skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word "in" means "in", which means "not secondary market."
The conclusions are unfortunately correct, it is the student who is being made to pay for this policy. Bad course modules and bad degrees de-value the whole system and do NOT help those who scrape through but who are then unable to follow the level of skill required through to the workplace.

As an employer who has interviewed and employed countless computer degree candidates, this has simply devalued the word 'degree' to a point where it may no longer get you even to the interview ahead of say a non-degree candidate with a tangible track record of real project work or experience behind them.

This is not just a British phenomenon.
I agree with a lot of what you say, and I'm not qualified to comment on some of the the other things you say.

My point was that if you were to teach people new to programming just one language then Python might be a good choice because it supports many paradigms.

I agree there are languages that are much more conducive to learning functional programming than Python.
I am surprised your reaction is surprise
Certainly. I 'think' the deadline for their first session application has passed, but doesn't hurt to check it out. The founder is quite active here on HN :

http://devbootcamp.com/
Buen trabajo de Francisco! Esta es una gran manera de comenzar tu viaje en Silicon Valley EE.UU.! Mucho éxito! Vamos Chile!
This is a neat analogy. The biggest hurdle to using Bitcoins now is the (lack of) ease of use. There's a potential startup culture here that takes transaction fees from Bitcoins, and presents them in a easier formats to use and transfer. Once that problem is solved (and the adoption of the internet had to solve the exact same problems), then the audience will follow.
Or you can buy fine wire wool and snip it into tiny bits.
LezGoSSIP: Sara Gilbert Confirmed Her New Relationship With Linda Perry
They can only buy those that people are willing to sell. Theoretically they could do it, but the act of buying all of them would likely make many people rather rich.

And then once they did it, people could just start a new chain anyway.
7 Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make When Upgrading to SQL 2012
It’s new, it’s shiny, and it smells like frozen yogurt.

No, it’s not the blender you got for Christmas. It’s SQL 2012 (formerly known as codename ‘Denali’). And it’s here. And you want to use it, you know you do.
And made the mistake of making whitespace significant thereby driving off people in droves.
Ironically, the second someone invents AI, every programmer will be out of a job!

(So lets enjoy it while we can!)
Some nearby young stars may be much older than previously thought
wat. This is like teaching postscript as a first language.

almost literally.
Expedia's Newest Luxury Travel Resource

Beach Spa Resorts.com is a unique niche website, the first of its kind, featuring only luxury beach hotels with in-house spa treatment services. Properties must maintain a Trip Advisor rating of 4-5, ensuring guests the most value for their money. Flights and car rentals can be booked with zero markup. Both Airline tickets and car rentals, domestic and international, pull from the largest inventory in the world, hence the power of an Expedia company. This simply means most rates will be far lower than the published fares.
A better approach to it:
http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/#chain

var stooges = [{name : 'curly', age : 25},
{name : 'moe', age : 21},
{name : 'larry', age : 23}];
var youngest = _(stooges).chain()
.sortBy(function(stooge){ return stooge.age; })
.map(function(stooge){
return stooge.name + ' is ' + stooge.age; })
.first()
.value();
Public key encryption for web site authentication and identification
You're probably thinking of the National Marine Fisheries Service under NOAA for recreational fishing (under Dept. of Commerce, not Homeland Security). The Coast Guard, under DHS, enforces Magnuson-Stevens and the other conservation acts farther offshore where the commercial vessels fish.

And your point is well taken about DHS (as a department), but administrative organization seems to me to be a completely different problem than sinister-sounding "security theater," which is how the article paints pretty much all efforts associated with "homeland security".
Giving control of Internet content to group that sued a dead grandmother
I'm in the same boat. After reading this, I'm ready to get married too!
I've always wondered why anything is not sold on microSD cards/usb sticks.

I paid $60 for skyrim, the first game I have bought in years, and would have preferred it on a USB stick than DVD
Golden Age of the Developer? No, not even close. This is the just the tip of the iceberg.

