skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize it's not a guide for the exact same thing, but How To Become A Hacker[1] has many things to say about leveling up.

The 'hacker attitude' is especially well summed up, imo.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
I wonder who at Google wrote this. HTML is listed as a programming language, and JavaScript is written as two words.
Shut Up ARP – DragonFly BSD Digest
You're fighting a straw man, read my comment again without pre conceived bias.

A luxury is anything beyond basic necessities like food and shelter. People in poor countries, working 12 hour work days for $10 per day or less, don't have the luxury of working part time.

I'm totally fine with someone choosing to work fewer hours or more hours than I'm willing to do, as long as they're capable of supporting themselves.

I'm not totally fine with people claiming they would like to work full time, but the government is making it impossible by not subsidizing daycare, out of some kind of conservative bias against working mothers, because that is simply a lie.
(Disclaimer: I'm a heavy Lua user and think its wonderful.)

Are you not conflating ZBS with Lua? Because I think that ZBS wouldn't be possible/feasible if it weren't for the widespread and general use of Lua.

I write my apps in MOAI, when I need a GUI (Go when I don't). For my needs, SublimeText has ben enough - of course when DanielSWolf brought MOAI support to the ZBS codebase, I checked it out - and abandoned ZBS - going back to ST2.

The reason - while ZBS may be a great Lua IDE, with integrated debugging and other features - its just not that great an editor - at least, it doesn't have the ethos of being a "programmers editor" which SublimeText does. SublimeText has its thorns and warts of course too, but it is a smooth and fast editor when you get to know it.

I've been able to get a lot of work done with MOAI and SublimeText, but it may work because I don't have high expectations/demands - source-level debugging, while nice, is not really necessary for my way of doing things. SublimeText, being a superlative editor, gives me most of what I need - for everything else, there is "$ cscope -R -s $MOAI_SDK_DIR" ...
I would agree with VCS, preferably distributed and centralised.

It does mention GitHub and Kiln (Mercurial)

"Work on a small piece of a large system (codebase), read and understand existing code, track down documentation, and debug things.
Notes: Github is a great way to read other people’s code or contribute to a project.

Online Resources: Github, Kiln"
Is 0.3% error rate caused by GC pause?
The palm rests cracked from, as far as I can tell, normal wear and tear. Certainly nothing more than I subjected my old L520 to, and that never cracked.
Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or PHP for MVPs
In general which do you prefer for building MVP's? I can build an extremely basic (and crappy) CRUD app on the LAMP stack but my code isn't very modular. Would Rails be better for rapid modular development?
I am sorry for my bad English! Mrs, I guess!
Whenever something becomes mainstream it's because it has been stripped of deeper context to appeal to the consuming masses. Pop Science will inevitably piss off scientists just like art critics will scoff at inexperienced amateurs or public commentary. Bite-sized feel good scientific content fashioned for larger audiences can come across more concrete than it should - you're right on that. If it comes at the expense of a more "scientifically minded" public, i'm fine with that. We're better off in the world of TED than we were before it.
Instant Gratification (2014)
That's actually how I started, and `int` has a base parameter.

But it's still relatively verbose, due to Python's whole "join-only-takes-strings" thing:

def valueOf(*values, base=10):
return int("".join(map(str, values)), base=10)

Not to mention it's doing a whole lot of unnecessary work.
I'm bummed that it's apparently vendor-locked. A configurable Dash would make it applicable to all things Amazon. There are perhaps 100 places in our facility that a '"consumable X needs a refill/attention". We don't need a specific brand, and the brand we use can vary over time as needs and pricing change.
Or just send a new piece of content with the same ID and hope that it will win. But seriously, just a new created date. Same ID.
Here is the link to page dedicated to Ramanujan's related content including his notebook in scanned format - http://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/contentindex.html
Here's another, it is a please CLICKME page, even if it doesn't look like it. [0]

