skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree (and I am sure they know this).

The remote learner won't be getting the same experience as the residential learner. If nothing else, the remote leaner will be missing out on the lab work (remember "Mens et Manus") which is just as important as the academic work. As an MIT ME my lab work involved transducer work (accelerometers, strain gauges, microphones, LVDTs, DAQs, filters, etc) and manufacturing processes (CAD/CAM, injection molding, welding, machine shop, vacuum forming, CNC, etc) and actually having hands-on experience greatly assisted in my understanding of the academic work - for example, it's one thing to look at the calculations for plastic shrinkage, it's another thing to actually see how shrinkage can vary in your freshly-injection molded part, especially when the dyes used for color can affect shrinkage rates.
The poster did help, so the bystander spell should've been broken.
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You know, my first gut reaction is to say that these people are overreacting, but then I start remembering how the current and last administration are behaving.
Not sure why this should be downvoted; G+ really is an atrocious mess when one tries to view it in most mobile browsers. This all applies to Android too, amazingly enough. If Google wants people to use G+, then they really do need to get it on a javascript diet -- or at least start seriously testing it, starting with their own devices.

I got the Galaxy Nexus on release day. Upon trying to visit a G+ post that was linked here (the one about Goog making some guy's daughter cry), it consistently crashed the browser. Every time. Within seconds of load, clearly while doing js gymnastics. A friend with the same phone reproduced. Previously I had seen occasional G+ page crashes or hangups on a 3.0 tablet (TF101), and had a pretty dismal experience with G+ pages on 2.x, but this was outright killing the browser on every single attempt to load it. Whatever the problem was, it didn't go away until several days ago. And while it may no longer crash, G+ is still stupidly sluggish in the browser.

All of this on Google's new flagship ICS phone. Why would I put time into engaging with G+, when it seems like they're drunk on javascript bloat and have no one minding the shop on actual end-user experience? If people will have a terrible experience or need to download a dedicated app to view my posts, that's a critical fail. Nevermind these "big improvements'. Get the basics done right first, goog.
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If the point is to make money, then he should sell the napkins just below the price of the competitors, keeping a healthy margin for himself.

Of course, this defeats the stated purpose of encouraging usage by poor Indian women, but if the point is to make money...
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Checkout Tropo (https://www.tropo.com/) which is basically the same, except your application logic can be hosted on their servers if you want. It is by Voxeo so uses their existing network for international calls and SMS.

There is also Plivo (http://www.plivo.org) which is an open source implementation, except setting it up is far from trivial in my experience :)
They don't have to take down Facebook to take down one app in particular.

It might work better as a set of browser plugins for the popular browsers (well, Chrome and Mozilla at least).
Yes; I do not believe I have combat-related PTSD. However I do believe that an early adulthood -- 18 to 31 -- spent in the Marine Corps does deeply ingrain certain modes of thought. When those modes are cemented by lengthy combat tours they can be hard to shake.

I think for me personally it is a highly anticipatory, self-protective mode. I am constantly assessing and "war gaming" where scenarios/situations might veer. This includes my daily commute, shopping trips and unfortunately romantic relationships.
While you are probably right about the true purpose of the scarves, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the person not facing the camera is evidence of that.

If you don't want your face photographed, you'd better keep it covered the entire time a photographic journalist is on the property, not just when you know he's taking a picture.
That was totally two irrelevant things you mention. Who are you? A random Facebook employee?
Twilio just added support for the UK and they've said they'll continue to add support for more European countries.
Metrics from a first week on the iPad App Store.
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I know a founder that used to move drugs, lots of drugs. Got caught threw himself at the mercy of the court. He's doing well now, but the judge was basically like "this is your only chance".
I like Open Congress. In about 2 minutes, I was able to find out more about the SOPA bill ( http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show). Fun fact: you can send a letter to your congressperson straight from the page!
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Tried this on a set of data that I have been looking at recently, and was not impressed. The software actually assumes all fields contain numerical data. Why not handle nominal data? Also doesn't handle temporal data. Maybe this is theoretically interesting but practically it is useless.
She left because she thought he was hitting on college girls. She came back when it was proven he wasn't.

His mother was the one who left over the fake uterus.
Just terrible.

