skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article does, but the experimental article itself embedded the fonts so they would render properly.
What if you could do the Wolfram Alpha thing with a local appliance (e.g. a plug computer type thing) and its backups - if you did not explicitly want to manage them yourself - were encrypted before they ever left your network or were seen by a third party?

I guess the problem then is making subscription money on it.
steve jobs, bill gates and mark zuckerberg dropped out and became successful. if i drop out, i would become too.
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I was thinking the same thing today after finishing Mitnick's last book and I was wondering when they started using that expression because he uses it in the book but I wonder if the term even existed in the 90's. Now, we have S.E.T., which is called a social engineering toolkit but compared to what Mitnick was doing, sending an email to someone hoping he might open it is a really light form of social engineering. The funny thing is, people are always going to be vulnerable to these types of attacks.
Maybe someone can answer this. When negotiating equity, couldn't you red line the lockout period provision? Or is this set by law? If it is by law, how are executives getting around it?
They - and many others - didn't understand that distribution (costs) was what they were paid for and content was much less valuable than they thought.
This and Bitey(https://github.com/dabeaz/bitey) are both on the front page :)
When the $100 camera fails in Mars you can't just replace it with another one. You can't take it to the repair shop either. You can't try to "shake it a bit". Hell, you can't even bang it on your knee:

http://www.pechorin.com/m/2006/06/13/SONY_Cybershot_E6100_ER...
Define slow tedunangst - Big O notation please.

Maybe you can look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation.

Ok, I'll save you the trouble -- the modular exponentiation is O(log exponent). That's log as in... FAST.
Several articles have mentioned bandwidth limitations of about 250 megabits per day, which also has to be used to send instrument data.

But I haven't seen an explanation why bandwidth is so low -- is it lack of spectrum? Interference issues?
I only see the difference when i know to look for it. That's good design.
The incentive structure of your deal with Google is that you stay while you are young, but get out before you are likely to die.
Good question. I wonder what a good strategy would be for figuring out the near optimal pricing plan? The strategy would need to start off w/o painting yourself into a corner. In other words the initial pricing can't constrain future pricing adjustments by much. Also you'd want a strategy that allows for frequent adjustment down the road. Something like the Google "search algorithm" frequent tweaking.

Perhaps an increasing sequence of additional tiers could work? Start with just free. Then free or $10. Then free or $10 or $25 and so on. This avoids users feeling like they've been punished for being an early-adopter. Also users who aren't happy with their current tier can simply upgrade.
Maybe I missed it, but the things that would convince me are a) a large, strong community, b) extensive documentation, and c) code examples in the article.

Seeing no references to any of these, I don't find the article terribly persuasive.
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The autor is clearly talking of his own experience. He is not generalizing and trying to convince everybody to drop out of college.

My experience is that after 5 years of professionnal activity college is not relevant anymore as long as one kept learning and gaining experience.

It is what you've done and accomplished that will make the difference and get you closer to success.

Beside 44k$/year + interests is far too expensive for what cellege gives you. I fully agree with the OP. This puts you in the rat race from the start. It will be very hard to get out of it. That's not a path to success.

The idea that a college degre is a step closer to success is plain wrong.
v = g^x % N

Finding 'x' given g, v, and N is HARD.
Calculating g^x is EASY. O(log X)

This is crypto 101 man...

This is why SRP is said to be verifier based and not password or password-equivalent based, because you cannot retrieve X from v.

But this is ALSO why the CREATOR of SRP Thomas Wu specifically states in his presentations on SRP that it does not resist dictionary attacks when the verifier database is stolen.
Intellectually stimulating, but after the first few pictures... well, there's nothing to see there, just sand and rocks. The most visually interesting thing on this panorama image is the rover itself, so I don't mind the relatively low quality. Now I'm waiting for some non-visual data. Curiosity has a lot of sensors besides the cameras.
I don't think this is true, I have seen tech cofounders being equally vile. The trait is not related with what suit you wear.
The private sector banknote printers
It doesn't seem to me that there is a whole lot of overlap between the virtues or sweet spot of PHP and those of Go.

Go is not a particularly hard language for the level it's designed at (though I'm not sure that remembering keywords is really a primary usability concern for any language)... but if you are just trying to slap together a web app and feel intimidated by deploy details and want to use cheap shared hosting and plug into existing libraries as much as possible, Go is somewhere between inconvenient and totally infeasible.

I'm not saying Go is a bad choice... there are good reasons to look at it, particularly if you intend to work at a somewhat lower level (e.g. for performance) and want some of Go's benefits (like the concurrency model, or some of the benefits of static typing and compiling without so much time or effort on managing dependencies as you would otherwise spend, etc.)

