skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To avoid cryptic looking escape sequences, one could have the colour codes named in their .?shrc file [1]:

txtblk='\e[0;30m' # Black - Regular
txtred='\e[0;31m' # Red
txtgrn='\e[0;32m' # Green
txtylw='\e[0;33m' # Yellow
txtblu='\e[0;34m' # Blue
txtpur='\e[0;35m' # Purple
txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # Cyan
txtwht='\e[0;37m' # White
bldblk='\e[1;30m' # Black - Bold
bldred='\e[1;31m' # Red
bldgrn='\e[1;32m' # Green
bldylw='\e[1;33m' # Yellow
bldblu='\e[1;34m' # Blue
bldpur='\e[1;35m' # Purple
bldcyn='\e[1;36m' # Cyan
bldwht='\e[1;37m' # White
unkblk='\e[4;30m' # Black - Underline
undred='\e[4;31m' # Red
undgrn='\e[4;32m' # Green
undylw='\e[4;33m' # Yellow
undblu='\e[4;34m' # Blue
undpur='\e[4;35m' # Purple
undcyn='\e[4;36m' # Cyan
undwht='\e[4;37m' # White
bakblk='\e[40m' # Black - Background
bakred='\e[41m' # Red
badgrn='\e[42m' # Green
bakylw='\e[43m' # Yellow
bakblu='\e[44m' # Blue
bakpur='\e[45m' # Purple
bakcyn='\e[46m' # Cyan
bakwht='\e[47m' # White
txtrst='\e[0m' # Text Reset

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
Two questions after looking over your service:

* How do you plan to make money off of this? From your FAQ you appear self funded, and it doesn't look like there are any sort of fees attached.

* Since you're just starting out, there's a good chance that someone could sign up and not have anyone to do lunch with because everyone else is too far away. How will you handle this to further expansion?
You can find other ways to market your app other than writing and submitting such an empty post. You've written other pieces on the importance of starting and creating stuff, all which have received their fair share of discussion around here. I don't see what this adds to the concept besides a cheap attempt at plugging your app. I get you're trying to market it, as you've said here before, but just not here. Come on, man.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Perl crew: take note ;)
Yes the pricing is just ridiculous.... I never knew that the Dynect SMB went over 600k... they must have just increased that recently.... But $95 per month for 1.8 million queries.... INSANE!!! and now Amazon Route 53 is 50 cents per million queries..... they are going to eat everyone's lunch!
Why not running TorChat over OTR? or multi-party OTR?

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

It would limit some kind of traffic analysis.
I think this is pretty naive. Apple's products, for the most part, are very successful. Either Steve Jobs is just extraordinarily average or they do quite a bit of market research. In fact, one of Apple's first hires was a guy who specialized in collecting data from user-testing and figuring out how to make applications better fit how they were used in the real world.
And I guess thanks to those crazy generalizing mathematicians, nowadays you can use something like Kalman filtering with distribution other than normal ones.
Chrome Release Cycle
Hacking Twilio's PHP library (2)
You are assuming that balancing "ad spam" with utility is something new. One only needs to consider how long Google's search results have been tailored to the local from which they originate to get a sense of how long Google may have been adjusting results.
Ask HN: is it legal to ask for a picture when hiring?
Specifically in the US?
besides the offensive nature of those words

