skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While he's not entirely incorrect as entrepreneurs do need to be somewhat irrational to carry their beliefs to fruition when nobody else sees what they do, why would you expect someone who has probably never worked outside the education system, and if tenured can't be fired for outright lying to students, to have a unbiased or rational opinion about something they know nothing about?

My recommendation is (a) CLEP out of the course if it's required, or (b) ignore the unsubstantiated bias (that's found in many schools these days) and try to find some nugget of truth in the drivel he's shovelling.

When you find a professor who has experience in their field, is open minded, and actually keeps up with the current thinking on their subject matter, it's a "fantasticalicious" experience to learn from them. Sadly, they are few and very far between.

If you're going to school to become an entrepreneur, I can say with substantial experience that you are wasting your time and money.

Entrepreneurialism is NOT something that can be learned in school. It must be learned in the trenches. In fact, I believe that post-secondary education is the antithesis of entrepreneurialism.

If you're going to school to learn Business Admin, goodonya. Stay on task.
I'd say you're probably wrong on that. The Thunder are hated by Sonic fans for the most part. The Heat are generally disliked in a way that the Yankees, Duke basketball, and the Patriots/Cowboys are. Heck, the Lakers or Celtics might even be above the Thunder on the list of most hated teams in the NBA.
While I agree with most of your post, I do have to take issue with this statement:
"There is serious risk to using Tor in Iran."

While there certainly is a chance of getting in trouble for using Tor, I wouldn't classify it as "serious risk." The government in Iran faces a situation w.r.t. filter circumvention similar to what the US faces when cracking down on illegal file-sharers. From my (admittedly limited) experience in Tehran last year, anyone with even a little computer know-how will have either some proxy service or Tor installed on their computers. The more knowledgeable ones have their own VPNs. Most use it to get through to Facebook and chat with their friends. It would be impossible to persecute everyone who's used circumvention tools without emptying half of Tehran.

The government certainly doesn't shy away from the measures you mentioned, but they generally go after for more grievous "offenses" than browsing the internet through Tor. Being gay, for example.
With euro zone melting down, bitcoin replacing hard currency for some
There's no contradiction. Normally, the x86/64 memory model is quite strong, preserving LoadLoad, LoadStore, and StoreStore ordering. But doesn't preserve StoreLoad ordering; eg. stores can be reordered after loads, as you point out. As I understand it, that's mainly because there's a limit to how quickly each store can be seen by other processors.
Blekko has a free API to search the web
The health freedom fighters attack
> What does Vim offer that gedit doesn't? I guess I don't understand the main difference.

It's about the modal editing. It's a completely different paradigm for text editing. It changes the way you interact with your code.
Very important point. E. coli describes a range of organisms that share about 14% of their genome. For comparison, all of primates share over 99%. The strains everyone uses for genetic engineering are derived from strains isolated many decades ago and are incapable of colonizing hosts. They've also been selected over the years to be hysterical (they over respond to any stimulus, since when you're picking colonies to study response, you select the bright, clear one...and if you do it again and again over the years, you select for hysteria).

Poking around, I couldn't find the strain they used. They might have engineered a gut isolate. They might not. Doesn't appear to say anywhere.
Meh. I have an H1B who makes about 25% more than the rest of his team in the same office because the prevailing wage is higher than my company's standard wage. It cuts both ways, depending where you are and what industry you're in.
Blaming problems on DNA is lazy for both people and companies. We have higher mental faculties to surpass the shortcomings of our DNA and "human nature", the scapegoat that everyone loves, and Zuckerberg has teams of people with higher mental faculties (higher than most) to shore up Facebook's mobile strategy.

Besides, what does DNA even mean for companies? Nintendo started out in Japan almost 100 years before the NES was launched. I'm sure that had this analyst been there when the NES launched, he would've dismissed it as a product doomed to fail because video games were not in Nintendo's "DNA".

Linkbait is what this article was.
See my other reply: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4101878
Any suggestions for what I should ask Adam? We're recording his Mixergy interview tomorrow about Hipmunk.
It's worth pointing out that Erik Spolestra and Scott Brooks are also two brilliant tacticians.

Examples:

1. Kevin Garnett of the Celtics had been troubling the Miami Heat's inside game during the Eastern Conference Finals (partially due to the absence of Chris Bosh). Bosh is fully healthy for Game 7, and he has a great jumper for a big man, so Spolestra plants him in the corner during the crucial 4th quarter of Game 7. Bosh hits three 3-pointers, forcing KG out of the paint to cover him. This is perfect for the Heat's isolation offense, as it rotates 6'7" Paul Pierce into the paint. Lebron/Wade spend the rest of the game driving on Pierce, while Bosh and KG hang out in the corner. Game over.

