skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait a minute. This sounds like they can deny you a degree, based on facts that (1) have nothing to do with your abilities, and (2) have nothing to do with the university at all. We have a word for that: "discrimination".

Under which wicked jurisdiction discrimination could ever be considered legal?
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The core data is free, both through the API, and through the data dumps that happen every several months.
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Presumably they'd like the money coming in to blast past supported into the realm of profitable.
Such a clause would have to be very broad, like "don't do anything that might embarrass the university". That would probably be considered abusive, and void.

They probably don't have the right, and count on your inability to effectively sue them.
The problem is with the comments, not necessarily with the news pieces.

I don't recommend any news sites in particular. I would look for the blogs / sites of competent people in the industry I'm interested in and watch those.
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There doesn't seem to be a Chrome equivalent to "Live HTTP Headers" for Firefox.

Viewing, logging, replaying, and manipulating HTTP headers is an absolute _must_ for many web developers.

Wireshark is fantastic, but having this feature embedded in the browser is very useful.
With the AGPL, you have some guarantee that improvements will be given back to the community. So while you're right (some of the incentives are removed), you're wrong (other incentives are added). I bet the net effect will be positive.
That makes a lot of sense, as Windows boxes are not really good for web development, but I really hope they still test everything on Windows, extensively. Even though their software is web-based, there's still difference in behavior on different platforms.
1. IM+ has chat (every major IM system) and web browser in the same app.

2. Multitasking is just another word for accomplishing less, but more slowly.
I'm a member of familab, the Greater Orlando (Florida), space. We're still struggling financially, and working towards our incorporation. Unfortunately, we've had to downsize, but that hasn't put a stop to our hacking. Hopefully I can meet up with some like minded people at Defcon and gather some advice and/or new members for our space. If you're ever in Orlando and want to peek at the space, let myself or our mailing list know. Any full member with a key can give you the grand (read: 1 room) tour. :)
It's also an excellent parable about defeating a superior enemy in detail.
I've been making semi-regular (about once a year) visits to the same places in Shanghai over the last few years and it always amazes me how a) each time there is so much change and b) how much the locals seem to take this change for granted. When the economy grows at a steady 10% every year and the real estate market at 30%, people's expectations simply get a lot higher. The potential for growth simply a lot higher than in Europe or the US and people adjust their expectations.
Intel & Linux dominance of supercomputing is incredible. Microsoft - not so much
Peer pressure?
Sounds like a troll to me...

flag it and move on.
To me, those titles sound like articles I'd like to read.
You don’t want me to buy your mobile app? Ok, I won’t.
The Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm in my own words
I see you've submitted it - thanks.

I also note that you didn't put BEGIN and END as I asked, you sent it as HTML text, as I specifically asked not, you sent it not to the address in my profile, you didn't include the anti-spam measure, and your code doesn't work.

Color me grumpy.
I would definitely support an email me link, or perhaps a way to include an email field which is only visible to other registered users of HN. I don't want to give my email to just anyone, but I don't mind listing it for HN users.
way too pricey
Do any of these create well formed XHTML?
> And I can't think of another word that succinctly captures the idea of accessing unauthorized data

Definition of "To Snoop":

To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen
To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.

I don't think that even slightly covers unintentional collection of data...

If they did it intentionally: sure, snooping. Otherwise the word is basically designed to make it sound nefarious :)
How many of us geek-types buy a cheap crap IKEA couch, and an Aeron chair? I bet most of us have a more ergonomic office chair than couch.
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is anyone else unable to download the pdf? keeps telling me that it's damaged. dang
1. IM+ sucks

2. Thanks for repeating something you read on the internet in a patronizing way
"Increasingly /.../ Google presents links to its own services, like maps, Youtube videos, local business results and product search listings. Executives argue that providing these easily accessible results clearly benefits users. Rivals claim that this is self-serving, and that Google promotes its content even though there may be better material elsewhere."

I am not sure whether this argument holds, since the Google Search itself defines, what is a "good material" and rank it.
Windows in a VM makes web application testing easy. Always starting from a snapshot insures integrity of the environment too.
That's because in the capital-F Future you cannot 're-mind'; you can only 'mind'.
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Your criticism of how the parent poster uses the computer when not at work is based on reduced productivity? Have you ever heard of relaxation and entertainment??
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markItUp isn't a WYSIWYG editor, so it depends on the user :p
Meh, if they did do this, I could see the blogosphere bitching every couple of months because SO is asking for money.

Its almost as if...

