skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very fact that the teacher allowed students to choose what they wanted to read, rather than the books that the teacher him/herself liked (which was the unfortunate case for me), is wonderful. Had I been afforded such a situation, it probably wouldn't have taken me 10 years (after High School) to finally enjoy reading for myself.
There is an open issue where updating location doesn't seem to be working for some people. I'll look into it, if you have any usability suggestion please get in touch: https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople/issues — thanks!
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/u/stevelosh/p/eve-working-around-evo...
Interestingly, there is some research to support the idea that ability to learn programming is a bimodal distribution. One interpretation of this was that people fall into three basic categories: those who cannot do the reasoning, those who can, but find it very unpleasant, and those who do it with some ease. Presumably most professional programmers would fall into the third category, but if there were some in the second category, that could perturb the distribution.

http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
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Then use 1Password - it's much nicer designed and you don't have to trust their servers too much
It wasn't just the re-learning that was a pain with the ribbon (although that in itself needs to be justified by some gain, which I just couldn't find in the ribbon that hadn't been found in the graphical tool bars in previous versions). It was that lots of functions weren't even there to find! You had to customize the ribbon just to access functions I used every day.

It also took up a third of my screen real estate on my netbook, so I had to choose the 'auto-minimize' option, and wait for it to slide open every time I wanted to change a font size. What a pain...
Awesome storyteller. My personal favorite was the short story "The Fog Horn". Don't know why. Maybe the bleak, lonely atmosphere of the story appealed to my then-young sense of angst. Who knows.
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May want to grab the last characters as the cracked passes have 00000 at the beginning:

i=`echo -n 'mypass' |openssl sha1 |echo ${i:14}`; grep $i combo_not.txt

This yielded success on some known passwords and a bunch of obvious passwords. Not mine, but I assume this dump is a list of the passwords they've cracked so far (i.e., even if your password isn't on this list - change it).
I'm struggling a little with how to word this comment. The straightforward way is "If people off oDesk are paying Americans $150 an hour for iOS development, and people on oDesk are paying Americans $30 an hour for iOS development, then American iOS developers should probably not source clients on oDesk."
It has a diminishing return/marginal utility, trust me :P

They are fine things to have, and it can be fun to try to make more money just to see how high you can push that number. It's foolish to think that hitting $150,000 will be much different from $75,000, or will bring you any more real happiness.

Keep it light, keep it fun, keep non-emotional in the treadmill and see it for what it is.
Food safety is more about barriers to entry than safety these days. The regulators have been captured by the industry and used to keep out competition.
Russia with 18.3 percent youth unemployment is missing.

[Source http://www.indexmundi.com/russia/youth-unemployment-rate.htm...
They have had the 45 degree view for a long time. You can spin it around too to view from different reference points (drag the N on the compass to see the other three available views or if you have WebGL just click the N).
The delay before the music started had me thinking it wasn't working... and then it was working very loudly. Did I miss the volume controls?
you could always put "set editing-mode vi" in your ~/.inputrc .. this has the advantage of affecting all programs which use readline, gnuplot, python shell, mysql etc.. I also put

"\e[A": history-search-backward

"\e[B": history-search-forward

in the ~/.inputrc which maps arrow up/down to history search.. more tips here http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_vi_shortcuts_in_terminal

zsh has a better vi-mode than most of the shells I've tried, although I can't say I've made a serious attempt at using fish..

the color syntax highlighting implemented in zsh is much slower than the fish equivalent though, and can be quite laggy ime
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Could you cite a figure for the 99% figure? Smartphones use them for data storage,... Fact is: neither you nor I know.

But anyways, the same applies to empty CDs, harddrives, DVD-Writers, ... So while I may store more audio on my SD-Cards, others store tons and tons of MP3s on their Harddrives or copy CDs - something I don't do. I still pay for that. I pay a little for what I don't use but they use and they pay a little for what they don't use, but I do. I guess such is life, it probably evens out in the end.

