skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it could have been a horrible, cynicism-inspiring class, but given the overall savvy of elite students (who would likely have dropped it early if that were the case) I think chances are it's just that the students being admitted are lacking in genuine intellectual curiosity and perhaps aspects of character.
Watty, It's not whether I like Apple or Samsung. I myself feel that the patent process is broken. My only point was not to single out Apple and leave the others. In this case, there was enough evidence that Samsung "willfully" copied from Apple. For example, a 132 page document was a very hard evidence including emails from the company. You do not require patents to prove it. Patents were used to calculate the financial losses. If otherwise, there would have been a long list of patents which the judges may have seen Samsung to infringed. However, that's not the case.
The licensing medallion is the largest expense of taxis in many markets
New York City: Software Architect @ TMP Worldwide

TMP Worldwide is looking for a second developer to work on the architecture team, to help design and develop a core platform and back end systems for connecting our expanding suite of recruitment-related software products.

I'm not a recruiter, and TMP is not a start up, I am a developer myself in TMP's 5-person architecture team. The work environment is really great, and I get to work on interesting problems every day. We are a Microsoft shop, so strong C# and SQL Server experience is preferred. We are using things like NServiceBus, MVC4, Solr, MongoDB, Backbone.js and lots of other interesting technologies. This position has a lot of influence in future technology choices, along with plenty of room for creativity and experimentation.

If this sounds interesting, shoot me an email at Daniel.Battaglia@tmp.com, or apply using the link below:

http://www.jobsattmp.com/new-york-state/web-development/jobi...
> One student recalled going to a teaching fellow while working on the final exam and finding a crowd of others there, asking about a test question that hinged on an unfamiliar term. The student said the fellow defined the term for them.

I realise that I only have this snippet of text, but: Didn't they have a dictionary? Didn't they have search engines?

Some of the attitudes displayed in that article are surprising. And disappointing.
It's not even very interesting if the growth is logistically or exponentially. The point is: there is significant growth. And it doesn't stop until you reach the limit of what the environment can carry. You say that number is projected to be 9-12 billion.

And then we run out of oil. What happens as the mortality skyrockets and humanity downsizes to the new carrying capacity?
Really glad to see you using Resumonk for your resume!

Best of luck with your job search.
And I know tons of them that cannot even pin point their country on the maps. What's with using outliers as examples?
"Thus, to be cheating in a class where 99% of the students are cheating is to be somewhat less culpable than to be among the students cheating when only 1% of the students are cheating."

No.
I initially read this without looking at the date at the top (1997). Made me a little sad that I assumed the entire exchange happened recently. Not much has changed in the 15 years since.
Ask HN: Which subdomains do you deny/block for your SaaS applications?
I'm working on a blacklist here:
https://github.com/sandeepshetty/subdomain-blacklist/blob/master/subdomain-blacklist.txt

What does your list look like?
I find it amusing that, on the PHP internals mailing list, RFCs will be heavily "debated" (i.e., argued) about, and you'd think from reading it everyone hates something.

Then it comes to vote and >90% vote for it, usually :)
Well, since self-driving cars are new and don't have the protection of an earlier history of precedents, then yes, they will be much bigger legal targets. The whole overblown spontaneous acceleration incidents would be a good pointer.
Don't forget they told him this after they had rejected it twice previously on technical grounds.

I think that this was clearly their issue but they tried to dissuade him with bogus technical reasons first to give him the runaround. After he "fixed" whatever technical issues were there not once, but twice, they finally told him the real reason they wouldn't accept it. I think that's what really frustrates me the most about this story.
Using ant basics:

http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/projects-cmdline...

http://developer.android.com/tools/building/index.html

And using the Android SDK Manager to manage packages (this assumes that the 3rd party libraries you are using are well-admined enough to have a proper Android SDK Manager add-on site, which many popular libs do have):

http://developer.android.com/sdk/exploring.html (Scroll down to 'Adding New Sites')
I like how the learn mode lets you see the AI algorithms and the practice mode lets you rewind. It's like Braid for PacMan. Pretty fun. It'd be interesting to play as the ghosts and see if you can write simple algorithms for a ghost team to capture pacman.
Intercom (https://www.intercom.io/) is hiring in San Francisco and Dublin. We're building a product for web businesses. It's all about bringing them closer to their customers, giving them awesome new ways to see them and talk to them. People love it (https://twitter.com/intercom/favorites).

San Francisco, H-1Bs offered:

* Head of Marketing

* Head of Business Development

* Head of Product Design (UX)

* Senior Visual Designer

Dublin:

* Senior Front-end Developer

* Senior Ruby Developers

We offer zero bullshit perks. Our focus is on producing the best work of our lives. We're turning down acquisition offers. We intend on building something meaningful and being around for a very long time.

