skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually they don't Fly to Chicago, I looked it up because I am someone who's willing to pay moderate amounts of money for a better flight. I'm not paying $2k extra for first class ORD/SFO but I'll do $200 in a minute.

I think their problem is they don't offer enough choices to be a regular "goto" place to buy tickets so they slide out of peoples minds.
I like the design of the website.
This does not add anything to the conversation about the article.
I'm a UoC comp sci alumnus working at silicon valley startups since graduation in '08. Though a fantastic place in many ways, it's not one to encourage actually building stuff. If you're a hacker who loves to see code run and solve real world problems you may be frustrated at the UoC. I was :) on the other hand, if you go through with their BS degree in CS then you will have learnt a lot of fascinating theory.

Best of luck my friend! And ping me at marcuswestin@gmail.com to say hi or if you have any questions. Cheers :)
Question, can essays contain pictures and diagrams? This seems like one of those pitfalls like using profanity to stress your awesomeness in a job application cover letter while everything else tells you not to.
Every Smart guys is trying to bring Lisp's functionality in C Syntax.
But i'm stupid , i directly use Lisp. Even its hard and that's why i'm stupid.
Really cool. Similar to writespace for google chrome, which I use sometimes.

FYI your facebook sign in link isn't working for me. (Chrome)
ALso, if it syncs to google.. why can't we sign in with google?
New EC2 Standard Instances and Price Reductions
Anonymous hackers are ticked off
So touchscreen's coming back into vogue? Great in a tablet format. For standard computer monitors this is a major ergonomics no-no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22

Of course if this leads to light-table style hardware that could be pretty awesome.
> Phone apps that organize flash mobs...

I'm going to have strange dreams now about our future... artificial intelligence so advanced that it doesn't see the point in destroying us when it can just relentlessly prank and troll the world. :)
The State of HTML5 Mobile Game Development
Interactive movies. Psychiatry and schools, two birds w one stone.
It was explicitly allowed by a question last year, though this year's supplement is silent on that issue. So maybe not, and I wouldn't pull that at an institution with a different culture, but all 6 questions are curveballs and clearly designed to encourage creativity. I don't think they'll mind.
Google is like US government. There are only two rules that apply to them.

1) They don't have to do the right things, but instead what they do is termed as right.

2)If you argue against it, you are against innovation and those thousands of engineers are great because they have memorized a thousand algorithms from the book. And tend mix up only with the same kind.
This post really made me think. If you're going after easy then I suppose you look for things that are currently difficult and you can make a competing product. This seems to open up a lot of opportunities.
The lack of hierarchy in navigation and contrast in their design makes it really hard to navigate the archives of the blog or really establish the differences between content, navigation, and comments.

As the blog post is about building a great product with the core competitive advantage being simplicity, this new blog design is a full 180 from the point of their post.
This Was How Wikipedia Evolved
Hmm. Why not support ones that already exist?
Internet Image Archaeology
Airline business is never profitable imho, except if you're running it like Spirit, or AirAsia does. Charge a fee for every nitty gritty stuff that your consumer wants. Extra 10kg? That's $50 for you Sir.
It's pretty easy to own a smartphone and not go around acting like a jerk who isn't aware of the surroundings. You can drive a car without talking on it. If the phone rings, beeps, or vibrates, you can even ignore it.
Most people doing those things learned all of them on their own. If you need a class to learn your tools, how are you going to figure anything out when you get a job and on day 1 you have to solve a problem that their isn't a class for?
What's with the editorializing of the articles title here?
>>Because youtubes primary purpose for existing doesn't depend on copyright infringement.

If the copyright content is taken off YouTube, their business will fall like a pack of cards.

I go there for free entertainment. And guess how most of it and what kind is served there.
I "prospied" last weekend and the professor I met at Hack Night said that the systems side of the department has a stronger focus in that area, though he may be in the minority there. The theory side is interesting as well, though I don't want to get too far away from reality.

