skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logging what you read is, oddly enough, a new idea for me. One I'll have to seriously consider doing. In 2003 I started college, and an exercise in a class I had we had to tell two truths and one falsehood and let the class guess the falsehood. I don't remember what the falsehood was or the other truth, but the truth one that everybody thought was the falsehood was that I had read over 2000 books.

I only know that I read that many because I owned that many books (and didn't own every book I ever read). I was 26 then, and reading since 5-6, so that's really only 10 books a year. The real number of books at that point might have been more like 3000 - but I did re-read a lot of the books I owned so maybe not.

Since this time last year, I've probably read 30+ books. Gotta love the Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
I'd say my father is my role model, as hokey as that sounds. He's an intelligent man and has spent most of his life driving a truck. But, that's what he wants to be doing. I'd like to ensure that I spend my life doing what I want to do.
Shit HN says candidate: "Storing ALL your logs is like being an living being that refuses to poo. It is not healthy."

That's gold.
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EcmaScript 6 has got us covered: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
Theo De Raadt always complained that many of the institutions that run and use OpenBSD don't contribute back. Good to see the EU at least acknowledging that its something that they should explore. They probably use it and its features more than they realise.

I suspect there is a strong political motive as well behind being "technologically independent" after the NSA mass surveillance revelations.

I like the sound of an EU BSD fork - hopefully they fund one. We've always been lacking in the Operating Systems dev department over here in Europe. Linux is our main contribution but we can do more.
Wally.
emodendroket: 'Too tough', as I've heard it, almost always means 'failing average' or 'failing median', but we can only trade anecdotes around that.
The C64 does have a soul in its SID chip.
What's the point of monitoring things you won't be able to affect? Some agencies would love to spend the money on it tho, if allocated.
A British journalistic term for the frothing of lunatics; may or may not actually be written in green. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Green_ink Academics tend to get a lot of correspondence from cranks, often enough to accumulate a collection.
Ah, memories. I started our company in 2006 with a very heavy, very yellow, 486 compaq laptop.

Yes, I'm fully aware there are better machines I could have used for a fairly nominal amount, but all I needed was bash, mutt and vim, and money was better spent on food and water.

Graduated to using a "broken (needed a new HDD)" ibook when the roof decided it didn't feel like keeping rain out one night.

That doesn't help one jot with your immediate problem, but I empathise, and have been in your shoes.
Shout out to littlebird - bloody great company - I've bought a few nice kits from you over the last few years.
>a 5% increase in interest payments for the federal government would cause the level of federal debt to rise to $85 trillion over the next 20 year"

So if interest rates suddenly rise to 5% and the US didn't make a single debt payment for twenty years, total debt would explode? What insight! Then again, if nobody cares that no debt payment was made for 20 years, who cares what the total debt is!

The article says at 5% the debt payment is $900BB annually, which is 5% of GDP. High, but hardly debilitating. First you need to explain what purpose the would be served by the Fed raising rates to 5% tomorrow, though.
From a software development perspective - Brad Fitzpatrick

From a business perspective - Elon Musk

From a humanities perspective - Gandhi
> The OP appears to be trying to get an internship
> position in the US while being in Egypt. It is
> absolutely positively has nothing to do with the
> cover letter, so your comment is just off by a
> very wide margin, ...

Are you sure about that? It's been a long time since I had much to do with internships as opposed to job applications, but it always seemed to me that the cover letter was the hook that made me want to check the CV to see if there was evidence supporting the claims made. I don't see why that should have changed at all, but I'd be very interested in learning why you claim that the cover letter is completely irrelevant.

> ... it sits at the top because of your massive karma.

Actually it now has 18 points. I'd be interested to know for sure what effect a contributor's karma has on their comment ranking. I know it used to, but I was sure I'd seen a comment from the mods saying that the effect had been removed. With no points shown it's now rather harder to be sure, or to do experiments.
AG6PO here. I became licenced during my second year at university. It has actually been one of the most important parts of my professional path to this point.

If you haven't yet, buy a basic hand held radio and get transmitting. The Baofengs are actually tolerably good radios and super cheap. Getting on the air is the best way of participating in the community and growing in the hobby/skill.

Then yes, absolutely start homebrewing. I find antennas to be easy and and fun to experiment with. The Rigol's 100 MHz limit won't actually be much of a problem for you. It is plenty enough to analyze all the baseband signals and also the intermediate frequencies used in many radio designs.
I would be more willing to believe that with some time passing. In my own case, how I judged my professors with 3-5 years of hindsight is different from how I judged them right at the end of the course, when I filled out the evaluations.

