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Looking for a mentor
Hello HN,

I am two years into a typical Computer Science program and I am looking for a mentor during the school year. I am looking forward to having free time during the school year to learning while working on projects and such. I am working full time during the summer and I am realizing how little time I will have to expand my knowledge once I graduate.

Basically I am interested in a ton of CS technologies but not very familiar with any of them. I have quite a few project ideas that I am working on to practice with these technologies but I always hit a bump where just can't quite find what I am looking for or can't quite wrap my head around something. Below is list of everything I am interested in. As for compensation, I am working this summer so I hope something can be arranged, although if you're in this field you probably not mentoring for the money.

Again I want to emphasize I am very excited about just "doing" most anything CS related and would love to have someone to talk to while working during the school year to improve my knowledge. If I had the focus and expertise I would probably spend all my free time building something or learning.

Please contact me at inbox@marshallford.me and even if you aren't interested, share this with someone who might be. Remote is completely fine!

DevOps - Docker, Ansible, Nginx, server monitoring, server deployments, continuous integration

Web Dev - Ruby on rails, APIs, databases and APIs, Ruby gems, JS frameworks

Web Design - local build process (grunt, gulp), eye for design

General Programming - fun command line tools

Networking/other - backup solutions, zfs

Thanks,

Marshall
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This is a long winded version of Clay Shirky's article from 2009 "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable". Shirky's site is down so here is an alternative link;
http://edge.org/conversation/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unt...

Its always good to remind ourselves that we are in the middle of the greatest social revolution since the invention of the printing press.
I'm almost embarrassed to say it took me way to long to realize JavaScript wasn't block scoped.
Philae lander phones home from comet for 2nd time since waking up
Rather than currently or soon-to-be trending, is there any application/website that compile last week or month trends?

I'm not interested in knowing whats trending today, but I don't want to be completely out of the loop either.
Just a couple of off the cuff thoughts on that. Nothing out of the box prevents what you describe as far as I know but one of the points made in the article is that favicon is downloaded without any update to or indication from the status bar. An image on the page will at least throw up a "waiting for evil.com" in the status bar giving a user some indication that something being downloaded is causing a major slow down.

Typically an ad-blocker or script blocker can be used to prevent the image from downloading. But I don't know of a blocker add-on that worries about favicon.

Overall while annoying and a bit strange that this wasn't anticipated and fixed long ago I'd say this is probably a non-issue. As another poster said I don't see a payoff here so I doubt it will be actively exploited in some "internet screeching to a halt" kind of way.
So can an ajax loop.
Users want Snapchat using the Snapchat client without having to maintain a second account or re-find all their friends. Same with Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, etc. the ship for federation sailed when all the big players decided to kill XMPP and not try a new open standard.
We Also have this open: DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer / Unix Sys Admin
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Yuzu by Barnes & Noble College is our new digital education platform/online ecosystem.

We are leveraging our 30 years in the college textbook business with Barnes and Nobles College Division who run over 700 college textbook stores in the US (locally Santa Clara Univ, SJSU, also Harvard and Yale) reaching over 5 million students which is approx 25% of the college students in the US. We also have a strong partnership with Pearson ( largest online publisher in the world).

This is a full time role in Mountain View with competitive salaries, generous vacation (18 days per year + sick + Holidays), matching 401k, work/life balance, Flexible hours, daily catered lunches etc! We are nice people too! Caltrain shuttle and pre-tax commuter programs will help get you to our Mountain View office. For details email jmorse@yuzu.com or apply here: https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...
Don't confuse the desire to not see ads with a feeling of entitlement. I fully support a website operator's right to detect that I am blocking ads and hide the content, or to make unblockable ads. I don't feel entitled to their resources. But if they do show content I'm interested in, I'll consume it. It's not at all a feeling of entitlement.
I wonder what they will do about claustrophobia?

> The capsule itself would need to be small—4.43ft (1.35m) wide and only 3.61ft (1.10m) high. No standing room

No windows, pod inside a metal tube, seats reclined with minimal head room. There's no rational reason to panic in that position, but many people will not be comfortable. Video displays might help, but only to a point.
Off topic: Does anyone know where Steve is nowadays? He hasn't posted anything in a while and seems to be away from Github also[0]. I loved his Clojure series[1] and really hope he's fine and that he gets back to writing!

[0] - https://github.com/sjl/

[1] - http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/
Thanks all for your replies. It's really very helpful. Unfortunately HN says that I commenting too fast. But I promise, that I reply for all questions as soon as possible.
Nutanix Operating System 4.1.3 Is Now Generally Available
It's been pretty good so far -- you can sign up now and only get late deductions (if you care about the grade) on two assignments.
Debian distribute most of their 'main' repository as ISO images - the first DVD will allow you to install a desktop and then you can 'register' DVD2 and DVD3 and install a huge range of software for your computer without an internet connection. The snag is updates: you get a delta DVD for each point release. When I tried the system out, I ended up needing about 200Mb off the update DVD!

