skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Sunnytrail about 6mths ago. At that time it appeared to be focussed on funnel and cohort analysis (the latter being why I checked it as at the time neither MixPanel nor Kissmetrics had it).

So this looks like a bit of a pivot?

This seems to be a "feature" existing in other products such as intercom. Not sure I'd want _another_ user tracker just for this purpose.
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Stewart Baker blogs at http://volokh.com/author/stewart/ . Although I don't always agree with him, he is often quite thought provoking.
"well-rounded students"

You're begging the question of whether or not Asian students are well-rounded. You just assume that, for the most part, they are not, and that it makes perfect sense to throw most of them out because they're all the same.
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I was very impressed that it was able to interpret "min" with "x-2" underneath it, but if I wrote anything next to it the interpreter failed. I tried writing the "min" bit on one side and putting a very large parenthesis on the other side of the sheet, but it still didn't work.

Also, it handles \overline wonderfully -- impressively differentiating between an overline and fraction -- but it has trouble with the \underline. \Underbrace isn't working so well, either.

Yet another difficulty - "1 / 2" is turned into "y_2". The horizontal fraction delimiter doesn't seem to be recognized.

Very impressive!
Is such a split between types of minds a real thing?
This is extremely cool! I could see using this to generate input for a paper--but a mouse is not the best input device--I'll have to test this on a tablet later--but, even with a mouse, the results were impressive (no hbar yet?)
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No. The client requests a server (Jetty). The server uses our SDK with the Java version.
And there's also the question of how meritorious high marks in classes and nominal positions of leadership in common high school organizations are. If everyone can do it, it's not exceptional.
I'd rather live in a one-button world
One addition:

Re: iOS -- Panic (makers of Coda, etc.) developed a _really_ nice little iOS app for SSH called 'Prompt'. It got some coverage here when it was released, and I immediately replaced iSSH with it and haven't looked back once.

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...
"was arrested at Dulles Airport as he was trying to get back into the U.S."

What the hell was he thinking? That he would be able to enter the US without being noticed?
I'd guess it would look a lot like Caltech.

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/12/why_caltec...

> A combined SAT score of 1470 (the 99th percentile by national standards) placed an entering Caltech freshman at only the 25th percentile among his fellow students. (At Harvard and Princeton, by contrast, the 25th percentile is reached by a score of only 1380)

> Only 4 percent of the U.S. population, Asians made up a whopping 40 percent of the incoming freshmen class in 2008, a slightly larger proportion than the 39 percent figure for whites.
The key point of the article seems to be embodied in this quote:

So we PHP people are good at failing early, fast and cheap. If you want enterprise grade fail, ask the java guys, if you want scalable fail, ask the c guys. If you want smart fail, ask the clojure guys. But early and cheap, ask us.

The claim here is that one can get to a working product using PHP substantially faster than with other languages. However, the article has no data to back this claim up. Indeed, one of the big goals of newer languages like Clojure, Python, and Ruby (the latter two not being explicitly mentioned) is to write code faster and with fewer errors. Java, while verbose, also has strengths: a great many excellent frameworks and libraries. This is also true for web development (e.g. http://www.playframework.org/). Including C in the argument is a little strange. As far as I've seen, it's one of the least used languages for deploying web applications these days!

In summary, I am wholly unconvinced by the claim of this article. And I say claim as it's missing any substantial argument. Does anyone have any actual data here? There are certainly many case studies for the newer languages and frameworks if you dig a bit. It's an interesting topic.
That's the thing, you do it as best you can and get sued when you can convince people you probably didn't.

Sometimes fairness is less important than not missing out.
It's not impossible to make tools that are easy for amateurs and powerful for professionals, but empirically it's rare.

The reason is pretty simple. Take any tool, like Notepad, and start making it better for professional usage. Pretty soon it's full of features and shortcuts that help professionals and confuse amateurs.

It's as it should be though. It makes good sense for professionals to spend more time upfront learning more powerful tools because the savings over their career will be massive.

The amateur won't see any benefit from spending a lot of time learning if they only use the tool for a short period.
The chat feature is pretty sweet for a new service. That's a nice job on the part of the founders doing the extra work to help people out. Nice job guys, and good luck!
End copyright.
Although this is perhaps an ill timed suggestion given that it is verisign in the news, I have long thought that DNSSEC would serve as a good mechanism for distributing public keys.

