skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see, in 15 or 20 years, what the collective definition of elite education becomes. It is clearly related to the cultural importance afforded to it by the inertia of what was valued in previous generations and eons.

With the technological revolution that rewards innovation, perseverance, ingenuity, and quality, all produced at high pace - the role of the actual institution of education attended by someone seems to matter less than the quality of their work.

It certainly does boil back to purpose, however, in the end: are you attending because you want the name and the social networking to benefit you, or because elite educators exist in that institution? If the latter, you can still get a top education at less-than-elite institutions; if the former, however, as long as well-connected, wealthy, and powerful minds attend school together, there will always be a value to so-called elite schooling, for certain people.

For my two cents, the value of 'elite' education is increasingly irrelevant to the state of industry, innovation, and employment.
>>2008: Maybe we oughta just autokill techcrunch posts

The original story about the PR firm and its tactics (without the drama and without specifically naming Facebook) was broken by USA Today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539841).

That post got zero upvotes (yes, I submitted that post yesterday night :)

Two subsequent TechCrunch posts (about the PR firm) are now among the top 4 posts on HN. There is a big market for drama and I think the people have spoken that they do want TechCrunch posts:)
Nice illustrations
> The hard drives and RAM are by far the most overpriced components in Macs,

Currently they are. Usually they are. But it's not always the case: When I bought my MacBook a year ago the DDR-3 prices at newegg were within $10 of Apple's upgrade price. That was the first time I'd ever opted for the Apple memory.
I agree. Most women I know would be happy if you--not you specifically, but the rhetorical "you"--simply applied the "Don't act like a dick" rule. It's really simple. There are times when you want to act like a dick, but nudge nudge, wink wink, you think we know you aren't really a dick so you think it's ok.

For example, if you are writing a blog post and you give it the title "Why learning javascript will help you launch your startup, conquer the world, and sleep with the prom queen," you're acting like a dick. You may think it's a nudge nudge, wink wink, kind of dick, but it's still acting like a dick.

If you just stop doing that, you'd be surprised how much more traction you will get with women. And visible minorities. And a bunch of other people. It's not so much that we're outraged or offended or will protest and call for laws against stupid marketing ploys, but such writing often takes the tone that you and a bunch of other boys are in a cozy little club and we aren't invited.

This makes us take our money and spend it somewhere else.

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-dont-act-like-a-dick-rule
Interns keep kicking ass at Facebook.
yeh, i think that college in general is bogus. i understand i have a minority opinion. but, i think that if you are driven and want to succeed in something, it will be self taught from videos, books, blogs, the internet.

there are millions of ways to learn without going through this system that forces you to do stuff you dont want to learn. slow down to the pace of the college material and to other slower students.

and in terms of getting a job, i think that it is easier to get a job based on past experiances/accomplishments rather then saying what college you went to
I couldn't agree with you more. It's sad that there is an "I disagree with you therefore your idea is worthless" mentality that rears it's ugly head here every now and then.
Here's the coverage report:

http://mongrel2.org/static/coverage/

This release had a drop of about 17% from the last run, but I'll bring it back up in the next one.
To me, the existing kindle is already quite a good tablet.

It might not have all the bells and whistles of an ipad, but there's an active app community, it's "tablet" sized, and is geared towards content consumption and not creation. For me, this is what signifies a tablet.
The guys from MailChimp just created a webapp to enable 2-Factor Authentication for anyone. It's called AlterEgo https://alteregoapp.com/
Could we get a more descriptive title, like "Ars Technica reviews Unity in Ubuntu 11.04"?
It's for backwards compatibility with regular old netstrings. It works very well in practice. Implementations are dead-simple and super fast in just about every language.
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Ohio Stadium[1] comfortably holds over 100,000 people in the bleachers alone. In 2003 nearby Lane Ave, two blocks north of the stadium, was closed to traffic on game days due to construction on a new bridge. That street easily held a half million people on the half-mile stretch between High St. and the Olentangy River.

[1] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Agreed that you definitely need a willingness to get hands dirty and risk destroying the computer. I've had a very smooth time replacing hard drives on a unibody Macbook Pro and Macbook.

Thanks for the clarification about the glass panel. I was thinking it was sealed a la iPad. Definitely sounds more elegant than me trying to take apart my old Fujitsu laptop.
Yes I should - but the original assumption was that it was not legally for sale in my region, not whether I enjoy it.
It's not a video contest. It could be just like the YC application videos and the people at CodeYourIdea can screen it to make sure it's just a webcam and nothing car salesmanish. I don't know about other people, but I would appreciate an introvert who could still decently communicate as I would intuitively translate that into intelligence. I get suspicious when the person is a smooth fast talker.

