skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not that simple. It may be true that he assaulted two woman - and that deserves attention and proper justice. The question is really - why does the media pay more attention to this than the landslide of evidence against our elected leaders?

I try to keep a pretty sane, "normal", law-abiding lifestyle, but it would take a motivated official about 10 minutes to find dirt on me. And I'd imagine a lot of it isn't necessarily surprising nor as bad as it might sound.

Not saying Assange doesn't deserve to be punished for his wrongdoing, just don't think it should be held as being more important than if someone like myself committed those offences. If I helped uncover several cables illustrating corruption among elected officials everywhere, I shouldn't be surprised to be on the news often for uncovering incredibly important, politically sensored information.
You can drag and drop labels out of the "More" box into the main view. I don't know if there's a limit to how many labels you can do that with though.
This article on its own simply makes no sense. First he talks about the launch of GNNS and apple including support for glonass, without mentioning any of the benefits (if producers include chipsets for multiple location estimation methods end users can expect more reliable, stable, and in some instances, more precise location estimation).

Suddenly, out of the blue, he claims that this will create an arms race to produce disruptive location based services. A claim, that on it's own, simply doesn't make sense. Further he claims that the downside is location based ads, as if this is some kind of new concept.

None of the "conclusions" in this article seem to make any sense.
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A liberal arts education is just as worth it today as it was 300 years ago. The current problem is that the cost of a liberal arts degree has spiraled out of control. There's no reason why an English or Philosophy degree needs to cost $15k a year.

Making everyone an engineer or scientist isn't the answer.
I agree, I don't understand the down voting on dpcan.

There seems to be two different complaints about EE.

1. They show data to Google but hide it from visitors unless they pay. Personally I see nothing wrong with this as explained by edanm. They are a business and this is their business model. They use a search engine as a form of free advertisement. If the search engines didn't have a problem with this then I don't understand why potential visitors should. If you don't like having to pay for the content then go elsewhere. Having results in the search engine that have data behind a paywall is the problem of the search engine, not the site that has the paywall. The data is still relevant even though you can't see it immediately on clicking the link.

2. They show one set of data to search engines but show a different set to visitors. To me, this is a no-no as long as they are actually doing this in the described manner. If by showing different data is because of the paywall and they do match up after you pay, then I see no problem. But in the end if they do not match then there's a problem and I would hope that the search engines would discourage this type of thing.

I think people need to be more clear on what exactly they are complaining about.

Plus, as edanm states, you shouldn't down vote someone simply because the statement is unpopular yet relevant to the topic.
Well that I will admit is broken. But then, I think most people agree that DRM is broken by design. When they were just keeping people honest by preventing easy copies, it was one thing. The new trend to DRM is so overbearing that it affects more legit customers than pirates.
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Regardless of whether this is the "best" solution for everyone, I'm excited to see people trying these ideas, open sourcing their designs and creating space for there to even be a discussion like this.

Pardon the cheesy line, but it's a move from just reviewing hardware to being able to actually revise it if you don't like something the original designer decided to do.
I really don't want to argue the point too much. We've obviously got different views on this, and differing experiences with the swedish judiciary system. PM Reinfeldt would not sign anything in to law regarding this, and parliament would never approve it. There's no basis in history for assuming anything like remotely like that would occur.

Also "Julian Assange är en våldtäktsman" returns 360 hits, not 1.5 mil, where most of them are the suffix of the meaning "If Julian Assange is a rapist...", so your interpretation is a bit off. As others have stated, the verdict is still out. Swedes are not smelling blood, and I resent that interpretation of Swedes as a collective and the accusation that he would not get a fair trial in Sweden.
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Just another pre-planned step towards the New World Order, One Global Fascist Government, no dissent, no freedom.

Maybe they mixed up their CIRP acronym a little, it should have been called a CRAP proposal.
You also have to remember that a lot of game companies do not write their engines. They either licence iD or the Unreal engine.
Well I tried to help out, but it said I got 0 of 9 correct. When I went back, the images were all different.
Making everyone get through 2 semesters of calculus and a real probability class would help both their well roundedness and employee-ability. The lack of numeracy and scientific background among otherwise well educated people is shameful.
Sites in Google Docs?
'Mozilla is currently looking into whether scripts can be “lazily loaded,” too'

I smell bugs coming. Hopefully they will allow a meta tag to indicate whether lazy loading of scripts can be turned off. Same with any other optimizations that could be problematic. I'm all for Firefox getting slimmer though, as I still haven't given it up for Chrome.
Teaching our children to lie
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The scariest part is that all the people I know who have no confidence in their intelligence ("Oh, I could never major in THAT, I'd have to take Calculus! I hate math!") avoid the science majors and are majoring in education. I think that being a teacher should require a 7-8 year graduate education track similar to a doctor or lawyer, not a quick 4-year liberal arts degree that most people shoot for so that they only work 9 months a year. I'm not hopeful for the future on this one.
Then I don't follow. If the case is not supported by Swedish law then he will be acquitted, no?
This is a consequence of the concerted effort by educators to increase post-secondary enrollment in the United States. Presumably, the students likely to enroll in a math or science program were (by and large) already heading to college 25 years ago.

