skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barring some astonishing calamity, Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, former key aides of three of the top tier candidates have established Super PACs in support of their former bosses[1], basically eradicating any air gap between the campaigns and 'dark money'[2] that used to exist.

Clinton, at least for now, is pledging to push for campaign finance reform[3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/magazine/the-next-era-of-c...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_money

[3] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/14/hillary_cl...
>You know who never goes to jail? Regulators.

Are they paid enough for that increase in risk? I don't know what they make, but other government positions are already underpaid compared to their private sector equivalents. Making them come with a risk of jail time for failing ones job too badly will only result in even less qualified people filling those positions.
const caps = new Array(26).map((item, index) => String.fromCharCode(65 + index));

It's not wrong. Could maybe be better though.
Disclosure: co-founder of Kismatic

We've spent a lot of time working with the Kubernetes community. I can only speak to our experience, but Brendan, Craig, and the rest of the team at Google have 100% lived up to the commitment of treating the Kubernetes project as truly open and independent.

Our Kubernetes dashboard was recently merged into Kubernetes [1]. We brought our own vision of a web ui to the project, and we could have gotten bogged down defending technology decisions, and philosophical nits. Instead, the response from Google, RedHat, and others in the community, was basically "Awesome! How soon can we get it in?"

All of the key players have the right approach, and that gives me confidence in the project's longevity.

[1] UI Demo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL69nYSiGNLP2FBVvSLHpJE8_...
I don't find that a convincing analogy. A more convincing analogy would be something like the theoretical treatise put forward by Shinichi Mochizuki to solve the ABC conjecture. He invented entirely new fields of mathematics so obscure, that no one can really be able to fully evaluate his theory yet, and it resists simple explanation even by experts in the field, or Shinichi himself.

Peer review relies on peers being able to predictably understand the terminology in a clear manner without ambiguity. You get this in traditional Western philosophy, even as people define new terminology, that adorn axioms and logical rules to buttress its meaning. But if you invent an entirely new terminology that most people don't understand, which is hard for any two people to come away with the same meaning, I'd argue you have not put forward a theory, you've put forward ideas dressed up in technical jargon giving the aura of precision.

This isn't a C programmer refusing to learn Haskell. This is a C programmer refusing to learn Brainfuck or INTERCAL.
Coincidentally, Tencent is a founder donor of Watsi (https://watsi.org/about)
> Being, among other things, a “web guy”, this is particularly noticeable to me, and perhaps less so to people using Erlang for what Erlang traditionally has done well.

What are the things Erlang has traditionally done well? In what domains is it generally used now?
Yes, the message is a bit ironic, coming from a country promulgating persistent class hierarchy. Just keep giving us a cut of an endowment and 16th century trust, and let the peasants get back to tilling the fields.

The "commoners" of today want to learn engineering and practical things so they can improve their standard of living, which is unfortunate for the overall percentage of educators in social sciences.
That is the case with Dodd-Frank. That is not usually the case with regulation. Normally it goes "here are the rules, execute." Dodd-Frank is a nightmare exactly because they just have an outline full of blanks. It turns out regulators are not that good at 1. Enforcing regulation or 2. Writing regulation. The reason for this is because they have no incentive to.
I bolted this together in an hour with a VM from my friends at Applied Ops, a hosting company I use for most of my stuff. I won't go to a large service and if I am running things at load I will only run my own stuff. I actually have this on an actual box - a FreeBSD server they turned up for me, it's not even breaking a sweat with what Huffington Post threw at me yesterday. I like having the hookup.
The questions and answers, for anyone who wants a summary:

1. Have you been coding for more than 5 years? (yes:'Flask', no:'Django')

2. Have you coded in Python for more than 3 years?(yes:'Django', no:'Flask')

3. Do you like reading Python code? (vs reading docs)(yes:'Flask', no:'Django')

4. Will you have an API? (yes:'Flask', no:'Django')

5. Will your site primarily have dynamic HTML pages? (yes:'Django', no:'Flask')

6. Will you use Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? (yes:'Flask', no:'Django')

7. Using an SQL database? (yes:'Django', no:'Flask')

8. Want new devs to already know your conventions? (yes:'Django', no:'Flask')
The question really is, what's a useful way to determine which of two projects has a "more active community according to GitHub"? Is the number of stars/watchers a good enough proxy to use for decision making?

The projects I use are typically quite small, and my code is on Bitbucket, so I have effectively no experience in this.
> I left academia--more-or-less--after doing several post-docs and taking a hard look at an employment landscape where colleagues who were at least as good as me were taking offers from second- or third-teir institutions because that was all that was available. I knew some of them were profoundly lonely and struggling in those positions, outside of the charmed circle of the top teir they had comfortably inhabited for so long.

