skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This man is now my hero.

Seriously though, I'm graduating a year early with a single B.S. (mathematics) and I thought I was doing well -- but I'm not much more busy than an average student (mathematics has low credit requirement).

I'm tempted to try to slam through the requirements super fast now -- especially since, as a regular student, I only have about two hours of homework a week.

However, my college has various requirements (e.g. so-called colloquium, a thesis, a "comprehensive" course) that are only offered at specific intervals. It's designed to allow graduation in four years. I wonder if this is a relatively new phenomenon?

edit: after a little research I see that I would end up paying about the same amount even if I cut off an extra semester, since my college charges $875 per credit over 24 a semester -- I would be taking about 30. Since it doesn't save me much money, I don't see the point. That idea ended quickly.
It's true that people in a usability test don't behave exactly the same as at home, but that actually proves my point. If they're obviously trying to be positive and helpful (no matter how much you tell them to relax and be honest) because they're constantly saying nice things about the site or app, then it's even more noteworthy to hear any negative comments or see that they're confused. Especially in the beginning of the session when their energy is higher.
In Java 6 -Xincgc simply translates to:

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode

-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode causes more frequent, smaller pauses. It was designed for low CPU core count, small heap size applications where your willing to pay a CPU premium to gain better response times. It is specifically not recommended for 2+ CPUs and/or large heap sizes. With large heap sizes you'll be paying a large CPU penalty and if your are using / freeing a lot of objects it may not be able to "keep up" with its short pauses resulting in the heap filling up quickly.
Using the Node.js debugger
I don't believe Facebook was able to prevent someone who knows enough of that person (eg Palin attack). Or am I misunderstanding you?
I gave Rdio a try, but I couldn't get used to the interface. I really prefer the compact display of Spotify.
Is this anything like Flow (http://www.getflow.com/)?
And, as is mentioned in the article, pretty pointless. A bomb can be shielded to the point of giving off less radiation than normal cargo.

That said, the eventually used a much more precise germanium-based detector that was able to identify the radiation by source. Such a detector could distinguish the decay of shielded U-235 from a shipment of bananas. I wonder how much those detectors cost...
Yeah, I believe the issue was that the car is so quiet that at highway speeds, the noise generated from hitting the side mirrors was annoying. So they shaped the front of the car to mitigate that issue.

I've driven one a few times. It's ugly, but not more ugly than a lot of other econo-cars like the Fuse. I'm tall and it's fairly comfortable inside, and it performs fine.

If I was still a daily driving commuter and still had two cars in the household, I'd definitely be interested in the Leaf because it would save me $250 in gas a month and let me drive in the carpool lane.
I have watched the presentation with my iPad so, no, Slideshare does not require Flash. I do agree on the suckiness of the FB marriage.
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How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard? Gee, some people... I bet the guy who did it is dead now. This reminds me of this list: http://listverse.com/2011/08/07/10-more-cases-of-deadly-radi... and how most people should never be trusted with something that can affect thousands of other people...
I totally agree. It would be way better if JavaScript implementations were standardized.

It would also be way better for developers if all computers had infinite memory.

It's just not in the cards though.

jQuery standardizes the mess that is JavaScript implementations so that developers can worry about their application instead of the browser. I don't think you should lament jQuery for being so popular, you should lament browser manufacturers (ahem, Microsoft) and the W3C for not creating and following good JavaScript specifications.

That's like blaming Dennis Ritchie for killing the Assembly community.
I'm a white male. But a left handed male. I notice a pair of right handed scissors, or right handed kitchen tools, or a lack of left handed desks in a classroom whereas a right handed person would probably never notice. Why would it be controversial to point this out?

It's not like anyone is trying to be malevolent in this case; it's just something they would never notice. They have the privilege of not having to notice. Now, in day to day life, being left handed is pretty benign, all things considered, and I don't think a right handed person should have to apologize for being right handed, or for not noticing the issues for us southpaws, but neither should they be defensive when it's pointed out to them.

I think all most people are asking for is this: "It was noticed, it was corrected, we apologize, and we'll try and do better next time."
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I've been using Spotify since it first launched in the UK a couple of years ago and have been a premium subscriber for over a year. Spotify's cat log is excellent. I have an eclectic taste and most things are available. I do find the odd thing missing but it tends to be classic rock bands which didn't even allow iTunes to sell their music until recently.

I find the desktop app to be great. It's very lightweight and simple to use. To add tracks to your library you star them. Simple. You can also star albums to add those to your library.