Plus I think the video would be a really big deal for first time solicitors for code projects.
Ho... now it makes sense.. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/12/swallowing-puke/
Ah, but you see, it doesn't matter if it's FUD, as long as it is in the service of unimpeachable ends. You wouldn't want to hurt a child, would you? I didn't think so.
Something like this http://leaflabs.com/devices/ ?
Interesting point "If you ever lose or forget your phone and have login approvals turned on, you will still have the option to authorize your login provided you are accessing your account from a saved device."

In contrast to Google's solution which provides you with a set of fallback codes.
Yep, you have to anyway. It's to prevent buffer overflows so that you can't "cheat" and try to stream it. You have to read it, allocate, then save it. It also means you can abort after just reading the size and ':' if it's too big. Rather than designing your protocol to allow insane buffer sizes to "stream", just have things send reasonable easily buffered chunks. That's more reliable and easier to manage.

The other reason was so it was backward compatible with netstrings. The : was already used by netstrings, but the ',' wasn't so overloading that was easiest.
Yep, except, not crazy. :-)
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Just a caveat, I do not believe these were PCI cards. The European cards were probably bank cards or prop cards not subject to PCI. (all this is a guess) I would guess, again, that it was probably related to a legacy system from some integration of a purchased company.
2003 developer career advice article still holds up
I think you're totally wrong, there's no idealogical support for the regime there. The military support him because he makes them 1st class citizens and they know it's the only way they can eat. The civilians are just scared to death and trying to survive.

And there wouldn't be millions of US losses, we would never put ourselves in that situation. It would be relentless airstrikes aiming at disabling air defenses/artillery positions and decapitation of the regime. The problem would be mass civilian casualties in south korea.
It seems pretty apparent that they're going to continue to develop the Kindle - especially with Apple making moves to the eBook market. Amazon's position in online retail would be the envy of pretty much any other company, giving them an nearly unparalleled ability to publicize their own products.

The fact that they're already starting an Android 'App Store' is interesting.
With the JIT totally disabled I think we're between .8-2x slower, depending on what you're doing.
MIT study says biofuels not necessarily green
What are other good sites for this kind of thing besides Themeforest? This looks like a good way to go to get a nice looking website up fast and inexpensively.
The cheaper the project is, the more likely it is to attract weirdos. $2000 is the daily rate of quite a few freelance programmers I know, and the projects they do take longer than a day.

For one $2000 project, people are going to want to see your face. For a $500,000 project, people are fine with email and phone.
Very interesting take. I think one of the most useful things to ask, in many situations, is "compared to what?" To those who say things like "we shouldn't point fingers, look how bad we are", I ask, "compared to what?"

Compared to utopia, sure, America is a shithole. But compared to just about any other real place, on just about any other metric, we're doing pretty well. To argue that we somehow don't have the right to call other nations or people out for their atrocities, because we don't compare well to utopia, is ridiculous. We have a duty to call other people out on their bullshit.
2) Apple will start to abandon their restrictive “Made for iPod”(TM) program and adopt the Arduino in some way for accessory development

Phil's a cool, intelligent guy, but this statement pegs my meter somewhere between "excessive optimism" and "ridiculous Apple fanboyism".

Apple, the infamous UX control freak, will give up the control (and revenue) associated with the MFi program in favor of allowing their users to customize their experience? What's next, Windows 8 will run an OpenBSD kernel?

Sorry, perhaps that last was excessively sarcastic, but let's be realistic here: one of Apple's fundamental properties is its fanatical control over every aspect of the way that users interface with the device, directly or indirectly. They will never give this up.

MS/NOK (funny how, at least in my mental model, they're one entity in the phone market now) and (especially) HP/Palm should be looking at this and thinking about doing the same. RIM probably doesn't care because their userbase doesn't.
Why all the negativity here? This is a tale of a couple of developers who have created a really interesting and useful product that has already built up a big community.

Surely, this is something we should be celebrating, rather than nitpicking minor issues with the use of particular company names in the article. Well done Simon and Nat!
You will never be in the right mood
Moving to Django (from Drupal)
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Piracy on the App Store
Interesting - I didn't notice that when I wrote this.

That $1k or so extra that the bottom group spends on education might account for why spending actually goes down as you go from $0-5k to $5-10k.

