skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first reasonable argument for app.net that I've heard. I'm not sure why, but until now I've only been hearing people talk about it as a "better Twitter".
invite to where?
Perhaps there are reasons for this that have nothing to do with money. Many for-profits have very shady marketing and admissions policies. Almost all of them have very low academic standards. Mostly their money revenue comes from student loans that have very little chance of ever being paid off. Public institutions aren't quite at this stage of immoral behavior. This is why, I presume, that the for-profits are being targeted. Teachers who fail students at for-profits tend to get fired. Their incentives to just pass anyone. Working at a community college I do get nudges to increase the pass rate but I know I'm not getting fired for failing students who don't know enough to pass.
Black & Decker 71-081 Double Ended Screwdriving Bit Set, 10-Piece
it's not that bad either...
I wish Emacs this ability by default.

I know it has zap-to-char but that works like cf" not ct".
Of course that can be modified with a bit of elisp, but I wish it provided it out of the box.
Hacker News went offline before I could finish editing the introductory sentence. The point was that a software project with the same time and cost requirements would also have interesting constraints: once it's launched, it can't be patched, and has to run for ten years. Would you as a manager really risk a failure?

Don't forget that the software can fail at any time during the year it takes for the software to install, too. Any failure before installation or after would require the project to be rebuilt for millions of dollars and months of delays.

Given that receiving a confirmation that your input was accepted already takes hours, and that returning output as textual data will serve the project's purpose for the next ten years, then the company should probably not delay the launch of the project even further just to be able to return .BMP screen shots of the text files, just to impress the media with how much raw data was found.
I like that policy! I'm just curious how it ultimately boils down to a difference in the mindset of people looking to market themselves with skills. I personally find this model to be really cool and wish you all the best in expanding into your other areas of teaching!
I don't think I'd characterize it as "massively risky" - it took him about a month to develop.
World's Largest Digging Machine
Hey Greg, if your problem is too many ideas and not being able to pick one to run with, there's a book on that: Ice Cream Startups http://bit.ly/icecreamstart Let me know if it helps.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2012/08/10/craigslist-backs...

"One data harvester, 3taps, said earlier this week that Craigslist had blocked search engines such as Google from including Craigslist pages in search results. But that report was inaccurate.

3taps’ product and quality assurance leader, Meg Nakamura, acknowledged Wednesday in a chat with The Chronicle that something fishy was taking place, but developers there haven’t fully figured out what’s going on."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to do something when someone corrects a person, but is wrong themselves. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves!
Oh man, this is the best link and comment thread all week. Thanks!
Everyone is a publisher. You're in favor of lawsuits against people who run bittorrent clients in a swarm, then, for $22k a song, or even $1000 per song? Any amount enough to be worthwhile as a deterrent is punitive and has the potential to wreck someone's life.

Or what about blogs or forums with posted links to copyrighted material on filehosting sites?
We are in Mountain View at the moment. Close enough. Are you coming for a visit?
Yeah, like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors.

The point is that betting on your employer is a bad idea when it comes to insurance products and especially annuities. If you want your kids to have financial support if you die, you owe it to them to buy policies from more than one conservative insurance company. The whole point of insurance is to defray risk, not get a handsome payout.
We're definitely focused on increasing the pool. We've had a number of students come to Hacker School with minimal (e.g., ~2 months) of programming experience and leave as professional devs.

In general, the goal of Hacker School is to help people become dramatically better programmers, regardless of where they start. Some people come in without much programming experience, and some people come in with substantial programming experience. Across the board our students report that Hacker School is one of the most educational and productive periods of their lives (here's what a very experienced student wrote about her time in the current batch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335460)
Hands on – A Week with the Jawbone BIG JAMBOX
Compared to Safari? Really? I'm honestly surprised, as an iPhone user who had to put up with Safari for 3 years. The only nice feature about it is the Readability-powered Reader button.
Yes, the clue is in the comparison to 'home modems'. The technology was finalised 2004, which means design around 2000 or so?

I'm impressed with the reception technology that allows 'direct to home' communication at all given the power levels available.
Become a Programmer, MotherF*****
How do you get the pids?
Yeah, that was surprising to me as well. Maybe the whole picture is rosier than I thought.
Thanks for the input :)

Perhaps you can shed some light on how things work from the inside:

How much interest is there for foreign interns, what is the competition and expectations like? Were there many people like you?