The mobile app is the weakest link but not too bad. It has full library access (starred tracks), integration with the iPod library, full search, and offline capabilities. The UI isn't great but it has all the features needed.
It certainly isn't forced, but it is probably enabled by default if there is a facebook account with the same email.

http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disco...
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I remember being so excited that my brother and I skipped school and "snuck in" to the ACS meeting in Dallas. This was after their first announcement, but they came and gave a big talk to a packed hall. I seem to recall it was hurriedly put together because of all the interest. At the time I thought I was witnessing a huge historical event. I guess I was in the history-of-science sense at least.
Your description sounds similar to John Carmack's: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?ne...

You have the full torque of the motor from a dead stop, with no power band and clutch to deal with. Your right foot really is an "accelerator" rather than a "throttle", and it honestly does transform the driving experience
Reminds me of a Daily Mail reports from February that an assistant port director in San Diego made a statement interpreted to mean that dirty bombs have been found shipped to, and within, the United States.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356645/A-weapon-mas...
Thanks. No worries for this case, though. I just got into the one at La Madia.
If you already had an account there was no requirement to add Facebook. Seems you just cancelled 'on principle'. And all the social integration within the app can be easily disabled in preferences.
Also http://byliner.com/, focused on narrative long form non-fiction.
Is the norm to build and test until you have a live system where users have been using it over many iterations of feedbacks and alterations before approaching investors? At earlier stages than that is generally a bad idea to approach them? Thanks.
I don't know the specifics of that attack, and I'm not claiming that we have 100% recall.

I just think we do pretty well against many attacks.
I never suffered those bandwidth issues, even on poor connections. Could it have been a problem on your network?

And why would you be listening to Spotify and streaming video? :)
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Without any disrespect, can you explain how you plan to differentiate yourself from astrid (www.astrid.com). Your app certainly rocks but I couldn't find any key differences.
I just find video really slow to upload, and the motion capture quality / framerate awful.
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Also http://thebrowser.com/
> I wonder how much those detectors cost...

"The team then brought in one of the most sensitive portable detectors on the market, an $80,000 Ortec HPGe Detective DX-100T. Inside the unit, a 1.65-pound chunk of germanium..."
Your relationship with your customer(s) should be your number one priority. With a 1 year head start you should be the premier option, it would be interesting to find out what caused this defection. If you strongarm them back to you, what will be the long-term consequences?
They might own 2.4 million boxes but they don't own 2.4 million "22G1" aka unventilated, 20-foot-long dry shipping container boxes.

Worst case they just add another company code to handel the next million unventilated, 20-foot-long dry shipping container boxes.
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Can someone explain to me why this is so highly ranked? If I wanted to read Wikipedia's robots.txt, I don't need HN to suggest it to me. It's got a bunch more stuff than I might have expected. Other than that, what am I missing?
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I'm a BI Developer for a big logistics company and I immediately hit up our data warehouse to see if we had ever moved this container. Alas, we hadn't. Only it's near relatives. :)
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Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.
In terms of eye health, it's beneficial to get outside and look at things in the distance. Constantly focusing on something right in front of you sucks. doodling is awesome but doesn't provide the variety your eyes need.
Just judging from the table it seems like your usage would have to be pretty excessive to get charged. 25,000 map loads per day == someone loading an embedded map on your site every 3.4 seconds. The site also says they aren't going to stop your maps loading or display a warning automatically or if it's a one-day thing (i.e. your site gets slashdotted) but only if it's continuously excessive. Very few folks need to worry about this and those who are getting 25,000+ hits per day on an embedded map alone can probably afford the $4 per 1,000 additional loads. I just don't see too many folks this will actually hurt, and I can't imagine it costs Google $0 for your 25,000 loads per day they're giving you for free either.
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Good point, middle of the U.S. East Coast, winters get pretty cold, snow, that sort of thing.
Wow thanks for that! I feel closer to one of my heroes.
Depends very much on the market situation. Is there any possibility that your competitor can jump to a substitute product?

