skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree strongly that Princeton is a "sham" town-- it's very real and has its own identity outside of the University. I've spent quite a bit of time there and there are plenty of people who have lived there for years with no connection whatsoever to the school.

As to your contention that there is "not a whole lot there", I would just give you Labyrinth Books as Exhibit A: one of the best bookstores on the East Coast IMO.

I'm a little more open to your feeling that Princeton is isolated, but originally there was a reason for that. A lot of American schools are in the middle of nowhere. At one time this was a selling point for parents: they felt better sending their kids to schools where there was little chance of big-city trouble to get into like NY or Chicago (for example). It is a genuine tragedy if Bill Zeller fell victim to isolation that was originally planned to protect students, not psychologically alienate them.
That has to be rare. For the brief period when I had an iPhone and was using it as my primary mp3 player, I had to use iTunes on Windows. This was from August to November of this year, and iTunes was almost completely unusable to play, manage, sync, or even view my music collection.
Army kicks off construction of $1.2 billion NSA cybersecurity center
Most botnets would easily have more than that number of computers.

So yeah it can be done.
Do you think 99% of users are too stupid to click 'report spam' when they get a spam email?
So you combine beans and grains. That is how most of humanity exists, after all. I think the last part of your comment is patently untrue.

The American Dietetic Association released a position paper stating that they believe vegetarian and vegan diets are perfectly healthy and sustainable.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12826028
Assange 'threatened to sue' newspaper over leak of WikiLeak
"A dog sniff conducted during a concededly lawful traffic stop that reveals no information other than the location of a substance that no individual has any right to possess does not violate the Fourth Amendment [...]. Official conduct that does not 'compromise any legitimate interest of privacy' is not a search to the Fourth Amendment. We have held that any interest in possessing contraband cannot be deemed 'legitimate,' and thus, governmental conduct that only reveals the possession of contraband 'comprises no legitimate privacy interest.'" -- Justice John Paul Stevens, Illinois v. Caballes

The majority opinion seems pretty reasonable to me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_v._Caballes#Majority_o...
If they add a purchase page for the cranial protection devices, the site will be complete. Just like http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ used to be popular a while ago.
Incidentally, does anyone actually use those links?
That's weird, because Haskell has great unit testing tools. I'm especially fond of QuickCheck, which allows me to define algebraic properties of functions:

xs == reverse (reverse xs)

QuickCheck will generate hundreds of random lists and make sure that the property holds. This can be enormously useful in smoking out odd problems in complex functional code.

For simpler testing scenarios, HUnit is OK, although it sometimes feels a bit clunky.
I tried it this morning in the pitch black. It worked pretty well. The effect was mostly comical with some distortion. The most interesting aspect is how people are taking all these things that at first pass would be considered "impossible," applying some ingenuity and hard work to them, and pushing the limits of this technology.
I've got the Iron Gym pull up bar. It's cheap but nice.
Thanks for the kind comment. That's what I try to do with swombat.com - find the best actionable startup advice percolating through the social media filters, pick them out, and either add some extra insight, or at least make them more digestible (or both). Do subscribe if you like it ;-)
No, the above comment is untrue. Scientific and dietary organizations have affirmed that vegan diets are perfectly healthy and sustainable. The only issue is B12.
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Not alone, but in combination they do. There is nothing unique about what is found in meat.
TextWrangler is available, but has removed the command-line 'edit' command, and the ability to authenticate to edit root-owned files. So it begins...
I often wish Apple employed a few longtime linux users to point out certain glaring deficiencies (primarily in app/library management, and in how Spaces works).
First off, the website looks like a 2005 web hosting provider's website, complete with glossy gradients and a huge horizontal banner, which put me off.

Also, my eye isn't drawn to anything on the page that says "THIS IS FACEBOOK FOR MAC", perhaps you need to remove some of the explanation text and make the title at the very top more obvious? I'm not a designer though, so ymmv.

Finally, I can't for the life of me find a download link, so I'll go from the screenshot: It doesn't feel very "mac-ish" or polished. It looks like a thrown-together website inside a single-site browser, if I'm honest.

Now for the good: I'd be very willing to pay up to £5 pounds for a reasonably-featured facebook for desktop client, especially if it included basic twitter functionality as well, and felt at home on my mac. The idea is good, especially with the App Store coming out soon, and the influx of "gotta have an app for everything" users it might bring.

PS: Those screenshots should be taken with opt-shift-4 space click instead of opt-shift-3. I don't want to see your desktop, and it just makes the picture of the app become shrunken even at reasonable sizes of browser window.
Bottom line: vaccines are good for society but fault lines occur because vaccines are not always good for individuals and government are conditioned to not admit this or keep it as quiet as possible.

