skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good replacement for personal email. Corporate email would probably need to stay the same.
Also the case in Australia and the UK. Not that the winner gets all their costs back (60% is a figure I've seen bandied around) but it still creates a significant disincentive. Probably a good thing in the case of patent trolls, but not necessarily in other situations.
My guess would be because he graduated from Stanford Law, which is currently ranked #2.
Unless you go to really sketchy private parties in people's hotel rooms, you're probably better off at Defcon overall now than in Vegas otherwise. (Also, I strongly suggest the majority of inappropriate behavior is by the younger attendees; most of the people who have been going to Defcon since the AP or earlier are now in their 30s, many married/kids, have real jobs which mean they have something to lose if they behave badly at a professional event, etc.)
Honestly I don't think you're operating from the same baseline for behavior that I and others do.

If you're at a conference, you're there amongst your peers and colleagues, there is a certain level of respect and decorum that I would like to assume would be present amongst a community that aspires at least to some modicum of collegiality.

You can say that the security community (which granted isn't particularly my scene) is rough and tumble, but surely there should be some expectation of some basic human respect.

I guess put more succinctly, just because it's held at a night club, doesn't make a conference party any less a conference related function.
Is Esponoza's case one of the reason they hold money back is people wanting refunds/change their mind. A lot of people sign up for sporting events with the best of intentions but then soon realize they won't be able actually do the event.
Thank you for pointing that out, and kudos to Amazon for updating their doc. They have an easy to understand sample calculation up now as well.
How is Twitter offering a shorter, simpler, socially-integrated version of email any different than Gmail or Hotmail?
Kozmo.com of the new era bubble.

This will be interesting.
OK, here's a C version. Had to add a parameter, of course:

void add1(int arr[], int length, int val, int n)
{
int direction = n >= 0;
int counter = n == 0 ? length : abs(n);
int index;

for(int i = 0; (i < length) && (counter != 0) ; i++)
{
index = direction ? i : length - i;
if(arr[index] == val)
{
arr[index]++;
counter--;
}
}
}

Verified with test vectors.
Wow, this is huge. If they just shut it down, lots of websites should be broken.
Examples work on chrome (OSX) => http://cl.ly/image/18290C1W2q2h
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backbone has very little magic in it - and the particular confusing aspect mentioned in this post has to do with ubinding events by calling .html, which has nothing to do with backbone, that's all jquery.
In a typical four year university program you will probably have spent two years learning how to think about problems to make them easier to attack and three years worth of doing projects. So figure 12 to 15 solid projects that you were a primary input on. Probably four or five of them that you started with a clean sheet of paper and a problem and produced as solution.

I've interviewed a number of people who were programmers but did not have a degree in CS, those who were just caught up in it and lived and breathed it, learned every new language that comes out to see how they are different, implement algorithms in four different languages to see how the compilers compare or design languages, or operating systems, or complex applications from scratch to under stand them better, those people it really doesn't matter. In many ways they are better than people with CS degrees.

Then there are people who got interested in the end effects, fancy web sites, or maybe video games, or breaking into things 'for the lulz' who really don't care about programming so much as it is playing with computers or technology. They read a bunch of blogs maybe, but they don't think deeply about what the underlying systems are doing. For those folks sometimes almost any amount of 'experience' isn't enough if the bit hasn't flipped to understanding as opposed to just doing.

The third category are folks who started programming accidently, they needed to do something and there was no one around to do it so they poked and prodded and got it to work. Over the weeks, months, years they have collected a bunch of 'recipes' for getting stuff done, maybe they know why a hash table differs from a binary tree maybe they don't but if told to they can use either. For them its a lot harder call. 3:1 ? May 4:1 ? Its a matter of being exposed to a lot of different problems so that they can recognize where the solution space is going to be quickly.

Certainly any time you're putting code to compiler and producing product that counts as experience, paid or not, but the quality of the experience matters a lot. No amount of experience localizing pre-existing code will train you to write a compiler.
"I was fortunate enough to be an otherwise healthy individual."

Which is exactly why you think medicine is so close to quackery. You have no need for modern medicine as of right now, it's easy to take it for granted.
Right. They are for being hit on badly.
Hongli, Ninh, I've always loved Passenger (it's running almost all of my Rails apps) and am happy to see you guys try to get paid directly for all the effort that went into Passenger.

I just wanted to add my voice that I think it'll be useful for developers to know what you guys intend to do with the open source version now that you've the Enterprise version. A comparison table like mlitwiniuk mentioned would be useful.