The biggest factor in my own case is that in retrospect I have more respect for the difficult courses, and less respect for the easy courses, then I did at the time they actually took place. I think this is mostly because at the time I judged courses by whether they felt fair/unfair, and the easiest way for a professor to avoid students feeling they were judged unfairly is to just judge everyone in a broadly positive way. If you give some people Cs, inevitably some of them will feel they deserved higher (and sometimes they will even be right, since there is an error rate). While if you give everyone an A/B there's less cause for complaint, because many fewer students perceive getting a grade higher than they deserve as unfair.

A secondary factor is that when judging in retrospect I put a little less weight on personality and style than I did at the time. Professors with a "entertaining/engaging" style generally seemed good to me at the time, but in retrospect some of them were a bit shallow in the actual material (some were good, though). As an adult occasionally looking for online lectures, I now tend to specifically avoid the more "TED-style" lecturers, even though they are initially appealing, and find I get more out of a more straightforward, sober style.

Some of the really easy and "fun" courses in particular feel like a missed opportunity to me: we had a good time every week in class, I got an A, and I rated the course positively, but I've had to go back and self-study from a book because I had not actually learned much the first time around. If you asked me for the rating 5 years later, I would've revised it downwards!
Well, In Egypt there are no branches for those companies. The only one I know of is a small research lab for Microsoft.
Not only that, but there is simply zero confidence in negotiation with the government and you are a fool to believe anything else. You don't even have to rely on echos and messages from ancestors and predecessors, with general warnings about the abuses of the power of governance in the hands of humans; you can just look at the last few years of all the deception, all the abuses, all the killing, all the thieving, all the protection of thieves, and pilfering of civil society, and all the lies. There is absolutely zero trust or confidence to be found. Unfortunately for the government and any government, its track-record is permanent, there are no re-dos without revolution. Once the image, once the record has been sullied in the most grotesque and lazy manner in which it has been for the last 15 years+ there is simply no going back. The damage is permanent, irreplaceable, and immutable.

You had one chance and choice on 9/12/2001, government; and you chose to play right into the hands and goals of the tactic of terrorism ... turning on your own people and sacrificing your principles at the cost of vanquishing the tenuous and feeble trust civil society had placed in you.

Maybe you will be successful in steering the massive ship and changing perceptions and molding society as you have before in the past, government. But for now, there is a lot of trust to be made up through apology, action, and prosecuting perpetrators, i.e., showing that your actions are not just more empty promises and lies that any other run of the mill addict uses to avoid accountability for their actions and impacts on those in their lives.
Interesting, I did not know that. I should look into it, because I'd be very surprised if the application process just asked for a bare CV.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll go and do some quiet digging.
We've had this problem in Brazil for quite a while. It persists, I think, because of the large salaries that some public careers offer. People would be better off working as plumbers or electricians (huge demand for those jobs at the moment), but there's also the need for social recognition which, it seems, is more important than money for some people (who have not realised they wil get neither).
Elon Musk is a freaking alien.

His list of accomplishments is ridiculous-- Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla and those yet-to-be-realized like hyperloop. He's not a role model he's someone to be downright jealous about! (Sarcasm!)

Seriously though to be involved in that many successful ventures it has to be more than just luck.
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This sounds exactly what Experian does. They are used by most (all?) UK banks to validate your credit score and they also provide an "identity protection" service. If your score is too low with them you don't get any credit anywhere.
It appears relatively few are establishing their own practices because the income from a private practice is very uncertain.

It also looks like demand for lawyer related services has also decreased. The larger firms have responded to this by laying people off - it seems they would prefer to have few, highly compensated positions rather than many lowly paid positions.
Shared it in companie’s slack saying - how not to promote your icon set on your homepage...
The EU also funds Minix 3 development, though that is more about reliability than security.
Check the date, the news you link was posted after this thread's submission.
What I wonder about when I read things like this:

How did they get to this point?

What goes on in the mind of the person sitting in the "idea room" when they first thought of this?

Are they just the product of an already oppressive government and therefore see this as completely and totally fine?

Or do they know that it is oppressive, but since they're already a cog in the machine, they pitch the idea up and get praised for it?
Wow. Stackify looks really good.

At my current employer, we are currently implementing Splunk. And it's taking forever and they do charge arm and a leg for their offering. I don't mind if a good product costs money but you shouldn't need a consultant on premise just to configure your logging solution.
"In my experience, the best employees are positive, low maintenance and unselfish."

