skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interned in a law firm my entire senior year and now hold a BA with majors in Government and Philosophy. These experiences would leave me well primed to go to law school which was my original intention after graduation. After spending time in the firm however it is really eye opening to see how the business is rapidly changing. There is an over supply of young lawyers these days for a number of reason.

First, there are too many low quality law schools churning out people who can barely pass the bar. Those schools take home the tuition money and the young graduates have a mountain of non-dischargable debt with nowhere to turn. The rate of unemployed young graduates is actually probably even higher than figures show because schools will pay a small stipend to recent graduates so that they can say they are "employed" when the yearly figures for former students employed 6mo out are released. It's all about taking home the tuition for these schools and they shamefully advertise how demand for lawyers will increase and job prospects will remain high.

Second, the business has become vastly more efficient as firms begin to adopt digital case management systems and can now conduct research online instead of having to sort through volumes of old books. You know when you see the generic shelves of law books in offices? Yeah those just sit there collecting dust now. They are for show because all of that information has now moved onto the computer. The legal industry has been slow and late to adopt technology but it has made lawyers vastly more efficient than they could have been before. Even things like being able to email scans of documents can speed up the process astronomically. As older lawyers who cannot use computers begin to exit the workforce and younger ones who can move up in the ranks, firms just do not need as many people working as they did before. The vast majority of legal work is not what you see on TV or in the Ellen Pao case where it is a battle of the brains in real time for a court room. It is mundane routine paperwork that can be automated or done by assistants.

A lot of this stuff can even be done at home by your average person with products like turbo tax that enable the average person to not need representation for basic needs legal needs anymore.

I no longer plan on going to law school and have been taking online courses in programming/reading a ton of programming books since I graduated in hopes of turning what has been a long term hobby of mine into a career, hopefully combined with politics or law. (I am thinking campaign research/advertising online or legal software on the law side.)
Com Dev Gears Up for Mega-Constellaton Opportunity
More people want to live there? Awesome, build even more. Demand is not infinite. Ever.
I think you mean 2011, that was when gave out the first Chromebooks. It was not a bad little device but the CPU was woefully underpowered.
The left and right arrow keys worked fine for me.
How Do I Make My Coffee Strong?
The MacBook is a completely different machine than this. Now the MacBook Pro Retina 13" is a more proper comparison. In which case they are pretty close when it comes to specs, price, weight, size, battery life, etc.
No. The Valley is geographically constrained. The mountains enclosing it are too rugged to safely build on. The best you could do would be to permit high-rise housing which would provide some expensive housing to the high-end.

A better idea would be to stop permitting any non-housing construction until the housing to job balance is restored.
You might as well just link to a Chrome-compatible VNC client and say it can run anything.
Sad to see a giant reduced to yelling at clouds. I say that as someone Who enjoys a good cloud scolding.
Learning Apps Outstrip School Oversight, and Loss of Student Privacy Is at Risk
I haven't read the whole article that you linked, but the diagram seems very similar to Reflux, except that it uses the state tree instead of stores. Have you tried Reflux, if so how would you compare the two?
Lifehacker does this to me more often than I'd care to admit (when accessing it from my phone).
Things I love about RethinkDB as a NodeJS dev:

- first class support for JS bindings, unlike mongoose which wraps the super low level mongodb js library into something palatable but crashes in a horribly undebuggable way.

- server-side joins

- a nice web UI for monitoring and running queries packaged up with the service

- public docker images that are super simple to run

- easy clustering
The Japan analogy is more a reference to people of a completely different culture (like the US) going to Japan and making the Japanese adhere to their culture, instead of the other way around. It may not be a very accurate comparison though, and to extend on the analogy, if Japan was to open up its borders, they would have to adjust themselves.

Compare getting employees from India over to the US; there are some cultural differences that may be hard to work with / around, but both parties (employee/existing co-workers and the new foreign workers) will both have to adjust.
Read: "The Art of Seeing" by Huxley
I've always wondered what's the best way to integrate a database engine with the application.

1) Use a middleware/ORM/Whatever which abstracts away the query-lang of the db, and provides a pluggable multi-db support

2) Just use native db query language with all exclusive features of the engine.

Companies like workshape.io, why do they prefer the latter?
What about using microwaves to transfer energy or charge the balloons?
Public housing is an anethma in the English-speaking world these days, but it's one answer. Mixing public housing/apartments in with private would provide accomodation while also providing a base price.
It is possible to write software like photoshop for ChromeOS, thus it is a real computer. It's just that no one has. Nobody has written this kind of software for Plan 9, and a computer with Plan 9 is still a real computer.
At low-touch SaaS price points, eating a one-month refund shouldn't take more than an eyeblink of consideration. (That's certainly how long the credit card company will give it when they call to chargeback anyhow.)
I dont get it. One person on video lives in nice bedsit (garage) and talks about homeless.
The fastest way to learn a language
No crash here. After a couple seconds of grinding Firefox prompts to kill the script.

