skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please post with a title which reflects the article. And for your question, it depends what they want. If it's just cash, anyone with the money and will to buy it. If they want to see it further and take care of it like a new born child, it depends on the contract and many other things. I don't see it feasible to guess a company.
The biggest benefit of going to a public high school in the DC area was being forced to interact with kids from almost every background you could imagine. This includes ethnicity, income bracket, intelligence, and social ability. True diversity is an education in our own human race, specifically the common bonds that unite all of us. Being able to see a wide range of perspectives and experience completely different cultural norms on a daily basis can go a long way to testing your own assumptions about the world.
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Edit your .bashrc in your home directory.

Uncomment 'force_color_prompt=yes'
Edit the line following if color_prompt is yes. By default it's green (1;32m). Red is 0;31m.

Make sure to make a copy of the .bashrc file before starting.
They said the same thing at my CMU orientation in 2005. To be fair, they don't mention how many students with perfect SAT scores and GPAs they accept (I met many as an undergrad, and I'm sure many of those accepted chose other schools). The percentage rejected is more interesting.
ZFS will also verify the checksum of each data block, which means that by default it is not a zero-copy filesystem. sendfile(), recvfile(), etc. will all require at least one read pass.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing--in my experience, ZFS has caught on-disk bit rot several times. However, it may not be worth it on an iPhone or other low-power device. Fortunately, it can be disabled.
Google Set To Fix 7 Month Old Android SMS Bug
The first day or two it just took the photo in the background without me knowing about it. But too many of the photos were really bad (deleted most of them). I was moving or my head was cut off or out of frame. I was willing to trade the 'security' of hidden photo gathering and instead just had it launch PhotoBooth and immediately take a picture. That gave me three seconds to compose myself and if I couldn't do it in time I could just click the capture button and take another one. Occasionally I would get annoyed at it, but it was over quick enough.
The site's down so I can't read the context this was taken for, but:

1. Exploring more than middle-class American political ideologies isn't an example of a decline in learning for the same reason learning only Java or C# makes doesn't make anyone a better programming student.

2. Derrida is my homeboy.
low-literacy readers?

11159 karma points does not give you the card to play mr arrogant gojo.

But thank you for your explanation.

I think the first point is quite clever and does make sense, but it has to be balanced with the number of visitors that google may loose by allowing the index to become spamy.

The second point seems to be what everyone is thinking of and perhaps the strongest argument to suggest that google might not want to tackle spam. For that argument to gain any credibility however it needs to be shown that other search engines, i.e. bing, which perhaps do not have a conflict of interest are doing better at showing quality results. Otherwise, I think it makes it more likely that there are other reasons than conflict of interest.

As to the third point, the cases that it would apply to I would think are miniscule in the grand scheme of search, not least because a very tiny minority of websites does not use ads, excluding e-commerce.

Finally, I think a strong argument for google to tackle spam, and against the proposition that google does not want to, is that google would make much more money by converting more clicking visitors into customers for the adword landing page. If spamy sites have a much lower conversion of clickers for the adword customers, then cutting off these spammers would increase the conversion rate, leading to higher payments for clicks to google by adword users.
cool idea - similar to something i'd planned last year, but your execution beats mine (meaning, you actually executed!) :)
Oh please yes. + a bucket load for code.google.com which comes up a lot and would provide nice glanceable info.
I was thinking that maybe Github had established a new color-coding scheme for differentiating projects that are production-ready from ones that aren't. That would have been interesting.
CES11: What a Woman Saw
Although Caltech isn't a liberal arts school, undergrads are required to take one humanities or social science class every term (for a total of 12). You occasionally see Caltech alumni with a BS in Literature...
The "social echo chamber and pop-culturization of news" phenomenon described in Brad's latest blog posts is exactly the issue my friends and I have been discussing for some time now. As a shameless news-junkie, I'm genuinely curious to find out how the Woven team aims to tackle this problem. Oh, and congratulations on the acquisition!
Thank you for pointing to Glade. It looks like that GTK2 is the best way to go with desktop apps and perl now. Just make sure you look at Gtk2 module, not Gtk (this one was never updated and linked against old GTK library).
Source:

http://www.civilized.com/getlisp.html
I'm not sure there's any moral distinction between paying a human being to rewrite Wikipedia or using a scraper to copy it. The key difference is that the later is a copyright violation, which a company like Demand Media can't do so long as they have ambitions toward legitimacy. If they could generate the content algorithmically, they would.
Infographic : What Google Knows About Men vs. Women
This is only an anecdotal example (using a string from unit tests I've got running in the background), but illustrates exactly the sort of search that Google has been copping so much flak for recently:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=shoulda+%22got+errors%22+%22can...
(3 results from stackoverflow and github)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&...
(stackoverflow is admittedly at the top, github in the middle but there are plenty of scraper sites listed)

3 canonical results for Bing, whilst Google returns pages of duplicate scraper sites like eFreedom, Questionhub, Developer IT. Getting rid of these should be an easy decision. Lightweight content farms that probably satisfy many of their users queries are a trickier beast to deal with - banning Mahalo seems more like banning McDonalds.

