skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is maliciously intended and adds nothing to any conversation.

Further, if you genuinely wondered as to whether he is a better prosodist than speaker, Stallman is a prolific author with many essays and articles available online which you could read & judge.

(My own take, having read the originals of both books covered by the OP, is that Stallman is a perfectly readable writer. He will never win awards for his style, but he does not grate on the ear.)
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There must be an awful lot of money to be made by hiring slightly below average programmers and putting them to work doing not-especially-difficult tasks for a slightly-below-average salary. I'm tempted to start a company that does just that.

"Are you brilliant? Go do some cutting-edge work somewhere else then! We're doing some random Ruby-on-Rails database-based crap, it's not that difficult!"
I have spoken to a few cab drivers. They would love to drive their own cabs in the City, but don't have the license (i.e. medallion) to do it. What is to stop them from buying rickety old smog-producing cars and clogging up the city streets? And the glut of cabs will cause a downward spiral in quality of service. Why maintain a clean cab when it cuts into the profits, and your competitor is not doing so?

"Medallions aren't licensing, they are cartel enforcement. They are about maintaining a price-controlled, quota'd monopoly for a politically-connected union class -- as opposed to inspecting, training, and certifying drivers and taxi cars for safety. They are orthogonal concepts."

But your cousin can come and make the same argument you are making about inspecting/training/certifying drivers: that it is to maintain a 'cartel' and deny access to other drivers. Who will do this inspecting, etc.? The same government that you are scoffing at?
Controversy: Bin Laden "PWND"
I do, but sparingly, and only when I really think it might be of interest. Mostly I post stuff from others. I didn't come here to self-promote, but I am interested in the Show HN things.
It's about making excuses- if something didn't get done or failed, the reasons why don't matter anymore. Success and failure matter.

I don't think it's about success at any cost. It's about focusing on the right things and taking responsibility.
I believe it's fine.
Do you have a source on that 20% stat?
The only information I can find about it is this 02 article from the Crimson, which states that they receive several hundred APPLICATIONS that are flagged with extra time. Considering they have 35k applications and accept ~2k students, I find it really hard to believe that 20% of their admitted students got extra time.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/7/19/sat-changes-will...

That being said, your point that rich kids are more likely to get extra time is certainly true:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1787712&page=1&...
'If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" – it wasn't security work, it was masturbation. I don't know what you were doing.'
-Linus at Google talking about GIT
This looks very promising. However, the one concern I have is that e-ink does not work very fast; browsing the web on a Kindle or Nook leaves a lot to be desired. When you're flipping a page, you can literally watch the ink update. We're used to devices with 300+ DPI displays that scroll smoothly, play games better than specifically game-oriented devices, and have faster processors than high-end desktops of the 90s. I know I wouldn't like a phone with that slow of a screen, and I don't think most other people would tolerate it either. Because no matter how fast the hardware is, if it's not noticeable to an everyday user, it might as well not be there in the first place.
It's a pretty standard theological view that all Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) worship (on some level) the same god.
I find it curious why someone would ask this on Quora, rather than simply asking it here on HN. You would get a far more focused and realistic response - from the community itself.
seeds.rb isn't intended to be run more than once on a particular database instance. Running it more than once results in duplicate entries, unless you're explicitly checking for dupes (not always possible).

It looks like seedbank is fairly close to what I want though, as it lets you maintain multiple sets of seeds: https://github.com/james2m/seedbank
Wouldn't it be great if you could view the changes in a contract instead of the entire contract? And get other opinions of what the implications of each are?
Given a pile of cash, you can actually buy "github in a box":

http://fi.github.com/

I believe it's JRuby-based.
But, you don't need to reboot a Linux machine after updating a shared library.
To find what you love, immerse yourself in "worlds"
They aren't "the" copyright holder.
The noteworthy stuff is that Jonathan Ive reports directly to Steve Jobs, while Bob Mansfield, SVP of Hardware¹, reports to Tim Cook. That shows what Apple is all about.

¹. The chart says "SVP of Mac Hardware", but on the iPad 2 video he's presented as "SVP of Hardware".
Background on the role of special forces in U.S. military strategy
This was from XP before they re-architected the DLL management. I'm not sure blaming Microsoft for a mistake made more than 9 years ago in OS design is relevant or helpful.