Prediction: in ~30 years, programming will be just as important as literacy.
Just looked up the Kissmetrics site. They do look strikingly similar. http://www.kissmetrics.com/features/cohort-analysis

But how many ways can you really present something like that in a pleasing manner.

I assume they work almost the same. I'm on the Mixpanel side of things so would be interested in hearing how Kiss is in comparison. Anyone use both?
Facebook app gives everyone a public, dynamic "friend score"
This Facebook App computes a personal "friend score" for everyone based on a fun/easy head-to-head rating system. The scores can be used for entertainment or as a resource (like a social version of your credit score). I would appreciate feedback.
RFC for Return type-hinting for PHP
There are some startups doing this. The last one I saw was at Rock Health Demo Day (ill have to go find the name of them - but they were in LA)

The idea is sound - but you need to figure out the model.

We also need a medical groupon. BRB ill go look for that co.
> They ask you a series of questions, one of them usually being "Will you apply the law as I explain it to you?"

I've done jury duty, they ask me no such thing.
This may be one of the most self-absorbed, egotistical, and subtly offensive things I've seen posted on HN.

Here's something to think about: Being connected with your fellow man has nothing to do with how much money you make or putting arbitrary limits on yourself. If you think limiting your income and taking away "luxuries" in your life is going to somehow change your connections with humanity, you have no sense of what connecting with the common human even entails.

It sounds to me like you're very out of touch with humanity, and that has nothing to do with money IMO.
Reddit search engine tech (IndexTank) open sourced by LinkedIn
I have this one. It's excellent.
What does connecting with humans entail?
What precisely stops a member of a legitimate research group also being a terrorist ?

Or a rogue government which probably has the ability to reproduce to the research relatively easily from doing so and providing the information to a terrorist group.

If someone wanted to commit an act of viral terrorism they would have done so by now, there are already plenty of dangerous viruses and hybrids in research labs all around the world, most of which have close to zero security.

I think the biggest thing that protects us again viral terrorism is that terrorists aren't crazy enough to use any kind of untargeted weapon.

Probably the most famous act of terrorism in british history - the gunpowder plot of 1605 was stopped because one of the conspirators tipped of a member of their family.

Terrorists don't want to do something that could well kill the supporters of their own cause or their families.
https://www.healthinreach.com/search/

Here it is...
Or remembered your preference between stays.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/bill-gates-sta...
This aligns with my experience as a British student who received a first class degree from a fairly well-respected program.

The reality was that the teaching was uniformly mediocre, I remained pretty clueless about the subject material, and I produced so-so quality work. I should have worked harder for my own curiosity, but there was a complete lack of external motivation because the academic standards were so low.

To paraphrase someone's quote: I wouldn't recommend a club that had me as a member.
> Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with terrorists.

Anytime some government agency does something for our own good or "for the kids", run for your lives.
Like three weeks ago I was leaving vegas and accidentally left a pocket knife (4" blade) in my bag.. I opted out of the full body scan, (rumors of cancer, and the line was shorter) for a pat down... it's an intense pat down im pretty sure they definitely touched some private sensitive areas, they also left the 4" knife in my bag theres tons of stories like this too..
Show HN: Munchery's first cooking video and you can eat it too
Our first cooking video on roasted crabs and garlic noodles is made today.

Now you can watch our chefs at work, and order their food too. We don't know of any other website where you can do this.

https://munchery.com/menus/roasted-crab-and-garlic-noodles-2
"The one thing that Bitcoin really excels at is the instantaneous transfer of unlimited amounts of money from one place in the world to another."

I'm being somewhat pedantic here but Bitcoin is absolutely terrible at this, because Bitcoins are inherently not unlimited.