To my knowledge, Debian is the only major distro that has this alternative available.
Compose Launches New Relic Support
Worth an average week's pay? Not unless you define "average" as "minimum wage". Even at $10/hour, a full-time (40 hour) week is $400 (maybe $300 after taxes and deductions). That's pretty high for the kind of smartphone that the majority of the population is using. And I suspect that $10/hour is below average, as well.
Just because I can look it up for myself doesn't mean I don't appreciate having a link, especially if the writer went to the effort of choosing a link that's better than the first Google search result.

1. Since apparently we’re overthinking things, have you considered that your oversensitivity to minor perceived offenses is because you’ve never been punched?
An ajax loop requires you to have JavaScript enabled and will show you a loader indicator.
Hah.. this thread will show a very interesting phenomenon. By definition, anybody commenting here is not a smart person (oops.. what have I done ;-) )
Show HN: Cockatoo – Trust your mind
ProtonMail secure email finally opens signups to everyone (no waiting list)
It is an issue of a fun gameplay mechanic. Slowing it down destroys the fun. Allowing it to be skipped doesn't destroy the fun, but does allow those not interested in it to skip it.

Consider a Mario game. Speeding up would be selling gems that let you skip a level. Slowing it down is saying you only get 3 lives ever 30 minutes unless you spend gems.

Or think of WoW. The leveling up is a fun part of the game, but after the second or third character, it gets far more boring and people are willing to pay to skip it. As more expansions came out, WoW actually made leveling easier. Then recently they added an option to skip the majority of the leveling and get straight to the end game. That is paying to speed it up.

Now consider Candy Crush. A fun game at the core, with levels that get harder and introduce new game play. All well and good. But then they added extreme cooldowns on everything. 1 life every 30 minutes with a max of 5 at a time. Periods where you have to wait 24 hours to go to the next section. Other powerups limited to once a day. That is purposefully slowing it down.
TBMs are typically built specifically for a job and its ground conditions. Depending on the type of ground, the machine can be a different type of machine that uses different tooling. This will ultimately drive TBM cost. It is possible to reuse machines but this is, again, dependent on geology.

Anyways, the cost of a TBM is generally not the most expensive part of a tunneling operation.
The answer is an emphatic no. Concrete can do many things, but it will not hold back a slip fault. Concrete roads, bridges, etc will buckle and break in the slip zone no matter what they are rated for.

Take the 1906 earthquake as an example. As http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/move.html says, the horizontal slip was 21 feet at one point. Something like the Hyperloop has to be designed with the expectation of facing a similar event. Concrete is simply not strong enough to hold back a wall of dirt trying to move 21 feet.

Or for more recent history https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/landers-and-big-bear-califo... where the slip was 18 feet horizontally and 6 feet vertically. And that one demonstrates that it isn't enough to build something special for every slip zone you know about. Because in a real earthquake you are likely to discover slip zones that nobody noticed.
I agree with everything you've written! All I wanted to make clear was that what Sourceforge is installing on people's systems is not on the same level as Duqu, for example.

I get what you're saying regarding "if we just call it all malware, people will get upset when companies install it", but I see that as a dishonesty to the public. In the computer security industry, it's very tempting to sell fear -- it's immensely effective as a sales pitch, but it's not honest. We can do better, I think.
We did not try out statsite, but it also looks great! Brubeck has been under development internally since October 2012. We're really excited to be able to share it with everyone.
Did Mathematician John Nash Help Invent Bitcoin?
but they have healthcare that is better than the US amirite?
Yeah very good point about USDS being in a political and less bureaucratic / civil service part of government. However, I'd argue anyone that wins in 2016 regardless of age or party (not that there aren't huge differences) will have to figure out how to leverage technology to effectively govern, so we may yet be surprised.
Neat! Thanks for sharing this, it's a great overview.
In Belgium here, and somehow the website figured out I speak dutch (which is quite correct) and used i18n which I presume is written by a Frenchman studying medieval Dutch. So maybe allow me to switch to English i18n, like I always do, or look for a better translator for dutch.

Right now, the logo for example has 4 words and 2 grammar mistakes. So the use of dutch i18n is really bad if you want more users in the Netherlands.

Just a heads up. Looks very interesting otherwise, might use it as my landing page. I'm that kind of news-junkie.
What is the value in being so current? Unless you are doing HFT or disaster response, you probably want to get your news distilled, curated, in batch form, and aggregated over some time.