Sidenote: The GEMA is not a record label organizations and it does pay out. There's something horribly wrong in how they distribute the money among their members (the rich get richer, ...) and they keep roughly 20% in administrative costs, but they do pay out.
Wow - I knew they were bad at image attribution, but that's just plain awful. And these are just the photos from one photographer that have been improperly used! TNW clearly has a large gap in their reporting standards that needs to be corrected.
Probably a lot more useful than time...
Sorry to hear that. I'll rework the sign up workflow to make it simpler.
Funny, LinkedIn was one of the few services that made me do this after the Gawker fiasco
Truly awesome. Thanks for the link!
See a clause like that would be handy in a case like this, no restraining order because the landlord can't use the court.
I was just talking about this with my girlfriend, and while we both loved Bradbury deeply, what's odd is that our first thought wasn't of this being a tragic loss. The man lived to 91 - which is three times as long as we've lived so far. Ray Bradbury saw so many amazing things come to pass in his lifetime, and thinking about the things we'll see in our next sixty years is kind of inspiring and lends one a sense of awe. I kind of think that's what Ray Bradbury himself might have preferred - that his life and death inspire in us a sense of wonder. What a fantastic soul he was, in the true sense.
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And the fact that the teacher saw the flaw with the test and appreciated what you wrote. A teacher/professor who is unwilling to be wrong is the most dangerous kind there is. This teacher clearly was not one of those.
Would be easier to read if not for the yellow font on bright brown background...
But hey, I know how to remove background images from web pages now.
I took the step of markedly decreasing the information on my current legit profile. It includes my name and general title, but no job history. Public disclosures of connections, etc., are highly limited.

Having a fictional LinkedIn account can be amusing.
Wozniak? (Although "Woz" is more usual.)
What's in your lease might not matter, leases often contain clauses which are completely unenforceable which courts can freely choose to ignore if they believe the term is unreasonable.
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I've never used anything besides bash before. I use a terminal a lot, but don't really do anything fancy so I thought switching would be a waste of time. Reading the features in fish though made me want to give it a whirl.
Looks like he is solving the problem with projectors and motion sensing:
http://www.triplepointrobotics.com/blog/
(from his HN profile)
Could you explain what you mean with "nested sha1" - hashing it twice? How is this safer than sha1 + a good salt?
I'm a landlord and my wife works in property management. Here's why this is a big deal:

You're technically violating contract law and opening yourself and the landloard up to a ton of liability by doing this. Leasing and renting is much more complex than simply letting someone sleep over at your property. A property owner can get in some serious trouble if something were to happen (someone gets hurt, robbed, etc..) and he/she hasn't taken the correct steps to protect his/herself. Not to mention the issues around covenants, local ordinances/regulations, taxes, mortgages, and insurance.
My point still stands. There's funny and then theres blatent fanboyism. You're like a prepubescent teenager who doesn't understand the context of social situations so always says something stupid.
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You can see a quick overlay I made here http://dribbble.com/shots/592612-New-Twitter-Logo
The room is free, but the breakfast costs $150 :)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22use+bcrypt%22
Um, pardon the obvious question, but does someone have a direct link to the hash file?
Getting rid of the state owned propaganda channels is not an option because they're not exactly state owned nor are they propaganda channels.

And I'm not sure why I am supposed to prefer the brainwashing provided to me free by private channels -- free as in I pay for it once with further concentrated brainwashing in 3 minute segments and then once more when I pay the obligatory surcharge on everything because the money for those ads has to come from somewhere.
Yeah, "no thank" is the answer that comes to mind. The fact that they all dial home to a central server is a giant security risk, not to mention a single point of failure.

Given that none of the cable companies are exceedingly capable at keeping a connection up 24/7, this makes the imp useless for any devices in a typical home.
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On the plus side of it all; $20,000 still earned!

Not surprising landlords have caught on either, a good warning to anyone else selling their spare rooms.
I wish I could say that I was different from the masses, but I've definitely demonstrated a very strong preference for apps with "HD" in the name. That much will make me more likely to click on the app in the store to learn more. Ultimately, the screenshots are more likely to sell me than any other single factor (name, price, universal?, feature list, company, ratings).

Good screenshots give me an impression of not only what the app does but -how- it does it. I tend to shy away from apps (not tweaks, though) in Cydia that sound great but have no screenshots. I wonder if such a thing is true for most other people or if getting people to click through to the app details page is the only hurdle for most people.

Frankly, I feel that names would be less important if the app store gave the user more control on how to drill-down and filter results.
Yeah... this is why the San Francisco rental market is a joke. I'm pretty sure the standard SFAA lease is more or less designed to be broken, so that the landlord can toss you out if he needs to (because otherwise the inane rent board regulations would keep him from doing so even in a legitimate situation).

On top of that you have landlords who tell you "oh, such and such won't be a problem" even though it says in the lease that it's a problem and that the lease comprises the whole of the agreement. (cough hi, J Warvro and Associates, it's me again cough) And no one wants to modify it because it's too legally risky.

