jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To me the only thing killer about the iTunes integration for the iPhone is that it almost kills the experience for me. I would really like to get rid of iTunes, but I can't since I need to use it to sync my iPhone.

For music I use Spotify, and Spotify has applications for both iPhone and Android.

I also listen to podcasts, but I would like to manage that entirely from my phone instead of having to use iTunes to download the episodes. I know you can get new episodes with the phone, but that is far too manual and requires WiFi which I keep turned off to save on battery.
I do not use this personally, however, friend's of mine REALLY like organizing their photos on FaceBook. There they can tag photos, share photos, and even hide them.

My suggestion, upload them to FaceBook. Note: I am telling you something that I personally would do, but if you do not mind it then go ahead.

Use your friends as MechTurks; I mean who knows you best? FaceBook does have an album limit of 1000, but you can have unlimited albums[1]. Have your friends tag things, comment, and generally help you! After all that is said and done, spider your albums.

I do like the 'back upiness' to all of that, but I do not know if FaceBook preserves the originals. I do know that they store your photos for up too, if not more than, one year after the deletion date.

[1]http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/photos.up...
I found the link to the past discussion useful and the gratitude expressed for said link uplifting. :)
But how does Drupal do site editing interaction? A admin interface, or more in-context editing?
I am amazed by the responses this article is getting. It's like the community here approves of the cheating for some reason.

I personally think it's neat to see the analysis he did. It's cool to see the way statistics can uncover things with clarity you wouldn't have expected (e.g. the bimodal distribution) The implications are heavy, but I am impressed by his results (the confessions, which are a positive thing).

I have been on the non-cheating side of this sort of thing, both as an instructor and as a student, so I know exactly how both the professor and the honest students are feeling. It's a heavy, heavy weight to deal with (you can hear his voice is just shy of cracking- that's real, I've BEEN THERE), and there are no good and no right answers, but it must be addressed.
O jeeze, I don't know where to begin with your calculation.

First, if the utility function was "downward sloping" nobody would ever work. It's the marginal utility that is assumed to slope downwards (I assume you know this, because you later argue as if you did). But this is the opposite as in your example: It should read dU(x)/dW < dU(y)/dW whenever x > y (not x < y).

More importantly, your negative income tax definition is faulty. A NIT has never the form proposed by you. It wouldn't make much sense. Also, if A > 1 (in fact, if A > 0) you always have an incentive to work in your model, assuming dU/dW > 0.

And by the way, I don't know where you received your math education, but dU(AW)/dW = A dU(AW)/dW does not follow. For example, let U(P) be a simple concave utility function U(P) = ln(P) = ln(AW). Then dU(P)/dW = d(ln(A)+ln(W))/dW = 1/W != A 1/W.

This is all not so bad. Everybody makes mistakes (maybe I made one above). What bothers me is that some hacker news readers have apparently upvoted you without ever checking the results.
What really pains me is that Microsofts response to all this innovation and geek love is to threaten people working on the drivers to make this possible with jail.

I understand that they want to protect their investment. Especially if the are selling the hardware at a loss (I don't know whether they are), but a bit more open mindedness could be so helpful in getting geeks excited (and maybe selling more consoles in the long run)

Look at the Wiimote. Did nintendo lose anything as the community began doing crazy stuff with it? I know of at least one case where the Wiimotes hacker-friendliness sold a console.
The low-risk strategy is exactly what Apple does; they did a beautiful elegant implementation of what everybody else had already done. The original iPhone, outside of being a beautiful implementation of a smartphone, had very few features compared to the existing competition. Since then, they've been making fairly low-risk updates to their platform and they're hardly on the route to irrelevance.

The problem here is that they're creating a wildly complex solution to a non-problem. It's not a question about being boring -- it's already boring because only software engineers care about unifying people's inboxes.
If you are a beginner, the rails tutorial is just awesome. It describes every step you take - really, really great stuff.
Should be fixed in 10 minutes. Thanks!
I use vim, but not vim exclusively. Every single day, I use gedit, scite, scribes and an IDE - some times in the vi mode.

There is a cognitive load to switching between many editors. That is something Emacs users who always exist in Emacs do away with.
"A degree in computer science is probably among the easiest to do without, career wise: solid coders are employable without a degree..."

That's like saying an MD is easiest to do without if you're looking to be something other than a doctor. Coders are not Computer Scientists. It's like comparing a physicist to an electrician. Being a good coder is a craft much, much more than it is a science. While I'm very tired of college being a requisite for middle class lifestyle in the US, I also feel like these threads wind up being areas where people write off the CS degree as unnecessary without applying enough context.

