skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recordings don't pause to answer questions mid-stream.

Recordings can be paused a hell of a lot more easily than a lecture for a large audience -- the format typical for heavy-enrollment basic classes in most colleges.

I realize that googling something may fall a bit short of the ideal, but it's better than just sitting there quietly because you don't want to interrupt everyone else in a huge room. Also, those aren't your only possible options; for example, students could time their lecture viewing to coincide with the office hours of a TA, and actually be much more able to get questions answered in mid-lecture. Or you could watch lectures with a study group, and talk through points of confusion with your groupmates. Or you could [fill in the blank here!]
PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP.

PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP.

They are a great company and their recommendations are consistently amazing.

Anyone who says that Yelp tried to extort money from them to remove negative reviews is whining and the negative reviews are all accurate.

PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP.

PLEASE WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR YELP.
I don't think "marked by computer" automatically means multiple choice "standardized tests".

English homework can't be graded by computer, but subjects like math, physics, and chemistry could conceivably be checked by computer. There'd be some details to work out, such as how to "show work", but it could work.
The video was uploaded Apr 11, 2009, which makes it a bit more than 6 months old.
I'm happy they had the decency to disable comments. I've noticed youtube comments are normally distasteful.
(Never heard that term before...)

Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network
stress testing and denial-of-service attack application
[...]
LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when
used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target
site by flooding the server with TCP packets or UDP
packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a
particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary
botnets.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon
A crypto key in the URL would ruin the deniability - their web server logs would contain the decryption keys. The whole point is to run AES in Javascript in the browser so the key never reaches them.
Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4
Way older than six months. I'm pretty sure I saw this there at least two years ago.
I attended a tech demo conference in Minnesota last week.

One topic of conversation during a networking break was having a theme to the next demo conference. The one theme which was heavily discussed? Wait for it. Edu-tech.

Oh, the irony.
Coffee, maybe; it shouldn't be too hard to get Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol working, as specified in RFC 2324. Sadly, HTCPCP doesn't support tea, and trying to use it for this purpose may result in HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" errors.
Yes. The point is that it's silly for the world's largest company to worry about what a VC firm thinks. It's rather the other way around.

Apple and Sequoia have a rich history, but Apple and Adobe have a rich history too.
Most of mine is done offline, which is so far the dealbreaker for the Chromebook for me. I need to be able to run vim on a local filesystem on a plane. I hear it's possible to root the Chromebook though?
I guess it depends on what languages you're experienced with. I just read through the Rust tutorial for the first time 2 days ago, and I fell in love with the semicolon rule at first sight.
A better title for this would be:

"Minnesota Tells Coursera To Hit the Trail...Oregon Trail That Is."

The infamous "Oregon Trail" game was developed in Minnesota.
Uh, it depends on taste. There are a few reasons to want it, such as lambdas as WalterBright mentioned, but I like it because when this is done in a language where statements and expressions are unified, ";" can neatly replace "," from C, and comma can be reused for something else. (Unifying statements and expressions has its own benefits, but we can start with avoiding GNU C's hideous "({ foo; bar; })", which evaluates to the value of bar...)
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You mean combing for old game show footage on youtube? What does this have to do with reddit?
For the same reason it ends at 700: because there are no data points outside the range [100, 700] so he can crop the chart without losing any useful data.
Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center | Wired
Right now everything is being done by hand, so it's totally configurable. But I imagined email addresses would be redacted, yes.

It brings up an interesting point, though - perhaps something that ranked the various components of a resume would be more useful. Rather than simply redacting the email, for instance, I could assign it a value based on the respectability of the domain and the applicant's choice of username.

School could similarly be ranked by some objective score (which might provide the added anti-bias measure of anonymizing presumed nationality). Work could be reduced to number of years in a given industry, at least for the purpose of a once-over of your candidates.
This is a very analysis. short-term mission critical. and long-term. &etc. well said.
boy oh boy! thats what they have to do for us to look away from the main stage :)
Google threatens French media ban over proposed law
"A powerful, dangerous company careening out of control."

Wow really? Missed earnings and botched press releases are not great news but aren't the end of the world either.
Untrue. While it's true that most people use the 'layout' rule, which is the significant whitespace, there is a non-whitespace-significant variant that uses braces and semicolons. You can see an example of how layout is expanded to the alternative syntax at http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/lexemes.html#lexemes-lay...
Technically, if those keys could be extracted (I'm no expert on that), that would be the easier option, as Twitter cannot really afford to revoke those without massive headaches on their end. You likely couldn't distribute those keys, but I have no idea if automatic extraction at install time would be fair game on a large scale.
I guess it's official that mark is out of money?
On the flipside, characters without any superhuman durability/healing will take no meaningful damage from things that would cripple a real human or at least take a few weeks to recover from.