</semi-topical-rant>
Actually, it's because the landlord could get sued or even end up going to jail due to stuff you did if his contract doesn't protect him from issues resulting from the sublease. The #1 concern with being a landlord is liability.
If I post a PHP solution maybe zxcvb will get a heart attack.
there are some obsolete profiles to fill in, like pownce or magnolia. it certainly needs a freshening up. why you released it so soon before revamping it a bit? http://djangopeople.me/ filled the absence quite decently (except obligatory twitter).
The basic idea was to have a channel that is neither state nor privately owned. This is why the fee is actually not a real tax, the collecting agency is not a federal agency and explains some other idiosyncrasies in the system.

It worked out somewhat ok. I'd say it's better than the Italian or the French system, but far from perfect. Separation from the government could be stronger, ... All in all I'd prefer to keep and fix it over abandoning the split and turning it all over to a private player or the government.
Shouldn't We See It As A Problem When Patents Are The Product Itself?
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I've come to the conclusion that this list is genuine. While some people have said that they could't find their passwords in the list, I think this only points to the most probable reason in that this is a part list.

Password: "needajob"

Hash: e41b635974babd5d6e7d6dc68e8b3d2fc39938b2
Cracked: 0000035974babd5d6e7d6dc68e8b3d2fc39938b2
This level of compressions is only good for very low entropy data. Like HTML found in the wild from template code. But you probably are better off running whitespace cleanup, CSS removal and plain minimization. All that is just as fast and needs no decompression.

These compressors are only useful for a handful of cases.
This is Andrei. You'd be surprised; the interview was very difficult and I might have failed it just as easily. I got no C++ question (we seldom ask language-specific questions). Instead, my interviewers asked me questions related to my research and had me implement a classic algorithm on a very large data set and a simple ML algorithm. I recall at a point I got the curve ball of an NP-complete algorithm that had a polynomial approximation.

Bottom line, the Facebook interview is not easy, and we're determined to not make it easier even though we're hiring intensively. The upside is that you get to work almost exclusively with very bright people, which makes for a very palpable difference from the typical corporate experience.
The only part of your comment that is germane to the GP is that before his roommate left they could cover the rent without renting the third room. "Chris being a good friend" and "His listing was great value" are irrelevant.
Yep, I was listening to this yesterday and it got me thinking.
www.thewonders.com/multimedia/Ask_The_Wonders_May_19_2010.mov (2:16)

Q: "Can 0-point field energy be harnessed?"

A: "Have you ever heard of the Tesla coil? Use that more often, that's all it takes. Magnetic energy tapped into the planet's electromagnetic field produces more than sufficient energy to power the planet with approximately 258 trillion inhabitants on it. ..there is movements towards the technology but it is not yet truly being supported by governments. ..the financial, the technological aspects of it is alluding some of your scientists. ..we would suggest to them to simplify their mathematical equations rather than complexify them as they're trying to do."
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The directory ~/.config/fish should be there. However, you'll have to create the file config.fish inside that directory, if you want to use it.

I'd hazard a guess that fish_config may do that for you.
I'm pretty sure I can get "you can't charge other people money to live here" to stick. A no subletting clause is pretty standard where I'm from and it seems to apply here.
I actually see this as a good thing. Occasionally people will publish e-books using content that doesn't belong them, such as a compilation of someone else's articles, etc. This action proves that Amazon is trying to crack down on that sort of thing, which helps protect both customers and other authors.

I also think Amazon chose a decent method to verify the material by not simply pulling the plug on it and giving the authors a chance to respond.
If you don't configure your shmmax first, you might have a problem when tweaking the memory setting in postgresql.conf.

Relevant doc: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.h...
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I'm glad I saw this, because I didn't have an email or password set up.

In the future, when a major feature like this is removed, it would be nice to see a banner across the top for people who will be affected.
Nice work! Will it be possible in the future to write plugins as in zsh?
Do you remember when you first used this password at LinkedIn? It could help narrow the dates of the breach. Especially useful would be the presence of a strong password in the list that was subsequently changed. That might help determine its freshness, if the new password isn't present (although this may be an incomplete list from an ongoing breach).
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Your implied assumption about me was wrong. I did.

My non native understanding of link bait is defined as using hyperbole in a title to lure in readers. Do you disagree with that definition or with my application in this case?
I do this with movies sometimes. I don't always feel like watching things in my crappy local theater, so I'll buy a ticket online, and then torrent the film.

Still illegal, but.. my conscience is at least clear.
I understand what you meant, that's why I qualified my statement by saying your choice of words was unwitting. My point is that, precisely because it was not deliberate, your choice of words reflects a subconscious perspective that teaching is no different than other jobs, where formal qualifications and a professional attitude are reasonable substitutes for an in-depth assessment.

