skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The only thing universities offer is the chance to learn more and be pushed or challenged."

Um, have you been to a university? ;-)

When you think about it, the professors aren't (necessarily) there to teach either. They are there primarily for the opportunity to do research though that may be changing as many professors are part time minimum wage contractors.
Is there a reason the Overstock board hasn't reined Byrne in on his cryptocurrency push given that it's basically been an 18 month long failure that he keeps throwing money after?
HF ALE. Not terribly popular (not many people to talk with). Its the same as .mil ALE but on ham bands. Technologically what ALE can do is very impressive.

http://hflink.com/

ALE would be HF base station type operation not hand held VHF 2M radio.

Low power and SDR do not naturally go together. The folks most interested in low power drain (the trail hiker/camper types) use discrete devices as opposed to SDR. Not saying its impossible of course. I have a KX1 that draws about 30 mA when listening, so "dozens of hours" on a set of batteries. It would be challenging to find a SDR system that uses similar or less. It is challlenging enough to find a smart phone that can idle for a dozen hours on a charge much less actually do anything LOL. Still, good luck with that, etc.
Looking forward to giving this a try - we currently use an offshoot of "resque" for the Java ecosystem called "jesque", but it's always good to explore alternatives.
You are correct.

Good stuff from Ben Evans about this
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/3/15/android-taxonom...
"[...] make sure to keep producing new work."

Thank you. Yes, this is solid advice... to keep moving. I'm working on figuring out what's next.
Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust [pdf]
Generally I agree with this approach, but this case seems similar (though obviously not in the safety aspects) to "flammable" versus "inflammable". Obviously you can't really stop actual usage, but I know this used to always confuse me when I was younger, so I'm disinclined to criticize people who yell "Stop!".
Whatever Apple forbids in their devices doesn't matter under market laws, as long as, their market share keeps under a certain threshold.

Currently Apple's market share in Europe is insignificant when compared with Android's.

HN complains in that regard always miss the way market laws work.
Email Marketing Still the Leader in Digital Media
The author wrote a blogpost about it: http://antirez.com/news/88
Tonga controls the "to" top-level domain, so they may add NS records for anything under that TLD — there's nothing stolen about it.

It's not uncommon; the same happens with .ac, .ai, .cm, .dk, .gg, .io, .je, .pn, .sh...
PHP: Using a regular expression to validate an email address
I can remove all of Google's proprietary software. Just because you may not know how doesn't mean you're not allowed to learn.
You can build a ROM without them.
You can definitely default on student loans; plenty of people are. You just can't get them discharged in bankruptcy.
This also happened with Linux's Atheros drivers (which were derived from OpenBSD, but modifications were published under the GPL instead of the BSD or ISC licenses; Theo argued that doing so was actually a violation of the BSD license (apparently they were stripping out the BSD license in the actual source files? I'm fuzzy on the details)). I don't remember what the outcome was.
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US is generally at-will(1), so the idea of being "subtly fired" only comes up in unemployment claims, where -sometimes- you can make the case you quit because you had no choice (hours dropped to zero, intentionally untenable working conditions, etc.). But otherwise, there are very few guarantees about the circumstances of being dismissed, and therefore not a lot of room for constructive dismissal type claims.

(1) There are exceptions around specific circumstances: explicit contracts, implicit contracts (in some states) by way of publishing firing procedures in employee handbooks, and a requirement (in a very few states, but notably for software, California) for good-faith behavior by employers. PIPs are part of the "reason to dismiss" documentation for that last bit. Still, your usual recourse is collecting unemployment, not anything more drastic.
From the little detail in the article, I gather that they don't, which is pretty bad in the context of the article.
This guide was very helpful around 2001-... to build Monkey HTTP Server:

http://monkey-project.com
http://github.com/monkey/monkey
Ever been in Russia apart the large cities? No roads. Just mere directions. Technically you have to clear the area from stumps and use large tractor with massive forest plough and automaton attached.
I'd argue that most employers don't really care. They want to use degree, university, and sometimes grades as a first-round filter for screening applicants. Do they actually care if you took the challenging Philosophy course from the good professor, or the easy-A from the Roman History professor? Hell no. So if the primary thing you want is a job, why would you ever take the challenging class? If a professor is significantly and knowingly more challenging than their peers and they don't adequately convey that up front why shouldn't they deserve a bad review. Part of the job is conveying expectations, and in my experience it seems like plenty of professors who will challenge and push know they are like this beforehand but really don't do anything they convey this until after a student is committed.
Yeah, I didn't want to give negative feedback per se, but I wanted to share my gut reaction with you because those are just as valuable as thought-out opinions w/r/t conversions.

I admire the boldness and as a Linguistics major I can confirm the craziness of the word, re: standing out, is way more valuable than any imagined revulsion that I may be assuming.