Talk to me in confidence: eoghan AT intercom DOT io
Looking for back-end developer (and potential technical co-founder)
Our team is looking for a back-end developer to join our early-stage startup. We're initially looking for someone to work with, but would ultimately like a technical co-founder if we're a culture-fit.

We've been interviewing/talking to talented people, but it's really important that we meet someone that has their heart and mind in the right place. We want teammates with big dreams.

Our startup is focused in the mobile/social/payment space. We currently have a working prototype of our product MVP and an initial back/front-end already developed. We've ran a first test and are now in the process of securing our first customers.

We're now looking for someone with more experience to help grow and support our back-end. Our current back-end is a LAMP stack, but we're open to re-architecting this. If we work well together and are a culture-fit, we'd love to share a co-founding position.

We're currently located in Los Angeles and would ideally love to work with someone nearby.

If there's any questions or interest, please let us know.
Um..yes. Study groups or websites are online resources. So is facebook. If a student posts the questions online and starts discussions with anonymous posters, or even reads relevant discussions posted online before the test, how is that different from discussing with one another. There are plenty of ways to have a test that explicitly prevents collaboration. This professor clearly did not try.
Yes, there is more to it than you're aware of. For starters, how do you think Twitter's API customers would monetize their applications? They would be paying Twitter for the privilege of attempting to monetize tweets. It only makes sense to pay if they can extract more value than Twitter can.

If someone finds a way to monetize tweets that's more effective than Twitter's, then Twitter would have an incentive to copy it, therefore competing with its customers.

Long story short, that's the reason Google stopped selling white label search via its api to customers like Yahoo ten years ago.
Interesting...

Have you thought about what kind of ideas you'll be generating?
Continue self-taught coding or learn professional practices
Jaywalking in Manhattan, on the other hand is not done and you better not do it within eyesight of a police officer.

Seriously? I have stayed in Manhattan for couple years and done my share of jaywalking occasionally in clear sight of NYPD. May be I am just lucky but this just doesn't resonate with me.
Can you push notifications to the device from Javascript?
I find it interesting that my 5 year old son prefers the YouTube app on my iPhone to the one on my Galaxy Tab, even though the screen is obviously smaller on the iPhone. I don't really know why. He seems to find it easier to navigate.
SymPy is great. I've used it and read through the code (available open source). Also, my online calculator Encalc.com uses SymPy on the backend. For example: http://www.encalc.com/#expr=integrate(sin(x))
Their computer must have horribly set monitor or gamma settings...
Hyperbole much? This isn't a realtime tracking app that shows a drone in flight as it launches a Hellfire missile towards someone on President Obama's hit list...
Put it up on Cydia in the meantime. Many of us with jail broken phones would like to see it.
YouTube is not a charity dedicated to children's entertainment. They are a division of a publicly traded company with a legal responsibility to make money. If they want to add G+ sharing and ads in order to remain a viable business, that is their prerogative.

Maybe somebody else will make the app you want, with nothing but an endless selection of free content. Maybe everybody will love it. And then, it'll go broke or get acquired and we'll have to see a repeat of all the "don't be a free user" rants that show up on hacker news every time a beloved company wih no business model either dies or tries to start supporting itself.
Looks like the link cut off the closing parentheses.
I used to say that PHP tried to be Java. Closures, traits and now generators, linguistically it's getting ahead.
DoubleDutch (San Francisco) is looking for ambitious iOS/Android/web/backend developers to help bring mobile to the enterprise.

We offer competitive salaries and equity (of course), but also offer a great work environment based out of the Mission.

We already have top technology companies using our software (Cisco, HP, Adobe, etc.) and are looking to get our software in the hands of as many professionals as we can.

To learn a little more, visit http://doubledutch.me/about.aspx, or email me directly at nclark _at_ doubledutch.me

Thanks!
Excellent, I like it. Coincidentally I just read the Pac-Man dossier this morning[0]. An excellent resource on how the AI and overall game works. Might be a good way to get the AI a bit more accurate.

[0]http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
This wasn't a question for 'me' per se, I'm trying to get a feel for the industry on a wider scale, if you will. The reason I asked to exclude 'specialist jobs' is because I think they distort the information I was attempting to garner.

Thanks @JimmyJenkins = that's the type of information I'm after.

Thumbs down @jasonkester for your 'troll type' response.
TL;DR: I don't like the idea of having to pay for watching video, and am using the example of a small child to engender sympathy.

The simple fact of the matter is that running YouTube costs money, and there's nothing wrong with making users pay for that in the form of ads. You don't want your sister to have to deal with that? Totally understandable. Maybe there should be some kind of kid-friendly video network that only shows appropriate videos (and appropriate comments)? I imagine a lot of parents would pay a monthly fee for access to that, and bypass advertising entirely.

