skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it filters dupes within a certain time frame. You don't want important front-page news at a site being considered a dupe because something was big on the front page a year ago.
I agree. The tradeoff was not properly explained or qualified.

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In regards to vaccinations, I think the uninformed public should be provided with all information possible, including scientific evidence of the utility of vaccination and potential, albeit rare, side-effects of vaccination.
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Deliberately depriving people of information is not ethical.
The market would fix this should the bill become a law. All professors and applicants who care about their jobs will just leave Iowa or never go there in the first place. I wonder who will suffer then?
You see this same distribution for business school graduates, and I suspect it has a similar cause.

You can either go to law school (or business school) immediately after finishing your bachelor's degree, or you can go back to school after 5 or so years in the work force. If you have no professional full-time experience, nobody is going to pay you more than $60k or $70k because it will take a few years for you to become a moderately productive employee. You're really no more useful than someone right out of undergrad. But if you have an advanced degree and a few years of proven job experience, you can hit the ground running and as such, employers often pay $150k+.

I bet if you were able to plot salaries and full-time experience on a graph, this would become obvious. That's my hypothesis, anyway.
Almost three dollars off of my flappy bird + team fortress mash up.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/littlest-monster...
It's nice to hear of other people with a similar stack on HN (Azure, PowerShell, TeamCity, HipChat, and presumably C#/.NET)! It's working well for us too.

In addition, we're increasingly doing more with ChatOps with mmbot (as an Azure Web Job): https://github.com/mmbot/mmbot

One nice thing about mmbot is that if you use the DLL mode instead of the CSX mode, you get a great IDE debugging experience which makes it even faster to create meaningful ChatOps extensions. I've found it to be a more pleasant development experience that Hubot with CoffeeScript.
AC2EJ checking in. Tech license at age 12, general and extra soon after.
I disagree completely. You are confusing students rating professors with the how good the survey is and how the university may or may not react to the results. In an of itself rating professors is not good or bad.

1. Part of raising the bar should be making sure students understand that you are doing it and are into it. Also by saying "raising the bar" you are implying that they are going above what the rest of the university is doing. Which is an indictment of the university not of the students.
2. Why aren't they interested in them? Could it be because they are not good?
3. So professors should be able to assign any amount of work that they deem fit? If its a 2-credit course with the workload of a 4-credit course then the professor is bad. If its a 4-credit class and other 4-credit classes have significantly less work, then the university is screwing up. If the its a 4-credit course with a lot more work than other 4-credit courses then that should probably be clearly conveyed up front or have some mechanism for conveying that.
Looks like an interesting conference, but what's with the 9:1 ratio of white men to everyone else in the speakers lineup? I can't tell from the conference page how the speakers were chosen, other than them being called "genius hackers". What steps did you take to ensure the speakers lineup was representative, and what went wrong?
> To replace it you might need Kahn Academy, 2 years in the army, Tinder and some sort of coming of age ceremony with body paint and singing.

Well the army has both body paint and singing ... I digress.

I've started the Georgia Tech online masters in computer science (OMCS), and I must say that I am impressed. Do I think that a non-college entity could do the same work? Possibly.

I started the OMCS program because I had been trying to "learn computer science" on my own, I realized that I didn't have the rigor in my self-study that I needed. This lack of rigor really drove me to search out (and thankfully find) an appropriate program of study that I could pursue on my own time (and fit within a reasonable budget).
I wonder how much of an actual analysis is done in these cases, and how much it's just a boss saying that he doesn't want people "wasting their time" working on something that isn't directly related to their stuff.
Dragon 32 is a 6809 machine, TRS-80 uses Z80.
I would have thought that the opposite would be true; by having an CQRS/event sourcing system with eventual consistency would allow you to avoid posting duplicates to your database:

1. The user submits X number of requests within a second.
2. The system puts the request in a command queue that synchronizes the commands by coupon code, for example.
3. The command is popped off the queue and an event is generated and saved saying the coupon was redeemed.
4. The next command is picked up and all events are applied before processing. At this point, the command is no longer valid so you reject and send an event saying that an attempt was made to redeem a redeemed coupon.
5. Do the same for subsequent requests.

To me, this approach is safer and easier to reason about. You have a log of the fact that someone made the attempt so you can report on this. Not sure you get that benefit from a stored procedure and a transaction unless you build it in and then increase the running time of the open transaction.
seems to increase traffic and interaction for me.
Easy. Call your trained birds "bio-drones".
I see that at work too, sure the self thought guys get it done to but somehow different, not as structured somehow.
What are these unikernels based on? OSv, NetBSD rump kernels, or something proprietary?
I'll also recommend the NorCal 40 with Rutldeges's book:

http://www.fix.net/~jparker/wilderness/nc40a.htm

The book takes you through the basic theory, backed up with experimentation while building the kit. You just need a a scope and function generator, and of course a soldering iron.