Thanks so much! This is why I love HN. I will definitely be in touch.
Instructure Takes On The Courseras & Udacities Of The World
Ask HN: I'm trying to find a demo video of a text editor on a tablet
I saw a demo video not that long ago (within six months?), probably on HN. Someone (the developer?) was demoing, on a tablet I am pretty sure, an interface for document editing where you could highlight quotes, drag them around, insert annotations, and do a bunch of sorting of these things.<p>I remember it being interesting and can't find it anywhere.
I agree. Most people's first Apple device these days is an iDevice and if they go on to get a Mac as well, they get greeted by familiar things like launchpad, scrolling etc. .
This is very impressive. However, I think the essay was poorly written. The point of the essay is not just to highlight your talents, but also to present yourself in a coherent manner. I feel like you focused a lot on the coding aspect and half-cooked the writing, which happens all too often in this industry. Nevertheless, good job on the project; you got an early start on a bright future.
Why New York and not somewhere like Haiti that really needs your help?
I'm just guessing here, but I assume the variables are created on the stack, then copied into the table object, rather than references being passed to the table. So when the function would end, the original variables would be destroyed, but the copies would remain.
I love his minimalism. He loves hacking but he hates devices. He lives in the most natural milieu he can construct.

"I mean the guy no harm, but so much of what he says strikes me as incredibly back-worldly."

No. He approach is incredible modern.

There's some Jobs-ian about it. Steve Jobs ultimately hated devices, because a device embodies the barrier between you and the effect you need. That is why Jobs strove to make devices as small, unobtrusive, and natural as possible.

(I just started purchasing Apple, and have thus only recently began mulling about Steve Jobs's vision.)
At least some people will be able to carry it in their jeans: http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/10/31/ipad-mini-fits-in-your...
Visual Studio 2012 and macros
False. Apple is a software company. If you've ever had to develop any non-trivial smartphone application, you would see how the iOS SDK is lightyears ahead of Android's.

Apple is a software company (who also fuses design and software really well). Google is a computer science company.
Periodically throwing some new ingredients into old soup to freshen it up can only extend the life of leftovers so far. There comes a time when, even with a handful of fresh veggies, it's no longer good soup. You need to toss out the leftovers, scrub the kettle, and start a fresh batch.

You will still need C++ for dealing with all the legacy C++ out there, but if you are starting a new project, you ought to be able to get the small, fast, efficient runtime advantages of a legacy monster like C++ from a much smaller, simpler language with a modern standard library.

Maybe it will be Go, but even if not, we need a simple, safe, productive language with modern features pre-installed (unicode strings, safe arrays, lists, maps) and a modern standard library that statically compiles to small, fast, native executables.

C++ with its "if you use the most recent 10% and pretend the old 90% doesn't exist, it's a great language" ethos is not what we need for new code.
Developer cleans up Minecraft trojan
I will wake up at a decent hour every day.

I will reduce clutter in my life, on my desk, and in my head.

I will learn more about App Store marketing so CloudPlay, my music app for Mac, can grow even faster.

The final miracle will be if I can get a shipping beta of CloudPlay for iOS ready by the end of the month. I have no idea; I haven't yet started and this will be my first iOS app.
Everyone understand this.

Let me tell you the problem why most people hate, troll and whine about rich people. Its not because others are rich, its because they aren't.
Read the article you linked, then read what wallflower wrote. Wallflower didn't have propose just throwing up buildings.
Hey Andrew, we have a few things we do with HipChat (or Highrise or whatever), I'll list my favorites from usefulness to "just for fun":

* churns in Stripe trigger a message in the chat room, we always try to
follow up immediately and figure out why
* specific support requests or emails also trigger in the chat room
* Google alert RSS feeds for Zapier also dump mentions of Zapier across
the web into the chat room
* we have another chat account called the ZapBot. he's a bit foul mouthed,
but anyone can control him through a Gtalk->HipChat zap we set up.
Mixergy gives away hundreds of interviews for free via their podcast feed (I subscribed via iTunes and my iPhone podcatcher, search for Mixergy), and transcripts of the interviews are still available via Google search. I'm not a fan of the pushy email signup, but there's ways around it to get to the free content.

