skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate on the "structured data" and how it's gonna be useful? To the average user, it seems like the biggest value proposition here is the ability to keep your posts private. For those who don't need to keep things private, how is it better than using Pinterest?
ugh. This is pretty bad. You should send a message asking for credit.
Hey! Great questions all!

1) We haven’t picked a place yet; but we’re talking to places in East Bay. The likeliest location we’ve seen is in downtown Berkeley off BART.

2) We’re trying to do both. If we place the student at a company we’ve partnered with, we’d collect a fee from that company. But the long-term success of the program is going to be measured by the percentage of students who are ready for and get jobs afterward. We’d want our students to talk to all companies, not just ones we’ve partnered with.

3) We do have a curriculum planned and are running a small trial class in advance of the summer session. We’ll have students working on Ruby basics in advance of the course, and we’ll run a web-based kickoff class to help them prep a few weeks before the official start date. In addition to that, we’ve budgeted three weeks of class time with Ruby and Obj-C to get them up-to-speed with programming fundamentals. We’ve based that timing off of other programs. We’ll jump into iOS then.
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John Boehner is on the ball.

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You know what else has been deleted? Jobs in the Obama economy. Where are the jobs? #politwoops

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You would have to flash the BIOS to get past the Verified Boot security.
This looks like a cool idea. I have both Mac book air and iPad, but I need synergy like this!
You don't have to imagine a horse expert getting upset about unrealistic portrayals of horses. Check out this take on the Spielberg film _War Horse_ for a lack of "agricultural realism:" "Ploughing that stony virgin (never ploughed) field with a team of sturdy cobs would have been improbable; with a puny thoroughbred it was ludicrous."

http://www.riverford.co.uk/feed/in:news/ploughing-spielberg-...
I've stabbed at it, but what came out had a circular dependency in it; the only way to understand the text that resulted was if you already understood the text. About half the stab attempt is at http://www.jerf.org/iri/blogbook/programming_wisdom , with another half just sitting on my hard drive (which is what has the stab at a discussion on exactly what I personally meant by conceptual purity), but until I figure out how to get past that circular dependency it's probably not going anywhere. And I suspect what I'm trying to do there is simply not possible.

Oh, and this expands my Haskell point: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908
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I teach an intensive "Programming for Bioinformatics" course that, in just about a week, goes from "here's the terminal" to having people comfortable (if not completely proficient) with programming. From there, it's possible to dive into deeper stuff.
A couple UX suggestions for you.
1. Display the price on the landing page
2. Have the logo at the top clickable to the app store. That's where I clicked first, and didn't get what I expected
I can tell you that a huge international bank (as far as "progressive" as you can get) went Google Apps and ditched Office, so your thinking might be a bit off.
You're all wrong.
It's pretty clear they had to obfuscate what she really wrote so no one could use it to "hack into the mainframe," on advice from their lawyers to avoid liability.
Most likely, your desktop would have to print gold to make up for the difference in your power bill compared to a ChromeBox too. My desktop needs a couple hundred watts; my Google TV box needs closer to 10. Running a full-size desktop where you don't need the power is equivalent to a voluntary subscription fee versus a one-time payment.
You're right.I should have thought of that.

Correction Made.Now it shows one icon.

Thanks a lot!
> If you think gender diversity is important, a low FEM is bad and a high FEM is good.

This is just plain wrong. If you think gender diversity is a good thing then a FEM of around 50 would be good.
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They were locked and protected - no one could change them. But they were recently deleted
You make it sound like one needs to be Michelangelo before they can even attempt to.
> with some query it could take too much and the slowing down of the bar filling wasn't well met with both our users and our boss.

One idea I've toyed with, which adds some complexity, would be some random variation, so that you'd still get some faster jumps at the end, even though the average would be exponential.
How about "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"?

An excellent, excellent read on this is Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture". Available under CC as PDF or EPUB. http://www.free-culture.cc/

It explores the politics and history of copyright, copyright extension, freedom of use, and the importance of having freely available works.

My preference would be for a return to something much closer to the original terms of copyright. Limitations on publication, on registration only, for a limited time (14-28 years should be more than enough). Very limited restrictions on derivative use, disassembly, interpretation, or public performance (including mechanical nominal usage rates). No copyright protections for DRM. Much stronger Fair Use provisions and streamlined procedures for securing same for reasonable use cases.

