skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The condescending part is the “if I'm a grad student and I can read proof problem sets then all you lazy teachers should just suck it up, and if you say teaching is hard then you don’t know what you’re talking about” part (but also the part about how most teachers are shit). Your tone made you sound (a) incapable of empathy, (b) self-entitled, (c) both uninformed and uninterested in learning what people’s views are based on their own first-hand experience. All of these erode your credibility, and make holding a conversation with you unpleasant. (Notice that you also just did the same thing to me: I’m telling you straight up that your tone eroded your credibility in my eyes and you are telling me that I’m wrong.)

Anyway, I have no personal gripe and am not trying to tear you down; consider this just a friendly reminder that a little humility and open-mindedness goes a long way, especially when you’re talking about an issue about which it’s clear your analysis is coming from outside and is mainly anecdotal, and the guy you were talking to is an expert speaking from first-hand experience.

* * *

For what it’s worth, on the actual subject at hand, the vast majority of my teachers (in public schools in a mostly middle-class/upper-middle-class suburb at the edge of Los Angeles county) from elementary school through high school were frankly quite excellent, and worked their asses off for their students, easily spending 60 or 70 hours a week on school-related activity.
Any time I've bought or sold anything on craigslist the transaction has been with a total stranger. I don't see how tying in Facebook would be anything other than a needless annoyance.
Open an account. Create a biography. Attempt to add more interests (or whatever they call them)--- Presto watch what you created (the biography) disappear! Not only do they not have the answers to the questions asked, they don't have the answers to the bugs they have raised.
There is a social stigma against carrying your own food.
I am trying to find out from their site how much they cost. Have you used them in the past?
Wait, does matthiasf == Matthias Felleisen? Or, I should ask:
(equal? "matthiasf" "Matthias Felleisen") of Little Schemer?
Did anyone even notice the date on that? July 2010. Why would you even dig this up?
An analysis of the accuracy of predictions of political pundits
Lows and rules don't apply to mega-corps like Sony, Amazon, Ebay/PayPal, Google, Apple, etc. They all have no problem storing all this together with address, SSN and everything else.
Aaron Hillegass gave a great talk incorporating this topic at the Voices That Matter conference in Seattle a few weeks ago.

He made a few assumptions about the type of project that a client might ask the "web or native" question about, where there is a certain amount of backend work, a certain amount of design work, and a certain amount of presentation-layer work, either native or HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

The backend and design work scale identically for web and native apps as you move from "prototype" to "usable app" to "delightful experience". The client side work scales relatively linearly across this axis for native code, but tends to rise exponentially for a web app.

He actually said that couldn't really think of any good examples of a "delightful experience" in a web app, particularly on mobile. He cited the example of one of the top web companies on the planet working for years to build what is arguably a worse word processor than the "hello world" example code included in most native platform SDKs.

Another issue is that once you start really trying to nail the user experience on each platform, most of the cross-platform nature of a mobile web app goes away. Sure, you can use something like PastryKit to make a web app that acts just like a native iPhone app, but then you end up with a very un-Android-like app when using it on Android.

Something like JQuery Mobile is a great way to get a usable product to market on multiple platforms quickly, but ultimately not everything that could be just a web app should be just a web app.
Am I crazy or did they actually spell Perl as Pearl under software and scripts? Their hosting may be fine, but that seems like a major oversight.
Virtually all studies (and there have been many) have shown that people with diabetes who use glucose meters regularly are at markedly reduced risk of complications than those who do not.

WRT the OP, unless you are advocating that the FDA should allow home genetics testing provided it is held to high standards, your analogy does not hold. As stated, it seems that you are implying that people would be better off without home glucose meters. a proposition that is demonstrably false.
Great post. A question which doesn't have much to do with the main point - don't his calculations result in a plane with 2d co-ordinates rather than three dimensional?

ie. with our galaxy, wouldn't you have to include the thickness to get any co-ord:

(100 000 light years) * (12000 ly) / (2^128) = 3.336e^-17
A survival guide for the Playstation Network outage
Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night
Is it really necessary? Early disclosure of the results is against the law for a number of reasons. Why not just respect our democratic process?
I wish they'd sorted it..
I vote 'No' simply because it's not my first startup but I am working full time on one
An old but good article. Might be worth amending the title to reflect that this is from 2007.
Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked
Node.js :)
Good question. This is definitely a problem that requires a solid solution. My take on it would be to focus on the source. The web was meant to be a open platform. Given, the discrete requirement of social networks -- it would make sense to move to platforms like iPhone, Android or even the good old desktop. The design of the network needs to be much more smarter, as the entire logic of the app (finding & connecting to people, communicating with them, and exchanging files) would rest on the phone itself.
I remember reading the terms of use before implementing some ideas I had. I'm no attorney, but it seemed pretty clear that this kind of thing wouldn't fly.