2. Serge Ibaka is an excellent shooter given his playing style (big shot-blocking men often shoot poorly unless your name is "Kevin Garnett" or, to a lesser extent, "Tim Duncan.") Brooks knows he shoots well, and runs both Ibaka and Perkins for extended minutes during Game 4 of the West Finals against the Spurs. The Spurs only have an aging Tim Duncan defending the paint, and his focus on Perkins means Ibaka makes all 11 of his shots, many in that troublesome midrange area. The Thunder take Game 4 before taking two more to advance.

This series will be incredible. Two teams equally matched in skill and coaching acumen. Can't wait.
Many people find the incessant game posts on Facebook annoying. Perhaps that explains some downvotes.

But I do agree with everyone. :) Yes, it's annoying. Yes, it was a fad, initially. But yes, there must be some enduring value in the business model, after the bubble bursts and people start thinking more rationally about it.
The app is open source https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
Short version: Using a number(six) of dedicated video cameras around the venue and (a lot of) image processing.

There is a nice article in wired about it(include a picture of one of the cameras and the view from another)
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/04/nba-data-revolution/al...
Poll: Which JavaScript framework do you use?
Publication date April 2011. Previous submission with more than 200 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364922
They have 0.60 cash and investments (both short term and long term) per share. Last quarter they lost 0.12 per share.

You may call their business a real business but fact of the matter is that "real business" is handing them huge losses every quarter, so if they do not improve things drastically soon, that cash will not last them long.
Would love it if you could share your experience running Win 8 in dual boot on the new Macbook Air. ( I am also considering this option)
You should hope to be better than Amazon.
If you stopped read at this point you missed the main idea of the essay. It is excellent.
In the same vein, "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin should be mentioned in the same breath...

http://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-A-Novel/dp/160598129X...
I was commenting on the Roman practice of appointing a dictator. See my direct response to you for some thoughts on the democratic peace theory.
Park.com: find free vacant parking from smartphone or online.
Others have already said this, but let's get it out in the open once and for all:

Biochemistry has no relation to computation.

Neuroscience has no relation to computation.

Anatomy has no relation to computation.

Ecology has no relation to computation.

Someone using an computational image in any of these fields is trying to impart a sense of familiarity for his audience. If you actually want to learn any of these fields, you need to build your thought processes from scratch. No part of you works like a computer.
They're just saying that based on the hype that all their teenage children made back when MySpace was their thing and it's "style as you want" method made for horrible page after horrible page made for teens.
How To Get Maximum Results When You Have Too Many Ideas (The Superstar Effect)
No... it isn't. In fact, including free throws, which are a completely different scenario than regular shots, would be misleading and furthermore, not any more complete. Free throws and shots are very different: free throws are taken with time and preparation, from a fixed location and no defender. Shots are taken on the clock, with whatever defense the opposition can put together, no preparation of the shot--they are much more fluid and require a different (albeit related) skill set.
Cost/benefit I imagine. It makes the widgets much simpler to manufacture, distribute and use.

And the risk, from what I can see, is pretty low. It would have to be a very focused attack to clone my card & get all my auth info for my online banking account since the two sets of data (card + online auth) don't intersect anywhere normally.
True, but Thunderbolt is the newer technology. I recognize there might be some bias going on here, but the truth is that buying a display port display right now feels a bit like buying a S-VGA CRT to me.
Great! Good luck Archit. Good work.
Please do not be a contrarian who buys ZNGA. You will probably lose money.

They have 3,000 employees,[1] even though their business model revolves largely around cloning[a] games that are simple enough for very small teams to create.[2] They're losing money; their EPS is -1.30.[3][4] Just because they have cash from investors doesn't mean that the business model will make significant money in the long run and it's made more complicated by the fact that they have a very heavy dependence on Facebook.[5]

They're also dependent on casual gamers (who don't have much loyalty or will to pay) and current trends.[b] Apparently, only 2% of their customers pay for their games.[5] Their stock market valuation seems largely mapped to their active user count[6] (and also Facebook's share prices[5]) rather than their financials.[c] In fact, I can't even say that they're overvalued because that involves looking at the P/E and with a negative EPS, I can't really do an apples-to-apples P/E comparison of Zynga against companies that are actually listed as profitable. Is a -3.8 P/E overvalued?[4] It certainly is risky!

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[a] They also buy some companies behind popular games too, like OMGPOP. This isn't necessarily a good idea.[7]

[b] The use of the term "game craze" in the title of the parent article implies that part of the reason ZNGA has a valuation in the billions is because of the current trendiness of Facebook games. The problem with relying on trendiness for investments is that when there's something even trendier (i.e. mobile apps), all the investor money that chases trendy stuff could simply go there instead.