KD4HSO
As a redis user this seems very promising due to the fact that I no longer have to "simulate" message queue functionality.
High availability for software installation procedures
I think it's worth reflecting that not every improvement initiative (in this case: see DevOps) across the whole world is moving as one large entity.

The ending line: "Otherwise in my opinion it feels more like we’re treading water and not making the advancements we could be making." sounds like an existential fallacy to me - it has been my experience that although the "DevOps vision" has not changed significantly, the actual practices and evangelism of DevOps have been infiltrating and transforming the way organizations think about software engineering.
A huge chunk of recent grads just aren't cut out to be lawyers. They can't write, they can't thoughtfully analyze issues, and they can't effectively advocate for their client.

But the big supply choke-point is the entry level job. Law school and the bar exam don't make you a passable lawyer. You need supervision for a while.

Nobody wants to pay for baby lawyers because they are slow and don't know what they are doing. So the big firms hire a bunch of people and work them to death. They can force their clients to pay for the baby lawyers because they are supervised "by the best." Also, these types of cases involve a lot of paperpushing that a smart baby lawyer can handle. The big firms need juniors to do that bitch work, but also because they'll need midlevel and senior associates to do a lot of real work. If you don't get them out of school, it's hard to get them as a midlevel associate (4-6 years out of school).

Midsize firms don't hire many junior associates. They can't afford to charge for the training. So they take people who leave the big firms.

Corporation's "in-house" legal groups also tend to avoid hiring baby lawyers because they only want seasoned vets. Although, this is changing a bit. Some companies with large legal departments discovered that new lawyers are so cheap, it might be better to just train them in house.

Small firms hire enough people to run their cases, which isn't a lot.

If you don't get hired out of the gate, it's very hard to get a legal job. You are seen as tainted. You never develop experience. And you fall out of the market.

I think roughly 50% of legal grads either never practice or only practice a few years and then quit.

Also, legal work isn't fungible. People specialize pretty quickly. If you start out doing DUI cases, you no longer compete with the guy who started doing patent work for F500 companies. It is as different as webdesign is from programming a self driving car.
You have to assume that the one-dimensional marginals are Gaussian for otherwise the statement is not correct.
It's no longer a common mistake, it's now become an idiom in some dialectic variations. As such it cannot be broken down into its constituent parts and analyzed for meaning, it has to be understood as an atomic utterance. It's a little like "The proof is in the pudding." The original was "The proof (test) of the pudding is in the eating," but it got shortened, possibly by mistake, possibly by laziness. And so it is with "I could(n't) care less."

It's like sandpaper on my brain, but that's how linguistics works. The more you study language, the more you realize it can't possibly work.
Wow... how many more sick and oppressive policies does the Chinese government have to churn out (and so brazenly too) before the people of China say something? Where's the social unrest.. where's their sense of responsibility towards their future generations to nip a thing like this in the bud before it becomes the norm... what, nothing??
Yeah, this is certainly ridiculous. Student ratings often correlate more with grades than they do actual effectiveness of professors.

The professors who inflate grades (and thus are really the ones that are diminishing educational value) are the ones who would keep their jobs.

I like the place this is coming from (there's zero accountability from students to professors). But such an extreme measure is something I feel would work against the end goal.
> The best professor in my school's math department was also the most beloved

Out of curiosity, what class traditionally 'belonged' to that teacher?

Freshman classes for non-majors (think pre-algebra for art majors) taught in a harsh-but-fair manner is going to score differently than an upper-class or graduate level on manifolds.
Why Do You Need PGP? (1994)
One would reasonably expect that the price of a university education and the opportunity cost of not having one will converge. If the discounted present marginal value of an education at X University is $Y, X University ought to charge at least $Y to attend. Different X may imply different Y, but the logic is the same. And since prospective students have effectively unlimited ability to borrow, there is no obvious reason this convergence should not take place. The only questions are whether it has done so already, and if so whether irrational bidders have also increased the price beyond that point.
I don't think China is the only country that does this.

I love the 'respecting the elderly' bit, as in: respect the party bosses.
Words are used in a manner that indicates he clearly knows what they are (which is not surprising given his background), but, generally, I'd say no. There's never been a point in the series where I feel like I super-extra understand something because I have a computer science background. But it's also at least plausible enough that I don't have to turn that part of my brain off.
'The New Turing Omnibus', along with 'the magic machine' and 'the armchair universe' by AK DEWDNEY really appealed to the young (Science fiction Reading) me.