This reminded me of 37signals vs. Get Satisfaction http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
Does anyone have access to technical details about this process?
It would be nice to avoid paying for the info via:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6062/1518.abstract
Unfortunate that this comment doesn't get enough attention in this thread... A single person's experience will always be subjective (even with the provided technical detail). If it's not consistently repeatable, it can only be used as an anectode.
> Also, he could probably do more good for his country by selling his product.

If you consider that his product is the napkin-making machine rather than the napkins themselves, he does.

> If he creates a better industry, he can keep the profits in India.

Profits are kept in india, instead of building his own giant he empowers others.

All in all, your comment seems to make little sense and to have stopped at the second paragraph in the article or something.
This is insightful data and sales metrics from a first week on the iPad App Store. Interesting to note that the app was first developed with Flash/Air and later fully ported to Objective-C/iPad with some new interesting gestures.
nothing.
They have tarnished their own name by not allowing users to actually do what the page says. Also it is not much different than yelp or Get Satisfaction that would post comments about businesses without their consent.

They also have a 'claim this page' thing where I'm sure you could remove your content from.
I don't think the original poster was questioning the interview process so much as pointing out the cultural differences that exist.

To say that not passing two interviews means he can't get the job done without babysitting is ignorant. Looking at most of the hiring posts on hn, it becomes very obvious that they want to do a cultural fit. Defining a cultural fit is going to differ depending on who you ask.
> no cached pages are available

Actually the cached pages are still there. Hover to see the "mini-view" you mention. Right next to the URL above the preview is the "cached" link.
Yeah - that was a pretty sorry tale of vapourware. I know a couple of indie guys who were super jazzed about the Scarlet, and delayed buying equipment because they were convinced it would come out.

It was hard to tell whether it was vapourware. They had defied expectations in actually producing a real camera in the Red One, but they also had marketing material advertising a sensor that was something like 17cm wide - which seems to me utterly unmanufacturable today.

An odd company.

[EDIT: atrocious grammar]
Since we're talking about optimization, if you're on a SSD you should disable prefetching--which is essentially a technique for older (read: shittier) computers.
One of the first things we were taught in EMT training is that if you ever need something from a crowd of bystanders you can't ask the mass, you have to pick a very specific person and address them directly. "Someone get me a crowbar" will get no response, but "You, in the red jacket, get a crowbar or something to open this" will usually get the effect you want.
Hi, I'm Vinay, the author of the piece.

Two points.

A) crazybear, yes, see http://guptaoption.com/2.long_peace.php for more on this question about "what should government be doing, and what should it let go of?"

B) I'm not, remotely, neoliberal. "I do not fear the State, I fear the State will collapse before we have a meaningful alternative." I'm a Gandhian, which means that in Western terms I'm probably closest to Anarchosyndicalism.

But at a pragmatic level, I don't trust decentralization without a clear approach to managing small groups creating global risks, and that's an open question on all fronts right now. Nobody has a clue how to do it effectively, and the clock ticks.
While I agree that including Flickr in the title of those posts is an intended tactic, this whole post comes off as a whiny competitor mad about their competition getting more press than they are.
It's better to help the poor become rich than it is to give the poor a bobble and have them stay poor.
It's essentially teach a man to fish, except with business. He can reinvest, grow the country, then they can all afford the doodle. It's a win for India, and the world! Maybe he sells to North America, and is able to make more money for his country than would ever have been saved by the poor using his cheaper napkin. (I mix doodles and napkins, but it's all the same). It's economics.
What I am hearing is a few things:

a) You are upset about the fact that they increased their prices when they transitioned from a well documented beta service to a fully supported commercial offering.

b) You are upset that there is some features missing, such as the way DNS is handled.

c) You are upset that there is a proprietary nature about the service.

I think those are all pretty much valid concerns, but let me address them:

Yes, the costs did go up for some people, including you, it seems. But remember again, it wasn't just some random increase. They switched out of beta. There was never a hint at a promise that they would keep the prices at the same level.

As I mentioned before, they admitted they messed up in their messaging. They heard people screaming at them loud and clear and went back and actually adjusted a lot of their prices. You say that AWS won't increase prices because of costs decreasing, I can only hope that GAE, with a similar model will do the same.

That said, you really can't compare GAE with AWS because they are entirely different offerings. You absolutely need an IT staff (be it yourself or someone else) to run, monitor and manage those servers on AWS. You don't need that with GAE and I find that to be a massive selling point. I've seen first hand what happens when you have to hire IT staff or stay up at 3am figuring out what server problems you are having. It sucks because a) it is nearly impossible to hire good sysadmins right now, b) who wants to be on call 24/7? There is also the lack of the high replication datastore on AWS. There is nothing even close. Personally, I'm willing to have a bit of vendor lockin for those features.

