skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see this working out once this goes beyond the "initial critical mass of users" hump. Some high-level comments:

* There are several organizations, agencies and committees with similar goals _inside_ each institution (university / high school). Given that your goals are aligned, it would be nice to see a way to onboard entire organizations (i.e. groups of students / mentors) -- even if it is not from the general frontpage. That way, you can think of Meritful as a SaaS provider for each of these orgs, and it also solves your critical mass problem.

* Student orgs (High Schools, etc) come in with well-articulated reasons as to _why_ I (a potential mentor) should work with them. This helps me make a decision along the lines of "I am looking for a group of 10 students at grade level 8 who are interested in astronomy and are free on Thursday evenings for all of Fall 2012. Can your group match that?" Note how this is different from scouting talent -- mentors just have more constraints.
Using a physics engine to express an AI problem? That's an interesting solution, but that's certainly the first time I've heard of one being used like this?
You're using the hammer to put the screws in there. Use the tight tools for the right job.

Papers: LaTeX or Word with a proper template (you actually have to know a lot about how to use Word for such things to be effective.)

Wedding invitations: Publisher

Everything else: Word.
Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.le...

and link to the paper concerned: http://se.uni-hannover.de/pub/File/pdfpapers/Pham2012.pdf
Chipotle’s Fuzzy Math: Why They Stopped Rounding Customers Out of Change
I don't think that's the case here. If you look at the whois record, the creation and expiration date is 4/18, so this wasn't a matter of the domain expiring and then being snatched up by a squatter.

In other words, it appears that this domain was stolen, and the rightful owner does have recourse in that case.

Edit: Their twitter seems to confirm that this was not an expiration problem.
If I was trying to find the best Lisp developer out there I would hire Paul Graham, and if I was trying to find a senior person in C I would hire someone with 10 years of C.

So I think you are just clarifying my point here.

The OP has 10 years of experience in java. so I would consider him for a java developer position. I don't believe that is what the OP wants though.
You are slightly confused. False positives do indeed happen, but false negatives can never happen (if one of the bits aren't set for the corresponding hash, then it is guaranteed to have never been added before).

Collisions in hash tables are related to false positives in Bloom Filters.

Also, regarding your last statement: You don't always need to look at the actual set in some cases, but for a lot you do. Bloom Filters give you a fast, compact way to prevent a lot of unnecessary searching. Spell Checkers, for example, you could reduce the amount of times you had to search through the dictionary, or for finding files or something on disk, you could eliminate a percentage of searches for the files. How much these can be reduced is related to the size of your Bloom filter.
Check mezzanine you will be amazed. :)
Check the whois. The expiration was 4/18, so it doesn't look like they let it expire.
That is the site, demonstrating what a lack of testing gets you. It's brilliant.
TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less
Well, I have to disagree with the analogy a little bit, but hopefully I can do so in a amicable way. Peeing into a toilet and all of the advancements that have been made downstream of the toilet came about for reasons of sanitation. When people used to toss their excrement into the streets out their window, it bred disease and caused other issues.

What happens to a generation of people that no longer have Google at their fingers or in this case an immediate connection to the internet. I was imagining someone gardening, growing their own food. They are walking by their garden and Google Glass reminds them to water the garden, so they do. A couple of days later they're walking by and it flashes a reminder to go harvest some of the green beans they planted. Looking through Glass, it picks out which green beans are ready to eat. What happens when this technology is gone? Has the individual really been educated on what it meant to garden? Would they be able to garden without the device?

Where is the mystery and risk that comes with life sans augment? Life doesn't just occur in the cases of success, it occurs in the moments of failure too. The fruit that wasn't ripe enough or was too ripe. The experience of a fried green tomato. Disconnecting allows for things that don't happen when you're constantly on interrupt. The ability to think; the ability to be creative; to have unique ideas.
I spent a number of years doing QA ("real" QA, guiding and advising the entire lifecycle) and making sure that the software in my little corner of the world did work. (Often catching critical bugs after some other "QA" process had entirely missed them.)

It's a thankless job. The developers I worked with directly loved me -- the best of the lot did, anyway. (My observation in turn of their abilities and professionalism.) But management had no clue (and refused to get one). And many developers outside of my exclusive little clique had to be brow-beaten into some level of compliance.

Speaking generally: You say you want quality. But your actions belie this.

P.S. If you're concerned about "quality", amongst other things you should read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". To understand the importance of and drive for quality amongst those who really care.
In general use, a squatter is just somebody who holds a domain they don't intend to use. How they came by it is incidental.
Duolingo Gets $15 Million To Translate The World's Text Through Online Learning
There are a lot of metrics we look at. The most straightforward are engagement numbers, particularly the social variety (like, comment, reshare, etc), normalized by various measures like impressions or sessions.