Would also like to know when the open source version of Passenger 4.0 will be available so I can decide whether to pay for a few Enterprise licenses now or hold on.
This is the most juvenile rant i've heard in a long time. What do you expect from FB? This is business. They wasted your time? Do you think nobody has ever wasted Mr Zuckerberg's time? They ambushed you? Do you think Mr Zuckerberg has never been ambushed? Anybody who has done anything of real value has had sh!t thrown in their face many many times. If you expect to be successful and do well you will have worse things happen to you than this. Your rant reflects very poorly on you, I for one wouldn't want to do business with someone of this attitude. Suck it up, assess your options, make strategic decisions and move forward. Stop asking for somebody to hold your hand.
Thanks! :)

I'm thinking next year will be the year I attend conferences for fun, rather than just work. I put it on my calendar.
Widgets are very limited in their application?

I think that there may be a few full-time professional Swing, WPF, ActiveX, Wicket, Flex, ASP.NET, Sencha, WordPress, etc. developers who would disagree with you.
Not that exact one but it's a modification of another recipe: it's the "text me tweets from this twitter account that satisfy these search terms" recipe, with a local news radio Twitter feed for the traffic and my favourite highways and words like "collision", "blocked", and "reopened" as the search terms.
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Yes I removed that, I wanted to make a small joke but I realized people are too serious about this issue.
Yes there are mechanisms for coercing behavior, jail for example. We already have laws governing sexual misconduct much more effective than colored cards. I hope you realize the potential of abuse that a rule against "offending" people have. EDIT: I'm sure we at least agree that most of the harrasments occur under the influence of alcohol. So what about banning Alcohol in conferences, like you know, 100% of academic conferences do. Problem solved.
This should not have been unexpected, given Microsoft's investment in Bing vs the cost of keeping a web index fresh and humming, it was inevitable. On the plus side, unlike other services, if you built your app on top of it you can pay for it and your app can continue running. This is, I expect, preferable to having the API be simply discontinued.
I don't know about airing the laundry like this, it seems more and more common and there is always a lot of missing context. And you can't really undo it, but to each his own.

Am I reading this correctly that the platform ad vp has $1billion number on his head and he is a little nervous about some competition? It looks a lot like fb is on tilt, from the bot clicks to different charge for friends to see content stories it doesn't look like all is well.
It's ridiculous and harmful to think sexual harassment is justified just because you're in a large group of drunk men.

Also, there aren't 10,000 men that go to DEFCON. A large percentage of the attendees are women.
I also don't really understand the benefit here. Who actually tries to remember people's email addresses? For that matter, who even tries to remember twitter handles?
>Anyway, am not convinced refusing is in any sense productive/curative of the disease.

Refusing doesn't cure anything, but it highlights the silliness of the exit interview, and adds 20 minutes to your life. You are right that sharing your honest opinion with others (which seems to happen over beer, more often than not) is far more curative. Not participating is more like an act of passive resistance protesting the hypocrisy of it.
Why Marketers' A/B Testing Shouldn't Be Limited to Small Changes
That is crazy. It's apparently the default behavior of a WordPress plugin I'm using, ostensibly to make the site more readable on mobile. Thanks for telling me.
You should definitely have explained this in your original article. I can absolutely understand your frustration, given their earlier encouragement. Absent this explanation, you did come off like a ... precious snowflake.

But when you dance with Godzilla, you will eventually get stepped on. Mostly by accident. There's little evidence they acted in bad faith. Big companies change their plans all the time, and they're entitled to do so absent an NDA.
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The obvious answer is anyone can run email. Only twitter can run twitter.

If the join.app.net team gets some inertia - that might change, but right now - twitter is a single player (and point of failure) game.
I can easily change email providers and remain in contact with the same people using the service and address they themselves choose. If I grow dissatisfied with these services, I can even go to the trouble of hosting my own email server.

I do not see a competitor to Twitter that is interoperable with their service. Nor is there a distributed option. Gmail and Hotmail are platforms that grew on top of an inherently distributed service. Twitter is a data silo.

And another: I can easily download my contacts and email history and take them with me. It's portable.
But my team and I expect our venture to prove even more lucrative.

Best of luck.
My dad and I ordered black Pebbles, and we fully intend to use them.

When I see people wearing a watch, it's usually [fashion.]

