skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what country you are in, but in the US, they will extend all kinds of loans to you. (That really is the problem). In fact, the less money you have, the better the deal for the loans. At some point in college my girlfriend and I wished our parents had less money because it would have made our cost (which we were paying) so much lower.

Do 1-2 years at a community college, 1-2 at a state college, and you have a 4 year degree at a reasonable price.

I got a merit scholarship, that lowered prices for me quite a bit. Others have noted that although advertised tuition has gone up, the average price paid by students hasn't changed nearly as fast. I.e. the rich people are paying sticker price and the poor are getting subsidized 'need' based loans. The only people getting screwed are those in the middle.
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Sure it's obsolete, who needs databases and live, chancing data. All we need is a static pages. Besides who needs to build his own infrastructure, it's 2012 right ? Let's buy it.
Was it this one by Raganwald?

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people
> and it is currently for sale in any configuration your heart desires.

... except for the one with a retina display and room for a mechanical HDD in addition to the SSD, which is what the OP was complaining about?

Seriously dude, read the post you're replying to first.
Nope, it's up. What browser are you using?
No shit, it's called disruption.
Peter Bright certainly does know what Windows RT is; the guy is known for in-depth technical reviews of all things Microsoft and Windows. The last page of this particular review includes the following:

"the ARM version of Windows, Windows RT, will bundle Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, all of which are desktop applications"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/does-w...

The review was done with the x86 version of Windows 8. I assume a separate Windows RT review will be available once the Surface ships in October.
Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools
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Just for curiosity's sake, I looked up Quantcast's demographic metrics on Yahoo! Answers:

http://www.quantcast.com/answers.yahoo.com#!demo&anchor=...

Female: 53%

Male: 47%

And interestingly, Yahoo.com's demographics are:

http://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com#!demo&anchor=panel-GE...

Female: 52%

Male: 48%

Whereas Google is:

http://www.quantcast.com/google.com#!demo&anchor=panel-G...

Female: 50%

Male: 50%

Looks like Yahoo does indeed have a slight skew towards a female audience. Dave may be on to something.
Canadian Online Survey Startup Leverages US Patriot Act to Double in Size
It's a different marketing block.

For example, target something for the Reddit.com users and you'll see 90%+ block ads.

With facebook granular targetting you could very specifically end up with a target segment with a large proportion of noscript type plugin users. Without more details on their campaign I would not be so quick to place blame purely on bots.
Hmmm... maybe more of an "opinion" fighter? I guess the terrorist him/her-self might consider themselves freedom fighters fighting for the freedom to do things their way but the other side obviously doesn't share their "opinion". Just my two cents.
I personally think this is why they're holding out on new Mac Pros until late 2013. They'll have Retina external displays, and enough hardware to drive them.
Steve Jobs: "Technology doesn't change the world"
Last summer Portugal released a bunch of information about its decision to legalize all drugs 11 (was 10 at the time of the report) years ago. Crime, addiction, and traffic were all down and rehabilitation rates (courts can mandate rehab but not prison) were way up. The U.S. certainly isn't going to be a leader here, but here's to hoping it will eventually be a follower.
Seems the solution is to really market to the creators of quality and useful API creators and build that with the promise of the users coming latter.

They app is really well designed and useful without the users there to the API creator.
I was once told by somebody wise that if a post asks a question, then the answer is usually no.

e.g.: Is Mountain Lion going to kill Windows 8? .. etc.
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Excellent, I'm writing this comment using the new version :-)

One request: when viewing comments from the ask hn section, it doesn't display the text from the question. Is this a pain to fix?
Happily you can use curly braces in Haskell if you really want to. You have the choice between:

do something 10
b <- somethingElse
something b

and

do {
something 10;
b <- somethingElse;
something b
}

I've only ever seen the latter style very rarely though. I think it's also good for generating code so that you don't have to worry about whitespace and lining your generated code up properly.
Agreed. Reasonably large chunks of material in A-list pubs was probably over the line of accepted practice. But way, way different from plagiarizing someone else or making stuff up. In general, I don't find anything especially wrong with judiciously reusing material. If I've explained XYZ tech in an article in the past, I may well cut-and-paste that paragraph, reworking it a bit for flow, if I need the same explanation again. Similarities might well be sufficient to be called plagiarism if it were someone else I cut-and-pasted.

That said, I would be a lot more conservative in the case of a commissioned article from a major publication.
> box == frame of reference == paradigm == system of thought == set of axioms, habits, etc, that fit together into a semi-cohesive whole.

