 16GB RAM version; should be a good dev box if you can live with 64GB (max) SSD
Wikipedia has one. There is a lot of it https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:International_waters... (it is the dark blue)
Zenni Optical, frames start at 6.95 including prescription lenses. They handle all their manufacturing and supply chain internally which is how their get their price point low.
I cannot upvote this more than once, so I feel obligated to let you know how much I agree with this.

"Readability" may be a personal thing, but you'll reach convergence pretty quickly by following the approach you outlined. I see it as no different to something like writing, in that respect, in that an editor and a writer begin to converge on a style together without really setting out in the first place to do so.
Crater
1.
a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite.

So no, it doesn't mean that. I would guess most craters on Mars are impact craters (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_crater)
The BBC News mobile app is a good example. Each article is predictably laid out. There are no ads. Nothing happens if you accidentally click the photos while scrolling. Give it a try!
St. Patrick's Day
illions of Americans are born with Irish heritage but most have never been to Ireland or touched Irish soil. Dubliner, Mark Duckenfield, has created a chance for homesick Paddys to get their hands on a piece of the auld country with jars of Irish peat. Everyone could use a little bit of luck this St. Patrick’s Day!

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Should startup employees have health insurance?
Because of the very few sites involved, yes, I will only visit 1 or 2 of them.
I cannot agree with this comment more than I do. Also, thank you for your service.
The point is, how do you know the difference between something that's "who you really are" and something that you simply feel discomfort around being asked to change?
As someone who only just (6 months back) started wearing prescription eyeglasses ... this information is eye-opening (sorry, I know this pun was done to death in the original article).

I'm in Australia, so the options are not quite so wide. 'Name brand' frames, as well as grinding the glass, suffers the same, seemingly artificial, premium that everything else does on this side of the pond.

My first eye test was free, but the frame + lenses were upwards of A$300. Yes, it seemed horrendously expensive at the time. (Trying to find an online retailer of the same model glasses that I bought - with a view to buying a slightly different style or colour - is next to impossible. i-spax (brand), colin (model) ... I can find it on the company web site, but evidently no one sells these things online, which in 2015 just seems perverse.)