skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My statistics/ML life lesson: the harder a decision is, the less important it is to get the right answer.

If choice A is vastly better than choice B, you don't need much information to determine that. So if, after gathering lots of information, you still can't determine which is better, don't stress too much about choosing the best one.

A professor of mine pointed this out to me when I was stressing about which grad school to go to. He then pointed out that at my age, his life choices were CUNY (math dept) or West Point - that was a decision that would have had a far larger effect on his life than my choice of Rutgers vs Brown vs Austin.
All of my finance friends are pretty smart and were able to complete their engineering degrees. They just saw better hours and better pay for basically being able to play poker (commodities trading) all day...
Full inscription from site:

FVGITENEME CVMREVOLV VERISME D.M. ZONINOACCIPIS SOLIDVM

“I have fled, hold me; when you bring me back to my master Zoninus you receive a solidus [gold coin]”
Doesn't Google Maps work well for this?
Nevermind that banks don't just pick up finance majors. They pick up people with math & science degrees as well.
> I call those tests the airplane test.

"Work sample test" is the traditional name for what you describe.
One of the points made in the gp's link is that there are flight characteristics of the MU-2 that are different than other dual engine planes.

One loud statement is this:

The fact that lack of training is the primary cause of the high MU-2 accident rate is supported by other data. In Europe, where the equivalent of a type rating is required to fly an MU-2, the accident rate is less than half the rate in the United States.
Reminds me of this story:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
The Evolution of Steve Jobs
Privacy concerns about SMS-based two-factor authentication
Mind sending me an email or connecting on LinkedIn? I'd be very interested in getting your input in the future: per@forlagetpropell.no
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92593053
He only had 11+ hours in the MU-2... total flight time doesn't matter.
The most important thing you've gained is not recognition of those skills but the skills themselves. Use those to show whomever you need what you are capable of.
Whose professional ethics? Yours, mine, a patent trolls? Since there is nothing like a PE for computer programmers professional ethics is a very blurry thing. I'd say needlessly opening myself and my employer to trebel damages and claims of being inspired by patents is against my professional ethics. I'll describe what I've done to my employer, and if their legal representation decides to investigate potential patent issues, that's up to them.
It is 10x expensive. I lived in the RTP area. I paid roughly $800 for a very nice three bedroom house with a 10 minute commute to downtown for work. That's a house I owned. Lots of tech talent there, lots of jobs, lots of startups. That's more than 10x what the rent for this shoddy apartment is being set at. A very nice downtown condo would run you about 1.5 times as much. What does an apartment in downtown SF go for now (to buy?).
Best thing would be using a password protected key like in SSH. It should be baked in to SSL somehow to make it easier to password protect web apps.

It's a bit ironic that Yahoo changed their password policy so that I need to have at least two numbers and different caps and something like max ten characters. Making it impossible to remember the password.

I always use something like "magicunicornridingsousages" witch I find both easy to remember and long enough to prevent brute force. Too bad Yahoo wont allow it.
From 0 to 1 is a lot different than from 1 to 2, or from 1 to n.
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A week is a pretty short time, especially if you haven't previously integrated all the parts you need for the app (maps, geolocation, Facebook, push, etc).

But if you have, you could do a mashup that does this:

As you walk around London, have a look at the local area. If there's a flat to be shared nearby, send a notification. If you want to share a flat, make a screen that tells people about your flat.

IMHO that's more than enough work for a week.
This makes me highly suspect about the encryption implementation of obnam.
It looks like the FAA has decided “pilot experience in other aircraft types cannot be used to comply with MU-2 operational requirements.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MU-2#Safety_Concerns
Tried the product again (w/ no repos..) and it looks very nice. Dogfooding, drop the "written in Go" like technomancy says, big-ass buttons "Import from my Github" and "Import from existing repository".

This should be more popular!
I see a lovely list of all sorts of features, but then I get to limitations: "Built-in access controls are not branch-based, they are repository-based."

That falls under one of the three things that the Git solution must have or else I will just pass and find something else.
http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2014/10/so-you-want-to-bu...
I'm excited by your app.

You need to do more, sooner, to emphasize that it is not a photo sharing app. The recommendations aren't the photos, but what's in them. It is for experience-sharing. It is closer to Pinterest than Instagram, but the impression you give is the latter.

You would do well to emphasize this through features in the app. The interactions you need people to have with the app are a full cycle: save, do, respond and do, share, get feedback (not just save and share). Reward users for coming back and checking off a saved experience, and reward users when someone does an experience they recommended.