As a metric for high schools, students enrolling in and graduating from a 4-year college is one of the most important numbers in the all-important school ranking. Students weak in the maths and sciences are encouraged to do just this: finish Algebra II, finish Chemistry, enroll in a liberal arts program, and choose a few "gimme" classes to cover whatever core curriculum the school requires. This makes the high schools look a lot better in their rankings, which is what matters to many superintendents and principals.

And then we get this.
I take heed when so many people are fans of something but after trying it out I feel like I'm missing out on what makes this editor so awesome.

Can someone explain to me why this is better than Textmate, MacVim or UltraEdit?
I love how Carmack and Id since its inception has not only defined the cutting edge of game technology, but also repeatedly utterly disrupted industry business models (pioneering shareware distribution, the 'free demo' model, engine licensing), all the while making an absolute killing doing so. Most inspirational hackers out there, imho.
Wish I had the skillset necessary to apply. This sounds like an awesome place to work
A friend's startup just raised 1.3 Mill. Guess i need to step my game up
My major concern with using a former nuclear missile silo would be that it's hard to know whether Russia's intelligence service knows that it's been deactivated. The odds of of a nuclear exchange with Russia are low, but I'd prefer to know that my fallout shelter might not be targeted for a direct hit with an ICBM.
Poisson maybe?
I'd love you test and give feedback, once you have a public version. I was never happy with Gnome, KDE or Unity.
why would you believe the first over the second? It boils down to your outlook on life - if you're Eeyore, everything's a dark cloud.
Depends how much you care about reach and what type of app you are building. For most apps it's probably advisable to use at least Android 2.3, or even 2.2 if your app doesn't depend too much on API's from 2.3, which I don't think added that many new and important API's, except for games.

If you want to build a bleeding edge, highly polished app or game that can take advantage of the latest Android API's, and turn that into important features of your app, it's probably alright to go just with Android 4.0. If you do it like this, make sure to take advantage of the "fragments" in Android 4.0, to make the app look good on tablets, too.
The race for education tech heats up
They should have done this three years ago, before Google's better, faster, less leaky browser started to gain traction.
"so that they only work 9 months a year"

Which, of course, they don't.
Julian Assange loses extradition battle over sexual assault complaint
I was really looking forward to watching some of these during my lunch break. I followed the links, picked one I thought I'd enjoy, clicked the link ...

"Install Microsoft Silverlight"

With a heavy heart I close the tab in the browser on my Linux box.

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Added in edit:

Thanks for the suggestions. The problem isn't so much that it's Moonlight, per se, it's more that I have to go through a bloody great clog dance to find the resources, download, install, then find the video, see if it plays, and so on.

I was looking forward to a break during lunch to see something interesting, and instead I was going to be sucked into what amounts to system administration yet again.

That's why I was so disappointed. Mostly, anyway.
Nice article, thanks.

My first job out of college was in a support centre, supporting voice recognition software: an early ancestor of Siri if you like! One weekend without our knowledge, the parent company stuck a prior version of the software onto a free bundle cd that came with a PC magazine in the UK... a great marketing move sure, but the amount of calls we got as a result of that free software was incredible. People can get irate when voice recognition software doesn't work as well as they expect (for a variety of reasons, generally either hardware or accent related!), but with this free version, people really lost the run of themselves altogether... some of the calls we took that week were from some very angry people indeed!

The writer of this article summed up this confusing paradox quite well by offering a refund... for this free item... which was a gift!
Random observation: Who uses an iPad + "the Cloud" + vim, and rips low quality DVDs?
I really enjoy this feature. Instead of installing 5-10 plugins to make vim look like Sublime Text, it just takes a few steps to make Sublime Text work like vim. And it's cross-platform to boot!
Can't wait to see the awesome things fans will do with the engine - assuming it even gets through ID's legal dept.
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I'm a big fan of tmux* and vim but there's a limit to the complexity of system that you can develop efficiently with vim. A good graphical IDE used by a skilled operator will be more likely to generate correct, consistent code faster.

If you're using vim and think you're developing as well and as fast as you can, you're probably wrong.

