skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweet! It gets better and better.

The sidebar keyboard navigation is a big one for me that's been missing. And the folding arrows will help. I don't know why you'd want them to fade but nice that it's up to you.
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Insightful, and so close to a haiku as well...

Here's an attempt:

Mac lost my data
Many days of work gone
Cloud to the rescue
88kwh cost about 22$ here in Vienna, AT.
I certainly don't propose completely eliminating accountability. I think we need to seriously rethink how and to whom teachers are accountable, and how they are evaluated.
I'm sure if one sampled the mass of human thumbs they'd find that it varies by more than 5.

$1/watt/year is based on a typical $0.12/kwHr US electric rate, but even that varies by a factor of three depending on location and usage category.
Or use TimeMachine if you are on a Mac.
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And one shame in being the other : P
I worked for static analysis company.

I am happy to see this kind of analyses popping up here and there. As computers become more powerful, you can do more sophisticated checks.

One of the biggest problems in static analysis is false positives - reports about potential problems which are not relevant for one reason or another, and false positive rate has huge impact on ROI.

Unfortunately, aside from an interface element for triage, article does not mention or link to the article that describes how they are handling false-positives problem in the analysis.
> If a politician says it isn't, then it probably is.

Feel bad that I can upvote you only once.

With India's definition of broadband still at 256kbps and they are 'aiming' to increase it to 2mbps by 2015, I would say the govt already has a lot on it's plate. More than it can deal with. They should just let someone else care about this kind of problems.
Yes, there are many moderators of difficulty.

We had some requirements for the test which included graded difficulty from very easy to very hard to be able to separate out people of different abilities over a regular population.

We were supposed to design the first question so that 100% of people got it correct; to be an easy, practice type question.

Also, you guys aren't even getting to see our hardest questions :D Take a look at http://psych.io/spatial/hard.jpg for example!
That's good stuff! I just did the business version of this post

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186237

I haven't attempted anything for my normal Objective-C XCode work yet on an iPad.

Anyone out there have any hacks to do iPhone/iPad dev from the iPad?
Everyone thinks this way, but then it's so hard for an average Chinese to succeed in his own country in the form of startups. Seems like there's more barriers facing a Chinese startup than an US equivalent.
Plus there's this distant fear that the country will fail sometime in the future and all the sweat into the startup will evaporate.
This is probably why so many Chinese are fleeing the country.
The Cacophony of the Brain
No, I wanted to try something radical and crazy and new. Frankly, I expected to be back on my MacBook by now. This has been as much a surprise to me as anyone!
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This is my Q6. I picked A but the test wants C.

http://imgur.com/VyW30
It would be easier to believe claims that India doesn't want to censor the internet if India didn't already censor the internet.

(As one example, I needed to use a VPN to get my dose of Savita Bhabi while I was over there.)
maybe for coders that have to deal with MBA's
You can "quite literally" keep your data in two places in the cloud at once.
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The spam reporting thing is indeed annoying, but it's likely a contractual obligation. Yahoo, Hotmail, etc agree to share data on who has clicked the spam button in exchange for a promise that that person will be immediately removed from all future messages.
That makes the commas easier to see (and is ugly IMO) but it's still one comma away from making the rest of your variables global. What's so bad about just

var a = "foo";
var b = "bar";
var c = "baz";
> I would much rather my kid spend his time working in a small business and learning about entrepreneurship hands-on...

As much as I'd want this for my kids, not all kids have the passion for entrepreneurship, or innovation, necessary to be successful. Liberal Arts degrees can help by allowing young adults find an interesting and for them beneficial and hopefully rewarding career, that they might not otherwise find if their best option is working as a cashier at a dollar store.

The cost though for Arts degrees, and I have sat on the board of governors for a well-known and high reputation university, is ridiculous and largely driven by politics & tradition, more than economic value.

But I don't want to pay for my children to party & socialize for four years at that cost!!
I may as well link you guys to http://cube.asher.io as well. It only works in chrome though! It is a web page that I banged up in a night that we used to create the items. No instructions on it though - try drag and drop :D
I think that's the sort of thing most people take for granted. It really shocked me to see that Mysql didn't have that.
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I don't really care about the layout, I care that they destroyed my favorite social network. Google+ does not offer anything near the functionality that Reader had.
Lytro
Link: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077/
I think the direct way with scp URIs is faster in regard to the setup time as you don't have to setup fuse and fiddle with permissions.

