skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea's still there in the administration tho. It's the Faculty who need to quit being butthurt about it.

Generalizing:
Working with leading faculty is a bit like working with the 'always answers in snippits' students from highschool 40 years later in their life. Procrastinate, panics when something isn't the way they expect it, and genuinely quirky. All it takes is one noisy tenure to make a stink to a VP/P and many things get shut down.

Maybe in a decade when the damage grade inflation has done to accreditation and the value of a degree becomes apparent the faculty will allow for this type of thing to exist.
Unless they're hiring a bajillion people, I'd have thought they would just hire from their own network. In fact, they could probably hire a bajillion good people from their network anyway.

Seems strange.
Only thing I can think of at this point is that you have an extension inserting something into the body before the canvas. While on Magister, drop javascript:alert(document.body.firstChild) into the address bar and see if you get the canvas -- if not, that's the problem.
Are they going to work with developers and then build the same thing in house making the developers product useless :)
One use case I still am hesitant about for email-as-username is the situation where a family shares an email address for a household. I know that ISPs like Comcast still just provide a main email address when they set up the account, and I expect many people don't bother to make more for the rest of the family.

With all the free email options available I doubt this would be a serious problem. I also know some sites are requiring unique email addresses in their DB now. I simply wonder how many users still do this and if it would negatively impact them.
We wanted to build a flying sphere also, but different from this one.
First, it is very unlikely that Facebook already added the G+ logo to their image filter. Second, I don't know why would a human-review be required, they could just filter out the google+ URL, it's much easier and faster than your image trademark filter theory and requires no human-review.
Ever heard the reproduction rates across the western world are dropping off the charts? Oh, did I just falsify evolution?
Just curious, what's with the hash? Are you concerned your message might get tampered with?
I think Saturn made two very salient points that contributed greatly to this converstaion.

1. jordan0day was wrong and Saturn expanded on Silverstorms rebuttal in a meaningful way.

2. It would be nice if people owned up to being wrong. Especially when they're "that" wrong.
I'd bet that they could get the court records sealed in this instance.
I did a double-take too, and wondered if this was your creation!
Also, it clearly looks like he violated facebook's ad guidelines:

We may refuse ads at any time for any reason, including our determination that they promote competing products or services or negatively affect our business or relationship with our users.
There are a dozen or so different demos and experiments sitting on the site now, but no way to get to any of it, so the front page is soon to be a demo in itself, with the others nested inside it. A nice little interactive portfolio. But I'm glad you dig the langton hack
What's to stop me from a) Submitting multiple requests b) Using a bot to submit a LOT of requests to bug the heck out of someone c) Using a bot to submit a LOT of requests and DOS betannoyer.com ?
It's the little things that count and I like that out of the box bcrypt is being used in auth.py.

I never got around to playing around with Mongrel2 but always wanted to.

I'm a huge Flask fan and will most likely (after looking through some of the source) be using Brubeck from now on on the Py side of things. It covers the basics very well.

Bravo!

Btw, equally impressive is DictShield.

Will you create any special cases for 'modules/extentions' or will continue to keep things agnostic?
I gave u an up for both of ur posts. I really hate these opinion based downvotes. It is really not what it is meant for.

My upvotes are more a delete of false downvotes. They are not meant as a support for ur point, btw.
I offer up this little item since I'm a bit of a stickler for applications using proper grammar. This is nothing complex but I use it all the time. I have versions of the same routine in every language I work in.

function plural(count, itemName, pluralWord, singLead, plurLead, singFollow, plurFollow) {
if (((typeof pluralWord != 'undefined') && (typeof pluralWord.valueOf() == 'string')) && (pluralWord.length > 0))
var outP = count + ' ' + ((count == 1) ? itemName : pluralWord);
else
var outP = count + ' ' + itemName + ((count == 1) ? '' : 's');

var follow = (count == 1) ? singFollow : plurFollow;
outP += (((typeof follow != 'undefined') && (typeof follow.valueOf() == 'string')) && (follow.length > 0) ? ' ' + follow : '');

var lead = (count == 1) ? singLead : plurLead;
return (((typeof lead != 'undefined') && (typeof lead.valueOf() == 'string')) && (lead.length > 0) ? lead + ' ' : '') + outP;
}