I'm saying the priorities which would make PHP attractive would tend to make Go quite unattractive. I can certainly see how PHP programmers (like many other programmers) can benefit from learning another language with abilities complementary to what they already know.
You're comparing a $20 month life insurance plan incredulously to bonuses sometimes in the hundreds of thousands PR millions of dollars sometimes inspire of bad or selfish decisions?
I don't think that PHP programmers are capable of learning something new. Otherwise they would have left PHP for any other language long time ago.
That's why I published the source. Because it took me hours to find all the docs for all the different parts and put it all together. I figured I could help others out. I'm glad I was right!
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I don't know how to reply to the old post you put up. So I will reply here. I think DeMarse accomplished something a bit more complicated than what is described in the comments of the old Hacker news post. The protocol used by DeMarse actually modified the strength of the synaptic connections between the neurons in the petri dish. It seems (though not proven) that LTP/LTD is occurring.

Here is the pertinent reference in DeMarse's paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/28/9349.full.pdf+html

Now to answer what you asked me about. Do I think what DeMarse did is morally right or wrong? I do not want to pass judgement because I am still in school and don't have to worry about funding my own research. A professor I respect for his scientific integrity told me every scientist has a skeleton in their closet (referring to research projects). I think the fact that DeMarse's paper caught on like wildfire just goes to show you that a majority of Humans (computer programmers included) can be relatively stupid.
As far as I can tell, you can't. But Blizzard has announced that they will be putting something in place for users to do that in the next few days. Keep an eye on your B.Net email.
At appleid.apple.com I can pick from a list of 15 security questions or use a custom one.
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Quite possibly. Certainly doesn't hurt!
One more thing: At least what DeMarse did was inspiring. The work that be built upon was rather boring.

Reference: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/28/9349.full.pdf+html
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Plan 9 port to Linux, or Inferno's VM over Linux, to stop spending time learning new options, and use simpler tools to actually get stuff done.
On the same lines.

Why can't we send some robust organic life to Mars and dump it there, Just to see what happens?
Nah...

Even if we supposed that PHP beginners all outgrew it after one year, there are enough people always picking it up that you would still always have PHP programmers, until there was enough of a cultural shift that people stopped picking it up. (Unlikely since PHP's virtues or apparent virtues to newbies are many, and whatever its problems it is still a viable way to build things)

Second, even if PHP is a relatively bad tool in some important ways - if you actively push your abilities as you log many hours, your knowledge will improve. And without specific numbers, PHP is certainly among the most popular languages for web work (if not the single most popular one). So we can expect there are a large number of people who have grown up in PHP and have therefore gained some level of technical maturity even if they are using a bad tool (actually, struggling successfully with bad tools might help develop certain muscles useful in areas like maintenance coding).

People are PHP programmers not because they are stupid, but because that is what first worked for them and they haven't had the time or reason to change yet, or it's where their job is, or because they just have bad taste ;)

(that's a joke, I do mean to say that matters of taste are involved though)
You know, I didn't claim to understand the reasons behind the technical limitations, but the reactions of some of you are puzzling to me.

We can go on and on about familiarity considerations, and planning considerations, and instrumentation considerations, and scientific concerns, etc. It all sounds like excuses after a bit.

Let's reformulate the question: Why not keep the same enclosure, the same lens assembly, the same mechanical parts and simply swap the 2MP sensor for a 20MP sensor?

Further, let's say you are really not sure about that spanking new 20MP sensor, because it is new, you are not familiar with it, and it was not part of the plan drafted 10 years ago, why not add 1 extra camera with a 20MP sensor? If it blows up during the trip or during landing, too bad, it's lost. If it makes it down there safe and sound, you can collect a 10-minute HD sequence that you can stream back to earth over the next 2 years, during down-times, as a very low priority task.

Potential benefit: You offer the world the first and a truly spectacular HD film shot on Mars, in all its splendor, and you inspire a new generation of world explorers, who will ultimately drive man to take another small step, but a giant one for mankind.

Clearly, if that's the best we can do for something as trivial as shooting a video up there, I cannot fathom a man setting foot on Mars in my lifetime. That may be normal, but it saddens me somehow.
What's the Big-O of PBKDF2 ?

Constants matter.

