skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be far from the first time a bureaucratic functionary has sent a threatening letter to a company only because the functionary misunderstood the law. Given the update at Slate it would seem that the OHE now realizes that the communication was sent in error, and are in damage control mode.

EDIT: Hopefully the person who touched this off has been suitably chastened. Given that this is the civil service it's unlikely they'll be fired.
In this U.S. the most annoying are the full-blown automated calls. Many of us get calls from a robocaller ("This is Ann from card services") that calls day after day with the same message.
Yes, it would be beautifully ironic...
I'm impressed with how responsive the author has been in the comments here. It seems like each concern is met with a reply and even some times he creates an issue item for it in Github. Nice work!
People said the same exactly thing w.r.t Android when Windows Phone 7 was released. I think history speaks for itself.
As much as I agree with you on other parts being as much important, I wasn't necessarily meaning an artistically accomplished project, as long as an MVP could be put out. And unless Mr. Dakan is writer, game designer and graphic artist all-in-one, there seems to be the case that the project was mothballed because of a lack of coding, not of any of those other things.

In the end, average-quality work on all these other fronts is much more easily replaced or makeshifted than code, even if poor code. Without a programmer who can make progress, even if not maintainable in the future, the project halts, as it has. Or it has to resign to being a board game, a story or a graphic novel, and not an interactive digital game.

Meanwhile, a sufficiently creative coder who is the project lead can probably come up with placeholders for everything else. Or call upon the community. People seem to be far more eager to offer game design and writing ideas than to jump in and code. You could even outsource parts of design on marketplaces like 99designs. Code isn't easily outsourced, one must have a whole understanding of it, or at least of each component, and there's always the (mostly exacerbated) fear of being copied.
And what's wrong with expecting others to be responsible and to be prepared to repay the funders if it goes wrong?
The Airtime interface is pretty cool, but the struggle various social start-ups face is that they need to convince people why they need to join yet another social network. If Facebook bought it and incorporated it into its existing platform, that might be a way forward for Airtime. Google made a bet on promoting Google+ Hangouts, and I think its paying off.
Thanks! I hope this open source project will help people build better forms.
An endpoint-based fee-collection system.

"To complete this call, a payment of $NOMINAL_AMOUNT is required. This may be refunded at the discretion of the caller."

In actuality, you'd whitelist numbers not required to make payment, and/or clear other numbers at the end of your billing cycle if desired. Payment options would be provided. The call would not ring through until authorized or paid.

This would increase the costs of phone spam markedly.

Survey organizations would have a bit of a problem. Oh well.
In the USA, technologically unnecessary government regulation of the wireless spectrum is the only reason the wires confer any sort of monopoly. If the FCC didn't exist, we wouldn't all be forced to use 1940s tech on all non-wifi bands, and our local loop to our ISP would be wireless, fast, and effectively free.

Instead, we have Ma Bell, Part II. I don't see how an evil corporation could have brought about such a situation without the enthusiastic assistance of the state.
Indentation by itself can be tricky, too. Is your code correctly indented when you copy and paste it somewhere? Can it correctly re-indent code that got mangled for some reason? How well does indentation cope with non-standard language extensions (think Qt or C++ macros)? So I would not call that trivial.
No, his employment contract establishes that he has been exposed Apple trade secrets and is thus legally forever prohibited from jailbreaking. Hiring him for a few months to get him to sign this and then firing him over the first thing they could, and now having him beholden to a contract in which he agrees never to jailbreak was much cheaper than suing him for jailbreaking and likely losing in court. When he was hired I had predicted this would happen and it did since it's all a rather logical thing for Apple (or any company) to do in such a situation.
If this isn't a media setup of some sort, you can bet that it will be pretty soon.