Usage - first simple pluralization:

alert('There ' + plural(c,'dog','','is','are') + ' in my house');
c = 1 --> There is 1 dog in my house.
c <> 1 --> There are 2 dogs in my house.

alert(plural(c,'dog','','','','is','are') + ' in my house');
c = 1 --> 1 dog is in my house.
c <> 1 --> 2 dogs are in my house.

And for non-simple pluralization:

alert('There ' + plural(c,'company','companies','is','are') + ' on the list');
c = 1 --> There is 1 company on the list.
c <> 1 --> There are 2 companies on the list.

alert(plural(c,'company','companies','','','is','are') + ' on the list');
c = 1 --> 1 company is on the list.
c <> 1 --> 2 companies are on the list.
Hey, congrats on finally getting it out there! Saw how much work you poured into it and glad it's finally done. Also, mind-bending implementation.
It's fairly GPU intensive, and if Windows Vista/7 don't get a response from the GPU after a short period of time, it'll restart the drivers. Happens every once in a while even on newer GPUs, unfortunately.
A link to this Plus post would at least be nice.
I don't think being poor initially has very much to do with it.

Is that just your hunch? What if you're wrong? Do you care?
How do you evaluate your grad students?
Googles policy is totally opposite to Facebooks. If Google (still having the biggest web search engine as their driving product) would block facebook, then I would not support Google, because it is against their policy. FB never said they were not about business. And from the business point of view G+ advertisment on FB is "evil".

If Google says "Let's play the game like gentlemen" I expect a gentlemens game from them.

Of course I'd love to see G+ beat FB. I hope that helps u to see, that I merely am against this kind of "under the belt hits". As long as G+ stays true to it's word of "don't be evil" I absolutely support them over FB.
>Society demands a man gets out of bed and goes to work; against his sleeping instinct, man complies.

The only case where society actually does demand a man to get out of bed is jail.

Usually, a man gets out of bed not because he is dragged out like a pet but because society offers something in return -- employment, company, money, food, purpose, etc. He can stay in his bed if he really wants to, or he can choose a more flexible schedule and wake up later, or wake up earlier.

It's a system of symbiosis; the man is making a fucking choice.

Regarding 1+1=3, there are several possibilities here:

a) The people are mathematicians, they redefined symbols and are playing around -- it would evoke curiosity in me.

b) The people are children and they're getting a rise out of you -- it would evoke amusement in me.

c) The people are deluded and insane -- it would evoke sympathy.

I don't see how these possibilities require anyone to get aggressive.
So, this is a new incubator?
a yota

an iota
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Some banks have. In the mid-90s, Bank of America used to take a photo, and put it on their debit and credit cards -- in fact, my (much newer) cards still have that same photo on them.

No idea if they still do that. I don't get the impression that it was a huge boost for security. Nobody pays all that much attention to the photo.
This is a fantastic idea, my city has similarly bad bus schedule postings. I'd love to see some usability studies on what a bus schedule should look like though. Usually the actual schedule design is just as awful as the way it is posted.

Also, using wire rope may have been a bit overkill, but I always support people informing the world of swaging tools.
Nobody in the entire universe cares which studio (save for Pixar/Disney) is responsible for the content they want to watch. Movie studio brands are worthless, and movie streaming services are largely fungible, save for catalog. As soon as a customer goes to watch a movie and it's not available, the service has lost their loyalty. This is why so many of the services (iTunes, Amazon) try to create an ecosystem that increases switching costs.