-- Me, about 4 comments ago
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It's not a problem requiring a solution, it's merely an observation. If a bunch of over-logical geeks were to sit down and try to draft a new set of laws which were completely unambiguous and free of arbitrary cutoffs and nonequivalent treatment of equivalent situations then they'd never even get past questions like

"Precisely how far from the end of my nose does your right to swing a fist end?"
A lot of people say schizophrenia is basically a lung disease for this reason. The lungs are also where DMT and possibly 5-MeO-DMT are made, so it's possible that smoking moderates this also. Obviously that's extremely speculative though.
Can't find the source where I originally read this. But, from that ABC article you linked:

"The natural proportion of learning disabilities should be somewhere around 2 percent, the College Board said, but at some elite schools, up to 46 percent of students receive special accommodations to take the tests, including extra time."

emphasis added
Misconception 2: brain-teasers don't tell you anything

This couldn't be more wrong... The reasons why an interviewer throws you
a brain teaser or design question is to understand your thought logic
and problem solving skills. While you talk through how you would solve
your problem, they are assessing your communication skills, your process
in solving a problem and also what knowledge you have as part of your
experience.

The problem here is that a lot of the brain-teasers I've seen bandied about for interviews are the kind of problems where you either get them via an a-ha insight, or you don't get them at all. That's kind of what makes them good brain-teasers.
I don't know, but i think that looking at models/yourmodel.py is easier. But well, this is me (and also, i came from a hibernate/spring background).

And for 'newbies', it's more intuitive to look for a class model than to look for sql schema.
A simple way to prevent credit card fraud?
Ok, I'm not a cryptographer, so I might be missing something here big time.

But the whole PSN-disaster (I'm a customer) made me think: there is good reason to store credit card information, like the PSN did. Because, frankly, I'd be annoyed to enter a 16 digit number each time I buy some 10 buck game.

But why can't SONY (and anybody else who works with credit-cards) just encrypt them with a public key they agreed on with the CC-company, and only they can decrypt it? So if there was a security breach, we just revoke the key, and are done with it? Is that too simple?
Who says that things that aren't a problem need to be made illegal because something analogous is?

If they choose to make BitCoin illegal, due to anti-laundering laws, etc, should your iPhone game not be allowed to use credits either, even though it's so small nobody would bother abusing it?
"Are you a genius? Google, Facebook, and Apple beckon, but this company is for the rest of you."
Influence beyond your title
Roughly speaking, this is also supposed to be the difference between a professional and an employee, and between an officer and an enlisted man (though a good military will also encourage initiative at all ranks).
The problem is that working off of the current email protocols you have no way to guarantee that the message got any further than the MX for the end recipient. You can't even guarantee that MX didn't immediately route the message to /dev/null after accepting it from your server. So you could have a user that utilizes a spam filtering service like Postini, where an MX will accept the message, but then NOT deliver it to the end user. Your records would show that message as being verifiably delivered when it actually wasn't.

Sure, you can put tacking bugs in the email, but there is no way to guarantee the client will load/access those bugs as expected. I know of several organizations (banks, etc) that would likely immediately bla Khios your server IPs if they became aware of someone trying to utilize this to send emails into their organization.

So, this becomes a scenario where you can guarantee a message was delivered when everything cooperates, but can never conclusively prove a message was NOT delivered.
The non-academic experience at college is the secret to why we pay so much for it. It also tends to piss of people who are extremely interested in learning and nothing else. They wonder what's the point of all this B.S. that's not knowledge.

Well, we're all humans, and we humans have certain needs, like study, love, friends, adventure, etc, and the need to share similar life experiences with many other humans, like with everyone who also went to college.

This is why I think talk of a higher education bubble is too general. I am certain many colleges are overpriced but, by no means will colleges ever go away, or even be extremely different. We are not talking tulips here.

I hope tuition prices come way down, but the college experience is here to stay. Heck, if you're desperate for great employees who could have their pick of jobs, you tend to turn your company into "college". Just think of Google or for that matter Microsoft, or most big tech companies and their "campuses."
The Stolen Scream: How A Flickr Photo Became a Global Icon
Neat Algorithms - Harmony Search
Zev,

I attend SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica. It's not that I don't think there's entrepreneurship going on upstate, I just don't think there's anything going on with internet startups.

If I go back I'm going to split my time between classes, working and launching another startup. I don't have any friends who could be a tech co-founder so I think I'm just going to focus on making money to pay rent and everything left over is for hiring a freelancer.
Yeah, I get the idea of more responsibility, but don't really agree with how it was put... There are always things which simply cannot be resolved in a given timeframe and the reasonable decision might be to plan for a delay / propose an alternative plan instead - it looks like the VP gets the blame in that case instead of reconsidering the strategy, since reasons don't exist any more.

More to the point - that sentence paints the world black/white, even though the world never works like that. However, I think it also explains some actions of that company...
Is college the best setting for personal growth?
What would be some alternatives?
Travel?
The peace core?
The military?
A start-up?
I wonder if Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc, feel they missed out on some personal growth because they dropped out of college?
I have tried many times to get JRebel to work properly. So, I gave up as the docs are horrible. It (JRebel) uses an agent to do the hot swapping instead of modifying the jvm.