The above is true if you want a mediocre employee who does what is required and no more without rocking the boat, great if you work in McDonalds or other such industry.

If you hire a smart employee based on being a smart employee you hire them to tell you what you should be doing not to tell them how to do the thing you hired them for.

“when should I expect to get promoted if I exceed your expectations?... can indicate that a candidate values personal objectives above all else”
Sounds like someone is driven, sure they are self driven but to drive there own success they have to drive the companies success.

It does sound like poor management, not knowing how to handle a smart employee who raises concern, as a smart employee should.
It looks like this framework goes back ~3 years. So, why would you consider it the 'flavor of the week'? Because someone posted it to HN? That doesn't seem to be much of a threshold. Also, it looks like this framework could be of use in other languages aside from javascript.
I'm an abrasive type teacher who gets polarized response distributions. Once when I substituted for the most highly rated professor at a local cc in my subject, I received a most memorable compliment: 'Finally, a real teacher.' ... I quit teaching after one too many interventions from administration and parents about crying kids who could not possibly make less than an A.
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Eh, most of the fun of alt.folklore.computers is listening to a bunch of geeks who were there from the time CTSS seemed like a novel idea moan about how everything was done before, either by DEC in the 1970s or IBM in the 1960s (or 1950s!). Oh, and DEC, not Digital: The VAX was an abomination and command line technology peaked with TOPS-20, if not TOPS-10.

(Seriously. One of the people I quoted claimed elsewhere, without any hint of irony, that IBM invented personal computing by putting CP-40 on System/360 mainframes, to give everyone their own personal guest system on the shared hardware. Yes, and the Ancient Romans invented radio by reflecting sunlight with mirrors; after all, it's all EM radiation!)
Great to see such good gestures from the community. I have 2 laptops which are not working(one with motherboard problem). Is their any way I can dump them as they are just taking up space in my home.

PS - I am from India.
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My undergraduate courses had professor evaluations. Using these evaluations unilaterally to fire professors is ridiculous, considering the varying incentives students have, the various reasons that professors end up teaching the courses they do, the various values that individual professors bring to university other than teaching, the various ways professors can improve given the right resources and support, etc.

But there are poor professors who are evaluated poorly by students yet teach year after year with no improvement. So the problem is that the evaluations are not being used properly -- by professors and administrators -- to make the necessary adjustments. Shouldn't we be firing the administrators?
Fabrice Bellard [1,2] should be on this list. Author of QEMU and FFMPEG among other open source projects that have been useful to a lot of people. Also, author of jslinux [3].

[1] http://bellard.org/

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

[3] http://bellard.org/jslinux/
> Theo De Raadt always complained that many of the institutions that run and use OpenBSD don't contribute back.

Sounds like he needs a different license then.
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This is great, thank you.

What resources are out there for finding companies great cultures? What should this look like?
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Didn't everyone recommend Linux and Mac OS back when vulnerabilities on these systems just hadn't been discovered (or possibly written) yet?

Make OpenBSD popular, add a ton of devs, and attack value, and I'm pretty sure these problems will repeat themselves.

I think the second study, which briefly names OpenBSD, does a good job of pointing out that technological changes alone are insufficient.
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The pypy project also benefited from EU grants early in its history.
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Agreed. When I was teaching before I started out as a developer, it was unheard of to fail anyone in an entry level Physics class (granted this was an Ivy League school); over many semesters I recall thinking that we had passed several students that had no business advancing "because medschool needs high GPAs" or because we didn't want to ruin some kid's future in engineering (when they may not have been successful anyways). But yeah many (most?) of the kids care about a high grade before learning anything, and expect nothing less than an A, even if they don't deserve it.
Link to Part 1 of the study (wherein the recommendation lies):

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/52740...

Part 2 of the study recommends government funding of Open Source Projects:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/52741...

Potential and actual conflicts of interest between governments and citizens in regard to privacy are not addressed.
See my comment down-thread about Jane Austen and bloodletting.

(I'll stop now; we've hit diminishing returns.)
Let me rephrase it a little bit ..
What if in Kung-Fu Panda , the panda could fire his master . FIRE is very strong word , it talks about power over another , teaching is more of trusting some one and accepting someone higher .
That's the crux, the worst and best teachers will be evaluated almost the same. You need some kind of additional flag to identify this, and unfortunately the next class isn't always possible. Another idea would be a follow up survey 5+ years after the student fraudsters. This is possible as most professors teach for longer than 5+ years.
Check the submitted page (https://release.debian.org/) and you'll see that even now that Debian 8 is released they don't mention Debian 8 being released or added any new item about that release.