* 17 years of screen and I've finally switched over to tmux. None of the features were sufficiently compelling for me to change, but it's so much faster
Tool: Webpage performance tests in Firefox and IE (HAR format)
As is the lack of critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills from the other side.

EDIT: In response to some of the questions below, please let me clarify. When I said "other side" I was meaning a lack of well-roundedness. I was NOT trying to pit STEM grads against liberal arts grads.

I do not intend to state that STEM graduates don't know problem solving or critical thinking. Far from it. However in my experience, those skills are discarded too quickly - similar to how Liberal Arts grads tend to discard even the limited quantitative toolsets they've acquired. (I'll concede its probably not as prevalent among the HN crowd.)

Ultimately, its a lack of well-roundedness that limits all camps (I'm sure it would be more accurate to consider more tightly-defined groups than just liberal arts vs engineers.) Ideas are cheap, that's why we laugh at the Wharton posts looking for "code monkeys" every few months. Just as problematic though, is the greatest product but no ability to bring it to market and sustain a viable business.
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Exactly :)
They work nine months their first year to hash out lesson plans and then repeat those plans thirty years till retirement
Done. But I didn't get any results?
...and thanks to the fact those are Open Source projects they can be now easily fixed.
Contrariwise, I am struck by the number of people who do not believe this to be politically motivated. Assange greatly upset a number of powerful entities, from financial powerhouses to the US State Department. They each have the motivation and the ability to railroad those whom cause them problems.

WikiLeaks became Enemy Number One after the State Department cables. I'm sorry, but if you think this is anything other than politically motivated persecution you are simply mistaken.
This update adds find and replace in files - the biggest missing feature IMHO. Refactoring without it was cumbersome.

It also adds code folding, which isn't my cup of tea but has been widely requested.
A number of states require postgraduate degrees (and then continuing education) for teachers in order to renew their teaching licenses.
what? It just told me thanks for submitting.. I feel robbed! no answers.
The AI Class official twitter account asked people whether they'd be willing to pay $2000 for a Stanford-level CS Master's degree taught in a similar format.
For what it's worth, your figures for the power draw of the WD20EARs seem to be too low -- Storage Review% measures R/W 6.5W-7.1W, idle 6.3W (odd) -- while the 2.5in drive figures are about right, but maybe a bit on the high side.

And your rule of thumb for energy prices doesn't work in Germany (and possibly other countries), where 1W of electricity for one year will go for about USD 2.50, if not more.

% http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_green_2t...
My thinking is that while the game reached 100 million downloads quite fast - the ramp up to 500 million was a lot faster. You can't keep up the hype if you don't do things differently.

I talked to Peter Vesterbacka a little more and also published another article based on this discussion. I believe it also opens up their thinking regards to expansion quite well.

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/11/02/rovios-plan-conquer-...
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Also it's not always up to the games company, their publisher would not allow them to release the engine.
Didn't give me a score ...

I'm fairly certain that for my Q8 (2 squares, 2 circles & 2 triangles on each), there was no unique odd one out. For A & C the triangles pointed opposite directions when assembled, and B & D they pointed in the same direction.
Well, I was one of the 90K people who graduated with performing a performing arts (classical guitar performance) degree in 2008. The culture when you get through with an undergrad performing artist degree is not, "go out into the world and work!" it's more along the lines of, "go back to school and get more degrees in an attempt to stay in school longer by working in academia." I know this because I fell into it. A masters of music degree and a year of doctoral school later, I quit. While I don't regret my time in school, I certainly don't use any of the specific skills learned there.

There's this entire culture among artists where staying in a school environment is the ultimate goal. Artists are entirely capable of driving economic growth and doing really well for themselves, but the skills they get in school are more related to staying in school than making a living outside of it. That's really where the arts are oversold: "Come to my school and you'll be good enough afterward to make a living doing exactly what you love!" The reality is a lot more harsh, a fact never shared with students.
For one, the mini-map feature. I believe it was fairly unique a few years ago, don't know if it still is.
Can you really write code efficiently on such a small (9.7") screen?
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I for one am looking forward to reading through the unified lighting model code.
I agree that it's been oversold. I met many people in school who couldn't compare and contrast essays that were in direct opposition to one another. They shouldn't have been in school to begin with. I'm not sure I agree about the science part though. Isn't the pay for scientists rather low for the most part? Seems like my scientist friends are always poor.