As I often think when I read posts like this on Hacker News: you've just identified a market and a window of opportunity. Stop complaining and get working.
Thank you. You too. :)
Everyone jaywalked when I was in Manhattan. It's a very pedestrian city.
Apple sued Samsung because they weren't innovating
Substitute Seattle for Manhattan and the point stands.
Is there an index somewhere that has a list of all libs that have a proper repository.xml? It would be great to have something like rubygems or cocoapods where you can search for all options you have for that problem you are facing.
Amazon Sellers Rip OFF
Maybe in the past there was more of a distinction between online resources and peers, but today I think the line is quite blurred. Would a thoughtful online discussion of the students enrolled in the class be considered an online resource, or would it be classified as discussing the test with others?

Personally, I think some of the most valuable learning happens when discussing course content with my peers. Sometimes, I take the role of the learner, other times I'm forced to test my own understanding when explaining things to others. It's a win-win. Because I engage with others, it's likely that many of the same ideas I put down on paper would be similar to other people's work. But I don't consider that cheating. However, I would never take an answer that somebody else had written, change the words around, and submit it. Not being directly involved in this case at Harvard, it's hard to tell exactly what the students did.
Go to restaurants that refuse tips or none at all.
My assessment

The course instructor set the rules but the implementation was "loose" (casual). The students went one step too far in their liberties. I think it's a collective failure on part of the professor, TFs and students.
FYI - The caveat for how to set up z for zsh were wrong in brew. I just submitted a pull request to fix this.

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/14621
Agreed. I wonder if webmasters can get stats on how often readers use Readability or the like to actually consume their content...

To the author: http://contrastrebellion.com
I think you missed the point of the article. Right now, Twitter has rigid limits in place - you don't think it'd be better for developers to at least know in advance they can go past that limit, even if it means they have to pay?

There are many uses for twitter data outside of just repeating the tweets with a different design. There are quite a few Twitter apps that generate revenue and some have also been acquired by bigger companies. Twitter and Google main service offering are not comparable, since Twitter has the actual data while Google is a gateway.
I shorted the equity directly.

The main costs are:

- Transaction and Margin costs (those are generally 1 cent per share per side, roughly .06%)
- Borrow costs (For that trade it was 30% annualized. I held it for 6 days so its .7%)

So the cost to the trade was .76%. The gross return (since you calculate returns relative to the starting point) is (31.5 - 27) / 31.6 = 14.28% and the net return is 13.53%

Note that I didnt short as much as I could have -- obviously the return would be higher if I borrowed extra money to short.
Proposal for tax revolution: 3% income tax, 4% wealth tax
I guess I'm wrong about that then. When I was there last everybody seemed to wait for the light to turn green. I'll edit the original post.
Not that I know of. I agree it would be great to have a central repository of vetted quality projects, though.
I'm pretty sure I agree with you but comments like these could be more verbose. It's not helpful to simply disagree without explanation. One word responses are just dogmatic.
"If your business can't succeed without VC and without eventual acquisition, you don't have a business, you have a gamble."

Yes but a gamble with benefits. Specifically if you play your cards right and get involved with the right group of people, you get your "ticket punched" which can and does lead to other future opportunities. As much as I would like to side with your belief (and myself use "gamble" many times to describe what people are doing) for a young person who can afford to take a chance (or an older person who doesn't have financial or family concerns) it might be a gamble worth taking.

Think of it as a person who marries a celebrity fully knowing that the relationship might not work out. They get to attend parties, they meet "important" people, they move in the right circles they get their picture in the press. The relationship breaks up. Are they better off than the same person who is living in the middle of nowhere and has the same experience? I'd say they are exposed to things that give them much more opportunity to land on their feet.

Or as another example someone who pursues a dream to win a gold medal at the Olympics and doesn't even get a bronze. I'd say it's an experience worth doing, in general of course.
Which part of CA were you living in? Thinking of making a similar move
My bad! :-(
Fact, thats why I'm working in NYC as I get WellPosed off the ground :)
That plus I'm a native.

I have to say one fun upside to NYC is that theres lots of interesting smart folks (both young and old) doing cool stuff that isn't just "website as a business". The wee coworking space I use is especially fun because I'm surrounded by smart young pros doing high end work in design , architecture, fashion, etc.

Variety is good for the brain, especially when designing numerical algorithms all day :)
I ran a vaguely similar music discovery service called Albumcorner earlier this year. I got in touch with the guy who did Mixest -- seemed like a really great guy. I got the impression that he wasn't going to relaunch after the attack on the server, though, so it's great to hear he passed the baton. And it looks better than ever, Michelle, nice work!
Not needing a Car is the the distinction here though.
So they have evolved these emotions...
Good post. Today my niece and I are going to start hacking her first programs, a website and an arduino (turn on/off an LED). It helps not to treat girls as "girls" (in the traditional US media style), but as people. Makes a lot of difference. They struggle not because of their gender but due to the difficulty of the problems.
"Why exactly does the biggest company in the industry need to be "protected"? Making fashionable-looking hardware and putting together some obvious and old ideas (eg., pinch to zoom) is not the same as 'investing in innovation'"

I read comments like this, and all my brain sees is: "WAAAH!"