Bing does of course have a massive incentive to remove made-for-Adsense sites from their results, and after that rather unscientific test I feel inclined to give it more of a chance.

(DDG, incidentally has one result more than Bing - which means that Gabriel needs to add Comanswer.com to his list of sites to block...)
Very neat idea! I know you didn't try posing the same way for every picture, but I wonder if you couldn't put together a video that shows every picture in sequence with your face centered to prevent too much jarring movement?

I've always wanted some way to tap into iPhoto's face recognition since mousing over the thumbnail in Faces view creates a neat effect with the subject's head always in about the same place. Even better would be the image matching tech used on TinEye. For example, find a picture of the moon (or click http://www.tineye.com/search/45a444e7e4f564f58321c60347db9a8... ) then use the "compare" link for various matched images. TinEye rotates and scales all the images to match up as closely as possible, which lets you view some neat moon wobble effects... that kind of tech could be very cool if it was able to do the same with your myriad face photos.
The article is biased and full of negative stereotypes and a thinly veiled attack at not the Universities but the practice of Affirmative Action and dare I say, racial, ethnic and sexual minorities themselves.

First of all, SAT scores or grades are hardly any measure of the 'smartness' of academic credibility of the student. For example, as a commenter above pointed out, in computer science, a person who has average grades but more research work and open source experience is probably more motivated to learn than a student with just good grades.

Secondly, the data[1] proves even that though minority students who make it with affirmative action might graduate with average of below average scores but perform as well as their colleagues in their professional life. Come to think of it, isn't this what education is really about. Changing people's lives for good.

Thirdly, contrary to what the author might want us to believe, the politically charged atmosphere in the Universities during the 70s was good for the society. Remember the free speech movement? Universities have been the breeding ground of revolutionary thinking for centuries and it is actually unhealthy for the society if the Universities are too compliant with the dominant thinking.

Fourthly, though I am sometimes critical of exuberant spending on sports by American Universities, they are the primary reason of the USA's sporting excellence. Why should a student who is obsessed with and excels at track-and-field be penalized for his obsession? In addition, These 'dumb-jocks' work harder than most students. Contrary to popular beliefs; in most top ranked Universities these athletes have to finish as many credits as a non-athlete and have to work as hard on their courses.

I think very highly of CalTech and respect them, but the reasons for their excellence is not what the author would want us to believe. The article is nothing but horse manure.

[1] Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008
Economics and Morality
MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
Really cool, I always look at these 1 pic a day programs and think I should do that sometimes, and the longest I've done is ~1 week.

What I think would be cooler is if you could randomize it a bit. Privacy concerns?
A Linux Success Story: Optelian Migrates to Linux
The Linux Foundation announced that Optelian, a company that designs and manufactures optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber, successfully migrated to Linux.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a [language]-programmer.

Picking up a new language has to be nigh trivial for any programmer, right?

Getting to know the frameworks and libraries intricately takes time, but if you're not able to write code in a new language within a day, you're doing something wrong.

And after a few weeks working full time with a certain framework, you should definitely be up to speed.. right?
Square is setting themselves up as an absolutely prime acquisition.

Square is innovating the features that small businesses care about, building a dead simple interface around it, and expanding the traditional definition of "small businesses" that can do this affordably to babysitters, dog walkers, etc.

EDIT - Sorry to ramble but I am lit up by all that we can learn from Square's biz-plan to build an incredible business that's a no-brainer $1b+ aquisition target:

a) Find an entrenched, old school market like merchant processing.

b) Show up with such compelling technology and such a simple billing model (that is still wildly profitably) that you get incredible free press to drive aquisitions.

c) Prequalify the market by understanding that winning or making a DENT means an easy $1B aquisition target for said entrenched monsters.

END EDIT

I wish I had $25m to have led this round myself :)
Food+Tech Bites 1/10/11 – 1/16/11
American born, but kept my Polish roots (speak/read/write). Pozdrowienia!
Kind of reminded me what a gigantic, arcane mess C++ really is. It's not enough that there are half a dozen different semantics of "const" -- the "mutable" keyword let's you break the convention of the const function (not changing member values) without a user of your interface ever knowing about it.
Apple don't need no stinking CEO succession plan
My Home-Based Mini-Exercise Regimen
Thanks. Did you get anywhere at all with the project? I know of someone else who is working on a similar idea. Not sure how far along they are.
I think it's two issues:

• As a matter of policy, Google doesn't want to remove borderline spam sites (content mills, "$keyword free download" aggregators). Like Experts Exchange they might be spared as long as they bend, but not break the rules.