Honest question, if your colleagues were "top tier" researchers, and they ended up at "second tier" schools, does that not somehow imply that those "second tier" institutions are more prestigious than their presumed "second tier" status? They obviously are able to recruit quality.

I guess the real question that I'm trying to ask is why the obsession in academia (and HN) with segmenting institutions into "tiers"? It just seems odd and contradictory that academia would be so bent on self-imposing a caste system.
> Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river.

Except when they don't ;)
Being told by an authority results in people going against their morals for the majority of people. Look up the Milgram experiment.
This code does not do what the author thinks it does:

def factorial(N, result=1):
if N == 1:
return 1
return factorial(N-1, N*result)
> But if you tried to give me a C++ with using blocks but no RAII (read: you gave me C)

If you don't care about MSVC, IMHO new C code should be using the gcc cleanup extension: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial...
Cloudlets might be the herald of the post-cloud world.

http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/

http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/DOCS/satya-ieeepvc-cloudlets-2009.p...

http://www.akamai.com/cloudlets

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE. Also, Satya was my PhD advisor.
Appropriate:

Gasio

It's uber for gases.
IoT Streaming Conference – Show Notes
By the same author - http://tiffzhang.com/spacebears/
I do think that public demands help to prevent the FCC and DOJ upper management from sidelining staff recommendations.
Several Toyota employees indicate the direction of the world?
Stereotropes
There are hundreds of new TLDs available now.
Just use one of them and move on.
Market share matters because when a viable competitor exists in the market it provides a check/balance.
Because not a lot of financial work is actually being done on Wall St. anymore, IIRC it mostly moved north.

The stock exchange even looks emptyish nowadays because it's all done online.
Mass loss of money, while not as direct a cause and effect, can be far more lethal. People not going for checkups they can no longer afford. People scaling back budgets resulting in less healthy choices. People forgoing using costly medication. People moving to cheaper (and less safe) neighborhoods due to money lost. The general increase in stress with the money lost.

Far harder to measure but magnitudes greater damage.
Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report
Disclosure: co-founder of Kismatic

I'm extremely pleased that Kubernetes has been open sourced by Google. It truly seems to me that the developer community is and will remain to be able to rally around Kubernetes as an open standard both today and in the future without fear of any outside agendas; as Brendan so eloquently stated. I for one applaud Google's level of transparency when it comes to the future of the project and the overall product vision.
The stock dropped more than 3% earlier in the week. Today's news signals that Comcast isn't going to be bogged down by years of uncertainty.
now a junior sociology major

This surprised me - I expected someone in this situation to pursue a vocational subject like engineering or medicine.
> Or coding software for medical machines.

I don't believe anybody was arrested for the Therac-25[1] accidents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
This is true but doesn't address the question. How is this stifling competition?
To all the sibling commenters defending the merits of CoffeeScript:

- https://discuss.atom.io/t/why-coffeescript/131

- https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-u...
> The SSL is the only thing keeping away low and average level attacks easily.

The password is meant to authenticate the user to the server; the user is meant to authenticate to other users through the use of PGP. In theory it shouldn't be too big a deal to lose control of your password, because your emails should all be encrypted. (Though theres certainly a lot of metadata that someone with your password could glean that you'd much rather they didn't.)
> you don't have to live with the philosophy assuming people are assholes

It was not a statement of personal belief, but rather a tongue-in-cheek description of how we often view people who we perceive are getting in our way for some reason. Not intended to be taken seriously.

> You also have to be primed in order to see a pattern.

If you do something out of naivete and get burned, and you can't use that experience to recognize the pattern and avoid it in the future, you'll never earn any success in life because no one is born knowing everything one needs to know in order to earn success. You will eventually define yourself as someone who the world hates, who the world couldn't be bothered to tell how to get the things they want.
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=52512057824

Warly, like no other war!
ECT hits it harder, and allegedly, in many cases, "reboots" it to a point of being normal (i.e. non-depressed), if the SSRI hits fail to work.

Wanna hear something even trippier from my shrink's mouth? In cases where ECT failed - and not many at that - as an alternative, nicotine therapy broke the depression, restored feelings of normalcy. :)

Obviously, they didn't have the patient take up smoking, since there are other ways to administer nicotine only without the 4000 byproducts of smoke, but it made sense, since I believe most of my family is depressed and the whole lot of them have been decades long smokers, to this day.

