skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
terminal emulator != shell

just like xterm != bash
how does one access this?
Not discounting the possibility of that (I specifically stated it in the article), but I'd bet even odds FBI has some knowledge of accessing Carrier IQ data.
That's subjective - please note that.

If a domain doesn't exist, I don't end up on any site. In fact, for me it's natural to see either "Nope, doesn't exist" or ~something~, even if it's a squatter. Redirecting requests for non-existing domains would be far more distracting and insulting for me.

I understand that there's room for both and for discussion, but please understand that your use case is not 'the one'.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335916
It's been a while since I've debunked the bunk of an education post. I hope I'm not too rusty. (The formatting is horrible and I apologize. I can't decide between italics for quoting the parent or fixed width indents. Right now the fixed width indents are the parent being quoted.)

First of all, I'd say a pretty good proportion of the best programmers I know were self taught

I've noticed people tend to self-select talent. People who go to MIT think MIT churns out the best programmers in the world. People who went to community college think community colleges turn out the best programmers in the world. I'm curious now -- did you go to university?

there are growing opportunities to learn code online.

Hm. I thought we were talking about universities and cs, not programming.

CS curricula are out of date and almost always have been

Out of date depends on your mindset and the circumstances. Are they teaching using pascal and visual delphi in 2012? Yes, that's behind the times. Are they teaching you scheme, smalltalk, and C instead of Python, Objective-C, or Ruby? That's not behind the times, it's historical immersion. You have to know where you come from to know where you are going.

with respect to what employers are looking for

bzzt You just lost the "why go to college" argument. Thanks for playing.

nobody is being denied the opportunity to learn coding.

Imagine I recalled that old quote about astronomy and telescopes here.

really want to learn actual academic CS instead of just getting employable skills. I seriously doubt that though.

Ah ha! Now we are back to my first question -- did you go to university?
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It's a sign that you're entering hugely, hugely seedy territory if you ever are asked to pay to receive offers of employment, scholarships, or investment. First, many out-and-out scams operate that way. Second, if the opportunity were legitimate, there is an adverse selection risk. Meritorious candidates for employment/scholarships/investment have no interest in paying to get a chance at them, so those candidates would avoid that opportunity like the plague. The decisionmaker, if they have two brain cells to rub together, knows this and charges anyway. Why would you ever take investment from someone who had a declared policy of only entertaining pitches from the bottom of the barrel? (Plus, egads, what does that say about you to follow-on investors or other parties you need to sell?)
The Red-Headed Girl Kissed Me.
EVGA SR-X, the board supports two Sandy Bridge-E
My understanding is that he works 13-14 hours per day, 6 days per week, and he takes Sundays off entirely for family time:

"I still work 80 hours a week," he admitted to Mark Lisheron of the Austin American-Statesman. "It used to be 80 hours on software, now it's 40 hours on software and 40 hours on Armadillo." Carmack did ease up a bit after he and his wife, Anna Kang, had their first child in 2004—he was getting home from the office at about midnight instead of 2:00 AM or 3:00 AM. Kang, however, insists that Sunday is family day, so Carmack compromises by reading technical manuals to his infant son.

ref. http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Carmack-John.htm...
Or you could give it more money and call it a day.
An Office Designed To Keep Employees Working From Home
Optimizing for happiness
the bot simply issued another request, seems obvious to me.
U.S. Economic Data Surprising Forecasters - Bloomberg
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A play on the Ben Franklin quote about giving-up freedom for security:

Those Who Sacrifice The Right To Privacy For Convenience Deserve Neither.
> “It’s low-class, inappropriate and predatory for a rich person to ask an entrepreneur to PAY THEM for 15 minutes of their time,” he wrote.

LOL it's predatory? What exactly do they think the VCs' business is?
Happier with a sex-partner than with money
ING Direct implemented read-only credentials for Mint, after fighting with them about access for months. (ING kept blocking Mint, and then Mint would find a way around it.)
I remember coming as the sole Linux user once. That was sure 'fun'. :-) My own fault of course, but it was an interesting experience.
A (professional) photographer friend of mine showed me one of his autumn landscapes. When I was not really impressed (I only saw some bland, kindof greenish kindof yellowish trees), he remembered: "Oh, I forgot you have that sad color filter on"
Makes sense. Using the console to query information about what's going on inside Chromium's processes is already similar to the "shell experience". (This might explain why recent Chromium builds have gone from 45MB to 235MB!!)
They could use 12 4K projectors for 12000x8000.
The GAs bug me. I've always found it curious that a movement that aims to mitigate the undue influence of a minority has chosen to operate based on consensus decision making.

