skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to be a case of helicopter parents freaking out because their beloved didn't get offers from the same universities as their neighbours.

Good colleges look at how rounded a person is, standardised tests don't always capture the high achievers.
Easy. Take "ethnicity" out of the application and blot out the applicant's last name when evaluating applications.
from the article:
"The fact that 17 of its student alumni and 14 of its faculty have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, and six of its alumni have won the prestigious Turing Award in computer science, surely says something about the institution and what it stands for. Despite its small size, Caltech was chosen by NASA to be the center for its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and in the past was a major venue for visiting scholars of the rank of Heisenberg, Einstein, Lorentz, and Bohr. In more recent times its undergraduate alumni have gone on to be founders or co-founders of such leading-edge American companies as Intel, TRW, Compaq, and Exploratorium."
For example, are there proportionally more Google employees from Caltech or more startups in YCombinator with Caltech graduates?

Since they are all based in California now, I would think yes. But since Larry and Sergey Bin are both from Stanford, I'd expect a disproportionate number of Stanford grads at Google.

In any case, one way universities market themselves is by looking at the average income of their alumni. Since Harvard grads often end up on Wall Street, I would not be surprised if Harvard comes up on top.

But you could argue that's just the financial industry connection. What if you restrict your search on science and engineering majors? Well then we already know MIT and Caltech are better.
I bet that was heard from Notes consultants...
I have to say I find that pretty laughable.

First of all, START isn't even about non-proliferation. Has nothing to do with it. It's a series of agreements between two superpowers that served mostly as a diplomatic tool to de-escalate Cold War tensions and provide political cover for military budget reductions. It's been wildly successful in that regard.

The actual Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is entirely about non-proliferation, a pre-emptive attempt to keep the capability of nuclear warfare out of the hands of most nations. It has absolutely nothing to do with preventing nuclear warfare between those nations already possessing them.

We haven't had nuclear war because so far, nobody who either actually wants to end the world, or is stupid enough to think he can "win" a nuclear war, has been in control of nuclear weapons. Not because of some piece of paper saying "I promise I won't kill you". Hilter had one of those with Stalin, how'd that work out?

"Cyber warfare" doesn't have the problems of nuclear warfare. It's unlikely to end the world, it's relatively cheap, the tools are widely available, and unlike physical warfare which destroys economies, it's actually about the economy. It's about getting a leg up on the competition. It's about money, period. The world some non-technical people live in where "cyber warfare" is all about winning actual wars is a world of fantasy.

In human history, only one thing has reliably stopped wars, and that is the tying together of nations' economies so closely that war between them becomes economically impossible. This just doesn't work in "cyber warfare".
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While this is definitely changing, Caltech graduates have tended to be heavily focused on academia in the past, and in that particular regard, the data definitely show success later on in life. The percentage of Caltech undergrads who earn PhD's is well above everyone else: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08311/?govDel=USNS...

In terms of other measures of success, Caltech might lag behind some other schools. As a current CS undergrad, I only know of a handful of startups run by Caltech grads. As I said, this is changing, but it goes to show the impact of choice of metrics.
Asians comprise a larger percentage of the applicant pool of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. It is true that many Asian Americans from California apply to Berkeley, but that doesn't take into consideration the rest of them, hoards from China, Japan, and South Korea.
We still run the cloud-based mail service; these devices stopped working because of plumbing stuff mostly. There are tons of devices with thin clients hitting the cloud -- that's actually what we spend all our time on these days...

But you are right about what someone would try to do with it
It's really a disservice to yourself when there is no way to see a picture of your product or get to a proper landing page from your blog without having to Google or manually manipulate the URL.
I'm working on a project with about 5000 HTTP endpoints and over 2 million lines of code. We don't need a precompiler!
Marc Andreessen is backing Romney
> current sandbox games (minecraft, dwarf fortress, terraria) implement water flows as cellular state machines. this is clearly wrong, because pressure is non-local

Dwarf Fortress's algorithm actually supports global pressure propagation, albeit in an ad-hoc fashion:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_mak...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_mak...
Holy cats. This looks really, really neat. Congrats on launching this; I'm eager to see what comes of it.

Out of curiosity, what's your business model?
I'm not a parent, but the site looks great and I can definitely see the appeal of this kind of community/service.

Has the WeSprout team spent much time reaching out to parenting bloggers?
Ender, a full featured package manager for your browser
Polo Puzzle: What Goes Into a $155 Price Tag?
Come on, I got excited to test this - so i click ..

bam login wall. wth? You have shown me nothing!

=(

It's not that I can't easily click that twitter login. It's more like I feel misled. It's a negative first impression.