• Google really doesn't want to start mass manual banning (because that might be manual banning vs automated generator), and some spammers found way to sneak past Google's dupe detection algorithm.
Timely schedules tweets for maximum impact
Huh. I remember hearing about a camera which did this at one point (it was a setting, I recall), so there's certainly some market for this as a feature. Not sure if it coincides with iPhones (I would find it awkward to hold one up and point it at stuff continuously), but it might.

Your website looks great, I think. You might want to move the "on sale" sticker in front of the iTunes link, though - it just looks a bit odd as it is. Replacing "Never edit your videos again" with "Never miss a scene again" or "Never miss a moment again" (a slight rephrasing of the heading for how it works) could also work better, as well as making it more obvious what the app does on first glance.

I'm sure that others will have more and better advice, though.
From someone who uses mixi, I can comment on a few reasons as to why they'd prefer it against Facebook:

* The Japanese are big fans of anonymous

A lot of big sites in Japan are that way because of their anonymous nature. 2ch is HUGE in Japan, because you can write whatever you want and for a majority of users it's all anonymous. Yes, you can make yourself known to others, but it's highly frowned upon. Another site that utilizes this is Nico Video, a site which lets users comment on videos anonymously.

Mixi holds to that as well, though a bit differently. There are many users who utilize pseudo names to mask their real identity (myself included in fact). What you can hide from others is customizable in a very simple way. Your birthday, where you live, what your hobbies are.

Then all your content has privacy controls as well. Everytime you post something you can decide who gets to see it. Your friends, your friend's friends, a specific group of people, or no one. While facebook allows this as well, my opinion is that Mixi makes it very easy.

* It's about going with someone you trust

The Japanese are big fans of going with things that are close to their circle of friends, or very established. Mixi is a Japanese company that originally started as an invite only service. That's a big part in helping it spread. "Hey my friend invited me so it must be cool since I trust what my friend says" kind of mentatility means people are more likely to signup and the effect spreads. While mixi is no longer invite only, they require a registered cell phone number (there are other ways but few people speak of them for fear of their abuse). This keeps things "inside Japan" further increasing the comfort of use.

As for the features, mixi emphasizes "friends of friends" relationship. When you visit someone's profile, it shows if they're connected to one of your friends. "Hey this person is friends with my friend, so they should be all right" becomes the frame of thought. This gives users a comfortable way to expand their network with people that share their interests (there are exceptions of course).

Not sure how to search for people to become friends with? mixi has a feature called 足跡 (translation: footprint) which lets you see who has visited your profile page. It also shows you if someone is a friend of one of your friends. These views usually come from people who are interested in something you said, or a friend told them about you. This means there's even a higher chance that the person shares your interests, and it's easier to become friends.

* The Japanese are HUGE cell phone users

Someone already mentioned it, but mixi has an interface tailored to the cell phones provided by major carriers. They recently made one for the iPhone as well. As having a mobile site is a bigger deal over there, it was part of the architecture from the start.

There are other reasons as well, but I think these are the big ones for users.
I felt there was a sense of arrogance from the author while reading this article. We get it, Russel, Cal Tech is a difficult school to matriculate in. No need to hype the academic credentials required by your Alma mater for acceptance.
Obama's Internet Plan Sounds an Awful Lot Like a National Internet ID
Yes, you can describe tracking and Kalman filter using bayesian statistics. Although, my prof said that originally it was not developed that way, but it is easier to describe it using normal distributions as priors and likelihoods of the position of the object being tracked.
The "?" boxes leak information in their title attribute.
Tech Talk on how XHP has transformed the way PHP is written at Facebook
Common Lisp, Typing, and Mathematics (2001) [pdf]
I love the new profile pic. Before startup pic: buttoned-up, stylish, academic. After startup pick: mad scientist.
You could just add a growl notification, might get annoying over time though
not much further than some sketches and honing the process flow with a couple friends. my target audience was going to be different - that's the main diff I can see so far.

well done :)
@tst_ - i hear ya. thanks for sharing the link.