Perhaps in conjunction rather than opposition to the current CA system.
It occurs to me that a place like Harvard could be as interested in what a class will look like at its 25th reunion as anything else.
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I'm going through a similar process, and reading your experiences is encouraging. Keep it up!
<blink>By the way, anybody who thinks that real craftsmen typically use the "best" tools available has never seen neither an artist nor a plumber at work.</blink>

Should go on top of proggit/hn (yes, including blinking tags :).
I did not think I was complaining about them, I just noticed that several of them drooped to 0 all at once. This has happened to me twice so it seemed like their may have been a pattern which is why I asked if other people had experienced it. It does not usually happen to my comments so it was out of the norm, especially given that some conversations have seen no action in the past few days. It could very well be coincidental, which is why I asked. If it conveyed as me complaining about being down-voted then I apologize it was not my intent.
It's through email.

If you use a fake email to signup, then you probably aren't that interested in that service. We curate signups, so that only the relevant ones are displayed on the Sunnytrail dashboard.

If there's no info about an email address, then we display info about the domain.
That would be interesting and troublesome at some intersects - because there are posts that are brought back up after a long period of time - maybe there should be a limit on the number of posts you can downvote within a period of time if they belong to the same person?
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I have two one for testing and one real account
also, they specifically tell you not to include batteries...
What would you do when there are still targeted attacks launched via compromised systems from random unrelated countries used as proxies?
Snark and sarcasm are often downvoted.

Though sometimes downvotes are used to express disagreement, downvotes should be considered editorial feedback - either you didn't make your point clearly, or your comment is considered likely to derail the discussion.

Use the "edit" and "delete" links, respectively if you are concerned about the karma score of a particular comment.

It is bad form on HN to complain about down votes.
What's dishonest about it?

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Controversial topics like these usually have a core "assumption" that the discussions and arguments always circle around.

The un-stated assumption in this case is that Asians, are for the most part, not well-rounded (and only focus on test scores), and hence, any reasonable admissions process that favors well-roundedness will result in an understandable (obviously!) bias against Asians.
The definition of 'hacking' by hackers:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/me...

"In fact, hack has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one which defies articulation."

so regardless, defining the 'hacker way', especially in the context of a massive corporation, is a bit ridiculous.
Karma does not get rectified, it gets balanced. So don't worry. If there is someone down-voting your comments out of spite, karma will get them, and you will find joy and unexpected abundance when you least expect it.
Wow that's sad he cut it down out of sheer ignorance and possibly laziness.

It's possible some wise people know of older trees but keep their mouth shut to protect them.
I'm actually a little surprised that this wasn't in place from the start.
Going to zero is always more likely with one point comments than with those deemed worthy of an upvote.
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Love the "a lot [more] goes into creating a desirable incoming class than grades and standardized test scores"
Yeah I thought it was, I ended up at SnapEngage because of it and It seems like a great customer service tool. Definitely seems like something I would love to have when we go live. Customers first!
That's very interesting, thank you. I might have to plug in my disk with the backup OS X install and have a play, then...
It is more of a curiosity as to whether this happens on HN. There is a cultural norm on HN that I believe goes against such behavior, so I was curious if it is actually happening, given that this is the second time I have seen this pattern. That being said, if it was truly happening and became widespread, I would consider leaving HN, which is why I am so concerned about it. One of the reasons I came to HN was the reduced amount of such activity. Please don't take that as a threat to take my ball and go home, it is not meant as that, rather I am just stating my values in a online community, and I would take that as a signal that much of that value has died. Given the value that HN has been I would hate to see such.
I believe I had two ah-hah moments about vim when reading this article. I love those moments! How I never knew about ]p is beyond me! I guess I should assume that something I'm doing that is annoying means I'm doing it the wrong way.
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Firefox scores 0% with NoScript installed as well.
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By "more fun" I mean program more.
A simpler way to do stuff like text wrapping is through scripting. I'm learning Rhinoscript right now, and soon RhinoPython will be released from beta allowing anyone with python skills to manipulate 3D form pretty easily. I agree though that there isn't anything truly simple for stuff like this.
Sure but I had 5 or 6 of them drop in the course of a few seconds. If I posted them in a row then I would assume that I am just having a bad day and not contributing value. But these are spread out among post that have died off, which seemed strange to me, many have sat for a few days with no activity and then they all dropped in a short period of time. It very well could be coincidence I don't rule that out. Which is why I asked if other people have seen the pattern.
Something occurred to me the other day with regards to integration, which mobile UX designers may or may not be aware of. What people really want is "Fat Cache."