Yeah, that's because smart watches haven't caught on yet. There was a time when people only put earrings on their ears, and now there's people walking around with earbuds in them.
That's true. It doesn't have to be Twitter. join.app.net would be a better alternative if it could pick up some momentum.
Show HN: Parked for iPhone, my first app
Until the names start disappearing? I can remember that my rental guy's name at Bergsten Music is Greg. So I email greg@bergstenmusic.com. Now do I try @greg? or @gregbergsten? @bergstengreg? And how does Greg keep my request for a quote in his commercial monitored account separate from his girlfriend's emails about what she wants to do that night?
Am I the only one deeply annoyed that the article never even once mentions what the hell it is that ShopLocket does, how they make money, or to what ends they want to grow?
i'm still not seeing the difference between what they are doing and what padmapper was doing.
Or it's written on the liquor jug held by a cartoon hobo.
>Honest question: do people really wear digital, "smart" watches?

Did (most) people carry around digital music players before the iPod was introduced?
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1. Keeping Cool While Drinking Hot Tea
2. Hot Teas Cooling Effects
3. Saliva Production
4. Drinking Tea Making You Feel Thirsty?
My comment was not about advantaging the person being lied to but the person being lied about (and being saved), in my example a third party.

The white lie example is more like
"No darling your bottom doesn't look fat in that dress"

(The Reginald Hunter Youtube clip I included elsewhere illustrates that point in a comedy sketch).

Actually this isn't even the definition of a white lie; White lies are lies about trivial matters.

It's not about saving the other person but about saving face for the other person. From wikipedia:

"White lies are minor lies which could be considered to be harmless, or even beneficial, in the long term. White lies are also considered to be used for greater good."
I changed the interface to what I think it's more 'Ruby'. If you are looking for in-place solution, we should use the ! to indicate it's more 'dangerous' than the other solution which returns a new copy.

I'm new to Ruby so I'd love to hear feedback from other more experienced Rubyists on HN. (And I couldn't find reverse_each_with_index so I had to write my own.)

https://github.com/tpun/add1/blob/master/add1.rb
> craigslist or monster

Are you reading what you're writing?
Here is a data set on post-graduation employment (full time legal) rates for different law schools-- http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/clearinghouse/?show=com... . Here is an explanation of where the data in that table came from-- http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/clearinghouse/ .
How did you do this: http://3328565596/ ?
I've never seen "domains names" like this before..
Housing Maps doesn't have any intention of replacing CL. CL is required for Housing Maps to exist. Padmapper was very clear in its intent to eliminate craigslist eventually, even if they made no explicit statements stating that was their goal. Anybody with even the slightest modicum of business development experience could explain what the eventual trajectory would be for these two organizations.

HousingMaps has zero desire to be anything other than a Google Maps interface to craigslist. That's it. Nothing more.

The instant they start moving out of that space (going commercial, accepting rental submissions, etc...) - they'll get shut down and/or hit with a C&D just like padmapper.
>I realized people are too serious about this issue

I have no words for you. You privileged, narrow-minded unfortunate person.
The company may be able to collect ownership of the patent from the shell company as payment to cover the legal fees.

This means that a troll would lose the set of patents every time they lost a case. Unless they were willing to outbid the winning party to recover the patents from the shell, in which case the winning party would recover their legal fees.

So it's not pointless. It does increase risk for trolls. Although I do agree that much larger reform would be better. And requiring the posting of a bond is a fantastic idea.
If the problem is that you have to change email addresses when you switch providers, I think the easiest solution is to use your own domain. Then you can use whatever mail client you prefer, and switch between them freely; you really own your email.

As far as using Twitter in place of email goes, there's the issue of both parties needing a Twitter account to communicate. If you opened it up so that I could send you a message on Twitter without having one myself, you'd probably end up with something like jdoe@twitter.com[1].

[1] Relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/927/
Law school graduate salary distributions are really an interesting thing. I suggest a quick gander at this chart of the distribution from 2006-2011: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib .
Implicit type conversion can be evil : http://bhati.livejournal.com/3352.html
Tog+Porter (togandporter.com) - San Francisco or REMOTE

CTO (Generalist)

Tog+Porter is a fashion start-up that pairs clients with stylists over video-chat. Clients receive a box of curated fashions and keep what they love and send back the rest. T+P has been in business for 3 years. The team is remote across the USA. Distribution is in Oregon and Business development is based in SF.

T+P has a really exciting opportunity for a developer to really make their mark. The team has total control of the company, so they are looking for someone who is not only a great coder, but an excellent systems thinker, strategist and team builder. This job requires a full-stack developer who can get things done fast.

The company is already at break-even and their revenue is growing quickly.

(I’m helping these guys make this technical hire. This isn’t my company, I’m just an adviser.)
Go to BSides near your home town, too, if it exists. Fun and volunteer-run, and thus close to free ($15).
Thanks for the reply. It seems like equivalent experience is decently variable.
>I am unhappy that I wasted my time and energy building on a platform that encouraged me to do so, and within the matter of months changed their mind.

