skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of educators and professors are great, but they have no say in tuition policies.

Every college and university presents itself as altruistic and socially motivated in its publicity material - but if you judge colleges and universities by their actions instead of their words, which is to say in terms of inflation-adjusted tuition costs, they seem pretty mercenary/market oriented to me. According to [1] the same public college 4 year education rose in cost by more than 300% between 1988 and 2008, while median family income rose by only 90%, and the cost of a new car by just 20%.

I don't blame them for this in a market-driven system - a free market actor maximizing its share of the economic surplus is like a dog humping your leg, it's just being a dog. But I don't think it's wise to deny that it's happening.

[1] http://www.deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/Trends-in-Coll...
Grandma's Favorite Marinara, Angel Hair and Fried Meatball Recipe
There's no supplied GCJ for iOS. While it could be supported last time I looked GCJ had some strange assumptions around the architecture it uses.

Plus this way it's fairly simple to treat your Java as a business logic layer and code the UI in Cocoa/ObjC. Your UI is going to be device specific anyway.
So what is the capacity of these new drives? Nowhere in the article it seems to be mentioned.
Those aren't necessarily apps that remain in memory. The first few might be, but not if they haven't been used in a while. The rest of the entries are merely a list of recently used apps that are neither using processor time nor in memory.

http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-mul...
I can't fit all of my valuables in a hotel safe.

If the hotel wants to fit a lock that doesn't prevent easy access to my room, and my stuff gets stolen, they can meet my lawyer.
Absolutely. No technology comes out of Apple at all. You should try and maintain some grip on reality, for your own sake
He must have meant Blackberry OS but I don't think he's right anyway.
Android has made Nokia nearly bankrupt already, Siemens/BenQ has stopped making mobile phones while Android existed. Windows CE/Mobile/whatever seems to have no chance on the market anymore, eventhough they seem technical superior! Palm completely failed with its WebOS.

In fact Blackberry is the last survivor of the old cellphone world. (EDIT: And Samsung of course, but they are just copying Apple stuff and get sued for it.)

The only ones having profit from Android are Google and HTC. Google because they created the system and run the App Store. HTC because they manufacture the reference devices and because they are cheaper than the rest.

Wake up mates, open source destroys the old business models.
Silicon Valley Guru Vinod Khosla Blasts Y Combinator
Even leaving aside the cost of storing an index, if you're only going to use that dataset for a small number of queries then it's cheaper to just perform them directly rather than construct an index first. As the paper points out at the end, Hadoop is fundamentally batchy; it works best when you have discrete chunks of data (e.g. weekly) and you want to reduce each one into some summarized form, then never use the raw data again.
Acer Chooses Alibaba's Aliyun OS over Android for its New Smartphone
Same here, as far as I understand it, when you rotate a pic, or make some other changes, it creates a new version.
I'm no usability expert, but to me it would make more sense to name that parameter "pdfjs.enabled" true/false
What happened to <base href> and src="/path/to/asset"?
Not really a fair feature comparison. If db migration wasn't in Rails, ActiveRecord wouldn't work the way it does. You can't say the same about Django's ORM.
In the early days of iOS I worked on a JavaME to C++ source translation tool. No idea if it was a commercial success or not, but it did have customers.

The main desire is for games - ones that just have a canvas or GL - so porting is easier. Also some companies want shared business logic.

It turned out to be a small market though, since iOS and Android took out the market it was easier to write twice than handle the fuss of porting.
Jimmy Kimmel Proves: Apple’s Magic Is In The Brainwash
Well, to be fair, the filing date on that patent is Dec 1, 2004.

Absent genuine industrial espionage, it would have been rather hard for the Google Desktop team to have been aware of it in October 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

Or are you saying Google should have checked for new patents (and patent applications - this wasn't issued until December 2011) before re-implementing something they'd already done on the desktop on an Android phone?
911 is Porsche 911, right?