If the goal is to restore the power of the majority, then just use Robert's Rules of Order and get on with it.
Thanks, I missed that. It's interesting that they opted to go against the feedback they received from the HN majority :P
Hrm, I can't tell if you're joking, but the existence (or non-existence) of infinitesimals is an axiom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_property

It took thousands of years to accept that the parallel postulate might not be required, and lots of neat geometry emerged. Why not have number systems where infinitesimals are allowed?
I believe that would be Yegge's rant from 2008: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-...

Scroll down a bit to the heading "The bad news: the competition isn't the IDEs"

"IDEs are draining users away, but it's not the classic fat-client IDEs that are ultimately going to kill Emacs. It's the browsers. They have all the power of a fat-client platform and all the flexibility of a dynamic system. I said earlier that Firefox wants to be Emacs. It should be obvious that Emacs also wants to be Firefox. Each has what the other lacks, and together they're pretty damn close to the ultimate software package.
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The FBI have professional phone forensics/evidence labs around the country. They work with handset manufacturers and special purpose vendors to extract and analyze every bit of data that exists in the phone.

It's inconceivable that CarrierIQ would store unencrypted data on a large number of phones and the FBI would not know how to access it. More than likely, CIQ sells them the tool to do it, or at least provides documentation.
Graphene nanotubes promise better stacked chips
Yes, agreed. What I'm trying to see is how they behave with something they're not used to, how they take on the problem. These are some of the things I try to analyze:

Do they search and read about the problem?
Are they able to implement what they just researched?
Are they looking for recipes and trying to copy and paste the code from some website?
Do they have critical thinking (what you mentioned) and propose better solutions with better tools?
Do they communicate during the problem solving stage, or are quiet, closed and isolated?
Do they ask questions? Or behave like asking questions is a sign of weakness?
Ctrl-alt-t
But is it better than sublime? :P
Could The Internet Kill Off The Real Estate Agent?
It's not a workaround. A workaround wouldn't solve the original problem: getting an education. Homeschooling does that.

"It's not a solution, it's a workaround" is used when one does not wish to allow solutions that reject the current system, in this case education by the state.
Thanks for the info. Next question for you (since I know you use a lot of Node.js). What's the recommended approaches for unit-testing your Node apps (Socket.IO, ExpressJS, whichever)?

What about switching between PROD, DEV, TEST environment like Rails? I found that feature is great since y'know... those environments will have different settings (I'm guessing the answer to this one is to roll your own kind of thing?)
I'm a senior in the department, and its definitely highly ranked. Hard to say for the undergrad portion, but the PhD program is top ten, currently sitting at around #5 for the nation.

After TA-ing for the intro courses for many quarters I've seen first hand tons of qualified students turned away -- student I know would do well in the major. The problem is definitely budget cuts. The department currently can't let in more students while maintaining a high quality program.
That also assumes that throwing more developers on the stability team would fix the problem.
No split windows yet... still hoping.
"both gifted kids as well as children who have emotional and behavioral disorders"

The two groups are not mutually exclusive.
It's not sarcasm if you mark it as sarcasm. Unless it's not sarcasm, then it might be.

Yawn.
Social Media Poetry [Image]
... And you can't 'escape' it. Eventually a lack of data on you will be suspicious in and of itself.
First Duke Nukem, now Textmate... it's sad to see the vaporware industry collapse like this, isn't it?
If they do it during the upcoming/in-progress finals season... god help us all. On one hand, it would cause the biggest effect, but it would also be mainly reaching people who are not known to vote in large numbers.
Facebook open-sources HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP
My wording may have been off. By "keep open" I didn't mean to imply that all doors were open - just that we should make an active effort to prevent doors from closing.

And women-specific events reinforce a divided image by presenting the events as specific to a group. It highlights a division between groups, and not based on a functional difference relevant to the field. What's different from a women-specific coding meetup and a meetup open to all? I can see sexual harassment / feeling out of place as something that may happen. And that sucks. But retreating to exclusive events (in name and branding at least) is not the solution.
A raving lunatic with a PA isn't likely to convince anyone. But a reasonable-sounding person can recite a few lines, and with a bunch of people repeating him, can convince a crowd of a lot of nonsense. Repeated information, especially from multiple sources, is much more convincing and can break down a person's critical reasoning abilities much more easily than a raving lunatic.
Seriously, who puts

PLEASE DO NOT REPUBLISH THIS INFORMATION!

on a publicly-accessible mailing list unless they're just asking for the Streisand Effect to occur.
>Chrome should try and remove features, not add things nobody is asking for.

Can you be a little more specific as to what kind of thing should be removed? I've noticed a definite difference in speed, but I wouldn't say the browser is bloated.
The social future is niche: people are finding it now
The Y combinator was in there, also the Z combinator. You just didn't read far enough.
It's not immediately clear what this page is for.

For me, I began to read the paragraph, but my eyes were quickly distracted to the loading pictures. I assumed this was an anti SOPA page, but had to reread it to make sure.