The point was that the stereotype is formed quite strongly because those groups do exist on campus. He was using those words to demonstrate why using different academic criteria for different groups of students was problematic. If there were no academic differences between the regular student body and minorities or athletes people wouldn't make those "offensive" generalizations.
Ask HN: is it legal to ask for a picture when hiring?
Specifically in the US? What else can you not ask about?
Is there any way to set this on directory level? I do my development in my /home/XYZ folder, and production is in /usr/local/www/XYZ and it would be great if I could set the background to red in the production dir (if I happen to wander into it somehow (which I really almost never do)).
Above a certain level of 'smartness', a SAT score means nothing. If more than a dozen of people can have a perfect score, it just means that the search space is not big enough.
All smartphones will have NFC chips in the next year or two which will allow payments from your phone. I see a much bigger future in small merchants using that than a card swipe via audio port, but maybe Square will have an NFC solution as well.
Which name server were you using from each provider?
If you look hard enough, you can find it in e.g. (linear) regressions and Kalman filtering.
They'll probably switch to higher denominations, then. Germany had Billion Mark _coins_ in the twenties.
Especially true for Maryland people who plan to attend.
And I concur! I just don't think it has to be dismissed as crazy, it's far worse.
Actually, it's more like 20 Euro worth of paying your taxes, and thus not going to jail.
> The photographer’s darkroom is crammed with specialized tools and nomenclature such as “burning” (whitening a portion of the image through intentional overexposure) and “dodging” (darkening a portion of the image by overexposing the negative).

Unfortunately, he's got his definitions of "burning" and "dodging" reversed.
This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.
Hackers wanted - analyzing Computer Science job posts at MIT
While Square certainly innovated in the payment space with their Square reader, they stumbled early due to some credit-risk issues. Also, they're also about to face an onslaught of phones with built-in payment capabilities. Perhaps they can leverage some of the legwork they've done addressing these risk issues to insert themselves into the payment process for some devices, or innovate with other devices where people want to collect payment but don't want them tied to a cell phone, but if I were them I'd be concerned about being cut out of the payment process by integrated solutions.
Arch Linux is More Awesome Than I Previously Thought
sherpalo http://www.sherpalo.com/ has invested in these companies too.
I far prefer this article to the one that's on Reddit's front page ( http://unicurvedmirror.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-have-been-gett... ), if only because it doesn't make the ridiculous -50 degrees (celsius) claim. I'm in Victoria, and it's currently 2 degrees, which is about the coldest it's been in a month.
This is an area which seems ripe for innovation. I can understand why most of the schools wouldn't want a third party firm to independently collect this data.
I just set up the command line colors to be different on production vs. development machines - I like my terminal backgrounds black, and regular text white.
This is oft-said, but I'd like to see some concrete evidence of this. I'm not being skeptical to be skeptical, I'd really be interested if there were any proof that this helps people. I have heard some evidence to the contrary, that white kids that grow up in heavily integrated areas are actually MORE racist than those who grow up in primarily white areas.
If you read the linked article, aside from the very beginning, he uses Sleepwatcher [1] to trigger an Automator script that launches Photo Booth and does the 3...2...1 countdown.

[1] http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/

[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/apps-and-utilitie...

[3] http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/apps-and-utilitie...
Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars
It is.

Size is Buffett's anchor now. If you give him a small amount of money, say $50Million, I think he'd do wonders with it.

I model my investing style after what he was doing about 10 years into his career and its worked out well for me with very little stress. The only reason I sell is if I find something that looks like a better value, but even if I'm right to move elsewhere the taxes make me question my decision every time.
This seems like an incredibly narrow-minded and misinformed article. While it's great that Caltech doesn't bend on its academic standards, it assumes that simple academic meritocracy on paper is all that is important to build a 'good' school. I go to MIT (where we have over 30 varsity NCAA teams, many of which are very successful), and the jocks have just as much academic merit to be here as the nerds who tool away in their dorm room. Same with the blacks, hispanics, legacies, minority x, minority y, etc etc. Not only that, MIT does an incredible job of putting together well-rounded people, and not at the expense of their intellectual capability. I have a friend who is high up in the undergraduate admissions committee and personality and fit are just as important as their academic merit. This means I don't go to the stereotyped MIT with a bunch of nerds who only study all day. Instead, I go to school with a diverse blend of incredible people who are athletes, musicians, and artists who are talented AND smart.