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aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service
nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and
extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by craigslist.
A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search
engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather
information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service,
provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses
using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file.
"General purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or
search engine or other service that specializes in classified listings
or in any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale,
services, or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified
ad listing services.
Rejecting Wall Street, Graduates Turn Entrepreneurs Instead
How do I advertise my Kindle book?
Amazon is launching its ad-supported kindle very soon, and I'm curious how I go about being an advertiser for the kindle. There are plenty of affiliate links out there about how to be a "publisher" and make money by referring money to kindle books, but what if I'm on the other side?

Any tips would be appreciated.
Google Chrome for Mac gets Canary build
The problem isn't in giving people access to their genetic code, it's in the interpretation. If you don't do this right, then you can cause severe distress to someone.

What if a company errantly told you that you had the mutation that causes Huntington's? That would cause severe emotional distress.

What if they told you that you had a lower than average risk for heart disease? Then based on that information, you eat lots of fatty foods for years, relying on your genetics to save you and you end up having a heart attack because of it.

I know this isn't popular, but at this point, there just isn't a good way to offer these services without the input from a medical professional/genetic counselor. People need to have access to their own data/test results, but the delivery of the results and interpretations definitely needs to be regulated. I don't think that regulation would be the death of the personal genomics industry - it would just mean some new rules to play by.
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We are in the 500 Startups Summer accelerator class and are looking for talented front-end developers or designers. This is a great opportunity to join a startup at the ground floor and learn how to start and scale a company. Not to mention, you will be able to network with the 500 Startups mentors.

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The IP addresses seem to be from many countries. I could only try the demo version of maxmind's geoip database[1]; does anyone have access to the full version?

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip
I thought for a second that this poll was way too vague and didn't properly capture the range of options that would yield interesting feedback. I was going to fix it.. But I decided to keep coding instead.

Thanks for chiming in despite that!
Actually I think improving the UX is a great start on reducing the effects of spam. If you can simply mouse down the the next entry its much less of a problem.
I'm starting to wonder if Rubinius could be a fourth entrant in the emerging platform race.

Anyone know if there are any (other) serious language implementations using PEGs? Coffeescript itself is based on @zaach's jison (a port of Bison to javascript) so that part is as impressive to me as using a native VM.

Edit: I remember that Cucumber (or, more specifically, gherkin) used TreeTop before Aslak moved it to the Ragel parser.
What is the statute of limitations on spoiling? That is a twelve year old book.

Serious question.
I've heard this argument made many times, but where's the evidence? If true, we should see Lisp used disproportionately at the cutting edge of software design. Lisp is somewhat more common in these contexts, but no more so certainly than languages without macros like Erlang & Haskell.
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The Panda3D Python library uses double-precision floats, due to it's being a Python library. Currently, these are converted to 32 bit floats which are then sent to the GPU.
A degree. No matter what people tell you it will open doors for you. After 10 years in the industry I can tell you it will get you in the door in certain places.
MagicalTux (the mtgox guy) was saying on IRC that it was ~60% from vietnam. However, that was from a seemingly 'previous round' so it may not be relevant.
As a general rule, they are reporting investments made at those valuations.

Given the Techcrunch audience and the importance of Facebook in Silicon Valley I think that reporting new investments is reasonable, and when the valuations are as high as Facebook's are that will be news too.

I also think reporting on secondary-market transactions is important. There are interesting legal issues surrounding them, and how much people are prepared to pay for shares is instructive, too (especially since some secondary market investors probably have more financial knowledge of Facebook than you or I).
Who’s Who at Prince William and Kate’s Royal Wedding
As many have expected, the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate was evidently a gigantic event at Westminister Abbey. With over a billion people watching around the globe, the royal wedding is absolutely perfect.
Nerd School: An interview with the Chefs from "Inn at the Crossroads"
Craiggers is powered by the 3taps API that just launched a month ago. They postulate that postings are facts, which are public domain. http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/06/39377/ADataCommonsin...

Craigslist posts aren't facts, they are works that the authors grant a copyright to Craiglists for.