Best of luck.
as a communication layer between modules or micro services or any distributed system. if you want to push global updates to a system, you can push a message out to a channel and all of the subscribers will get the message.
Comparing LevelDB and RocksDB, take 2
Awesome Microservice
Pound: How Buzzfeed tracks shares across different social networks
This bias is just as bad as those who won't interview someone without a college degree. Lots of good developers don't have an active GitHub account. Why is it considered essential to spend all your spare time coding in addition to your full-time job? And unfortunately, a lot of companies won't even give you the time of day (despite lots of experience) if you don't have a college degree. I'd certainly not call it close to obsolete.
I know only a little about this, but I think the problem with fast growing trees is that the wood tends to be of low quality for commercial purposes. A while back eucaplyptus trees were planted all around the world, but turned out to not be very useful as lumber. I think they're mostly now used for paper pulp, which is still useful, but much less valuable than timber.

If the aim is to just regrow a forest quickly then maybe it doesn't matter. But I think there's probably a difference (aesthetically, if nothing else) between a healthy "natural" forest ecosystem and a plantation all of the same type of tree.
I think the author would prefer permission and transparency.

In other words informed consent.
Play with all your Google searches since 2007
Peoples Protest – May 2nd – Parliament Square – Be There
"Early TLS" means TLS 1.0

This is not very clear until you start digging in. I've never heard TLS 1.0 referred to as "early TLS" and nobody should do that; it has a very specific version number, please use it.
Gabe Newell addresses controversy over paid Steam mods
Yeah, this appears to be a bit misleading. It sounds as if they're just running the compiled jar as the /sbin/init process. IMO, thats a very lightweight distro but not a unikernel. #NotAnExpert.
Please speak for yourself, instead of relying on what "we" or "the people" want for apparent authority. Sexts are actually able to be viewed, and have been in the past:

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-nsa-abuses-are-self-repo...

You are right that people generally do take offense only when presented with gross and abject violations of their privacy, but to say that people shouldn't care about what the government is doing because the government doesn't (currently) do anything with it, is passing the buck along to future generations. Why even allow for such a massive potential for abuse to arise in the future? And again, documented abuses have already occurred, to say nothing of ones swept under the rug. Why collect the data in the first place if the government "doesn't use it" as you put it?
After having stiffed Microsoft, the EU has turned its attention to Google. Business as usual. You are talking about an organization that can't even balance its own budget, going about left and right extorting money from whoever seems to have a lot of it.
Sooner or later Appple will be next.
I wouldn't think so. Bay area salaries may be somewhat higher because of cost-of-living and certain high-profile firms may pay more than average even in that market. But you probably don't have anything like the stark salary bifurcation that you have in law where you have the big city associate salaries and everyone else (who may well consider themselves reasonably fortunate to even find a job. any job, as a lawyer).
why the hell would anyone do this, or even think about doing this?

if you're doing it for convenience, it ain't worth the jail time.

if you're doing it because your work computer has expensive development software, you're breaking ethics and legal agreements, then you'd deserve the jail time.

if you're doing it for any other reason ,DONT.
At this point, they might as well buy the newer F-18 until they can get a decision. It looks like Boeing needs orders or it will shutdown the line.
More likely Google is going to push toward Chromium and web-as-platform. This can be somewhat timed as hardware vendors switch over to Google-free Android. This will be the second move to undermine Apple.

This should work for most everything short of things that must have very low latency like VR. Keep an eye on Google's continued expansion in to telecom.
While it's true that the GPL and the distributed nature of Linux development helped GNU/Linux proliferate, that isn't the reason why the BSDs didn't. In reality, they were encumbered by legal problems due to being derivative works of AT&T's Unix; the ensuing legal war of attrition caused a lot of folks to be unsure of whether or not they could legally use any of the BSDs without having to pony up for Unix licenses.

As a result, Linux was created (Linus Torvalds has said that if Hurd existed or if the BSD legality issues were resolved, he wouldn't have felt the need to develop the Linux kernel), and folks jumped onto that as the preferred free Unix due to it being unencumbered by the massive legal warfare taking place in BSD Land (of course, SCO would eventually bring the battle to the GNU/Linux world, but by that point, Linux was already well-entrenched).
'What should kids study' an almost entirely separate question. I think we can have a good deal of diversity here.

As things progress, I hope "lifelong learning" takes care of this, at least in part. I remember hearing Bill Gates talk about philanthropy early on and getting the impression he was far less informed than an average MSFT employee. He learned.

I would learn to learn writing today, especially writing fiction. I wasn't interested when I was 19.
Cases like these - you could try to argue what's best with all kinds of arguments, ideas, principles and aim. Death? Life? 21 years + you need to make a shrink happy?

So the interesting question is: why does his current sentence bother you?