My daughter had complications 10 days after her MMR in the UK. She had episodes of going floppy and eyes rolling back in her head while making strange mewing sounds. 10 days is around the time that the measles component of the MMR can manifest side effects. We took her to the hospital where doctors absolutely refused to admit that the MMR vaccine could have anything to do with these symptoms she has never had before or since.

I found out later that in fact these exact symptoms were a known side effect of MMR in some cases. I also found out later that doctors are "encouraged" to not admit side-effects to MMR.

I also know that the UK government were using vaccines with a mercury preservative that had been banned in countries like Japan for years.

My point is, examine any claims by government or big Pharm or sensational reports about autism very carefully and make up your own mind.
To add to what you've said:

There's so much to be done in the presentation of material, and so much of that needs to be at least somewhat tailored to classes.

Even though I only substitute teach now (and teach writing workshops), I still do the same lesson a few times per day, and so will re-work lesson plans based on what is working with this particular group of students.

I've had classes where I can be pretty relaxed, and we can have useful discussions, and I've had classes where I had to keep them busy lest they get into fistfights (no joke).

Additionally, lesson plans need to be differentiated based on ability. The way I present participles to a class full of kids who stink at grammar is different from how I present participles to a group of honors kids who mostly get it.

One could try to argue that "If the teachers before you had done their jobs, all of these students would be at the same level", but even that isn't true, as students are at different levels by dint of different innate ability levels.
Am I the only one who just plain doesn't understand the value these tools provide? From my perspective, why not just _write_ javascript? Seems ridiculous. I mean, they're fun and all, but no one sets out to do a project of meaning or scale and chooses these tools, do they?
Exodus Recession: the virtual economy causes recession?
New PHP.net redesign
I love cheese. It's not as healthy as say, zucchini and olive oil though. It's easy to overdo, that's all.
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Add a dash of olive oil, some unsalted slivered almonds, and some Italian seasoning, and you might be surprised what you can get with another 40 seconds.
> I have a great respect for people who perform great work for the sake of great work, and I would NEVER chastise them for not hungering for wealth

Absolutely agree. I think what irked the OP was that the rocket scientist was putting off getting married or becoming a dad because he didn't want the financial responsibility. Obviously we don't know if this was a priority of his but if it was he wasn't doing himself any favours by just giving away his valuable skills.
how is the load now?
There's just too much text on the homepage. I'd go with shorter excerpts and no videos for the list of posts on the front page. Here's an example of what I did on a site where I had to list over 30 posts on the front page: http://www.steves-digicams.com/. I put the news in a list of 10 below the fold, and but the reviews and articles in a tabbed gallery at the top. Maybe you can do something similar to that?
I really like the Djangy guys and what they've done so far, but I have to say this is a perfect example of how being first to market doesn't ever mean you will win. I have been following Pinax and the Eldarion team for a long time and it's obvious these guys know their stuff. I would be happy to move my production Django app knowing it's safe in their hands, but I could never say the same about Djangy this early.
A bit of a shameless plug for the iPhone app I've been working on with a team for the last three months. We launched just yesterday and would love some feedback.
I think 2011 will go down as the 'Year of the B2C IPO'

The article mentions LinkedIn and Zynga trying to beat Facebook's inevitable IPO. I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora did the same in Q2 or Q3.
It looks like the `<img/>` in between the quotes was not escaped; it's in the source.
It's also a security nightmare.
I realized something that I think is even bigger than uninstalling: There's no software trial mechanism in the App Store. That's always been the spirit of shareware (and a lot of hosted services, too). You install it, kick the tires, and then decide on purchasing before the trial is done. But here, even programs available for trial on the actual developer sites seem only to be available for instant purchase. (The equivalent to a trial period on the iphone I guess is the lite version of an app. I wonder if that will start to be the dominant approach for Mac software, too.)
"The futility of attempting to upgrade the teaching profession by paying higher salaries is obvious, so long as legal barriers keep out all those who refuse to take education courses. Theses courses are negative barriers, in the sense that they keep out the competent. It is Darwinism stood on its head, with the unfittest being most likely to survive as public school teachers."

Thomas Sowell, Inside American Education, p.25-6
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Re 2, yes. A lot of people have reacted as if I suggested letting people affect everybody else's results. I'm not convinced that's possible to do safely, I'd be happy just to see it for my own results.

Re 1, painful? WTF? The whole point is to make it quick and usable. I can already blacklist sites the painful way, by adding them to a Google Custom Search page. The whole point is I'd like a quick add-to-killfile button, like email clients have had for decades.
Lots of bot queries do allintext: searches, while fewer humans do that query. Bots can hijack human accounts/cookies too. Email spam botnets often use the valid cookie of their owner's host computer.
Not "too stupid" no.

I think 99% of email users have not been adequately trained in why or how they should report spam, and even if they were I think most of them would still not care enough to actually do it with any regularity.