On a less pedantic note, I'm not sure Bitcoin is any better than the alternative of a Bitcoin-free world for your example usage. Lots of "real" US Dollars these days are little more than bits in a database that can be transferred easily across the world, and that's true with or without Bitcoin.
"Hackers : Heroes of the Computer Revolution" (Steven Levy, first published in 1984 )

It's not really a programming book, mind you. It's a collection of stories that shaped the evolution of early home computer hardware and software.
Look, there are a number of criticisms of PHP that the language definitely deserves, but I'm not sure if you've hit on any of the legitimate ones.

the outright necessity of shit like call-by-name loses what little error-checking you can otherwise get

I'm sorry, but I use PHP everyday, and I rarely find myself needing to use call-by-name, except when it is required by internal functions. Many internal PHP functions that manipulate arrays do require the arrays to be passed by reference, but this doesn't prevent unit testing or error checking at all. I can't find any validity in this complaint and am assuming it is more problem of your coding style than an error inherent in PHP's language design.

the solution to any data storage problem seems to be "MORE ARRAYS!"

Brilliant observation. This is because arrays in PHP do double or even triple duty. They can be simple number-indexed arrays, they can be associative arrays, and they are internally implemented as hash tables, so they can also act as hash tables. Is your problem a semantic one or one of functionality?

PHP is a tool where a sufficiently advanced developer finds themselves fighting it as much as using it, and that is a shame.

Sorry I can't be as advanced as you.
I thought the same thing. However, it looks like this was cleared up in another thread. It seems as though you are expected to join Living Social at then end of the training. So, it's not really an "offer" after all.
The answers to this are on a person by person basis, but I know it doesn't have anything to do with middle class poverty or a single man living like an "average" family of four.
You know you are going to get upvotes when you mention you based it on Paul Graham's writings. :) But thanks for the tips and pointers. I think you don't give yourself enough credit -- if the idea wasn't a good one, nobody would be asking you to launch it in their country. So job 1 is to have a compelling product and then things become easier all around the globe. GL
Seth Cohen
I think the no-fly has even more issues than just circumvention [1]. Schneier calls it "a list of people so dangerous they cannot be allowed to fly under any circumstance, yet so innocent we can't arrest them even under the Patriot Act"[2].

1: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/nofly_list.htm...

2: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/conversation_w...
It's 2011. We love significant whitespace now, get on with the times...
This is not "no distribution", this is a binomial distribution - where every one of n items has an equal probability p of being a certain result. You are correct that in this case removing the 11 people from the population is negligible, thus p remains the same.
You shouldn't just make your life's work what you're good at
Poll: What's your yearly bonus?
I'm interested to see the breakdown on yearly bonuses for tech roles (devs, managers, designers, product). This would include the cash value of tangible stuff like money, RSUs/stock, etc.
$0 (Huh? Bonuses?)
$1 - $1,000
$1,001 - $2,500
$2,501 - $5,000
$5,001 - $10,000
$10,001 - $15,000
$30,001 - $50,000
$50,001 - $75,000
$75,001 - $100,000
$100,001 - $250,000
Design for a developer?
Here's my problem.

I'm basically a developer and math type of person (if you read any of abstract algebra posts), and I'm trying to learn design.

I can do UI design pretty well, it turns out to be quite usable and friendly and people can get around it, but, I can't get myself to design something that looks good.

Something that looks, you know, out of the ordinary.

I try colors and shades, and gradients but they all come out looking weird and I can never get them to work well together like some of these pages:

http://captaindash.com/
http://mailchimp.com/
http://joshsullivan.me/

Where can I learn to do this? I'm not saying how I can learn to make AWESOME websites, but, where can I learn to make websites can people can classify as looking "good"?
Cultish doomsday people may. Don't forget where the idea of drinking the koolaid come from.
I've wondered before why, after the prosecution and defense lawyers are done with a witness, the jury can't also question the witness. Can anyone help me understand why that's not allowed?
IMHO, the other founders and mentors related to the accelerator program are often the best part of it. Take advantage of that mentorship as much as possible.