I am no fan of facebook, but it seems like they offered to compensate you for your time. In fact, it seems like that entire meeting was designed to demonstrate to them that you'd actually built something that worked so that they could buy you off.

They didn't have to do that, they could have just squashed you. In the end, I think you should have taken their offer (perhaps all in cash and then leave ASAP , as someone else suggested) and then built something else.

The key point here is that you seem to value your autonomy, and a surprisingly few people on this board seem to see that. What I'm trying to say is that there was a way for you to exit a situation that was going to deny your autonomy in such a way that it could set you up for the next thing. Who knows? Perhaps it's not too late for that.
Stupefying.

With friends like Andrew Hacker, does this country need enemies?

On the other hand, perhaps we can take this as an opportunity to discuss the accessibility of math education, the level of engagement and hands-on examples that teaching materials give, and how this can be improved with modern teaching aids (tablets). I know I certainly struggled with engineering-grade math in college (math was one of my majors, but not a favorite one), and I blame the combination of my laziness, poor professors (rewarded for publications, not teaching), and poor teaching materials (far removed from practicality).

I'm really excited by how much better kids' aptitude and quantitative cognitive skills will improve over the coming years for the ones who have access to tablets. New apps are popping up that make learning elementary math a joy... apps that can keep a kid's attention without adult help - starting at age 4. This will be a serious boost to whichever nations/groups emphasize it.
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HR will make it seem like everything you say is confidential, and no one will ever know you said it except him / her ... everyone will find out.

Everyone thinks that this exit interview is your last chance for you to let management know that things need to change. Everyone thinks that they are going to be the change catalyst on the way out of the company. You're going to be the hero!

This all sounds a little over the top.

My experience has been that HR was quite clear they would share the feedback I gave in my exit interviews among company leadership to help improve the work environment or culture. Even if it got out more than that, no big deal. (except if we're talking about an extreme case, e.g. an employee leaving due to sexual harassment.) And, given that I had high respect for many that remained at the companies I've left, I willingly gave honest feedback if it might have any chance of improving their work environment after I left.

I respect the author's opinion, but it sounds like unnecessary hyping of exit interviews, and bad advice ("exit interviews are a fraud, they're worthless, so lie!!").
This is the most ridiculous thing I've read this week.
"Math certainly is incomprehensible to many students, but from where I sit, poor teaching is often the reason."

I'll paraphrase what I said in the last thread: algebra isn't harder than other subjects, it's more objective. Therefore, it tends to make educational fraud more visible. People rarely fail algebra and succeed in other subjects; they fail in all subjects and algebra is the only one where it can't be ignored any longer.
The class is starting again in three weeks: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Looking forwards to it!
Chicken Scheme:

(use vector-lib)

(define (add1 vec val n)
(define *clone* (vector-copy vec)))
(define fold-using (if (>= n 0) vector-fold vector-fold-right))
(define (substitution-of total-replacements value)
(define replacements-left (if (= total-replacements 0) (vector-length vec) (abs total-replacements)))
(lambda (index mutable-vector current-element)
(if (and (= current-element value) (> replacements-left 0)
(begin
(vector-set! mutable-vector index (+ 1 current-element))
(set! replacements-left (- replacements-left 1))))
mutable-vector))
(fold-using (substitution-of n val) *clone* vec))

I don't like that I have to make a copy of the vector though. Maybe unfold ...
Zen Magnets (and their better-known competitor, Buckyballs) are spherical magnets sold mainly to geeks as desk decorations. Example: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/bbe8/b/ . Both brands have prominent warnings against being used by children.

The ban appears to be driven by reports such as http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/30349192/detail.html , in which a retail shop sold magnets to a 5-year-old.
Create a whitelist. The follow model remains, which eliminates spam. You only see updates from people you follow, and only mutual followers can correspond using direct messages

If it wasn't 4am I'd spend time explaining why this is the most poorly considered article I've read all day. Instead I offer a quote:

> The reason that e-mail is uniquely useful is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know. The reason that spam exists is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know.

-- John Levine ( http://www.circleid.com/posts/replacing_smtp/ )
How do people willing to make statements like "the future of email is X" not understand that the decentralized standards based federated network is the end goal for an electronic mail system?

If you think the use case of twitter type messages isn't going to eventually be similar then you either think twitter style communication is a fad or you think the tech community is going to stagnate and never move on from how to send short messages to each other.

Maybe that eventual standard will expand to replace email, but twitter? That's so silly it's in Poe's Law territory.
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Firefox continues to gain as Internet Explorer, Chrome slide
They have end-user value for human eyes and referal traffic. But none in terms of "link juice".