I guess if CalTech's mission is just to breed academic warriors that's fine, but this article's statements on MIT (I can only speak for my own school, but it probably applies to others as well) are ignorant and elitist. They seem to be pushing their own stereotype that CalTech students are simply one-dimensional people. The real world isn't a 'pure meritocracy'.
Algorithm of Love
Which is obviously bullshit, and it's good that it got deleted.
>A lot of smart kids go to CalTech, MIT and Harvard, but end up dropping out and finishing their degree somewhere else because they're not accustomed to failing on a regular basis.

Do you have any stats to back this up? My recollection is that the attrition rate at the top ivys et al. is quite low.

And the "dumb" kids who get in still do reasonably well and are usually well-rounded enough to make up for the fact that they're in the bottom-half academically (i.e., they often branch out in ways that are not purely academic).

full disclosure: i was a grad student @ princeton and a postdoc at harvard. My perception was that the undergrads had to practically throw themselves out to "drop out", and the university would bend over backwards to help the struggling students.
Actually, as a male who uses OKC, I found it interesting to simply note "the curse of being cute." My takeaway is that there are some "conventionally cute" women who you find attractive, and who you also assume receive a lot of attention. It turns out, many others assume the same, and so end up not sending a message.

Putting this into action, then, means to take more initiative messaging someone who you assume must be receiving a lot of attention.
The New Profile Is Here
> In case you were serious, I would have you go down in flames trying to use that as a defense for all of the UX changes in Windows Vista.

Either way, that statement was meant to apply to Apple alone (maybe you'll understand my subtle jab now).
ditto 2006, they clearly like that introduction ;)
Square's goal is to be device agnostic. We're definitely thinking about NFC and we're looking forward to NFC capable phones hitting the market. Hopefully the Nexus S will get upgraded to be transmit capable soon and we can do some neat things with it.
This reminds me a lot of http://noonhat.com/
RE: Side note: That's the impression I get. Given Chrome's release schedule and the pace at which they're improving it, it really seems like a balls-out effort by a fairly large group of driven engineers. I bet it'd be fun to work on.
Foodspotting Scores $3 Million in Funding, Aims to Become "Pandora of Food"
Regarding making money - I'm not sure yet. There would be a few options - including either charging members per lunch or charging restaurants. However, I'm planning to wait and see how the service evolves before I start thinking about that too much.

The problem of signing up for lunch and not having anyone to match with is definitely something I'm trying to avoid. A couple ideas (not implemented yet) - warn people that there are very few people signed up in their area. Allow matches with 3 or 4 people (so there is not an odd man out type situation)
A Simple Twitter Filter Stream Parser
My winter break project — Silk
It's a little generative art trinket. Just draw and watch. Hold shift while moving your mouse to control the wind. :-)

Let me know what you think!
It could also be that since Caltech has no affirmative action, bright students of minorities would find it easier to enter top schools that employ AA. For example, MIT's AA would be "crowding out" the "disadvantaged minority pool" in Caltech, even if those students would be good enough for Caltech's own standards.
thanks Alain
Introducing Getsy, A Secure Command Line Interface to the Etsy API
Is this what the App of 2015 looks like? HTML5 + CoffeeScript + Less…
SHARD - A triple store built on top of Hadoop MapReduce
Overall, great concept!

Minor note: On the "Connect with friends & colleagues" screen, you might want to explain why I should give your site access to my linkedin/facebook/twitter accounts.
Details on Chrome's super-quick release cycle
My IdeaPad shipped with Lenovo Veriface which authenticates you based on your picture. It also stores a copy for 24 hours I believe, which you could automatically move before they get removed.
While I think tor and something like torchat is good in theory, its big negative in reality is that the speed makes it unusable most of the time. Not to mention if you are altruistic and plan to run a node, you also run the risk of the FBI knocking on your door for someone who used your (exit) node to upload their kitty porn (the exit is not encrypted).

And if you do run that exit node, you can sniff what people are doing (so there goes the anon part).
Seems like link is down. Mirror?
I now run Byobu on my servers -- it's made my sysadmin life substantially better -- and for each server I pick a different color for the status bar along the bottom.