So, no that page didn't (and still doesn't) announce Debian 8 release.
Well there's the difference that security is basically the core focus of OpenBSD's development, and the project actively researches and updates development practices with that in mind.
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I've come to realize Jean Luc Picard is. Not exclusively, but when coming to my approach managing people, he simply oozes through. Patrick Stewart more broadly, a greatly insightful person.

But again, not exclusively; I am not a huge Star Trek fan, yet am a huge fan, nor am I into the idea of replicating someone else, as you are you and not them. Perhaps it was formative years, watching the show as a young teenager, that left a seed there.

I find case studies and examples of situations are key. If you've not heard of it, and are managing people, I also hugely recommend a resource in our century: http://manager-tools.com a lot of good applicable examples to a wide range of potential people problems and opportunities there.
For comparisons sake a Canadian tree planter can plant roughly 3k 6" seedlings in a day for a cost of about $400.

>"Fletcher doesn't pretend that the method is as good as hand-sowing, but it's a hell of a lot quicker."

Also for comparisons sake, the expected survival rate of those 3k hand planted trees is 50%.
Or what about a waiver signed by those recorded.. We could, you know, give some if the power to the people involved.
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In three dimensions (to keep the notation reasonably simple) you need a distribution with density f such that f(x)f(y) f(z) is a function of x^2 + y^2 + z^2 (i. e. the distance from the origin). It looks like the Gaussian (up to scaling) is the only one.
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Really? OK, Cancel, Apply. I'm not even reading the rest of it.
What if we're reading less and less today for the same reason we no longer have town criers or pictograms?
Since when was the economy "flourishing" in 2010?
I honestly don't remember the last time I got a job without the help of a recruiter or social network.

My current job found me - the recruiter was looking for someone local with Rackspace cloud server experience and found me via LinkedIn. They made a good offer, so I took it. My prior job, a recruiter on LinkedIn saw I was looking for a job (was unemployed), friended me went from there.

LinkedIn has it's uses - if your looking, pay for one of the premium accounts, follow people, talk to recruiters. If you use LinkedIn as it was designed to be used (to build connections), it shouldn't take long.

That said, a friend of mine, his current company found him on Twitter so... never hurts to diversify.
Everything you said about the uniqueness of European countries applies to the uniqueness of American states or regions, so I'd say it's case of "far away, thus homogeneous".
Recent ham here as well, KE8ATC. For now I'm limited to my handheld but I'm hoping to branch out into some HF gear at Hamvention this year.
Yeah, or even... good students are better at identifying bad professors. Some of my professors were leaders in their field but couldn't teach a class worth anything. I can see why the smart students would get good grades in those classes. Why wouldn't the rest of us be able to tell that they were a bad professor??
He's a great speaker too, he'll discuss topics I am not at all familiar with but the context he wraps them in makes them easy to intuit. He also has a very intense passion for his work and his ability to dissect problems into their primitives leads him to really elegant solutions (0x5f3759df! [1]).

If it weren't for John I would have absolutely no interest in VR... but with his involvement it's hard to not be at least a little curious.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
What I'm wondering is if it's better to be reactive or responsive.
Yes, and a Brinks armored truck is just as vulnerable to carjackings as a Ford Pinto, we just don't know about the vulnerability because nobody drives them.

People were saying the same things about Linux. In the late 1990s and early 2000s. By which time Linux had already become the de-facto go-to OS for web servers around the world. It was, in short, already a high-value target, and yet the apocalypse didn't occur.
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"said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. − Nope. We have many companies giving us code back, all the time." - Theo De Raadt
Nor for 3-spheres (i.e. the 3-dimensional surface defined as all the points in 4-d space at distance 1 from the origin). Nor for higher dimensions than that.

It's peculiar to the 2-sphere ("ordinary" spheres).
I'm replying to you but it's really to 3 or 4 of the similar comments. I can't tell what the exact issue is here. Is it the cost? Is it a bait and switch? Is it that the price is fine but the conference isn't what's advertised?

$2000 is not very much money for 2 to 3 people to attend and have a booth at if the audience and attendees are in line with what was advertised. I do agree with an earlier comment that you probably want it to be the case that startups are potential customers for you so that you have multiple ways to get an ROI. (Investors, potential customers and future employees etc)
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