skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, thats it. Basic philosophy being, a pen-drive (plug n play style) but without the hardware.
These are public schools, and many accept 20% or less of qualified applicants. The rejected kids will likely be educated in other public schools.

So ..... why don't we have more exam schools????
This is probably the most important part of a headline. Answering the question: What's in it for me? People don't care what you need or want, they only care about their needs and wants.
It's good to see Facebook and Google working together on something positive. Probably going to end up doing more lobbying than advocacy. The same thing happened to AARP, so that's just an inevitably of American advocacy groups, I think.
What's most amazing to me is that this got so much press. Maybe OS X is ridiculously hard to set up, but I've been doing this on and off with my own VT 220 for the last 5 years on Linux. It's just... not that big of a deal. It's not archaeology, it's just pointing getty at /dev/ttyS0.

I've done it with an ADM-3A from the 70s too, it's just. Not. That. Tough.

http://imgur.com/bRnST here's me, years back, hacking on a VT 220
It's certainly good in the "the enemy of our enemy is our friend" sense. Like other commenters have stated, it's also probably actually good in the short term.
I'm sure people watch all kinds of stuff, but BF3 kills however impressive aren't really a substitute for TV Drama.
First flat lens focuses light without distortion
I recently screwed up with Reddit advertising, but I think the mistake was the decision to do it, not how I did it - note that I'm talking about my particular case, not saying Reddit advertising is bad in general.

Promoting an event in Paris I targeted /r/Paris and /r/France, and achieved underwhelming $60 CPM and $10 CPC rates.

I sort of expected it and didn't spend too much money to mind, only really tried it because at the time I was pretty desperate to try any option possible (side note, a week later and all my marketing issues with this event are solved, hooray).

Really my issue was lack of targeting options, the only way I could limit the advert to relevant people was through subreddits, and as they were relatively small ones, it was never going to achieve great results. Hopefully some time in the future they'll offer better options, for example I would have loved to target French (or better Paris+10miles) readers of big subreddits like /r/gaming.

(I didn't actually bother with any AB testing for this as it didn't seem worth it, but hey, we got a pretty awesome CTR on the tiny number of impressions!)

edit: This is the only time I've ever used Reddit advertising, is it normal that total uniques aren't shown? I can see unique impressions and total impressions for each hour, but there's no total uniques over the entire campaign, which would annoy me if I'd spent more money and wanted to track roi.
This is basically where Bluetooth was in, say 2003. People are disappointed because Apple is generally forward-looking when it comes to standards and tech, but has shied away from NFC (which shouldn't be surprising given their stance on USB3.0 and Blu-Ray).
Sophos releases bungled definitions file, causing mayhem for corporates
Nothing really specific yet on their platform regarding patent law. I'm pretty curious where they'll come out on that.

http://internetassociation.org/policy-platform/fostering-inn...
Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password
it depends whether you care about the local or global maximum.
Then one has to wonder why they aren't rushing to get these people on their networks.
I agree that this article is better than average.

>'Data science' may be a new term, but it describes something companies have been doing for decades.

This is not what most articles say. They actually try to frame it as something "new and sexy".
Yeah, I'm in the habit of CTRL++ and CTRL+- upon opening pages that use custom fonts (JavaScript fonts).
I don't understand what this comment is trying to say. The words following "the only difference" are not in fact the only difference between breaking a term of service and committing a crime under strict liability. In fact, the opposite is more true. You do not, for instance, simply need to know you're violating a term of service; you have to be doing so in bad faith, with intent to defraud.

I think you need to read the CFAA --- carefully, because clauses that occur early in the statute are refined and clarified later in the statute --- before wading into technical discussions about it.

It's not a particularly difficult law to understand.
There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens (an international asociation), not by companies with varying degrees of interests.

Still, it's better than nothing (no godaddy in the association, I see!). I do believe Google mostly fights for a free, uncensored web, though once a conflict arises, between shareholders and freedom, as with any company, shareholders always win.
I upvoted because I agree with the spirit and some of the points involved in the letter. But if you think recruiters have the time to personalize every e-mail they send for a 3-month PHP contract in BFE, you've been smoking too much hashish.

Really good recruiters who are paid well and have a relationship developed with the company they're recruiting for might read your resume or something about you personally. If they're really really good, when they call you they don't use the form introduction of 'hello, i'm <abc> with <xyz>, i have a position in <location> for a <time> <job title>, are you still in the job market?' But those are few and far between.
> I don't know why this was downvoted

The nomenklature have got it in for you. Here, have some upvotes.
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Personally, I'm surprised that anyone takes the shootout seriously. In my experience, benchmarks of this sort are about as useful and trustworthy as GPU benchmark results provided by a GPU vendor.