Science is the process of changing boxes based on new evidence, without being constrained by preconceptions.
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Of course, Jobs would have spent the year before he died blasted out of his mind on very strong medications and analgesics.
It's buggy in Firefox, so I can't app tab it with the rest of my everyday tabs. A little disappointing, but no biggie.
Hey, they're still in business! There are more than a few businesses that went public in 2000 that weren't so lucky.

Pretty epic chart, though.
I don't think it's really fair to brag that your browser is the fastest when it willfully breaches the HTTP spec just to appear better than the competition. Is Chrome really better than IE, from an intentions viewpoint?

Also worth noting that Chrome does (or at least, did) cache items even that it is explicitly told not to if they are CSS or JS which can be absolutely infuriating.
> Because art deserves to be respected as much as physics when it comes to understanding the world.

"Because religion deserves to be respected as much as physics when it comes to understanding the world."

Is that statement still true?
When you're only using nginx as a CDN, then yes another CDN can replace it.

nginx can do a lot more than serve static files.
> To a non-journalist (who, in this case, is anti-fossil-fuel)

Was that necessary? BTW, I am not against use of fossil fuels. Misdirected ad-hominem.
This seems like a list of news stories than a reliable data source. Feedgen is obviously not active - try going to the site. i/o ventures doesn't even have any companies listed.

Nice list of company names though. Lots of really really bad ones in the list. Some clearly good ones.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
I don't know if this is really strictly true. There are a handful of people I know of who got hired at Google the "regular" way and they don't have CS degrees. One has an undergrad in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Pure Math, although he's worked as a software developer basically his entire career. I know people with Computer Engineering degrees who work there. And of course outside of core eng people are all over the place. Which is probably not relevant to your situation.
can you email us about the bugs? would love to investigate - contact (at) codecademy (dot) com.
I think this is it http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
The way I understand this is that they want to log who accesses their pages on FaceBook's servers.

I am not familiar with how things work on FaceBook, but I would think that FaceBook users do not have access to the logs that FaceBook's servers write.
This sounds like a defense of "truthiness" to me. A position not defensible with facts is an indefensible position. If you look at the media you find those corners of the media with an atmosphere of truthiness are those that produce the most harmful positions.
I only recently got an MSc in Computer Science, I'm in my late 30s.

Before this I never put an education section on my CV. I was homeless when others were doing their A levels and Bachelors.

What I found is that every employer simply filled in the gaps and assumed that I had a degree.

The choice I faced usually came much later when sat a lunch table one day someone would bring up a "What did you do at college?" conversation and it would eventually be asked of me. At that point do you answer to sustain their idea of you based on the assumption, or do you answer honestly and change their impression.

In the early part of my career it was simply best just to change the conversation (very easy to do, people love talking about themselves). In the latter part of my career I chose to just be blunt and open.

Being honest never hurt me, but I strongly suspect that lying would've hurt me hard.
How does 'using awk' count as a slight?

It was the proper add-on to the previous comment kids today don't learn awk. Becuase they have Perl, Ruby, and Python which are supersets of the unix command line tool set. Awk was the king in the years before Perl.

I never really learned to use cut, so I sitll use awk for one-liners the deal with columns in delimited-data text-files.
Agree. The urge to over-abstract systems seems to stem from the same human tendency to see patterns where none exist. In the latter, we ascribe hidden structure, in the former, we create hidden structure.
PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Launches Travel News Site Skift
Michael Moritz on the MUFC IPO
Avoiding the Times Paywall with this link.
Twitter's ToS* states "If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put on Twitter, it is not a violation of this policy." and it appears in at least one location online from long before this incident: http://www.fidei.org/2011/06/boycott-nbc-removed-under-god-f...

* This is actually not directly from the ToS, but a Twitter support page which serves to clarify the part of the ToS which states this.
Interesting the Ike's wasn't showing the Vader as a choice, its my favorite sandwich from them.
How much would it cost to be Batman in real life?
On the other hand I took a network course that spent most of the time covering the OSI networking model. Some parts of CS are timeless, some are not.
It does in this case:

"If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put on Twitter, it is not a violation of this policy."
Not saying that's not the case, but you have no data or knowledge to back any of that up. I wouldn't assume a problem is easy or hard until I've got sufficient info on it.

Too often I've heard "how could XYZ not have done this, fixed that?" Then have that same party sign on board to fix this "easy" problem and get themselves in a world of hurt.
How you can get hacked if you are using iPad/Safari/gmail
Perhaps this is evidence of Google realizing that they're putting too many good products inside of a product that nobody wants to use? Perhaps Google has regained its sanity?