The current (older) me just had their mind blown by 'Self'- but there is no book.
well, JSON is a serialization format -- so I'm genuinely curious what you mean. Can you better describe the dichotomy you're talking about (text vs objects) and give an sample problem that demonstrates a weakness of text ?
Around 1,000 people were killed by police in the US last year[1].
I assume that in the vast majority of those cases the use of lethal force was justified to protect the officer(s) or bystanders. Then there are the mistakes.

In what percentage of these cases would you guess that suspect was killed because the officer decided to play judge, jury and executioner? 1%? Even a shockingly high 10%, that would not be an order of magnitude more than the number of capital punishment executions per year.

[1] http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/09/more-than-1000-people-have...
Just finished The Atrocity Archives recently. Very entertaining.
Why do women have periods when most animals don't?
Brackets 1.3 Released
Some of the Yaesu HTs have an alert function that will beep you when an APRS message appears. I'm thinking about making an APRS RX only pager. The pager ICs (front ends) are very low power.

KD4HSO
That story belongs over on the "Under Pressure" thread! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9444675
A lot of students are there to get a degree, not to learn something. Employers don't know or care how much freshman chemistry you remember (unless you're a chemist), but they do care if you didn't finish your degree because you couldn't pass some requirement.

I wonder if the the same relationship is true in fields where there is a licensing exam at the end of your degree (like engineering). Or maybe something like a high-school AP class, where the final exam isn't written by the person teaching. In that case, the teacher would be more obviously on "the same side" as the student.
I do DevOps for a medium sized SaaS company (~500 employees). So often working with scripts, and JQ is a lifesaver any time a bash script needs to grab data from a REST api. Before it was grep/sed/etc. and the scripts would turn ugly quick. Now you get an at-a-glance understanding what the script is trying to grab from the endpoint.
> There is no mention of Android in that 2010 article

That's what I said?

> It's been over 5 years since the Google search investigation first became public knowledge[1]
The Model for Google's New Wireless Network Has Been Around Since 2011
My understanding is that PowerShell is passing around specialized objects that have a few required methods, and some source specific ones. The beauty of this is that you can pass massive amounts of data without serializing and unserializing it at every step, and also that they can contain links to other information, such as links to parent objects which may or may not be part of the same list (I have no idea if this is allowed, but it seems a logical extension of the concept). Additionally, dates passed around can be complex types that don't have to lose relevant info such as time zone, regardless of what the default display format is.

The downside is that tools need to buy into this and work with this data stream rather than text, which makes the set of available tools necessarily much smaller.
Oh, sure, but let's be reasonable. If it's something like the notorious sort problem in Java, I'd say it's ok. It's preferable when things are simple enough that somebody with a good understanding of the whole system can make assumptions about its safety without using CoQ. If things are complicated enough that we actually need Agda/CoQ/Idris to feel safe — seems that things went really wrong at some point.

> but this kind of bugs are potential gold mine for crackers

Exactly! And I'm just saying that a problem which is "not very likely to trigger, but is very hard to find if happens" is far, far more dangerous than a problem which is "easy for a novice to miss, but every experienced developer would notice".
Nope. HTTPie is much, much more focused than cURL (the CLI tool). It is exclusively an HTTP client designed primarily for interactive use. cURL, on the other hand, is meant to be used mostly non-interactively and is more of a general client for "URLs" (it also supports DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP).

HTTPie's goal is user-friendliness, so it comes with features like built-in JSON support, output formatting, syntax highlighting, extensions, etc. Comparison of the two in one screenshot can be seen in the README:

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#readme

(Disclaimer: I created HTTPie)
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I have been writing iOS apps for a few years and wanted to get into the habit of writing regularly. So I started writing a weekly newsletter about iOS app development. There are several programming-related newsletters that curate links and annotate each with a short comment. They are really useful for keeping tracking of new stuff. There are also several newsletters that deliver quality in-depth content.

iOS Development Nuggets doesn't complete with them. What you get is a short tip every week, usually code related that you can read in a few minutes and hopefully, pick up something useful. Occasionally, I throw in a few links to open source code or apps/services that I find useful. Depth-wise, I'd say this is mostly for developers with beginner-medium level knowledge of iOS app development.

I have never actively promoted this since I never knew when I would give up, but after writing weekly for 2.5 years, I think it's time :) Also dusted off the old Twitter account I set up a long while back: https://twitter.com/iosdevnuggets.