And there's definitely some great interviews on Mixergy. The most recent one I listened to was with the female CEO of a hardware company that builds spectral analysis devices for the oil & gas industry and US Defence Department. That's worlds away from the online eBook info-product market.
How do you register trademarks? Any pointers?

thank you
True, it wasn't a great piece of writing. I was going for clarity and the ability to communicate technical ideas to nontechnical people rather than style. The other two essays in the application are much more personable and higher-quality prose.
Parent was lamenting Chicago's decline into "common" status.
Context for the uninitiated, please.
> Awhile back southwest merged with a regional carrier (frontier? no, something else) but that carrier was known for a gimick where the employees would sing on landing or do the safety lecture in rhyme and the pilots would tell jokes. Southwest didn't change this practice, and it became optional and now it's not unusual to fly on SWA and have a landing limmerick.

My guess is that you're thinking of PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines). They were the classic and original "funny" airline.

PSA didn't merge into Southwest, but Herb Kelleher did study them and use some of their ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines#Corp...
UofC fourth-year CS major here. While the department is still heavily focused on theory, over the last three years it has greatly improved its offerings as far as practical hacking goes. In the last two years alone several new systems faculty have been hired and the student hacker rso has grown dramatically. http://hack.uchicago.edu
Quit my job and do what i like
Which is best phone - Google v/s Siri
With Google’s new voice search for iOS, a less straight forward answer is given, responding with such phrases as “No one phone is right for everyone,” and You’ll have to decide for yourself.” The answers both take a higher-road type approach as well as slyly avoid mentioning the iPhone.
Thanks! And hrmm, will look into that... thought I checked it in Chrome. What OS are you on?

I stuck to FB (despite the flack that it will certainly garner from this community) because the initial goal was to take advantage of the social graph for collecting feedback (send the story to select FB friends for feedback, they annotate it, you see all their comments in one place and next to the relevant sections). I still hope to implement that feature at some point, and it's a lot easier if I don't have to maintain my own graph (which would be fun... but this is just a little "weekend" project).

EDIT: The bug you referred to is new, and happening across browsers. (I didn't notice it because I don't log out enough.) Something to do with the HTML5 app cache, I think. Refreshing the page after signing up "fixes" it, but I'll be working on a proper fix ASAP.

EDIT 2: Bug fixed :) (Wasn't HTML5 app cache at all--FB API issue.)
GPS Feedback Loops
So, you're saying that you don't distinguish between MegaUpload and YouTube. I commend your consistency.
i always wondered why justin.tv was called justin.tv. i love seeing founders explain their ordeal in this manner, i'd like to see more of these.
> it would be cool to see this colorized by drama

What a FANTASTIC idea! I'd like to discover other movies of similar genre

> ... and length

TV shows vs. feature-length films?
URLs and expansive vocabulary? That perfectly describes most spam I get, a viagra store link and a random Hemingway excerpt.
Keep Git Social
Uber is "everyone's private driver". They've increased their prices. Some people accuse them of gouging. Other people say that prices must increase after catastrophe, to reward people taking the risk of providing the service / goods.

UBER (https://www.uber.com/cities/san-francisco)

Uber increases prices (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725789)
Losing customers in an overbook situation is not a faikure mode.
Oh thank god. That's an insane handicap today.
Thanks; should've read the comments first.
Cirru: another attempt to make structured editor
A simple demo to try editing syntax tree in graphic UI. It's buggy and please open this in Chrome.

Original article was in Chinese.
http://jiyinyiyong.github.com/article/04-cirru-project/page
What are these people doing with their phones ?! U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ... said the reason was because RIM's smartphone could not keep up with its needs. Are Apple Business solutions really viable ?