Haha, just kidding. They're just going to use this to try and get more people on Google+
Sorry, I read it as a slight because it came right after "uphill both ways in the snow".
Rails + SSE + Thin = a dream come true for me. Thank you for the hard work you're putting in!
Does this solve the problem of Rails' ridiculously high stack? (functions in functions in functions, Rails' stack is daunting...) If you had the ability to write to a buffer, you don't need the stack, just pass the buffer object around.
Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp: Come Learn What’s Working For Airbnb And SongPop
>But, your paranoid schizophrenic approach is counter-productive.

Really, now I am a paranoid schizophrenic?

Just because I make claims which are readily confirmed and were completely available in the media - even the EFF filed suit on the AT&T events...

Yet, for some reason, it is my responsibility to educate everyone every single time someone new comes along who hasn't been following these things closely.

Now I am a paranoid schizophrenic?

Also, its a strawman to focus on my tone, rather than content. You're trying really hard to be overly pedantic and, frankly, an asshole.

Thanks for the link on communication.
But do you have a GPU on it, and if so how powerful is it?

My Macbook Pro handled it with no noticeable slowdown.
70% is a ratio ! The effective number may be small at the same time.
this is the correct pronunciation.
If you are using a supported browser and WebGL is enabled, make sure to also enable javascript if it's disabled, then reload and wait a minute, took a little while to load up.
This is the best "learn by doing" iOS example around to date.
Most excellent, Ted!!

I heart Python. (I'm learning it as my first language). I've already passed much of what they are going through (at least in these introductory lessons), but I am super happy to have another resource to help me learn the language. Thanks for the post!
I've never heard of this until now. Reading the article people have mentioned below:

http://exiledonline.com/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-int...

Well, it's a really badly written article, full of "association" but I can't really find anything damning, just a bunch of innuendo, which could be invented about most any sufficiently prolific journalist.

I've read a lot of Gladwell's writing -- the only main theme I can find is that he just tends to write articles that fly in the face of received wisdom. That's his whole shtick. He plays devil's advocate.

So obviously, if he defends unpopular positions, you can read into that all you want, but I don't see any real evidence that it's ideological or driven by corporate support. It's just his writing style, and you can probably find just as many counter-examples.
Ike's is temporarily suspended (figuring out a few logistical kinks), but they are being re-opened very soon with more sandwiches to choose from as well.
We need some real facts here, I've done a lot of FB advertising and have not seen results like this. This smells to me like an incorrectly configured campaign(s).

Here are a few points that need addressing:

What volumes are we talking about for the clicks?

How many ads did you run per campaign and how many clicks did you receive per ad? Facebook do use bots to verify the landing page of an ad url, this will usually lead to one or two tracked conversions per ad. These will show up in the external website analytics software but won't be charged as clicks by FB.

Were you running ads that drove directly to your website, or did you direct ads to your Facebook page? - Obviously ads that land on your Facebook page won't be tracked by your analytics software.

How did you identify that links coming to your website had indeed originated from Facebook. Did you loose conversions through badly formed tracking urls and could it be these suspect page loads were actualy coming from a web crawler?

Did you run CPM or CPC campaigns? - Maybe a misunderstanding of the charges involved?
Building a webapp, probably still 2.7

However, I much prefer 3.x. Much cleaner, better stdlib, and unicode everything. If you do use 2.7, please please please use 3.x printing though (from __future__ import print_function)
of course there are tons of companies, even big ones who make serious money from desktop apps. But each of those including ours, is happy that making money this way is not sexy anymore and all you startup guys focus your attention elsewhere so we can keep the market to ourselves :)

on a serious note, just look at download portals - like download.com etc. there are tons of very popular software and they all make money, either requiring users to pay or ad-supported.
Microsoft finalizes Perceptive Pixel Acquisition
It seems like you get most of this stuff from a basic abstract algebra course. How does category theory help me beyond what I got from modern algebra 101?

edit: this is from the perspective of someone who knows a little abstract algebra, and wonders if it would be sufficient to brush up on my algebra to get these ideas, which seem a little familiar, or if category theory is really important to get these ideas. I'm not trying to be a contrarian.
That's a really good idea, do you know if there are any tools out there for doing this? I'm thinking for something basic you could make it change random variables or numbers in the code base and run the tests after each change and report if they failed.
Was that on Mountain Lion?
oops, yes this moves to the top of the todo list
Apple Geniuses have poor elocution and have trouble getting their point across?
I guess all this article is trying to say is to use https://google.com/ in iPad. Is there anything else I'm missing here?
"Thrilling"? You've misread me again.
Note that you can now configure CloudFront to take query strings into account when caching files. Tweaking the query string is basically instant, unlike waiting for the invalidation tool...
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Kill One, terrorize a thousand - Sun Tzu.

