skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, that number is a function of how far apart your particular origin and destination are, so it's not intrinsic to the station wagon.

And secondly, you just measured latency there, not bandwidth.
I'm not sure about the loans you get to go to law school, or the loans he got, but I was under the impression that student loans are something that you can't get out of if you declare bankruptcy, just like alimony or something like that. Asking for a refund is the only way out. Though I disagree with the idea that a refund is fair. Schools aren't exactly flush with cash to be handing back to students who leave or fail out...nor should they be. It's just another reason to finish a degree to make yourself THAT much more marketable.

I fail to see how sticking it out and finishing something like a JD is somehow worse in the long run (financially) than leaving with somewhere around 100k (I assume) that you will have to pay back to creditors with interest.
The first comment on the reddit thread is also pretty entertaining: "Similar decreases in resistance occur when wine is poured on sorority girls."
Maybe he should get a refund. Because if part of a law school education is being able to construct a convincing argument based on the evidence you present, then I think he has been shortchanged.
An interesting anti-vaccine argument is that of chiropractors. They often believe chiropractic is a viable alternative that poses less risk than vaccines do (which they will acknowledge is still quite small, but why risk it?). I'm mentioning this because it's the side I heard about long before Wakefield's finding was published, and people seem to think there was no anti-vaccine argument before 1998.

Unfortunately this is impossible to prove, but it's interesting nonetheless. Do the research and pick a side yourself.
I propose an addition to all scientific testing. In addition to the control you also have an 'alternate' which is red wine. It would seemingly solve a lot of scientific research and may lead to untold leaps forward in technology. Or we could end up with millions of drunken scientists clogging the data pathways by texting their ex's and drunk-facebook stalking.
PHP makes it pretty easy:

if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
$emailvalid = 1;
}
My favorite motion is search. As in "c/foo" to change until the next occurrence of foo.
https://www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing/

(IPbay does have a nice ring to it, though.)
Actually, (and as a former Apple engineer) I'd say Apple is barely acceptable with most technology but absolutely fantastic leveraging that technology to produce amazing product designs.

What Apple technology in specific do you think is so advanced?
It's a neat story, and of course by the time the Germans were almost there, disposing of the gold was the only option. But it's a strange interpretation of the word "saved" (or perhaps "medals") in the title that makes the claim that this process actually saved the medals themselves, since they had to be recoined later.
Hey, I didn't say it was awesome, I was just reporting what actually happens. :)
It's rare that I have to go farther than page two, if even that, to find what I'm looking for on Google. I don't see how Bing could be 'better' enough to make a difference to me.
The author's proposal is that Apple adopts WebM and drops all support for h.264.

That would mean that (amongst other things) all video content from the iTunes Store would have to be reencoded for WebM and the YouTube app on iOS would stream WebM instead of h.264. But that way, older Apple products won't have access to the majority of online video, or if Apple provides software decoding, battery life will suffer significantly.

I can't imagine Apple even considering such a move, but if they did, don't you think the press would have a field day?
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: If This Fusion Restaurant's Website Could Talk.
Personally if I don't find what I'm looking for on the first page, I refine my query.
Ideology aside, what's the point? Like the article quotes, "if you are a company that gives away your product - how the hell are you supposed to justify paying for such a license when there is a perfectly good alternative that doesn't cost you money?"

Do you know how many engineers Mozilla can get for $5 million a year? Or how many ads they can buy for $5 million? Or how much beer? The point is- just because they have the money doesn't mean this is a good way to spend it.
Other massively-attractive deals could also improvise their own new frameworks... so it still reduces to: if you're offering a hot deal, you'll be fine one way or another.

By testing new arrangements, and creating liquidity for new angels, this kinds of deal also broadens the ecosystem for other ventures.
That's a pretty good idea - you could probably recreate the delicious network feed by federating couches. I could replicate my friends' couchdbs into mine in a mesh network topology and create my own network feed.
I actually had a MySpace account back in the day, and I had completely forgotten about that deletion process. I agree that it's far from the best UX.
Gruber's post wasn't about being a proponent of H.264. It was asking why Google was being so hypocritical with (1) Flash still bundled in Chrome and (2-3) their flagship support of H.264 with Android and YouTube.

It's one thing to be a proponent of the open web. However, it is just amazing the length people will go to in this "debate" to justify Google's hypocrisy. This is a corporate strategy move aimed at controlling the market and jamming up Apple and it's hundreds of millions of devices that play H.264. Gimme a break.
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For force-directed graph layouts in javascript, see also Springy: http://github.com/dhotson/springy

Demo: http://dhotson.github.com/springy/demo.html
At least a good spell check!
As I already commented on the blog post itself, I wonder whether I could continue that long doing something like DuckDuckGo without having someone on call other than me if things go bad. I know that you have to sacrifice a lot for your startup, but if at all possible, I'd try to find someone who's there to restart the server if I'm not available. Never mind that I don't know whether I would trust my limited security knowledge enough. Just catching 80% of the crackers isn't enough.