I'm going to take a wild guess that this kid will be the following things by the end of 2013: TED speaker, bestselling author, Anderson Cooper guest, a regular fixture on magazine "Most Intriguing People of 2012/2013" lists; short-liat candidate for Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

I don't mean to be cynical, but we can all smell the media frenzy about to descend on him. And, while I applaud his speaking out against the horrors of his family dynasty, I have to keep in mind that a) he's been living a luxurious, sheltered existence in Macau on the ill-gotten gains that dynasty secured, and b) he has virtually nothing to lose by going public, as his father was disinherited from the dynastic succession a few years ago. (One wonders if he wouldn't be toeing the Kim party line, were he the next heir apparent to the Supreme Leadership).

All of that being said, I do share your sincere hope that he can, in some way, be a catalyst for change and improvement in the conditions of the North Korean people. He does seem to be sincere in his desire to effect change, and as such, I am forced to shelve my cynicism if he has any hope whatsoever of being an agent for that change.
Instagram mentions now translate to Twitter
Microsoft never used NSAPI (API that Mozilla, Apple and Opera use) either. They always used ActiveX. After all, the 'N' in 'NSAPI' means 'Netscape'.
Are there books on practical machine learning? The math is fine in these books, but does not address the practical side: data analysis, pre-processing, on-line pattern recognition, etc.
> Scoping: Javascript uses C/Java notation but it does not have block scope, only function scope. That to me seems very misleading.

Yes, it is, but we weren't talking about that problem. That is already solved in ES6 with `let`, which is approved and will be available in about a year.

> And with regards to `this`, the way function invocation sets `this` differs totally from method invocation. How can this not be a problem!

Function and method invocation are different things, with different semantics. It's like that in many other languages too. Sure, the way `this` is handles is a problem sometimes, but I think it's overblown.
I never showed up before 9:00 am myself anyway, often much later.

Good for you. However, my local high school still force students to start at 7:30ish in the morning.

However, there really is nothing wrong with summer vacation, there is nothing wrong with letting kids and teenagers actually have some time to enjoy life and do things they would like to do.

I am not suggesting we should end vacations. I am suggesting that the summer vacation is far too long. Or, we could supplement summer vacation with learning opportunities to reduce or prevent loss of knowledge.

If summer vacation destroyed your education gains, you probably hadn't really learned it to begin with. A little review will help you pass the test, but that's it.

Spaced repetition and the forgetting curve is a very real thing. It doesn't matter how well you learn the material. You'll need to review the materials at some point in the future.

They're not remembering it because they don't need it. You are not going to remember every detail of everything you learned in high school once you leave it if you don't need it. You learned it to give you a base from which to grow from. This is a horrible example to use for removing free time.

I am giving an example of forgetting/remembering knowledge, not showing deficiency in the education of adults.
"With Surfce looming, Microsoft fails to explain Windows 8 vs. Windows RT to consumers"[0]

Not only that, but you are likely much more tech sophisticated than the average consumer which makes this even more damning.

[0] - http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/17/3514556/windows-8-vs-wind...
Kinda. It's confusing. Windows RT is supposedly "Windows 8 on ARM", a restricted version of Windows 8 where Win32 is not available to non-in-house developers (applications must be developed using WinRT a replacement API not to be confused with Windows RT as WinRT is also available to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8); all applications must be distributed via the Windows Store; the fate of the Windows 8 desktop is unclear (though it won't be very useful if there); a bunch of software or capabilities are unavailable in RT (Windows Media Player, Media Center, Remote Desktop, Homegroup, ...).

The simplest way to think about it is probably to think that WindowsRT is to Windows 8 as iOS 9 (iPad) should be to OSX 11 should the current trends of the latter pair keep going

See http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/17/3514556/windows-8-vs-wind... for more info (and a hint as to how confusing it is)
I work for Intel. This is not correct. A lot depends on your cache type. The two basic ones are uncacheable and write-back.

What you wrote is true for UC. For WB, reads can happen in any order (especially due to cache pre-fetchers). Writes always happen in program order, unless you are in other cache types such as write-combining. WC is mainly used for graphics memory-mapped pixmaps, where the order doesn't matter.