Linux Mint 17.1
Firefox 36.0
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/03/apple-dns-error-respons..., which points to this.
Brave New Epoch: A search for humankind’s mark on the Earth
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9186162.
Nope, definitely 2013.
> My sentiment is not classist or elitist.

You just think poor people should have to move out of their homes because rich people decided they want to live there. Got it.

> The same argument applies to people of all socioeconomic background.

Yeah, rich people get forced out of their homes because they can't afford them all the time. /s
"But I think designers need to pay attention to the speed of their site."

How is this the designer's fault? Perhaps the CDN or the developer or whomever is mandating 37 different tracking scripts be loaded onto each page ... but I'm not sure how the designer should be faulted unless they're creating very asset-heavy webpages.
Definitely. This is a pipe dream, but this proposed plan for BART (in 1956) would have been a-ma-zing.

Source: http://www.jakecoolidgecartography.com/regional-rapid-transi...

Unfortunately, there is absolutely no chance of anything close to that being built in our lifetimes.
Now I'm curious, how does this work with man-made islands? As in, can I build a really big raft/barge, tow it out to one of these areas that are unclaimed, anchor it down, and call it my own nation? Given of course that it'd be a hell of an engineering project, and getting resources out there would be a total pain, but is such a thing legally feasible? Or am I better of just buying a cruise ship that never docks?
Initial review from TC claims that heat is no longer an issue.
Why Musicians are leaving Facebook
But living in a garage is not part of the American Dream™.
Please elaborate. I'm not well versed in the world of policy. How can I push for these changes? What are the changes?
Why would you build low income housing that excludes people in the middle? All low income housing does is creates two tiers of housing prices and if you are at the low end of the income scale and do not qualify for the low income housing, you are even more screwed than you otherwise would be. The solution is to build more housing that lowers everyone's rent.
I'm sure it's a fantastic machine, I just can't understand what niche this is aiming for... there seems to me to be a better alternative to this machine for anybody...

Chrome OS developers?
Yah. I don't know ClojureScript but that doesn't stop me from using it. And David Nolen pretty convincingly addressed the size question in "Javascript Modularity Shaming"[1] - i.e.: use Google Closure Compiler.

[1]: http://swannodette.github.io/2015/01/06/the-false-promise-of...
I had to do a double-take when the author was referred to as 'her' in the comments thread to be honest. I'm just used to articles like this, describing nerd culture and whatnot, to be written by men - the traditional nerd. That's probably part of the problem, really, expectations and stereotyping about gender (and race, and sexual orientation, and gender, and personality, etc etc etc)
Moving is expensive too.

If you're hand-to-mouth poor, you cannot afford a rental truck, let alone time off work and still feed your children. You will probably lose your job if you move, and not find another one where you land, especially if you're in the service industry. Good luck with that East bay -> peninsula commute on your minimum wage. The reason many cannot get jobs other places is due to felonies or other legal issues related to being poor.

If your children are in school a lot of parents would actually rather struggle than put their family through the trauma of a move, even if in the end it may be better.

American society is more mobile than others, but poverty (outside of vagrancy) is extremely restricting.

I do think your main thesis is correct (this is unmaintainable, gtfo), but moving is a multi-year struggle of planning and saving at these low levels of income.

This is at it's core class struggle, not individual unawareness.
Thank you!

I can see how one might feel 'just move' is a good argument, but really NO! In chinatowns all over the country, whenever low-income residents are being priced out, the argument is always 'you can just find another place to stay'. They've lived there for decades, if not more. That's where all the people they know are. They are poor but they do have a support system, that lives with them. When they move away, not only are they economically helpless, but also socially helpless.

To tell people to just 'move away' is very dense, IMHO. You might not feel the same way about places you live in, but some people feel VERY STRONGLY emotionally about where they live. Consider the fact that when there's natural disasters/flood/earthquake/radiation leaks, there's not insignificant percentage of people who would rather stay where they are and suffer the consequences rather than move away. Which is why evacuations often have to be FORCED! People would rather die than move away from their homes. You cannot just say 'they can just move away': the concerns are valid.
I was sitting here trying to figure out how to say basically the same thing. Growing up my dad had a good job but we never were able to afford to live in $NEAREST_METRO_AREA, so we always lived a commute away -- sometimes a long commute away.

Charity idea: provide moving & job placement help to get homeless or nearly homeless families into lower cost of living areas.