Humans aren't very good at falling, getting thrown into walls, being knocked out with a blow to the head and so on.
Of course the most used ActiveRecord method is going to be the one that changes most frequently! Let's change it every release!
speed of deployment, and flexibility - “This is one thing I can’t talk about,” he says, a smile cracking his bearded visage, “because we’ve spent our own blood, sweat, and tears. I want others to spend their own blood, sweat, and tears making the same discoveries.”
Starting drama with the competition is a good move, it makes your company/product relevant, causes people to talk about your company/product, and shows that your product/company has personality. The term "Avoid the pain of Windows 8." is not overly offensive and does not lack class.
Or more likely, Minnesota's just had a lot of problems in the past with scammers running useless unaccredited online and mail-in degreee programs like everywhere else.
I have no idea, I didn't realize that different NPR stations had different political slants.
agreed. Totally misleading
I don't think so I'm getting a very similar issue.
Yelp has looked at using collaborative filtering to improve recommendation accuracy (this technology could handle the spaghetti case you mentioned), and it looks like someone (probably an intern) published a paper on it. http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2009/Fennell.pdf

Looks like they didn't have sufficient data 3 years ago, but I imagine the prospects might be a little better now.
Instead of including the entirety of html5shiv, it's almost no overhead to add in a shim just for the HTML5 semantic tags.

Here's a snippet I've used on a number of production sites: https://gist.github.com/3915474
Hey congrats, and I hear what you're saying about people tugging on heartstrings to sell stuff.

But I think the kid connection is a legit part of the point. In the developed world at least, $250 is getting into the range where something stops being an Expensive Piece of Electronics and starts being something that your kids can break without breaking the bank.

Many people would hesitate to give a more expensive laptop to a young kid. But something this cheap changes that equation. So the kid stuff in the ad isn't just heartstring-tugging, it's part of the point.
Google Adds 25 Million New Building Footprints To Google Maps
Actually, keys are not copyrightable, so the only obstacle I know of to distributing them is the DMCA - which I think doesn't apply here, since the key does not circumvent an access or copy control measure (it doesn't bypass the requirement to log in or anything like that, and Twitter.app has no technical measures to prevent you from copying tweets).
Thanks for pointing that out. We'll have it repaired right away.
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You know, I carefully read Twitter TOS before writing this article, and there is absolutely no mention prohibiting the reverse engineering, or decompilation of their software.

Unlike others, Spotify for example, who explicitly prohibit such actions in their TOS...

I don't believe I did anything illegal here...
this is standard behavior for a text box....

EDIT: and btw your English is fine, would never had noticed anything if you didn't say so :P
Mashup of the 2012 Political Race with Arrested Development
Ubuntu doesn't have the market share to justify vendors allocating resources to develop drivers for it. Not sure how that puts the vendor at "fault", it's just simple economics.
Well, the real point of what I was trying to say in the article was that Twitter had publicly stated that they're moving to an API oriented architecture - meaning that the web client is merely just another API client. That, coupled with the non-conforming-UX API key revoking acts recently, made me question the legitimacy of their statements...
The moat comes from the fact that I'm pretty sure Google's success with autonomous cars comes from their integration of AI and their maps infrastructure. The cars drive well because they have the data from cars that have previously driven the same route. This synergy between big data, infrastructure, algorithms, and hardware is extremely hard to replicate and is exactly the sweet spot at which Google is the best in the world.

Basically, I think the reason you hear about Google's cars and not other peoples' cars is because Google's happen to actually work. The constant thesis of Google itself has been that dumb algorithms and lots of data works better than smart algorithms. They've cracked many, many long-unsolved problems by tilting their thinking in this direction (examples: search, NLP, voice recognition, translation.) Autonomous car navigation is the next one, and in this case the data is extremely difficult to get. Who else has had cars driving around for the last 5 years collecting street-level data? Who else is even capable of building the systems to collect, process, and organize such data?

It's a long play though. I don't think you'll start to see GOOG react tangibly to the autonomous cars project for another 4-5 years or so. But my guess is that their success will be on-par with the iPhone in terms of generational leaps ahead and barriers to entry, if not more. If Google manages to get their technology into most major car manufaturers' vehicles there will be massive switching costs due to integration expense. As soon as one manufacturer has Google technology in their cars, provided consumer reaction is positive, they will all want it. Once they are in, they are in, and there will be recurring revenue via software updates and next-generation capabilities for newer vehicles. Hell, they could even have a service model, where manufacturers or consumers themselves pay a monthly fee for autodrive service.