A streaming service needs to have as much content as Blockbuster stores did in their heyday; however, the DVD business that the studios are desperately trying to nurse along; and the deeply terrible deals cut with airline on-demand, HBO, and others dictate that streaming will be a second-class citizen right up until there's some kind of dramatic change -- studios going tits-up, that kind of thing.
Hotmail Adds New Feature "My Friend's Been Hacked"
Nice try NSA..
This is not stupid at all. Why would Facebook advertise a competing product on their own ad network? That would be ridiculous. It does not make them appear weak either. Letting it happen would make them look stupid. Banning it is the right business decision.
Amazon 1-click. Prior to its invention, online purchases involved a laborious 10, 20, or even 100 clicks! It's too bad there isn't a Nobel prize for online shopping. The inventors deserve some recognition. </sarcasm>
"Granted the poor today (I assume) have a higher quality of life than they did 50 years ago, but their expectations for life are also (probably) higher"

So... if in the future I own a flying car with 30 cup-holders, but the rich people in society all have 5 hyper-deluxe flying cars with tinted windows, will I be worse off since my expectations are significantly higher than what I can obtain?

Or will I still own a flying car, whereas before I did not?

And no, this isn't some terrible example. "Poor" in America is anything but for the vast number of people below the poverty line. People with no skills of value to society should feel lucky for having so much.
If you go far back enough, all land ownership is based on "might makes right". There's always a genocide or war at some point in the process.

As it happens, the organized might (the government) has decided to maintain and enforce a regulated market in real estate, largely to everyone's benefit.
The article concludes that SF beats NYC, which surprised me. SF has an even bigger advantage if you locate on the Peninsula south of SF: no local payroll tax, cheaper office space. Northern San Mateo County has Bart service, so the commute is easy for those who live in SF. The local tax rates are misleading, they are the marginal rates not actual rates for developers. The SF talent pool is expensive, but very deep. I will concede that hiring is becoming very tight, especially if your company is not very interesting. In that case I suggest that you locate in LA, thereby raising the general level of developer excitement in both areas. :D
Ah. So your interpretation is not that the driver actually crashed, but that it simply was overwhelmed by the workload, and didn't respond properly within the timeout limit as set by the OS?
Yes, that is my opinion/hunch/suspicion/whatever. If I'm wrong... nothing is going to happen. I'm not a policy maker, nobody really cares what I think and what I do has no real effect. I've certainly been wrong many times in my life before, I don't think I'll get too worked up if I'm wrong this time too.
That by the way isn't what I was talking about.

You can make your payroll obligation, then declare bankruptcy in the face of creditors. That's usually what happens--people take on short term debt to keep afloat, and use it to pay off their employees as they wait for the "big contract" to clear. The contract doesn't clear in time, and everything collapses.

At this point, they're bankrupt and though some creditors might get paid from the sale of office furniture and computers----not all of them will see all of their money.

The Op suggested that even these companies should never be given a second chance.
Angel investment on increase
For whatever it's worth, I'm on the same build of Chrome (12.0.742.122) on OSX 10.6.8 and the demo is working fine for me.
Thanks. I wasn't thinking about the surprise implosions where employees have to put a five-fingered lien on the office equipment.
> And this is the general exam.

I agree with your basic point, but if you mean to say that some other set of exams (the non-general ones) were harder, I'm not so sure. For most places, there are two sets of exams: generals before you write a thesis and your thesis defense. In my experience, pre-dissertation general exams are significantly harder than the oral defense of a thesis. Most universities use them as a final weed-out phase before allowing people to even consider a thesis topic. As such, you have to demonstrate mastery over a far wider field than a dissertation might cover. For example, all of Math or Philosophy or English Literature or Romance Linguistics - often with chosen specialty sub-topics, so you end up having to worry about breadth and depth. By the time you get to the oral for your thesis, on the other hand, you are in such complete command of the material that defending your views (on that narrower scope) is relatively easy.

Also, in most cases, you won't be allowed to set a date for your dissertation defense unless the work as a whole is already passable.
> must possess the property continuously, in actuality, open and notoriously and exclusively.

