skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a school that taught me, among other things, how to use apostrophes, how to make web sites with readable text, how to avoid phrases like "kitchen of education", and how to make a poll that shows results when I vote instead of thanking me for voting.

If you're some sort of mindless soulless fuck who equates everything in life to "will this help me get a job?", then skip school. It won't teach you what you want to know, and I don't want to be bothered dealing with you.

The questions you ought to be asking:

- What don't I know yet? What do I not even realize I don't know?

- Who are the sorts of people I want to spend the rest of my life with? Where do I feel comfortable?

- Given the ideas I have, what can I do? How can I combine these with other ideas to make something extraordinary?

Here's what school gives you that the Internet doesn't. Faces. Instinctive responses. Chemistry. Nobody knows better than I how easy it is to build a brand for yourself online. In person, you don't get a brand. You get a person. You can judge people more accurately, both people who're good at public image and people who suck at it and would look like shit if you found them completely at random.

Frankly, Avand, you don't have the credentials to get away with saying shit like this. Not as confidently as you're saying it. Looking at your resume, I'm not seeing anything that would stand out particularly if I saw it from an undergraduate resume. You're not a good writer and you haven't got a good grip on aesthetics. Do something smart before you start bashing my education.
That happens a lot. Someone invents something at the same time as another guy. One of these guys has some VC or Angel cash. Guess who succeeds most?
Full Immersion 2025: How will ten-year olds learn?
The factors they use to determine the health rankings are interesting. I particularly like "Liquor Store Density."
Those two have already been developed: facebook.com
Ask a question, people submit potential answers, others vote those answers up or down.
Wikimedia is not only a non-profit, but also Google's more sucessful competitor in organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful, albeit with some factual errors and unsourced statements.

Google benefits from Wikipedia articles in that they make Google more useful, but if Wikipedia is always the first result, people will begin to go directly to Wikipedia to get information, just like they go directly to Facebook or to Twitter, even though Google also benefits from their public information.
A Job is not help. I don't want to higher people with a 4.0 GPA because they don't know how to prioritize tasks.
One more thing — Google is switching all employees to Macs
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"This effect was present even after researchers accounted for the fact that ADHD children with the worst symptoms were most likely to be prescribed the drugs."

How do they account for this?
"Professor Ian Hickie from the Brain and Mind Research Institute says it's possible that those on medication didn't perform any better because their condition was more serious to begin with."

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2822748.htm
Looks vaguely Pythonic. :)
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Intending to you kill someone for robbing you is illegal as well if you are not in danger

Actually, that depends entirely on which state you live in. Some states under Castle Doctrine allow deadly force to prevent the commission of any felony in your home, including robbery.

That, so far as I know, does not apply to booby traps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine_in_the_United_S...
Most companies have a similar policy actually. I've come across this several times while developing information security policies.
Yes, from the inside what I've heard is that it's no more than a "second look". Everyone who attends MIT must pass 1 year each (and at a fast pace) of the calculus (first term equals the AP Calculus BC curriculum) and classical mechanics and E&M (one term each). Plus one term of serious chemistry and nowadays I think one of biology.

MIT doesn't accept anyone who they don't think can make it. This works in part because of the self selection in applicants, although nowadays they're getting 13,000 per year, 1/3 of which the Admissions Office judges can do the work.
It's called channel conflict; the networks don't want to piss off all their current customers for a shot at some new customers.
This is a highly unusual trade secret case illustrating what not to do as a high-level executive about to switch jobs.

Bottom line: a very rare result in which the executive was not just enjoined from disclosing trade secrets but was barred outright from ever working at the competitor's on any terms. Shows the extreme steps taken in and out of court to preserve the secrecy of a highly valuable trade secret (in this case, involving a muffin recipe), probably akin to what Coke does to protect its proprietary soft drink formula.
Reaching the right people
Very nice. Now where's the free web app to cut paste and convert into this format?
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For Opera users, you can change the styling of any page to black-on-white:

In Opera stable, it's view -> style -> High Contrast (B/W).

In the beta, it's page tools -> style -> High Contrast (B/W).
They're going to intercept the key exchange and then verify the keys in real time? And then make an allow or block decision? This is very hard, you ultimately have to do deep packet inspection on everything to do this. (think of all the "starttls" protocols..) And SSH keys aren't part of a PKI... The best IPS products in the world are way way way off from that.