Unless you are the OPEC or under some obscure government protection law, classic monopoles are quite rare these days and with enough bad-will it should be possible to get them undermined by substitutes.
To get grounded in AI buy Russell and Norvig's AI text http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
They also cover Bayes Nets - btw just remember that at its heart, the Bayes Net is just a compact way to write/represent a joint distribution.
Good Luck
Sounds like a great thing to A/B test, doesn't it? I would definitely test the different buttons and see what works best!
Really, I think it's just interesting miscellany that acts as a /very/ partial history of many of the growing pains wikipedia's had. It's amusing, and exactly the sort of thing many in the HN crowd love.
Probably the most common compromising of user accounts is friends borrowing users' computers or mobile devices whilst the user remains logged in. I'm not sure whether Facebook does much to prevent this, although I'm not convinced it's reasonable to expect them to do much either.
I demanded $40MM a year in compensation and the use of a private jet. I was told no.
Without piracy, nobody (approximately) in the Third World will use Windows or, by extension, any Microsoft software. Microsoft knows this. I doubt Microsoft wants to stop piracy that badly.
I suspect that skype's motivation is more that it charges for calls out to a landline and for calls in.
It uses these profits to pay for the free skype-skype service.
If I could access the skype protocol I could route all my phone calls over skype->landline and not pay them.

Unless of course they actually implemented the security system properly and have a secure method for identifying each end of the call - but they wouldn't have needed to do that because it's all secret.
I'm not saying don't mention inequities; I'm saying don't frame them as "male privilege" — at least not if you aren't writing the introduction to a whole book on the topic, because just mentioning it without thoroughly establishing what you're talking about will just make most of your audience tune out. You want to know why?

Because the dread god Ki'urnac wills it so. Wait, you don't know about Ki'urnac? Oh, well then it's good I mentioned him, because now you'll now to follow his will so he doesn't torture you in the Dark Eternities.

More seriously: Most men don't feel particularly privileged. A lot of them feel downright oppressed (not because they're men, per se, but just because life is hard). If you suddenly tell them, "You're wrong, but you don't know it because you're so privileged," it's like bringing up Ki'urnac. They have roughly the same level of belief in the statements "Ki'urnac exists" and "I am privileged." Unless you're planning a lengthy proof of Ki'urnac, they're probably going to write you off and feel mildly offended at your pushiness. That's why I think it's better to point out the actual ways in which people are privileged, rather than just tell them they're privileged and thus they should distrust their own minds.
Remember that submission about honeypots a little while ago?
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Opening Siri up to third-parties becomes much simpler if it can be made modal.
Where in the US is bandwidth increasing exponentially each year? Can you name even a single residential neighborhood in the US that has had significant increases in available broadband speed in two consecutive years? FTTN/FTTH services are still pretty rare, and basically nobody has the choice between multiple such services. If you've got a choice between DOCSIS 3 and VDSL, you're in a very special market.

(And it should go without saying that cellular ISPs aren't an option for a multi-user household.)
That may be why Apple has waited this long. Once you hit a certain level of performance (say a hypothetical A6 with a quad core processor, 1GB of RAM, and a very fast GPU) there's going to be diminishing returns with subsequent upgrades. We are probably pretty close to that point now. The GPU would probably be the biggest concern if they want to take on Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. (A6 paired with a discrete GPU?)
I think this is underselling what Apple's TV is likely to be. Cable TV is not an industry going down the tubes, it's raking in the dough.

I doubt Jobs was aiming to disrupt the cablecos or content producers so he needs to add value to the chain. A better remote/navigation ui isn't enough.
I agree with the above statement that it is insanely busy and distracting and packed with too much tiny text.

There are lots of interesting portfolio/resume pages out there, I like Sahil's for one:
http://sahillavingia.com/
The complexity barrier
I wonder what the implications of this are in regard to Wolfram's book on automata. Would it be possible to implement an automata computer in a system made from this molecule?
I believe Silicon Valley is meritocratic for the most part. I don't buy the minority argument since there are many asian minority presence in the valley. If you look at music industry or sports (such as basketball), you will see many black people. You rarely see any asian people doing sports or music. And we don't blame it on race. If black people are not discriminated in music or sports, I don't know why they would be discriminated in other industries. They succeed in music and sports because they are really good. If black people are really good in tech as they are in sports or music, I can't imagine how the tech industry would turn them away just because of their color.
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There's a four digit alpha prefix. For this container it's TGHU.
Good for you! I myself don't have a facebook account and never bothered to create one but still can identify with what you say as I often find myself thinking about stuff that are unrelated to what is important for me at the moment. For example I check my emails to see if a friend answered to the not important mail I sent him earlier, or I want to see the news to see if anything important in the world happened recently.
You found there that it is important do get disconnected (and by that I mean totally disconnected, to the point of completely forgetting them) from futile distractions to become more productive.
Of the things you listed, they are all reasonable for a tech founder to do.