But don't let this scare you too much. From the viewpoint of a single CPU, everything is in order. It's only when you look at it from the memory bus point-of-view that things get confusing.

Unless we are dealing with a memory-mapped IO device that has read side-effects, in which case you need to carefully choose a cache type.
Are providers getting paid off by robocalling services? You would think that this would be treated the same way that spam is.
I really have a hard time buying into these sorts of studies. That goes for almost anything related to the human body. The study[1] the poster links to consisted of eight men for two days.

The study goes on to say: "Ultradian rhythms of similar frequency were found in perceptual and motor performance. The rhythms in perception, however, were drastically modified by altering the sampling frequency and were, therefore, attributed to statistical artifact."

I guess the questions I have are: As a programmer, am I in pursuit of heightened motor skills? Is this study statistically significant?

[1]http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA296199
I do wonder how many of these will be put up before a state imposes an electric tax equivalent to the gas tax. That is going to be some fun math with politicians.
> I assume absent extremely syrong evidence that people and institutions rarely follow a pattern of pissing off those upon whom their livelihoods depend.

That's not remotely more explicit.

> On an unrelated note, I don't expect to change your mind... [snip]

So basically, you're using me as a foil. I understand. Fuck you.
Furthering this argument, if a robocaller uses a phone number briefly and discards the number after it is banned, the next user attempting to make a legitimate emergency call using the banned number may not get through.
I do not fully comprehend the problem so please correct me if I am wrong. Every now and then I get a phone call from http://mrnumber.com/1-360-460-5964 on my cell that blares a ship's horn into my ear, saying I can get a free cruise trip.

If I understand it correctly, someone out there is initiating the connection, be it using Twilio or any of the tons of other IP-to-PSTN gateways. While Caller ID can be spoofed, the call itself should be possible to trace back to the initiating gateway using warrants and assistance from the intermediary parties. Right? If so, then what's the problem following through on this and having the gateway ban the customer and file charges against them?

Is it because the spammers are fly-by-nighters using stolen CCs to make dummy Twilio accounts automatically? Is that what FCC's trying to catch?
Oddly enough, this is probably the only reasonable response. Of course, you don't get clicks by saying, "let's wait and see." You have to go out, pants off, hopping on a table and shouting, "Windows 8 can't win!" So, that's what people will write.

With Windows 8, I think we'll probably see more mild annoyance as folks buy new PCs for their homes. After two weeks, they'll likely get used to it, then we'll never hear another word about Windows 8 failing. I just don't see the change being so enormous that users will really care long enough to affect anything.

It'll probably be like Vista: a lot of people dislike it without using it, some dislike it for a specific reason (like drivers), and most get along with it just fine and don't really have any problems. The UI changes are enough to probably increase the size of the group complaining, especially the group that hasn't used it, but I don't think it's enough to stop Windows 8 from succeeding in the long run.
The WP7 was a flop indeed. They launched it almost without any backup. With the W8 product line however, they rebranded everything, creating an unitary brand image, much like Apple did a while ago. And that's why I did the Android statement. They provide to all the predominantly tech savvy users of Android an unified experience that is not Cupertino flavored.
So Windows can't succeed because they've announced their products and aren't spacing the announcement and the codename used for the design language is actually a trademark owned by someone else?

I'm sure that people are buying the new BMW 5 series because they like the name of the design language (Flame Surfacing) and because it was launched in Hong Kong. The actual quality of the product doesn't matter.
Depends what you want to build.

Flask is better suited to apps that are a) small and single-purpose, or b) highly nonstandard.

Django has a lot of stuff built right in, much of which you won't need. But it's nice to have a database abstraction, forms, auth, admin, etc. when you need them. Plus, it's practically a CMS already all by itself, with the nice admin panel.