As I understand the current "great firewall" it simply won't resolve sites they restrict access to, mostly social networking sites were my experience while I was there. FWIW, when they censor CNN they just black the screen out, they don't exactly hide what they're doing. Personally, I think you're right that this is mostly about money. I don't like the fact that it could be about other things, I really don't like the fact that they could just turn off the internet for the whole country, I don't see it being possible to restrict traffic like you suggest though.

A lot of businesses do business there and have VPNs to China... They won't just hand the keys over and what does China do when they change them?

Back to the CA though, do you really suffer if you just block access to and from .cn? I've had firewall policies over the years where I've turned large chunks of countries off and I can't say I feel like it's had much of an adverse affect on things. When I'm ready to do business directly with China then I can but until then it doesn't seem like it hurts much.
It was perfectly reasonable, assuming you weren't flying a regional airline. Commercial air travel via large jets is orders of magnitude safer than civil aviation.
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You can't downvote any comment that's an immediate child of an item you posted, whether that item is a comment or a submission. For the general sense of "you".
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From the source: "I'm Marco Arment, lead developer of Tumblr and only developer of Instapaper.".

I don't think Marco really gives a shit about whether you would hire him or not. He has better options than to be cube fodder. The same goes for anyone who can build good things and solve real problems. If I were to concoct some evidence for my case, I couldn't do better than Marco's boss at Tumblr, David Karp. In this industry, smart people who ship get to call their own shots.
The part of this post that stood out for me was the very bottom, where the author alludes to old politicians who are mostly ignorant of the Internet and modern technology. There is something pretty scary about the people 'in charge' being oblivious to something so significant.
When lawyers go drinking together they laugh at stories of criminals who don't even understand the basics of evidence law.

When doctors have coffee breaks they share stories about how modern people don't even understand the difference between a virus and a bacteria and demand antibiotics for the common cold.

Latin professors share hilarious pictures of people who have tattooed themselves with incoherently mistranslated latin tags.

Every profession thinks that the general population is full of dunces who don't understand the basics of the highly important body of knowledge that they are experts in...
Good news as long as the deal has no strings attached...
I really doubt Harvard or any of the other top schools are hurting for applicants. When I was entering school, Harvard and MIT were taking <15% of their applicants, which leaves quite a bit of wiggle room.
Well, the game exists (there's a link to download the jar) but the premise is a joke

... unless your comment was also a clever joke >_>
Not exactly, both because your expectation of $10 per month for your web 2.0 serfdom isn't the community norm (thank god) and because these community norms are enforced through the court of public opinion, not small claims court. And you do seem like you're confusing my 'this is how it is' statement with a 'this is how it should be' statement, and getting quite angry about the latter. I actually agree with you completely - users of a free service shouldn't have any cause to complain about what's in the TOS.

But that isn't the way things actually work. Instead, if your company does something that users don't like - whether they've consented to it in your terms of service or not - the users will react by creating a big public relations nightmare for you, which will ultimately damage the value of your company. There's not much benefit in being on solid legal ground if the public destroys your reputation.
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I'm assuming this was supposed to be a joke? But it wasn't funny, and the kid looks like a bit of a spaz, so maybe it's not. Who knows.
This is a video from 2007 that's over an hour long. Executive summary, someone, please?
Of course I have, or at least I did in my misspent youth. Creationists are hard to convince. But you seem to suggest that, absent being able to convince a creationist with evidence, scientists should resort to naked argument from authority: "there's an overwhelming scientific consensus". But that doesn't work, either: few creationists have ever embraced evolution because of the "scientific consensus", and in the process it makes the actual arguments for evolution look weak.
Is this the final result after cleanup, or work still being done? It looks OK, but I think it can be much improved.
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety
Members of the public may apply for jobs, but most will not be allowed to interview, and those who are allowed to interview will not be given the freedom to wander around the potential workplace.

The process is akin to the fact that everyone in the public is in my potential circle of friends, and once a friend you may be allowed in my house. But that doesn't make my house anything close to publicly available.
The Internet is becoming the Police State's favorite bogeyman. The unprecedented volume of information freely available to all quickly turns into a vast number of potential crimes from which the Police State must protect the peeple.

It's no longer the camel's nose under the tent. It's the camels eyes, ears and tape recorder as well. Soon your webcam will be sending its pictures to various police agencies. Were he still alive and not in the throes of a nervous breakdown, Orwell would be proud.
Much more likely than the age of the airplane was the visibility. PAO has been foggy in the mornings of the last few days, and the photo in the story makes it look like it was foggy when the crash happened.
Uhm, Jon Kleinberg is an academic (one of computer science's finest) and was clearly cited in the PageRank paper. He's authored seminal publications across several sub-fields of computer science, he's in a named chair in an Ivy League university, and laid the foundations for modern web search. I'd say he's been pretty successful for a guy in his 30s.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/
Not a GA expert here, skydiver though. GA is indeed far more dangerous than commerical aviation although a well-maintained 30-year old airplane can be perfectly airworthy. We in the skydiving community are used to flying old planes & as long as the maintenance is ok & the airplane has not been pushed too many times outside of its performance envelope everything should be fine. Very sad to see this happen to Tesla.
Tragic...