Disclaimer: I run the accelerator program at 500 Startups (and we've invested in a handful of Startmate companies) and this is the same advice I give our portfolio.
Nobel peace prizes are not normally awarded to philanthropists. But I'm just going to leave this link here. It's a photo of Bill Gates with Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing funding for HIV vaccine research in 2007.

http://pm.gc.ca/grfx/news/PM-feature-20070220-Gates.jpg

Source: http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1544
And most importantly Americans are highly mobile; Michiganders can head off to Chicago or Atlanta so while the prospects for Michigan itself remain bleak, people aren't trapped.

Hmm, don't Spaniards legally have the same ability to move to Germany to take work on equal terms with Germans? What prevents this from happening in practice? Language barrier, prejudice, or ... ?
You're afraid. Mission accomplished.
Study Shows AT&T’s LTE Network Is Faster Than Verizon’s — For Now
Yes but Hawala requires that the agents trust each other. A Hawala-like network could be built by agents who do not trust each other. Users of the network would not have to deal with Bitcoin at all.

I don't know if such a system will come into being but it seems like most of the pieces are already in place. The biggest problem would be converting local currencies into and out of Bitcoin.
> An easier way is to water down the educational system to a lower standard and then peg the university income to the number of students accepted while reducing the funding per head. In that way universities are given the happy choice of losing money and enforcing redundancies or watering down their requirements.

This has also become true at many US universities.

You can't water down the requirements and maintain placement stats at the same level. Many companies will simply pull the plug on recruiting and hiring once they have a bad experience with lame recent grads.

The really sad thing: The universities take the student's money, and then leave the kid unemployed at the other end. All that student debt is not dischargable in bankruptcy.
That's fine. We can already run lots of better languages in the browser either using interpreters written in JS or cross-compilers targeting JS.
I'm still not sure how much of an advantage that is to the average user. To people on HN it's a huge plus, but to real world users...

Regardless DB should be able to carve out space where cross platform is important, but I can see their market size shrinking when Apple and Microsoft really start pushing their cloud storage solutions. Unless of course they get to a Facebook like level of critical mass.
The Clouding Cloudification of “The Cloud” | fnBlog
It takes a little getting used to, but Google Refine has saved me on multiple occasions.
Interesting that credit card processing did not beat PayPal. There's quite a misnomer, especially among the HN set, that you can increase conversions by ditching PayPal for credit card processing. Fact is, in situations where large percentages of prospective buyers may not be familiar with the seller, PayPal can be a much more comfortable option.

Would be interesting to see you offer both PayPal and credit card processing. Does e-junkie support that?
Two Similar Earth-Sized Planet Found
Facebook lets you download your data as well: https://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=download

Just wanted to balance the “Facebook evil / Google not evil” diatribe, as when discussing these topics only Google is ever mentioned.
> Terrorists don't want to do something that could well kill the supporters of their own cause or their families.

That's right.

Insane people, OTOH, have no such restraints. That's what worries me more than any "terrorist" attack. I think we're paying too much attention to "terrorism", blinded as we are by the glare of media. But it's getting more and more easy for some doomsday cultist, sane enough to be able to perform basic engineering tasks, but insane enough to dream of a DIY Armageddon, to make those dreams (or, rather, nightmares) come true.

Even so, I'm still not sure whether withholding information is always good policy. Maybe it is - maybe a slight delay until defenses are built might be beneficial.
BMW online announces app integration, launches with Yelp
Anyone else taught Karel++? In high school they taught us: Pascal -> Karel++ -> C++

Then the new AP tests came in and the switched to C++ -> Java, which seemed very silly to me (C++ as a first language???)
Colorful Terminals: Theme Support for Tmux
Unless you work a 400 hour week, you seem to have missed a zero.

Assuming a 40 hour week, $550k is $13750 per hour.
The Cormen book "Introduction to Algorithms" and the book "Programming Interviews Exposed" should bring you up to a solid level.
Very unlikely this would occur. Jury deliberations are considered sacrosanct in American jurence prudence. You are under no obligation to explain your reasoning to anyone when deciding a verdict. And courts have been traditionally very wary of allowing prosecutors to delve too deeply into them to go on fishing expeditions unless a very specific procedure has been shown to have been violated.