Granted, a freelancer doing a security audit might work out for that. But restarting servers, solving network and OS issues? Is there some kind of sysadmin "call center"? And would I trust them with my private data?

Other than that, the article speaks to my bootstrappy heart.
S. Korean man charged after praising N. Korea on Twitter
Cellular computing using genetic NOR gates and chemical wires
It's a monster discussion, and threading seems to be broken at that part, so it's hard to say.

But the main part of the discussion concerns a suggestion to replace Emacs Lisp with Perl. McCarthy's concern seems to be whether Emacs uses the ability of Lisp to treat code as data, and whether Perl has that facility.

A couple of answers gave examples of Emacs using that ability.
IMO american unions are a disaster because of government intervention.

In other countries there are successful unions in industries and contexts where the government plays little role.
You have to parse Lisp programs that are stored in a string or a file. You can make new Lisp programs from objects that have never been in a file.
NOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
[the brain](http://www.thebrain.com/) rocked 10 years ago, and reimplementing it in a smooth html5 finish would be a serious competitor to the established wiki's.
The whole reason for the open letter is for a refund so he can immediately pay off those debts
Excellent combination of the wonders of the modern age, and the ills rising from the comfort we live in. I would suggest to everybody here: go and fix something that is broken, or go and build something. Something that isn't software. A car, a radio, a house.
For me the decision is pretty simple:

1) I'm sometimes using untrusted networks (e.g., Wifi)

2) Google offers an SSL encrypted interface

3) Bing doesn't
I was just thinking today while wrestling with a Google presentation doc that the UI sucks, as does the UI of many Google products. Yesterday I was wrestling with the Picasa Uploader.

However the totality of the UX is ok, since I really need to share the information and that part works ok. In fact it is surprising how much suckiness I will tolerate in that tradeoff.

Sorry if this has nothing to do with Marissa Mayer. The only thing I know about her is that I keep hearing her name and seeing her picture, which is not unpleasant. Also, the original Google page was a miracle of minimalism in an era that gave us the Flash intro. If that was you Marissa, then thanks. Otherwise I owe another apology to someone.
I don't expect them to understand that part. Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage is non-obvious. The proposition that Chinese workers are sentient, and therefore objects of moral value, is somewhat more elementary.
Amazon's Associates API requires prior written permission for any mobile use. Apparently they are giving that out a little more now. I sure hope they give me permission.
No, Your Service isn't "Open"
The glare is greatly reduced but there still isn't clear delineation of the body as separate from the header and side bar. I tend to like color-blocking those out into visually separate entities. (That's actually basically the way HN is done.) Some folks have tracking issues and if the main body is not reasonably distinct from the other areas, their eyes wander and they can't read very fluently.
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Recursion via Pascal by J. S. Rohl is one of a small number of books devoted entirely to recursion in programming.
Thanks for your comment.

I'm allowing for different date formats (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd) when making the puzzles. But it hadn't occurred to me that seeing a non-American date on the home page could be off-putting to Americans.

I guess I could try to recognize where people are from and show a location-specific example. Or maybe it's best to pick an ambiguous date ie one that works under both conventions. eg 12-5-1965 should do it.

Thanks again.
I have the ability to lose people a lot of money, that's kind of stressful.
Not only do law schools more or less lie about employment stats, the Fed subsidizes the loans so there is no signal to the consumer in the form of borrowing rate as to how risky the undertaking is. Also there is a disconnect between the cultural cachet of law as a profession and the modern reality, and tuition rates have absolutely exploded as a result of schools milking the government teet, all at the detriment of the students. Law is really winner take all. The winners get $160k/yr starting and 60-70 hour workweeks and will pay off their loans in roughly 10 years at ~$1500-$2000 a month. The "losers" will, after 9 months of searching, start at $30k (not necessarily in law) and will die in debt. It's really not as simple as risk/reward, as most things in life are not.
The font problem seems to be localized to Chrome on Windows machines. Chrome on my Macbook renders the font correctly. The page still renders unusually slowly on the Macbook though.

Some of these games (e.g. Gates of Olympus) explicitly mention Firefox 4, so the stable build of Chrome might be "too old."
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> I almost can feel when Google will be better than Bing and vice-versa.