I don't understand if there is a valuable reason for that or if it's just change for the sake of change. My 3 years old Blackberry fulfills all my needs. And it was made in Canada, not in a Foxconn-like plant.
Google wouldn't have purchased Motorola is this was the case. Also looking at the past history of Microsoft they'd be crazy to sell off a popular operating system.
Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft
Always nice to see new options, but I wish Amazon hadn't dropped the ephemeral disk. Quite apart from the issue of surviving EBS failures, ephemeral disks are wonderful for swap space -- since the lifetime of swap exactly matches the lifetime of ephemeral disks. I even have a startup script in FreeBSD which autoconfigures swap space striped across a few GB of ephemeral disks.
I don't mind that as long as the potential fees are made clear before purchase. That way I can decide what my needs will be and determine if I can navigate that fare structure to minimize my costs. If it were up to me, all passengers and their bags would stand on a scale at check-in and a fee assessed based on total mass. That said, United almost always has the cheapest fare in my city (a hub -- although I think they've become much more expensive since the merger), and I get free checked bags with the Chase card and a solid rewards program.
Virgin owns the SF to SEA nerd bird market for business flights. A Virgin coach seat is as good as biz class in American.
I disagree. I'd estimate his writing skills are in the 95%+ percentile for 17/18 year olds.

In the last 5-7 years, the English curriculum in US schools has changed significantly in an effort to improve NCLB reading scores. One part of the curriculum that had to get trimmed down was writing composition.

These days, unless you were home schooled or attended grades 9-12 at a quality private school, you probably won't be taught how to write a proper essay until college.
"To help an inefficient, ill-located, unnecessary school is a waste...it is highly probable that enough money has been squandered on unwise educational projects to have built up a national system of higher education adequate to our needs, if the money had been properly directed to that end." - John D. Rockefeller

Source: Wiki
That's strange. Did they upgrade the Micro instance's memory too?

> The Micro instance (1.7 GB of memory) is great for lower throughput applications and web sites.

I assume its a typo. Otherwise, fenomenal news!
I heard a rumor that Compute Engine was supposed to open to everyone today, I suppose this reinforces that rumor.
lol.. i miss West Wing too.
well, at least Apple and Microsoft would make for bigger paydays, and I'm sure there are more. Apple obviously has far higher revenue and profits, and they earn the majority of both abroad.

It is possible they'll go for all the big players, though, who knows.
Stupid question: is that in the article, or..? I seem to have missed it.
Yes, it's kind of like comparing a state owned oil company to Exxon. Another example is Emirates. Can't blame the govt for backing the airline, though, as it leverages a huge strength: Dubai is within 1 stop of virtually all airports in the world.
Yay! Now I'm just patiently awaiting my invite [-;
Not in the article. On the EC2 website: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
I lived in Emacs + Ruby/Python/Perl for most of 1998-2008 and I've recently been forced into IDEs to do mobile development in Obj-C and Java.

And I'm loving it. I never had this much visibility into my code or anything close to the refactoring power (especially in Java). Maybe things go south with 1mm LOC projects but those are no picnic in Emacs either. I've gotten so addicted to the benefits of a good IDE that I think I'll take a serious look at Rubymine if I ever go back to doing Rails again.
True I signed up for Buffer but never used as I am not into social networking.
Be more relaxed and happy.
In App Store vs. Appstore court clash, Apple runs into a skeptical judge
Sure, for people who have no need to input text.
This is neat! Best of luck to you!

Here is a thought: one of your goals with this essay is to write it as a "counselor-friendly essay". Do you feel like it is as friendly as it could be?

I think there is tremendous value in being able to explain technical concepts to non-technical people, and a skill that is worth practicing. Iterate on this essay! Or write more of them! How would you "tell a story" while conveying this information? Is that even possible? Or even worthwhile? Tinker with it.