Let me give it a test run without asking for anything up front. please?
Ah - sorry! I thought your more recent cloud offering was something totally new. Thanks for the clarification!
I just read a chapter of a Csikszentmihalyi book for my sociology class on creativity, I am currently reading "The Happiness Hypothesis" which just referenced Csikszentmihalyi, and now I read this blog post who quotes Csikszentmihalyi.

Csikszentmihalyi must have something important to say.
Yep, There's no free lunch. Rephrasing it to make it sound sexier still won't improve anything. It's the same as the Martingale strategy - there's no free lunch.
No TCO makes it very much not scheme or lisp or anything fp.
I do mean Windows computer. For my use, most of the computers I'd be walking up to do tend to have something more complex than Wordpad, like Visual studio.
I used codeschool.com and did the "rails for zombies" course for free, and I'd highly recommend it.
Elite colleges are far more diverse than elite employers. Google, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey are dominated by whites and Asians, especially outside of entry-level jobs.

I also don't buy the idea that college is a way to teach people how to live in the real world, given that going to college is an alternative to working in the real world. That just sounds like the sort of thing college administrators would say in order to defend the status quo.
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Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian's Rosy Outlook On The Future of Politics
Merit can include a consideration of race. One factor of merit is being an outlier of your group. There are many ways to analyze a given population that reveals different clusters. Being an outlier of this cluster is a factor in merit. The question is, is race a relevant dimension to consider? At face value, the answer is no. But in the US at least, race is a proxy to many other factors that are extremely hard to quantify. These hard to quantify factors are relevant in determining who "deserves" a spot at your prestigious school. Thus a consideration of race within specific contexts can be relevant, college admissions being one of them.
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I've said this for a long time and I told them it when I interviewed with them. Tight integration between WP7 (or WP8) and the Windows desktop platform is their killer feature. iCloud is weak in my opinion and Google has no desktop OS presence to tie into and as much as I might want it to, Chrome and "the web" don't allow for (as someone else termed it) a well functioning and syncing "fat cache".

If I can make a Metro app for Windows 8 and hit all desktop and Win8-tablet users and get WP8 users for free or very little cost... I see the number of applications for Windows Phone increasing very quickly compared to their slow start thus far.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but at Berkeley where Race is not considered in admissions, Asians comprise like 50% of the student body.

You kindly asked for a correction, so I will provide one.

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

The current figures for first-year students at University of California: Berkeley, based on student self-reports according to the federal category definitions, are

1% American Indian or Alaska Native

40% Asian

3% Black or African American

10% Hispanic/Latino

28% White

11% Non-Resident Alien

The total is less than 100 percent both because of rounding and because some students exercise their right under federal regulations not to self-report race or ethnicity. People of "Hispanic" ethnicity can be of any race, but are reported as part of the Hispanic ethnicity category and not otherwise counted twice.

I'm pretty sure you'd see similar numbers at all the elite universities if race wasn't an issue.

I'm pretty sure one would not see Berkeley's numbers at all other elite universities (we don't see such numbers at those universities now), in large part because California in general, and the Bay Area in particular, has a much higher percentage of Asian residents than most parts of the United States. In-state subsidized tuition entices a lot of Californians to apply to Berkeley.
I know this might sound a bit harsh (I really like your idea!), but what advice, experiences, or knowledge will you be talking about that justify the price? What is unique about your experience that separates you from thousands of people blogging for free?

Even beyond just the $1, I have to pull out my credit card and make a purchase (there's some transaction cost), which is a mental barrier.

I know this might just be something you're working on as a side project, but is there a particular reason why you want to sell it? I feel like you're in a position where it's more beneficial to you (and others) if you engage in conversations about your experience with Gumroad rather than publish something.

A conversation is usually much more engaging than a story, unless there's something very unique about the story.
Long ago, the valedictorian of my high school class (white, female), did not get into Brown, Harvard, MIT or Cornell, despite a stellar academic record and near-perfect SAT scores. She wound up going to a state school. Another white female in my class got into three of those places, despite being below the top 10%. Ivy admissions are entirely mysterious to me.
Delivering Video to the Masses (Publish video for multiple devices)
We're not super connected to that community, but we'll be doing our best over the weekend and into next week to make those connections and see where we get. It's definitely on our radar.
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Extracurriculars are another dog-whistle for that sort of thing. A heuristic like "Deduct 150 SAT points for violin or piano" would be pretty predictive.
And yet, despite these features, the thing that will make or break WinPhone is still going to be the marketing and the hardware.

The Lumia 900 is a very big step in a very good direction. MS needs to double-down on this and stop kowtowing to Samsung et al, who are pushing out half-assed turds of phones that do a disservice to the brand.