The key difference is that a tech founder should timebox all of these activities to make sure the majority of their time early on is spent building the tech that powers the business.
My experience is honestly the opposite. I found my best semesters were when I narrowed the number of courses I had down. I focused on doing a few things very well and it worked out.

I also wonder how the author handled pre-requisites. During the third semester wouldn't he be taking courses like linear algebra, differential equations, compilers and artificial intelligence at the same time? I am quite impressed that someone can absorb all that course material while working a 40-hour a week job.
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I skimmed through the comments and was surprised to not see anything about Project Implicit being done at Harvard. This is a research project that is being done using actual, real science. We don't need to armchair speculate about this stuff; we have science for a reason.

The researchers have found that our minds make subconscious judgements of people base on their appearance. No shock here, of course. It turns out that they can measure the effects of this with simple experiments, and can thus measure how a person subconsciously response to images of people from all different races. It is absolutely fascinating, rigorously scientific work, and if you are at all interested in race you should read about it:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/

Here is a mainstream article about the project:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27067-2005Jan...
A number of companies are running into those parallel computing issues again, as we're starting to see more cores added to new CPUs instead of large increases in clock speed like we saw in the late 90's. Plus there are larger distributed computation systems out there like the Amazon and Google clouds.
Agreed - can't wait for the updates.
- I think watching Youtube on the TV with the kids (SesameSt) is amazing.
- The sony device came with a blu-ray so that's one less device on the console.
- Catching photos off picasa is a fun activity for the fam

Not for everyone, I agree, but it suits my needs real well (not too much into mainstream programming)
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"We can confirm that there was no manipulation of data, no commands were successfully sent to the satellite, and no data was captured."

For some definition of hacked...
Should you use MAC addresses instead of UDIDs to identify the device?
Are we in a game of whack-a-mole with Apple?
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yeah, i feel the same way. I could copy the things he's doing and make them look decent, maybe even as good as he does with some practice but using those basics to create my own designs? Magic. I'm a creative person when it comes to certain things but with this type of visual art i just don't get it for whatever reason.
It was far too verbose and meandering. I like long articles provided there's plenty "meat" to justify the whole. This one reads like it was padded with descriptions of how well the container was passed from port-to-port and so on.

It also starts with an intriguing hook but ends like a damp squid. I looked at the bottom thinking "oh great I have another three more pages to endure before finding out why the rod was there" and then realised that was it.
Assuming your username reflects your real name, did you take the job to fit in with your last name? If not, do people ever joke about the coincidence?
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What you said is is way more reasonable than what the original posting said.

The original posting referred to "platforms without a default client," whereas you refer to, roughly, "a commonplace convention for some higher level platform to select a default client" (my words).

The original posting further implied it is a problem that there are "competing choices for feed readers," which you did not state. (This was silly, not least because the counterexample of Twitter also has competing choices for feed readers.)

I completely agree that stronger RSS choices and less asking the user, especially at the browser level, would be a great thing. More defaults would be great. But the original post was supporting the idea of a single, global default vendor.
"""And when you go with C++ you've forsaken type safety (i.e. memory safety). That's a substantial thing to give up, IMO.""" <- This is true only if you have poorly abstracted type casts. If you design your C++ program correctly, you simply won't ever be type casting or manually handling any of your memory. In fact, with a well designed system, this also solves your issue regarding centralized memory planning. I mean, it is as if you are assuming that once you touch C++ you are going to have a million little calls to malloc() with casts all over the place (which shouldn't even be true in a well-designed C program).
Like he said, you need to know what your goal is. College wasn't just about the degree for me. I'm glad I didn't try to rush it.
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The problem is not which driver you use. It's whether you concatenate strings to form sql queries and then execute them against your database.
They recently sent one of these to me for free [1] as part of a promotion for robotics enthusiasts. It runs DFU for its boot process, they have examples for various compile system IAR/Keil etc but no explicit gcc support.

Looks similar to the NetDuino space although frankly I'd love to see a microSD card slot for holding stuff rather than simply relying on the on-chip flash.

I'd love to understand the lowest cost HDMI compatible frame buffer interface one could put on these. I've got an idea/application that I started prototyping on a Chumby which would benefit from their price point.

[1] http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/class/1734.jsp
Try rdio again. The selection is much improved and the interface is better than spotify. Plus, they don't shove Facebook down your throat.
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It's injection attacks. Using prepared statements will prevent that.
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