I always have mixed feelings about stories like this. Like the woman from the first video: homeless, just got a garage for her and her 18-month-old. Pregnant again. Kids do not make your financial situation better or life less stressful.

The kids didn't ask for poverty and it's not their fault -- all true. But what do we do, enforce reproduction strategy at gunpoint?
As someone from outside the US, how much do you need to earn in order to live well in this area? There was one slide stating a minimum of $100K for a family of four just to "escape poverty". Is that really the case?

And if so, how do early stage founders who aren't already rich manage to get by?
I see. This adds soundness to an entire application ts or non ts.
I like that I can open up an incognito window in Chrome at work, login to LastPass, have access to many things, then when the window closes, I log out, or shut the machine down then I am logged out.

I do have Google Authenticator tied to it, so logging in once a day is a little annoying, but overall it is a good experience.

I have the phone app (LastPass Premium) and while it is fine, it is a little buggy/annoying/meh. I haven't decided if I'm going to renew or not. I don't really blame the company for the limitations, they're trying to work around heavy app sandboxing, but after it all the user experience remains subpar.

Overall I would recommend it. In particular if you use Google Authenticator with it and a very solid master password.
What is the price. Cannot see it where I live.
Don't you worry im coming right back
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They should add a secondary inflatable cushion like the Mars rover had
I think the parent commenter was being sarcastic and would agree with you.
You mean well, but its easy to forget that moving a family a long distance costs a nontrivial amount of money, even if you do it on the cheap. Maybe not a problem for you or me, but much more so for a family already barely scraping by.
Making an App Builder with PhoneGap Build + Ionic + WordPress
"I'm not sure how the designer should be faulted unless they're creating very asset-heavy webpages."

This is tending towards the norm.

Edit: Maybe I should include and/or replace designer with developer?
In SF, building regulations includes very powerful neighborhood groups with the ability to make arbitrary changes to projects. The net result of their involvement tends to be less housing at higher cost.

There are also many areas zoned for a maximum height of zero feet.

As for how to be involved, start by looking up who your city councilperson is. Talking to them would be a good start.
Thanks for illustrating the attitudes that make these kinds of situations possible.
That's a hard problem to tackle at a national level without the dreaded Socialism.
Yes, nandhp said "USB-powered notebook", and ja27 pointed out that it was actually the "first USB-C powered" notebook. MicroUSB is still USB.
Examples of beautiful laptops that don't look like MacBooks:

https://brooksreview.net/imgs/sony_vaio_505.jpg

http://www.sony.co.in/product/resources/en_IN/images/hubpage...

http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/voodoo-env...

http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...

http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/img_lib/530x430/...

Believe it or not, it is possible to design great looking products without being called an Apple-clone. Most companies just try to stick with what works.
Is it still done through that chroot wonkery?
Yeah, that seems very unlikely. The population was lower, tech wasn't mainstream, and being a nerd was the opposite of fashionable.
What's that Frenchy open source photoshop called again?
Fix the public education system so that living in a poorer area doesn't mean your kids have zero chance at real success. We are moving more and more towards a caste-system where your parents success is the most important factor in your own success, as a child. It hurts us all when we don't have the most qualified people possible performing the important professions.
Agreed. R-S encoding is hard. You should use something like zfec (extensively battle-tested by Tahoe-LAFS) or JErasure rather than rolling your own.

(I say this as someone who worked at a company where we rolled our own, but that was ten years ago and we didn't have those options.)
HHVM 3.6.0 Released – Second Official LTS Release
Haven't been a CEO, yet, but I have worked a high stress job that involved a lot of team coordination/leading and these were my takeaways:

Short Term:

1) If you have other business to attend to today--i.e. the customer--get out of the office for an hour and go take a walk or read a book somewhere quiet and private. Driving yourself batty waiting on everyone else is a fool's errand.

2) If nothing is going to be done "today", call it a day and go home. Seriously. Use the time to run personal errands, think, and do things that will take your mind off of the things holding you up.

A former CEO would get real fidgety when things weren't done exactly when he envisioned them and would then spend the next several hours frequently checking in with us and just slow things down. If you're getting antsy about things, the best thing you can do is take yourself out of the environment until you calm down and not infect the rest of your team. People feed off their leader's emotions and if you're getting fidgety they'll start getting nervous and frustrated.

Long Term:

1) Budget in time for self-improvement. Be reading as much as you can, take up a physically active hobby that gets you moving, and try to improve in areas of weakness.

2) Budget work time to think and plan out the business. Bill Gates was famous for taking thinking trips where he'd duck out for a week with a stack of research papers and other materials to see where the industry was headed and figure out how to get in front of it. You might have not the time to take a week, but take a day here and there to pay attention to the trends going on around you.

3) Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Sometimes you gotta ride herd when things aren't getting done for legitimate reasons (i.e. everyone's clowning around). Other times, you gotta let things ride and accept that it's not all under your control -- you can't control the server crashing, unforeseen technical bugs, delayed client responses etc. Learn to be comfortable with things not being under your control and not letting it frustrate you to no end.

4) Enjoy the down time! Really. We all think we have to be hyper productive all the time and any down time is simply a waste of our time because we could be doing something. I struggle with this a lot and it makes it hard to be. Consider having an unplanned hole in the schedule as an opportunity to take 15 minutes to clear your head--writing helps me a lot--refocus and prepare for the next challenge. Those unplanned holes can be a lifesaver if you count them as a blessing instead of a cost.

Edit: Grammar errors.
It's interesting that this is an advertorial for nginx ... I'm currently working on implementing a microservices system, but have instead opted to use ZeroMQ for the connections, and utf-8/json for the request/response interfaces... Which in my mind seems a bit more sane once you reach behind the publicly accessible API (though also means that you have to wrap anything the public/website needs.
They don't have a family of four. They are usually young and single.
I hear what you're saying and agree...trending towards the Pixel...touch screen !! derp
While I agree strict consistency is probably overkill in many if not most situations, the problem with not having consistency is that it potentially makes the application logic much more complicated.

Take the database of customers - so if you don't have consistency, what happens in case someone changes the company address and another person simultaneously requests a delivery of something. Do you risk ending up with half of the old address and half of the new one on the parcel?

Note you can certainly have this problem in a consistent system too, e.g. if you make a UI without a save button where the address is changed one field at a time.

Concurrency is just intrinsically hard.
Saint Patrick’s Day Activities That Won’t End in Hangover
I think this is because an engineering undergrad degree is way harder than most other degrees except maybe pre-med types. That means there's a substantial weeding out effect plus all the extra studying helps shore up the general knowledge that the LSAT tests. In general, poli-sci or history majors have spent the previous four years idling.

After I got my EE degree I took the GRE and GMAT and aced them, getting 95th+ percentile, without studying at all. I then enrolled in a MBA program and was shocked at how easy, and unrigorous, the courses were compared to EE classes.
>>> Nothing in your post is in line with reality.

Except that part about Kaspersky. Or do you not believe the Wired article from 2012?

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/

"Kaspersky’s rise is particularly notable—and to some, downright troubling—given his KGB-sponsored training, his tenure as a Soviet intelligence officer, his alliance with Vladimir Putin’s regime, and his deep and ongoing relationship with Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB. Of course, none of this history is ever mentioned in Cancun."

I'm also glad you actually read my entire post before gang banging your keyboard with your response. I said I don't dismiss this outright, but I've become somewhat skeptical of Kaspersky. He's done a good job exposing NSA activities while seemingly turning a blind eye to Russian state hacking activities. I think its fair to ask why he's catching all these NSA sponsored groups, but was totally silent about a Russian group of hackers who have had access to our critical infrastructure since 2011:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/6/russian-hacke...

Or maybe the JPMorgan Chase hack?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/04/jpmo...

Again, like I said in my post (which you clearly didn't read) I'm getting NSA fatigue. If other Info Sec companies came out and said they had found these, in my eyes, they would have more credibility than Kaspersky. It just seems like the only stuff he finds are NSA tools and I have to consider his background before I jump up and say this is a smoking gun. Similarities? Yes. Like I said in my post, this is the same thing other Info Sec people dismissed about the Sony Hack, why can't I use the same argument here?

You want a smoking gun? Get the president to admit it like he did with Stuxnet:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-cyberattacks-us-israeli...

"Administration officials revealed to Sanger that the Stuxnet virus was developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Israel's Unit 8200 (i.e. Israel's secretive cyber arm) to "become the attacker from within" Iran's nuclear facilities."
I notice a non-standard behavior of inserting his homepage before redirecting, and was wondering what HN thought. Is that the behavior you mean? Because the back button works fine, it just has another stop along the way.

Part of me thinks this is genius. Sure, users have to click back twice to get back to HN, but from his perspective, it exposes a lot of people to other content of his in a relatively harmless way.

TBH, I assumed I had clicked through to the game from his home page until I took the time to investigate.

Interesting use of a 302!
What if you were an app developer who had a paid app on the store? Would you want Apple to sit back while people pirated your app? Would you want to have to implement copy protection yourself? Do you think every app should do that?
Its good enough for travel, which is what I use the SFPro for because I like to keep my travel bag weight to a minimum. For desktop work it would make me insane and stick with OSX.