Even if a craigslist post is a fact, collections of facts like recipe books are copywritable. Not to mention that the way they are harvesting these facts is in violation of the TOS like you pointed out. They'll likely a) get sued and/or b) figure out a licensing deal.
Monetize your blogs and websites
Important new tech for HN (pressure relief system)
Yes, but the problem word is upscale if you're poor. Still a lack of good, healthy, delicious food for the poor (as someone above expressed it).
As long as everybody decides consciously whether to propagate garbage or raise flags, the world is safe.
LikeALittle (YC W11) Builds on Quick Growth of College Flirtation Site
obviously. yes. it was obviously a joke.
That is not a YC project. From the bottom of the home page

SearchYC.com is not affiliated with Y Combinator in any way, shape, or form.
Phew.. I made the right call then. Thanks!
That assumes that PSNR is a good measure of perceived image quality. I don’t buy it.

(Which isn’t to say that WebP isn’t better, but only that that analysis is IMO severely flawed.)
I flagged it because every comment I read on it was stupid. There was nothing intellectually curious about the topic-- just poking people's political identities.

Here, someone in close proximity to a reasonably significant historical event used social networks to broadcast his observation of said event. If this has happened before, it hasn't been very many times, and it's undoubtedly been only quite recently. We are witnessing a new historical phenomenon that will undoubtedly be worth a line in a history textbook.

Moreover, importantly, the comments on this article don't completely suck. There's some meta-noise like this, but much less complete political stupidity.
Won't Craig just block them from scraping the site?
It's probably worth noting that Radix sort is actually O(nk) with keys of length k, and that k is O(lg n) for many reasonable key representations (e.g. integers), giving an actual bound no better than a standard merge sort.
HN Idea: Modal Hacker News
Inspired by vi/vim after one too many unintentional fat-fingered flaggings, how about making Hacker News modal? Browse-mode is for browsing. Comment-mode is for flagging, up/down voting and commenting. Just a thought.
Just to clarify Sony was just clarifying the initial attack's results. This isn't a second attack.
I'm not sure if it's applicable, but you could try writing a blog. I've found out about many ebooks from authors' blogs.
Your password is cracked
I lost several people at that point, so I clearly didn't communicate that point well. Sorry about that, I'll see if I can tweak it tomorrow.

But the point was that you can beat a Bloom filter on size, for the same performance, if you use only a single hash function (making the Bloom huge) and then compress the result.

Of course, you lose the random access in that case and, if you're looking at processing the whole thing for a lookup, then the volume of the uncompressed data becomes a concern. Thus the GCS...
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I don't know about implementations using PEGs, but I do know that the parser is possibly the least interesting thing about a virtual machine.
I was running softlayer dedicated boxes for about 18 months. It was a much better experience than what looks like a horrible cloud setup.
Yeah, the last thing you want to do is give poor people opportunity.
I think you're asking the wrong question.

The correct question is who is Arrington's constituency? It's not the general public. He doesn't care about ethical investing standards and bias. Motherfucker is biased. Very biased. He represents the Silicon Valley bubble. But he's okay with that. And he wants to know what's going on within the bubble.

I agree that we should do away with the pretense that TechCrunch is some how journalism, but i think that investor advocacy isn't a bad thing. It's just not journalism.

In a way though, it doesn't matter. We live in the era of Fox News, "Caveat Investor", and advocacy journalism as a business tactic. AOL ultimately cares about eyeballs, not journalism. Do you think Arianna cares about ethics and journalistic standards? I think she cares about eyeballs, and getting a certain set of POVs out.
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I don't disagree. Though, the post is about a new language that compiles down to an existing VMs instruction set :) That's not been done before in Coffeescript (as far as I know) but its also noteworthy because a PEG (which facilitates transforming syntax and semantics into a program using the VM instruction set) was used.

Javascript itself has also been compiled against a VM before. See: Rhino, IronJS.
First as mentioned Indian meals take time to cook and there is a strong emphasis on home cooked meals.
There is social stigma involved in carrying the tiffin case back.

The workforce for the dhabbawallas is cheap and they live on a fairly low income.
The way I understand it only a certain caste are dhabbawallas (correct me if I'm wrong).

Even though the number of deliveries is huge, the people being delivered earn considerably more than the dhabbawallas, they all have office jobs.

Having lived and experienced the Indian mechanism of things I am always impressed when this story resurfaces, but unfortunately knowing India I am very skeptical.
They no doubt excel at what they do, but I would take the statistics with a grain of salt.

Ask yourself how it is possible to measure such performance?

The entire mechanism is so informal and excludes any 'reporting' (in the sense of data about efficiency) and is focused purely on delivery.
I know a lot of "certified" companies in India that lack basic factory security, hygiene and protocols: they would fail a "real" certification.
At some point, spoilers have to have a statute of limitations. It's been 12 years since that book came out.