Cool stuff huh? Grab that Camel pack now ;)
The recall problem was caused by software -- where are the software gods who write machine code instead of using compilers? ;)
"This is like having unprotected sex only for a short amount of time. And sometimes you do"
I'm not claiming they were equally complicit in fraud. I'm saying the ratings agencies and the lenders are equally responsible for the collapse. The lenders knew they were giving out dubious loans. The ratings agencies bought into the mathematical models.

Frankly, I think it was simply stupidity and hubris. On both sides. It's amazing how stupid people are in the face of irrational exuberance. Which is why I say: they're equally complicit.

As are those folks who took the loans (though to a lesser degree, as they may have been poorly or actively misinformed by loan officers), and those folks who bought and sold the derivatives knowing full well what was in them (or at least were aware of the models the risk assessments were based on).

Which is where ultimately regulators and regulations are supposed to play a role: to counteract the market's tendency toward irrationality. IMO, if you want to lay the crash at the feet of anyone, it's captured regulators, toothless regulatory bodies, and elected officials who bought into Wall Street bullshit that they could mind their own playground.

And really, you could lay all that straight at the feet of that granddaddy of all corruption issues: money in politics.
I'm curious, @caniszczyk why would it need to become independant outside of Google? It's already an Apache licensed open-source project hosted on GitHub.
This is a fundamental shift from how many other factories work.

In general, the workers are not given enough information to replicate the product. They are shown how to attach a specific sprocket to a widget. The tasks are kept so simple (nothing to do with pleasantness) that no one can learn how the whole device is created or suggest improvements. This model lends to people being replaced by robots because human capital is one of the most expensive parts of running a factory.

In the case of Toyota, it sounds like these are high skilled engineers who are watching, understanding and making improvements to how the robots behave.

While the article itself is good, the title feels like link bait to me because the engineer's job is not to replace the robot but to enhance the robot. The dynamic isn't human vs robot as in the first scenario, instead it is human & robot cooperating.

With these types of factories, I think we'll likely see a resurgence of factories in rich countries as the most expensive component of the factory shifts from human capital to transportation of completed goods.

[edited for grammer, sic]
I like the joke, but I feel I should say software is still a craft and not automated. Just that the tools have improved.
The author should understand that the market cap of a public equity where there is no option to negotiate terms is not equivalent to the market cap of a private company where the investors can negotiate terms.

If you are investing $10m at a $100m valuation in a private company and you get a 1x liquidation preference, that is not the same as buying 10% of a public company for $10m.

If the private company that you invested in with a liquidation preference is acquired at $50m, you still made money on your investment. If you invest in a public company with a $100m valuation that falls to $50m, you lose 50%.

The distortion field is in the terms, and a professional investor should know that. I would be very concerned if I were one of his LPs.
This is nice PR but to imply that this is anything more than that is silly. These humans are clearly just improving the robots.
How to discover NSA Quantum Insert attacks on your systems
Usually the acquired gains most of the boost. There's a net gain if there is an increase in market power. It's rare to get positive synergies, unless you consider layoffs a synergy.
Considering how many HN/Reddit people who have been turned down after phone screens have complained the interviewer never even read their resume, this is somewhat ironic (since it was a phone screen, it's unlikely you could even guess the age of the interviewee without one)
Lenovo is voluntarily recalling affected lithium-ion batteries worldwide
>I've thought before that much of the criticism of academia (which I've certainly engaged in) mostly reflects disappointment that it was ultimately not all that different from the rest of the world.

I think that is the disappointment. Reference the article:

I often wonder if many people in academia come from insecure childhoods where they were never the strongest or the most popular among their peers, and, having studied more than their peers, are now out for revenge.

This including the author, and hell, including me. I'm going to admit: I was idealistic coming into the system, thinking that it was better that the rest of the world because the point of research was supposed to be research, that I would find people who valued cool ideas and interesting science/math/literature, etc, instead of making a quick buck. So, it isn't any different, honestly, only instead of money, the currency of academe is pride[0].

But, one can't live on pride alone, as much as academics try to convince their students. If one is to sell their soul, at least sell it for real currency instead of academic funny money (citations, papers, commitee positions, pats from higher ups). As another replier mentioned, at least work for assholes who will pay you better and in a career that has better prospects than academia.

One might say that the ideal it strives for, bettering the world and/or understanding it deeply, was supposed to be what one gained in place of losing income. Without that, why should anyone participate in it?

[0] http://100rsns.blogspot.com/2010/10/25-academe-is-built-on-p...
Uuuh, yeah... ompanies are competing for the same clients, of course they would exhibit anti-competitive behavior. This is problem only if said company has market dominance, because then the anti-competitive measures affect all the market.

