skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some truth to this. For my Master's degree, I got a fellowship where I did some work that the university had a grant for (maybe 10-20 hrs/wk) and they fully covered my tuition and housing, with a bit left for food (but I would have had to eat very cheaply to make it cover all of my food).
Simpler: people like to argue. Some multi-dimensional topics its hard to find a single definitive answer. Those topics, you can argue about forever.
But instruction is all in German, right?

That requires some planning ahead.

Edit: Wow, I missed that. Very cool!
There are machines at banks used mainly to swap old bills for new ones (新札). It's considered not-so-good form to pay for something with beat up bills, so they get a lot of use.
The keybase CLI allows you to keep the private keys offline on a machine of your choice, and does the crypto the "standard way" (shelling out to gpg):

https://keybase.io/docs/command_line
> undemocratic regimes with dismal human rights recordsundemocratic regimes with dismal human rights records

Usually the democratic regimes make such claims visit all sorts of human rights abuses on citizens of other countries in the name of human rights and freedom. So there's that.
Empirically, its obvious. Most people on the planet value these things. Societies are under selection pressure like organisms. So these things must be advantageous to societies.

Clearer?
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Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements
> the mind is algorithmic

Huh? If you mean this:

> A mathematician's mind works somehow.

then it seems like you may be using 'algorithmic' to mean something like "unfolding according to (possibly unknown, possibly probabilistic) laws", in which case it seems so broad a term as to be almost useless.
If you land in the Ivy league, then yes the price tag might be worth it. Who wouldn't hire an MIT engineer, or an Harvard Lawyer if they can afford it? But if you are not at the top schools why rack up the same type of student debt while you can get the same level anywhere else in the world?

If your field is cultural then yes studying in the country in which it is more pertinent makes sense (Why study Japanese literature in Italy just to illustrate). But if your field is technical, or removed enough from local culture then looking around makes all the sense in the world.

But frankly there is plenty of schools that I regard as highly as MIT, CMU and such that are Europe (Polytech Paris, Poly Lausanne, Normal School of Pisa, Poly Milan, ... I am forgetting a lot) or Asia (Tokyo Tech) and while you might need to get a loan for some costs it will never get to US levels (I studied in Unis in Italy, France and Japan to get my BS and MS and all my loans were exactly EUR15000 by the time I found a
job ... I had part-times and Scholarships but those were not hard to get, and I had declared bankruptcy I could have gotten rid of those since I took those loans in Europe).
I don't think it's particularly productive to nitpick on the origins of freedom; you can go back a long way, even to Hammurabi, but virtually all free first world countries today (except, perhaps, Switzerland?) derive their individual rights from the concepts pioneered by the events that led to the Magna Carta, that is, the first (famous) time that citizen decided that kings and the aristocracy (and later, religions) were not above the law.

I do agree with you regarding the Founding Fathers; it was worse than this, as despite willingness from several of the Fathers to end slavery there and then (one could argue that Washington's manumission of all his slaves at the end of his life indicated his vision for an equal future), those who were slave owners pushed hard to keep the practice going and consider slaves as property to be protected, and the Fathers compromised. As we know, it took over half a century until the matter was settled militarily.

Nevertheless, they did not need to change the philosophy of the country, merely to affirm the status of slaves as human beings covered by the protection of individual rights, unlike, say, the Ancients (such as Aristotle, one of the fathers of reason), who happily justified slavery as natural and a perfectly justifiable practice in a modern free society. To put it down in software terms, whilst the model was sound, the implementation was lacking. There was no previous, compromise-free, sound model. Washington could have called himself King, he chose President, setting such an example that the United States has yet to yield to a tyrant.
I'm an atheist, so I can't directly relate. But I comprehend the logic throughout her post. RIP SurveyMonkey Dave!
Hackear
Como hackear um instagram perdido ?
In what fashion is GCS not a distributed file system?
Reading this took me back to the experience of grieving for my dad.

The realization that it will never be okay, but that I can become more okay with it never being okay. The bizarre feeling of grief so unbearable and yet it being one of the few connections left to someone so important to me, and so being unwilling to let go of it. Even to this day, I revel in that grief. I've learned to look at it as consequence of so many wonderful experiences instead of hurt of so many missed experiences. The feeling of that void inside me is the same, but my reaction to that feeling is now to smile rather than to cry.

My heart goes out to her in this time when everything is so fresh and so confusing. I know the feeling of having had someone taken from me long before I even thought about the possibility and yet I'm sure her experience is distinct from mine in so many ways. But in writing about her pain, she's allowed me to tap back into mine in a way that I'm thankful for.
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(1) Not quite. The "deliberative democracy" camp is not interested in the measurement of group preference, and are instead interested in consensus building, political "rationality" (in hopefully some eventually-stabilizing sense), and so on. That is not a response to Arrow and his associates, it is just a different topic.