[c] It was a popular dot-com bubble plan to focus on market share with a free product at a sustained financial loss.[8] Of course, it's too early to tell if ZNGA will sustain its losses in the long run because its stock is too young. Still, it's very risky.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga

[2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/nbpromo/dearzynga.jpg

[3] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ZNGA

[4] http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/ZNGA

[5] http://beta.fool.com/buffettbeater/2012/06/11/dont-get-zynge...

[6] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zynga-falls-on-ugly-faceboo...

[7] http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/05/04/draw-somet...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bubble_growth
Sure, it'd be "easier" in a strictly literal sense. Just as it'd be easier to write these exploits on a system a 60" monitor.

The point is there's not a /significant/ difference; understanding code at a high level doesn't really help to attack it (it can make it harder, since the edges that you look for to exploit are precisely those parts you try and abstract away in a higher-level language), and the windows codebase is well-understood with lots of publicly available information describing in, even without the source code.
Facebook defends against claims that advertising on the site doesn't work
With a Mac Pro, you can stick the original keyboard in a closet. With a laptop, you'd have two keyboards, plus a trackball and a trackpad.
I was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I don't think Instagram is worth anywhere near even $100M. They have $0 in revenues. I think if they were to try to self-sustain themselves from their own revenues, they would have gone under, but what do I know.

That being said, ZNGA makes roughly $1B in revenues, which gives them 2-3x current revenues. I perceive that as being cheap, but I could very well be wrong. I'm just placing my bets, and if they don't turn out, then I'll sell at a loss.
Thanks for checking it out!

To be fair, Infernal Affairs is available on Amazon and as a disc Netflix will mail you. The optimist in me says this is where a site like this can do some good. Assuming viewers aren't wed to a particular platform, being able to see where a movie is available instead of searching iTunes, Amazon, etc. individually could make things easier.

As for competing with movies.io, my reaction to their site was "that's really cool - it's a shame there isn't anything like that for those of us who don't torrent", so I did my best to build one. I know right now it only works in the US, but hopefully working elsewhere is something I can add down the road. I don't really know enough yet about how to do that.
Thanks, I spent some time trying to figure out how I could configure this retransmission timeout. The SACK solution you describe sounds like a great idea.

Is that the optimum solution though? Could one, say, have two TCP connections and send the same data on both? This way, maybe when one connection experiences packet loss, the other can carry on. This probably doesn't actually work due to high packet loss correlation or something (I have no idea about networking), so it would be interesting to hear what experts think.

Are there any other relevant parameters to tweak in order to make TCP's performance slightly more like that of UDP? Working on an MMO game myself (for fun), so would be great to know.
Clickable: http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

Stanford had some role in fostering Silicon Valley. I don't recall the details, but if I were trying to "recreate Silicon Valley" I would research that and then see if there was a way to get a local college involved doing something similar. Then I would look at various incubators, their success rates and details of their programs and see what low cost things could be implemented. Even just fostering meetups locally might get the ball rolling. You do not necessarily need much resources to get things started.
Good to see input from noted Internet historian Noam Chomsky.
I recently discovered that bad software can really cause hardware to fail. I switched from using the proprietary AMD fglrx drivers to the open source radeon driver a few years back. For some time, my notebook has been running pretty hot after being powered on for a few hours, even when idle. I always put this down to a dust-blocked heat sink. When the problem persisted after cleaning out the fan and heatsink and replacing the thermal grease, I started to research other causes. Turns out that clock gating, a technique that clocks down the gpu when it is idle in order to save power and reduce heat output, is disabled by default in the open source radeon driver [1]. However, I discovered this too late - the constant overheating has already seems to have damaged the gpu to the point where random color artifacts appear on the screen and the system will freeze after being powered on for a few hours.

So as it turns out, Linux may really be bad for your hardware. Still, there's no way I'm going to stick with Windows on my new notebook.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Powersaving
They're probably all "brogrammers".
I don't mind putting in the date really. 25/3/1982 seems to be really unambiguous and clear - well a date control could be added, but I don't think it is needed.

I have questions on passwords though. What's the reason you made this? Also what could be the worst case in sharing the password with an unknown website?
Show me the super racist racism, please.
But the "vanishingly few" are often the most significant features of a particular years iOS upgrade, whereas Google's 1st party apps are for the most part decoupled with the major differences between 4.X and 2.X being UI.

The situation is much more nuanced than you state.
It was clever the first time someone did it, but it's old-hat by now
"I’ll explain why in a future post."

The suspense is killing me. Now I want to know sooner than later haha.
This and fact IE/Opera do not have websocket implemented, makes me come back to good old Flash technology

See socket.io for something even better.
The interesting thing is that ember.js does exactly that. This guy will not like ember if he's browsing around with JS disabled.
Or election mistakes. Democracy assumes people's choice is independent, though it is not. We are still very exposed to manipulation.
You can remove your number as a backup source and restrict it to only use the app and the printed backup numbers.
Yes. You can disable it.
not starting idiotic foreign wars.