Where is the Sunday paper of the internet?
Investigating and reporting a bug should never be considered "singling out" of a piece of software. Personally, I'd be grateful if someone pointed out a critical issue like this in my code. It means I have the opportunity to fix it!
That was what I meant. Stuff that even a minimum wage worker could purchase, thus very common.
my guess is if no favicon is specified browsers request for the default favicon path after page load (possibly) in a non render thread. that's definitely an issue, right?

also, interesting discussion from wayback:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260500
> It's the same as taking the free newspapers in your area, cutting out all the advertisements, and giving those out to people.

No, it's more like asking the newspaper publisher if you can have a version of their newspaper (for your own use) without ads, and them obliging. Blocking ads has nothing to do with redistributing someone else's content.
Control Linux server via sms (reboot, get uptime, send mail, etc.)
Amazing library! I question it being targeted towards UI elements. I guess I'm thinking about the "condescending UI" arguments. On phones at least we can mostly turn it down, at least for system-level animations.
If I could choose in advance which kind of computations would be done, maybe. And there definitely should be an enforceable limit on the amount of processing.
Philae is getting 3hrs/day of sunlight
Only if you mobile browser actually download them, ios for example from what it looks like doesn't.
If you quite literally want "what jQuery uses to select things" and nothing else, you're really looking for Sizzle.

http://sizzlejs.com/
If those are your only two choices, then you'll presumably choose the better of the two, right? So what exactly is the problem?
>I have no idea if you'll ever see this declaration, but that's just like yours, so I think it's fair.

The one caveat to this is that he is responding to their email, showing that he has seen and read it.

IANAL - but because he provides an RSS Feed, Apple can already use it. The terms that they put forward are things they already can do with access to the RSS Feed. They are allowing creators to opt out. I don't see how Apple is in the wrong here. While the terms may seem like they are trying to take something.

>If we receive a legal claim about your RSS content, we will tell you so that you can resolve the issue, including indemnifying Apple if Apple is included in the claim.

This is covering Apple's ass in case your content receives a legal claim and Apple is included for providing access to your content. This essentially is "you agree to not shoot the messenger".

>You will be responsible for any payments that might be due to any contributors or other third parties for the creation and use of your RSS content.

If you have a featured post or pay someone to post content for you - Apple is not responsible paying for them. This is, again, just covering their own asses.

>You agree to let us use, display, store, and reproduce the content in your RSS feeds including placing advertising next to or near your content without compensation to you. Don’t worry, we will not put advertising inside your content without your permission.

They can do this anyway without your permission. The email is providing you a way to opt-out of this.

>You can remove your RSS feed whenever you want by opting out or changing your settings in News Publisher.

If you wish to remove your RSS feed from News they're letting you know how.
Koza's text is good, but, depending on the student, may be a little deep to start with. I's suggest A Field Guide To Genetic Programming [1] as a better start for most programmers, and then follow up with Koza's books.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Genetic-Programming/dp/140...
You can find a link to his Twitter on his About page - he tweeted as recently as yesterday.
Yesterday on Twitter, Jason Calacanis had an interesting (if arguably inflammatory) explanation for this:

"Looking for explanations of bizarre behavior online (#RachelDolezal, trolls, gamergate, SJW)? two #s: 4.1% & 58.7%. I don't look for explanations of bizarre behavior any more... there are many sick people out there & they are drawn to social media."

Where 4.7% is the prevalence of severe mental illness and 58.7% is the percentage that is in treatment.

And to be fair, the behavior of the most vocal online extremists overlaps to a large degree with that of people with Cluster B personality disorders.
It's pretty good. I'd rather not have a JS snippet tracking me at all, regardless of which domain it's on.
Here's the thing: two sentences right next to each other within the same paragraph are related. The sentence is merely one tier in the hierarchy of organizational structures that frame writing. The paragraph also forms a unit of structure in which one or more related sentences collectively convey an idea.

I'm not suggesting there is no use for a semicolon - for example, I like to use it as a separator for a list of clauses if one or more of the clauses contain commas - and of course this is one of those grey areas of English grammar in which the author's use is not objectively wrong. However, it overloads the sentence and makes reading more difficult without any real benefit over the simpler alternative of connecting related sentences in paragraphs.

Likewise, I'm not opposed to writing long sentences. After all, the first sentence in the previous paragraph runs 56 words. However, I am opposed to writing long sentences merely for the sake of claiming that long sentences are okay.
Xbox 360 backward compatibility coming to Xbox One
> Why is there so much sympathy for ad-supported sites on HN but when other industries with obsolete business models are brought up (like record companies) it's all about "disrupting" them? Have we given up on finding better ways to support content online?