The one thing I really liked about your essay was the end: "To reliably solve this sort of problem, I’m told, I’d want to [use fancy computer science terminology]. So, UChicago, shall we revisit this question in CMSC 35400 (Machine Learning) or CMSC 35500 (Computer Vision)?" It ties this back to your own personal goals and how they mesh with the university.

Great stuff.
before anyone starts commenting on this useless article, i want you all to know that the author of above article is the same as the one linked in this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726176.

He's bias is obvious, minus the facts.
It's like seeing inarticulate sieglar; at least i respect sieglar because he knows good deal about apple and does articulate it well.
An Indian billionaire donated ~2 billion to education.

I have always thought investment into education is the optimal strategy for increasing the rate of human progress against time.
Too bad they didn't reduce any of the reserved instance pricing. So effectively they've reduced the cost for things that scale up and down a lot, but not for permanent base load.
This isn't a new language. It's a C library.

ps. Of course that does not invalidate your point, which I fully agree with. It's just on the wrong thread.
I appreciate your skepticism towards DropBox, but what makes you think that Mega is going to be the host-proof sharing nirvana?

I'm willing to bet that their initial client will be susceptible to MITB and various key leakages for the first year or two.
There's no need to analyze the text. The answer will be in _who_ is doing the upvoting and downvoting. I wouldn't even look at the author, just the voters.

Google's Pagerank didn't have to look at the page contents to understand which pages are higher quality. At Quantcast, we categorize related content based on who is visiting, no need to look at the content itself.

The best way to find out is to open up the HN data, in either a closed or open research project. I'd help fund a closed Kaggle competition with NDAs if that's whats wanted. Just consider it a way to learn what works. pg himself would be the final arbiter and likely implementor of what works.
Police Chief Could Lose Job After Spam Filter Fail
And terrible incentives: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/american-and-us-airwa...

tl;dr; the executives make the big money by rewarding themselves for going a certain amount of time between bankruptcies
>>Why else would a cab be out during a hurricane?

As per the line of thinking that article has. Nobody is working as hard, has worked or will ever work as hard as you do. There fore your problems are vastly bigger and demanding than everybody else. Given this the world around you automatically is obligated to help you endlessly fight your daily battles.

A part of which is that a cab driver(who probably by any means of measure is having it difficult than you) must not just report to his duty during hurricane but also should offer it at a everyday price. Now think of this, even if the cab driver had asked for the everyday price these people would have cursed them for not offering the service for free during a hurricane.
Specifically, the new instances (m3.*) are only available with ebs. There is probably a technical reason for this - eg maybe they move these bigger instances around to different servers so they can't be on local disk? Would love to know why...
Correct and I agree with you - law of supply and demand etc. but lets see if Uber tries to do the right thing by limiting their benefit, or even donating their commission to a relief fund, as per AirBNB? that would be a great way to generate some positive feeling as well.
> If you're a hacker who loves to see code run and solve real world problems you may be frustrated at the UoC

I graduated from the U of C in '97. Did the startup thing for a while, then went on to Yahoo & Google. In my early career, I used to lament the fact that the U of C hadn't taught me various "practical" things. I was shocked the first time I heard a coworker mentioned they had a class on just a programming language.

Eventually, I grew to appreciate that those "practical" things both change & are relatively easy to learn on your own. Whereas an academic environment is a much easier place to learn things like theory.

Not to say they need to be mutually exclusive, just to say there is value in the emphasis on theory.

All that said, and as much as I love the U of C, I'd tell a high school kid interest in Comp Sci to go to Stanford, U of I, or CMU.
"Mediterranean C". Fits, because it's more comfortable, more laid-back, less worrying-about-the-future C programming (si si, we typecheck mañana!).
Thank you! I've been doing some on and off research on this topic and was very discouraged, but this cheered me up. It was nice to see everything put together in one place...
speaking of typos... the word you're looking for is phenomenal
Grouper Sponsors an NYC "Hackation" for the Right Developers
http://www.nanowrimo.org/