Don't be tedious. Even if the US didn't start wars there are a whole lot of guys deployed overseas who don't go to war. Peacekeeping missions, humanitarian aid, operations other than war, etc.
Am I the only person that images my manufacturer's HDD when I first get a new box? I thought that would be fairly standard operating procedure for any geek who wants to avoid this sort of crap.
"In the study, which follows up on another report done last year by comScore called the Power of Like, the research firm found that being a fan of a brand on Facebook causes people to purchase that brand more frequently.

For example, comScore tracked people who were Starbucks fans on Facebook against a control group of people who weren't exposed to those messages. ComScore found that over a four-week period, fans and their friends bought 38% more frequently at Starbucks than people who weren't exposed to the Facebook marketing."
Thank you. Appreciate it :)
Not as SPDY as You Thought
You could fallback to a Flash implementation of WebSocket, and use the native browser implementation when available: https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
Apple exec via NYT: New iMacs and Mac Pro ready in (probably) 2013
Would you even trust the lowest-bidder factory where the card readers are made?
Ohhh, I just didn't get the UI!

I just saw the netflix logo on the right and the text about "Netflix Instant not found" above it. So my brain turned this into "There are two sources for this and both aren't available".
Is "better design" or the agony feature really a sustainable competitive advantage? You're clearly on to something, but why can't someone just copy what you have?
I'm impressed with your persistance! For the activities you list in "How I found work" ... did you start these before the first month? I'm curious how long it takes to get work flowing through the pipeline.

The blog seems interesting and I wish you the best of luck. I think I hit a bug though ... When I make the font larger/smaller, the different elements of the screen move around and reposition themselves for a few seconds after. Also, the code samples disappear in an hap hazard manner. Am using Chrome on a MacBook Pro.
There's unpopular speech and then there's being a dick, which I'm certainly guilty of on occasion in the past, but I try not to make a habit of it. I operate a website, and assholes are undesirable when you're trying to build a community. If you are unable to behave yourself like a decent human being, then you can fry for all I care; mean people suck.
Let me know if any other frameworks should be added to the list.

Also, if you would like maybe provide some reasons of why you chose a particular framework.
Facebook colonization of the world progress report
Yeah, its not the simple - you can't just take a look at the data and tell the players, "take these shots, not these shots." Generally, you get a sense of where you're most effective and where you're not, but either the offense doesn't set you up that way all the time, the defense is doing too good of a job, and the shot clock is running out.

Bottom line, IMO its really helpful to look at these (I love data visualization) but you have to be careful not to fall into the trap of oversimplifying.
It uses TOTP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Al...
Pusher definitely too expensive for a project with no revenue model behind.
FYI, we could not hire anyone. Finally, we lost those open reqs because management decided so. Most smart engineer we interviewed, ended up having multiple offers from more cool companies.

it would have been 85k-95k for an entry level. In short, it was up to the standards in bay area for skills and experience.
This is interesting... I'm not as negative as the rest of the group seems to be, but maybe that's because I think cell phone service is a rip off already. This would actually save me money if I switched now, but I would lose the unlimited data plan. Maybe I care, maybe I don't. I have very rarely gone over 2GB, and my wife never has so we could likely share 4GB. But we have 2 kids getting to the age where my wife thinks they need cell phones (and they think they need iphones). Assuming they get dumb phones now, that's an extra $20 a month, plus we bump up to the unlimited family text plan for another $10. And that is a reasonable amount. Especially since we shouldn't have to bump up our minutes because they would mostly be calling us and those minutes don't count. It would cost twice that to add two dumb phones in the share everything plan. But the overall price difference is only $10 more. And as they start to use more minutes, and our third child get's old enough to have a phone, I could ultimately see it being a real savings. Depending on data usage I suppose.

Paying an additional $10 for a tablet or laptop doesn't make sense. Except it is a proprietary network, and they can charge you to access it. Similar to how extra cable/satalite boxes cost money (I realize it is a rental cost usually, not something you own, but I feel the idea is similar). Right now to add a tablet, you are paying an additional $130 premium (in the case of the ipad) + $30/month for a 3G/4G tablet. That doesn't make sense to me either. With the share everything plan, it is $0 extra for my phone to be a wireless hotspot, and now all of our wi-fi iPads, iPods, Kindles and portable gaming devices have access wherever we are. Right now, that would also be an additional data plan.

I don't think these are the only plans they will have, (the old plans aren't going away) and obviously how much sense it makes depends on the individual situation. But I like it as an option.
I've used Typefrag's livechat feature and it was very useful for finding out information about why my ventrilo server was down and when it'd be back up. Which is what instant connection services are for in my opinion, contacting to ask questions and get answer immediately not to get things sorted at a level that would require any sort of changes.