Not the emergency service or the WTC attack.
Simple - they want people to code for Android first. It's a tool to push to writing for Android then translating to iOS as cheaper than writing twice - since you can't go ObjC to Java.
Steve Wozniak Hates the Patent Wars
How about learning f***ing programming? [9min video]
>that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true - after all it is an x86 instruction set

Just need implementing, they've not locked Linux out, it's just unlikely device manufacturers are going to invest the time to implement it.
And the converse is true too. Any properly designed PPT or ODP fails on other office suites, because you just designed it with stuff that is implemented either differently, or absent.

Then I might as well use the best tool available to me, and that's Keynote, hands down.

If one collaborates to produce a presentation across suites, you should focus on content and use the common denominator, which works perfectly fine. If it's distribution problems, well, sharing a presentation is always lacking. Slides by themselves miss most of the content. Anyway, Keynote has an interesting export system which creates an MPEG 4 video with chapters and stop points. That's the only way to produce a result with 100% accuracy (unless you design your slides in HTML5).
What's the point of mentioning minimum-wage here? Would your logic change if the staff weren't paid minimum wage? If you are staying at a hotel were the staff was paid above minimum wage, would you feel more secure?

The BLS says that the median wage for "Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners" is $9.32. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Obviously then, most are not paid minimum wage.

In any case, people also want a long-term job. An aspect of keycard entry is that you have a record of what people entered the room. If only one person entered when something was stolen, then that person is a definite suspect, and may be fired. But if it's possible to circumvent that security, then it's also possible to frame others.
Well...

1) The article that started this thread links to an abstract of a paper which claims to have pretty compelling evidence for a relationship between mico-organisms and connections, and appears in a pretty respectable journal.

2) The site you link to... how to put it kindly... reads like a bunch of cranks. Seriously, go poke around in there; they link the plasma-arc thing because it supports their "Electric Universe" ideas, and they use it as a vehicle to push that. And their link to the paper about it is 404, so I can't actually verify it, but it's a "presented at", not a "published in", which is a red flag.
If this release is like the past five, Apple will sell more iphone5s than "all previous versions combined"
If there isnt already a website that lets you just upload a large image and then creates all the different sizes for you and provides the code to paste in for you then there needs to be. If it doesnt exist and people here are interested, i'll make it this weekend.
Apple products are as good and better than they have always been, the problem is that users now have this entitled attitude and nothing is good enough for them. Witness the tech press' reaction to the iPhone 5, they're bored because it doesn't look new, irrespective of it's actual merits. it's very tedious and a shame to see this attitude here on HN, where the discussion threads were usually more considered and the level of debate generally higher.
Motorola announces Android desktop
My understanding is that it reads PDFs: http://code.google.com/p/skia/source/browse/trunk/include/pd...
Thanks :) . Will try it out.
I don't know which one I hate the most between Calendar and Mail.

Calendar~ I use it with an Exchange server and often accept appointments or meeting, but if I restart the application, it seems to forget about it and the event is marked as new. Problem: If I reply to the invitation once again, the creator of the event will receive another email, bad bad bad... I also hate when Calendar complains 10 times in a row that it cannot connect to the platform when I am actually offline, extremely frustrating to have to deal with all these modal dialogs.

Mail~ Not mentioning the poor user experience, the modal dialogs complaint apply as well, mails are not often sent, HTML signature is a pain to setup, often becomes unresponsive, or simply crashes.

All this to say that for a development environment, OSX is my OS of choice, but it is about emails, contacts, meetings and so on, the embedded applications are not good at best.

I had a laugh yesterday when the MacWorld editor said about Apple that they were not only doing good OSes, but excellent applications as well during the TechCrunch talk about the iPhone 5. In my experience, I have always found Apple applications average at best, even on the iPhone.
If you'd correctly assimilated the contents of the Genius training manual you wouldn't have made that mistake ;-)
Testing the limits of the Google Bacon Number
Ask HN: [HELP] How to get my domain ban removed from HN
Somehow my blog got into blacklist of Hacker News, when I post something it usually tells me I am spamming but when it does not, my posts do not appear on Newest submissions page to other people.