I'd probably start with Django. The tutorial isn't bad at all: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/
The state of Minnesota believes this law applies to Coursera. The Minnesota Office of Higher Education sent a letter to Coursera stating so, so it is reasonable for Coursera to conclude that Minnesota believes this applies to Coursera. Tricia Grimes of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education has publicly stated that letters were sent to "all postsecondary institutions known to be offering courses in Minnesota". She said (http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/minnesota-gives-cours...), "This has been a longtime requirement in Minnesota (at least 20 years) and applies to online and brick-and-mortar postsecondary institutions that offer instruction to Minnesota residents as part of our overall responsibility to provide consumer protection for students."
Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)
Have you seen the locations? These are for intra-state transit. Not for getting home from work. The locations are really only for making long trips feasible you would otherwise need to rent a "real-car" to take. Like SF to LA or what not (or tahoe, or La to vegas). In that context, it both seems less likely to find a backup at a station (because few tesla owners would not just Fly, be realistic), but a bit more of a hassle (extra 1 hr on a 5 hr drive, etc). You'd also expect to see "full" charges, because of the destinations.

TL;DR Its not the local/commuter crowd they are catering too.

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Edit: Locations - Only the LA and Fremont are even somewhat near major metros.

SF/SValley to Tahoe = 1x (Fremont)

SF LA corridor = 3x+1 (harris ranch, tejon ranch, gilroy, LA)

LA to Vegas Corridor = 1x (barstow)

SF-Tahoe-via Fremont seems the most likely actual drive for the target audience. Its only 1 of 6 locations.
In fact, non-Python developers are welcome too. You can just use the site for hosting your repos, be they full of ruby, node.js, haskell, or whichever Lovecraftian horror of a language you prefer... Just make sure to click on "Bash console", and not on any of those terrible Python ones...
I don't mean to be that guy but it's called Windows Marketplace not Windows App Store.
That is not how investment in business ventures or projects works. It's not a zero-sum game. Sometimes things don't work out and there's no value to return to the investor. It's called risk.
Maybe not, but Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, and the other institutions offering courses via Coursera grant degrees. From the update:

State law prohibits degree-granting institutions from offering instruction in Minnesota without obtaining permission from the office and paying a registration fee. (The fee can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, plus a $1,200 annual renewal.)

So this amounts to a relatively small money grab for all practical purposes.
On my iPhone4, even though it's a 'retina' display, I can still notice the stair-stepping in movement. Still photos look great, but from a video perspective, 'retina' isn't necessarily an accurate descriptor. This is less true of full-motion video than it is of scrolling in an application. As thrilled as I am about pixel density on modern portable devices, it will benefit them to go higher still. The returns are diminishing, but they are there.
1. that it's got nothing to do with responsibility 2. that the money should be gone (in trying to get the project done) and if they can refund funders they had no reason to crowdfund to start with and 3. that it's a completely different set of expectations.

Again, kickstarter is not a store. And it's not a bank either. If somebody with an idea wants a loan, he checks in with a bank not a crowdfunding site.
We looked into them months ago, but they don't offer 24/7 support (or even a support phone number), and have no plan that even comes close to addressing our traffic needs. Perhaps worse, there are a variety of horror stories in web master forums of how WPEngine edited customers websites without consent. We all agreed that no support + editing client code is completely unacceptable.
Weather reports from the commandline
DeployButton (http://deploybutton.com) and Revision.io (http://revision.io) were my favorite.
> Even in real life, I've noticed that when the proportion of men is high enough[...]

Whoa there, why do you think this behavior is exclusive to men? This can happen in almost any social group targeting an underrepresented/absent demographic.

Everything else you've said I can agree with, but "men in groups by themselves devolve into misogynists" is painting with too fine of a brush.
T and scroll up a couple ;)
ST2 can also delete entire words:
Ctrl+Del (ahead)
Ctrl+Backspace (behind)

Ctrl+Del even works in Notepad, if that's your thing.
They are getting paid off in the sense that robocallers probably have sizable phone-bills. The economics of sending emails and making phonecalls are different.
It also allows you to paste any text in, and it will no longer match the mask.
"Strong opinions, weakly held"
> Idea = “market + problem + opportunity”
that's quite far from idea, that's almost business plan
"Ubuntu, err I mean Lubuntu is great."