In terms of compensation and cost, what is to be expected? From what I gather, one needs to pay for private health insurance. Is it reasonable to expect that the compensation from the company could cover the plane tickets, health insurance and perhaps accommodation to an extent?
I imagine the complexity of the system above is not primarily about stopping the clock, but to accurately detect whether a hit was placed.

To have this level of precision I imagine the judge's "allez" would have to be replaced with a racetrack style countdown and green. Otherwise attempting to detect when a specific spoken word has been said (either predicting it just started, or detecting that it has finished) sounds like a complex problem.
Getting a RequireJS error in chrome in data-main: line 4. Error message gives this link: http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror
So those are the lander->earth and lander->sat speeds. How fast can the satellites transmit to earth? If we somehow always had a sat in reach of the lander, how much data would we be able to send?

Edit: Did the research. MRO's antenna can handle .5 to 4 megabits depending on the distance between planets. Wow, having to wait for flybys is a huge bottleneck. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/mission/communications/commxban...
"I find that a bit self-centered."

I get that a lot so you are probably right :). I agree that in the US, it is an accepted social norm (I live in the US too) but I was just stating my personal opinion on the matter.

As for your own nose,blow away :). I promise to behave if I am around you
> I used a Bloom filter to keep track of which urls had already been seen and added to the url frontier. This enabled a very fast check of whether or not a new candidate url should be added to the url frontier, with only a low probability of erroneously adding a url that had already been added.

other way round? bloom filter provides a low probability of erroneously believing a URL had already been added when it had not, zero probability of believing a URL had not already been added to the filter when in fact it had.

using a bloom filter in this way guarantees you won't ever hit a page twice, but you'll have a non-zero rate of pages you think you've downloaded but you actually haven't, depending how you tune it.
Forth by this light is batshit liberal, but stereotypically conservative in its early binding. I'm not sure how to take this -- libertarianism comes to mind. Or Sealand. (I used to hack Forth a lot as a teenager.)
I think those commercials appeal to the older folks who equate invention to objects one can hold in their hand. People who likely see Ron Popiel as a star inventor. They are also scams; my mom fell for this and she went and got some kit to help her bring to market her invention, the book-lift, ( a foldable book prop-up stand with an integrated ribbon bookmark, a device to help you read while sitting at a table eating (think of the function the iPad cover provides))

And they took her money and provided her with a bunch of useless into on how to patent something.
I must be doing something wrong. All of the females this Asian male has partnered with have been Caucasian.
It used to be transformative because the student would spend several years living like a poor student.

But schools have seen that their customers hardly respond to price, while they do respond to amenities. Everything follows from that.
Ask HN: What bank or credit cards are you using?
This letter needs more distinguished signatories. The people who signed it are accomplished in their domains but relatively unknown outside their niches.
It's an everywhere thing. Before seatbelts were compulsory in the UK, people used not to wear them there either. You'd have to talk to somebody who was an adult at the time - probably not many of those round here - to get the definitive answer, but I distinctly remember being confused by adults often failing to put their seatbelts on, even for quite some time after seatbelts became compulsory.
How we A/B test features — Facebook Developer Blog
I think I prefer Command+Shift+O that the article suggests in this case.
>Vim has support for scripting against Python and Ruby in addition to VimScript.

and Lua, Perl Tcl and Racket.
I would probably ask them to read What You'll Wish You'd Known (http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html). I like the analogy of staying upwind because it provides you more options when the time comes that you find out what you want to do.
Maybe everyone should become an engineer, so everyone can be happily living in a technocracy were we make everything remotely tangible into money.

Maybe we should tell people to stop doing psychology, art history, history, political sciences, theology, literature etc. I mean, it's on Wikipedia, right? You can just go there and read about it, you know, as a hobby, so, why bother studying it?

Maybe we can all become engineers and convert everything into profit. What do you mean I probably shouldn't track someone's every movement? Why? It's the logical solution, it's possible, it's doable, it gives the greatest monetary return. And it's the best developmental solution! It's perfect!
Second Bitcoin lawsuit filed in California
Being the CEO of a firm that offers web-crawling services, I found this post very interesting. On 80legs, the cost for a similar crawl would be $500, so it's nice to know we're competitive on cost.
Is a boat still a boat if it can’t float?
I'm sure someone, somewhere has used the concept of privilege to unfairly discredit another person's opinion, but I think you're trying to apply cold, hard reasoning to something that requires deeper thought. Privilege, when used in social justice, refers to an area where one person has an advantage and another person belonging to a different group does not. If you need help understanding the concept, take a few minutes to read this excellent post on the subject: https://sindeloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/37/

This doesn't mean a white person can never talk about race. It means they need to understand they're coming from an entirely different perspective— a perspective that has the upper hand. Social justice covers topics that are inherently complex and might not conform to strict models and theories. This means where an argument comes from has a lot of bearing on its validity. That white person from earlier can participate, but they have to understand they've been living in a world where they get a head start, and often times, they have no idea when that world is giving it to them.