PG replied my mails once asking what is my domain name but nothing happened after that. I remailed to pg a few more times but he didn't respond back. Maybe you guys can provide another point of contact?

HN was like the only source for my readers, without publishing is not fun anymore. :( Thanks.
Also, Apple has been a "several"-hundred billion dollar company for a few years. They have the clout to do things that are not in same universe as several-hundred thousand dollar startups.
I agree. Separate windows for PDFs is terrible.

You can also separately download the proprietary PDF reader of Chrome and use it with Chromium. If you are using Arch Linux, it is available in the repositories.
Godel, Escher, Bach;
He clearly was referring to OS X. Do we really need another flame on Android versus iOS?
Quantified Self: My Online Life in the last 8 Months
seems that much interesting app coming soon, good luck :)
Hi John, whatever I post from http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog gets rejected. I am not sure it is bare domain name ban or URI wildcard ban.

Error I get:
Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time.
I thought that MS made a stack of cash from Android via patent extortion methods?
There are all sorts of things I disagree with in this comment, but I want to highlight just one:

iPhones (like many Android phones and Blackberries and ...) had Carrier IQ software installed on them. Google-controlled Nexus phones did not.

Moreover, the only reason anyone outside of Carrier IQ, operators, smartphone manufacturers, etc knows anything at all about Carrier IQ is that some people discovered it while trying to reverse-engineer an Android phone.

You may think Apple is a white knight protecting you from the carriers. The truth, as always, is much more complicated.
Does anyone else feel that OS X has gone downhill since Snow Leopard?

I can sympathise with much if not all of what this guy is saying. My Aunt recently bought a new Mac, not really knowing how to use OS X. I'm pretty familiar with most versions of OS X, but found myself struggling to justify to her the usefulness of quite a lot of the UI mechanics of the OS. What annoyed me the most was that the parts of the OS she found most confusing seemed almost universally to have been introduced since 10.6.

The 10.7+ habit of remembering open windows seemed to flummox my Aunt and continues to irritate me on a daily basis. "But I closed that window, why has it come back?"

Take Mission Control. Exposé was incredibly simple conceptually and worked very well for most people. I don't hate Mission Control, but explaining its workings to my Aunt was somewhat difficult, and I'm still not convinced that it's better than Exposé.

I feel like a lot of the simplicity that originally attracted me to OS X has been convoluted recently. And don't get me started on stability, performance and skeuomorphism...
about:config isn't really optimized for usability and there's some advantage to the double negative in that the absence of a value could be treated as a false boolean value.

So if at one point pdfjs should be enabled by default, they can just get rid of the preference in the default preferences file altogether instead of having to ship one where it says enabled: true (because absence of the value would be treated as false)
The thing that makes Backbone unfriendly to noobs is its lack of prescribed structure. Personally I love this approach because I know Javascript pretty well, but I haven't written a ton of huge JS apps yet, so I'm still experimenting with ways of architecting them. Backbone provides a lot of essential functionality in a flexible way that forces me to think critically about how I want to structure the app. I see that frameworks like Angular and Ember give me more out of the box, but they impose a lot of structure which I am not sure about yet. I'm sure sometimes that structure is ideal and sometimes it may be the wrong tool for the job. Eventually after I build out more Backbone.js apps in different ways I'll be in a much better position to evaluate the more heavyweight frameworks.

It's not unlike how I fell in love with Rails immediately in 2005 having spent the previous 5 years working in PHP, it was obvious why Rails was the way it was. But without that prior lower-level experience I would have been more skeptical.
Ever needed a transparent 1x1 PNG pixel?
>If you are staying at a hotel were the staff was paid above minimum wage, would you feel more secure?

Yes. Seriously, is that even a question? Wouldn't you?