I must admit i don't use it regularly (but i use tramp mode quite often) but you can browse remote directories, change between hosts without mounting a directory first or open files not lying in the current mountpoint. The only major drawback is if you don't use ssh keys or use programs which don't support gvfs/kio
Because Doom 3 was released 7 years ago and the engine was probably in major development what, 8-9 years ago?

They've since moved on and their most recent game, RAGE, uses the fifth version of their engine, not the fourth.

They're basically open sourcing the engine that they're no longer hyping/selling, while they continue to use their modern engine for business.

How can they? I mean, I guess other companies just lets their engines die instead of open sourcing it.
8/9- that was super fun and challenging!
I think this is one of the places where Win8's tablet interface will gain fans. I've seen the developer preview and being able to snap windows to the side and get a "mini mode" (or whatever it's called) is really cool.
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Over this same time period, far more women have been going to college than ever before. I wonder what the numbers would look like with women removed (for the sake of a fair comparison)? I wish it was the case that the hard sciences had just as many women as men, but it is not. At my school, engineering was mostly men, while the liberal arts college was mostly women. I'd think most of the growth in enrollment from women (which is most of the growth, I'd think) is going to the "non-science" fields.
Screen is great. Though not it's fault, the only downside is that it cant persist through a machine restart.
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Dropbox fixes this.
Partially failed with me. I had to think of more and more elaborate transformation techniques over time, however, and apparently that failed for one test (I got 8 out of 9) (I really would have liked to know where I screwed up, though you may be afraid that cheating skews your results).

But, to come up with those "cheats", I had to imagine the 3D cube folding before me. Number 6 in particular had me do a more thorough analysis than most (but I still came up with a way to cheat, then used it).
For me, 6 hours is the difference between needing to take a charger to work and never thinking about it. If I'm going to take a charger, I might as well have 1 hour battery life.

I didn't buy the 3G version, but I do use bluetooth for the keyboard all day and still get around 9 hours out of it.
You're not the first person that's said that; what's your setup?

I've had consistent memory problems on WinXP, Win7, and OSX, all of them muscled up machines, especially when using JS intensive apps or leveraging Krumo (yes, I'm a PHP programmer, but I promise I can code, breathe and drool at the same time).

Edit: I do use Firebug, so I'm loading up JS resource usage.
Interacting with smartphone features by the wave of hand
(If you don't know, the Dark Mod is a Doom3 total conversion inspired by the Thief series, one of my all-time favorite games).

Me too! I just heard about the dark mod a while back and tried to get it working. I didn't want to go buy Doom3, because I don't like the game and I couldn't be sure whether or not TDM would work. So I tried with a pirated version and it didn't, so I'm stuck waiting for the open source release of D3 engine (and the subsequent "porting" of TDM).

(For some reason, PC games for me have a terrible track record of not working. I often try a pirated version of the game and if it works and I like it, I might buy it. If the pirated version doesn't work, I won't bother because experience tells me the legal one isn't probably better and I hate begging for refunds from Steam support).
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It runs on other platforms. "e" always felt like a hack to me on windows. I use Linux and it runs PERFECTLY. I was a Textmate lover and it feels great to have an editor that can use Mate's plugins and themes AND extend the possibilities.
Looking for opposing face pairs is the easy method, and works on most of the questions (I think 6 of the 9.)

If all the opposing pairs are the same, there are two more ways to distinguish. One is the placement of the symbols relative to each other; the chirality of the whole object. For an example, think of a six-sided die. Position it so that the 6 is on top and 2 is towards you. The left and right faces will be the 3 and 4, in either order, creating two distinct possibilities.

The other remaining distinction is the orientation of the symbols on each face. Continuing the die example, with the 6 on top and the 2 towards you, the 2 pips can have either of two diagonal orientations. Orientation creates a possibility space of 2^N * 4^M where N is the number of sides with 2-way orientation distinguishability and M is the number of sides with 4-way distinguishability. On a normal die, N = 3 since the 2, 3, and 6 are 2-way orientable, and M = 0. Some of the questions here have M > 0, specifically the arrows and hearts.

(I'm ignoring cases where rotating the whole cube creates duplicate possibilities. Consider one side with an arrow and 5 blank sides; although the arrow has 4 orientations, they are not distinguishable. I'm also ignoring the possibility of rotating a symbol in non-90° increments.)
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Make a robot that can predict what a 1GHz clock will read when you press a button.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\QUIX.TXT

question, and then jumps on his
master's shoulder, and pressing close to his ear tells him the answer
which Master Pedro then delivers. He says a great deal more about things
past than about things to come; and though he does not always hit the
truth in every case, most times he is not far wrong, so that he makes us
fancy he has got the devil in him. He gets two reals for every question
if the ape answers; I mean if his master answers for him after he has
whispered into his ear; and so it is believ
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I imagine these is already on your radar, but it seems appropriate at this point to link to two of the 1000 True Fans essays from a few years ago.