[0] http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/ae0fad06ab58fa6bbc1599733b6c0c...
doing more listening/processing/data transfer than just the initial setup + occasional button presses would make it drain its single AAA battery quite fast.
As the page is content-addressed, it can only change the content by changing the address, thus creating a whole new webpage - address and content, after all, define the resource.
How Apple Pay Is Exploited for Fraud
Bundestag Inquiry into BND and NSA (WikiLeaks)
That quote doesn't support your claim. "Writers and critics value X, readers don't" doesn't necessarily* imply "X doesn't sell books", and it definitely doesn't imply "and selling books is all I care about".

*Readers might not care about X, but they might care about what critics think of a book. This makes sense: as a reader, I'm probably not capable of critically evaluating the arguments in a book, so I have to rely on critics to find out whether or not the arguments are solid.
Computer access for billions?
How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002)
Why not Greece?
Thank you! I was going to say the same thing.

"Hurry! Before anyone has a simple thought in their head, brand them as racist and misogynist!"
I would concentrate on just Andrew Ng's course until you finished it. Even though the problem sets are solved using Matlab/Octave you will learn just about all the theory you need to later try different frameworks written in different languages. I earned a 99.6% grade in that class (I have a few decades of AI experience, so I took the class as an excellent review) and I feel that every minute spent on this class was worthwhile.
Differential Dataflow for real-time graph analytics
An Insiders Guide to Help App Publishers Define Their App Feature Roadmap
First batch might be a MVP.
Pure CSS FizzBuzz
To Hire an SEO or Not to Hire an SEO Shouldn't Really Be a Question
I actually do not think that is a better argument.

If I understand you correctly, you are implying that we should make the argument that searching everything will result in less effective law enforcement because there will be so much more data that we will miss more things.

If this were true, then it would be an excellent argument -- rather like the argument against using torture in interrogations because it actually does a WORSE job of getting people to tell you (true) information than other techniques. This is in addition to the argument against torture that claims that torture is simply evil and we shouldn't be doing it.

I think that invading everyone's privacy without a warrant and without any good REASON to suspect an individual ("reasonable and articulable suspicion") is simply evil and we shouldn't be doing it. But I do NOT also believe that invading everyone's privacy will reduce the number of criminals caught. I actually think it would be quite effective at catching criminals. The massive amount of data available would be create more work, but investigators would spend time only on people they had vague inarticulable reasons to suspect, and this would be quite efficient. For instance, if you focused just on black males age 17-29 and combed through every email or electronic communication they had ever made, I am sure you could find tens of thousands of felonies -- but such a process would be profoundly unfair. In addition, you can use computers to search through the giant haystacks very efficiently.
That was never said or implied.
For anyone reading this. I strongly recommend to find a better resource than w3school, suggested by Google.

The link is even broken, but this is a tiny detail.

W3School have bad reputation [1] and is considered bad.

[1] http://www.w3fools.com/
Actually, the first response was from a hellbanned account espousing exactly that point of view.

I'm also not sure where you got that I'm trying to censor discussion - you commented, did you not?

"michas 3 hours ago [dead]

It has nothing to do with intelligence, it is just all about being realist. Existence of different races comes from the fact that there are genetic differences between people. It would be stupid to assume that those genetic differences have no other effect than skin color."
I don't consider it a "horror story" but I did end up shopping around for my last car, including a trip to the closest dealership.

Selling me a car would have been a great deal for those guys as my wife insisted that we do every repair at the dealership. Trust me the purchase price was nothing next to the maintenance outlay over the following decade for that lemon.

Still the guys closest to me when presented with the paperwork from another dealership for an already closed deal and the question "Would you care to match this price for another one?" started the "OK, cool your jets here while we go talk about nothing in the ``manager's'' office for twenty minutes" game.