It's seems like once every other month you hear about a small passenger jet crashing like this. This one happening yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/nyregion/17plane.html

Anyone know if it's certain types of small aircraft that are prone to this or is it just small civilian operated aircraft in general?

Don't think I'll by getting on one of these anytime soon in any case.
Simulators and EDA tools are very CPU-intensive.
This is a press release for something called RightScale. You'd think Zynga could figure this out on their own.
Be sure to backup regularly, even if you use Dropbox
TSA to swab hands in search for explosives
He said that the internet is not something that society absolutely cannot function without. He is wrong. Society very much depends on the internet. The fact that not everyone has a Faceboook profile is inconsequential to this, and I would point out that the one does not follow the other.

Further, saying that the failure lies in the fact that we need to "make software just as intuitive as older technology", is just hilarious. Since when is "older technology" intuitive? Simple, sure, but intuitive? It's not like the natural state of an old-fashioned phone call is fraught with complexity, and that phone companies have won a major victory by wrapping them in a simple user interface. You just call, then you're done. If that's intuitive, I assure you, it's accidental. And have you ever sent a letter before? What's intuitive about addressing an envelope, or styling your letter accordingly? What's intuitive about stamping it and sending off? We've been doing it forever, but that doesn't make it natural.

What you want to say is that we should be making software a simple and familiar as older technology. But at what cost? I love my smart phone, and as far as I'm concerned, it's about as close to being as simple as it can get, while still implementing all these features I like. I'm not switching to a Jitterbug any time soon. Sure, it's intuitive, but it's also simple. My phone is intuitive and functional. That's a win for me.

The fact is, at the end of the day, progress is made by breaking the norm. I don't want to go back to the simplicity of old phones; I don't want to look everything up at a library; I don't want to do everything the "old" way. But with these leaps in progress, a lot of people have been left behind.

Yes, that's a problem. Yes, that's a failure.
Agreed, and add (the detail of):

"Botticella also surreptitiously accessed highly sensitive documents on his final day of work at Bimbo, Surrick found, and a computer expert showed that an external drive had been connected to Botticella's laptop."

Although the reported basis is one I'm very uncomfortable with, the judge saying the plaintiff's "burden was to show at least a 'substantial threat' of disclosure of a trade secret". If Silicon Valley had been under such a regime way back when, we wouldn't be having this discussion (well, we might ... on 300 baud modems...).
Report Profiles Secrecy at Apple's Asian Manufacturing Partners' Facilities
And each of those things is an important thing that the general populace should know in order to navigate life. Aren't sure what that latin tag you're getting permanently tattooed on your body means? Don't get it tattooed on your body.
Lots of startup employees sent home today (myself included) because most of downtown PA is without power.
Privacy Group Files Complaint with Feds Over Google's Social Network
From experience As somebody who lost their flight status after a car wreck, driving is much more dangerous.

At least in an aircraft, theres always the possibility of ejecting out, bailing out, or using a "ballistic parachute" (Cirrus makes them)to recover the plane - the problem is when the pilot doesn't realize they're in trouble until its too late. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Aircraft_Parachute_Syste...

Bailout options do exist for GA/Light Aircraft.
Conversation on Blogs: It's Mostly a Myth
From the post:

"What passes for conversation usually falls into one of two categories that look like conversation but aren’t really.

These categories can be labeled as 1) Affirmation and Conciliation and 2) Pedantry and Venom."
What a crazy coincidence -- the CEO of the first software company I worked for was a pilot, and he also flew his personal aircraft into some power lines.
Anveo as a premium alternative to Google Voice?
Visual Call Flow looks really nice.
It looks like Anveo Phone Number + Visual Call Flow + Anveo Communicator is better than Google Voice + Gizmo5...
Haha well I think it's an interesting idea.