The only winning move is not to play
I do recall at least one study that said that high school students who take music do better academically. Could have been some serious selection bias in that study though.
Yes, being skeptical about things is generally good. I agree that there should be legitimate testing for those types of things. However, I don't think the vaccine/autism scare is a good example here. The research that was done on that that suggested a link was incredibly biased, poorly done, and sensationalized. Furthermore, the skepticism about vaccines caused far more harm than autism. Children have actually died from people refusing vaccines.

www.jennymccarthybodycount.com

You can debate whether those statistics are perfectly accurate or not, but even a single death that was purely preventable is too much.
what purpose would the "links back" serve? if google has the data and delivers it to the user, sushikartan has marginalized itself.
If you have done all the work and gotten all the grades necessary for a degree, as stipulated by the university, then they probably can't deny you one. However they can deny you those necessary grades if they haven't been awarded yet.
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I think the biggest problem people have with the iPad is viewing it as a "more portable computer". Personally, I view mine as a binder+magazine+psp.

Before, my evening would go: get home, play with the kids, eat supper, think "oh, I need to do a couple of things on the computer before I forget", "well, since I've taken the effort to come in the office... may as well do x, y and z". Before I know it I've spent the whole evening in the office and now it's time to go to sleep.

Now I don't have to go in the office for small things. I get home, put the ipad on the living room table. Someone will pick it up, doing something on it and put it down again.

Ironically, I think the fact that you don't stay in love with the thing is exactly why it's going to change everything. A general consumption device that isn't intrusive. Remember life before cell phones? "oh no, I'm away from home and I need to make a call. Rats, I don't have any change on me..., ok, got some change at the restaurant, now to find a pay phone... glad it's pissing rain". It was really intrusive. Today I don't even notice my phone is with me until I need to send an sms or make a call.
Banning the platform most of your users are using doesn't sound like a great idea to me. There's enormous value in eating one's own dogfood (and stuff running in Chrome is an entirely different kind of dogfood than stuff running in IE, on Windows).
Here's my very specific point: an IQ score changes enough, often and by many externality to be considered a form of intelligence measurement.

To me, IQ is about as accurate as BMI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_reference_chart

On a good day, you might be an average IQ. Or a low average. Or a High average.

I think the 100m is a cute analogy, but it falls short. An IQ changes with very little effort; qualifying for a 100m sprint takes a lot of effort: http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/track-field/training-qualify-10....

I doubt pasta or a bad nights sleep would be such an incredible difference to your performance that you might be considered an athlete one day and a couch potato the next.
Heh, that's funny - that means I'm better at securing Windows than Google.
> Windows boxes are not really good for web development

Unfair! I use Linux and Windows for web dev and they are both equally as good as the other.

EDIT; oh come on, at least justify it... :)
I've been looking for this sort of functionality for a while. Has anybody seen any other comparable free/open projects?
Here's a white-paper with more detail about the technology.

http://www.diamondcut.com/Downloads/AppNote4DiamondCut.pdf

The author describes a case-work example where he compares an analyzed audio file to ENF data from the power company (?) about the building and can prove it wasn't recorded on the claimed date and there were multiple deletions.
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Since the website already uses some javascript API to integrate google maps, I suppose the API could be extended to include information about what the little yellow blobs mean, which Google could then index appropriately. The map in the search results page could then contain markers from different sites, annotated by site, weighted by the site's page rank.
Thanks for the info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLB_eHazQo&feature=relat...
Exactly. One has to wonder what kind of culture this fosters with time.
You can bet that it will get worse before it gets better. This strikes me as a well-intentioned action that makes all kinds of assumptions about the reasons people are committing suicide in China (this isn't exclusive to Foxxconn). I'm happy for the people who will benefit from the extra money, but the opportunity for unintended consequences is huge.
Suppose you implement a system based on Diaspora, the next generation of population and governments will use everyday.

For various reasons, such as some of the DoD prototype implementations (classified ones), you don't want, or you're required by law to restrict.