Because there are a lot of users here who run websites and see the business model 'from the other side'... and almost none who work for record companies.

There are other reasons, but that's a big one.
Awesome, thanks for creating this!
Thanks! Just tweeted back to him.
Sockpuppet votes and comments are not allowed on Hacker News.
VR goggles.
Minecraft with Hololens Looks Amazing
"those potentially affected includes the media-consuming population of the whole world"

I really don't know what to say. Here we have people insisting one moment that I'm blowing this way out of proportion, and then the very next moment insisting that billions of people were harmed because an obscure space scientist wore a shirt.
How do we differentiate them then?
Anybody feeling this kind of animations aren't bringing a lot to the table ? I was thrilled to watch lollipop material design (and even kitkat project butter), but it quickly faded (sic). Instant, simple interfaces are needed in many tasks where I don't enjoy or even have the luxury to waste time on distracting animations.
I'm not saying they're the same thing - I'm pointing out that as risk increases, you add safety features. Drivers in certain situations (racing, for example) do wear helmets, as the risk is now judged to be sufficient. A 10mph ride around the block may well be safe - but the 10mph part isn't so relevant - it's the idiot in a car doing 60mph who doesn't look for cyclists that is probably the significant part of the risk. So...
Problem, and the thing that makes it special.
I know some of the people who have signed up for this and I can say with confidence that I'd happily take them at any salary.

The fact that some of the best and brightest in our industry have decided to do this work because it's important rather than because it's the most financially rewarding option is encouraging.
Works in Calendar but does not work in Alarm clock, so it's not a default behaviour and probably hard-coded into Calendar app.
IANAL but I can't see how not replying to their email could possibly bind the publisher to anything. In effect Apple is using the content absent any agreement, and simply trusting that most people will be thrilled and agree out of hand.
Some interesting perspective from The Register: "Up until last year, Spark had just 465 contributors."
I'm not sure what the point is. That YC continues to use the word "hacker" to selfishly attract the kind of people who aim for billion-dollar exits instead of moderate returns? The author might be interested to know pg has written an essay on this.

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

Anyway, if I had to wager a guess, I'd go with the Occam's-razor explanation that YC uses the word hacker because its founders identify as hackers in the original sense of the word. In fact, that hackers are better at starting breakout companies practically seems to be YC's thesis.
Thanks for the article. I'm really hopeful that this competition will bring out something on the table (maybe a prototype).

It would be really nice to be able to travel between nearby cities in the US without spending hours driving / flying. Flying itself is not really bad if it's not because of the time you need to waste until you actually fly.
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DevOps Golden Rule: Writing More Code for Test Than for Production
Johann Hari on the War on Drugs
The not-so-new-anymore GOP one is called Para Bellum.
http://www.parabellumlabs.com/
Could someone explain to me the difference between a "card" and any other rectangular grouping of content?
Looks cool. My one gripe: it looks like there's a footer when I switch between time intervals, but it's impossible to get to since the stories continue loading as I scroll down.
Please don't show this to anyone at Apple... I don't want the buttons on my next iPod to do a little giggly dance every time I press them.

(BTW- This is great work, I just hope UI devs don't overdo it...)
I came here to mention this! I saw you present this at the Recurse Center a long time ago.
I think the biggest impact they'll have is on the mindset of the US government has as a whole. Particularly their involvement in health care technology reforms such as the HITECH additions to HIPAA regulations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Information_Technology_...

Or Medicare's Meaningful Use initiative:
http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-u...

If you visit your doctor and see new technology in place, and also see data privacy taken seriously, there's a good chance that government incentives were involved. Now these guys might not have been directly involved in the trench-related work, but the administration is definitely pushing these agendas.
> But, of course, the lawyers have to get involved.

The nonsense that follows would suggest that the lawyers were not involved.
So, not necessarily this article, but I haven't seen much in sociological or economics literature that's put forth one single reason crime dropped. There's argument over primary causes, or how much each cause contributes to the drop, but not much about single unifying theories.
How to generate and solve logical deduction problems
I'm using Analytics and occasionally tried other products that promised real-time data before Google caught up to them, but nothing stood out. I also trialed MouseFlow and ClickTale thinking that mouse tracking and watching individual users navigate my site was the way of the future... but the time required to setup each testing scenario, wait a few hours, and then watch a handful of users clumsily click around my site didnt' end up being useful either.

So what good event-driven tracking apps are out there right now? GA is really too big and cumbersome to setup properly, and it seems nobody else makes it super easy either.
Most stuff here is not useless.