Please make the premise of the page, big, bold, and in the first line of text, so distracted congressmen don't miss what it is they're being told.
Is Googling that hard? http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Mozilla-Still... or https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222404/Update_Mozil...

> Confidence is good, because there's no understating the importance of the deal for Mozilla. The search deal with Google accounted for roughly $100 million of Mozilla's $123 million in sales for 2010. That's a whopping 84 percent.
A true blackout would be hellish: I don't know that there's a day that goes by that I don't read something on Wikipedia (which is the point, of course).

A simple, but effective, solution would be to simply change the site's style to draw all article text with a black background, a la redacted documents.

If this was done, users could still manually highlight using their browsers to view the text (and screen readers would still work just fine), but the effect would be still be striking, to say the least.
I don't believe so. Albeit annoying, moneygrubbing sharks, they do provide a service to people who otherwise would need to spend inordinate amounts of their own time in selling something that although is a commodity is actually something extremely personal and the agent provides a needed stress buffer between the parties in order to achieve the sale/lease/rental, resulting in their compensation.

I'd also consider them a decent proxy for airbnb bookings once they figure the internet out.
Shifting the opinion of normal voters probably won't matter; they tend to have strong, pre-existing loyalties and SOPA is unlikely to change them. But motivating a group that tends not to vote completely upsets the balance of power in the US even if its still just a minority of that group.
I'm not actually sure if you intended to respond to my post, or another one in the thread. I've only addressed incentives involved, and the inexorable conclusion of misaligned incentives.

Whether that results in Adblock plus plus or not isn't something I tried to address, though the eventuality seems likely.

> Are you, by chance, using applications on the mobile OS of your choice that displays ad to gain revenue?

No. Few apps of any quality push ads, as they're incredibly detrimental to the UX on such a small screen device.
SiteQuery: A reactive crawling framework for node.js
The MindTerm ssh2 applet has been around for a very long time:

http://www.cryptzone.com/products/agmindterm/
Copyright and Your Face
However, the only documented case of the abuse is on the "most open" hardware stack. Jailbreakers saw no keylogging on the iPhone. (In fact, it's disabled by default on the iPhone).
Not reading. Probably some useless article pandering to the HN audience for pageviews.
Amazon favors online sales tax--if smaller rivals also have to pay
Where did the article indicate that Law Enforcement didn't need a warrant to access the Carrier IQ data?
amber.js had a nice feel to it -- ember.js, not so much.
I really hope they do this. There are few things that will get Americans' attention; this one might (Google not working for a day might, too, but that isn't going to happen).

Of course, the fear-mongers would probably just accuse Wikipedia of being terrorist and pirate sympathizers.

And even if people cared, would that actually affect the legislative process? I'm not hopeful.
Maybe they should black out current events and all information about political candidates. That would get the attention of a lot of people.

They might be ensnared in the equal exposure laws during an election season, though.
This is a broad, well-written, well-organized, and nicely formatted set of lecture notes and problem sets on algorithms. The informal writing style helps those of us who are more applied than theoretical, but still appreciative of the latter. Oh, and it's free too.
It's not enough to oppose SOPA, we need laws that explicitly prohibit the bad parts. Some things need to be fenced off or the animals will ruin it, and make no mistake, if SOPA fails they'll try again and again until they reach a maximum. The only way to prevent this from happening again (and make no mistake, they already have backup plans) is to prohibit it.
Too lazy to figure out how to get a shareable link from LinkedIn, but feel free to look up Charles Randall who is currently at Ubisoft Toronto.

Not that I know what this proves, other than Linked In's shitty use of URLs.
"Doing" a startup and working at a startup as an employee, especially after the money's been secured, are pretty different things.
I don't have a license so I don't saw the alpha but it's seems frustrating that in 5 years of "development" so little was added. But, OTOH, it's not the final version.
This was a great class when I took it during my undergrad.
He misses her point. It wasn't that women shouldn't be involved in startups, it was that women are quite capable of figuring out what makes them happy and harping on them to be founders isn't helping anyone.

Women have complete freedom in the modern workplace and the fact that some of them choose to stay home is not an indicator that they are broken. Why is it so offensive that many women have figured out what they enjoy and, more often then men, it's downshifting their careers around 30 so that they can focus on their families.

I am the husband of a woman that has decided to put her career on hold in order to stay home and focus on her children for a few years. And I'm quite certain my wife knows a hell of a lot more about what makes her happy than some kid at github.
Ask HN: Will "Marketplace Fairness Act" hurt your startup?
Be sure to drop by in ##textmate on freenode, the discussion on how to implement and use split windows is not really making progress so far.
DOM Query Language: Web development for DBAs
> Get ready for the New World.