As you implement the "next-generation system" you don't want the Diaspora guys to take your hard work and make profit of it, distrupting you immediately, because you just started (who are advantaged because they were the first ones, it's a bit like a monopoly, (if you can't see it, try to start a "one-click" hosting for wordpress, after they switch to AGPL)). [1]

The other reason is that, such a system is indispensable to this future to work. You would be required by gov law to classify all of your platform (there would be military guards at your data centers :P).

edit

[1] My point is that they're trenched in their market (the first one should be hosting for Diaspora). Think of it this way, all the people who donated, helped in the process of monopolization of a product they were told would be open (the code yes, but the product it's not).
Oops... Yes, I did. :-)
$99.90
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From the Slashdot coverage ( http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1545238 ) the patent is http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html . That was filed in 1993, but the OP said filing was in '92. The '92 filing could have been the Australian filing as opposed to the US one a few months later.
We finally killed IE6 and you should too
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My initial response was "Damn, I'm running everying off a UPS from now on" until I read this:

Battery-powered devices are not immune to to ENF analysis, as grid frequency variations can be induced in their recordings from a distance.

I'm slightly skeptical of that, but if it's true, it's pretty impressive.
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Google employees probably won't be using Safari but it is 95% open source (WebKit). iTunes would be a better example.
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That's funny. I actually have a relative who was in TISM. Some of their better work.

I also have a friend who never liked them, because in one of their songs they list everyone they hate, and it includes 'anyone called Trevor' : this is my friends name.

TISM : the original acquired taste.
Shipping costs shouldn't be an issue - it costs basically nothing to ship the bits. You just need to find a printer in Europe who can distribute it there.
Chinese hiding three million babies a year
Didin't read the whole article but I'm incredibly frustrated with my iPad already.

iTunes is such a pain in the ass for syncing files. I was playing around with loading up some comic books for an upcoming trip. A nice directory structure of .cbr files on my computer is mangled beyond repair when turned into a flat list of files to add to a single app. The app (Cloudreaders) offers organization via tagging, but re-tagging 500 files is untenable. The iPad needs to expose itself as a USB storage device that I can drag folders onto, security sandbox be damned.

No background processing is disappointing for a hacker like myself. I've been building an in-browser HTML5 audio library. MP3/M4A playback works extremely well on the iPad's Safari. Until you open a "new page" or jump out of the browser. Thankfully the current song doesn't stop playing, but no Javascript events fire so the next song can't start.

I also do miss Flash for various reasons. Flash can extract waveform data from audio files to perform visualizations for example.

Battery life, blah blah blah, I need a computer I can hack and script.

I use Chrome and have my bookmarks synched across many computers, so Mobile Safari is a black sheep anyway.

I do get in the zone on my iPad when I'm reading some PDFs or comic books, watching ABC or Netflix, or playing pinball. The size and touchscreen and battery are amazing. So it's not all bad.

But it's a toy, not a real computer, and that's frustrating to a hacker like myself.
>For example, I think constructors and destructors are pretty easy and hard to misuse.

Someone is about to eat his hat.
China isn't trying to hack you
Outside the yet another list blog post, I'm since I've adopted wkrte (http://code.google.com/p/wkrte/) as my favorite lightweight jQuery editor. Has anybody ever seen a real review of jQuery RTEs rather than an inventory?
I'm a member of TOG, a Hackerspace in Dublin, Ireland (our website: http://www.tog.ie)

You can also see the Hackerspaces that have added themselves to OpenStreetMap here: http://technomancy.org/osm-hackerspaces/
I agree with what you’re saying, but you still need to compare that to abject poverty which works out to around 1$ / day. 132$ / month = 4.33$ per day which is more than four times what many people live off of. Granted, for that area it's about the subsistence level, but add in overtime and these people do get spending money.

In that situation some people will be saving 30-50% of their income which represents a huge amount of leverage. Yes, it sucks on levels that we are not really aware of, but those jobs hand poor people leverage and assuming a functioning society with minimal corruption etc over a few years many of those people will move on to much better places.

Overtime: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/19/the-fate-of-a-generation-...

Leverage: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/foxconn-raising-wages-by-...
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Detailed sushi bar reviews, for example. Google will hopefully not try to reproduce all the reviews on the search page (copyright, lack of space).
Text to Speech would be awesome but I would put it down as a 'nice to have'.

Also, please bear in mind that there has been no substantive research to say that any of those education toys actually educate. In fact, it could be argued that they inhibit or at best just occupy time.
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That's a common and understandable sentiment, but plenty of us are happy with less-restrictive licenses. In fact, I see that you have published code under BSD and MIT licenses, so you must not object strongly to people making money off that.
So if I start a business somewhere that people are starving to death it's ok to abuse the labor because... well now they're abused but they were going to die?
The title doesn't really give you much to go on, but the app is incredibly well done. It diffs all kinds of binary image formats like PNG, JPG or even PSD.

