skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware of the confusion between Epita and Epitech. These two schools are very different.

Epita is an engineering school and it is absolutely not focused on producing programmers. The school teaches electronics, physics, OS, embedded systems, compilers, management, security,... _and_ programming.

Epitech, is not an engineering school and is focused on creating programmers (but still provide some other courses).
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I'm not willing to say that ADHD is a fabrication or anything. I'm just somewhat skeptical that it could be diagnosed without long term observations. (In lieu of self-reported descriptions of symptoms.)

Your crude test really is crude, though: by itself, it invents a condition to match the result of the application of a drug. You could do the same with any drug: "You have VPFP if you use [insert drug here] and feel it improves your life, and you don't otherwise. Let's start writing prescriptions to treat VPFP."
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Fintech Startups Navigate Legal Gray Areas to Build Billion-Dollar Companies
>I'm not interested in diving into what you mean by "full-throated support," but would instead like to ask, why shouldn't they? Why are those groups of people not worthy of support, full-throated or otherwise?

I didn't say they shouldn't. I was merely pointing out these groups get no more in the way of negative messaging from the media than white men. Quite a bit less, actually.

>If those groups are now working to obtain more economic and political power, in a world that has historically and remains economically and politically skewed against them, why would anyone not support that?

Why indeed? Maybe because they already have political power in proportion to their size? More so, in fact - if you want to know who's in charge all you need to do is find out who you can't criticize. White men, at what, about 30% of the US population, seem to be quite safe to criticize, wouldn't you say?
I wasn't able to find any conclusive evidence, but there are studies that have shown that taking breaks and changing the distance of what you're focusing on (things that the 20-20-20 rule suggests to do) can help improve eye strain. One study: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840681
Thanks a lot, it seems simple and useful.
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The CEO of Jay Z's music streaming site Tidal has left the company
Raise your rates 10%, and bill 18 days per month. Or eat the 10% yourself.
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I don't even know how they upgrade their servers... With mongodb, it's a breeze if you have a replica set. Same goes with backups.
So VC investment still needs to increase by 37% to equal Q1FY2000

Not according to the money tree report which says q1-2000 was 28b.

So VC investment would still need to more than double to match it.

https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/HistoricTrends/CustomQueryHisto...
I've been to Iceland and I have to say that if all you can write about is the coffee, then you rather missed the point.
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These guys earn six figures in LA just for being great at video games
Actually there are no graduates yet.
A South Korean shipyard worker
About your second point, yes, there is corruption, and yes, corruption is bad. But the problems are generally in public sectors and EU funds (big corruption generator!). I doubt if you invest in IT or hire in IT you will have any problems.
Chance.js[0] is a great JS lib that lets you do precisely that for a wide array of values.

[0]: http://chancejs.com/
my first thought exactly. however I mostly find that many devs simply put workarounds out of the library (and suffer great pains when update time comes) or fix the library and never push the changes upstream

consider that many fixes, even when proper, may not be ready for submission, and many companies are penny pinching devs already and can hardly justify prettying up a fix for submission and prefer to establish a culture of 'fix it in the least amount of time'.

two days are a reasonable amount of time to get existing fixes in the codebase, clean them up to the library owner's guidelines, document them, the issue they solve, build a test case and deliver it upstream. two days are not enough for coding a workaround, and barely the minimum to prepare a patch properly.

that I think was the intent. as you say devs need to fix up things anyway, and two day a month to push upstream goes a long way to reduce work further the line (and I'm purposely ignoring the 'do good' argument)
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This is reminding me of the movie Real Genius. A must watch for hackers. Anyway the guys build a really big laser under pressure from a professor and realize at one point that there's a reason the laser needs to be that big-- it's not just research there's a clear use case.

So we have here a camera that can take pictures regularly over long periods of time, doesn't need to be hooked up to power, yet it's unlikely to match or catch up with consumer cameras any time soon.

What possible purpose could there be for this camera?

Ubiquitous surveillance. Build millions of them, put them everywhere. It's a lot cheaper to just tack them on buildings and give them a super capacitor and radio and let them sit there and take pictures for years -- then come by and activate them, download the pictures when needed.

Imagine vans drivign around the city downloading the data from the previous day from all the cameras.

These will never be good for your cellphone but they are good for 1984.
"Something of something" is never really that.
Context?? Is this a demo? Or new standard issue equipment?
> The HTML email world is stuck with HTML 4.1, inline CSS and many corner cases (worse than the IE6 era!).

It might be for the better, actually. HTML5 and CSS3 are Turing-complete[0] so I can imagine that the moment they would be allowed, some clever marketing company would figure out new and impressive ways to use the new features to scam people. Er. I meant, "provide value-added content".