(Also, computational complexity of crypto algorithms is usually specified in terms of nbits, not numeric magnitude)

(Although this argument has given me an idea for everyone that thinks using the same password on different sites is reasonable - a browser extension that runs a client-side KDF :P)
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I have been dissatisfied with iTunes of late and am seeking a new music player. I've tried a number of them, clementine (http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/) is my favorite so far. What are Mac users on HN using to listen to music?
Not nearly as impressive, but some of the students out of DevBootcamp built http://impressi.me/!
It's kinda sad that you have to pay that much for an education. In other countries, for example in Scandinavia, higher education is free (with the cost of higher taxes of course). Although, some people in IT still choose to skip it. It shows.
Those animations on my 4s are tight as Glen. Nice!
A PHP class for ThriftDB
it's all a question of : did you learn the right thing, or meet the right people.

i did both outside of college, while attending it. So it's not my biggest mistake.
Hmm, they did spin it well. I feel a bit silly for not recognizing it. And you're right, this can be a nice "benefit" that would be really cheap to add for employees, especially at the age that most "hackers" are at.
The Singularity is not coming
This thread is full of people who think this is impossible, but it's not. I pretty much did that when I was in school, and I had about a 60% chance of an A and a 30% chance of a B, according to my GPA.

I wasn't quite as quick as the poster -- the total amount of effort I put into a course probably amounted to 2-3 days of work, including time spent in classes and exams. But, I knew people who were easily an order of magnitude more productive than I was; for them, it would have been an afternoon of work. If you read quickly, you can finish reading a textbook in an afternoon. The extra time I burned was the time it took to work through enough exercises to convince myself that I really got the material. For some really easy classes, I only had to do one exercise per section to convince myself that I knew it, so it ended up being just one afternoon. There are plenty of people who are smarter than I am, who could do every class that way. I don't know if the writer of the original article is one of those people, but it doesn't sound implausible to me.

Just for reference, I went to Wisconsin, which is approximately as rigorous as RIT, and I double majored in math and computer engineering, which are both comparable to CS. But, I graduated in three years and my tuition was a few thousand a year, so the total was was easily covered by an engineering internship. At a place like Wisconsin, you might as well stick around and get the degree -- after all, it's only a month or two of total effort, and you can easily make enough to cover the degree from doing internships, or working as an RA on campus or even at Starbucks. If the price tag were $44k a year, I probably would have dropped out, too.
I love how so many liberals that would never dream of insulting someone for being poor have this attitude that if you didn't go to college, you are some kind of uncultured hick. Somehow beneath all those baristas with hundreds of thousands of dollars of college debt.

>The only thing ever discussed seems to be how job-ready you are at graduation time.

This is the opposite of what I saw before the recession. Maybe I am hanging out with wealthier people than you are? or maybe you are just too young to remember a time before the recession. I don't know. As far as I can tell, at least until the recession hit, considering how much money you'd make when you got out of college was considered extremely déclassé. College was all about finding yourself and becoming a better-educated person. Only the uneducated, uncouth hicks actually thought about money. How gauche!

Of course, now with the recession on, a whole lot more people find it impossible to pretend to not be poor, and actually taking steps to see to it that you can feed yourself later in life are gaining some social acceptance.

Personally, I'd say that I learned a very similar lesson to the barista when I bought a BMW during the first dot-com. You see, pretending to be rich is really expensive.
You're right that no one is forcing the people to work the long hours. However imo programmers and gamers are often naive. Spending high school and college working alone or with friends of a similar mind-set can prevent someone from seeing the "real world" aka MBA-types who prefer making money to advancing interesting technology. So while no one is forcing the employees to work themselves into the ground there's still something to be said about cunning non-technical leadership taking advantage of 18-22 year old naive programmers.
I don't disagree, but a logo should be a default feature. I remember clearly when Vineyard Vines became the go to brand of southern frat boys overnight, and a $100M/yr business. It would have never happened without the whale logo.

Leaving a logo off the polos basically makes any sort of viral growth impossible. Of course the plan could be to sell shirts exclusively to wealthy people that like the "lands end" look. That doesn't strike me as the best approach.
Still waiting for canvas support. Till then, I'm all about Dygraphs.
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Strange - I have only preset questions.
It may even be "plebeian" to ask questions about the technical features of a data collection instrument named "Curiosity". I should have been an aristocrat instead of an engineer ; I could marvel at everything wrapped in the bliss of my ignorance.

And for the record, I think it is amazing and wonderful to receive these images. I am so thankful for that.
But, for a data collection instrument that cost $2.6 billion to build, I cannot conceal my very personal feeling that an opportunity was missed.
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Well, we already know that the main camera has only twice the megapixel density, so we are back to stitching images to increase the quality. Fortunately nothing moves much on mars over the timescales that the camera operates, so its perfectly reasonable to get the quality up that way, just as we have seen with Spirit and (the still working) Opportunity.