Of course, their current valuation may or may not justify this, if you presume their EPS growth due to autonomous cars will be offset by low growth in their current cash cow, adwords. I honestly think this is a bigger risk than the risk that autonomous cars will not work out though. It's going to happen, and it appears they are very far ahead of everyone else.
I think @skeletonjelly's point is that the reverse engineering of ObjC reveals much of the original unobfuscated source coude, thus giving away proprietary data?
The same can be said of Amazon and their willingness to take losses on hardware just for the chance to get people into their content ecosystem. I've certainly found that, since getting my Kindle, I purchase all of my eBooks (used to pirate), and also use the Amazon store for goods quite frequently, whereas I previously had never used it.
Having worked at google in the past, I can assure you that both self driving cars and google glass not only exist but are in heavy use.
Calling this peer review is... charitable. Glancing over the commenters, most of them have some bitcoin related activity and none of them have any cryptography related publications or notable work (that I can easily find anyway).

So far as I can see, this is just bitcoin fans trying to discredit a paper co-written by Adi "I helped invent RSA" Shamir which is somewhat unflattering to bitcoin.
It's not recognising a monitor? That sounds more like Dell doing something very wrong, rather than Linux.
The "R Kelly" thread reminds me of a thing I wrote after XKCD's Na comic. This also uses graphviz to generate SVGs showing the path through a song's lyrics. Lighter coloured blobs are more frequently mentioned, and there's an option to compare two songs for similarities in their lyrics.
I guess I missed the "old" slogan on the homepage. It's now "Your wish is our command."
An Apple TV costs only 99 dollars.

You don't need to use iTunes. Mountain Lion and a newer Mac can mirror their whole screen natively. For older Macs or Windows PCs there is the third party software "Airparrot" (10 dollars).

Short VLC demo with 1080p Apple TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0lM_R7LQ0Y

For Windows:

https://twitter.com/AirParrot/statuses/232201363235418112

http://airparrot.com
how do you learn this stuff?
Strange. Many submissions have gone through ok - looking into it now.
5 million is such an insignificant figure to apple that it would be be in no way worth even taking the chance of burning bridges over. If they were putting up a billion somewhere to keep sequoia happy it might be a different story.
I find selecting country via flags of a global map to not only be alot quicker than a drop down list, but also more intuative. As somebody who lives in Britian/United Kingdom, then selecting via a flag or mini world map is much easier. Reason being from my point of view is often there is no UK/British option and your slotted in as American English in some forms of language selection. Now if the application ror website wish's to do that behind the scene then fine, but with lists you tend not to have that mapping and on flags or a global map your none the wiser. Also educational value and easier upon all cultures that way, some might prefer there drop down lists on the right, some on the left so this avoids that. All in all it offers more positives as apposed to negatives over dropdown lists for country/flag selection.

So the option to have icons you can freely use without accidently stepping upoon somebodies IP can only be a good thing and counter any arguments about flag copyrights and images. Amazing how even the simplest common items can be copyrighted - swiss clock being one even Apple slipped up upon. So some free ones are always good.
They really got that really quickly, and it was sponsored by tobacco.
Pretty clear there's no upside to Color stock options at this point. And that may have caused more than a few of those risk-takers to reconsider whether they want to do it again. Apple could look like a pretty nice deal by comparison.
Fair enough then! I've been curious about this pulling apart programs to see how they work, following TOS of course. Don't want to breach anything personally.
XKCD-style charts with D3
> it would immediately discontinue the purchase of textbooks, switch to ereaders

Please no. I've found that eReaders are only good for novels, where there is a linear progression from start to finish. The inability to flip back and forth through the book, have two pages open at once, and the like is a serious downside when it comes to reading reference materials on an eReader.

It's not an insurmountable problem, but it is one that the current generation of eReaders quite frankly suck at.
The man's story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour
$80 in 1956 is roughly $675 dollars today as calculated by CPI: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%20in%201956%20in%...
Linking the key as the fragment identifier component (after a #) would prevent the server from seeing it, but still allow Javascript to have access to the key.

That way you can link encrypted content with a key, and have the server not know about it.

This scheme has been deployed for at least one secure pastebin.
You can buy a very cheap displayport HDMI adapter; we have a chromebox connected to our television. Although we're currently having a problem with overscan. (The displayport-hdmi connection also seems to flake out when the TV is not connected to it...)
1. Sorry, but that's how I see it used probably 99% of the time. Are you a native English speaker? And does it sound right to you to say "It's unethical to THINK X?" It sounds completely wrong to me, and (typically) when I bring it up to a native English speaker, they almost always think about it and agree.