The original Constitutional provision of copyright was aimed rather precisely at avoiding just what we have today: a powerful publishing monopoly with a strong interest in preserving perpetual copyright.

I'd like to see copyright ownership be unassignable (as you suggest). Derived rights could be licensed for a time, but would always revert to the original author. This would get past the abuses particularly in music and corporate works. European tradition allows for this in a weak form -- attribution rights cannot be assigned, but all others can ("droigt d'auteur").
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I should have looked for a name conflict first, I suppose, but my point is that "science" doesn't seem like the right word to describe most of CS.

I'm not saying it's incorrect, but it just doesn't seem to fit well.
For my next project I will make an app to interface with your app and I will call it HackerDo.me so that you can get a slick interface to your interface of really important discussions and news on make money.
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Commenting will be added in the next version.

I agree it is an important feature and I will finalize this asap.

To give you a concrete estimate it should be submitted and approved by mid july.
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A lot of the phone phreaking scenes in the movie were pretty real as well.
Thanks for the comment, I definitely agree that this should have been picked up in a refactoring. I've also been on other projects that go the opposite direction of abstracting everything to the point that you don't realize some function has already been abstracted so you write a new one!
The monthly "Who is hiring?" thread will be coming up tomorrow, which is a good place to put things like this, preferably with more details up front.
Black Hawk Down, Jarhead come to mind as modern examples of basically correct (though the behavior of some of the Delta force in BHD is overly exaggerated).
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>How's your standard units solution going to work when the users consider their input units to be part of the data? Are you going to store their units alongside the converted units and convert them back whenever you want to display? If so, you've just replaced Matt's example problem with an identical problem.

That's kind of my point. The problem isn't primitives. The problem exists no matter what you do: you still need to do conversions based on the user's inputs and the program's output.

>How's your standard units solution going to work when the users consider their input units to be part of the data?

In which case, the user will be inputting the unit and the amount, and telling me what units they want to use as an output. Internally, once this is passed from the interface, you convert the unit to your standardized unit. Similarly, when printing it out, you convert it back to the user's selected unit. Again, this is simply calling the convert function when the data is initialized, and calling it again when it's printed.

OO does not magically solve this problem. If you're storing it in the user's selected type, then every time any function accesses the data, they're either going to have to code around the different types, or call convert() to get it into the type they want. So from a developer's perspective, this is the difference from 2 guaranteed conversions(at input and output time), versus conversions whenever the data is accessed, and at output time.

>And don't assume you can dictate units to your users, there are plenty of situations in which the users and their units are vastly more important than the programmer's time and ease.

Actually, as a developer, you DO dictate units to your users if you're doing anything more than just storing and regurgitating the data. If the user selects a salbartifast unit, then you absolutely need to know how it related to grams, BU, or whatever else you're using in order to use it in any of your calculations.
Academics are notorious for their code, but I suspect the parent was talking about people in industry with a CS background.
That's a really really far cry from what you said in grand-grand-parent. From "there isn't a major international bank that will turn away American billionaires" to a numbered account in Switzerland, a country that's fairly unique in their bank secrecy legislation and tradition.
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I am not going to lie, I clicked that link expecting some profound insight into verification on the internet. All I found was 3 bullet points that can be summed up in the following sentence:

"Make it clear to the user they should verify with fancy and once they have, display it on their profile with a fancy button."

If someone does know where I could find some good reading material on what things I should be verifying and how much weight I should set on each metric. I would love to see them because I am currently toying around with some verification based things.
If you feel like hes really copied your work without giving you credit, approach him over email or twitter privately, and ask him to rectify it.

Make sure you keep a copy of the original, infringing slideshow of his, incase he tries to change it after the fact and cover things up.

If he is uncooperative or unresponsive, escalate the issue. Take it to other members of the MS team on twitter, on fb, etc etc. Avoid direct attacks on this persons character, and instead make sure to frame it as you, the original author, just wanting his proper credit. If you can build up pressure, at the very least he'll be shamed away from doing this sort of thing again.