(2) It is abundantly clear why a "procedure" should satisfy all of the requirements of the related theorems: they are trivial, intuitive, and absolutely spot-on. There is a reason why these results are surprising, and not just some arbitrary theorems concerning uninteresting axioms.

(3) Arrow's theorem has nothing to do with explaining anything. It is an impossibility result in mathematics.

The rest of your post seems just dismissive of the problem, rather than directly critical of it. ("All in all.." -- as if these results were just passing fads and now we've got our sense back??)
This looks fantastic.

Before Google axed it, there was 'Google Sets', which expanded a few basis terms into a longer list of related phrases.

To be sure, this seems to be more powerful than that. The ability to eek out a 3D model by simply playing around with five or so intuitive parameters could be enough to get millions of people to use 3D modelling for many casual purposes in the first place (whereas traditional tools require orders of magnitude more deliberate thought, and therefore cannot be justified for non-critical drawings).
I used to think that. Then I realized that the one reason to think that legacy is important, is that losts of very influential people, the kind that leave a legacy, seem to think so. By that lens, legacy is nothing but a virus that uses your resources to replicate.

Currently, I aim to love as much as I can and to have some fun! Any other aim, just seems like a great way to fret.
Current corporate structure? Current cap table? Who is on the Board? Are they coming on full time and in the trenches with you? Are they a business partner who is going to be sweating equity, paid a salary, a bit of both? Just a few factors to consider.

One globally applicable rule, in all circumstances at least a 3 month cliff and 2 year vesting period, but typically a 1 year cliff and 4 year vesting. Unless you have a decade of prior experience working with the new hire, and really, even then.

Consider tax implications. E.g. You'll need a 409(a) valuation and you want it to be low. Consider if the new hire will get a Board seat.

Most importantly good luck and have fun. Remember it should be an enjoyable experience and trust your gut. In general a smaller slice of a big pie is better than a large slice of "ramen profitable". Be wary of "advisors" who say they will make big things happen for your company but aren't the ones who are going to put in the sweat, blood, and tears to make it happen.

Just a side note, your first paragraph is a bit of a red flag. If you can't find people to work with you on an idea, especially considering you've been through 2 accelerators, it's not likely that geography is the primary cause. Remember, sales is about selling ice to Eskimos and selling people on your startup is a Founder's #1 job.
Nope! From the article:

> She did not need German, however, in her Master's programme, which was filled with students from 50 different countries but taught entirely in English. In fact, German universities have drastically increased all-English classes to more than 1,150 programmes across many fields.
Demos and Dumplings: Why HubSpot Does Engineering Show and Tell
Extensive discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653389
Dependency management and Go
The phone app challenging violence against women in a Mumbai slum
I suspect that many of these same Rubyists who mistakenly assumed ^ and $ have the normal PCRE semantics would still readily claim to know Ruby, and in many cases, even to know it well. I think this type of vulnerability undermines the optimistic belief that any decent programmer can quickly learn a new language, and further, it shows the danger of adopting new languages generally, especially those with extremely complex and not particularly well-defined syntax and semantics, like Ruby.

I also wonder how many vulnerabilities result just from Rubyists favoring cutesy APIs (or "DSLs," as they call them) that while making for great demos, hide the often times unignorable, crucial details of what they do from their users.
yes because that actually works in the US. /s
Its different in a sense, sure. But consider: if I replaced it so perfectly that it was atom-by-atom identical, then God himself would not be able to say if it was you or not. Unless we admit to some external agency that defines 'you' that is not present in the mechanism e.g. a soul.
Presto is a copy of dremel. Putting it all together:

gfs -> hdfs

bigtable -> hbase

google mapreduce -> hadoop

dremel -> presto

protocol buffers -> swift
Yes you just need an agreement with one of the five eyes and international spying becomes domestic spying.
Well, you're the one who made the declaration. Seems like the onus is on you, right?

To make it easier, maybe you can point to just one of the statements in that comment that hasn't historically happened.
Visiting San Fran – Looking to meet with startups
I am visiting San Fran in Sept this year and I am looking to meet up with some start ups.

I am a senior dev/devops engineer that only worked for startups. Currently in Melb, AU might be looking to move to US.
>Adding an agreed upon layer that aligns with clean architecture[0)

Creating new boilerplate never aligns with clean architecture. Clean architecture means solving your problem in the least amount of code possible, not the the most.