I always trick myself into checking the score to see if something is worth watching. The problem is when I know the score I don't want to watch it again! Argh.. lol

Funny interesting idea, wouldn't spend too much time on it though. Maybe instead of metrics have it crowdsourced by other fans.
Also check out the related http://www.google.com/linux (didn't find one for Apple).
There's at least one college (Caltech) that will admit freshmen without a high-school diploma or GED. I'm not sure how common that is.
These said large code bases are usually much less of code and much more of binaries, test images or media streams, complete devtool suites, arch compilers, and almost anything that generally would require less version control and more availability control.

In other words, stuff you would actually want to live on a network drive or some other sharing mechanism. But if it's easy enough to shove 10 gigabytes to Perforce, it will happen.
It was crazy foggy in Palo Alto this morning and has been for the past of couple of mornings. I'm really surprised they tried to fly in those conditions.

The report suggests that the power outage in Palo Alto may have been caused by the plane crash. I find this hard to believe because the traffics lights were only down in the area near Stanford and downtown PA; as you drove closer to East Palo Alto, the lights were working. Of course maybe there was a larger outage earlier, and they just restored it in this pattern.
Hilarious... although I think I would get a few questions about why I needed 12 toner cartridges and a laser printer.
But we know from physics that it's a greenhouse gas.

If by "greenhouse" you mean, well, "not a greenhouse". Greenhouses get warm because the shell blocks convection, not radiative effects.

We really need a better term for them. Heat trapping gas?
It's funny to read this because we just did this for a client: http://www.bluefinatlanta.com/ Hours on the front page, menu in HTML, zero Flash. Not even that hard to do, realistically.

Before, they didn't even show up in Google's results for "Atlanta sushi". Now they've actually got some content to index. I get that it's easy to market flashy sites, but it's also easy to market search engine optimization too.
I know planes have flexible wings, but there is a good reason nature's largest flying critter is no bigger than a toy plane.

An ornithopter the size of an A380 would be... interesting.
This is a typographic nightmare. Not only does it make for a choppy comprehension of the reading, but it also turns the text block into an awkward, unappealing shape.
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Very sad about the death of Tesla employees. At the same time, it is very scary that large sections of a city could be rendered powerless because of one downed power line.
This is kind of ridiculous. The "don't be evil" slogan originated in 2001 supposedly, when Google had $7 million in profit and very few employees. They were hardly a powerhouse, although things looked very promising at that point.
However, it is legal to use deadly force against an intruder if you're in a life threatening situation. An interesting test case would be to install a wall switch that remotely disables the brakes on your car (so that an intruder can put you in a life threatening situation even when you're not home) and a booby trap that automatically kills anyone approaching it.
Kalman didn't invent the Kalman filter. He learned about the discrete equivalent from Stratonovich and adapted it to the continuous case, and that was the name that stuck. But every useful Kalman filter is actually a Stratonovich filter, because they're all digital.

I guess having a short name makes you more likely to become immortal.
Summary: "Give us money and advertise our product for us and then we'll consider you for this project."
My first thought was about Elon. Anyone passing away is tremendously sad. But in that sadness, I think it is good to acknowledge we didn't lose a great visionary today. We need them.
I'll try to answer objections here in two sets of comments, one on climate, the other on human evolution.

On climate change: from what I understand of the subject, there is only one body of research -- three sets of "cross-pollinated" research of which the CRU was one. Again from what I understand, all three of these sets do not have the raw data available.

I can also say more confidently that none of these people have theories with operant mechanisms that explain the Medieval Warm Period or the cooling cycles towards the end of the Roman Empire and during the Little Ice Age -- nor do they seem to be in a hurry to discover the operant mechanisms behind these changes to world climate.

This does not mean that toxic effluvia like DDT, or the sulfides contributing to acid rain, or whatnot are harmless; but it does mean that it's not clear that "the science is settled" on global warming -- which seems to have stopped and started going the other way in the past 20 years, regardless. I'm not a climate scientist even as an amateur, but recent research seems to point to sunspots as an, or the, operant mechanism.
Secrets of Design Superheroes…
The fact that you need a licensed product everywhere you want to check out the code, including the server, was a huge PITA for us. VisualSvn did the trick for us at the time.
Whatever you think of Oracle the company or Oracle the product, you have to admire what Larry has accomplished. Especially considering his humble origins, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
I did not get much in the way of programming out of my Math/CS degree, other than socially accepted (encouraged, even) time to fiddle with my own projects.

I did get an clear benefit out of the institution of university, in socialization and in closed-world long term interaction with other like-minded, intelligent people.

i.e. Courses were often a waste of time, University was not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Déformation_professionnelle
OS X has "keychain" which can be viewed and modified from the Keychain Access app.
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It's not so much the short name as being on the right side of Atlantic.