I grabbed DECVM (and unfortunately I had to grab ICED Tea to run it on OS X, so this limits my use) and it works wonderfully so far. The only thing that JRebel does offer, that perhaps some of us will figure out for DECVM, is reloading Spring configurations. Since a lot of us are using DI, the DECVM tool only gets us to point, then the wonderful JVM restart has to happen.
elite schools refers to high schools though, not colleges
The best way to handle it is to have your gateway handle the storage of CC data - gateways (Authorize.net - CIM, Braintree - Vault, etc...) have the resources and incentive to be PCI compliant.

With it stored on your gateway's servers, they will usually provide an API that you can use to issue transactions against the stored user data (it shouldn't return the CC data, just run transactions against it).

I'm heavily against storing CC data on my own servers - I store the last 4 digits (for display purposes to users) but that is it.
I used to use bzr, then I used git and was blown away by the speed. I switched to it, still learning the (very hairy) commands, but really enjoying the speed.

One day, I tried hg by chance and discovered it was as fast as git and as sensible as bar :( Now I have no idea what to use.
I repeat: Red Herring.
Competent data modeling and AR migrations are in no way related.

Moreover most grown up applications consist of multiple database, since it would be unwise to mix e.g. reporting concerns into a webapp database schema.
Agreed, without rebasing the history for projects with lots of developers quickly becomes a mess.

> Fossil deliberately avoids rewriting history. Fossil strives to follow the accountants philosophy of never erasing anything. Mistakes are fixed by entering a correction, with an explanation of why the correction is needed. This can make the history of a project messy, but it also makes it more honest.

I'm not sure how keeping garbage like "oops, fix typo" out of history is lying to your fellow developers-- a VCS should be aiding development, not forcing others to see your little mistakes.
Agreed, I never want to store any actual data that someone could use in order to commit fraud. The legal exposure there is too great - let someone else take the blame and I'll switch providers if I have to.
Think about it. When was the last time that you really had to dig past the 2nd page of results in a Google query to find what you were looking for. A few obscure searches aside, when was the last time you had to go beyond the first page?

Uh. Pretty much every day. I guess I have obscure interests. Then again, when I search for 'common' things, stepping past blogspam and content farms takes awhile.
Because in the West it's individual, not systemic. Hypothetical singleton knows if he wanted to, he could find someone, he's just not interested right now.

Incidentally, there is a good example of a country where there are surplus males, due to healthcare priorities, and some men have 4 wives, further exacerbating the imbalance, and a culture that frowns on both casual sex and homosexuality. Perhaps you've heard of it? Afghanistan.
Then wake up, my friend:

http://datamapper.org/
https://github.com/datamapper/dm-rails

Datamapper was one of the great parts of the Merb framework, and with rails 3 you can use it in place of Activerecord.
Do you really think the shuttles solid fuel booster's chemical composition was chosen for it's environmental friendliness?
Amazon Cloud Player Begins to Work On iOS Devices Too
Those are neat projects. At first glance, xenadu seems to sit somewhere between etckeeper and puppet in terms of power and complexity. However, I don't see what they have to do with Red Hat launching cloud platforms.

http://openshift.redhat.com/app/
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/cloudforms/
This is pretty funny, but expected....oh well lets keep buying those apple products!
> That shows what Apple is all about.

Or the org chart is wrong.

> The chart says "SVP of Mac Hardware", but on the iPad 2 video he's presented as "SVP of Hardware".

He replaced Mark Papermaster as SVP of Devices Hardware.
Good stuff, but it seems to be taunting the In Search of Excellence jinx.
Well, one of the PM's duties is managing our outsourcing contracts, so we're kind of stuck until they fire themselves.
is it a PCI violation to store the expiration month/year of a customers CC (for the purpose of knowing when a CC expires and reminding the card holder to update their info)
In fact, I think I am pretty much done using this site. I will read from planet Clojure instead.
Trying to turn pages on a PDF being displayed on a Kindle makes me want to punch kittens. Multiple. Because that's how much time I have between. Each. Page.
Data point #57 or whatever why I need to get more into Android and Android dev. A bit less of a nanny state.
Sure it has. But that's always been the case. Why didn't the Ancient Greeks have steam engines? Well they did! But since they had slaves, it was never worth developing them further.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/sites/heron_bi...
If developers do not quickly self-police, we will inevitably see government web regulation on password and cc security, which itself will lead to demands and ultimately the reality of web development accreditation.
It's not just "oops, typo", but also "oops, someone checked in something proprietary." Being able to scrub the version history before you publish it is more or less is almost a requirement in certain environments.
Forced contraceptives and licenses required for bearing children, probably.
This was before Google even existed. It really was a vastly different world when Microsoft seemed like a juggernaut getting into everything. And I think right around then they had created the precursor to what everyone now thinks of as just Google Earth. MS had something like it first -- I forget its name, though.
Nah, they'd do an analysis and say that it ends at exactly 1 cm away from the end of one's nose or whatever.