Likewise, Bruce Willis was dead the entire time; Vader is Luke's father; and Rosebud was his sled.
I believe that in the future we will learn an order of magnitude more from "crowd sourced" medical information than we do from controlled studies. Ultimately it's not about medicine or even science at all - it's about the fact that individuals are by far the most motivated, interested and observant managers of their own health and once empowered with data and tools amazing and unexpected discoveries will happen. However none of this works if the source genetic information isn't available.

I sincerely hope that the FDA doesn't cut this potential future off at its roots.
I'm not worried. I own a TomTom and know how bad their data is.
No elation regarding Osama Bin Laden's death
SEEKING WORK

Student looking for part-time remote work. Will probably charge less than most.

Well versed in Linux networking (specifically Ubuntu Server administration), Python, C, and Java. Have done significant amount of work with PHP, iOS/Obj-C, OCaml, Common Lisp, and x86 assembly. Pretty good background in math and computer science, some background in physics/electrical engineering/biology.

Would love to work on anything interesting, though preferably not mobile applications!
i never understand why we all so easily trust creditcards. i also do it.

a system that basically needs an attacker to just see'n'remember both sides of your card (that you need to keep with you and not is safe) in order be able pay with your money until the card gets disabled or expires.

i noticed in the US people use it to pay by phone, and shops tend to keep that data for convenient repeat purchases.

i need a card for payments online and visits outside europe (especially visits to the US). i'm glad that i have one for those occasions, but i cannot say i think it is a safe system -- it is also constantly under attack.

in the netherlands there's a payment system that most-if-not-all webshops are subscribing to. it redirect you from the shop to the internet banking app of your own bank, there you pay (with some 2-factor kind of authentication), after which you're redirected back. i cannot help feeling a lot safer. :)
One thing the richest people are VERY good at is paying themselves. If double taxation of capital were a problem, they could solve it by paying themselves salaries instead. They don't. I'm speaking of the executives here, of course. A bunch of those 400 richest got where they were by having 23 chromosomes donated by a CEO. The record of personal achievement by heirs is decidedly mixed.
Yeah, we run 100+ dedicated boxes for 3 years now and our experience is really great. Hence the rant - why couldn't they provide the same quality of service and support for their cloud offering?
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/381894/
There's that whole "metadata" part of a tweet that goes largely unused. It could carry an ad payload displayed on certain clients.

Perhaps on Tweetdeck, as a random example.
I think the largest part of the fact that many mechanics drive inexpensive, late-model cars and get rid of them is the fact that inexpensive, late-model cars are more or less irreparable in a hobby setting. Things simply aren't mechanical anymore. Modern cars are so computerized and interconnected that you often can't just "fix" a broken part, you have to replace it.

I'm sure a mechanic would be able to do the replacement if they had the part, but I imagine that takes a lot of the enjoyment out of being a mechanic. You could probably get around that by only buying cars that predate mass computerization (now 20+ years old), but then you're trading one problem for a potentially much larger set of problems. It's not that they might not want to fix cars - it's that it might not be worth it to indulge that activity as a hobby.
I just tried this out. Did a search for "golf clubs" in my location. Craiggers gives me 6 results. Craigslist gave me 273.

Also, I still think the craigslist ui is actually better (I've never had a problem with it). To me, categories work better as a list to drill into, not as something to discover via search box.

Craigslist is a highly useful service, and as such, spam is inevitable (has this been codified anywhere?). I hope that they get the spam under control. But in a lot of categories, craigslist is still great.
are you kidding me? The user experience on this thing is terrible.

- No use of whitespace around text/content.
- Broken back button on some of the pages
- Placeholders on front page don't disappear when you click on field.
- Terrible layout for browsing..

Sorry, but this thing is unusable.
I had a sdf.lonestar.org account. Once, when their mail servers appeared to me to be down for a day, I asked on the discussion forums if I was the only one experiencing problems. The site administrator posted a response right away on the forums.

He told me to stop whining, then explained to everyone that I received too many emails per day. (I was receiving <100 emails per day, and I was nowhere near my disk quota) He then named the most common sender of the emails I received. He did all of this in a public forum.

Not only would I not trust SDF not to leak the content of your emails to unauthorized parties, I would not trust SDF not to simply read your emails for shits and giggles, or leak their contents in order to teach you a lesson for asking rude, nosy questions like, "Hey, is anyone else having problems with the mail server?"
This may be most common with debit cards— as we've noticed before that debit card numbers frequently include your account number (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939699)
Children keep coming of age for specific media..I only read it last year. My dad read it this winter, my brother will probably read it this summer...

I'd argue the statute of limitations on spoiling should be the same as murder. Not to suggest its quite as serious