But try to reach out to him in a professional, non threatening manner first. You might be surprised by the response you get
hmm. I saw somewhere it was characterized as highly hackable
Finally we may learn how it's possible what tiny fraction of those tens of petabytes of data (25? I forget) held hostage actually consists of content that the RIAA/MPAA holds rights to (back of the envelope calcs in another thread showed that there's simply not enough Hollywood movies been made to get to 5% of that amount, even if they were all encoded as 10GB BluRay rips--which the majority of movies produced is not available as).

It's the Porn Industry that should be suing for infringement, if anyone.

Even then, given the sheer amount of data stored on MegaUpload, IMO there's actually a fair possibility (though not a given) that at least a significant part of that data does not infringe anything. Copyright-infringing data is a finite resource, There's a huge amount of it, sure, but on the scale of petabytes it's finite and very non-trivial to get such amounts of it. Non-infringing but useful data, however, is still pretty much infinite at that level. There's logs, generated stuff, calculations, measurements, renderings, database backups.

It's guesswork, but I don't think it's improbable either. I'd really love to see a rundown of it, one day. And if it really turns out that a significant part of MegaUpload's data is indeed infringing content owned by the MPAA/RIAA, I'd be really curious to find out what part of my estimates were so wrong.
I can't imagine they wouldn't SIM-lock it. Otherwise it would just open up the possibility for people to buy a $500 iPhone from Cricket without any service commitment, and sell it for overseas use for $600 or $650.

Aren't the unofficial unlocks right now somewhat janky? i.e. they require one of those Gevey SIMs that are dependent upon having a jailbroken device, and end up making a call to 911 (or your country's emergency line) as part of the bootup process?
The demoscene is artistic expression, but only the output, not the software itself (it can be, but it isn't a precondition).
I assume that the mutex's memory is warmed, so the processor doesn't have to go to RAM. But, it does have to synchronize with any other processors/cores in the machine to prevent them from locking the mutex at the same time.

In a Intel Nahalem or Sandy Bridge system, this goes over the QuickPath Interconnect which has a latency of ~20ns. HyperTransport fills the same role in AMD systems, and probably has a similar latency, but I don't have numbers for that.

I'm basing this on this presentation, especially the architecture diagram at 2m 40s:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lock-free-Algorithms
I really wish we in the English-speaking world would stop calling it computer science and call it informatics, as is done in some parts of the world. Linear algebra, when applied to any practical problem, is almost always done by computer, yet linear algebra isn't called computer matrix equation science. The terms linear algebra and informatics make it clear that these are mathematical fields that can be studied for their own sake or as tools for practical applications in other fields.

People who majored in informatics would study such things as information theory, approaches to AI/machine learning, models of human cognition, communications (as in signal/noise, data compression, etc.), and so on, and would undoubtedly be required to take programming classes, where programming would be considered a tool to help people learn informatics.

People who majored in programming (wherever that was done, including industrial training and apprenticeships), would be required to take some informatics classes, where informatics was treated as a tool to help them learn to be better programmers.

Just changing the name to informatics would go a long way, in my opinion, toward clearing up the mess. Employers who demand CS degrees as if the degree meant "better-trained programmer" might think differently if they were called informatics degrees and stand in contrast to programming degrees (or certifications) that emphasized practical industrial software dev. And informatics departments would be freed up to be a more general resource to more than just programmers.
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And 3M was once a sandpaper company, who expanded "applying coatings to backings" into quite a few things.
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Was just reading the JTBD literature a few weeks ago. An obvious concept, but so oft ignored.
I loved how matter-of-factly he says

Naturally I couldn't help stitching a few screenshots together in Photoshop
Well, good luck next week! :D

My team has been debating about building something similar for years. I just want it to exist!
A traditional "price rocketing up" IPO looks impressive, but it also means that the company left money on the table. If the company itself didn't really need the money anyway, its owners might not mind this since they can just wait until after the price pop to start selling their shares.

On the other hand, the price slowly sliding down like it has for the Facebook IPO suggests that the company managed to earn a bunch of free cash by selling its shares at more than they were worth.