URL goes to email archives and sign up form. Let me know your thoughts and any suggestion to improve. Thanks!

http://hboon.com/iosdevnuggets/
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Going to a "prestigious" college - say, one of the Ivy League schools - has a huge positive network effect on your career, if you want to capitalize on it. It's valuable social proof, at least for the first decade after you graduate, and counts for at least as much as merit and hard work, however frustrating that may be for the hard-working and meritorious high school grad determined not to go to college. You are going to get to know people and walk through doors that you just couldn't if you never went. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard, but he still went, and happened to make a critical set of connections there.
The difference is almost all big law firms pay first year associates the same amount (within the same city, at least). For the last few years this has been ~160K in NYC/DC/SF. Smaller firms typically pay much, much less.

Getting into big law has little to do with prior experience. It's much more correlated with law school, but I know people who went to second rate schools who got offers to prestigious big law firms. I believe about 25% of employed new graduates go into big law.
This is awesome. I'd love to see more. Also a slider ability so we can progress/rewind the changes at our own pace.

Really insightful visualization.
The correct higher-dimensional analogue replaces S^2 by the complex projective space CP^n and the height function by the corresponding moment map.
Wow, that books looks just priceless, almost a parody of the position it advocates, to judge by the Amazon reviews. English degrees are worthless, except perhaps if you want to avoid getting dinged by every other reviewer for your poor writing and grammar.
What if a small, semi-random sample of voters could fire an elected official for any piece of legislation they attach their name to?

I see the grades in Iowa elevating and the market-value of a degree from Iowa discounting.
You get an A! You get an A! You get an A! You ALL GET AN "A"!!!!
I'll chime in...

I developed my first game, Rocket Renegade [1], for iOS. Although I think that it was well-received (based on the reviews and emails I've received), it's made under $100 US since launching in January 2015. But, I did finish, and I taught myself Swift in the process, so I'm proud of that.

I'm a classic example of a technical person that's learning the marketing side, so I have a lot to learn in that area. I think the game is a solid offering for its genre (80s/90s inspired shmup).

For stories of much greater success than myself:

1. There was a user here (kreci) that used to post financial reports regarding his Android development efforts, but it doesn't appear that he has been active on HN for quite some time. However, you may still find his reports a useful/interesting resource [2].

2. Nathan Barry (nathanbarry) has written about his experience developing his "OneVoice" app and the financials surrounding it [3].

3. The greatest financial success story that I am aware of in terms of sales in the mobile space is Allen Wong. He really hit it big with "5-0 Radio Police Scanner". He did an AMA [4], which you may find interesting.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rocket-renegade/id955229059?...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:kreci%20%22Income%20Rep...

[3] http://nathanbarry.com/how-i-made-19000-on-the-app-store-whi...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17lwcs/iama_a_person_...
No, that's not the author's argument. Look, I'll save you a click. Here's the line: "What I really hate about it is that it’s a game about convincing yourself that you’re much funnier than you actually are."

Actually, it's a game about having fun with crude humor.

The video demonstrates that it's just a game that generates laughs and eases people's insecurities therefore making them more open to come up with their own humor or be more receptive to others'. I mean, just look at Laina's reactions throughout the video, she clearly represents the type of person that is obviously uncomfortable but being drawn out of their shell.

The point is that the game itself is not the point, it's the setting. Your ridiculous Jackass strawman has no bearing.
This is not the case. The places being 160k are the white shoe firms--the Googles and Facebooks of the legal world. And they hire fresh law school grads with just a few summers' worth of clerkships and internships.
My apologies. I had a knee jerk reaction to what I though was wanton pessimism.

Having read the docs now I'm more inclined to subscribe to your initial onion theory.
At the Federal level, only Illinois flipped as the result of a lawsuit, and I can remember only West Virginia flipping due to a state level one. Do you know of any more, not counting the in-process California, Hawaii (both probably doomed) and D.C. lawsuits?
Understanding Your True Character as an Entrepreneur
Delete This: Thoughts on Digital Inheritance
Business owners' letter in Telegraph orchestrated by Tories
Just adding one extra information, building the playlist on our side enabled us to define the DVR window (how many time one can seek back on the video). Since we built both the server and client side, it was also possible to add tags to the stream and we did it. tl;dr; It was possible to control the adaptive streaming on the server side.

When our CDN was very crowded, one tag on the HLS playlist was able to direct users to a lower quality, preventing all the users to fight for the same bandwidth and avoiding rebuffering events.
He implies that such things exist. I think he cites something Turing was supposed to have written (in-universe, I mean) that crossed over between CS and demonology. It doesn't go beyond plausible-sounding titles and breezy one-sentence synopses though.

You can read a bit early on in the first book of the series where he talks a bit about this stuff, on Google books, page 17: https://books.google.ca/books?id=GfSGzhDcU2UC&lpg=PP1&dq=atr...
It is rewarding working at globo.com with such skilled engineers and great solutions, in almost every area. Congrats to Leandro, Juarez, and everybody involved.
Conservatives fear GOP leaders giving up on Obamacare repeal