Anyway, that was a bit of a rant, so please read the blog post I linked to get a better idea.
I evalled all pieces of Javascript of <30 characters in Rhino, takes 1 minute on my laptop. 4219 possible values, after stripping out some really uninteresting stuff. Doesn't seem to contain anything interesting, unfortunately.

http://pastebin.com/CM5ac6Xi
Apple lifts curtain on iPod touch sales figures for the first time
Schools will happily agree to 20% of an engineer's future output, guaranteed enforcement by the government under threat of imprisonment.

You know what would be better? Go back a few decades and make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. No one will lend students $150,000 that they can discharge immediately after graduation. The school will realize that crazy debt levels will backfire on them.
I'm not sure how (3) could go anything like you suggest in your revised scenario. If the young hacker in question had asked about pub-sub architectures being slow after the engineer responsible had already taken a political position on pub-sub then the answer is going to be "of course not!". At this point admitting that pub-sub can be bad would be a big embarrassment.

The way to fix this is to get people to think of stuff like that before they've taken public positions on the issue.
I'm not surprised. I will not be investing any money in Bitcoin any time soon.
I wish I could put this at the top of all comment systems.
You're right. Hence why I wrote:

> Even if I spent the same overall amount of time manipulating text (I don't)

I'm just saying that faster code editing is a side effect of -- or the aggregate view of -- smoother thinking and faster thought expression.
> The ergo gains of vim are so rediculously awesome

For instance?
Meet Women on the Linux Command Line
How many non developers do you know that would rather write in Lua than Python?

Which nice-to-write language is most taught in universities?
Is the introduction of a poisonous dichotomy into the engineering zeitgeist a good thing? Consider what this has done for politics.
At Texas A&M, the default rate for Liberal Arts majors is 5.9%, compared to the school average of 4.7%. Engineering majors default at a rate of 3.8%.*

http://www.tgslc.org/pdf/tamu_default_study.pdf

I don't think modulating loan rates based on whether you're a Liberal Arts major will really solve the problem, and I also think it's also unfair.

* These numbers are percentages of students who entered repayment of their loans between 1997 and 1999 and defaulted by 2003.
As far as vim with Eclipse goes, I tried out eclim, but I didn't like it too much. You loose features like being able to click on source code lines to create a breakpoint.

I've only used it lightly, but I've been pleased with vrapper so far:

http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

It is also conveniently installable from the Eclipse marketplace.
Congratulations Paras.
These types of services really need to consider delivery over HTTPS, especially now that Facebook requires it for the app canvas and for added security over mobile WANs.
My point was that delaying an expensive and years-long software project that's already prone to failure, just to replace a perfectly adequate feature with another whose only benefit is to impress the media, would probably be considered stupid. In my example, it would be to receive images as BMP files just to be able to brag to the media how much data was received. (Maybe I shouldn't have used images in my example software project since it confused people, but I blame Hacker News for going offline before I could make improvements.)
Our budget is entirely public and linked from the wiki, nothing is hidden, and nobody is drawing a salary. We're only just going to break even at this point.

It turns out that equipping a barren field with generators, lighting, wiring, power distribution, marquees, seating, toilets, showers, water, cooking equipment, bar equipment, security fencing, safety equipment, first aid equipment, radios, and plant equipment for moving the aforementioned everything, is expensive. Especially when you're doing it on a scale <1000 people.

The most interesting thing for me has been the cost of getting water in the field. There's supposedly a standpipe there, but the council are denying all knowledge so we have to get a container brought in. It costs a FORTUNE. You'd think water was some kind of precious metal based on the pricing.

Regarding speakers/volunteers, this is an event you're a participant at, not purely a viewer. We have an absurdly high ratio of speakers/attendees - a large number of ticket holders are related to the hackerspace movement where participation is expected.