Higher wages mean two things: the staff have more to lose by being fired, and by implication the hotel puts more effort into its staff. Which means they're probably recruiting more carefully and putting more effort into staff loyalty once they're there.
Do it. Do it now :-)
OS X is also a UNIX. You can say Linux or *BSD or whatever, it's OK, nobody's going to judge you.
You could also ask the same question about server-side templating: Why do we string-interpolate rather than manipulate the DOM? DOM manipulation is more robust and far, far more secure (you can auto-escape variables as you know their actual context).

I can think of a couple of ways to do that but it hasn't taken off largely yet:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/xhp-a-ne...

http://liftweb.net/
That first table had me confused. read those dots as decimal points. rather than separating points,,,
I use Faviconit ($0.99)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faviconit/id436681083?mt=12

But yes, a nice website will be a better bet. Use when I need it. With the image quality is not degraded when smaller size comes out of the big ones.
Can anybody throw a idea of comparison between their service and rescuetime? I'm a rescuetime user, should i consider trying their service?
Netscape 7-ish, the first release with a popup blocker, famously whitelisted the netscape site which was also its default homepage. So the first thing you'd see on installing it was a popup ad telling you about the new version of Netscape which now included a popup blocker... yeah
Motorola ordered to recall Android tablets and smartphones
Pre-Order iPhone 5 for AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint
MOOC’s Could Hurt Smaller and For-Profit Colleges, Moody’s Report Says
nfc maybe?
You should update to Firefox 15. It's better than 9, and secure too.
When would someone use this? If my content isn't available over HTTPS already then it's likely due to not wanting to support the load...in which case I'm not going to assume yours will handle it.

Or do you see this as more of an end user fix via a MITM proxy or something? Even then that sounds contrived.

What am I missing?
> That's called "security through obscurity," which isn't really security at all

That phrase is misused and misunderstood on the net almost as much as Benjamin Franklin's statement on freedom and security.

It means that you should not rely on obscurity to keep a system safe. In the long run, you have to assume the bad guys will find out all your bugs. If someone were suggesting that the flaw not be disclosed and that it would be OK for the vendor to not fix it since it is not disclosed, that would be attempting "security through obscurity" and would be bad.

We aren't talking about the long run here. The relevant question here is if in the time it takes to deploy a fix, will more people be harmed if the flaw is widely known than if the flaw is kept quiet while the fix is being deployed.

To answer this question, you need to consider several factors, including (1) what steps customers who learn of the flaw can and will actually do to mitigate its effect on them, (2) whether customers will actually learn about it, (3) how many bad guys who would not have discovered it on their own will exploit it after it is disclosed.
hi aangjie6,

archify is about finding your personal information,
the analysis is a byproduct

for just time tracking, especially desktop applications i recommend you continue using rescuetime
Corel PaintShop Pro X5 SP1 15.1.0.10 (2012)MULTILANG +RUS + Crack
Preventing another Carrier IQ: Introducing the Mobile Device Privacy Act
Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce
The fact that the iPhone was able to be "3-in-1" worked because Apple already had a leading reputation in 2 of those categories (i.e. MP3 players and one other).

They were stretching to enter the "phone" category, and it turned out to be a huge bet that paid off incredibly well.
IPhone 5 opens the door for Nokia, Samsung
I'm still on the fence about Quora. It has some of the best quality content anywhere according to my interests, but I'm naturally distrustful of Facebook mafia since I care about privacy and I find the auto-sharing stuff extremely irritating.

But as to the elitist / insider's club / groupthink accusations, my inclination is to ask what the alternative is? I mean if you don't impose some form of social norms that someone (I'm not personally passing a judgement) will interpret as elitism then inevitably you will face the Eternal September which spirals out of control and leads to evaporative cooling as you grow. I suppose they could be nicer about it, but it's better to please the people who provide value than to try to make everyone happy and eventually degrade into Yahoo! Answers.
Google Motorola faces German ban after Apple victory
The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks - Book on neurological disorders
finding the search on contacts has never been easy on iphone!
Nagoya Corp: Deutsche Boerse Merger Fails.
I think I remember seeing a similar tool on Reddit a few months ago. I tried to Google for it, but couldn't find anything so perhaps it's not around any more.