Of course, we could get into a discussion about whether that's a valid assumption for any profession, but that's neither here nor there.
Did Ellen Pao quit KPCB after the lawsuit?
GREAT stuff
From a slashdot comment:

https://disk.yandex.net/disk/public/?hash=pCAcIfV7wxXCL/YPhO...
There's a table here: http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
> Unless they're in a dogfight, airplanes do not require constant attention to the outside world.

This sounds like you're not a pilot. Pretty much the first thing flight school teaches you is situational awareness. Constantly visually scanning for nearby traffic is a very, very important skill.
404 errors are not due to lack of scaling. I can't think of a case where you'd get that.

Scaling problems will usually return 5xx errors, most commonly 502, 503 and 504.
We've lost a brilliant voice.

My favorite quote of his, from "Zen in the Art of Writing":

"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
Let's take a moment and see the amazing things that can be accomplished with AirBnB and marvel at the things that we do to ourselves with regulation which could make things like this practically impossible. Stifling business and innovation, deadweight losses to society, and all that economics jazz. Great for the traditional hotel industry, though, and whatever lobbyists they have at City Hall and in Albany...
There's no way in hell that would work. But this is Microsoft, so they may be arrogant enough to think it will.
Actually, the general tone seems to be exceptionally meek: he does say he was surprised, but I got the impression that he thinks he shouldn't be surprised. It reads much more like a "look what an idiot I was, and please don't repeat my mistakes" story than "oh woe is me".

There's a lot of people trying to rent out rooms on AirBnB now, and many of them think it's a "small issue," as likely to be ignored as, say, hosting a close friend for a month or two while they're looking for a flat after an explosive breakup. But it appears that a typical landlord disagrees with that opinion, and some shout-outs to that effect might be really helpful.
I've been using this for a while. Could have sworn I found it on HN.

Anyway, great utility, extremely useful and could well be the way native drop downs should work.
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I literally created my LinkedIn account only 2 days ago. And my password was in the list and cracked. Thankfully I don't use it for anything else.
Thanks, I really appreciate the context; didn't expect it. Though he still has other options... like approaching his roommate about the financial hardship suddenly imposed upon him, leveling with his landlord to get out of the lease, or finding a new (real) roommate.
node has a neat API for quickly knocking out stuff like this; it's a useful tool for more than just server code. Calling that comment fanboyism is just displaying the opposite of fanboyism, prejudice against hyped-up tools that nevertheless are good tools.
No. The way it's supposed to work is if you can access is, you've got to chip in. It's not supposed to be based on actual usage. In a manner of speaking, it's supposed to be available to everyone, even if no one was watching it.

You're not suggesting a strict improvement but a change, and a drastic one at that (essentially equivalent to a privatization), and I imagine you'd need a national two-thirds majority to change the constitution to implement it. I might be wrong about that, I don't know how much leeway there is regarding the implementation.

Just think of it as a tax, as essentially that's what it is, just a special one that bypasses the government to make it more difficult for them to exert influence on public broadcasting.
If you are a Django user, you should checkout django-choosen which makes it easy to use Chosen in your admin: https://github.com/theatlantic/django-chosen
The huge map on the front page fails to deliver on the promise "Discover users of the Django Web framework near you" - I can't, because the map only shows a fraction of the pins.

As someone has said before, load the data into google fusion tables and it's quite easy to show hundreds and thousands of points.
- Get users to sign up for HN.

- They get engaged in the community

- They get exposed to YC classes and start ups

- Talent is attracted to joining YC

- YC continues to get best talent

- Best talent attracts more/better investors

- Increases the likelyhood of start up success in incubator

- Profit.
On my iPad and the idle visuals look great, but it doesn't get past "loading" (no audio) and I can't click the github link.

I'll have to check it out on my computer when I go back inside.
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Electrostatic haptic feedback looks much, much, much more promising. Toshiba demo'd it two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j...
Ugly web pages are memorable web pages. I instantly forget the pretty sites. In the words of Evan Llewellyn Evans: Irritate!
'cutting edge technology called threads' oh wow
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I just changed my password. To test, I entered only letters and numbers all in lowercase. Linkedin accepts it even though the site says "should have upper case etc.".
You may have. I just found it this morning by clicking through a changelog blog post.
This is just a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073162
Really good stuff!

The only thing I find missing is that, with the keyboard on a multiple select box, I can't remove my 1st choice without having to remove my 2nd choice too. (So, for instance if I choose Polar Bear and also choose Brown Bear, I try to move my cursor between them in order to Backspace over Polar Bear but I can't. I have to Backspace over Brown Bear + Polar Bear in order to delete Polar Bear.) It would be nice if, when I used my direction keys, it would highlight the selected items individually and then let me hit Delete or Backspace on my keyboard to delete just that one.