After having spent a little while looking over the site, I've got to give igouy props for fixing many of the worst problems that existed on the site a few years back (some of the micro-benchmarks that used to exist were questionable, at best; some of the implementations were even worse). It is a far better presented, qualified, and curated site than it used to be.

I still don't think it's a useful site and that people would be better off ignoring it, but with the changes made, I don't think it's a harmful site anymore.
I'm very curious to how much time they have budgeted for this - has this been consuming 50% of their time? 75%?

It's really hard for me to tell if this was a real problem for them, or if they were just working on other stuff because the competition is still non-existent.
Juicy. Hope he doesn't get tracked down and fired for it.
What ecmascript needs
Not really shocking. This is like tenth study to show the same result.

If you think Monsanto or Cargill are looking out for your best interests you have been deluded.

Food is a weapon.
I'm not sure why you need a book to tell you that you can raise you rates if you think that people will pay your higher rates.
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display
Thanks a lot. Had just started to experiment with the code on http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ and was coming across the answers on various forums about microphone input not being supported as then by HTML5. Feel motivated about completing a Hack now.
"Many people whose advice you want are not primarily motivated by money."

Yes, yes, yes. I've gotten useful advice even from direct competitors simply by offering them the chance to give advice. People like to give advice. It makes most people feel respected, of importance and value, and generally good.

Indeed, it is worth bearing in mind, throughout life and business in particular, that there are a lot of motivations beyond money. I see far too many filmmakers and other entrepreneurs fall into the trap of believing that in a negotiation, the guy with more money has all the power.
Your Body Language Speaks for You in Meetings
I wonder if there are languages who have the reliability of Haskell's type system, but are suitable for C/C++ stuff (that probably means, at the very least, they're strictly evaluated). ATS came up as a possible candidate, does anyone have real experience with it?

BTW, I once considered this (this being a language with Haskell's strengths, suitable for systems programming) a possible idea for a thesis, but at least for now it's put on hold. If anyone has any comments, I'd really love to hear them.
But you lose out on all those precious ad impressions!
I agree that being able to hack up a prototype could really make someone stand out as a data scientist. The Insight Data Fellows program mentioned in the article has a 6 week program where the focus is on learning enough software development to hack a prototype by the end of the program. That could be a good way to go.
Withdrawal is anonymous?
Anyone interested in this might want to check out http://code.google.com/p/red5-screenshare/ also
Ask HN: does an Expanding Desktop exist?
I imagine something that you open windows in, arrange however you want, and then you can slide left and right, up and down, and maybe even zoom out and in. Os X has discrete spaces, i want something that would be the equivalent of laying a bunch pieces of paper on an infinite (real) desktop, and moving your head around to focus on one area. Does a UI like this exist?
This article reads as being full of blame.
oh cool, j
And in our world of pixels on the web you might think of it as the line-height property in CSS.
I was thinking the same thing, you need to define "regular consumer" of course. My Mom could have bought an Altair 8800 for $1,000 but there really wasn't any reason too, and she didn't buy a PC when it was $3,000 either because she didn't need one. These days though she can't live without her $1,000 laptop.

I've got a Replicator, helped build a Cupcake when Bre and company were just starting their kit business, and used the Z machine a bit at Google as well. The "reality" of 3D printing is a lot less impressive than the hype. Sure like computers before them, 3D printing will change everything. But until recently (and maybe this changes with the Rep2) you would be lucky if you could make a full set of chess pieces in one go, and if they had been made in a factory in China they would have been discarded as too inferior to send to the customer. Current 3D printing enthusiasts (and I'm one of them) see "through" the obvious defects of the current systems to the systems they can be.

No 'regular' consumer would put up with a 10 hour print where the extruder head clogs in hour 9 and screws it up. But someone like me can say "I wonder what this wheel would look like on a robot, lets print one out" and having something tactile to work with.

3D printing is becoming 'real' at a relatively rapid pace, unlike some other technologies (looking at YOU OLED TVs)
People don't trace the dirty bits to the miners?
At what point on the transcripts does he come across as 'an immature dick'?
Zipcar CEO: ‘If You Don’t Have Passion For Your Job, Quit’
Moving to other countries is crazy difficult. They have to deal with a whole host of legal BS every time.
I like it.
Some other ideas:
* some sort of key file access
* public password to share contents with delete controls.