Original -- http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...

Followup -- http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_case_agai...
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I understand your premise and don't have any rebuttal to it that would include facts and/or figures. But one thought did pop into my mind when reading your comment.

I wonder if your feeling is a prevailing thought/sentiment among liberal arts professors. And if it is then why don't you and your ilk just give out more B's and C's? So what if they cry? If you think they deserve the B or C then that is the grade.

But what do I know I only have a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Meanwhile you can go take a look at all the nice things that have been done with the Quake engines. Nexuiz, Alien Arena and many other open source games are based on the Quake engine.

It's fairly certain that id's legals will approve the release as they have done with all their previous game engines. The only problem might be if D3 uses some 3rd party libraries.
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It could be possible that when a person spends more for an item or service, they tend to value it more. They may also be more committed to it, whatever that means.

Reminds me of Dan Ariely's (and many other's) behavioral economics research.
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I found that while my CS studies were useful in setting up new software/internet ventures, it has been the research skills I learned from studying history & economics and the strategy & analysis from business management, that has made a world of difference in my success or failure as an entrepreneur & business owner.
False. Several complex factors are at play here, but supply/demand effects are not the root cause. This Forbes article does a good job of explaining things. http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/01/rising-cost-education-opini...

TLDR; it turns out that comparing educational costs relative to the inflation rate is inaccurate. Efficiency gains in almost every other domain have artificially lowered the overall inflation rate. Artisinal fields like education haven't had a 10x efficiency increase (we don't teach students any faster than we did in the past), so their rates have increased at the true rate of inflation (or what the inflation rate would be if no efficiency gains happened in other domains).
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That ad has been there for years. You probably turned it off and forgot.
It's not really newsworthy though. I could see a release being posted to HN if it contained a huge new feature set but from what I can see this is just normal update ?
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Being an emacs user, C-a was never practical. I always set mine to ` (backtick). Except when writing shell scripts, it's surprising how little it actually comes up, and learning to type it twice when you actually want one is not hard. It reduces by 1/3rd the number of keys involved in switching "tabs" or doing other stuff.

Unlearning typing it twice for when you're not in screen is the hard part.
I wanna see how they did their shadow volumes. As far as I know, they did it without geometry shaders, which would mean that they had to do the shadow volume extrusion on the CPU. Or maybe there's some cleverness involved.
Stylizer is the best one I have ever found. Available for Mac and PC www.skybound.ca
So, what is this short study for?
Didn't China have big problems with opium use several hundred years ago which drove them to cut it off? (They may not have made it illegal, but they at least cut off trade routes)
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I've got a dozen addons, and I keep gmail, to-do list etc. open all day long. I've had it open for several days now with at least 10 tabs open and it's using less than 0.5 GB out of 8. What's your usage that gets it over 1 GB?

Also, what can you do with Firebug that you can't do with Chrome's "inspector"?
There are a lot of comments here from people acting as if not having two 24" monitors and a full mechanical keyboard would drastically diminish their productivity. This year I spent 4 months out of the country with only my 15" laptop while still working 8 hour days. I was surprised to find no change at all in how long it took to get shit done. I think we tend to kid ourselves about how much of a difference expensive equipment makes.
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This. I'm sure a "mini mode" will be a part of every tablet interface in a couple of years' time.
Raid and rsync are your friends. Use them.
I'm a stats-heavy computer scientist, but I'd argue the opposite: the ability to construct and evaluate a rigorous argument is the first thing lacking: one that plausibly analyzes the domain, recounts opposing arguments reasonably fairly, constructs counterarguments that are actually responsive to the opponents' arguments, and uses logical argumentation along with empirical evidence in a way that correctly supports its points.

This seems closer to "statistics versus logos" than "statistics versus rhetoric."
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Ryan Smith has wrapped the use of LISTEN/NOTIFY into a really handy queuing library called queue_classic that we've been using internally at Heroku. He does a good write up of it over on his blog: http://ryandotsmith.heroku.com/2011/09/queue_classic.html
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It’s not we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

- Edwin Land

http://startupquote.com/post/12241911336
Yes, No. 8 has certainly an error. At least the version I got first, if I load the page now I get a different set of cubes.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/rH5kW
Sometimes I open files just for reference. Textmate/BBEdit: single click = new tab/new open document
By "H1B OK", do you mean Amazon will help with the process of helping me to get a H1B visa? if so, I am extremely interested in this. I have an impressive resume, and I have been wanting to work in the USA for quite some time now. I am currently working for the New York Stock Exchange (Belfast european HQ, Ireland).
>"in 2009 we graduated just 2,480 students with bachelor’s degrees in microbiology — about the same number as 25 years ago. Who will solve the problem of antibiotic resistance?"