Companies don't give up their rights to legal protection once they get to a size that the internet thinks is "too big". And that's a great thing -- it's how small companies become large companies without being killed by nasty parasites who do nothing but copy good products to eat away at profit margins.

As for the argument that Apple didn't do anything innovative: take a walk, please. Unless you're too young to remember the world of cellphones in 2007, you can't make a reasonable claim that there was no innovation in what they did with the iPhone. Lots of people want to post hoc rationalize the fact that the market has been flooded with iPhone-esque devices by calling it "innovation" (as if lower prices were somehow innovative). But I was there, and I remember the phone I had before I had an iPhone: It flipped open. It had a keyboard. It barely fit in my pocket, and had a tiny, low-resolution screen. I had to buy an expensive, custom headphone to listen to music.

Rationalize whatever you like, but Apple revolutionized the cellphone market, and they deserve the spoils of their risk-taking. If this is how they do that within the confines of the current legal system, so be it. They deserve to win.
I can think of two ways to do it.

First, you could put the piezo film (commonly used in speakers for cellphones, more efficient for smaller transducers but requires a special amplifier) directly below (but in contact with) the display and use the display as the 'diaphragm'. Makes the entire display a speaker, but would require some interesting sound cancelling tricks to avoid feedback with the microphone.

Second, you could use a piezo below the display with an airgap and use something akin to the laser used in the power LEDs on the Macbooks to poke enough airholes to direct the sound toward the ear.

A third method, which I'm not sure would work, is to suspend the piezo material between two ITO layers (like that used in the capacitive touchscreen) and put it above the display. Depends on if someone has found a transparent piezoelectric material yet; I haven't been keeping up with the materials science side of things.
Oh for...

While newspapers may report on drone strikes, that's not their primary function. The primary function of this app is obviously to make a bold statement about the atrocities of war.

Apple doesn't want to publish an app that is designed to provoke the audience. Apple can't let just anyone post apps to the App Store, because the whole idea behind that store is to provide products that meet minimum quality requirements, so users don't have to search through all the crap to find the good stuff.

Letting everyone publish would drown out many good apps in favor of shit. Letting everyone publish often gives you problems with system stability from poorly witten code, something I've encountered on several Android phones.

The iDevices are NOT computers. They're digital appliances. How often do you hear people complain that they can't modify the source code of their microwave or their car. Hardly ever, because expectations are different.

Apple's policies make perfect sense if you view it their products same way you view a TV. They're not designed for nerds!
The point is that these are not outliers in aptitude. They're outliers in opportunities offered.

Underestimating kids is a huge societal failure. We do it a lot. It offends me.

I'm not sure you read the article, or noticed the comment I was replying to.

Why would anyone not offer a class in hard stuff to 14 year olds?? 14 is not some tender sensitive age where kids need coddling.
Each has its own merits in the context of sports competitiveness, but in Twitter's case there is no reason for a hard cap at all. What does Twitter gain by putting a hard limit on API usage?

There is a reason for a hard cap: the limit's goal is to ensure twitter-owned clients dominate the market for basic twitter use.

You may have a point by saying that twitter can simply make the tax per additional tweet equal to the approximate revenue they plan to lose as a result. But that figure may be hard to calculate, especially its long-term value. So even if a company is willing to pay 5x to twitter per additional tweet over the hard limit, twitter doesn't know the long-term impact of it
I didn't miss the point. Twitter does not want developers to go past that limit. Pay or no pay, it doesn't matter to Twitter. It's not part of the plan.
PHP is still very Java-like in some ways though. Well... PHP likes to pretend it's a dynamic language (Closures, for instance), but at its core it's a very strange dynamic/static hybrid, utilising a single-pass compiler and with type checking done with syntax definitions(!)

Which is why this doesn't work: (actual intended production code)

self::$views[$path]();

Why? Because the syntax doesn't accomodate calling a closure that is an item in an array, which is a static member of a class.

But this works:

$x = self::$views[$path];
$x();
Seriously, Youtube is a business and has to generate revenue somehow. The air of entitlement stinks.
This will be helpful for the DNC to register the dead people and dogs needed to win elections this year with national unemployment at 8.3%.
I clone ideas from Dribbble. Great resource for people looking to learn and create stimulating visuals.
TL;DR

1 - Wall of words

2 - Lance Armstrong

Question is: how do you clean it up?
1995:Bill Gates predicts Apple's product line and the Nest thermostat
Then he should've said only that, and not the other things. I already conceded that public transportation was better in NYC.