The prosecution would essentially have to read your mind to demonstrate that you somehow "lied" in answering the questions during jury selection, which is why what you're describing virtually never happens. And there's always the plausible defense that you simply changed your mind as the trial unfolded.
Bitcoins are inherently unlimited - they can be divided down to 8 decimal places for a total of 2.1 quadrillion units.
I would like to apologize for listing a website still in a developmental phase that has no value to you what-so-ever at the present moment. Okay, I have big shoulders and deserve a bit of backlash as ignorance of the law is no excuse. This is my first day and first listing, I should have read the rules, guidlelines and bylaws, and more importantly summed up its ideology and how to be a part of the solution not the problem.
[video] Pacman Frog catch some touch screen bugs.
"I wouldn’t call this censorship," Dr. Alberts said. "This is trying to avoid inappropriate censorship."

Wow. So he thinks that if they don't self-censor, the government will censor for them... And that that makes it not censorship?

Ouch.
I posted a federal lawsuit about money transmission that is directly related to Bitcoin's purported goals and the title of this article.

Just to point out to others reading: The lawsuit thinkcomp posted is one filed by his company.
Well, at least I don't have to think about it for a while now.
Do you mean "effectively unlimited"? They're not inherently unlimited in the current implementation; quite the opposite in fact!
Two and a half years ago I made the decision not to go to University and so far I think it was one of the best decisions I've made. I have learnt a lot more through experience (I'm a freelance iOS developer). I have also learnt about life quicker. After living with some of my friends who went to University I quickly realised how easy they have it. A few hours of classes a week (depending on the course) and very little studying outside of class. They also have everything paid for them through student loans and grants. On the other had I had to work hard and ensure my business succeeded or I wouldn't make rent.

University in the UK has been something that is just 'what people do'. Most people coming out of A-levels wouldn't even consider not going to University, especially because High Schools push it so hard (as it makes them look good). There needs to be more education in High Schools about the option of not attending University.
It's a demonstration that the TSA cannot actually perform the functions it's supposed to be performing. In that sense it is a test.

If getting though security with fraudulent identification is not a problem, why does the TSA bother to attempt to prevent it?
The concern is that it is much much easier for those who would cause harm to use this information than for those who would use it to create defenses. With such an asymmetry it makes sense to restrict access.

Only if the numbers are fairly comparable. If the number of "good" scientists looking to defend is much larger than the number of bad scientists, you're still probably better off publishing.
Java seems extremely mutilated compared to other languages, why would it seem like a good choice? There are only few concepts you could teach with Java.
How long has this existed? I don't recall seeing such an option when I deactivated my account almost a year ago, and it might be worth trying to reactivate my account just to get this data.
FaceCash or FacePalm?

News at 11.
How does this compare to solr or elasticsearch?
Amazing!

Was it PG's rice and bean Ramen Profitable recipe? I don't remember slow cookers used in that recipe.
The cynic in me is unconvinced that this is not a in part motivated by some portion of the US government wanting to keep its edge in regard to bioweaponry rather than a general concern about weaponization.

As others note, if they have the virus and the labs to weaponize it, they are probably a government.
The odds of a crazy person unleashing a deadly virus upon the world are probably relatively low maybe 1 in a million.

The odds of a random mutation unleashing deadly virus upon the world are probably close to 1.

It's amazing how quickly people have forgotten about the 1918 flu epidemic. It killed around 75 million people and infected more than a quarter of the world's population.

We're going to have another virus epidemic of that proportion, it's a question of when rather than if. We should be building defences because of the risk of random mutations and not because of the risk of engineered viruses.
That's still not unlimited (tempted to quote Princess Bride here, but you're not the OP, so it wouldn't quite fit).