Production is red for me too. Like this: http://img.ly/images/663862/full
What does that mean anyway? We can't even come to an agreement on how to treat human persons.
A good article, but the trend aiming at redefining admissions criteria to steer away from academic merit appears to have started somewhat earlier than mid 20th century. Already in the second decade of the 20th century measures were being put in place to reduce the rising proportion of Jews at top colleges. Of course not everyone wanted to look antisemitic, so various diversifying tactics were invented to somehow deal with the the fact that Jews seemed to be smarter.
This might sound a bit silly, but I still have never found something that let me work with problems quite as easily as my TI-89/92. Most of the CAS systems I've used feel like coding, while the TI CAS system feels like doing math. Sage just feels like an extension to the Math direction when all I really want is a fast (color) desktop version of my TI-92. The closest I've seen was the old graphing calc that came with PowerPC macs back in the early 90's.
Motivation: You're Better Than You Think
Credit cards are going to be the best form of payment for vendors for another decade.

Even if next year all smartphones have NFC built-in, it will take many more years before there are enough users with NFC to make it worth supporting for a small vendor. Besides, just having the capability doesn't mean a user has created an account -- and connecting to your cell phone bill doesn't count.
The course vi jobs list is, in my experience, the closest thing i've seen to "the pulse of the startup world" - because most startups with any money want MIT programmers. I have always wanted to see an analysis like this.

Surprising that "ninja" isn't as frequent as we all think (or maybe it's that those times it is used it's just particularly notable/gross).
OpenDataKit and Living Voters Guide make WTIA IAA Finals
Ringtones were pretty much always a worthless ripoff. There might be particular market segments in the app store that will die off (I don't know, maybe book apps will be superseded by ebooks), but the App Store as a whole offers a lot of value and convenience, and the "fad" for those things has been going strong for hundreds of years now.
This is definitely the right approach to take -- you can't just drink from the fire hose without ending up under a pile of water. This helps break your twitter results into easy chunks you can work at over time through the consumer.
Once a few nerds became the richest people on Earth they made it a lot harder for us real antisocials to blend in - and now this whole nosql/apple/ninja-sql-esque thing has left us well and truly thwarted.

(Just think of a macbook as a BSD box and you'll regain your self respect)
Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers
I am no SEO expert, or even amateur. I understand the concept of pagerank, but I really don't care much for it, yet.

I agree with your hunch; however, bounce rate is a relatively bad thing. If, using analytics, you see that most users navigate away from your page within 30 seconds, you probably don't have engaging content. How is that different than the user clicking on an AdSense ad because the content on a spam site isn't connecting emotionally or intellectually with the users? If anything, Google should be giving a negative score to sites that have a huge percentage of their users that actually click on ads to continue the search for what they were originally looking for... though that is basically the opposite of their business model, to have users click on ads.
All of my bash shells are run in GNU screen. So scrolling up is C-a [ to enter copy-mode. Then C-u to scroll up and C-d to scroll down.
Yahoo is powered by Bing. What do you mean that DDG is basically yahoo?
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was wondering if he remembered that the script would launch PhotoBooth before he opened the lid each time. I expect he'd have just grabbed his MacBook and opened the lid and then remembered that it would take a picture.
Bookflavor is nicely designed. Are you not detecting visitor location there? I'm in the UK but I get links to Amazon US.
definitely not. I know they do it in other countries.

Things you can't ask about:

religion, sexual preference, relationship status (married), if someone has kids, age
You seriously believe financial and strategical decisions are made by tech people at Google? That's just silly. Look at glassdoor. They have finance people, directors and executives of all kinds. They also have shareholders. Those are the people who make important decisions.