Don't forget Xubuntu ;)
[HTML5] Admin Panel Dashboard - Saher Team
Good article. The Valley preconception that great execution on a bad idea will fix things always rang a bit hollow to me. Seems to me to be the most common cause of failure - people build great stuff for problems which don't exist.
Can't wait to see it when it's finally completed. Perhaps it will fill in the holes in the hacktivist narrative that We Are Legion left open?
This is exactly what I built SoundPatty for, but for (much) smaller scale. We needed to capture certain robo-calls incoming to our call-centre, via GSM. Link: https://github.com/Motiejus/SoundPatty

Of course, this program is only a small part of the solution. But it works very well for matching the patterns in a sound record.

Unfortunately, I am European, and cannot participate. Feel free to use it, though. License is MIT.
Their angel investor.
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No, it's called the Windows Store
My idea is: Use whatever makes you happy. A happy person is sure to be more productive than an unhappy one. If you like IDEs, use those. If you like old fashioned text editors, use those. If you like new fangled text editors, use those.

Just always keep an eye out how you can improve yourself and your tools. There are many hidden joys to be found in all those programs, methodologies and workflows. Don't fall into the trap that just because you committed to one thing, you can't try another. There is nothing worse than being limited by your tools and not even noticing it.

Even if you don't stick with the new stuff in the long run, you will probably still learn something valuable. Learning a new tool or language or methodology is like visiting a foreign country. It is not so much about seeing new stuff, but more about gaining new insight in your own ways and getting a new appreciation and context for what you take for granted.

Be happy and keep an open mind is all I'm saying.
7th Annual Machine Learning Symposium
@"BuyNow Button" thanks for pointing that out.

I very much prefer the long-trial solution. From what I understand though, Apple doesn't let you do that on the Mac Appstore- which is really good in the beginning for handling security, payments, returns, and marketing.
Summer vacation is only detrimental to poor kids. In wealthier households, the children get sufficient mental stimulation so as to come back to school without fallen behind.

Maybe so, but wikipedia indicates that is a problem not just for poor kids, but also middle income kids as well.

The problem with changing school hours is that getting children to school needs to work around parent's work hours. This is less of a problem in other countries where young children can walk to school on their own or in groups, but would require massively changing American society to work.

For older students, this is not much of a problem, but smaller children does indeed provide significant challenge. However, given that adults are also continuously sleep deprived too, society will probably gain a lot from shifting their schedule.
> [(lambda t: t2)(x) for x in [1,2,3,4]]

Why would you have that lambda?

[x**2 for x in range(1, 5)]
I don't agree that the industry is saying that ideas are worthless. Let's not forget that the "no idea" entry in the last batch of YC funding was experimental, which I am curious to find out what came out of it and what were the results. Also, I think the reason the regular batch of YC funding puts so much emphasis on teams is because it's a good guarantee that the idea will be executed one way or the other. YC gets a lot of entries from people that, at the end of the day, they don't really know or they don't have a history working with them. Dealing with a team of strangers is definitely safer that dealing with a single person.
Does anyone have any real pictures of these stations?
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Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) 4.1.3 Released
Thanks yamalight. I just think that when people refer to "idea" they refer to much more than that, and should.

Imho business plan is way more than that and includes hiring plans, product timeline, marketing strategies etc.

While idea doesn't just come from "hey wouldn't it be cool if.." but usually entails a much deeper thought process about a market and an opportunity. Or at least it should.
I think the idea (hah) there is not that great execution fixes a bad idea, but that a great team will discover that the idea sucks and move away from it while executing. Great execution on a bad idea is not great execution.