I walked out and bought at the next closest dealership which gladly accepted the deal. It was simple math. As an hourly contractor those guys were literally taking money out of my pocket every minute they wasted.
78% of companies say they run operations on open source
A safe refactoring: extract a method
Show HN: Free psd stuff – Hand-picked templates, icons, mockups, UI kits
I would recognize that this is effectively restating one of the basic precepts of Christianity (do unto others ...). Islam, and any other religion, are very different (as you would expect, it's a different religion after all).

The Islamic attitude to this can be found by googling "enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil". And it very much disagrees with that statement. Loosely translated, what "God desires" in islam is that you force others - without violence if possible, with violence if necessary - to follow islam's rules, both in positive sense, and the negative sense. There is an entire legal theory around this which you can read if you like. Also, in islam, there is only one state, one law, and the state encompasses all. There is no police force in sharia, everyone is police, there is no-one without personal responsibility for following sharia, and policing others' following of sharia.

Note that in some ways - in theological theory - it is almost the opposite. A Christian should believe in Christ in his/her heart and mind, and outward appearances do not influence his relation with God. From a Muslim, on the other hand, heart and mind don't matter, nor does belief (says so in the quran), but following the rules does.
Tolkien inspired street names
Hahaha the old "if a tree fell in the woods" eh?
The problem with not having a math background is that you will succumb to all the people who throw around buzzwords but don't know what the hell they're talking about. You need to be able to recognize (and assert authority over) someone whose first thought is that "support vector regression and a bayesian net" is the right way to go. Or, to put it nicer, refine their thought into something useful.

The problem with not having a software and "grungy coding skills" background is that you aren't able to efficiently reproduce/check/verify claims being made which are often wrong or misleading. A recent example I had of this is someone studying how an algorithm behaved on a subset of interest of a particular population, and they didn't even bother to check that the subset of their data was statistically large enough to draw any conclusions (only 17 records out of thousands). Needless to say this example also failed on the reproducibility and reuse fronts.

The problem with both in academia (even at polytechnic non research schools) is that they don't know enough about each other.
So clear that amazon did not bother avoiding around april 1st for the product presentation.
Verizon would like you to forget SugarString – Wikipedia obliges
Enhanced photos of women increase attractiveness but lowered trustworthiness
In the Netherlands, strikes are actually rare when compared to surrounding countries, although there has been a small uptick recently.
Sorry for disagreeing a little bit, but being familiar with a tool like a version control system is the least of the problems.

It's important, but not that much to be a item on this list.
Nutanix – New Community Edition for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
The kickstarter campaign already has over $1.3 million in backers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual...
> What I never heard was any constructive career advice, or any details other than the outsourcing and cheap foreigners.

I don't think the purpose of their tirade was to provide you with career advice. It sounds like they were bitter that they invested time and energy in their career and they were resentful of managers replacing them with an option that seemed cheaper. They probably grew up in a time where you could work for a company for life. I bet IBM seemed like a great place to work when they started.

Can't you empathize with them even if you find yourself making better life choices?
Uruguayan justice investigates the greatest scam in history, First Data involved
ESI, EDiscovery, InfoGov? What, Exactly, Are You Talking About?
One can't seriously use an ORM without knowing SQL, because they all come with their own proprietary incomplete wrapper language (HQL, etc.). ORM simplicity breaks down the moment you push them even slightly hard.

Big data analytics is increasingly done with Hive's SQL dialect, or Impala, or Hawq. Beyond all of these, relational data modelling is an essential skill for anyone building server side applications if you have to deal with information management, whether you use SQL or not.
That site doesn't say what's wrong with W3Schools, and it does say "when you're ready to level up, move on" which suggests that it's a reasonable resource for beginners to use.
has your mom or other people you know ever paid for whatsapp? I know i've never seen anyone pay, just anecdotally.
Google Hangouts doesn’t use end-to-end encryption, law enforcement can access it
For example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn/HTML

But really, if you want to learn html+CSS, you need to spend a bunch of time just making layouts if you want to get a mental model into your head. It is just too finicky to reason about otherwise
Currently Viewing: 0

Connecting to websocket.