The "free OS" segment of the market is taken by Android, and I think it'll take an act of god to unseat it at this point. WinPhone's only hope is to compete at the higher end with the likes of iPhone and Galaxy phones.

And marketing. God, the marketing. Where is it?

MS is betting the company on WinPhone, but where is the marketing message? Why aren't bus sheltered swimming in these ads? Why aren't they all over TV like Android and iOS is? Why are WinPhones still hiding in the darkest corners of the AT&T stores?

This is the biggest failing of WinPhone IMO - it's a fine platform and a fine product, but nobody knows about it.
Regardless of restriction to science and engineering, Caltech comes out on top for median starting salaries and second for mid-career: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-gradua...

Maybe financial industry salaries would change these rankings if they considered averages rather than medians, but a reasonable number of Caltech grads end up on Wall Street as well.
not early 2011, was summer GSOC project 2011 though
Sorry, I was speaking imprecisely and off the top of my head. You of course have to have multiple certificates, but the point is all that is necessary is for all of the certificates to be sent to the browser and for the browser to check them. It's entirely a question of browser<->server interaction.

You can get all of those certificates for the same hostname and key without any of the authorities even knowing the others exist.

Of course there are technical changes necessary in the browsers and web servers, but that's not the point. The SSL trust model is flawed and needs to be fixed, there are precious few options that won't involve some technical changes.
Sure, here is a screenshot:

https://underrun.org/~stack/colour.png

Firefox 10.0 and Chrome 16.0.912.77 m
LOL. A broke craftsman ain't no craftsman, he's just an unemployed dude posturing as the real deal. I know plenty of real craftsmen, and none of them waste time bickering on the 'right' shape of chisel or optimal mix of cement and sand, they all judge their peers on the results they produce.
People that I know of that have personal experience do say it impairs it though.
This reminds me of "Think and Grow Rich" - Best book ever written. I cant even remember how many times I have read it.

If I could I would purchase a million copies and give them away for free. It's that good.
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Facebook's $100 billion valuation may be vaporware
Not keeper, hoster.

By that logic Jimmy Wales is the current keeper of the definition of everything.
I'm excited to see where Windows 8 and WP8 goes. I think the integration possibilities (especially if Microsoft ever decides to leverage Live properly) is potentially huge. That having been said, yes, these sorts of announcement posts are tiring. SD cards and NFC? Boring, catch-up.

I want to respect Microsoft, I really do. But when they launch updates that are still playing catchup to Android and iOS and simultaneous attack Android as an inferior product, I have to shake my head. When they attack Google's privacy policy consolidation when they offer no transparency about user data, offer no removal tools or liberation tools as Google does, I shake my head. When they hype IE9 and dog on Chrome for lacking features that Chrome has, in reality, had for years, I shake my head.

Build something awesome and I'll happily come back. Live.com gives Microsoft an opportunity to KILL iCloud and beat Goog/Android to the punch with a really good platform for syncing between devices and making your data ubiquitous across all form factors. But instead they're attacking people on Twitter and trying to convince me that their products are something they're not.
This idea while seductive has not panned out in practice in the past - lisp machines have tried this niche before. Orthogonality between different layers of the stack actually encourages loose coupling and allows for flexibility and innovation.
Wow thanks for this, so Chrome is not colour managed? That seems a shame, since it virtually cuts out all photographers as users...
I believe this is testing a false premise. The premise is, that when investors think the market is going to go up in the next month, they move money into mutual funds, and that when investors think the market is going to go down in the next month, they move money out.

I'm sure some proportion of investors move money in and out of mutual funds based on their market expectations, but I do not believe they do so with a single months time horizon, nor do I believe they are the majority.

I submit that a potentially quite large proportion of investors-- especially in mutual funds-- are not doing this, but are instead moving money into those mutual funds each month as a percentage of their paycheck goes into their 401k or into their savings plan. Further, some large proportion is likely investors moving from one mutual fund to another, while others are cashing out because they retire, etc. I bet a check on your flow dates to see if its correlated with an annual peak in employment change dates (e.g.: what month are people most likely to retire, or change jobs?) might find some correlation.

Worse, if I'm reading it correctly, this plot shows the return of the asset class over the course of a single month.

This means that you're assuming that these mutual fund investors are trying to time the market on the scale of the expected return within a month. This seems implausible to me given that mutual funds are managed and thus not well suited for timing (a lot easier to time the earnings announcement of Google, for instance, than guess what moves a mutual fund manager is going to make in a particular month.)

I suspect that most investors who choose mutual funds have at least a years time horizon, if not 5 years or more.
On the other hand, it bears mentioning that you can be racist in your choice of selection criteria, if you choose criteria based on their ability to produce a certain racial outcome.