As for excluding students from poverty numbers, unfortunately I don't think anyone does this. You are correct that they should do this, however.
True. Please tell this also the kids who think sites like osvdb.org tells them how secure a OS is...
works fine on winXP with Chrome 13 (Canary)
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What society/nation has the best prisons overall?

Is there a country/region that does it "right"?
If you tell an Android phone to use visible WiFi access points to narrow down your location, you're giving it permission to send that info to Google in order to query the database --- and, of course, to help them build it up. At least with the "stock" Android skin (as seen on my Nexus One) the dialog box you get to enable WiFi use is explicit that it's sending location info elsewhere.

(You can say no; I did, and the phone periodically whines at me that I'm not getting the best possible location fixes because of it. But that may still not completely cut off the flow of location data to the cloud. You can infer a lot about peoples' locations and intentions from a Google Maps query stream even if they don't come labeled as "this is my current location" --- and it's hard to tell from the outside which of them do.)
The article actually speaks to the fact that you can use tech to view atrocities like these that are otherwise kept hidden. No one would have evidence of North Korean concentration camps --- not with only 2 survivors in some 60 years (according to the article, if I'm remembering right) --- without satellites and, in particular, Google Earth.

The conversation may have gone off-topic, but it didn't start that way.
This seems to me like just another backdoor way of being able to build a more robust database of personal information on you. With your mobile number and the numbers of all your friends, in coordination with the cell carriers (or NSA, whichever you prefer) they can tie together data about who you call & how often with your friend activity on Facebook. Google has been doing it too, asking for a "mobile number backup" when you log into Gmail.

Just the next erosion of our privacy, disguised as a protection of our privacy.
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Why are so many HN Submissions marked as [dead]
I don't have the time in my day to keep up with HN, so like many people I use an rss aggregator and I also like the comments here rather than just the links. I even sometimes read comments before articles. But half the time articles are marked as dead. I tend to go through a list of 100-300 articles from HN, open the comments link on the items I want to see and I can get through 300 items is just a few minutes. But by the time I actually go to read the articles, most are labeled dead.
Or something like http://mbed.org/ ?
None of those things define what a war is. They're just unfortunate byproducts of a typical, national war.
Am I the only one that can't read a daringfireball post without cringing?

Feels like a cultist's blog.
It's a bit more than that because content consumption has become a large part of 'our' culture. So this encroaches more and more into the realm of restricting culture to the benefit of business.

A couple of points:

1. When you (content companies) spend exorbitant amounts of money on advertising/PR in an attempt to whip up a frenzy around consumption of your content, then don't act surprised when people mimic hard-drug addicts and lying,cheat,steal,etc just to be able to consume that content when they are prevented from consuming it otherwise. You're basically spending a lot of time trying to increase demand for your product. Now you've got so much demand that people are finding 'alternative' ways to obtain your product because you are unwilling or unable to provide a more legit avenue for them to obtain it.

2. The large and wide success of large content companies has brought content consumption (especially for particular brands) into the realm of popular culture. As the world becomes smaller and smaller due to the globalization effects of the Internet (amongst other things), the idea that you can easily divide people up by who is or isn't allowed to participate in that culture (and expect people to just abide by those proclamations) is foolish.
And/or facebook's solution to the Firesheep vulnerability. (Can someone confirm that this solves the firesheep problem?)
Both RAID and VBA For loops are time-tested, well understood, stable technology.
go with both.
As has been demonstrated, any cloud can go out of service.
Being on both Linode and EC2 spreads your risk across different services. Chance of them both being down is significantly smaller than either one of them being down.
One of the ten links on the first page is to a zero-content image intended for humor, and it's from six days ago. The other nine are content: screenshots to prove things, pictures of work environment, etc.
I think that is fanciful thinking. Mirasol is not ready for prime time. Also, Bezos says such a device would supplement rather than replace the Kindle. So it stands to reason we can expect something more like an iPad.

I think an Amazon branded Android tablet must be in the mix even without Honeycomb. The Nook Color is very successful proof you can launch an Android tablet without full Google compatibility. And Amazon has its own App Store already.

I would not be surprised if we got a Gingerbread tablet with a custom Amazon skin and the Amazon App Store for $100 more than a similarly sized Kindle.
the big deal isn't that it happens,
it's that they got caught

Big words, no references ... not wanting to do an ad-hominem here, although I could ;) ... at least provide some anecdotal evidence that software companies, in Silicon Valley, as public and as visible as Google are doing it.