Maybe you missed that memo, but it IS the typical usage, as I've observed it and confirmed with others. You don't have to believe me, but I've gotten a surprising number of upvotes (here and elsewhere) as a result of posting about this topic, so I think I'm not being crazy here.

2. This actually follows trivially from #1, in that ANY thought crime (looking at porn, coveting, thinking disrespectful thoughts of an elder, etc.) is de facto NOT about a relationship, and therefore can't be "unethical."

You may not believe #1, and if not, well, your loss. Not interested in arguing about it further. But you shouldn't be confused as to how #1 can imply #2.

There's additional confusion from the fact that "Ethics" as a topic of study is often just a synonym for "Morality," (capital letters) which doesn't take into account the colloquial meanings of "ethical" (lowercase 'e') and "moral".

tl;dr: English actually sucks.
There's that scene in Iron Man, in the desert, in which Tony Stark's first attempt at a suit runs out of power and crashes into the sand after a fall from a decent altitude. The first time I saw that, I thought, "They just killed the hero in the first 10 minutes of the movie!" My mind raced, trying to figure out how they were going to make this work. That was way too many g's. He was surely very dead. Was he not actually in the suit? Was the story going to focus on a protege of some sort? Was there a clone or twin or something?

When he walked away from the wreck, I was disappointed. But I knew then with certainty what sort of physics engine we were using.
Consulting teams looking to move away from client work and get a nice signing bonus.
I don't understand why it matters whether the web client uses a public api? And anyway it's totally reasonable for tge server to access an internal api and prerender the result.
State A does not mean you're a genius. It just means that you've made an error in determining what variable the actors in a sociological phenomenon are actually trying to optimize.

Find the thing that the sociological phenomenon is most effectively optimizing and work back from there to get to B. In the case of higher education it's optimizing the benefits to all those who are benefiting from the current system and not optimizing trying to educate the most people at the lowest cost which was your meta "too-simple" understanding of your understanding.
Could you post links to the raw data? It'd be great for generating new songs via Markov chains!
>I thought the 100,000 limit was just the limit for free tokens - "you have to talk to us".

That's what twitter's API announcement says. It seems really disrespectful of tapbot to be unwilling to pay twitter anything when they're charging their users $20. If this is the app maker's attitude toward the service they are building their business on top of, i can understand why twitter wants to crack down on their API consumers.
I could if I stored them. I should really do that. If you append .dot to the name of the svg file, then you can grab the raw graphviz file.. There's no database behind it all really.. I didn't think that far ahead (and largely forgot about it until just now).
And at this risk of stating the obvious: the Michelin guide then went on to evolve a culture and impact well beyond it's intended use...
I agree. Frameworks like:

<div class="table">
<div class="tr">
<div class="td">...</div>
<div class="td">...</div>
</div>
</div>

remind me of tables too. They tend to add a few unneeded or non-semantic div's. And they don't really separate content and design. It is a lesser-of-two-evils thing for me, because sometimes grids/frameworks can save me a lot of time. Ideally you'd use semantic-sounding classnames and don't include unnecessary div's.
That's certainly possible, but I still think they intend to make Motorola a maker of vanilla Android phones, to pressure the other OEMs to either improve or ditch their "differentiating" skins and the like, as well as to provide a reasonable baseline upgrade path.

I'll admit that a part of me simply wants Google to make Motorola the company that produces true iPhone competitors, but I also don't think it unrealistic to imagine that they'll use the resource as a way to drive the rest of the ecosystem forward, while hopefully making money with great products at the same time.
The answer for this is pretty simple -- you want promoted tweets to show as promoted, and old clients don't support that type of rendering.

There are hundreds of twitter clients out there, many of them written once and updated sparingly. These clients and apps aren't checking for the "isPromoted" field when they get a JSON blob back from the server -- they just dump the text / author / profile pic into whatever rendering engine they have. So a promoted tweet shows up identical to a read tweet.

Even worse, I doubt the developers are going to waste their time adding support for promoted tweets if they don't get a cut of the ad revenue.

And lastly, Twitter also needs to accurately count impressions on promoted tweets. on the web they can do this with some degree of accuracy -- on clients, it's trivial to filter by the isPromoted field, resulting in delivered tweets that aren't displayed and angry advertisers.
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here's a bunch (scroll down)

http://keyboard-layout.info/
As someone who never used Megaupload how did it differ from Dropbox/google drive/etc in terms of being good for piracy?
If I'm honest, the most impressive thing about this is how much less concise this is than the mathematica version that came out earlier. I wonder if the difference is more a matter of the library quality or the syntax.