>monolithic systems where there is a sincere lack of data and state guarantees.

If anything you get fewer guarantees about your library if you expose it over a REST api instead of putting it directly on your call stack. Your library can actually go down and you have to prepare yourself for this eventuality and write a ton of code to deal with that.

>It's the same amount of monitoring.

25 services require 25 checks. 4 services require 4 checks, with all of the attendant graphs, notification systems, etc. There is simply no way to wriggle out of that one, no matter how great you think this architectural model is.

> This also allows you the ability to change or create circuit breakers to fail over when issues targeting specific are found. (see slides 134-150 of Sam Newman's principles of microservices [1])

This is a fix for a self-created problem. If I create a library to add two numbers together and create an API endpoint for it, I need a circuit breaker for it. If I instead just call it directly, I don't.

>They should have been "ironed out"

Of course they should be "ironed out" if you follow a microservices architecture! You have to do all of this self created work or your app becomes massively unreliable. The point is that you can avoid these problems altogether if you KISS and don't follow a microservices architecture.

>What it sounds like you're saying is:

>"Building a monolithic app

Firstly, there is nothing intrinsically monolithic about running two libraries on the same computer, in the same service. Loose coupling has nothing to do with whether you are running two different bits of software in the same service. It simply means that the amount of work you have to do to swap out a component is low.

I currently work on a "microservices" system and it is tightly coupled as hell and a monolith.

I've built non-microservices apps that are extremely loosely coupled.

This intentional conflation of the word 'monolith' and "non-microservices" is disingenuous as hell.

>allows you to crutch bad behavior and poor design without having to understand the realities of software.

If "not doing microservices is a crutch", strong typing is also a crutch.

As it happens, I don't need the "crutch" of creating rest API endpoints between my libraries to make them loosely coupled. I do it anyhow. If I were to work with somebody who doesn't write loosely coupled code, though, I certainly wouldn't want to magnify the explosions caused by their bad code by making it tightly coupled over a series of interconnecting, networked services.

>You can ignore scalability, clean architecture, concurrency, data modeling and graceful failures."

I prefer to make scalability, clean architecture, concurrency, data modeling and graceful failure easier to handle, not harder. I can do that by using a (where possible) stateless, non-microservices architecture.
> Because they’d been to the top of the mountain, and they
> just knew in their heart they’d never get there again,
> that it was never going to get — never going to be that
> way ever again

And Sheryl says:

> I know I will never feel pure joy again. Those who have
> said, “You will find a new normal, but it will never be
> as good” comfort me more because they know and speak the
> truth

Is this attitude ... normal? I guess in the near aftermath, it's sure going to feel that way, but ten years later? 20 years later? 30 years later? I can understand never forgetting, but never letting yourself feel as happy again?

I have no experience, but would love to hear from someone with experience >10 years after the fact...
Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?
Depends on how many people stay, and for how long.
> An actual study needs to be performed before deciding on a "Right Approach" as this piece does.

I wouldn't say this piece decides on a "Right Approach" at all, especially if you read the last two paragraphs, in which he says he doesn't feel like he has enough information to make a decision about it. Which is essentially the point you made.

Though it's fair to say the title and intro _feel_ like they're leaning toward making the point that you reacted to.
I'd assume the real reason is that German is a very hard language rarely taught/learned in the US, and conversely, every German student with university access qualification has had at least 7 years of English lessons...
In fairness, wikipedia does not do well for interactive content (perhaps it could?). Khan Academy is doing much better for this, but it isn't really an encyclopaedic collection of knowledge.

There really isn't a place for people to put this other than their personal blogs.
Spoken like somebody without kids. They trigger responses built into our brains that make family very much more important that all the rest. Thus, family isn't a game any more.
Depends on your University.
You can get the MIND courses in English. Other courses are usually held only in German.
> I think concurrency has nothing to do with doing things "at the same time".

Concurrent is a word that pre-dates computers, and for the English language to work we need to stay true to its definition. The dictionary definition is: "occurring or existing simultaneously".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concurrent
I just recently read that foreign students in Germany are failing extraordinarily often. Mostly because of the language.

For someone who wants to go down that route in the US I would heavily recommend learning German intensively for at least two years before even going to Germany, and make sure you can read German almost as fast as their native (English/Spanish) language.

A good starting point is Duolingo.com!
The prayer got me the most.

"Let me not die, while I am still alive..."

That's powerful stuff. The idea of asking for more time like a kid in a swimming pool - just 5 more minutes!

I hope I do die while I'm still alive though. Dying after I'm done living sounds worse.
...but that sounds crazy, right? I mean, we both know how hard it is to hire a proper distributed systems engineer. That's the implicit complaint you're making here.