When pushed many may acknowledge that they know it exists, they will probably even be able to find the button when asked if given a chance. But they won't remember to do it when they see spam, they'll just ignore it and move on to the messages from people they know.
I have noticed an absolutely huge decrease in the amount of spam arriving at my main domain. Right now I'm receiving 15-20 spams a day, which is a tenfold reduction. My domain's hosted by Google, and the decrease has been so noticeable that I have an entry on my to-do list to start hunting through GMail's help and blogs to see if they've implemented something new. It looks like I've found my answer!
Not all spam is so obvious, both in email and search results. These are all assumptions, but I think it's safe to say the average person identifies the email 'Grow your Pe Nis like a Woman' (true story) as spam. However, the less obvious 'Enter to win a trip to Hawaii' still fools many people. Think about how effective the 'I am a Nigerian Prince that needs help out of my country and then I will give you 1.2 million dollars' scam has been over the years.

With search results, the spam is more often than not Made for AdSense sites that the average user doesn't realize are pure garbage. Then there are the mass-produced content sites like eHow that most technical people realize are worthless, but the average user loves. It isn't often you see Viagra sites popping up in searches for woodworking. It does happen occasionally though.

So no, I am pretty confident a majority of users would not utilize effectively a feature like that.
I feel like this guy must not have to parse binary very often.
File more bugs: http://bugreporter.apple.com/
Linkedin Reportedly To Go Public This Year
Here's a Chrome extension we wrote to allow explicit "Report spam" feedback: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja...
Google Goggles - the 'little bird looking over your shoulder'
A Goldman Unit Is Said to Have Rejected Facebook
Even people who get the vaccines rely on herd immunity to some (stochastic) extent. My spouse got a complete vaccine set as a child but the Rubella vaccine didn't quite take; she only discovered that in adulthood while getting a routine pre-natal test. She's been vulnerable to Rubella her whole life without knowing it.
"3. Selling bottled water for more than you paid on a hot day accomplishes this, and you could make decent coin doing it…"

I took the most exception at this comment for some reason. I guess because it seems like a serious suggestion instead of an example of what I understand as arbitrage. Maybe because it seems the most hand-wavey of all the suggestions.

Yeah, you can sell bottled water on the beach for more than you paid but, I think it's dubious to say that you can make decent coin in the long, or even mid-term. When I think "decent coin" I think of an income that can support my lifestyle and family.

Valuable as a way to learn about business? Sure.
Do what I've taken to doing nowdays, for programming questions go straight to stackoverflow.com before Google. Or use google with site:stackoverflow.com
Apple's New Mac App Store: Our First Impressions
I enjoy using CoffeeScript on my hobby projects. If you write your server code in a language like Python or Ruby, CoffeeScript makes Javascript more familiar. It adds nice features like list comprehensions, and I prefer the way it handles classes and objects. But no, it isn't for everyone.
We went with jQuery in no conflict mode when we needed to mix jquery and the prototype lib for ads.

from the docs:

var j = jQuery.noConflict();
// Do something with jQuery
j("div p").hide();
// Do something with another library's $()
$("content").style.display = 'none';
Better not look at Twitter for Mac (aka. Tweetie 2) ...
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The OP said "Let's say I wan't to host it myself". So his pricing is right.

And the new appstore doesn't stop anyone from hosting their OSS on github - even for Macs. The appstore is for the average user; github is for the better than average programmer.
Frankly, I'm not fussed whether the majority of users would use it right.

I posted this as an entirely self-serving request for a way to make my results cleaner.

Also: If the majority of users do like eHow, then that's a sign it's not spam. But a lot of 'power users' consider it spam. This is an argument FOR personalised blacklists, not against them.
The site suggests that you'd be covered: "You can install apps on every Mac you use and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own."
Hah, so rimantas & ceejayoz both work at Apple.
Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom
Perhaps teachers unions and tenure are part of the reason that we don't fire teachers? Coaches don't have tenure.
> It's not. The traditional method(s) will still work.

For now. I'm willing to bet any amount that in 5 years (most likely a lot sooner) this will be the only "legal" way to install software on your Mac (and you'll probably need to jailbreak your Mac to install apps through command line or something).

In another 5 years or so, Windows will follow.
I've been looking for an app like this for 2 years! I haven't tried it out yet, but I wanted to ask if it lets you choose a type of location, and not just a specific location. For example, can it remind me whenever I'm within range of ANY Costco to buy AMC movie tickets? Or do I have to pick one Costco?
Except that there's no link to the book which I suppose one could consider more or less intrusive.
I get irs.gov at the top as well, and all the results are relevant. Are you logged into google? If so try logging out and retrying-- it would be interesting to see if the results are tailored to individuals.
Human nature; exceptional behaviour from Paulson, which seems unlikely given the kind of person he had to become and loyalty he had to exhibit to get to be at the head of both GS and the Treasury.
I doubt this will happen so soon; there is a lot of inertia in education, and students are pushed constantly to apply, get ready for applications, etc. The last 2 years of high school were spent taking the SATs or ACTs and prepare for them. Racking up volunteer hours and extra-curriculars is the norm. Lots of time and money invested so far.