Seems like we could use more engineers though.
It is compressive sensing btw
http://www.rle.mit.edu/stir/documents/WellerPGWAG_ICASSP2011...
Already discussed and with more information:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3183270
yeah, that's mostly right. the 5-port SATA backplane is a CFI-B53PM (from taiwan), using the same port multiplier chip (SiI3726). the fan is 140mm.

i'll published a detailed parts list (including suppliers) this evening.
It seems counterintuitive but I can focus better as well on a tablet (or even on my iphone) than on my MBA. The limitations definitely come with advantages :)

sorry to be OT, but how many Ultimate packages do you sell or have you sold?
A UK expat who can't (legally) get UK series like Outnumbered digitally, yet still wants to take them with him on his iPad.
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Also there's the fact that your tax dollars will very likely be paying to demolish Palestinian homes and blow up Palestinian schools and burn people a live with White Phosphorous.

If you start a start in Israel, you will be losing money because (quite like) there's an international boycott on Israeli goods.

http://www.bdsmovement.net/
Medidata is a leading provider of software as a service solutions for clinical trial management and execution. We assist our clients who have developed a compound, device, or procedure to prove that it is safe and effective by designing and planning a clinical trial, recruiting participants, executing a trial, collecting data, analyzing the data for safety and efficacy, generating the submission materials, and then submitting those materials to the appropriate regulatory agency for regulatory approval. The Medidata clinical service platform is built on the principles of distributed computing and service oriented architecture.

Medidata is located in Manhattan. We have a flexible office culture that allows people to work from home. We value face-to-face communication and use technology to promote that in a distributed environment. We keep teams small and self organizing. We demand quality. We like to ship our code into the cloud frequently using Chef and OpsCode. We are dedicated to agile development. Because we handle sensitive and potentially urgent medical information concerning the health of real people we take testing very seriously. All engineers write tests first.

Medidata values innovation and research. We support research projects through innovation time that allows qualifying engineers to devote 15% of their time to individual research projects. We value and support open source software. We expect our engineers to continuously be questioning, researching, simplifying, learning, and improving. The open source world moves fast and we expect all of our engineers to be in the lead.

What we are looking for:
Medidata is looking for Ruby and Rails engineers or for talented engineers interested in learning Ruby and Rails. We expect our Rails engineers to be database savvy and excited to run a query profiler. We want engineers interested in MySql, NoSql, and graph databases. Candidates should not be scared of big O notation and like to consider space and time characteristics of their data structures and algorithms. Candidates will work with Unix, Git, Ruby, Css, Javascript, Chef, Goliath, EventMachine, MySQL, NoSQL, and lots of Cucumber and RSpec. They know HTTP. Candidates care about building simple, intuitive, user experiences. They know REST is more than clean URLs. They want to design small, isolated, highly available, fault tolerant, scalable services. We like our candidates to be curious. Candidates should like to get their hands dirty. They are fanatical about quality. They are fanatical about performance.
So, how long until we can try it out? I'm happy to be a beta tester for you. :)
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Let me get this straight - you're arguing that increased college enrollment over the past 25 years is some sort of conspiracy perpetrated by secondary school administrators to better their own rankings?
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Then we'd definitely have enough quality teachers at the rate the jobs pay. And they'd have no student loan debt either. </sarcasm>
Eric Ries wrote a great book, he deserves the success he is having with it.

I have bought 3 copies: one for myself, and 2 for customers as gifts.
What in particular do you hate about Mercurial? I'm curious as a contributor to hg if there's anything in particular that might be fixable (obviously there are some sacred cows, but many things can be fixed just by turning on an extension).
Back when I worked at a small retail computer store, I never ceased to be amazed by silly old men (and they were almost complete carbon copies of each other) who would drive an F250 pickup for an hour to save $5 on a mouse (our loss leader) and then do it again to come back and complain.

My favorite incident was when my boss offered the guy a cash refund. That wasn't good enough. My boss offered him the refund, and let him keep the mouse for free just to get him out of the store. He smiled, finally satisfied, and then asked to buy another one.
I wondered about that, too, but I haven't noticed a feeling of being constrained or blinkered. I'm editing 85 rows and 35 columns with a pleasantly-large font. Check your editing space inside an IDE - is it really that much larger?

My guess is that (1) any function I'm writing is generally entirely within view anyway, and (2) with Vim I never scroll around looking for something, I jump directly to it with a search command.
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Ask HN: any SmartGWT developers looking for work?
Given that electricity costs can vary by a factor of 5 or more from one place to another, that rule of thumb doesn't seem very, er, thumby.
They said the same thing when 7 came out... I'm on 8 and it still eats 1.2GB+ of RAM out of 4 at the end of the day. I'm still using it only because of Firebug.
What economic factors do you think have created this environment for art? In order to win you have to have 10k people buying your stuff?
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Second that.

When a 20-something is strapped with a 50-100K+ debt, the perceived risk involved in doing something they did not exactly go to school for is usually too much to handle.