Can you please share some of those incites? I never use bing but have had trouble with google on occasion. Finding a home appliance manual can be pretty frustrating.
Alternatively: Minecraft just entered the most sold computer games article on Wikipedia! ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_g...
Key word there is "most." It's the exceptions where DDG shines.
I was sort of expecting to see multiple results too, but it's a bit harder to execute on that in a user-friendly way. An easier alternative may be encouraging the user to check other pages by saying something like:

"More results relevant to your search: Bing (20,000) | Yahoo (13,450), AOL (3450) ..." etc.

Or using async calls for conducting the same search on an alternate engine while the user is still reviewing the first set of results, and showing just a peek to the new set of results...
Maybe we should all start stressing the difference between "Open" and simply "Available"
Here's the problem with that line of argument: while it may hold true for software patents, when it comes to online video one of the fastest growing categories of end-users are people viewing video on mobile and embedded devices. These devices use dedicated hardware to decode video without killing the available power budget. If there is anything behind the claims that WebM infringes upon MPEG-LA patents then you are not going to see the lawsuits drop until real devices are shipping with dedicated hardware decoders. Such devices are easier to nab at borders and by getting an injunction against the importation of these devices the MPEG-LA would also start the process with an action that will directly hurt the bottom-line of the alleged infringing party.
This has been a long time coming. Not being able to use Python3.x for web development was a large barrier for me switching completely. Now Python3.x just needs to be the default for more linux distros.
Why would Opera get a special deal? It's not like they make an open source browser. It seems misplaced to give handouts to a publicly traded company, with offices in ten countries, and who receive $80 million in revenues a year.
So that is Justin Timberlake. He's always been in my "I know I should know that name but can't quite place him" box.
I agree that Greene seemed overly naive having to put that much thought into why the woman disliked him.

For the most part I think people are (or have the capability, or have been) very aware of it all, but as Greene says, just not accepting of it. The habit of not accepting it becomes so ingrained to a point of it only existing subconsciously. Bringing this back into the conscious can be very difficult, and perhaps may be what Greene went through.

If you grew up in full acceptance of the reality, complete with the wisdom, necessary experience, and knowledge of how to make use of it and act and respond in the proper circumstances, then I would say you are very much in the minority.
I could rant about a few things that bug me, but please let 2.8 bring a single-window UI. That would confirm to me that they're slowly getting towards something more usable.
I'm a student studying engineering. This year, I did really well in physics because my lecturer had given us a list of 40 questions from the textbook that covered everything we needed to know. I spent the day before the exam going through all the questions, and when I got into the exam I knew how to answer every single question. I got an A for that exam.

On the other hand, I failed my maths exam. There were various reasons for this, but one was simply that I spend to long looking at textbook, and not enough time answering questions. A full quarter of the questions in the exam were totally new to me; I had absolutely no idea how to even begin answering them.

The moral of the story? I would pay good money for a website that provided a set of questions that covered everything I needed to know. Obviously that's a big ask, especially at the university level. Perhaps you could allow users to define what categories of questions they need to be able to handle, or even create rules for generating new sets of questions. If I could spend 2 hours defining what questions I should be asked (and then share those settings with others in my class), then spend the rest of the day practicing those questions, that would be a day well spent.

What would I pay for that? Easily $20/semester, probably closer to $50.

Another way I could use this website is for revision or passive learning. Start with basic maths, and slowly add new categories of questions (negative numbers, then algebra, then calculus). If you could somehow generate how to solve the question, that would be even better - you could have an "I'm stuck, how do I solve this" button that would be perfect for learning at your own pace. Alternatively, you could just have one 'methods' page per category of questions, and every question of that type would link to that page. It would be feasible to hand-write those pages, or allow others to write them (or even just add their own notes that only they see).

Also, you might want to learn about spaced repetition learning - perhaps it's something you could implement.

If you don't want to use all (or any) of these ideas, that's fine. What you've got is great, but I hope my ideas get you thinking!

And finally, best of luck. I hope you change (this corner of) the world.
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"That's a pretty far-out prediction for when he made it."

Did he make his prediction in the 1960s? The original Star Trek series posited the existence of computerized universal translators.

Edit: Text-to-speech and vice-versa technology has been commercially available for decades, reasonably good versions for at least 2 decades. Automated translation systems have been available for decades, with free, online services available for at least the last decade. Talking electronic multi-language dictionaries have been available for years. It doesn't take much creativity to imagine plumbing together existing technologies (speech-to-text in one language, textual automatic translation to another language, and text-to-speech in the second language). Streamlining the process, making it work well, and making it available easily on widely available cell phones is great and amazingly useful but hardly an unpredictable innovation.