Career-wise, if you're looking to do research in computing, computational theory, develop novel algorithms, solve deep problems on the frontier of what it means to be "computable", or just effectively reinvent your own wheel and prove that it works..CS is still VERY relevant to this end.

While I don't perceive CS as a program to inherently producing good coders, I also don't perceive the generic good coder as someone I'd turn to to help me create novel algorithm (read no prior documentation, no prior code, very little academic work) to solve a previously unsolved problem. Look at Facebook and Google...Google at its early form and Facebook as it reconciled its data into the form of the social graph while wrangling a huge codebase...do you think they got where they were by hiring armies of people who were "good coders" that decided to forgo the foundations of algorithms and Computer Science? No way. Thus, if this kind of work what you want as a career path, the CS degree is still very relevant as its topics can be very relevant to your career's future.

TLDR: Are good coders very employable? Very yes. Does that mean that CS is readily discarded for all as a good career move? I likely think not.

I agree with the rest of your post.
Check out MobaXterm [0], there's a free version but I ponied up for the Pro edition after just a week. I use it daily and its X support is really bloody good. I run PyCharm (and other stuff) on a CentOS machine but the GUI is on my Windows desktop.

[0]: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
PCLMULQDQ is a godsend to both (GCM and binary elliptic curves), since both rely heavily on multiplication performance over F_{2^n}. The current fastest elliptic curve implementations are over binary fields using this instruction: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/131.
JS's syntax wouldn't seep through (backward?) into the compile-to-JS language, which would treat it as safe assembly. You're right that semantic gaps in JS could make the compiler for Blub fall into the Turing tarpit, needing costly runtime -- see Babel's "spec" vs. "loose" (I hope I have those right) modes. The answer here is to fill semantic gaps in JS, which we're doing in TC39.

Evolution can fill gaps in JS, and has: typed arrays are one example; generators another. More to do, but it's not as if the distance x cost to suffer in filling gaps is greater than the distance x cost of doing a de-novo VM among all browsers, on top of keeping JS going. It's much, much less.
Ok, but what does a poor person have to trade with a billionaire? Remember in this analogy life vests are money.
The tests appear to be looking at a subset of authoritative DNS providers, hence OpenDNS (and Google Public Resolvers), which are resolvers, not authoritative name servers, are not present.
What a ridiculous and false headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#Reco...
Raising awareness was OK goal, but he also links to the text "NSA Can Break PGP Encryption" which deadlinks today but a copy of it is preserved on another site, and there we read "it's a joke:"

http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/break-pgp.html

EDIT: see dchest's comment, it's seems it's a repost from the NorthStar's newsletter, so then it has sense to link even to the "joke" stuff just tho give the readers an overview. If you look how it lo
When I worked their seasonally a few years ago we thankfully had a sane manager that knew people didn't want to give away their personal information (especially for small purchases) so we had a 'Shack, Radio' name with the address of the store (As the POS required an address to be inputted).
Unfortunately, we still needed to ask for the larger purchases as they would go ballistic if all purchases were tied to that address.
This was really good but there were a few levels that left a bit to be desired. Some of them were basically "find a way to mash this code into these functions without exceeding the instruction cap" while others encouraged quite elegant programming. The last one of the final stage was probably the best example, I thought it was quite elegant.
Entertaining, but I feel sorry for her/him for having such a misguided impression of the world. Generalizing about men from the experience in a silly club is just wrong.

Also, if she wants to see condescending women, she should go to a meeting of mothers comparing the progress of their kids. Although as a trans she'll probably be spared.
I teach high school math and science. I don't let my students use the phrase "believe in evolution", no matter their perspective. Instead, I focus people's attention on questions such as:

"What is the difference between a scientific theory and a hypothesis?"

"What happens if we only ever use one kind of antibiotic in the world?"

"Does evolution imply that a monkey gave birth to a human baby?"

Only after students have answered those questions clearly and correctly do we enter into conversations about what it means to "believe in evolution". Once we have clear answers to these questions, students no longer feel the need to use that phrase.
Was the sound flaky for anyone else? It was pretty erratic for me on Firefox on OSX
Yahoo could consider charging a basic fee. I might readily pay $5-10/Year for delicious. Actually I find delicious much more useful than FB or Twitter for my own needs, and it seems many more delicious users are like me.
Care to provide a few examples?
For ppl who haven't exported their bookmarks yet, I wrote a quick webapp to help (for the command line skittish)

http://mattcrampton.com/delicious
s/good/responsible/

Sadly corporate responsibility is not the norm, though it should be.
Aren't you mister social.

Protip: pissing off random people in your company for childish reasons is a piss-poor career move.
Totally agree. Who made him thought leader? His rise to fame is like Newt Gingrich in the 90's. He isn't great, but amassed a huge following.