Either way, it'd be a very handy tool so I say go for it!
Elasticsearch - - Open Source, Distributed, RESTful, Search Engine
That's kinda neat. I assume it only supports built-in filters and control structures?
I can tell you from personal experience that there are many concrete reasons to dislike Vista. My family runs a small business out of the house and I was the go-to tech guy for all the laptops in the office. This can't be anything but anecdotal, but all the time that I spent trying to figure out how to configure things, how to explain kludgy "innovative" interface quirks, and in general dealing with a beast of an unresponsive OS? I do not believe for a second that that time was a result of some bandwagon hatred.
Because people share stuff?

I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation.

OpenOffice/LibreOffice <--> MS office is pretty painless. iWork, not so.
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DHTMLX Touch 1.2 Released with New Features and Improvements
Another argument in that direction: I think that, all else being equal, bulkier phones get dropped more from pockets. For example, if my iPod Touch were half a centimeter taller, wider and deeper, it might not be possible to put it in a trouser pocket horizontally. Hence, it might not even be possible to put it deep inside the pocket when I am seated. Both make it easier to fall out of my pocket.
Coroutines vs explicitly async APIs
As much as I like Go, I don't think we need to have an article about it every day, especially one that is several months old and contains wildly out of date statements like "panics are always fatal".

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Handling_panics
There doesn't seem to be a single porn site listed.

Maybe he didn't include them or maybe didn't visit any, but I imagine it would have been quite a bit more interesting to see a study including them.
> it appears that this is self-promotion

no, just trying to help you out by giving you my software.

> but open sourcing it would help get the ball rolling.

it is open source. what made you think otherwise?

> and not widely audited

it has been audited by security professionals.
>This is just asking for money for a useful tool, which is where the internet is headed.

Wow, I hope not. Ad based revenue is bad enough, but panhandling?
Well, archify is not archiving when in private browsing mode :)
You obviously have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about. Please actually do some reading about what SCRUM is before you spread this kind of FUD.
So basically, they are a computing company and need to offer a smartphone because in developing countries that's the only computer people will buy/need.

How will they ever compete to the likes of Apple/Aindroid partners who just dump yesterday's models for very low prices in those countries?
The following is meant to be general, rather than about this particular case.

Assuming the goal is to minimize harm, then when to disclose depends on an interplay of several factors. Here are some of them:

1. How many people will discover and exploit the flaw on their own if it is not publicly disclosed.

2. How many people will exploit it if they find out about it, but will not discover it on their own.

3. How fast knowledge of the flaw will spread to the people of #2 without public disclosure. E.g., through word of mouth in hacker or researcher circles.

4. How many users of the flawed system will be able to use knowledge of the flaw in order to protect themselves from the people of #1 and #2.

5. How long the flaw will remain available.

6. How lessons from this flaw will teach others to build more secure systems.

Disclosure affects #2 (disclosure increases harm), #4 (disclosure decreases harm), sometimes #5 (disclosure might push a vendor to action), and #6 (disclosure decreases harm).
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Scrum is pretty much exactly the opposite of what you apparently think it is. Is is ALL ABOUT giving the developers freedom and and inteded exactly for projects that require creativity and don't have a spect to implement straightforwardly.
> If you're constantly pulling content from 4-5 different
> domains, perhaps you should re-think your sites
> architecture to minimize that.

And if you are not you may be interested in doing that — browsers have limited number of connections per domain so splitting your assets across 2-4 domains allows to download more resources in parallel.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#split
Great design. Once uploaded how long are the links active before they expire? Password is a good idea