Having a Sixth Sense-style existential crisis moment here... o_0
Why would they need to offer a trial? Just type in 0$ and download or just download the torrent directly (they default to a torrent anyway, at least when choosing 0$).
> You obviously don't understand the main point he is driving at. It's about colonialism. And throughout history, the White Man is typically the colonizer. He's just furthering his point.

When Google starts to suck the blood out of southeast Asian coolies (to make it harder for them to run away) and furthers the Opium trade to establish economic dominance over China, then he can start comparing modern companies to 1800s-style century colonialism.

Mind you, the East India Company was a privately owned enterprise. And as far as I can tell, that's what he's implicitly comparing Google to.

And as he compares Google to 1800s colonialism, he is making a _complete_ mockery of history. Are you freaking serious? Free Internet offered on balloons is equivalent to EIC-style Imperialism / Colonialism ?

It's equivalent to murdering hundreds-of-thousands of Zulu spearmen with Gatling Guns to establish South Africa Diamond Trade?

His arguments are a mockery of history, and anyone who knows the brutal history of colonialism can only shake their head at the comparison. You are a FOOL to even attempt to draw an equivalency here.

Again, I agree with the point he is _trying_ to make. The problem is that he's an absolutely horrible speaker and horrible arguer. I told you, I refuse to use Facebook or Twitter on privacy grounds. And I've switched my search engine to DDG.gg. I'm living the practice dude, I take online privacy very seriously.

But the hyperbolic elitist aura eminated from Aral Balkan is going to harm the privacy cause in the long run. I prefer to see people on my side of the argument making solid points. Again: Search Bubble. Search privacy. Metadata collection. It is pretty easy to point out the issues of the modern internet: you don't need to make a mockery of history to make good points here.
I grew up near the Canadian border. When I left for SV 7 years ago, you never saw border patrol outside of the border crossings. When I came back last year, I saw their patrol cars roll by every couple of days. That may not sound like a lot, but I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I see them more than I see the local cops.

I also heard they put surveillance cameras and licence plate readers all over Massena[0]. There's nothing there. College kids roll through it all the time to go to Cornwall to drink. That's about it.

[0]: http://www.newzjunky.com/news/0601massena_cameras.htm
There's got to be some threshold though - it's not best prepared. A few years ago we wouldn't use much cloud storage because there weren't many options to do so. Right now, if you are a terrorist and carry your data with you, unencrypted, you're a complete idiot and will likely fail in some other way.
Self discipline?
I didn't choose Java for my backend just because it uses too much RAM. The VPS(s) with large RAM are expensive.
ID is a hash of the content so that's not possible unless you find a hash collision (highly unlikely with sha256).
I'm disappointed for a different reason. I'm just sick and tired of the delta new thing. Frontend dev as it is practiced today is horrible ... libraries and frameworks seem to have shelf lives measured in months!

I was watching a video posted this morning (how NYT uses Go) and the dev was mentioning how challenging their system used to be with different languages - Python, PHP, Java and Groovy ... so they decided to redo major chunks in Go. Seriously?

I don't pretend to have the answer ... stopping to innovate isn't going to cut it. But I increasingly feel that as a tech worker, I'm on a train careening towards a ravine without a bridge. But hey ... lets go faster and it'll be a fun ride!
It helps to determine how future-proof your hire might be. If a candidate wants to learn, say, Android development, they will be very unhappy writing PHP tests in a year's time.

(But then, it’s nothing new. Rule of the thumb is always, hire for attitude and train for skills - and not the other way around.)