LinkedIn does a fair bit of user studies as well, and we're hoping to go further in this are for feed relevance.
Wonder how much of that 8 billion in payments/year they see. 2.75% (their fee) of 8 billion is 220 million. How much of that do they have to pay out to the payment networks?
Short answer: it's not viable.

There are laws and liabilities to consider. Also, recruiters are essentially sales people. They need to have a degree of sales ability. You need to be able to sell the benefits of a job to a candidate and the benefits of a candidate to a hiring manager. Also, decent recruiters spend a huge amount of time on the phone. Not just calling every and any candidate that looks remotely decent but simply trying to get through to a select few people takes a crazy amount of time.
Hey Hartley, what blog? (If you don't mind me asking). I built ilictronix, but abandoned it when I started college a few years ago. Now I'm rebranding it [1]. Regardless, I imagine we've crossed paths, I've chatted with many many other music bloggers. Great community, I miss it.

[1]: http://ilictronix.herokuapp.com
On the other hand it's not like usual FPS have everything calculated on the server side, which is why there is a difference between most MMOs and FPSs and why there are still cheaters. There are various countermeasures. There are even a lot of MMOs that do a big part on the client side.

Maybe clients could also verify each other. There has been some thought on this topic, but I don't how far the research went.
RESTful Models
The update date was 9/17, which presumably reflects the date of transfer. So this just happened today.
Thank you so much for this article. Im not alone.
I'm a huge fan of drive-by commits. GitHub's web editor makes it really easy to correct a typo or add a two-line fix - and for many people that might be their first contribution to open-source, without the faff of downloading git etc.
It's more likely UpNext's data.

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/02/exclusive-amazon-buys-3d-mappin...
Using a dishwasher actually saves water.
University admissions counselors make the Meritful better for students, and we are talking to those people. But teachers have a lot of face time with students, and can be a vehicle for students to learn about Meritful. If a teacher has a class project, it would make a great entry on the portfolio, and a nice way to share with the rest of the class...so, we were looking at the distribution channel. Your comment on two sides of the graph spot on.
Must startup founders be charismatic?
World map showing IPv6 adoption rates per country
Good luck finding a solution!

I personally cant see myself using this with my friends.

However I would be interested in an app where there was a network of people around the world - who were willing to do 5-10 min favours for each other.

Can some one proof read this blog post?
Can some one provide critical feedback on this song I just produced?

Could work by karma / ratio like torrents / split into interests etc

Maybe remove the price of the app and allow people to donate if they want to have someone / access to a network to help with their 5-10min tasks.

All the best :)
I disagree :)

A transcompiler would have to be able to produce pretty much 1:1 mapping between one language and another. In this case, it would have to be emitting the equivalent of dynamic calls, which isn't really possible on the JVM (other than through invokedynamic, which does work very well).

Instead, this is using a static view of the world to produce the resulting code...assuming only the method names it sees statically at compile time will ever exist, and generating a static picture of that world. Hell...it's actually turning all dynamic dispatch into static dispatch. How could a transcompiler possibly do that?

Also...performance gains being offset by the size of the JVM? I don't understand this at all.
It is funny that you describe it as therapeutic. I have several manual tasks that I would describe that way. Just not washing dishes. :)
Also - what do your monetization plans look like? I don't think this is something to take lightly. You'll never be able to charge teachers much for the service. Maybe enough for a lifestyle business though, if that's what you're interested in.

Edit: Perhaps college recruiters? Generally they'll pay a lot to convince students to apply. They recoup it in application fees though :) You may also be able to charge parents of graduating seniors some kind of college search tools.
Less Pain, More Money
Anonymous vs GoDaddy: Social Media As Social Engineering
It's not the bugs that "bug" me. It's the time it takes developers to fix them. Example: Mountain Lion's Mail; for some of us, it suddenly takes all the accounts off-line. The fix is to restart it. There are HUGE threads in the forums [about this issues and several others], and multiple posts on various sites around the net and STILL no fix.

Another example from Apple: The 2011 MacBook Air wireless connections issues. Also several huge threads in the forums, and multiple posts around the net and nothing.

And Apple isn't the only company. I don't even want to get started on the state of video games today (look at the launch of D3 from Blizzard and what a nightmare that was or SW:TOR - just a couple of recent examples).