@veb - yeah, at this point we've begun topics and are just hoping that the conversation will build around us...then we can let it grow from there.

we actually started a VIP listserv for some of our most active members to start the chatter. we were hoping to transition them over to the forum once it was set up.
You should have noticed in the WikiLeaks case that there are a lot of Americans criticizing our government. It sounds like you are proud of China, but the truly patriotic thing to do is to criticize your government when it does wrong so that it can improve.
Pretty neat. Is there any way to do this on Windows? I'd like to try a similar experiment with my Thinkpad
yeah, you just insert your records in the only order you'd ever want to get them out
And now I can't help but think of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085276 ("And suddenly, you're hip")

When did engineering get so slick and personable? It's a little unnerving to the slightly-antisocial among us... nerdery used to be a safe place for us. Now it's ninjas and slick conferences and macbooks everywhere.

</cranky old(er) person rant>

(N.B. I do like macbooks)
Let's just call it me being way over tired. Definitely not an easy mistake to make.
The was the core idea of getting it when the laptop opened. By having it always go off I had no effort (or choice) about getting my photo taken. And it paid off as I kept at it for years.
Celebrities Celebrites – The Biggest Porn Tube
I hate it when people downvote without making an effort of writing (even a brief) rebuttal.
Five years of higher taxes, $12.5B in spending cuts part of Brown's budget plan
I do have. I can read everything, and I can both post and edit questions and answers. That is a huge difference from random leftovers.
It's a bit fatuous to assign blame to a license agreement. You can assign blame to people that choose license agreements. In this case, that's the VLC developers for choosing the GPL, and Apple for choosing the App Store restrictions. VLC was under the GPL long before the App Store existed. It's a bit silly to say that they chose this particular incompatibility. Apple when drafting their license terms probably did not even consider the GPL, but their choice of terms is, in actual fact, banning GPL licensed transactions from using the App Store.
I'd personally want to do a daemonized process so I and anyone else would be none the wiser, with a randomized delay of under a minute after the lid was opened.

Regarding privacy? I doubt anyone would get into any sort of trouble with it. If it's your laptop, you can install whatever you want on it, even rootkits and keyloggers.
Comparing Caltech to any other college is plain unfair. They have one of the biggest endowments in the country because they are affiliated with JPL. I'm pretty sure just about any college could rise to that level of prominence given resources like that.
Congratulations to Jesse for relaunching.

And thanks for helping build awareness for everyone in that space :-)
Ubuntu: LibreOffice for natty, replacing the current OpenOffice packaging
In my experience, developers are the most passionate group of evangelists for Apple products. Cutting root access from the Mac would make it unusable for many types of developers, if not all. I don't think Apple can afford to lose that base of customers and evangelists.
Google or Microsoft Should Pick Up Delicious
At first I thought tomtc meant that ex-Tandem computers folks had been part of these startups, But he is talking about http://www.tandementrepreneurs.com/
>What you don't realize is that since Google went IPO, it's not all about building an amazing search engine. It's a lot about revenues and net profits. There are lots of businessmen in charge who want to make lots of money quickly, and couldn't care less about the quality of the search results.

First of all, Google went public in 2004. I would like you to point me to a study showing the steady decline in quality since that time. Who are these 'lots of businessmen' you talk about? One of the complaints about Google has actually been that they prefer to have engineers in all sorts of roles including management.

Now, since you've gone all conspiracy theorist, I have a theory of my own, I hope you will excuse it. My theory is that the pro-Apple blogging community has gone ape-shit over a perceived threat to iOS from Google, and are now looking at them as 'The enemy', and this whole rash of blog posts maligning Google is part of a larger 'Death by a thousand paper cuts' strategy to make Google seem uncool, and therefore, as we all concur, dead. I also believe that said bloggers are in fact undercover employees of Apple who get paid by the number of times they mention Apple products in reviews of their competitors' products, but that's just me being nuts.
In general, currency is not a debt, but in practise it is.
See http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
Instant delivers the same results as with Instant turned off...
Numpy, scipy, and matplotlib are the MATLAB replacements.
"It's actually incredibly rare for a non-hacker co-founder (aka, a biz guy) to sell faster than the technology can keep up."

Really now? In my experience it's not that rare at all. Throw in the very common scenario of management that doesn't understand the need for things like refactoring and code maintenance, and it's downright common.
What uptime issues? We have used DNS Made Easy for over 8 years and have never seen any uptime problems at all. Checking one name server through Pingdom is not giving you a detailed review of name servers. You could have checked another name server in Dynect and they could of had twice as much downtime... but still Dynect was up.

Showing one name server is good, but it is not judging a providers "downtime". Would be much more useful if you tested all name servers. If several were down at once then yes... there is a good chance that you could loose a query.

Thanks for the efforts though.
Not clear what the real situation was and it may be difficult to determine for a while. They clearly abandoned their initial business and business model completely, no shame in that, but this may just be a talent acquisition.
Thanks for the advice. You're right, I'm infected. heh.