So this price slide could actually be very good news, from Facebook's perspective. As long as the purpose of the IPO was to boost the company's balance sheet. If it was a pure ego-boosting exercise and the money didn't really matter, though, then yeah this is bad.
I'm interested to know why age is one of the required fields. Will there be any preference given to people who are either "old enough" or "young enough?"

Making something like that required without disclosing why it's being asked seems like an invitation for people to supply false information in hopes of not being passed over for an arbitrary reason like their age.
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I think the same logic applies to 3-D printers.

How? In the one case, you have a situation where it is no longer necessary to have (or produce) the "thing" in order to use it. That is to say that you no longer need the CD/DVD or other physical medium in order to use the bits they carried.

Printed (or otherwise rapidly prototyped) physical artifacts are quite a different thing. Having the 3D model or CNC cutting paths of a physical thing is in no way equal, or even equivalent, to having the thing itself. If the time and cost involved in making a replica is greater than the time and cost of popping down to the shop to pick up the genuine article or of ordering it online and waiting for delivery, then printing's not at all cost-effective.

That's not to say that 3D printing (or subtractive RP) has no utility at all. One of its advantages is that it can be used as a relatively cheap substitute for maintaining parts inventories over extended periods of time—but only for some types of parts. And it is a good way of distributing low-volume decorative works, since the print price is not much higher than the per-unit price of low-volume tooling. (Or at least it will be when the resolution is sufficiently high, since most users are not likely to want to spend a lot of time chasing and filleting their print results.)
If you felt so inclined, you could add them back in for your own use since the code is kept on GitHub: https://github.com/newsyc/newsyc
I had the same thing happen with a site that did searches for, lets say hotel deals (not really but same idea). At the time expedia and all of the other competitors searches took a while with a loading page displaying for several seconds. But since their data was pulled in and cached locally the searches were as fast as any normal page load. They thought it seemed too fast compared to the industry and that people wouldn't trust it. So we stuck in a transitional loading page that lasted a few seconds.

As long as the client is happy, I suppose...
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There are several things that puts the Chromebox ahead:

1, It is as small, slick and quiet as a Mac Mini.
2, It is designed to run Linux.
3, The hardware is backed by Smasung/Google.
4, It has a freakin' SSD? Unless you're compiling AOSP or put all of you music on it, 16GB is some space to spare. I guess there are ways to expand the internal storage too.
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You can locally simulate a multi-server production environment. So dev is your local machine, test/staging are the VMs (web, app, db server, etc) on your machine, prod is in the cloud somewhere. Nice for freelancers who work on the go without a corporate server farm.

> but I very rarely have more than one or two cpu's utilized at once

CPUs or cores?
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> Dinner's ready when you get home.

Except that I got stuck in traffic, had to run an unexpected errand, etc.

Almost every stove that I've seen for the last 20 years has had a "delayed start" feature. Do you know anyone who has ever used it? I don't.

I don't think that the ability to trigger the timer remotely makes a significant difference.
I've been mentally composing a blog post entitled, "Programming is hard, which is why I don't want to do it" about the differences between "real programming" and computer science. The thesis is that "real programming" involves solving problems that are inherently simple but have loads of incidental state and details to mentally keep track of, whereas computer science involves solving streamlined, semi-pure instances of inherently hard problems.

I prefer computer-science because I don't like loading five windows and 18 tabs worth of incidental state into my working mind just to get any work done at all, but I greatly enjoy cutting away every impurity and irrelevant detail to forge a creative solution from the ore of a truly difficult problem.
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Yes. At the zoom level that's comfortable to read for me it disappears, which is why I didn't see it.
This is pretty cool and I think the naysayers have it wrong (there aren't many but still; and the pre-launch reportage was pretty staunch in mentioning delays).

Launching a rocket, berthing at the ISS (commercial company first) and returning back to earth (no other current spacecraft does this) is extremely difficult. Doing it privately on a budget is just as noteworthy...or more so.

News stories have highlighted the delays but will have little room to criticize the mission now (the only glitch I am aware of was a laser guidance problem which was quickly and adeptly resolved by SpaceX staff).

And as a web developer, it's difficult to imagine what it's like to build something with very long feedback cycles, little or no ability to test in actual conditions and extremely slim error margins.

Great job, SpaceX!
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