Well, but wait—why is it hard? I don't think it's an intrinsic thing. Distributed systems aren't any more complicated than calculus or graph theory. It's not like we couldn't make the proper design of them a required course in colleges.

Distributed systems have more possible failure modes, far broader latency spectra, and a greater degree of simultaniety / nondeterminism, as compared to non-distributed systems.

Distributed systems are fundamentally more complex than purely local systems, in all of correctness, fault-tolerance, and performance.

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I can build distributed systems, but that doesn't mean I do build them if not absolutely necessary. Because it's a pain in the ass, and I can get far more useful work done if I don't bother with it.

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Remember: Network transparency is a lie.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Number one.

Your FUD is utterly pathetic. Utterly. This BS needs to stop. You may not like the language, fine. But dead? FFS.
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On a smaller scale, you can see subway trains bend when going into a turn (where the outer rail will be a bit higher than the inner one)
I too used to think this way. I can't explain it now that I have a child and family and have lost people very close to me. Where as before the mere thought of innovating I felt like I was some of the first people ever to be doing something where in now I find it was all just a race. I.E. - Someone else could've finished that super fancy product and made lots of money. Just today I missed my daughter swimming for the first time and no amount of money or technology can fix that.

I agree with you about the hopeful positive impact. Impact is hard to quantitively measure though so much as love is hard to measure. You only know how much you are loved by surrounding yourself with people who love you and sharing your love for them I guess. I never realized how alone I was until I had an inner circle to miss.
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IMO JavaEE has always sucked. That said, some big corps have invested a lot of money in it and I doubt it'll be gone any time soon.
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H1Bs are a way to discriminate against all workers, foreign and domestic. The domestic workers are competing in a larger hiring pool, lowering their wages. The foreign workers are operating with heavy restrictions on their employment and stay in the country, lowering their wages.

The better thing to do is to lower barriers to immigration, both temporary and permanent, not play one labor pool against another to the benefit of capital.
What Sites Are Pushing Boundaries Like www.superbad.com?
API for $0.25 ACH transactions
Makes sense! Have you considered Ansible?
Speaking of, after getting the third edition, I have the second version sitting unused. If anyone wants it for the cost of shipping, let me know.
Show HN: git-gerrit – A non-interactive, command-line Gerrit interface
Schools like EPFL are good, but I wouldn't say they were as selective as MIT. I guess its a subjective measure.

I got my undergraduate degree at UW, needed no loans at all (that was a different time though).
The haxe target languages aren't very different, other than some superficial syntactical and their standard libraries being somewhat different. Working around those aren't "difficult" (which isn't to say it isn't a lot of work to implement of course).

I'd be surprised if haxe could get a target language such as haskell (unless if they created a specific lib in haskell to emulate an imperative program and mutable state).
Yes, it really is true. The XML is not a "completely different language". It is an alternative (but 1:1) representation of the internal Snap code.

There's no absolutely reason why the Snap UI couldn't be feeding the XML to a version control system behind the scenes, and recovering previous versions from that system at will.
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Oh I agree with you on all those points. That's one of the main thrusts of my work as well. It's hard, but doable, and if you've gone through the effort then you might as well leverage it with a technique such as this.
Godzilla, 61-Year-Old Monster Island Resident, Becomes Japanese Citizen
I wrote a paper on the NW Hospital case that involved FBI investigation http://www.planetheidi.com/Pompon-VB2010.pdf
Yes, it's worth the time. No, it's not dead, AT ALL.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

"The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages."

Java is #1.

Android apps are based on Java. It's not going anywhere any time soon.
“Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of option B.”
I've only had one instance where I was interviewing while unemployed. All other times, I simply took a couple of hours off work and went off to the interview. I usually would work a little bit extra in the days leading up to the interview and not have to worry about not putting in my time. When I interviewed last, both of my interviews were on a Friday. My former employer had casual Fridays, so the only thing I had to put up with was changing clothes once I was done with the interview. If I waited until I was unemployed before interviewing, I would miss out on a lot of opportunities.
My only experience has been with child porn and terrorism stuff found on servers I worked on. In our case, we burned all the files from the users' account, html/access logs/etc, to CD, and handed them over to an agent who appeared in our office.
There are other situations where pairs of quotation marks can be unmatched. For example, in English it’s common to have an opening quote at the beginning of each paragraph of a multi‐paragraph quote, but only close it on the final paragraph.
I always loved this scene from the movie Rabbit Hole ... "a brick in your pocket"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZKyjCbB-M
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I disagree. It's pretty much the opposite from my experience.

Are you using npm shrinkwrap?
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