I imagine two reasons for that state we are at now: Money - the rush to release (and "worry about fixing bugs later" -this is VERY true in the gaming world); and in Apple's case, they hate to admit anything can possibly be wrong in perfect-town Apple.
Synchronization in IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has worked quite well for 20+ years, so obviously sync is not fundamentally broken. More likely we've just failed to learn from history.
Mach-O's two-level namespace does not work based on the one-level filename of the library on disk: it works based on the canonical full path stored in the LC_ID_DYLIB load command of the library; these names should contain the version number of the library, and so provides the functionality that you seem to be referencing (although I am very rusty at Windows and never knew how things worked at this particular level, so I'm working off of the short paragraph you just linked).

As an example:

/usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is actually /usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Python is actually /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python

You can thereby have symbols linked from both /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Python and /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python. "(Note that the module filenames are identical.)"
There will be a UK edition in some months time. Meanwhile, if you want to show your support, you can go to http://www.craphound.com where Cory is running a donation drive for libraries and teachers.
> There's no reason a good GIF encoder couldn't do what you did in your post. I don't know if one actually exists

Graphics(/Image)Magick http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/
My latest dishwasher is 'energy star'. What that means is, every year they have to use 10% less energy and water. After the last 10 years, the dishwasher uses almost no enery nor water. And it doesn't get the dishes clean. And there's no way to override it.

My water comes from a well. Its plentiful and free. Its pointless to save a gallon, and make me hand-wash half the dishes.
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OK. Well I guess this supports the original poster's motivation, that animated GIFs can't be relied on.
Using Visio is like stepping back to 1999. They could have at least updated the renderer, added better magnets and auto positioning... It's bizarre looking at a old-style renderer bolted onto a metroish UI in 2013. What are their designers thinking?

Visio was the best diagramming tool in 1999, it's still popular in the enterprise, biz types love it; omnigraffle is more for designers, engineers who use macs, different markets to be sure.
Migrating Django's database
The noderivs license is specifically to allow us to sort out commercial translations. Once these have happened (hint: this is a long term thing) we may well be able to relax the license.

We'll add epub, mobipocket, and other ebook formats as and when we have time.
Notification bar plugin for jquery
I agree, wife and I wash most of our dishes, she washes, I dry. It's a great time to let your mind wonder and think about problems. Mindless tasks like drying dishes and scooping the cat box give me a chance to actually think about things in a no pressure environment.
hard to say if the ctos/dev managers would "elevate" a potential candidate if the recruiter was a programmer, or if the cv would be in the pile with the rest of them.
Wouldn't it be better to get a cheaper, wifi-less Symbian Nokia? Or is the Android software that much better?
I was going to use Blogger, but multi-login bit me. I had already written the draft in Docs, so I just published that. (I also like how plain published Google Docs look)

I went ahead and added a really short byline though.
People who have injuries or are otherwise unable to stand can certainly sit. The point of standing however is specifically because it gets uncomfortable when you do it for too long. This prevent standups from turning into 30 minute or longer meetings.
I disagree with who says that it is no different than linkedin.

It hits a completely different niche with a different goal. Linkedin exists mainly to highlight work experience and academic background, with the goal to connect job seekers to employers (and the opposite).
This seeks to connect high schoolers with mentors.

I think it is a pretty good idea and I also really like the design.

The question I have is: Is part of your goal also to connect college admission officers with students? Or students to advertise college admissions their achievements via your website?
Indeed. AFAICT from the linked post, there's no proof (e.g. visual sighting of a whale at any of the locations from which the sounds have emanated) that the source of the sounds is even a whale at all.
I guess the Simcity example was from years ago. I don't know whether or not culture has changed it that time.

This was also a time when there were comparatively less apps and games available on the PC, or at least ones that were widely used. So it was probably practical for them to test their new OS with just about everything on the market.

Now, however there's no way in hell it's possible from MS to go through and test everything that every ISV produces with Windows 8 for example.
SaaS is a very good way to go about it, and we have got inquiries for 'mass signups' from a couple schools we talked to. We were hesitant because we thought it would result in a bunch of phantom accounts, but like you say, I think many organizations already try to achieve something similar.

You're spot on the mentor/recruiter difference...and on the road map is support for groups and orgs. Thank you so much for your feedback.
CoffeeScript is a transcompiler because it's largely just taking language A with semantics similar to JavaScript but different syntax and converting it directly to JavaScript. There's no static worldview as in fastruby, no exploitation of that worldview, and no fundamental differences between CoffeeScript and JavaScript.
I wish I'd known that. I had to go through one in Amstersam last month. That's the first and only time I've ever gone through one, despite flying a dozen of times since they were installed in the US.