Guys, do you dream of unicorns and fart rainbows all day? WTF?
A whole series of them, please. I'd buy it. I'm holding cash right now.
AWS is a $5B business, profitable, and it’s growing 50% a year
There are rules for us and then there are rules for them.
Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?
Here's a Stack Overflow answer to that question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23509356/node-webkit-vs-e...
Securing Heroku Apps
I wonder if this death of criticism is misty eyed nastolgia for a future that either never, or rarely existed.

Not entirely. Take a look at Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (http://jakeseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-lo...). Universities grew enormously from 1945 – 1975. During that time, too, a disproportionately large number of students majored in English in particular, as well as other humanities disciplines. During that 30-year period, universities expanded and especially grad programs expanded—by 900%.

Most of those grad programs are still pumping out PhDs, even though the market for PhDs is weak. ABDs are a huge economic win for universities. So we have a situation in which supply has far outpaced demand for decades.

At the same time, I'd argue that there's a huge amount of bogosity in humanities departments, and that bogosity has mostly gone unaddressed (http://jakeseliger.com/2012/09/22/the-stupidity-of-what-im-d...).
>Your interactive football.
>FootballWork is a different kind of football app.

>We searched through a lot of providers and plans to find a good fit for our business. FootballWork made it easy to find the right fit for my business and my budget. -Marisa Stewart, Buffalo, New York

>One of the biggest challenges we faced after we hit our early goals was how do we stay top-of-mind and keep our users engaged? Enter FootballWork. Problem solved. -Christian Escovar, Ellinwood, Kansas

It's a... B2B Football As A Service company? Genius!
Elixir is one of the best ways to program erlang. I learned erlang first, many years ago, and I don't really think of them as different languages. Yes, they have different syntaxes and yes Elixir has added features. But when I'm programming in Elixir I'm using the same part of my brain that loved programming in erlang. I think in the same way.

More importantly, I think, for some reason so many programmers just can't get past erlang's syntax. I've never seen any really good criticisms of erlang that made sense-- other than the syntax. While it was fine for me when I was doing erlang all the time I did spend a couple years away and find it frustrating again. So Elixir fixes that.

Further, there is no other language/platform that does distributed computing correctly, or on such scale, and with such battle testing. Haskell may do it correctly (I'm not sure) but it's very new. Go, Node.js, every "actors" library you can think of, they are single-threaded-thinker's attempts to scale, and they are not correct.

Yes, in computer science there is such a thing as "correct" and "not correct", and way too many young programmers seem to think popularity determines correctness.

IF you haven't learned Elixir and you want to write code that runs on multiple machines without a lot of hassle, and you've seen how tough this is to do on other platforms, head over to http://elixir-lang.org and learn. It's really a delight!

Edit: Fixed some typos. Oops. Want to add, my intention is not to bash languages like Go. Go has some good ideas and is appropriate for certain use cases. It's just frustrating to see these things being pitched as "distributed" when they have not incorporated the lessons learned building erlang over 20 years ago, and the 20+ years of development since.
Apathy? The turnout in 2004 was the highest since 1968, with 12M votes more than in 2000; Kerry alone got 8M more than AL Gore had own.
I think it is mostly a result of their threat model -- they're a service which seeks to make things harder for those entities in particular.
I guess this is why secure boot is being pushed.
In the case of SCOTUS, their not caring about populism is a design feature.
There are 20 million people being trafficked around the world. Might as well make an app around it.
I doubt that teenagers glued to their smartphones in class are actually looking at wikipedia.
LA Schools Seek Refund from Apple
It seems to be working:

> "In an area Kawai directly supervises at the forging division of Toyota’s Honsha plant, workers twist, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts instead of using the typically automated process. Experiences there have led to innovations in reducing levels of scrap and shortening the production line 96 percent from its length three years ago."
Well the point seems to be that the university is becoming something quite unlikely it has traditionally been conceived.
Nice! I love the idea and hope it takes off.
Manual labor is the right direction? Wouldn't you rather have robots automating all the difficult/dangerous/demeaning work?
So are companies now supposed to mirror the demographics of a population exactly? Maybe they should all move to small college towns so they can reflect the local pop more closely.

On the other hand it is curious none of the companies self reporting their diversity demographics included any age information, but then, age is not a protected class, as far as I know.

As tech jobs become the mainstream of jobs, it'll be interesting to see if the median ages of workers continue to skew younger than the workforce in general.
Shouldn't the overproduction of Phds drive down university costs?

I hear you on the bogosity factor. I wonder why this persists. Perhaps because by the time someone realizes it's all BS, their career it too invested in exposing it?
I'm actually liking http://thislife.com which is an extended service of Shutterfly. It can pull photos from your local machines as well as online accounts. You can pay to also have video access.
I have a similar background and my experience was the same.