[0] - with user closing the loop, see http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... for links to an example.
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What sort of martial arts did you do?
HBO's 'Silicon Valley' really built a 'Bro app' based off the Yo app
I actually don't mind javascript moving so 'fast'. But heck I'm not a professional developer but just a student who likes to play with cool stuff.
Thats exactly how it is.
I wish Europe had more "ok lets try it"-money and the funny thing, every politician is complaining about why we don't build the next Google/Facebook etc.

Because you have to fund 50-100 companies and let them grow to achieve that without a valid business model of "how will you earn money?"
Wow that was $1800+ pre-recession.
And for Linux(Mint/Ubuntu)?
I have experienced that eyes strain much lesser while using a LCD display instead of an LED display. Experienced this pretty much consistently. LEDs start hurting my eyes after some time.

And I use a MBP with Retina display for long hours - and I have to say, it has never put stress on my eyes at all (unless I make the screen too bright). Also I do not work at super-high small font resolutions - that allows me to keep distance from the screen. The only thing that I find better than it is Kindle reader.
What? They already have political power in proportion to their size?

How do you figure that? There are 19 women heads of state in the world right now, out of 190-some countries. Worldwide, only about 22% of parliamentarians (MPs, representatives, etc) are women. I'm pretty sure women make up more than 22% of the population.

There's also a never-ending raft of laws, especially in the US, aimed at controlling women's access to health care--women, not men, are having female-specific health care decisions made for them by (male-dominated) force of law, rather than by consultation with a doctor or personal agency.

As for all this talk about who gets criticized, you make it sound like white men have, in addition to political dominance, unimaginably thin skin and sensitive constitutions. "Stop! We're being criticized! They're saying we have all the powerrrrr!" My eyes, they can't stop rolling.
Why ‘Do It for Me’ Is the Next Big Thing
It's not a coincidence that curry is so popular in Britain.
I was just thinking the same. Am I the only overworked dev on here?
I think I'd still CSS is badly broken, until this is available everywhere.
Cuz HTML5 is the technology of the future! What was taking me minutes in XAML is now taking mere hours!
I'm happy somebody sees my country in a good light, but in all honesty, many things are lacking for Bulgaria to become a "silicon valley"
Yeah sure I use facebook and there are ads - I just scroll past usually.
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Apple Watch versus Android Wear: who has won the Smartwatch war?
I added a 'Feedback' navigation menu entry in one of my Android apps that simply launches the the email client and I did see an increase in feedback from users.

If I think that the suggestion fits it with my vision of the app I add it to the backlog on Trello. When it gets implemented depends on how good I feel the feature is.
Silat. Seni Gayung Fatani to be exact.

3 times a week for an hour at least in the evening.

Apart from the fact that exercise always help I think it's the structured, controlled breathing you have to do, that helps to focus.
I wasn't saying ads don't work, just that its not clear whether mobile ads or regular ads work better.
It is not. Salaries for programmers are pathetically low here - you can barely make more than 3K euro/month. The talent pool is small. And there is barely anything interesting going on in the way of startups tackling interesting problems.
BooJS uses PhantomJS. In Selenium, if you want to go headless you will use PhantomJS again [1].

[1] http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/headless-functional-testi...
If you are considering Bulgaria, you should know it has flat corporate income tax of 10% (lowest in EU).
The title is misleading.

As koolkat said, 42 is a fork of Epitech. In those schools, programming is taught by projects, and supervised by teaching assistants. The teaching assistants are older students selected by their CS knowledge and their human abilities.

This method is preferred by the school because a TA costs less than a real teacher ; and preferred by students because the TA have a closer relationship with them and have a better understanding of the projects (they coded this project 1 or 2 years before).

Personally, I was head of the teaching assistants in EPITA for 1 year. EPITA follows the same principles of projects and teaching assistants. We were a team of 30 students and lead the projects for approx. 300 students.
I attended this place in the flesh and it was great they've just started offering online version of the course and because its in early stages its quite cheap! Check it out! http://ronin.makersacademy.com/
MoneyTree VC Report: Highest First Quarter for Dollars Invested Since 2000 [pdf]
Only 2 days? It's 2015!! You'd think that we could afford doing what each and everyone of us loved the whole damn time and not just 2 days while slaving away the rest of the month.
I like the idea. The only problem I see from a companies' perspective is that open source technology suddenly becomes costly which then makes commercial options more viable and in long term could harm OSS.
And this is absolutely the only place where "separation of content and layout" works. In real world, layout often is a part of content - but instead of accepting that, a lot of developers like to proclaim that their code is soo semantic, and the metric ton of grid layout divs in their "content" is not tables in disguise, but definitely has some important semantic meaning...