We are offering free day tickets to speakers, but nearly all of them are choosing to pay for a full ticket and spend the whole weekend at the event.
If Stripe decided to make their own iPad app, I would be fine with that. It's not going to put me out of business. In fact, I could save them the hassle of having to build their own... :)
You can use a username on ING. Its called "Saver ID." See it listed right next to customer number on the login page?
Visual data mining of Streetview images to see architectural style of a city
Rectangular Stickers
Stickers are using so many type and so many styles. PrintingHost Display and supply a wide range of printed stickers that is suitable for many different applications. This includes car window stickers, custom stickers, vinyl stickers, Oval Stickers Printing, and many others etc.
Stock Market Video Analysis for Week Ending 8/10/12
Although the last couple of days have been dull for the major averages, the markets performed very well this week and the “correction through time” indicates there are still bidders supporting the market. The video below takes a look at trends and key levels of interest for the $SPY $QQQ $IWM $XLF $SMH $TLT and some individual stocks.
Not personal photos, but here are some examples:

http://www.cclockwood.com/stockimages/WE-HURRICANE-GUSTAV-46...

http://www.doc.state.nc.us/news/scrapbk/David-1.jpg

http://www.city-data.com/disaster-photos/photos/220.jpg

http://www.cclockwood.com/stockimages/WE-HURRICANE-GUSTAV-46...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m6YoyhPEom8/Tlpzy9dkJII/AAAAAAAABY...

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/05/20/46/1378705/5/628x471.jpg

Google something like:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hurricane+trees+do...

Edit: Horrible formatting job, and to say that Pine trees were the worst offenders in our area.
I posted an update: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368013
Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368013
Functional Javascript for Front-End Usability and Performance
There are two semesters in an academic year. ;)
Notes on Linear Algebra
There is a very large embankment between the site and the plant, we've been and investigated the field many times to check that it was suitable for the event before putting any money down, and it's totally fine.

Don't worry, it concerned us just as much as you!
Write "debugger" in your source code, chrome will drop you into debugging mode when that line is read. The console will be in context of your "debugger" statement.
Why is it when the kid is poor, its financial aid, if the kid is middle class, its a handout?

Neither name is appropriate. It's plain old price discrimination. The school wants to charge more money to people who have more money.

Every business loves to do this. The only thing unusual about college is that if they crank the price up to $150,000 and then discount it to $80,000, some people think the school has "given" you $70,000.
Source article (not so breathless and a more reasonable title):
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/discovery-opens-door-...
Thanks, just signed up— although I'm wary of moving my GTD life off of Trello. Still, open to it... and I have to say, the Zendone website is beautiful.
People with a college education are definitely rewarded.

The cultural problem is not that education is not valued, it is more on the lines of that education is often (most of the times) equated to "formal education."
I'm already in San Fran :-). I could probably come for a visit to Mountain View. Would love to see how you are doing up there.
It's not technically wrong: 0 is indeed a "low probability". It's misleading, though.
I wonder if it's possible to launch an orbiter in Mars synchronous orbit. That'll eliminate the bottleneck.
If the code snippet returns a local ID object, then calling a method on the ID object doesn't violate the law of Demeter. It can be, in fact, the preferred method in the case that you don't have control over the db object.

If your snippet doesn't return a local id object, then the violating portion should be

idstring = db.findUserBySsNumber(ssNumber).toString();
println("id=" + idstring)

A (perhaps) more clear illustration is when you go the other way with the data. Suppose you want to change the last name of the user. You would want to consider that

id.setLastName('Himes')
db.updateUser(id)

may be preferable to

db.findUserBySsNumber(ssNumber).updateLastName('Himes')

The first case is more robust (but, of course, not infallibly so) to changes in the api for db when, for example, the api providers decide it's too dangerous to throw SSNs around. It's also more robust against changes in the content of id.

These are the kinds of things that OO guidelines can protect against. The tradeoff is added overhead (data objects)-- which means more testing, debugging, etc.
This can be disastrous for user generated content websites.
Thanks, yes. I'd seen it referenced here, haven't used it.

Vimperator still works on my somewhat age'd 14.0 FF.
Great to hear!

Can I hijack this thread to ask -- seems like everyone who participated and posted about it wants to come back. How do you manage the exponential/fibonacci growth?
It's not about the site responding to DCMA requests, because how would Google know about this? This about how many DCMA requests Google gets to delist a search result I believe.
Why would it be any different than the Square iPad app? I've been using that and entering people's credit card information for transactions and no one has had a problem with that. The feedback has been very positive.