What's the storage limit?
I think your big problem was the headline. If I'm on Reddit and I see that headline, I have no idea why you want to talk to my landlord and have no idea how much time it's going to take for me to connect you with them.
Bitbucket outage post mortem
GHC will warn about partial functions/inexhaustive patterns if you compile with -Wall (or even just -fwarn-incomplete-patterns, but -Wall is recommended). I've often wondered if it would be feasible to eliminate the partial functions from the Prelude and turn partiality into an outright error (not that this would ever happen, as it would break a lot of code).

Regarding other code smells that the compiler can't catch: one thing I have come to really appreciate about the design of Haskell is that in the vast majority of cases, the path of least resistance is also the path of greatest clarity, correctness, etc. I mean, sure, you can write your entire program in IO, but it would be supremely irritating to do so. It's just simpler and easier to do it the "right" way, via composition of small, independent, pure functions.

When using other languages (for me, this usually means Java, Python, or JavaScript), I feel like I am constantly having to remind myself not to be lazy and to do things the way that I know to be right. Don't catch an overly broad class of exceptions. Don't rely on shared mutable state when an extra function argument will suffice. Avoid using null pointers to represent failure. Be sure not to use type-coercive comparison operators. And so on. These languages give you so many ropes with which to hang yourself, and even the standard libraries make idiomatic usage of them. Programming defensively feels like working completely against the grain.

Haskell, with its strong immutability and airtight type system, has shown me that it is possible for a language to guide programmers safely through the minefield without placing a severe additional burden of vigilance on their shoulders. It would be interesting to see a more conventional, imperative style language that followed similar principles. Or perhaps the "everything is in the IO monad all the time" nature of imperative code is just fundamentally at odds with code correctness, and we'll always have to fight against it.
Certifying Compilers Using Random Testing
Thanks for sharing your results. Advertising effectively is enormously difficult.

I've had results similar to yours in all areas of advertising. Someone asked me once, "So how has the ad we run on our blog for you been doing?" My reply, "Well, I think it's the least poorly performing ad we run, so maybe that's a win?"
I know I should be excited for the positive innovations data science will bring us, but am I alone in mostly still finding it creepy?
Cut the hurt, open the arms, and spread the love. Word...
The risk is replacing it with something more complicated.

There are a lot of complexities introduced by the need to handle situations we may never again encounter. The challenge is to make everything simpler, not only in lines of code, but in abstractions.
That's not expensive for what it does. It really isn't. I'd buy one in a snap if I had an application. It's beyond amazingly cheap for a tool of that power.

This is comparatively expensive for what it does: http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC975LL/A
Perhaps this is one of the places where legal action is justified? Maybe he should've got a patent like all those monsters out there today. At least his would actually have a product behind it.

It's nice to here it from the horse's mouth instead of second-hand from a movie made to generate revenue though.
Yes, I meant the data improvement. Pay people to get all major metros internationally double-checked and corrected. Pay for POI data entry or develop that separately.
"There once was a man who did one thing right and one thing wrong. He told a fool that he was a fool, and he forgot not to be standing next to a deep well at the time."
There's a recommendation I give to people who are writing their online personals ad: If you're sexy, there's no reason to say that you're sexy.

I think the same applies here.

A data scientist is a fancy way of saying a "statistician who can code (should be required in stats programs now anyhow) and who can communicate effectively"
The U.S. needs more i-Side economics
Dude, Amgen and a ton of other biotech/pharma firms have "Chief Scientists" or "Chief Scientific Officers" on staff. Sure, they work in specific fields or specific departments, but that is absolutely a valid and commonly used title.
Can it still use ABS? Because PLA is not a good plastic for structural materials - the glass transition temperature is too low.
Same. Use screenleap at least weekly. Real slick.
Thanks! Please let us know if there are any customizations you would like to see added. We will be adding lower-level API calls in the next month.
I thought that was the point of the rest of the 2nd paragraph: everything we see indicates that he wasn't sending stuff back in good faith, and if it were a blind test between that bottle and the one he deemed acceptable, we can safely say he wouldn't know which one was the good one.
If you can tell me how to use /dev/ttyS0 to make a prank call, I'm all ears. ;)
>"There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens"

Agreed. Unfortunately, getting people to take uniform political action on anything is difficult, whereas companies can have a political mandate (and the money to support it).

P.S. If anyone wants to to learn a little bit about the lobbying industry, check out Turkmeniscam by Ken Silverstein. It's a short read, but eye-opening.

http://www.amazon.com/Turkmeniscam-Washington-Lobbyists-Stal...
Is Makerbot going closed source?
It's damn hard to pull emotion out when writing about one's life story, but Greenspan's writing style so distracts from the meat of his story that it's frustrating.