But as much as we all want to accept that it's not Curiosity's main mission (taking pretty pictures,) it is a very important part of the mission because it's pictures, not data that gets the public's attention, and more importantly, makes future missions to mars a priority for politicians who see a voting public willing to support them.
getting fired: 26weeks of unemployment runway to do your own thing!
I believe the reason NASA sent the probe was not to take "1080p, full-color video footage", but rather prove something scientifically about life on Mars with other more suitable instruments. They couldn't care less about video footage. A shame really, but that is the main reason.
Amazing work here. Had I known about this two weeks ago, I would've backed you up for a class project. Keep up the great work!
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In my experience, I almost never look into "education" part of the CV when interviewing. I do ask questions which are taught in decent CS courses, but I couldn't care less, if the answer is right, about where it came from. Degree is just a piece of paper, it is knowledge and skills that matter.

I have a CS degree and I think it gave me a lot and helped a lot in my professional advancement. However, this way of learning is not for everybody, and I do see how somebody could have acquired the same knowledge and skills without any formal framework. I probably could not - and I know that if I join any formal framework, even free no-commitment one like Coursera - I learn much more effectively than if I just try to do it by myself. But for many people it is the opposite, and these people can be and often are more successful than I am.

So formal education is very useful - for some. For some it is not, so I completely understand why OP thinks it was his biggest mistake and I think he has made the right decision for him. I'd suggest him to try some free education though - like Coursera or many other major colleges have now free online course. You don't get the degree, but you do get the knowledge, and that's IMHO much more valuable.

OTOH, the formal degree may also be usable for some big companies and some other things (e.g. immigration, for those that want to live in different country than they were born in) - but one can do without it too.
Thanks pwf, we have been considering this avenue. Especially to help with the first step of size selection optimization, but through a variety of tests and interviews we conducted, there was something about people actually touching fabric and trying on the garments that could not be replaced with digital images and 3D modeling. But, we will certainly be giving more thought and research into this area!
How do you grow the rat brain? How hard is it to keep the rat brain alive? How hard would it be to mass produce rat brain CPUs?
As a point of reference, my employer provides 2x my salary in life insurance for free, and I can double it to 4x for $6.80 a month.

It's a nice benefit, but it's on the same extravagance level as providing free coffee.
YouTube. Not a music player but works great
Yeah, I hear ya on that photo. If it is any consolation that photo was taken before we started our perfect fit program! And that model was not fitted with our home try-program. Needs to be replaced, agree!
Following up on blahedo's comment and the questions about what the heck their p-values mean --

This is a nice example that you can get statistical significance for small effects, if your sample is big enough. Their p-values are explained very badly, so I did my own analysis by transcribing their data from those plots. Let's take their weighting scheme for granted. I agree with some other commenters that the sums and counts are misleading, and instead took average scores per font, and computed confidence intervals for those means. The means are indeed a little different, and for some pairs, statistically significantly so.

http://brenocon.com/Screen%20shot%202012-08-10%20at%202.03.0...

But does it matter much? Take the pair with the largest gap, Baskerville vs. Comic Sans, of 0.95 versus 0.79: a difference is 0.16. This is out of a 10-point scale (ranging -5 to +5).

In fact, the standard deviation for the entire dataset is 3.6 -- so just 0.05 standard deviations worth of difference.

Or here's another way to think about it. If a person does Comic Sans example, versus could have done Baskerville example, how often would they have score higher? (This ignores the weightings, it's a purely ordinal comparison. I think this is related to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test statistic or something, I forget.) So with independence assumptions (if they had proper randomization, hopefully this solves), just independently sample from the distributions many times and compare pairs of simulated outcomes. 22% of the time it's a tie, 40.3% of the time Baskerville scores higher, and 37.8% of the time Comic Sans scores higher. I guess then it sounds like the difference is better than nothing.

Not sure what's a good and fair way to think about the substantive size of the effect. I wanted to take the quantile positions of the means, but realized you can't exactly do that with ordinal data like this (zillions of values share the same quantile value).

I probably missed something, so here's the transcribed data and R/Python code probably with errors: https://gist.github.com/3311340

Now that I'm thinking about it more, averaging the agreement scores seems weird. Maybe it's clearer to use the simple binary agree/disagree outcome.
But more people pay extra for conspicuous branding, not to mention the marketing benefits. Hence the luxury fashion industry.
I think you have a good point. I grew up never hearing anything negative about college, only positive things. All the adults I knew, when I was young, who went to college had nice houses, cars, vacations, etc. Then me and some friends went to college, and many of us were not so fortunate. Bearing large debt that keeps us close to poverty, seeing people that have almost half our IQ, half our discipline, half our ethics making more money than us ... it was a shockingly rude awakening. And when people have such a shift in thinking, we are drawn to articles that try to explain and make sense of our shattered perceptions (kind of like a Phillip K. Dick novel).
Have a look in Google Earth. It has street view from generations of rovers ;)