And the other side of the consequence: "Kill one, make the rest of his family your enemies"

Which effect will predominate is often not immediately clear.
Some of these APIs aren't very well developed...the Airbnb API, for example, is just an unofficial one, and so far supports only a "Hello World" endpoint

http://www.mashape.com/john-matt/airbnb
But this is about users who click on ads on Facebook. The sort of users who have javascript disabled are going to self-select out of that group pretty strongly.

And even among the most technically literate groups, I'd be amazed if you saw 80% use of noscript. So many sites require javascript that it's easier to browse with it enabled.
Yeah I worry about that too. I think it might play out in a similar fashion to the entertainment industry where the legitimate companies are restricted, sued and legislated against while the illegal file sharers/manufacturers essentially continue unabated.

From the outside file sharing has a real image problem, where it is considered as only a self serving activity. That it's only teenage youths illegally ripping off copyrighted work and where any societal benefits are dismissed out of hand.

Hopefully 3D printing will have more popular support from society at large, and legislators will find it more difficult to pass laws that only favour the IP hounds. Fingers crossed.
They may use it, but perhaps shouldn't, unless it was one if the smallest IPS screens and even then something like photoshop is really annoying.

Korean IPS are cheap for a reason, such as non uniformity of color across the display.
New coworking space in SOMA (Hatchery)
We're a small startup (www.coliloquy.com) that's been working out of The Hatchery for the last six months and it's been fantastic. They're expanding to another space in SOMA and have a bunch of new space, so I wanted to post here and encourage anyone who's looking for space to take a look. Here's the email we got from them:

====================================

In less than a week The Hatchery will be opening its doors at a second SOMA location. Our new space, located at 645 Harrison St. (between 2nd
and 3rd) will be opening its doors August 1st, 2012.

To celebrate our new expansion we will be offering a reduced rate of $500/desk to new members for the first six months!

Amenities include:
• Unlimited and secure 24/7 access to your desk located in a well-designed, furnished ofﬁce space in the heart of SOMA
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Beyond our amenities, you'll be connected to a broad network of shared knowledge that can only help you to succeed. We opened our flagship
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And as Brennan mentioned above [1], what about Portugal?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314916
Wow, in that case this is very scary.
Indeed.

Most of the parsing required for the logfile analysis I describe is written in awk, and goes through roughly 1 million lines of logfile in about 75s on a commodity 2Ghz Intel Xeon.

Pre-caching of host lookups is done via xargs and a suitably high '-j' value. Running on a pre-sorted and de-duped list of IPs, this takes another few minutes. Lookups are read into hash tables for faster processing in the main awk parser (avoids system calls, DNS latency, and especially negative result caching failures).

It's fast and simple. Not a 100% solution, but quick to add bits to over time as new needs arise.
The google search tab on the right top in Safari/iPad is what a user tends to search in, instead of opening up a new browser tab. This opens up http://google.com, which is the issue.
No mention of polyfills for IE8 and below. Ha. It should read 'HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: This shit don't work in IE6-8 without polyfills'
I keep watching, but all of the other ARM boards cost more than the Rπ – usually greater than 3x the cost of the RπB. You can occasionally find an Arduino for less than what the RπB will run you, and while it has the GPIO, it doesn't have nearly the crunch the Rπ gets you.

Mine will be running some network testing software, driving a small handful of devices – doing the work a small laptop was doing before, but with a better power budget and in a much smaller form-factor. I don't need a display while it's running - it's going to sit there and collect data for me until I command it to shut down, at which point, I'll remove the SD, grab the data, and process it a bit on a more capable box, although it's conceivable that I could do it all on the Rπ itself.
CloudFront can do a lot more than simply serve up static data.
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I can not recall that i have ever read the word mediocre in a job ad :)
"making stuff up" is worse than "constructing a biased argument"
How do you brainstorm for new startup ideas?
The benefit is its flaw. Because it is so abstract it is able to describe many, many things. It can serve as a basis for all of maths and unlike set theory really focuses on structure. Very roughly, think of it like functional programming to Set theory's imperative nature.