Sorry, imagining that it would some day be possible to pipe the output of previously existing application A into previously existing application B (or imagining that previously existing devices will gain slightly incrementally improved input capabilities) is hardly a "far-out" prediction.
He is largely re-stating Steve Blank's thesis, that you need to figure out if there is a real market for something before you increase your burn rate. Otherwise, says Blank, iterate through different ideas, again, before increasing the burn rate.
Firstly, what I'm saying doesn't necessarily have anything to do FOSS. In a world without IP protection, you could still release/sell software without disclosing the source code. In fact, the GPL for example relies on IP protection laws to even function.
Leveraging iPads for Data Collection
Forrst.me Teaser
Not really. Check out this WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870482810457602...

"Mr. Lamy said if trade statistics were adjusted to reflect the actual value contributed to a product by different countries, the size of the U.S. trade deficit with China—$226.88 billion, according to U.S. figures—would be cut in half."
just wait for that bubble to pop if this transitions from merely disgruntled graduates to defaulting higher education graduates en masse. If you think it's an unfair risk that you might not get a job _just_ because you have a J.D. wait till it gets bad enough for the loan lenders recalculate their risks. They'll tighten the belt on student loans across the board making them far less accessible.
Now updated to 12-5-1965.
I'm sure demand media would buy it to exploit the pagerank
The PEP process has always amazed me as one of the better processes that the Python community "owns". Certainly not perfect but I feel the focus on communication is really key.

Does Ruby have something similar when it comes to enhancements?
My impression (as someone not an Apple engineer) is that much of the iPhone hardware is pretty impressive, their visual skin layer is awesome and does some truly impressive computer graphics to get high performance on battery-constrained devices, and a lot of the MacOS underlying tech is pretty solid.

I'm really quite curious as to where you put the dividing line - my impression (as a Google engineer who works frequently in UI) is that there're a lot of really subtle design decisions in both Search and Maps that are nothing more than HTML/CSS, but really improve the usability of the product.
Refactoring For Designers
Chinese Crackdown On Piracy Enters The Digital Domain
I can't give too many details away.. but where I work we've been using graph visualizations and algorithms to investigate and detect fraud.

I've open sourced the force directed graph viz part of it in case anyone is interested: http://github.com/dhotson/springy
A more factual account of the medals:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/about/medals/

The relevant excerpt:

Professor Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen had been a refuge for German Jewish physists since 1933. Max von Laue and James Franck had deposited their medals there to keep them from being confiscated by the German authorities. After the occupation of Denmark in April 1940, the medals were Bohr's first concern, according to the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy (also of Jewish origin and a 1943 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), who worked at the institute. In Hitler's Germany it was almost a capital offense to send gold out of the country. Since the names of the Laureates were engraved on the medals, their discovery by the invading forces would have had very serious consequences. To quote George de Hevesy (Adventures in Radioisotope Research, Vol. 1, p. 27, Pergamon, New York, 1962), who talks about von Laue's medal: "I suggested that we should bury the medal, but Bohr did not like this idea as the medal might be unearthed. I decided to dissolve it. While the invading forces marched in the streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving Laue's and also James Franck's medals. After the war, the gold was recovered and the Nobel Foundation generously presented Laue and Frank with new Nobel medals." de Hevesy wrote to von Laue after the war that the task of dissolving the medals had not been easy, as gold is "exceedingly unreactive and difficult to dissolve." The Nazis occupied Bohr's institute and searched it very carefully but they did not find anything. The medals quietly waited out the war in a solution of aqua regia.
The big one is web search / advertising. The code that is making google money is not open source.
Porting stuff from Pascal is prone to off-by-one errors due to 1-based arrays.
In general I feel like this... the more info I have the better Google will be. The less info I have the better Bing will be.

This isn't a hard and fast rule, but it tends to feel that way.

Like I did a search for "c# async video", looking for this video I saw before with Anders talking about Async. Bing gets the video I'm looking for as the second link. Google doesn't have it in the first few pages (didn't look any further). Adding "Anders" to the search doesn't seem to help Google. But then adding "Anders channel9" got it to the top of the list.

Unfortunately for you, I think finding home appliance manuals is something that I "feel" will be better on Google. Because you typically have very specific info (model number, brand, etc..).

Bing is great when I know what I'm looking for, but don't have details on it. I like Google when I'm looking for something obscure, but I have detailed info on it.

With that said, my hunch is even less scientific than this article.
But that's exactly the point. You can give Mozilla special treatment, but that only underlines the fact browser makers will have to pay unless you specifically exempt them.
That might be true but it's probably due to better knowledge and detection of concussion today than in the past. Look at rugby, doesn't seem to slow them down. The rugby players I know have broken their nose multiple times and have scares to show for it.
Current PowerVR and NVidia chips support decoding VC-1 and WMA. Do you see this functionality enabled in Apple products? Why do you think they are going to enable WebM parts?

Similarly, Vorbis has been there for years. Why do you think Apple never supported it?