Seriously, I don't know what's more broken - CSS itself or the web developer community, with the amount of self-deception, cargo-culting and stockholm syndrome cases present there.
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Every solar array in existence effectively a camera (sans lens). You can just look at the per-cell (or per-panel) power output as a "pixel" in the solar camera.

The novelty here: It's shrunk down and they added a lens for proper focusing.
But wait... how can the pharma industry profit from this?
I've been looking for a good time to ask my users for a review. I used to have one of those annoying popups but decided to move it to a point where the user had a positive interaction with the app.

For a couple of months now I've moved it to the 'Thank you' dialog after an in-app upgrade but although I do see less negative reviews, the number of reviews has gone down dramatically. (To a point where I get 1 or 2 reviews a week) It kinda makes sense because I wouldn't want to exit an app I just upgraded (before checking out the pro features) to review the app.

I will probably try out what circa does and see how that works out. Thanks for the link.
As far as I can tell, the only purpose for calling it "ADHD" is to make you eligible for drugs that would otherwise be illegal or therapies that are specifically targeted at people with the symptoms of ADHD.

If the drugs or therapies increase your quality of life, you're "ADHD" because you have a prescription. If they make you feel worse, you're not "ADHD" because you don't need ADHD treatments.

This works because people only ask doctors about ADHD if they need help with the symptoms that we all culturally think of as ADHD.

> I can confirm nothing about what ADHD actual is or whether or not I have it.

You don't need to confirm what ADHD actually is or whether or not you have it. What you want to figure out is if ADHD treatments help you live a better life.

Also keep in mind that a lot of people that could benefit from ADHD drugs don't seek treatment, and don't think of themselves as "ADHD", but instead they self-medicate with things like coffee to avoid seeing a doctor and taking the diagnosis.
Don’t blame initializer_list prematurely
historical data is available on the moneytree website:
https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/
https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/HistoricTrends/CustomQueryHisto...

Doesn't look like they've posted the actual report yet though
Mid-20s is borderline overweight. A naturally skinny average height person who never exercises has BMI ~24. Varies by height and build of course.

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/Images/body-mass-inde...
Is this even usable as a developer?

Seems it'll be annoying for something to break my concentration every 20 minutes, losing my flow all the time.
Here's a great recent article about the current and anticipated future prices of energy storage: http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-...

It's based mostly on a recent paper in nature that estimates "that EV batteries in 2014 cost between $310 and $400 per kwh", but anticipates "It’s now in the realm of possibility that we’ll see $100 / kwh lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles by 2020, with some speculating that Tesla’s ‘gigafactory’ will push into sufficient scale to achieve that."

His numbers roughly agree with yours:

So we’d estimate that at the following battery prices we’d
get the following effective LCOEs (Levelized Cost of Electricity):

- $300 / kwh battery : 33 cent / kwh electricity storage
- $200 / kwh battery : 22 cent / kwh electricity storage
- $150 / kwh battery : 17 cent / kwh electricity storage
- $100 / kwh battery : 11 cent / kwh electricity storage

All of those battery costs, by the way, are functions of
what the ultimate buyer pays, including installation and maintenance.
With the rate CSS is accumulating kludges and the fact that, when together with HTML5, it has already crossed the Turing-completeness threshold, I wonder how long it will take before companies start requiring browsers to disable subsets of CSS...
I would argue the opposite. Running a passing test over and over again when a piece of code hasn't changed doesn't actually gain you anything (though if you are refactoring it will). Using randomness will test a lot more cases.
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I once tried to find interns for my startup at Epitech (42 is a copy of Epitech).
Their level in mathematics was abysmal. I mean they didn't even understand how to use basic trigonometric functions.
There is a very good reason if the best engineering schools in France only admit students after a 2 years curriculum of pure math/physics/chemistry.
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Implementation for Linux:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
while true; do
sleep 20m
xlock -allowaccess&
pid=$!
sleep 20s
kill $pid
done

Check the manpage for xlock and choose a screensaver that won't keep you looking at the monitor.
Question for maintainers of popular open source projects: Would you prefer two days of developer time/month, or a comparable cash donation?

Charitable organizations often prefer the cash [1], but open source is different -- I suspect many developers have more context and preparation than the typical volunteer. On the other hand few people will be as efficient in a code base as the original authors.

[1] (http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2014/mar...)
this is an image from this article about a robotic suit:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133808
When one of the side effects of the drug is dependency, abuse should be considered part of the drug effect.
Such figures are probably made by the top 5% programmers there, probably with some managerial responsibilities. The average programmer salary is around 1400 euro/month and this is what drives foreign multinational companies in flocks. Yet, the "cheap" talent pool has dried and the only way to hire decent employees is to steal them from other companies by luring them with more money.
I actually use a similar thing - I run a script that locks the screen every 30 minutes and take a short break. At first it can be a bit annoying, but it does reduce eye strain and improves overall well-being.
This is really not "a book", but more a set of summaries of robotic subjects from a diverse group of technologists working in the field.