FTFY. I'm sure this is happening all over the world.
I'm not sure if you meant for this particular interpretation or not, but the way you invoke "walled garden" makes it sound a lot like you are targeting iOS specifically. This couldn't be further from the truth.

Based on my own reading. Carrier IQ is installed on many Android-based phones, including those from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile networks. Apple, HTC and Samsung have all confirmed that Carrier IQ is on their phones. HOWEVER, Apple has also announced that it has stopped supporting CIQ as of iOS 5, and will completely scrub the software from later releases.

So no, this has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your phone exists in a closed ecosystem. The problem is that companies are incentivized to get away with as much of this kind of information collection as it possibly can. And just because I have to jailbreak my iPhone if I want to install unvetted software, doesn't mean Apple is thumbing their noses at legitimate customer complaints and concerns.
No, you're looking in the right places if you're finding R related jobs.

Here's the thing: Only you can do the the R jobs, all the web developers can do the webdev stuff.

I'm sure you're awesome. Don't sell your self short and chase webdev jobs that I can pay someone over seas 15k a year to do. Focus on the R stuff, but you're going to have to push a little hard and find a better fit.

When every key fits a lock the key isn't worth much. When you're one of the few keys that fit the lock, you're worth a lot to the right lock owner.
Ask HN: Is GameCenter in iOS restricted to only games?
This may seem like a silly question, but will an iOS app that is not game, but uses GameCenter for matchmaking be rejected? I have looked through all of the documentation and I have not come across anything that has restricted GameCenter to only games, but I may be wrong.
If you want people who are open to new ideas you really should let #1 go.
What sorts of things does it improve?
> The intermediaries in the music distribution network (i.e. "the labels") already know that they have lost in the long term.

You have GOT to be kidding me. These entities along with their purchased congress-critters and executive appointees are ready to go nuclear vs. the Internet (which is the fundamental change agent that allows them to be disintermediated).

They are not going down without a fight - this is the same industry that decided suing their customers was a great idea, they would not think twice about burning down the commons by destroying the Internet as we know it.

As an analogy, we've had electric cars for sale since the 1970s, but only recently have we gotten any real options... imagine if the music mafia could achieve that kind of life extension? It's certainly a probability this could happen.
Freelance tax questions
I've been doing freelance programming work for the last year, and have completely neglected to do anything about my taxes. Yes, I realize this is probably pretty stupid, but here I am.

That being said, I've lived very frugally, and have saved ~75% of what I've made. My expenses have been minimal, and I've kept records of all my purchases.

This will be the first year I haven't had a job which takes care of my taxes for me. Previously, I've just used TurboTax for them. Honestly, I find the US tax system to be very confusing, and I was just looking for some answers to some basic questions.

1. Would TurboTax still be acceptable to use?

2. I'm planning on writing off 80% of the rent for my home office (not the whole apartment) and internet connection. Any other write offs I may be forgetting?

3. I'm married, and my wife has a regular job. I'm not sure if this changes anything with our joint filing. To be honest, I haven't formed an LLC, sole proprietorship, have a business license or any of them (this part does worry me a bit).

Happily, I live in a state that has no income tax. So I'm assuming I won't have to worry about any state taxes.

I just feel really uncomfortable doing this without the typical employee provided W-2 and the like. Any advice and guides/resources would be very helpful. I've done a good amount of web searches, and there seems to be a lot of conflicting advice.

And lastly, is it really terrible that I've waited this long? I know I can file quarterly, but as I said, I've saved the majority of what I've made so far, so I wouldn't have a problem writing one big check to uncle Sam.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to any answers and advice you all may have.
The Cambridge University Library claims copyright on the images, however they do offer this license:

"Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0)"

So there's no reason why someone couldn't do exactly what you suggest. (Unfortunately, the images you can download seem to be much lower resolution than the ones they're hosting.)
... and Chrome OS also provides a terminal emulator to go with its shell.
It just sounds like an insane amount of work for a tenuous, or even nonexistent, payoff. I work for a company that does not limit my time off, that respects its employees, and generally provides a great working atmosphere.

Joining a startup seems like it would be throwing all that away for the joy of sleeping under my desk and finding out one day that my options are worthless. I would rather enjoy my life, I think.
Does anyone have a good explanation of the mentality of these media organisations? There are good examples of how relaxing DRM and making it easy to purchase content makes you shed loads of money. E.g iTunes Music Store.

Why aren't they just concentrating on how to make more money? Are these actions really more productive than acquiring more customers?
Confused this with ender for a second... (http://ender.no.de/)
No, that's just not true. A heuristic is a procedure that gives no guarantee of a correct answer. An algorithm is a deterministic procedure that does guarantee a correct answer. Heuristics are very useful in making difficult decisions that don't have definite answers, but they are not algorithms.