They're generally not hard to avoid in the US. Most airports have at least one line where they aren't being used (often the line nearest to the first-class/priority ID-check line). It's not hard to just get in that line after the ID check. The one time I've been told to go through the backscatter scanner (in the US), I told the agent I wanted to opt out, and she just directed me through the metal detector and that was the end.
Great stuff! Thank you very much for your reply, and I look forward to it.
Google Acquires Snapseed iOS photo editing app
Http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/17/3346182/Google-acquires-snapseed-nik-software
>You can't do smart things on each frame (for ex, subbing in new content as the user scrolls)

You wouldn't be able to do that with scroll-end either.

>You also don't know for sure when a scroll ends w/ the current impl

That makes sense, but that issue is orthogonal to performance.
Efficient is a loaded term, so I'll skip that...but the JVM is most definitely a faster platform than CLR.
Browser has Trident, Gecko, and Webkit built in
Probably not a lot but it doesn't matter - they must be looking at moving past that concept entirely.
Don't f'ing pay those bastards. I realize that it's cheaper to pay them than fight them. I would love love to see you raise money online and fight them instead. I would buy into this cause in a heartbeat.
Same issue as evmar,

Chrome, OS X Mountain Lion
Intuit Opens Quicken and TurboTax APIs
That page says that there is no ebook version available.
Great app, not sure this will really help them take on Instagram, but could bring some strong photo editing features to G+ app on mobile. Maybe even into Android as whole?
Vic Gundotra reports Google+ passing 100,000,000 monthly active users
Google Acquires Nik Software
The key point is who defines what "opportunity" is and, most importantly, why. There are opportunities to build new features, or opportunities to fix what's broken.

Do you really think that the guys as Apple/Google that pull
all-nighters and work themselves to death to finish
iOS/Android don't have "enough passion to fix problems"?

Honestly, I believe their managers give new tasks the a higher priority and that there is a pervasive mentality among all the profession that these are "irrelevant" problems that everyone has become accustomed to put up with and, in addition, are boring to work on.

Who is gonna make those "low hanging fruit" interesting for a volunteer to work?

The pride on creating a mighty fine piece of software should do it. I actually DO try to attack all the user facing (annoying) bugs on my projects, always. I may or may not be successful at that, but I'll never use "we are much better than 15 years ago" as an excuse. And I'm certain you and I have both seen well designed and executed pieces of software, where care has been taken on the UX and have very few if any of these problems, so complexity isn't something that forces you to have annoying UX bugs.

The bottom line is that I feel it's disrespectful to a user to tell him to put up with the annoying "life-wasting five minutes at a time" bugs, only because 60 years ago he would have been playing cards over candlelight instead of trying to sync his iTunes library.

It's like starting to pierce people with a pin and when they complain say "be grateful this is not the medieval times, because the pin would be a broadsword and you'd be already dead."

It's just using past progress to justify current mediocrity. We should accept that those bugs that affect UX are indeed very important, and not dismiss them.

Have you even thought how much better things would be if people actually gave this a higher priority?

About Mozilla, there are lots of things that went wrong, and not many of them were due to fixing UX annoying bugs.
Did your experiment still do dynamic calls where Python would do dynamic calls? fastruby does not; all dynamic calls are converted into Java virtual dispatches, which optimize and inline like normal Java code.

The 30% improvement I got on "fib" was not as much as it would be for inferring the actual numeric types, but that's indeed possible here too. You should also keep in mind that the resulting code was by definition as fast as Java code would be doing the same work (i.e. all boxed math) so anything not math-related would actually be Java speed too.
How did this get to the front page when the last update to the source was 6 years ago?
Personally, I live in a foreign country and I find Facebook extremely useful to keep in touch with people. It's great to be able to upload pictures and have all my friends in my home country see them and discuss. Sure, I'll write to grandma every once in a while, but it's unrealistic for me to write individually to every family member and friend I have back home with pictures, explanations, etc. Even if they mean something to me there's just too many and too little time outside work...
When of the other guys posted some stats in their post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531152
And Chromium: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/vulnerability...
Thank you for your feedback.

The goal is to eventually give college admissions counselors a very targeted way to reach out to and recruit high school students. All along, students can use their Meritful profile as part of the package they present to colleges. Since students spend so much time on projects and extracurriculars, we hope it would be nice to have more than a paragraph about it. Thank you so much for you feedback again.
Not to plug or anything, but our Miele dishwasher is still working fine after 18 years, and the clothes washer only required a cheap fix a couple years ago.

That said, they're definitively more expensive. We only got them because they came with the house.
So to the stock-optioned employee what does this mean? Somebody who started early with the company vs somebody who starts after this round? Keeping track of the value of options after several rounds seems to be quite complicated.