And then you call me a conspiracy theorist, immediately followed by a pretty insane conspiracy theory about Apple community. I'm not even an Apple fan.
IANAL, however it is my understanding that although it is legal to ask for a picture, it opens you up wide to claims of discrimination. I know that some companies have had a policy of immediately excluding from consideration any resume with a picture attached.
Bizconf MSA and SOW Workshop video
There seems to be a confusion with diversity in academic persuits (math/science vs. humanities/arts) and non-academic diversity (racial, socioeconomic, athletic). It so happens that CalTech values neither type of diversity in admissions (focusing on math/science academic merit, and nothing else). But the author is really only arguing that the non-academic diversity is rightfully ignored.

I agree with you that it's a strength of Carnegie Mellon (weakness of CalTech) that it has excellence in a broad (narrow) range of academic subjects. But that's not an argument against the author's thesis: the pursuit of non-academic diversity has a major negative impact on the academic quality of most major research universities in the US.

(Disclosure: I'm a white Princeton Alum who played one of the varsity sports which were not considered in admissions, so I took a bit of umbrage at those athletes who got a boost at the admissions office. Not that I'm a petty person or anything....)
HBase talk at 11:05, what is up with that easter egg o_O ? Having watched 3 talks so far, I might say that they are quite informative. Nice work.
He mentions an automator workflow and sleep watcher, doesnt really give any explanation on how he really did it.

I tried playing with recording and automater, but it wasnt happen about photo booth.
The Case For and Against Facebook's $50 Billion Valuation
Using the audio port is clearly a "wedge" into the market while smartphone technology catches up to support this kind of thing natively. Would you rather wait to build a market and startup or would you rather already be the market leader when the supporting tech is available?
I learned today, by chance, that you can reference an element object directly by its name without having to do a document.getElementById.
Some Notes on Setting Up Backups with Bacula
Food timeline: when was your food invented?
If they can stream tacos to my iPhone, they've got a winner.
Court Orders Twitter to Turn Over User Info in Wikileaks Investigation
The author clearly has an axe to grind. I suggest just skipping the introductory paragraph and concentrating on the main claim: the pursuit of non-academic diversity has a major negative impact on the academic quality of most major research universities in the US, but CalTech is rare in resisting this.
Hm, tape drives aren't even sold anymore, otherwise I might try.
As it happens all of the time I really don't forget. And if it takes a really horrible photo I can always just click the little X and delete it so no harm.
Intuit is competing, and they have a huge small biz network already...
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/09/intuit-takes-a-swipe-...
The Indian IIT's have a similar focus on academics. One key difference is that they still take in students by employing Affirmative Action. AA hasn't hurt the school's reputation one bit.
Exactly, and I think that was kind of the gist of his message; companies can find good developers and spend the time teaching them how to do it.

Besides, a good Ruby developer for one company might still not be using whatever cool tools the new company is asking about. Ruby may be a smaller community than others, but in a room of 10 Ruby developers, I bet you'll find 10 different ways to implement a Rails app (Haml vs. ERb, Steak vs. Cucumber, TestUnit vs. RSpec, and so forth).
Couldn't agree more.
I liked your other articles, so when I saw a new post from you. I was looking forward to reading it.
Being on my mobile, I was trying to scroll down to find the rest of the article...but it was done
You could put a shell script around cd that checks the current working directory every time you cd and alerts you appropriately.

A little clunky, I'll admit. I'd like to hear any more graceful solutions.
wallhack is something you can't get around, a user can always control how their graphics are displayed, hence you can't trust them. You either accept this or change the game.

You can make it harder to do (Blizzard's Warden, Valve's VAC) but people will get around any technical barrier you put up.

Fog of War (maphack) would be a more apt example, you only send the client what it is possible for them to see.
Speed hacks are another that can be stopped, the client asks the server if it can move X units, the server responds with how many units the client moved.
I guess you meant "to reason" but wrote it as "to move(use) brain"?
Trial by jury means that the citizens can nullify unjust laws.

And in the most extreme, the freedom to keep and bear arms means that we've got the ability to boot out an unjust government.
The Verizon iPhone Hype Shown In One Image
Google Goggles Can Now Read Print Ads. Oh, And Play Freaking Sudoku