I'm honestly curious on your perspective.
Stross mentions a suppressed volume of Knuth, can't remember in which book
Isn't that progress though? How else would we figure out a better way to do things if not to see how others are doing it. Many times a framework is, 'Here is how we've been doing things on our team, check it out! It might be useful to you as well."

Then others pick up on those ideas and so on and so forth. They don't simply sit there and say.."oh well...we should make our own framework because we don't like the ones that exist and want to make this industry incredibly difficult." No, most frameworks that have been released, especially ones that have been worked on by many people, have a purpose...a way of doing things different, that those team members like. If you don't like the way they have come up with...you don't have to use it. That's the beauty of it. There are many ways to accomplish front end development. Even in my case, if I don't want to use it ever, it is still benificial to see how others are doing things because you can take bits and pieces of their ideas and use them. Id' like to see more well thought out frameworks.

This "we have too many frameworks" crowd always post the same comments every time a framework is announced. It's becoming tiring hearing from you guys. Nobody is forcing you to use a framework... It's literally the same as saying.."we like how we did things 5 years ago, and we never want to change."

Welcome to the wild, wild, west of web innovation. If you don't like constant change, this may not be for you.

Pro Tip: If you learn JavaScript first and not a framework, adopting new frameworks can be done very fast. I find most of the people who post and cry about there being a new framework are the ones who don't really know JavaScript.
Yet these stories don't make it onto the national news? They aren't plastered all over CNN? Where are the riots for these deaths?
TRAI website down after making over a million private email IDs public
> Maybe it's possible to build browsers and advertising and mobile devices that don't relentlessly erode privacy.

That's nice a nice sentiment. I'd be less skeptical if Firefox didn't change my default search engine behind my back. (After updating Android from 31 to 36.)
Sorry grandma That $42M slot machine jackpot was a computer glitch
That whole project was very secret, and some of the breakthroughs were only revealed in the last few decades. Also the movie showed him considering being a traitor, but there is no evidence this happened (they just added it to the movie for drama). He wasn't Jewish, it was just a racist insult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Early_life_and_fam...
Do you think most of your users are outside Burma? Your website seems to be advertising the app in English and Chinese but not Burmese?
Well, maybe it's about taste. But I personally can't stand these kind of books. Take this paragraph for example:

> What's this? There are two types of Internet sockets? Yes. Well, no. I'm lying. There are more, but I didn't want to scare you. I'm only going to talk about two types here. Except for this sentence, where I'm going to tell you that "Raw Sockets" are also very powerful and you should look them up.

There are quite a few books written like this, including most online tutorials, and other resources.

What I don't like about it is that more than 50% of the content is filled with the author's anecdotes (some of them have better sense of humor than others), while the actual content being discussed is barely touched.

You'll never see this kind of content on advanced mathematics, or field that require intense concentration, advanced thinking, because it's difficult to switch the context of your thinking from the author's silly jokes to the actual thing you're trying to learn.

In this case, it's simply touching the very simple bsd socket api, so of course it's very easy to follow. But imagine that you removed all the unnecessary jokes and anecdotes, you'd end up with 50% of the text and 100% of the useful information. I'm pretty sure information density is a good quality to have for any piece of writing.
This is a big factor. Students are only in the market for a couple months in most cases, so you need constant client intake.

The lack of a long run clientele reduces volume, and makes people only willing to tutor if they can get higher rates.
I did look at checkmate. It was my mistake in believing this was the total sum of the checker used in quantifiedcode.

One problem I have with such monetary solutions is that in business where I am willing to pay, I could not provide a SaaS tool like codechecker access to the enterprise github hosted on an internal network (or possibly some other repository service).

I'd be happy to pay, but it just isn't technically feasible unless there is a self-hosting solution, which complicates things for you beyond what is profitable: I don't know what the solution is, but this is why I use only cmd-line tools like prospector in business, rather than simply paying for landscape.io or codechecker.

I'll stay tuned, thanks for responding.
Good article.

The problem is that designers are going for “minimalism” instead of minimalism. The latter is painstaking exercise in stripping away everything that is non-essential to the form, while preserving the function; the former is a checkbox in a feature matrix.

I do have a minor quibble with the following:

> Flat design has been the hot current design trend. It may have been ushered into prominence by Apple’s iOS 7 and Google’s Material Design…

It's odd that he didn't acknowledge the Metro/Modern UI of Windows, which was the clear antecedent to the refreshing of iOS7 and Android.
btw, I never did this in my library because I didn't need to, but you could also support an operation that computes SCC's to minimize the groups without freezing the graph.

The minimized groups would still merge with other groups if you created links between them. But this would be a way to make the refcounting more precise without strictly requiring that subgraphs become immutable.
eSports aren't sports; that's why they're not called "sports" and are called "eSports" instead. You wouldn't think this would be confusing, but apparently it is.