Oh, and the product website is amazingly beautiful too.
Well at least this money should be going to the good research work the CSIRO do rather than lining some patent trolls pocket.
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Probably a preferable outcome to being ridiculed, downtrodden, then killed during armed conflict.
The general consensus seems to be that Rhino doesn't really exploit the performance potential of the JVM. Basically, it could probably be a lot faster.
My daughter has a Winnie-The-Pooh laptop which is tough plastic, has a dozen games and cost, I think, $60.

If you want a large (e.g. 10 inch) touch-screen general purpose device, it's going to break $200 in costs. Even basic components would be really tough to get much cheaper.
these are from the same guys that made Versions (http://www.versionsapp.com), the subversion app for mac
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I've used YQL via the Console and works a charm unless the site prohibits it in its robots.txt (like Google Image Search)
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
I was recently given an iphone. The OS ruins what, hardware wise, is a nice device. I was told "Any time you need to ask 'Can the iphone do this?' the answer will be to jailbreak it."

And that was dead on. Overall the OS is disappointing. I never really bought into the idea of Steve Jobs crippling his products creating an issue, but now that I have one I'm starting to despise Apple for their decisions.

It definitely guarantees I will not spend money on an ipad. Luckily my phone was free.

(sidenote: I was given this iphone because it had been run over by a car and easily repaired by ordering a new screen. Very sturdy device.)
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... and in case Kashmir gets stuck in your head, use a metacure such as Bach's intro for Johannus Passion :)

Seriously though, I think we use music to reconstruct emotions, mostly (but not necessarily) positive ones. In fact we use every possibility to reconstruct emotions, e.g. scents, views, someone's voice, but music seems to be the simplest "hook" that works on its own, without the help of external stimulus, like with scents for example.
The same publication has an article on how the restrictions on family size are being eased in places like Shanghai because of problems with demographics (eventually there's going to be an imbalance of young to old people) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5901573...
R on the iPhone/iPad? Not so much....a GPL violation
The Inca used "regular" liquor by imbibing and rectal absorption, arguably leading to a similar level of drunkenness.

I would find such an activity invigorating, doubtless, but this bit of data doesn't do a thing to eliminate "culture shock." (Unless we can find a historical account of how smoothly such an innovation was adopted by Inca society, and even then, this should be met by much skepticism.)
See also Greg Egan's short story "Beyond the Whistle Test", in which a team of neuroscientists invent a song that, when heard once, remains stuck in your head for the remainder of your life.
I found the linked paradoxes on the Wikipedia article more interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox

And the discussion on whether it can rightfully be called a paradox:

"it was debated whether the word 'paradox' is an appropriate description given that the Parrondo effect can be understood in mathematical terms"

the funny counterpoint:

"Is Parrondo's paradox really a "paradox"? This question is sometimes asked by mathematicians, whereas physicists usually don't worry about such things."

This is a case of http://xkcd.com/214/ :)
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Did anyone else get a vague sense of terror at the possibility of their heads exploding as they read through the list of songs-likely-to-become-earworms, worrying that reading the title would start each song playing in their head, one-by-one, until nothing could be perceived or contemplated over the roaring cacophony of 25 songs now all simultaneously stuck?
Is it just me or this is a very stupid idea?
I did some very quick arithmetics following the instructions given by the creators of this card, and it seems to me that the card holds < 3000 password possibilities (ONLY!).

These guys are advising users to use strings around 8 (let's think 6-10) consecutive characters (top-bottom, bottom-top, left-right, right-left and diagonals) as passwords.

I think this technique would increase the possibilities of brute-forcing a password by several degrees of magnitude.

Am I missing something?
Amazing website design, love the attention to design that quality mac apps get in comparison to windows ones.
If a song can get stuck in your head, you have some musical talent. (In the same way, if you can cook something yummy for a friend or family member, you have some culinary talent.)
This is among the scariest things I've ever seen.
Personally, I found the super-fast "shake"-like effect when you click what you think is a link to be very distracting. It also breaks "back", you need to hunt for and learn to use the "Top" button in the top right corner of those pages.
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I've had a heck of a time finding a decent markdown editor to implement into my current project. I don't want it to spit out HTML, I want markdown. But I want a WYSIWYG editor, not just a bunch of markdown shortcut buttons. Any suggestions?
I'm one of the people who disagrees with #2 "Put down other interests section" - unless it is related directly to the job in question.

If you're interviewing for a Developer etc. spot I don't really care if you waterski.

And I have seen this firsthand in deciding who gets interviewed and who does not.

Its too hit or miss. It might help, but odds are it could also go against you.