Clearly, "thin client" was hyped and fizzled out, because it isn't quite what people want. They don't want a "thin client" to the cloud. A pure thin client is pretty dead when there's no network or the server's down. A "Fat Cache" would retain all of its functionality and the user's most used data. It would also have most of the advantages of thin client, namely invisible centralized administration. It would also ameliorate all of the disadvantages.

iCloud, Chromebook, and Kindle Fire/Silk Browser are all moves in this direction.

The focus of a computer user should be their data. This includes apps. The apps should also live in the cloud and just appear on all the user's devices. In fact, the user's application "session" should be in the cloud too. I should be able to start a session on a recipe app on my smartphone in the living room, then walk to the kitchen and just seamlessly continue my session on my tablet. No reopening the tablet version of the app, no repeating a search for the same recipe. At most, just one user operation to "open in tablet."

All these form factors should just be seen as interfaces to our data, just instances of a "fat cache."
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Yeah, rival-ness is not a binary value though. In a case where marginal costs of providing a service are very low, it's reasonable to describe it as being mostly non-rival.

> if Google hosted their map's as a torrent . . .

Then it would be non-excludable, which is a different concept from non-rival. It would be rival to the same degree as before, in that it would require marginal computing resources to use. Just the resources required would be coming from the user rather than the provider of the service.
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I wonder if they'll let me just stop by and pick one up, since I work about three subway stops away.
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>Standard graphics libraries which meet contemporary expectations is also unfortunately missing.

JavaFX 2, with rumored support for iOS and Android (likely WP8 if it has native code)
I can't see how this WP8/W8 "integration" could possibly be anymore "integrated" that what Apple and Google already have for both phones and tablets/hybrid devices.

I can see how:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544522
But did it bring the organization more revenue? In the past I've done some things in PHP that were horrible hacks but did help the whole company forward. Doing them right in the existing code base would mean rewriting a lot. Especially one of those hacks has gotten it's revenge on me when making it more flexible later, but in the meantime it did bring us substantial rewards.

To this day i'm still not sure what would be better: telling my boss "sorry, but if we want feature y, it will take 2 months (but it will we done right)" or "yes we can do that in 2 days but don't expect the code to be pretty"
Ask HN: Teaching programming to high-school students
I have volunteered to teach (substitute) a split high-school class of Grade 11 and Grade 12 students, where the Grade 12 students are much more advanced. I have never taught high-school students before.

The classes are ~80 minutes each and there are four classes; Java is the language of choice. The advice from my friend, for whom I will substitute, has been:

- Use a lecture, work, lecture, work style.
- Use pair programming.

In a recent HN post, someone mentioned explaining algorithms using a paperless process: describe how to make a PB&J sandwich, which I thought was brilliant.

What other advice, teaching tools, or devices would you recommend that I use to help capture their imaginations and inspire the next generation of software developers?

Thank you!
What I found most lacking among my own relatively diverse class (relatively diverse for an engineering school, anyway) was actually people from areas with low cost of living, aka "poor areas". For example, the school boasted that the incoming class represented 49 of the 50 states; the one missing was West Virginia. And in general people from places like West Texas or other non-major-metropolitan areas were underrepresented. Also true among minorities; there were a few black students from Los Angeles and Atlanta, but none from Mississippi.
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thanks, this is indeed very interesting. I gave a link at a Russian wearable computing community:
http://ru-wearable.livejournal.com/107496.html
True, I've changed it to $1. I think this is a better price, especially for those (most people) that don't know me.

I'll also release a Chapter 0 all about pre-2012 in the next week or two.

Thanks!
Lithium batteries installed in devices are OK.

http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub52/pub52apxc_040.htm
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So a 4000 word article that includes character-by-character examples for newbies doesn't count as 'the minimal level of respect'?
Java has its merits. Close integration with the OS is not one of them.

We're at the point now, where OS and language should merge. There should be a user data-centric design, with abstractions for the underlying hardware, so that most applications can be written across all of a user's devices, with "skins" for different particular form factors.
Depending on who you ask, Eric is the current keeper of the definition of hacker:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
I'm actually quite satisfied in being a perpetual "vi beginner". With regard to Linux however, I started using it (professionally too) before most people (including IT professionals) heard of it at all. I enjoy puzzling my coworkers by declaring that I am "vi-ignorant and proud of it". :)

Anyway, I guess I just dislike vi because it's different from everything else. I like things that are uniform. That's what really saves a lot of time and effort in the long run.