Thanks,
Bullshit conspiracy theories. How can something that is opt-in be an erosion of privacy? By default it is not enabled. Just don't use it and you're fine.
If you've done any daytrading, you've seen these algorithms in action. I know a few folks who could make a small fortune daily just by "fooling" the algorithms by setting extraordinarily high or low order prices, and rarely actually filling one of those orders. There is lots of money to be had (and lost) by mathematicians in the stock market, and there is a lot to be said for technical analysis... but it's a jungle out there.
If anyone's interested, I got their firmware to run on stock Arduino hardware (which costs $55 instead of $390).

http://romfont.com/2011/05/12/google%E2%80%99s-open-accessor...

It's looking good so far. Now all I need is a device that supports accessory mode ...
My money's on Scandinavia.
And it's generous for you to assume that they even get to sleep alone in 'beds'
All the companies are teaming up in the mobile race. They ought to talk to HP!
It's not at all clear to me what criteria such a filter would use, nor why you think most of these templates aren't appropriate for women, nor why you're conflating "appropriateness for a knitting hobbyist site" with "appropriateness for women".

At first glance I'm not seeing many templates that I'd associate with DIY craft type sites, but I don't think that's a gender issue.
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Firesheep is solved by enabling HTTPS on Facebook. This was released several months ago:

https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130
The problem is that it's disrespectful in the first place. Who wants to be part of a group that is so little respected? How hard is it to make an evaluation that doesn't devalue the audience?
Considering Ceylon, will be interesting to see indeed.
Wow - I'd never heard of this guy before. What an amazing track record, thanks for linking!
Considering that

1) Apple's likely concerned only with Apple Authorized Service Providers and those ASPs already had to source parts from Apple (and possibly pay for training and/or license fees, but I'm less certain on that)

2) The secondary service and repair market is a vanishingly small market compared to other potential revenue streams

I doubt further monetizing the repair market ever entered the conversation when deciding whether to use non-standard HDDs in the new iMacs.
If we drew the line so it included the US, then we would also be including Russia, China, Mexico, and the vast majority of world nations.

It's not nearly so simple. If we drew the line according to what portion of our population we imprison, then the USA would be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with North Korea, with the rest of the world nearly an order of magnitude lower.

Consider https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23pr...

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, ...

China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. ...

The United States comes in first, too, ... in order of the incarceration rates. It has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. (If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up.)

The only other major industrialized nation that even comes close is Russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000 people. The others have much lower rates. England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63.

The median among all nations is about 125, roughly a sixth of the American rate.
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Uncommon for the agency to not disclose who their client is with this kind of request (ghost writing an op-ed under the byline of an expert).

BM offered a mea culpa today that notes as much:

Now that Facebook has come forward, we can confirm that we undertook an assignment for that client.

The client requested that its name be withheld on the grounds that it was merely asking to bring publicly available information to light and such information could then be independently and easily replicated by any media. Any information brought to media attention raised fair questions, was in the public domain, and was in any event for the media to verify through independent sources.

Whatever the rationale, this was not at all standard operating procedure and is against our policies, and the assignment on those terms should have been declined. When talking to the media, we need to adhere to strict standards of transparency about clients, and this incident underscores the absolute importance of that principle.

Source: http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/b-m-says-facebook-assign...
You can check. I installed lightdm in a couple minutes. Auto-login didn't work (it was on a shared desktop), there was some terminal keyboard weirdness and I reverted the change. Running "dpkg-reconfigure lightdm" allowed me to easily revert back to gdm.
When I saw that post this morning I flipped the bozo bit on him hard -- even Gruber isn't that outrageously sycophantic (or at least has the foresight not to post it).
These guys spammed the contact form on my company's website. For that reason, I'm never going to use them.
Msft couldn't have bought Apple. They needed to have plausible competition in the desktop market to avoid monopoly regulation, etc.

There's a good chance Apple wouldn't exist without Microsoft (and vice versa):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Microsoft...

Without Office, etc on Mac the adoption could have been severely limited. Would Apple have had the cash to develop the iPod?

I think of them as competitive symbiotes. Together they are more valuable than the sum of the parts.
We live in a cyberpunk present.
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I think you're not giving Microsoft credit, they are ahead of your strategy buying $150 million in Apple stock in 1998 which if they've held it would give them a 7557% (eleventy billion dollar) return.
I like that somehow you did the escort math and came up with about 60 years of luxury travel.
Meanwhile, in Rocklin, CA thousands of Propellers (in all eight of their cores) snicker/sob quietly...