That's pretty much the law everywhere in the U.S. (save perhaps Louisiana, which has a system rooted in Napoleonic law and not English common law). The mnemonic is ONCHA - open, notorious, continuous, hostile, and adverse.

> can you beat an adverse possession claim simply by giving the squatter permission?

I don't recall any cases off the top of my head. I doubt that an owner could unilaterally transform hostile possession into non-hostile possession; it'd be too tempting for the owner to try to fabricate backdated evidence of consent.

(Your question brought to mind a line from Henry Fielding, which my torts professor used to illustrate how consent is sometimes a defense: He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. [3])

[3] http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35415/
I'm sensing some kind of rule of technology stories: All stories must be perceived as commentary on contemporary Apple and Google.
Tristan Walker: two years ago, today.
WSGI is fine if you're building short-lived, simple request/response style web apps but if you want to do any sort of async messaging, long-polling, or use websockets i.e. a modern web app - then it leaves a lot to be desired. Mongrel2/Brubeck appear to be designed with these considerations in mind.
Out of curiosity: What bet did someone lose to you, and not pay, for you to take the effort to make the site?
> Is the guy living there now? Seems he would have the same incentives as any owner.

My brother owns rent houses; from the stories he tells, he would disagree even about renters, let alone squatters.

And recall the quote attributed to Lawrence Summers: In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. [1]

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/21/wash-rental/
The Princeton Math Department is where I first learned that I should not take a course with "Advanced" in the title unless I wanted to major in the field. I learned that one the hard way.
The tab crashes after a while when I try that. Weird. Even with all extensions disabled, it hangs without ever finishing loading.
I've heard that kind of boasting from Americans working at dysfunctional large corporations also. Get people over beers and they'll tell you about how in all of last month, what they did is played 5000 games of Bejeweled Blitz, made 3 bullshit Powerpoint presentations, attended a few bullshit meetings, and carefully tweaked their .vimrc while pretending to work. It seems to be the sort of culture that crops up when people are in dysfunctional settings and cynical about whether their job is actually doing anybody any good; kind of a coping-mechanism I guess.
In praise of idleness: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Or, if they want to be in control, provide an implementation of one of the existing federated social networking standards.
refusing ads != banning an account
It should be noted that Thomas Jefferson's opinion on patents changed and he eventually believed that some patents may provide social benefit if only granted for a limited time.

Interestingly, Thomas Jefferson ended up being the first patent examiner of the United States. The first U.S. patent law said that the secretary of state (Jefferson at the time) was to take a lead role in examining patents. Jefferson was a notoriously difficult examiner and granted very few patents.

For more details: http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/pate...
I believe there are genetic determinants of IQ. But I think IQ measures only one very specific kind of intelligence. Using IQ as a measure for intelligence is like using guitar skills as a measure of musical ability. There are other instruments too.
Very cool! I'd love to read how the PNG hack works.

To see if your browser supports webgl, go to http://webglreport.sourceforge.net/

On a pokey mac mini, I get a few frames per second and about 5-15% CPU use in Firefox and chrome
It does not work for me either - blank white screen. Same setup, Mac OS X and Chrome. I do get the canvas when pasting that snippet, though.
I was doing something similar to this article (feeding json directly to JS functions) with PHP. I think this is better for the browser. server side, it's heavier:

<?php
//inject json
//this puts the json in a div
//then the js gets the div's innerText and parses it as JSON
//so there's an object in js (global) with all the JSON data, with jsonInject's key name
if(isset($jsonInject) && count($jsonInject) > 0){
foreach($jsonInject as $i=>$json){
echo "<div style='display:none;' id='jsonInject_{$i}'>{$json}</div>"
echo "<script>var {$i} = JSON.parse( $('#jsonInject_{$i}')[0].innerText ); </script>";
}
}
?>

fill the associative $jsonInject array with json strings in your controller. then this goes in your templater. it makes a hidden div, puts the json string in there. then jquery pulls the innerText value, it gets parsed as json and stored in a js var. depending on use, i'll sometimes just pass the results of JSON.parse to an initialize method.