For instance:

"both so-called Facebook veterans (a phrase that actual veterans might find laughable)"

or

"It was an expense I simply could not afford all over again (unlike the Winklevoss twins, my father did not have millions of dollars of disposable income)"

or

"[Mark] didn't understand how to speak like a mature person his age."

Bits like those just scream "I'm a vicitim" and come off as whiny.

If Greenspan laid out the timeline and the documentation sans his editorializing it would be more powerful.

Carry these same points through any follow-up interviews, testimony, etc and I sense that Greenspan would be much happier with his outcome.
I don't know the right phrase for the opposite of 'preaching to the choir', but that's what I think this post here on HN is: the opposite of preaching to the choir.
This needs to get struck down. It may be cliché to liken the US government to Big Brother, but I'm in the middle of reading 1984 for the first time, and the parallels are eerily similar.

Imagine a government that can see everything you do on your phones or on the internet (as discussed in linked article), that has 10s of thousands of drones[1] flying around the country the size of mosquitos, each equipped with advanced facial recognition software.[2] Oh yeah, and the government is willing to kill you, a US citizen, without trial if you say the wrong things.[3]

It may not be telescreens and memory holes, but Orwell was pretty close on the ubiquity of government eyes and the ruthlessness against those who dissent.

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57409759/drone-use-in...

2. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135665-fbi-launches-1-bil...

3. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/killing...
That's a very unrevealing website. Do you have more information on Formlabs' device?
According to commentor Josef Prusa the Replicator 2 is not open source.
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MillionShort vs. Google
A very large chunk of his articles are negative
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/index.html

Not saying they aren't all true, I'm sure they are.

Why focus on the negativity? Recognize it and move beyond.
I have a MakerBot and love their enthusiasm. Formlabs is barely a week away, let them roll out at their own pace. Look at my profile and believe me it'll be worth the wait.
I'd have to hack search by connecting job recruiters with places where people are learning job skills. For example, there are tons of people learning to program at my local junior college, which is only a few blocks from the main apple campus. Connecting those people with internships based partially on class performance , and having the instruction be informed by industry practice, would mean that junior developers learn the right skills first.
"Preaching to Reddit"
Are regular consumers the target market or businesses?

If I bought one I'd think about how I could make money off it - a high-quality, reliable $2k machine would be more desirable than a less powerful $500 product.
Before that, I'd like to see some evidence that they are easier for dyslexic people to read.
Yes, it was specifically about Virgin Atlantic, which at one point stretched his finances to the point where he was forced to sell Virgin Records to free up the cash to keep it afloat.
They've accused Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of it.
Didn't the old Makerbot print at 100 microns? The notes about the THE FREE UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION KIT http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/ referenced this as a limitation when trying to print LEGOs.
From what other people have said in this thread, there are more affordable options for hobbyists. This comes of as being more of a semi-professional grade.
From the AIM chat logs:

> zberg02: but probably like 8k

> zberg02: i think that qualifies as real cool

8k isn't cool. You know what's cool...
Yes, although being nice to those who annoy you can be difficult. Especially while they're annoying you, and when you realize that the fact that they're annoying you is your problem, and that they can't help it.
It means that we have free will, that we make our own choices which determine the rest of our lives, and that different people can make different choices and make different lives. As far as character it means that once you make a choice often enough you are more likely to make that choice, and it becomes your character, who you are.
As long as we're in a quoting mood:

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him." Proverbs 26:4
LinkedIn referrals to Facebook pages up 1000% while Twitter’s plummet
Really interesting stuff. Since you were trying to market an event did you try using Facebook ads ? I read a post on HN a few weeks ago about how Facebook ads for a garage sale event were super successful!

Would love to know if you tried them and if you have any positive/negative experiences to share. Can never learn enough about marketing effectively!

Also, congrats on managing to market your event =)
no luck. Seems like the problem occurs only for newer macbooks. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51331&...
I like that the parts for assembling the Prusa Mendel are included as their own printable files.

http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel_(iteration_2)
It's not just Facebook and Google.

"The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
The lesson is (again): It's all about execution.
I goram won't !
The accumulated evidence of Zuckerberg's poor character was already overwhelming. For me, all it took was the infamous "dumb fucks" quote to make me decide to never use Facebook. That alone disqualifies someone to be a responsible custodian of my privacy. This article's evidence isn't as significant as other established facts like Zuckerberg's invasion of other people's email accounts, but it is consistent with everything else we know: in one of the modern world's great ironies, a person with no respect for his fellow human beings is the de facto gatekeeper of "friendship" on the net.
Maybe something like "Fall on deaf ears" or talking to "a brick wall".