Or whatever actual, better feature you have in mind that emphasizes experiences over photos and encourages the full cycle. But do it soon, and simplify.
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Show HN: The Art of the Startup video
I am about to put together a prelaunch video for a new startup I’m working on. Video gives your landing page and company instant credibility. It is also a medium of communication people are comfortable with. This greatly increases your sign up conversion rate. I put together a list of some great startup explainer videos I really like and some different things I took away from them.

Robin Hood - “Free stock trading” - https://vimeo.com/87163777 - It always helps when you’ve got Adam from Sandwich video on the job. The anticipation and confidence is strikingly similar to DollarShaveClub. This resulted in 300k prelaunch emails.

VidFall - “Videos play, prices fall” https://vimeo.com/84588387 - Example of a great animated video. This is how you do it on a budget. Professional voice over is a MUST!

Notabli - “Your Child’s Greatest Moments” - https://vimeo.com/119583565 - You don’t need a voiceover. Your job is simply to inspire. Use images and music that hits home and is relatable.

Dollar Shave Club - “Great shave for a fraction of the price” - https://vimeo.com/37974974 - We’ve all seen it, but come one… it is genius. You have to take risks.. plain and simple.

Other takeaways:
- Always use your Vimeo link. There won’t be a pre-roll advertisement.
- Try to avoid the future tense (Our company will XYZ…). You’ll want this video to last a long time.
- Strike an emotion and take risks. A simple explainer video/powtunes video kills a little piece of me each time I open one.
- Sometimes professionals like Sandwich video will take equity in your company to create your video. It could be the exposure you need to succeed. Go for it!

Would love to hear what you guys think makes a great pre-launch video. Or if you have any other great examples. Hope this is helpful to you guys.
It is not a lack of opportunity, it is a lack of dual parent opportunities that can place the proper amount of time into their children to develop them for school and career opportunities.

Taking a step back from race, let us focus it on one parent families. While it is possible to successfully raise a child in a one-parent family it is a difficult variable; there is a reason why the news includes single parent as a hardship in their tales. Locating child-care, staying home with a kid who is sick and cannot attend day care, one income wages, and a host of other variables create issues for allocating the one-on-one time necessary to develop the ABC's, numbers, and mannerisms that a two-parent family is capable of; be they gay, straight, black, white, asiatic, hispanic.

The question is how can we, as a society, encourage two-parent families, so we can get people a good start to be successful?

On the website, there are societal factors within Japan that are creating suicidal individuals without any hope for the future:

* Salary careers are no longer as optimum as before, Mr. Tadayuki is taking the same action as those of second born individuals from centuries past, seeking opportunities in other lands. Staying in Japan only creates suicidal thoughts.

* Hostess girls fall into the same trap as strippers, there is so much up front monies to be made that pursuing a career seems dubious for those who are not able to see long term benefits or have requirements that necessitate large up-front monies (drug habits). Getting them off of these careers would require a government or privately run stripper wean off program.
Is the file icon in a window's titlebar functional in a way that's actually useful to (or actually used by) anyone though? It seems to me that much of OS X's hidden and non-obvious functionality is just there to satisfy someone's incorrect definition of what would be functional for the end user.

> The Windows equivalents of these things are just dead icons.

That's incorrect. Based on your own example - Chrome and IE both have progress bars in download icons. The value of being able to transfer an in-progress download to another machine seems highly questionable to me and I seriously doubt that anyone would need such functionality on a regular basis. But, I rest assured knowing that whatever I need Windows to do, I can make it do whereas Apple typically locks down the APIs that one might need to do something different than the "Apple way".

And I think that having the entire UI update immediately after checking a box is really stupid because I cannot cancel all of my changes at once. But that's the Apple way - remove all functionality and claim that it's somehow a superior product. It's also a useless workflow for changes that might not be undoable, so it cannot be employed everywhere and now the end user has to deal with multiple workflows. Meanwhile - OK, Cancel and Apply present the full spectrum of functionality in a consistent and logical way that is not hidden from the user.
I have tried starting a few side projects that are completely different from my day job, but the scattered hours that I get to work on them makes it twice as hard to get anywhere with them.

Now my side project is based on the database I have built at work (as an in house project). It makes it so much easier, as the hard non-coding problems are usually well understood, as I have thought about them before. I can pick it up and leave it without forgetting anywhere near as much. And it gets rid of the frustration I have at work, because the quality of the code is always ignored in favor of new feature that were needed yesterday. Same thing but with nicely written code.
Macblame, a better 'git blame'
I'm afraid your boss was right. It may even be a negative, as it paints you as someone with a lot of free time.
A lot of people would say the same about the merits of creating a new way to message people or share pictures.