On servers, I only require a few simple things of the editor; for everything else, there's always the command line or one of the P* scripting languages. On my laptop, I can install anything I want. Never saw the point in wasting time to learn an arcane editor from the '70s.
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If an average Caltech graduate has a higher SAT score than an average Harvard/MIT grad, does that translate to success later on in life?

For example, are there proportionally more Google employees from Caltech or more startups in YCombinator with Caltech graduates?
Surely merit does not include race?
Is Lua interesting, from a programming language design perspective?
Not anymore, it's on AWS now.
Plus, standardized test scores have a significant income bias. Affluent kids get SAT prep and can take the SAT multiple times if they're unsatisfied in their scores. And I don't have any data, but my guess is that there's a negative correlation between how many hours per week that you are employed while attending high school and your GPA.

These factors may be part of the consideration when accounting for lower quantitative admissions requirements for black and hispanic applicants, and those from lower income brackets in general.
How much should the shipping label be for?

EDIT: From posterous:

- a mailing label for a 0.5lbs envelope from Peek at 33 w 17th st, NY NY 10011 to you

- maybe mention some of your mobile dev qualifications out of interest

- maybe mention what you want to make
'basic functions' in this case being the subtle difference in two kinds of pasting that he already knows how to achieve, and is asking for another way to do one of the paste formats.
I read this technique in the Pragmatic Programmers' "Agile Web Applications with Rails" 5 years ago. It was already standard then.
Not sure if a Q&A format is the right format if you want to build a loyal community. It's not that conducive to forming connections and socializing with other parents, which is why most people join sites like these.
It's definitely evidence of bias with a naive prior (i.e. you assume that in other ways a higher SAT-scoring student is as good as a lower SAT-scoring student). Not proof of bias, but evidence -- in that you'd probably think bias was more likely than if Asian students who got rejected had the same average scores.

I think it's likely there is some anti-AA biasing in the admissions process. The alternate explanation, that higher scores on tests are more than cancelled out by lower merit in other all other categories on average, seems really unlikely.

The real question is how much of a problem you think that is. This probably depends on your personal system of ethics or morality. Or, more likely, under which of the two alternatives (pure academic merit, or some form of race-based admissions) you personally stand to benefit.
I think downvoting without commenting as to why is far more bad form than even complaining about downvotes.
Do you really need to use CAPTCHA? It increases the bounce rate needlessly in most cases.
early part of Harvard hacker culture diverged from the main culture before Mark got there..
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Obviously, ESR is talking about hacker users, and "Company X" is talking about hacker employees.
This should be printed on a piece of paper and put into a baked pastry.
Or more importantly, if cosmic rays hit your data in the wrong way.
it is illegal (and most would agree immoral) to discriminate on race

It is actually not illegal to discriminate based on race in educational admissions -- you just need to meet certain criteria (serve a "compelling interest" and not use quotas) to be able to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/michigan/
The account balance is calculated as a function of adding all the debits and credits together. Bank accounts are not stored as some kind of balance value that gets mutated over time. The balance is simply the result of some operation that is cached. It's quite simple. No ACID required. Most of these systems at large banks were built in IMS long before relational databases even existed.
Caltech explicitly looks for the top science/math/engineering students. These tend to be students with heavy focus on academics, and in particular these students universally score very very well on the math section of tests like the SAT. Harvard and Princeton, by contrast, look for students who excel in a much wider range of skills. Many of my most brilliant classmates at Harvard came in with abysmal SAT math scores. A brilliant actor, painter, entrepreneur, historian, debater, or even naturalist who can’t hack it in a calculus or physics course is never going to get into or survive Caltech, but might be entirely successful at Harvard or Princeton.

There’s nothing wrong with Caltech’s admission criteria (engineers and scientists are lovely people! I am one!), but it’s pretty stupid to boil down human ambition and accomplishment to the results of the SAT test.
if you're on linux, ctrl+shift+T usually brings up a new terminal window if you're running a desktop. you can alt+tab between these just like you can alt+tab between GUI editor windows.
> How is it different how ACTA got negotiated
> and signed and how copyright policy

It was a matter of 'national security' that no one outside of the negotiating body could see it... except copyright lobbyists. Apparently members of Congress (and members of other countries' legislative bodies) are a security risk to an international treaty that's all about how to deal with copyright infringement, but those copyright lobbyists are all on the up-and-up...
Try running [] + {}, then {} + [] in a JS interpreter sometime.
Homebrew also has a recipe for it.

brew install ssh-copy-id