I like the proxy caching. I think apache's mod_proxy and mod_cache could do this but with more config (and resources per request).
Right, Facebook is a business, and they were being paid to run an advertisement. It turns out that the ad (albeit indirectly) is for their competition. Blocking on the presumed basis that the advertisement may encourage users to leave Facebook is bad business. The advertisement is legal and honest, but the problem is that it 'might' cause people to leave Facebook. I think we all 'get' that Facebook is running a business, but this practice is anti-competitive.
He's talking about banning mere mentions of Google+ in your status messages, or wall posts. If this were true, then Facebook would be rightly subjected to a Streisand effect.
I didn't realize the full impact of the financial meltdown until we posted on Craigslist for an office manager last month. I received 110 applications in less than 24 hours. 75 were highly qualified and the 14 I interviewed all had deep experience across the disparate functional areas we needed help in. I was stunned at the difference between that experience and our attempts to find more Java developers, where we've heard crickets.
What's interesting is that the latency for such a connection to the moon is stil less than the latency I get from my WiMax connection in the middle east many days..
It's not so simple as get education -> job & life of ease.

Of course it's not that simple, but it's definitely important to realize that unemployment numbers are not the same for everyone. Recognizing that a lot of the unemployment falls within groups that have little education means that a tech startup is going to do very little to address unemployment. It's not a bad or good thing with a tech startup, just a fact.

What the numbers show is that we need more jobs that require less education.
They didn't create their own social network. They registered a domain, added a development forum, wrote an ethereal sounding warning message about the coming 'future', wrapped it in a goth inspired theme, and posted it to the internet. They are two different things. The "Revision :0.1 Alpha" at the bottom is what makes me smile the most.

That said I'm not against them coming up with an open anonymous social network... I think that would be an interesting addition to the online world. However to say they created their own social network at this point is slightly over-stated. I look forward to seeing what they produce.
I'm curious, what should the technology communities do?

The implication I read into it was that technology companies should be aware of the plight of the poor, and try to help people out (AirBnB, Google, etc) and be careful not just to exploit them (Zynga). But maybe I'm just projecting my own beliefs. :)
Patent trolls harming the ecosystem?
In the U.S %69 of billionaires earned their wealth. The percentage of millionaires who earned their wealth is even higher. It's a commonly held misconception that most of the wealthy inherit their money.

Yes there are plenty of people who are capable, but not wealthy and vice versa. However, the OP didn't say "wealthy people == capable people". He said wealthy people are "...an approximation of "capable people"

Btw I'm not going to bother to include sources on my claim. If you want to validate it, the sources are easy to find.

I'm not going to bother proviin
At one point, I (naively) thought that by starting a company, I would be helping to alleviate unemployment in the US because I would be creating jobs. Now I realize that the programmers and designers I employ are/will be people who could have their choice of jobs, because I'm only hiring the smartest and most skilled. I'm effectively not altering the unemployment rate by adding jobs for the sector of the population that is in the least need of work.

So, I don't think it's possible for us (people who work at companies whose product is technology) to help create jobs for people without tech skills.
I wonder how the variety of collections and consumer protection laws apply here (I know there's technically no "consumer", but I'll bet that harassment to pay up falls in there somehow…)
"You and I might think there is a distinction between programs and data"

Not if you are a Lisper.
I interviewed at a very large corporation. 3-4 interviews a week.

We accepted any correct solution.
How an unsolicited video helped a startup (Unbounce) get votes for top startup
Patents in general are "bad" in my opinion, but they can be used for good. Just like guns may be considered "bad" in general, there are legitimate uses for them, and they can be used for good.

The OP even says "used for good".
Higher issuance means that the company has higher leverage, which means higher risk. This should of course cut ratings, but might not.
Not even adults will be safe from child exploitation if we don't nip it in the bud now!
As for the xenon ion engine vanguard, don't forget Deep Space One and Hayabusa.
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