These financial products aren't about shuffling money around but shuffling risk around. For instance, one mortgage may be risky but you if you pool a thousand mortgages together, divide the cashflows so that one investor is willing to take on the first losses (for a higher return), and so on, this would attract many new buyers with different risk profiles. This would also reduce the cost of that mortgage to the buyer.

This is the theory at least.
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Why not just install a separate product that is dedicated to being a really good issue tracker?
I always prefer handling all the Date related stuff on backend and avoid relying on JS as much as I can.
This may be a stupid question, but what are the costs and risks of military-style ejection seats in small planes like these? I'm always a little surprised that the wealthy can buy fairly expensive planes but there's no cost room for features that may save their lives during a stall or engine failure one can't recover from.
So what if, during a partition, I publish another message? Does it get rejected for not being able to reach N servers within timeout, or has "N" been adjusted down to the size of the currently-reachable machines.

ie. is a partitioned cluster effectively "split-brained" where publishes only appear on one side, or does it stop accepting new messages?
At the top I would put the "Must see, Must eat, ...".

I read the copy, watched the video and until I scrolled down, I didn't get what it was all about, and why "must".
That's weird. I'd have thought that "difficult to manage/install/update" is a used-to-be problem now that docker's around..
I forgot my yahoo password long ago, I had used my yahoo account to register a domain name. At the time, I agreed to allow recurring billing (though I don't consciously remember doing this). After a few years of seeing the recurring charge on my bank statement, I called to get a debit card with a new number. They sent me a new card with the same number (but new expirey). After discovering a fresh charge in the next yearly cycle, I called my bank to "contest" the charges. They asked if I had talked to them (the vendor, Yahoo in this case) or otherwise explicitly cancelled my "subscription" and told them I had no way of recovering my account information and wasn't about to navigate their phone-based customer service. My bank did absolutely nothing to help me. Moving forward, I've sought to minimize any form of accounts following this paradigm. Getting rid of passwords is great, long over due, but there are bigger problems with these organizations.
New UK political party wants to make cannabis an election issue
> Are you really leaving finance for a tech job if all of your clients are in finance?

I'd be concerned if these people left finance to create another photo sharing app. If their contacts, network, and expertise are in finance, and they are solving a problem this industry has, why not maximise their expertise?

Plenty of good startups are started by insiders (be it networking, energy, healthcare, biotech, publishing, etc)

> Also, did he really risk his life savings on this?

Probably not, why should he? Wouldn't it be sensible to be frugal? Embrace the lean startup approach? I'd rather take the Eric Rice approach to startups, than that of Color Labs. Be lean, focus on solving a problem, great product, and focus on sales.
Don't get me wrong, I love SF. Probably more than any other city in the world. I just don't see why it's worth that much more. You can get a close approximation of it elsewhere, at a fraction of the cost. That energy, lots of young people doing cool things, etc... it follows places where young people can afford to live. SF is quickly going to phase that out in favor of people who can afford to pay, and the energy will move elsewhere.
Not aware of this, looks great! Thanks.
None of these people are innocent. If you can be tricked into doing this, there's not much difference between the FBI and some separatist group.
Passion is just an easy term to romanticize and build narratives around that makes you feel warm inside when you read about it. Chances are that most of the great programmers you ever meet followed a sensible schedule, slept well at night, didn't disassemble any electronic device in their childhood to see how it worked and lived a pretty average middle class life without any huge sacrifice required to achieve success.

Chances are you won't read about that because it would make for pretty boring stories. Regular, progressive learning doesn't sound as cool as caffeine fueled 4-day programming sprees.

Then again, people with a truly passionate temperament exist, which is usually great to have around and brighten the mood, but doesn't tell much about actual programming skills.
You would only be in violation of that patent if you use the specific process claimed in that payment in what you're doing.

Patents don't cover broad concepts like "transmitting images over the internet". A patent title might be something broad like that, but the patent itself actually covers a very specific set of methods that have to be unique at the time they are patented.

Unfortunately, many people seem to assume that means the patent give the holder the exclusive right to "transmit images over the internet"... which is a perspective useful for getting alarmed about patents, but not true in reality.
Yes.
Actually most programmers I work with seem to be 9-5ers without any passion. I am a 9-5er with some passion about the languages and tools I use.
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Well that is exactly what I am referring to. The ability to categorize photos doesn't justify me moving all my photo sharing activities to the app.