Yes, features are missing. Google knows about it and has been doing regular releases of the SDK to address missing features. I'm pretty confident that as the service becomes more profitable for them, they will dedicate more resources to it. If not, then I have 3 years to migrate and find something else. For now, the feature set is good enough for me. That might not have been the case for you, but that isn't entirely the fault of anyone. It is still a maturing product.
I think wealthy Indians are better than empowered Indians.
We just added full support for SMS in Canada[0], have local voice-enabled numbers in the UK, many more European countries on the way[1] and international SMS in beta[2]. If we're not where you need us, most likely we're working hard to be there as soon as it's possible.

If you have a phone number you want to use to make calls from in a country we don't offer local numbers, you can verify it to use as a caller ID then call to any of our supported countries[3].

[0] http://www.twilio.com/CA/pricing
[1] http://www.twilio.com/eu-beta-signup
[2] http://www.twilio.com/faq/international
[3] http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates
Any kind of planning on helping the situation for menstrual products in India has to start with some kind of observation of existing practice.

In the actual environment of this product, there might be many existing practices/strategies for managing periods which could cause reproductive tract infections.

Just to give you an idea, in some parts of the developing world girls are taught to use diluted disinfectant to douche.. that is surely not the worst.

"Rags" is not a negative word for "reusable cloth pads," the story is actually talking about rags. They might be fine if they are kept sterile, but maybe the time to judge that is after you have done it in poor conditions in India and talked to women there about why they don't do it the same way.
duplicate of an older thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364077
My point was that I'd appreciate, at the very least, a StackExchange site for this type of question.
Lead free, and/or take a few minutes to explain proper care around components containing lead. Not to be excessively paranoid, but I recall settings where such was not explained and as a result people did somewhat stupid things.
> Would be good to see them re-purpose that good information (like this particular entry) into a useful format.

Like cough Wikipedia? Most of the entries on that page are links to a Wikipedia article with a one-paragraph summary. Seems like anything missing from the canonical list should just be added:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_structures
That's a superb article re: real-world Twilio. We did a head to-head with twilio and tropo and twilio won hands down in terms of actual "production-worthiness" despite tropo having "more" features including speech reco. http://pardner.com/2011/04/tropo-not-ready-for-prime-time-we...
I'm using it extensively, so does ~100 of other people in my circle. Try searching g+ for a topic and then add interesting entries to one of your circles, try posting on their subject etc. you will quickly see that there is life there ;-)
Many pubs claimed to go 'digital first' in the mid-2000s (e.g. InfoWorld, a 25 year old publication even dumped print entirely). But the cost of unique content creation often still far outweighed the cost of production. And online, it's still easier to run a "story" about an iPhone rumor to generate traffic than real hard news or investigative journalism. Soon, all pubs start to re-publish the same tired crap in the race for pageviews and everything gets watered down.

Content can be a lot cheaper to produce and promote if you aren't the content originator (e.g. Associated Press is literally everywhere now) but it's death by a thousand cuts more often than not for publishers that go this route.

Unless one has simply massive online traffic, the advertising model that propped up print for so long is broken online. Print is mostly free from delivering hard metrics with the exception of circulation numbers. Online, pure visits and ad impressions are never enough. Thus, an impossible slippery slope forms creating a paradox of expectations between "engagement" with vendor content and "real content."

In all reality, the "digital first" strategy is impossible for many publishers as the subscription dollars are almost free money for them. The lure of another $20 annual subscription is too great. And the growth necessary to survive, so hard.
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I think you can correct for the false-positives to some extent. I am more skeptical of the computational load of basically testing all sorts of relationships. They have an approximate algorithm for doing that.
rootstrikers.org is trying to get money out of politics. I think that would go a long way.
It is not an easy path, though. "Lack of awareness is the major reason, next to the apathy of NGO’s," [...] rural women are clueless as to how to use them, think twice about spending even the small amount of money to buy a packet, and sadly have a devil-may-care attitude about their health

He must have assumed that everybody is as driven as he. I think he's learning the hard way that the problem with poverty isn't necessarily high prices or profit. The biggest shortage is proactive people. You can choose to distribute the wealth, but having observed the general propensity for defeatism in people, I've gradually become an advocate of rather giving means (money, time, resources) to the handful that break from the mold and get things done.