But too bad every other website owner that wants a few extra users will do what facebook decides.
Individual account data is exportable from Delicious, but the real value lies in the aggregate data. Part of the frustration around the announcement is that it seems like there would be so many ways to monetize this data, yet Yahoo! didn't appear to try any of them. I think what Dave Winer's suggesting is some way to create a global clone or mirrored data set for Delicious.
There are lots of advantages and disadvantages to hosting in a "cloud" environment, so I'm not trying to paint it as rainbows and ponies.

If a company has a short runway (ie. not a lot of cash in the bank) however, hosting in the cloud means essentially renting capacity for which you do not need to maintain. Sounds good to me.

It's a fun pendulum to watch swing though, I'll admit. Some companies, with small runways, host in the cloud because it's rented capacity without too much administration. They may grow wildly, when they notice they are paying the "cloud tax" and could considerably save money by hosting themselves. They grow some more, see how much money and attention they need to put into infrastructure and how slow it is for their business to increase capacity. In order to keep up with growth and maintain focus on their core business, they move to the cloud.
This is not your typical fundraiser, unfortunately.

A few questions I'd like answered:

1) How much money do they need?

2) How much of that have they raised so far?

3) Is this going to be an annual fundraiser?

4) Do they have an endowment which can fund Wikipedia going forward?

5) Have they relied on donations thus far?

6) What happens if they can't raise the money?

I want Wikipedia to stay around in it's present form, but I'd really like to know what my commitment for that needs to be for the next 40 years, not just right this second.
> I can't think of anything else I really miss out on from Fb.

I can't tell if you've left Facebook and feel these solutions replace it, or if you've just read the list of features, and decided you're covered. What you're missing: The aggregated, passive flow of opportunities to stay in touch.

I occasionally have short conversations with people I haven't seen for a decade, prompted by something either I or they posted. It's nothing deep and profound, but it feels good to stay in touch.

If I just put pictures and news on my blog or flickr, I would be relying on hundreds of acquaintances from the past 15 year to regularly visit these places - and why would they do that?
I understand that things cost a lot, I just don't see the justification in going from ~$10m costs to ~$25m costs. Unless I'm missing something, what does it offer me (as a person who is supposed to donate)? I don't see anything, although based on the other people like you saying they're expanding maybe I've missed something.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939945 - oh well. I like what you've done and will be interested to see how the content evolves as more people start using it
Are inflamed, bleeding gums really poorly perfused?
Just to link the whole thing up (in case someone finds this thread via Google, for example), here's my demonstration of the general algorithm that can find a regular expression for testing divisibility by any number, in any base: http://s3.boskent.com/divisibility-regex/divisibility-regex....
Good luck with this one
Actually when you really need to decode a blurred or mosaiced image you can do even more tricks. Especially when they are screenshots. Since you can take a pattern (digits) and blur them with all possible options of certain most popular image editing software, you can then do massive number of comparisons to see what comes out right.
It's massively cpu intensive, but I am sure people that need it can do it.

Blacking out the section entirely is the only proper way, since you really want to be sure you are destroying the information in the image, not just dispersing it.

Even then, if you are removing a single digit it can be partially recovered by observing kerning statistics, etc.
I haven't really been following this but there have been rumblings all week that a hacked firmware was released that allowed anyone who installed it, and twiddled with some other things, access to the PSN development and testing network. Anyone know more?
TLDR: There's no way to tldr this, it's a pretty awesome essay. It's possibly the most extensive and elaborate essay I've ever read on an actual web page instead of a PDF or journal. Basically the author says:

"This article provides a detailed factual explanation of why software is mathematics, complete with the references in mathematical and computer science literature. It also includes a detailed factual explanation of why mathematics is speech, complete once again with references."

The implication being that if software is mathematics (and/or speech), it can't be patented. IANAL but I've suspected that a clear and elaborate delineation of the equivalence of software and math/logic has been one big things missing in this debate, and its absence has allowed patent trolls to prosper much more than they would have otherwise.

Does anyone know of any other efforts like this to show software == math == logic?
Great app, I really like the way it deals with nested comments. Just a couple suggestions:

* Maybe you could visually distinguish the "headline" item in any given view from the items under it? E.g. when you're looking at a story and its comments, they're all displayed like visually identical items in a single list. Maybe the story (or the top comment, if you're reading a thread) could be made to stand out somehow?

* An icon to jump directly to stories from the home page?

* You could register the app with an intent filter for urls under http://news.ycombinator.com/ (like e.g. Reddit Is Fun does for their app – see the app manifest in their GitHub repo for details)
I am also a person who did most of his schooling/college in India. I also have a masters degree from here in the US.