The use of a poll tax people have to pay in order to vote isn't racist per se, but in the segregationist south, poll taxes were used as a mechanism to suppress black votes because they knew (disproportionately poor) black people would have a harder time paying it, and this use was racist.
On the other hand, a massive chunk of world problems are rooted in people screwing up and then failing to acknowledge that fact and try to fix it, instead sticking to the faulty course and doing much more harm. Here we see a person eagerly accepting their failure, which is a good thing.
I'm like three blocks away from that address.. Can I just come by and pick one up? I'll bring you coffee :)
Here: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/08/peek-l...
Thanks for the suggestion, Charles! Enlarged the font to 14px earlier today.
Another cool trick is setting up a script that constantly tries to set up x2x between your laptop and desktop, tunneled over ssh. As soon as the laptop enters the local network, you can use the keyboard and mouse of the desktop on it, no cable connections necessary.
The most amazing thing about SSH tunneling is that it is always on, even if there is NO SHELL CONFIGURED for the user.
""" Spending 2 years doing something you don’t enjoy is a full 3.4% of your life. What are you getting back for that investment? Money? What are you going to do with that money that will be worth the non-refundable 3.4% of your life? An extra room in your house?"""

This is beautiful. In a world where everything has to be justified by "the bottom line", it's easy to forget why we're making money.

Along those lines, I also found "The Secret Fears of the Super-Rich" to be very eye-opening. (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-f...)
I have to admit. I found the pricing structure on Fastly, very confusing.
Are you someone affiliated with Fastly?

I'd be quite interested in it as a service if it can help me handle high volumes of traffic on a server thats running as a shared hosting account negating the need to move to a dedicated server.
Milkens Journal of Economic Policy puts Bitcoin on the cover 
Also: a link to the full spread article on bitcoin in PDF format, http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/review/2012_1/22-31MR53.pdf
Start small.

Teach them the core basics, and give them a template they can use to get new programs up and running. You want to teach core programming concepts, but not lose them in the overwhelming nature of getting going from scratch.

Once they have the basics grasped (base types, variables, setting values, comparisons, arithmetic, etc), give them a small project based on something they're interested in. Maybe it's sports, so have them write something that would help a manager keep track of his players, their stats, etc

Maybe its cars, so have them write a program that helps someone keep track of car parts, or car information, etc.

The key will be engaging them and getting them to understand how to apply what they learn to real world situations and needs.

Just my 2 cents
> MathML is hard to write and harder to read.

That's what tooling is for.

It looks like a great solution for including Math in html, only the browser support seems to suck. No Chrome or IE support without the use of a plugin.
Well, as you probably know, going meta is also often downvoted.

As for your assessment, the two features upon which your sarcasm was centered were obviously among the most trivial mentioned. Therefore, there was little invitation to respond to your argument based upon its merits.

Sometimes of course, one just makes a snarky comment and lets the karma fall where it may. Maybe if you had a few hundred karma points, it would be an option.

As for the flagging, on most of the internet it has long been socially acceptable to praise Apple and disparage Microsoft in public forums - Apple of course encouraged this sort of thing with their long running "I am a Mac/PC" advertising campaign.

This social norm is actually one of the issues which got me interested in Apple and their advertising and the way in which people who like their products feel free to act in public - seriously, every time the Macbooks get a new case or port or processor upgrade, there's been a front page story here on HN.

Google of course doesn't have that luxury of a huge consumer following - people use them by default e.g. as their standard search engine or as the free touchscreen smartphone. And they are smart enough to know what that may mean over the long term - particularly when handset manufacturers now have agreements in place with Microsoft in all probability due to their rush to ship Android.

Is there a concerted effort to flag Microsoft stories? The killing of stories from WinSuperSite is consistent with it. The killing of the "Gmail Man" story is consistent with it as well - particularly given the quality of the discussion which was taking place.
Well, it's the truth in my experience. Very rarely will I ever see anyone that is pro UHC tell me the the things that are wrong with it. Same with the people that love ruby.

I love PHP, but I freely admit there are issues. I love private care, but I also admit it has problems.

It's this sort of intelligent discussions that we need for me to take those sides seriously.
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Can anyone break/ID this code?
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I don't so feel bad for Eduardo anymore…
An example of the problems with "x-", specifically in the BitTorrent MIME type, can be found at https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20440.

Bram writes:

> I used an x- mimetype becaues IANA says that you should do that when your

> protocol isn't approved by them. Of course, they want everyone to get a

> mimetype without the x- approved by them eventually, which involves a

> compatibility breakage. I see no need for that pain, especially since

> collisions in the mimetype namespace never happen; One of the nice effects

> of it being a string rather than a number.