In addition to allowing him to get more done, I also believe that turning in a profit would help him acquire enough notoriety to break down some of those cultural barriers.
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I'm pretty sure the "dir" takes longer than "ls" because "dir /s c:\list.txt" sorts the entire c:\ drive before looking for "list.txt". "ls -R c:\list.txt" first checks if "list.txt" exists, and fails if it doesn't. Just take out the "list.txt" and run both commands again.
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This is a decent post, but why did you decide to use CoffeeScript? It seems like just another hurdle for people trying to learn Backbone.
Minor nitpick #2: if the guy's unencumbered, then he also has the choice to eat better and walk a couple miles a day to resolve that whole out-of-shape and overweight dilemma.

To quote Tuco from _The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: "If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"
This article really blew my mind on how robots could be used to circumvent Geneva convention polices. It is a testament the the human ingenuity of malice.
Telling typo:

> I, on the other hand, have always been very misery with how I used to spend my time.

(He meant miserly)
Nope, the point is not to make money.

Let's start from the scratch. The goal is this:

Create affordable sanitary napkins for women in India.

To achieve this goal, he worked hard to master the first step i.e. to be able to manufacture the napkins at low cost. Great.

Now there are two approaches:

1. Sell machines to different NGOs so that they can create their own napkins. As I mentioned it requires hefty investment of 1,200$. Also, I think it's easy to underestimate how much effort is required to reach different parts of India and selling the concept of these machines.

2. Create machines on his own (using outside investment if needed) and create cheap napkins afforded by economies of scale. He can use the money from the sales and extend it create a better process, better machine and drive prices even lower. He can now rely on an existing vast distributor network to spread these products all over India [I refer you to my shampoo sachet example in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3370219]. Heck, he can now even export it to other developing countries.

If the goal is to make napkins available to more women in India (and everywhere else), I think that 2nd approach is vastly superior than first. What do you think?
If you want to play around with the actual goods in addition to reading the paper there is a jar file and a R wrapper for same at http://www.exploredata.net/Mine/index.asp

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Author here...I went with CoffeeScript because it's the default in Rails. It also dramatically reduces the total lines of boilerplate code and syntactic noise.
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Me too. I thought it was a play on the phrase "I Miss Bill"
Yes, true, but I'd bet that a lot of that could be outsourced to 3rd party regional or urban lab centers.
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"Let's lobby for a rules change that allows our members to use the software they want to use."

What could possibly go wrong? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controve...
Duff's device! :-)
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I can't speak to "apps" as the current mobile definition (no smartphone), but I definitely have uninstalled programs with poor interfaces.

Probably the best example for me is mp3 players. I've been using WinAmp for over a decade now, and love it. It's stylized as a widget which is exactly how I view a music player - a compact but powerful side tool. At the suggestion of friends I've made honest attempts at other players like iTunes, WMP (yes), FooBar2000, but the featureset and style of WinAmp keeps drawing me back in.

Sidenote: Are there any physical mp3 players that offer queuing for songs? Being able to hand pick the next couple songs and then let the randomizer take over when they're done is probably the greatest feature ever to me.
CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning
How is this better than SauceLabs?
I'm in my late 30s and four classes away from my BS in Computer Science. If you find yourself at a career-related impasse again, consider the community college to 4-year school route. Through Pell Grants and employer assistance, it was extremely affordable (18k for an AA seems excessive).

Also, I have found my education to be very useful in my work, both at home and for my employer. Mainly the math though (discrete, linear algebra, and stats). The programming not so much, as I already knew how to program.
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I came here to say basically the same thing. It can be used as a subtle effect to add a great deal to the depth of the setting. I feel like it's just another added dimension of cinematography.
This is so depressing -- what NYC really needs is Stanford or MIT. Cornell is a wonderful school, but there is nothing to indicate that they know anything about tech...
I won't assume anything about the purpose of the mask, but if for cleanliness purpose they should also probably wear gloves.
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Wikipedia is a good place for information about different data structures, but the question here is "What are the lesser known but cool data structures. There are tons of obscure data structures, but only a few that people would consider cool. Wikipedia cannot and should not show that information, because it's inherently subjective.
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