First of all $150 seems meager from the standard of living seen here in America, but an average Indian much makes less per month and food and groceries are dirt cheap in India compared to US, so 150$ is not as bad as it seems to be. In many towns you can have a fantastic meal for under $1. However, teachers are probably paid lesser than they should be in India compared to its standard of living!

Now, to tackle the other question : Does India's school system stifle interest and creativity?
To a certain extent Yes. There is not as much emphasis on rational thinking and creativity as you would hope to see. Its getting better, but, to be fair, many people do quite well in spite of such a system. For one - Text books are not inaccurate like how Feynman experienced in Brazil. Most of them are scientifically correct even though I am not sure how well it is broken down so that an ordinary person can understand it.

In India, there is a system in place to provide benefits for "backward castes". This includes reservations in Colleges/Universities and in various other places. So what is happening is that there are disproportionately large number of people trying to compete for those seats that are not reserved(<50%). These people who manage to get to the top tend to be very competent. [Think about it as a billion people fighting for resources that have reservation]. So in a way that explains why India is still producing top class Engineers or scientists but an average Engineer or a scientist may not fare very well globally.
Interestingly, when it first came on the scene as SoundJam, and in its earlier incarnations at Apple after it was bought, iTunes was by far the best music player out there[1]. The overwhelming favorite MP3 player on Windows at the time was WinAmp, whose UI was a ghastly collection of inscrutable, tiny fonted palettes. Compared to that, having your entire collection of music in a smart, scriptable database with a slick interface was a dream.

Performance problems on Windows and tacking on one new non-music playing feature after another seems to have doomed the experience and reputation.

[1] Well, Audion was pretty dope too: http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
ah cool :)
This is similar to my life in a lot of ways! I feel you on a lot of these things. Although I was always pretty happy spending most of my time alone, and I didn't do a lot of traveling.

I think if I had to sum it all up, I'd say that the things I value just aren't really obtained by doing a lot of shallow socializing. I'd rather have a few very close friends, and I'd rather do a few things very well than do a bunch of things on a superficial level.

One thing that really helped me was getting a dog a few years ago. It was my wife's idea so I can't take any credit for it. But having a living (and loving) creature depending on me has definitely been good for getting me to take plenty of walks. I don't ever want to recommend a dog as some kind of self-improvement tool... they're sentient creatures, not accessories, and are a big commitment! But he's really been a wonderful influence.

> Traveled Europe, Africa, Asia and North America by the time
> I was 20.

Do you think it's possible that you don't feel a need to do these things precisely because you've already done them?
It is a great idea - probably a startup in here somewhere where you pay a bounty to get your site "crowdhacked" and thus improve your security.
The only thing worse than using Comic Sans in the wrong context is projecting an insufferable attitude of superiority about font choice, especially when said insufferable attitude is displayed on a website that makes highly questionable design decisions of its own.
Funny, I just finished designing, programming and deploying a healthcare system. Though it didn't take me three years, it did take considerably longer than expected due to the incompetence of the health care company. They wanted to remove a universal search bar because it was too easy to use. Five meetings later, they put it back in. It is now the most used function of the entire platform.
If the webmaster is reading, your click to scroll doesn't quite work right in Opera - it always scrolls from the top of the page, rather than the current position, resulting in all the previous slides flashing past each time I advance.
Hmm...lacking internet connectivity is a pain. I love using zingersoft iSSH and the Apple wireless keyboard ($69) -- I connect to my remote Linux servers and am coding in Python right away.
You must have a pretty sweet graphics card to get 2000 FPS.
> Mac displays are not very good.

Yes, most designers do just fine with them. Most workspaces of high end design firms I've seen, or you can see photographed on the intertubes, are using Macs with Mac displays.

And they tend to do just fine against the competition at reviews too.
They're the modern-day equivalent of a high-score board on arcade games- just there for the bragging rights.
When I was 19-20, I helped this great fellow Dr. Eisenstadt, a retired professor from Brooklyn College, self-publish his books for his family and friends. At the time he had a lot of files in WordPerfect for DOS, and I had to (basically manually) get them into Word somehow, clean up the formatting, and fix up some of the few spelling mistakes it found. At first he balked that he had spelling mistakes... he had very few, but then he saw they were there, he was happy :)

Anyway, he loved to write about America and particularly Carnegie. So through formatting his book I learned a lot about Carnegie -- the guy came from nothing, and he was truly active. Check this out: http://bit.ly/fDMBd9
Some may ascribe to Reagenesque trickle down economics.

And the problem with this counterargument is that trickle-down does not work.