Oh, and lying happens all the time. The only way around it is getting better with inter-personal skills.
> You will see a list of available options from the product line your Dash Button is associated with. For example, if your Dash Button can be used for Tide detergent, you may see a list of various Tide detergent scents and sizes that you can choose from. Tap the item to select it.[0]

That is disappointing, from the early materials it seemed like the face plate was just branding and you could select anything you wanted. They're probably partnering with the various brands that there are buttons for pay some of the cost of manufacturing the devices. There might be a non brand locked version coming in the future once they've moved past the initial release and rollout. At least I hope so.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Except even the w3fools recognizes that w3schools has improved...
You seem to be contradicting yourself -- "just stuff that you learn along the way" vs "Doesn't list getting familiar with any version control systems". Aren't version control systems "stuff that you learn along the way" in your opinion?

IMO, any resource like the one in the OP is going to get bashed ("not the way I would learn stuff"). Might as well learn something from it.
or mandate that pipes should have universal access, so that it becomes like a utility (i'd compare it to electricity). If you decide to sell your own brand of toasters, you cannot be allowed to send 'cleaner/better' electricity to your own toaster than to your competition's.
The setup process involves some audio processing which requires slightly more than trivial signal processing and also some RAM usage...
Also handling the network stack requires some RAM. The combination of those two requirements and the low cost of the STM32s of that level of capability mean it was probably a sensible choice.
I especially find the instant delivery order disturbing. Is that even close to necessary in 90% of the use cases? Putting the product in a shopping cart would be more than enough and would allow group shipping.
Tesla and Its Subsidies
AeroFS on Docker
Like parallel construction but hyper-threaded.
I've never seen a person in the US actually use WhatsApp to talk to another person in the US. I used to occasionally see someone use it to talk to friends who were traveling abroad, but that's mostly been replaced by iMessage or Hangouts at this point.
When I visited China last year, Samsung was the brand of phone I saw most often

I bet most of those were not real Samsungs, but generic clones with the Samsung name on them.
That's to be expected. The NSA/CIA/FBI/etc all have to meet expectations that are pretty much unreasonable. We basically tell them "You're not allowed to know everything but you have to prevent everything". And when they don't prevent things we haul them before the public and whip them. Of course they'll do everything they can to work around the law.
Hacking Around LinkedIn’s Stupidity
For me at least. It's simply incomplete list of popular keywords with some explaination. I can never use it as a full reference. There are [1] many [2] posts [3] suggesting what is bad inside.

1: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/280478/why-not-w3sch...
2: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87678/discouraging-w...
3: http://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/4fd1d78b7e79680003...
Hardly a concern anymore. These are just line items on a bill of materials now:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/450-0103C/450-0103C...
People will have better luck with rural telephone companies trying to stay alive then big wireless carriers. Sprint and T-Mobile absolutely suck in coverage area for rural folks.

One example, Steele ND and the surrounding area is served by a small rural telephone company that is laying a lot of fibre (I'm hoping they head North). A 200M plan (no cap) for $45 a month. This is being repeated quite a lot in rural areas with rural cooperatives.
This is more interesting than the title eludes to; this is P2P via websockets. Neat!
Elon Musk Wants to Clear Up a Few Things
Ask HN: Should i keep or sell high-end dev laptop
Hi,

I'm a developer, and use a high-end ultrabook (Thinkpad), purchased in 2012 approx. $2000.

The machine works great at the moment, and I guess that in like 2 years it will be worth nothing if I want to sell it, and I may start to have problems with it (battery, keyboard, bezel, something will eventually stop working well).

I'm not sure of its value as a used machine in good condition at the moment, but guess it can be close to half the purchase price.

How do you guys manage your hardware?

Would you recommend me to buy a new machine now, and get rid of mine now that it still has some value on the market?
Turn you PBX into a full fledged VoIP dialer: WombatDialer 0.9 released
I understand that point and agree with it.

But the _way_ he states it is stuck-up, disparaging and elitist. He's a horrible speaker who is only able to "preach to the choir". Anyone who disagrees with _any_ of his minor viewpoints will end up hating this point of view.