Then people would complain that it wasn't fair, because they intended to stop at 1 cm, but actually stopped at 0.99 cm and that should be close enough. And then someone would try to drag relativity into play and question what reference frame we should be measuring that 1 cm in and things would go downhill from there.
The kindle doesn't have any DRM restrictions. Those are on the books Amazon sells. Files you obtain otherwise and put on the Kindle don't magically get DRM'd.
I imagine they've decided to rewrite some of the code they acquired from Makara before releasing it as open source, similar to the ongoing (?) rewrite of the some of the code in RHEV they acquired from Qumranet.

http://lpeer.blogspot.com/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java.h...
If any HNers have questions about the research, I'm happy to answer them. (I'm the "Byrne" cited in the article.)
my email is jlehman at eecs dot cs dot ucf dot edu. the captcha on your blog wouldn't work for me -- I see a recaptcha in the html, but it wasn't displaying in either firefox or chrome for me
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ma·li·cious /məˈliSHəs/
Adjective: Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm.

I don't think my comment qualifies as malicious. It might be an uncomfortable truth, that he's really not that fit for public speech and that his time is better spent writing programs and literature.

(Also, what does http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prosody has to do with writing free software ideology? Last time I checked, he wrote in prose.)
Not so odd: we're targeting the Indian market. We lost our PM to an arranged marriage (or rather to his new in-laws' family business) and we needed an Indian, fast. They are in short supply in our part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, so we went straight to the source. All we know about India is there are a lot of potential customers; we know we need a local to navigate the culture for us.
Check out MyBitcoin. Something like this is actually very useful. The wallet on the remote server can (and should) just be a temporary transfer; send to mybtc or a similar service on sale, transfer out to a private wallet once a day, etc. Then, when you want to buy something, mail to your mybtc account, and then to the vendor you want to buy from. Only one extra step and still much more convenient than typing in a btc address.
As long as you're not dishonest about it.

(That doesn't require one to admit to it, but trying to actively hide one's association I personally find insulting).
The app is free. You can download the issues for free if you get the dead-tree edition. Hopefully, we'll get a discounted iPad edition soon.
Fetchnotes - the self-organizing mobile notepad
I have been using a standing desk for 6 months. I use it in combination with a small, movable sitting desk for some tasks. I stand most of the day, and generally prefer standing. Sometimes I associate hard concentration with sitting.

It took me a few weeks to tolerate standing for long but you can definitely stand all day every day once you straighten your posture and strengthen your back.
"Steve Jobs hired dean of Yale School of Management Joel Podolny to run the Apple University, an internal group also featuring business professors and Harvard veterans that are writing a series of case studies to prepare employees for the life at Apple after Jobs."

I would seriously pay to read that material.
Is there a good way that us white-hat folks can report our black-hat competitors? Almost all of the sites ranking higher than us for key terms use obvious black-hat techniques... backlinks from strange sites. I'm recording them all in a spreadsheet and have reported them https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en&... here but I don't think it does anything... thoughts?
I was enlisted in the military for 4 years. I made a lot of good friends, traveled overseas, read a lot of Stoic philosophy, and did a lot of growing up, and I wouldn't give one bit of that experience up for the world.

You'll probably never experience military life, and probably neither will she. Does that make your life any less of an experience? No.

Finishing a degree online may not have given her the college experience you had, but that doesn't make the experiences that she did have any less meaningful or fulfilling, especially for a young teenage girl.
All audio? Never experienced that with nytimes before. All the news that's fit to print...and speak.
So which VP got roasted for the white iPhone delay? Mark Papermaster, again?
That's not a case study, just an anecdote. In my experience, there were almost no people in Oxford that I wouldn't consider "very smart". Probably the only place in the world where that's been true.

That said, I don't know how Cambridge's "CS-like" degree is/was, but Oxford's was very bad at actually teaching programming.

Then again, are you really sure he went to Cambridge? Smart people have no problem with learning to program when they need to. That guy doesn't sound so smart...
Oh wait is it as CC? ...Even if it's PD I am a bit curious.
Android isn't a panacea. Make sure you get a pure Google phone.
Ask HN: What would Steve Jobs have done after NeXT if Apple hadn't bought him?
The man obviously has a fire in his belly, and NeXT obviously didn't have the cultural impact that he was hoping for. He launched directly into a string of incredible projects: iMac, iPod, and OS X... I can't help but wonder where that energy would've gone if he wasn't put back in charge of Apple.