I'm curious though, if you can show some proof for your predictions, as I'm in a sort-of-unique situation; I'm applying this week to colleges for the first time (HS senior) and seeing the prohibitive costs is a bit disheartening, yet I'm not sure what others in my peer-group are thinking/doing either.
Why don't they have one ad, a homepage big box?

YouTube's big box costs $200-250k/day.

Even at $50k/day they could easily rake in 15 million+ and still be a little undersold.
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You don't have to use $(document).ready() anymore

As far as I know, this was always the case. The reason people use $(document).ready() is that it feels more correct, is more consistent. jQuery() supports three distinct behaviors:

$(function) => jQuery(document).ready(function)
$(objects) => Wrap objects with jQuery functionality
$("selector") => Find objects, and wrap them with jQuery functionality

One of these is not like the others.
Yes, it was Frontline. "The Vaccine War".
I've updated eBookBurn.com (an ebook creator) based on your feedback
Man, do I ever wish.
Yes, you are probably right.
But then, it's just a feeling, and feelings can be pretty nonsensical sometimes. I've been an enthusiastic mac user for 20 years, now i'm surprised to realize I slowly grew to completely distrust and dislike apple's vision of what the computer ecosystem should be. File this under 'Snobbish rantings of a disappointed user' ;-)
Was his name Peter Pan?
You did not get my point. Apple advertises redownload feature as it is something special while to normal logic the right to redownload has to be standard.
That's not all ARD does.
Thanks to everyone who commented on the original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972827
You can use a JavaScript engine such as V8 to run JavaScript code anywhere, but I don't know of any native compilers.
A fixed price contract requires that you define "done". Without defining done, you are exposed to large, possibly limitless, risk.

(And btw, building software is nothing like building a house.)
Some people don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons, others because they think it's bizarre. Would you eat a dog, a horse, or another human if you didn't have to worry about the conditions of it's death? Probably not. Many vegans and vegetarians feel the same way about chickens, cows and pigs.
Son Of ACTA: Meet TPP, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
On Facebook's Valuation...
Q & A with Shutterfly Data Architect about MongoDB
So what? All that would mean is that the site wouldn't show up in their results.

I never said anything about it affecting other people's results...
I'm having an even harder problem - I have no ability to login using my current Apple ID (linking to a more detailed post I just made on tumblr, not trying to link whore).

http://dolinsky.tumblr.com/post/2623950787/sour-apple-app-st...
I was curious about that bit. It sounds good, but is it actually true? The thing that makes me skeptical is that I really enjoy reading biographies, and I can think of plenty of very successful people who were emotional wrecks (e.g. "tortured geniuses") while they were doing whatever led to their success.
Direct instruction works great for mechanical skills, because there is a 1:1 correspondence between that which is tested and that which is assessed, and because the goals are clear and discrete. If we're talking something like multiplication by two-digit numbers, or properly using semi-colons, those skills are mechanical enough that direct-instruction will work, and will probably work at least somewhat well, assuming that it does not become a slog for the students.

Personally, I'm willing to put up with scripted lessons, so long as the script works the way it should most of the time and so long as I've got the ability to modify if it needs modification. There is a distinct difference between a strong script and an incredibly constrictive script.

I'll still argue that teaching is as much an art as it is a science, but you're right that lesson plans can be transferred between teachers. I have no compunctions about stealing good ideas and good methodology, and have had success doing so.

Here are some broader concepts we can appropriate, which should be palatable to most good teachers:

1) Have a concrete goal, and reinforce it consistently until students are able to meet it.

2) Group students by ability (within a class, if necessary), so that everyone is constantly moving forward.

3) Make sure that there is a deliberate progression, or at least as close to one as possible. Not everything has a deliberate progression (writing, for example, is a pretty non-linear process once you get past a certain ability level).

4) Judge classroom progress by student achievement, rather than by the calendar.

The one reservation I have about Direct Instruction is that it removes some the ability of a lesson to go useful places. If I am teaching a lesson on metaphors while my class reads "The Great Gatsby" (which has impeccable metaphors), and a student says "Hey, when it describes Gatsby as 'dispensing starlight to casual moths', that's a metaphor, and it's parallel in theme to this poem we read two weeks ago"; this is exactly the type of thinking I want my students to be able to do, because it is the type of thinking that will be important later.

That said, if they do not know how to write grammatically complete sentences or how to multiply without a calculator, then I guess all the metaphors in the world can't save them.

(TL;DR: I generally agree in principle, but have reservations regarding practice)
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