Snapchat on the other hand is vastly differentiated from services such as twitter.
Better look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.
The rental prices in Singapore are very high. If I wanted to rent a studio flat close to where I work I would have to pay S$3500+ and it wouldn't be easy to find. To live alone it is very expensive; sharing is a bit better and that's what I opted for.

A lot of Tokyo apartments are small and well designed and the quality of materials is fantastic. They are also very well maintained. Apartments in older buildings still look great. And the prices are reasonable. Varying the size / distance to the centre / condition of the building gives you a wide spectrum. Something should fit your pocket.

In Singapore the options are much more limited. I'd rather take a well designed 20-30m^2 studio than overpay for 50m^2; for me that's a waste of space. I don't need a small and mostly useless condo gym; I'd rather pay for a proper gym membership. Swimming pool might seem nice initially but think about how much you pay for it in rent (whether you use it or not). Unfortunately all condos have "amenities". And that "added value" isn't free.

There's also a crazy "double agent" system in place in Singapore. When you see an ad online it is not uncommon that it has been placed by "agent" that has nothing to do with the landlord. They insert themselves between you and the landlord's agent. So you call them up and it turns out they might not even know on which floor the apartment is on! (happened to me more than once). Because the other agent didn't tell them... And as you might expect both agents expect to be paid. This is usually 1 month per year of lease, even on your re-contract. You're supposed to pay your agent off and the landlord is supposed to pay their agent off.

Another weird thing is that you'll never see the photos of the apartments online. Most of the time the photos are just generic filler. The agents post their own mugshots though (crazy, right?).

Finding a flat in Singapore wasn't a pleasant experience.
On the flip side, the house designs completely ignore winter, lack insulation and adequate heating systems, so even in a mild 10C winter you will be extremely uncomfortable inside your own home. I was so uncomfortable in winter in Melbourne compared to New York; this is a common complaint from expats there.
There's reason to believe (not certain by any means, but there's interesting evidence) that Timothy McVeigh's bombing in Oklahoma City was similarly set up by the FBI, and McVeigh jumped the gun and really did execute the job ahead of schedule, before the FBI was prepared to swoop in and save the day in the nick of time. At the very least, the government was aware that something was going on, and dropped the ball in intercepting McVeigh.

I hope they've learned their lesson, and aren't working so close to the edge anymore.

See for example, http://www.comeandtakeit.com/feds-okc.html (and apologies for the tinfoil hat site, it's the most concise citation I could come up with quickly)
It's true, answering all of those questions has greatly improved my skills in a demonstrable way, but it also signals that I have those skills, which means I probably won't be asked to demonstrate them in situations where others would. It could be used as a heuristic that at least gets me a free pass not to take the "can he code fizz-buzz" question. Then the question is, "can he architect a continuous integration system in a maintainable sort of way?"
somebody told me just yesterday it was really painful to apply to non-profits. their applicant websites are terrible and timeout often, also the international red cross has dozens of different career websites and you have to apply to all of them separately...
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If he's using his time to benefit the python community, that's hardly a negative.
Looks very interesting. Can't seem to find Qt though, but lots of related things, like qt bindings for node.js
Ask HN: What are the major decisions to be made to start a “programming” career
I went to school for a Biology degree but really enjoyed learning C++ for a few semesters. Then I got a job at a major health care software company providing support to the implementation teams and I even do a little development (not in a modern/relevant language tho).

I've been given the opportunity to take courses (Data structures, compilers, etc) towards a CS certificate and would like to look more into a programming role.

What are the major decisions that I'll have to make before I can start looking at jobs and the requirements?

For example, I know that software engineers often learn new languages when their project/role needs it, but there is a delineation between web software and systems software.
Well that's the problem. Most people wouldn't mind having someone else in charge...

but no one wants any of these guys in charge.

So therein lies the quandary.
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I guess I'd just like the distinction that not living and breathing code doesn't equal a lack of passion. I'm passionate about programming. Can't say I ever was about washing dishes. They were both jobs, though, and when I get off work, there are other things I want to do.
and as short as possible in the domain name sense
I guess it is only worth anything on stackoverflow and it might be of value on a future job hunt if and only if you take care to present it as "true work outside of your work time". Otherwise you risk, as gaius says, being considered a procrastinator and someone who spends too much work time on his hobbies.

Sorry. It is something to be proud of but to be handled with care also.
It hasn't been manufactured since 1986 [1]

Perhaps because of its safety record, used planes are very cheap for the performance - in some cases half the price of other aircraft of the same age, top speed, number of passengers, and engine configuration [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MU-2
[2] http://www.anacondaaviation.com/techpages/PDF/1I.BROCHURES%2...