And being as how people feel like they're entertaining competitions to watch, it doesn't seem out of place to air them on the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network; again, this doesn't seem like it would be confusing, but apparently it is.
Makes me feel like I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains, under some redwoods, listening to a creek gurgle by. Nice imagery, man.
This appears to be in FreeBSD ports already, so just

pkg install jq

and you can have it :)
> a smarter move [...]

The goal is getting the job, or being a smart ass?

As an interviewer, I'll put this one to bed. Pick up the white-board marker and start writing.

The intern can look up libraries; I want to see if you can understand what we'd be looking for in those libraries. If you can't implement and discuss a simple version of it, odds are that you cannot.

If during this process you talk about how you'd be starting a build/buy research cycle at certain points and what that'd look like, as we spec out the problem and build a prototype, that wouldn't be misplaced.
Let's say you have a web app that sends emails, and you have many worker processes actually sending emails. If you use something like Disque, instead of sending the email directly from the web app, you send a message to Disque, into the send_email queue: "Please send an email to foo@example.com". Workers sending emails will fetch from the send_email queue, and will get the message. Workers sending emails are supposed to acknowledged to Disque when they were actually able to process the message, so if they fail in some way, the message is re-queued and delivered again to the same or another worker, after a time you specify. So basically it adds a reliable middle-layer between the different moving parts of your application. The user will receive its email, or during failures it may receive the email multiple times, but it can never happen that no email is received by the user, since Disque guarantees that the message will be removed only once acknowledged.
Clarifies it perfectly for me. Thanks for the response.
> It seems the list of animals that menstruate is quite short: humans, apes, monkeys, bats and elephant shrews. What do these seemingly disparate animals have in common?

My unfixed female dogs have periods. So either the article is poorly written, or they are ignoring animals that don't fit the theory.
Talking as if "face" and individualism are opposites simply proves that you have no understanding of one or both of those concepts.
Ask HN: How do you take notes?
For the past 3 or so years I've just kept an open Sublime window and tabs for my notes but recently I've been trying Evernote. I really dislike the lack of plain notes in Evernote so I'm going to switch back to Sublime and keep a project on my iCloud drive.

What's your note workflow?
You can actually juice out free Wordpress hosting from cloud platforms like Heroku, Cloud Control or perhaps even Bluemix. Definitely wouldn't suit beginners, but worth a look.
Hackers Target Mexican News Site for Publishing Article on State Massacre
Is math a science?
A revenue-neutral carbon tax requires impossible knowledge to implement. Without a market price system, you cannot determine such a tax.

Further, tax changes move at a glacially slow pace compared to the process changes and technological progress that would be natural reactions to increased costs of producing carbon.
I'd forgotten about that. Stross's book shows its age here, it's volume 4. The bit is on page 134: https://books.google.ca/books?id=GfSGzhDcU2UC&lpg=PP1&dq=atr...
Oh, in the same source there is a new one - МЛА-1А «Илана». Can plant forests at 3,75km/h with same cassette feeder 4000 saplings per load on clearings _with_ tree stumps (if stumps density is below 600 stumps/ha.
Question... could a big cause of the bimodal distribution come from the big divide between graduating from a top school and getting recruited by a prestigious law firm vs the other lower paying jobs such as public defender, private practice ambulance chaser, etc?

Peter Thiel once said that a diploma is a dunce hat if you don't go to a top school.[1] I'd translate that further and say that if you don't get into one of the top-20 law schools (Phoenix Law instead of Harvard Law), you will most likely end up on the lower paying bimodal hump instead of the higher one.

The "dunce" characterization comes into play because those lower tier law schools are still very expensive and even the unranked schools[2] will still require massive loans to finish.

[1]http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/investing/peter-thiel-apple-...

[2]http://www.azsummitlaw.edu/admissions/tuition-and-financial-...
..how does this apply to 17 year olds, average or above average 17 year olds?

I think hanging everything on motivation alone, in your home, as a 17 year old is tricky. Having no social context for what you are doing is tricky. Ultimately the goal is (IMO) getting as close as possible to the most effective learning possible, say the high watermark being a brilliant and engaging teacher one-on-one with technology assistance to boot. How close can we get to that? How big a component is psychology, social constructs and the like?
Ask HN: What do you do when you're depressed for a day?
I'm a founder of a funded company. We have plenty of runway left, will probably be able to raise another round, etc. Have a small team of really talented people.
But the past couple of days I've been completely down in the dumps. Like... barely able to get out of bed and function. A lot of it comes from my frustrations with the product that I keep playing over and over in my mind - I'm not sure how we're going to "win." It makes me want to crawl into a hole and die.

But I know I can't do that. I have to go talk to users and our employees and pretend like nothing is wrong (maybe nothing is?) I mean we have a long way to go, but we're on the right course.

I just don't know what to do on days like today. I don't know how to keep going.
aphyr is gonna torture this system soon