Each article contains extraordinary insight and is thus a valuable thing to read, especially if you are new to the subject.. as students and industrialists alike.

Even if its 'only of 3 years ago', actually the subject of software and robotics is decades old and has had its ebbs and waves of 'hot new idea of today' such that the subject is very dense.

In my opinion, robotics and autonomous systems is a subject now moderately impervious to the "not the new new" syndrome suffered by technologies, young and old. 3 years is just a blip.
Heroin is fine for your body, but it severely messes with your brain.
To my last point: The FM transmitters inside road tunnels have the ability to interrupt the transmission for emergency announcements. This capability will effectively be lost.

You cannot be guaranteed mobile phone reception inside the tunnel. Coverage is typically done using a leaky feeder, relying on base stations on either end of the tunnel.
No, what he really meant by complexity is information content - will always remain - you can compress it (akin to writing complex code) or uncompress it (akin to writing more code), but whatever you wanted to express you'll still have to express.
This principle you can also find in all domain specific languages and in all frameworks that started out as easy and lightweight and become groteskly inflexible and ugly monstrosities after a while when the rest is being added to make them complete in all respects.
Agree, though I like the Silicon Roundabout name more. The Tech City name to me seems like a government idea, sort of Information Superhighway....

With finding money it is good that Shoreditch is right next to the City (of London, not London the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc), and there is a good amount of Angels and VCs in Shoreditch itself.
Your MBP contains what is commonly called an "LED" display - an LCD with LED backlight.
At least in Hawaii there are a lot of independent energy producers, so your statement is appears to be wrong that they only want to sell their own power. While the majority is their own, it looks like 35%ish is independently generated.

They don't want to buy back power at the same rate they sell it, and since they can't control the nodes - the power from solar panels on homes is less valuable than that from larger independent producers since it costs more to control a distributed system. I'm sure they would buy it back, but people will be very angry about what they're willing to pay.

People are also free to get batteries if they don't like what the market prices are for buying electricity.

> I never said it was a trivial problem. I said that it was a problem that the utility companies have a vested interest in not solving.

They probably would solve it, but they know that the cost of solving that subtracted from the rate they pay their energy producers is low enough that people will complain and it's not worth it. They probably come out ahead by not solving that problem, I'm not sure how you can mandate they solve a problem so people that want to go "off grid" don't have to buy their own batteries. That's really what they're trying to avoid - there is nothing preventing people from going completely off grid, they just don't want to buy their own batteries.
With rare exceptions, Germany is like 5-10 years behind US in tech. Imagine how bad is it in other countries... It's not even funny, Europe is completely losing it.
> But we now realize these two goals would be better served by two separate technologies, and HTML should be retired."

This. And the confusion around those two goals is what drives a lot of useless arguments with people who have Stockholm syndrome towards HTML and CSS. Those arguments can often be summarized like this:

- Hey, we're complicating things too much, how about just focusing on rendering a text communicating a message?

- No no no, the web is not just about documents, it's so much more now! It's about applications.

- Ok then, so let's drop the nonsense about separation of concerns, that you can have layouts separate from content.

- No no no, HTML is for describing documents, and CSS is for describing its layout!
I believe an emerging ethos indeed is that you must 'beat China' at its own game by simply, building local - i.e. do the global warming thing, and turn off the boats. The planes. &etc.

And instead build more robots. Local robots. Robots that build other robots, and .. things.

It is an emerging ethos, the local DIY-industrialist; actually a catch-up of the spirit that made China such cheap prowess in the first place, but when it happens as a Western phenomenon - i.e. local all the things. - it will indeed mean less cheap plastic crap floating around the ecosphere.

At least one can hope. An energy revolution and 3d-printing/transposing tech need not always start with a Fedex delivery. ("Solve global warming: stop using Fedex!")
Simple solution - place a solar cell next to the sensor or around it.
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Did you read the article? It's actually not really about coffee. In fact, very little of the content is about coffee.
Not necessarily. You could easily funnel the coins through multiple addresses, and then use them to pay for illicit goods, which would then be sold on the black market. Or you could use them at a gambling site which returns real money. Techniques like these are often used by organized crime to launder money, I imagine with btc it is even easier.
All animated patterns on one page: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Animated_images
On the topic of eye strain. For anyone not familiar with f.lux, highly recommend you check it out. Everyone that I have recommended it to so far loves it. https://justgetflux.com
Why are you ignoring parent poster's comments about marijuana and users of dealers?