I suspect that the professional earning potential within microbiology of a person with a bachelor's degree is probably lower than their earning potential within the food service industry - and the odds of a person with only a bachelor's degree being put in a position which allows substantial research into a major problem are very slim, indeed.
Yes, this is something I wanted to say and somehow didn't: one personal take-away from the experience for me has been that programming, ultimately, is thinking.

All the technology in the world doesn't make me think faster. The most I can ask from it is that it gets out of my way and lets me search, explore and express myself efficiently.
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Someone pinch me.

Is that a light I see at the end of the tunnel?
8/9 first try, after cheating I figured out what I missed. I swear there's something wrong with Q5, I've been staring at it for 10 minutes :)
I am very skeptical of the criteria for which the author evaluates a successful career.

You cannot evaluate the success of an artist in the same way as an engineer. First, Wages are an extremely inadequate measure for the contribution art makes to society.

And looking at "innovations that drive economic growth" as a measure of the collective success of college graduates takes a seriously narrow view of the contributions necessary to foster a healthy economy.
Your comment contains no such conditional clause.
Have you checked out https://www.aceportal.com/ ?

You can use it to get access to private placement deals.
Stay Green with the Cloud (Infographic)
Sweet interview, nice to see how he published a book in a different way.
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Works great until your computer/home/office catches fire.

Personally I have a mirrored drive set that I use as my primary storage, and a third disk that I rsync to nightly and use for backups of other stuff, because I don't trust that I won't have filesystem errors or controller problems that might render both disks in the mirror unusable. Then on top of that I use Crashplan to ensure I have an offsite copy.

For most of my code I also push to github or private external repositories regularly and/or pull to my laptop.

Maybe a bit paranoid, but I've had to recover from enough scary hardware and software failures over the years to not want to take risks.
Top quality != latest tech. Id tech 4 is a top quality 7 year old engine.
The 'first' claim here is moving in 3D space. Controlling pixels on a screen has been done before -- and in many ways, this development is basically the same thing. The researchers make it sound like 'continuous and real-time' are also significant developments, along with the 3D thing.
To YC or not YC
What I have found is that the higher intelligence/spatial ability type people are able to use these types of techniques on more difficult questions. I do very well on traditional spatial tests because they are trivial with relational or structural comparison.

Here is a real challenge.. can you think of a design for a spatial ability test (that is able to be done on pen/paper) that does not allow for this type of strategy? :)
For the past 10 months, I have only used a 15" MacBook Pro, and I've been wonderfully productive. Before that, I did most of my dissertation (coding and writing) on a 13" MacBook Pro.
This is partly a testament to what a great app iSSH is. I haven't used it as a daily work environment, but I've gotten some pretty great things done with it, even the iPhone version. My favorite was sitting in a crappy motel room with barely Edge, and still managing to build a GPX converter (not build as in write, build as in download and compile), convert some map routes to a format I needed for another phone app, and get them on my website where I could then get the app that needed them to download them.

It was not fast, and I wouldn't want to do it all the time, but it worked, and iSSH made it about as painless as I can imagine that process being.
An API For Paid API Usage? It’s Called Cloudability
No extrapolation here[0]. Fx is dogfighting with IE, all the while Cr is coming increasingly closer.

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200809-201107
> Frustrated by the inconsistent usage of ctrl/alt/option/arrow keys to jump words and screens and lines,

I'd really like to know what editor he was using.
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That's exactly what I meant - most small business owners don't generate more than $500K (or even $380K), therefore they're not the 1%.

And I agree that raising the tax for large companies that do have those kinds of payouts to their executives and employees would make them reinvest into the business to avoid paying said tax in full, which is still better than them taking it home. But then again, there will always be a way to evade that, especially when you've got millions of dollars on the line...
What's wrong with a remote branch you push to and then merge back into master afterwards?
I you use a mobile browser, you won't get the 0.5 sec delay, you'll immediately see "Dynamic Views are not supported on your device".
Can Kodak rescue itself via a patent bonanza?
This is interesting. i dont know if this is possible but,
How about instructions on how to assemble a product.
Place say 5 components outside the box and with markers attached to them. The app then suggests what goes where etc.