skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is still miles ahead when it comes to real time audio processing apps. The obvious example here being garage band, but on the less obscure side there are a ton of guitar amp/effects apps on iOS (which are awesome if you play guitar) for which there is absolutely nothing even remotely equivalent on android.

My understanding is that the android api has improved recently with respect to the ability to support these types of apps, but for whatever reason there's still a noticeable lack of these apps.
Having to have an entire extra user session logged in, just to keep dropbox running is way overkill. I did briefly experiment on Linux having two user accounts with different home directories but the same user id (numeric) but other bits of the system really didn't like that.

In any event my original point is that this sort of setup will increasingly happen, none of the existing products handle it well, and it is a factor to consider when choosing what products to use.
If it's any consolation being dumb has a price :) I don't try to make any money off that site. No ads, no syndication, no attempts at revenue whatsoever. My bandwidth bill is gonna hurt this month, so if you don't mind down-voting the link, I'd be pretty appreciative.
The article says that successful debuggers made better use of a mental model. I've seen people do lazy debugging many times: they change a line here, build & test, change a line there, build & test, and it doesn't appear as if they're stopping to think at all. I've seen people dive right into this without reading the code at all. I call it "debugging by superstition." Perhaps they were already in the zone and had the code perfectly laid out in their head, but then you'd think their jerky attempts would have worked. :-)

At the other end is what Raymond Chen calls psychic debugging. This is where you have enough experience to be able to guess the root problem from seemingly-unrelated symptoms. This has a superficial resemblance to debugging by superstition, but it's quite different.
How Jonathan Gruber became ‘Mr. Mandate’
I guess that depends on what you consider Ruby. MRI isn't, but Rubinius is.
That is correct. 1987 - 1997...
It is very difficult to live in Manhattan if you are not fit. All of the stairs, subways, walking blocks from stations and stops to your destination. I am sure that all the exercise helps those who are living there.

But if you create a place that is more difficult to be obese, sure, there will be fewer obese people living there. It is also very difficult to live there if you are older or weaker. The accommodations for handicapped are fewer and add significantly to the hardship of just getting from one place to another.

I like Manhattan, but it can be difficult to get around if your have any physical issues.
My bad experience aside, I got over it, and life as a Xoogler is fine. In fact, I think I'm on better terms with Google as an ex-employee than when I worked there. And that's because the thing I'm really really good at is at odds with the core beliefs of Google's management. This begs the question of why they so aggressively recruited me in the first place, but really, that's mostly water under the bridge now. And that question is answered, I suspect, by the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.

In the end, if a team at google in need of my specific skills (cue obligatory Liam Neeson schtick) recruited me, I'd happily go back. I don't expect that to happen, and in fact, the one project that remotely resembled something I'd want to do there got deprecated.

Life goes on...
Indeed they are very similar. Thanks for sharing, though CSSDeck seems to have more samples. Have been procrastinating on learning HTML5/CSS3, this would be great place to start.
New tack for OLPC: Let the students teach themselves
I suppose it doesn't affect you if you compile everything yourself. But you can't run a Metro app that anyone else has compiled. Store or bust. That is a bad path. I certainly wouldn't say windows 8 is 'open'.
It was pretty good but not as good as the beeb was so you didn't miss out on a lot. The architecture was a lot more complex.
Granted, but does the hover URL do much to protect you from offensive content? It sounds like you're a technically sophisticated person who's worried about being pranked by other technically sophisticated people. Therefore, I assume they are capable of using a URL shortener or a misleading file name to trick you. Seeing the URL ahead of time doesn't help in these situations, unless you simply refuse to click on links whose destinations you can't identify with certainty.
IPv6 reaches 1% of total users
If I recall correctly from my AP Journalism class a billion years ago, mainstream journalists - we didn't have such a distinction then but I'm imagining that would be the equivalent - are taught to write at a 6th or 7th grade level. Of course the site just rated the above at 18.2. I'm going to have to work on this.
Key line of the article: “Since Netflix focuses on making sure services can handle individual instance failure and since we avoid using EBS for data persistence, we still did not see any impact to our service.”

As an architecture design, the choice to avoid EBS is hotly debated, though many high-profile systems besides NetFlix (SimpleGeo, Sprint.ly) have moved almost exclusively to EC2 instance-backed (local disk) VMs and as a result, avoided the pain of the last 3 major AWS outages.
I've seen a ton of examples of applications that have been accepted to YC. It would be very informative to see applications that were on the cusp of getting in to have a better gauge of mistakes to avoid.

I know that will never happen for a number of reasons - but it would be interesting nonetheless.
If you have a PayPal account, having a bookmark for PayPal is not any more secure than typing paypal.com into your browser's address bar.
Thanks. I don't think that's a bad one. In fact, like the Towers of Hanoi, I think it has enough parallels with computer science and engineering to be a good interview question.
Performance Review Committee. The inspiration for Google's Perf system. (Otherwise, the companies are very different, but they have very similar review systems.)
RISC OS and most applications are now 32-bit OK.
Latency is actually quite a bit better with LTE. That said, I moved from T-Mobile HSPA+ to Verizon LTE and it wasn't earth shattering. Both pretty much feel like WiFi and I agree with Google that it's not worth compromising several other aspects of a phone just to get LTE.
Your critique seems to be focused on the wrong details. The author was not demoing their ability to indicate there is a mouseover action. They were indicating their ability to create a compact, intuitive (once hovered) technique for browsing thumbnails. Your issue can be fixed in a number of obvious ways, but the behavior once activated is a non-obvious contribution.
I'd also add that outside of the US there's still a huge lack of content (i.e. movies, music), compared to what's available on iTunes. I'm not sure what the difference is like inside the US
I didn't notice you used a different word (and one that isn't in the dictionary, no less). At this point I concede that I have no idea what you meant.

I do agree with you that people who dislike politics should not work for the government (which is, by it's very nature, political).
Doing social media campaigns is easy, right?
I thought/think they're pretty darn close. And I continually see signs of feature parity and moves towards enabling more of Chrome in Chrome for Android.
No, but the profit made is tiny in comparison to the giant margins they make on iOS devices ($700 iPhones that cost $175 to make really pad the bottom line).
They're charging 999 Euros for the Mac Mini? I didn't think the regional pricing variations were that bad.
I wonder if many data centers will pre-emptively disconnect from the power grid and switch over to backup generators? I used to work in the same building as a data center and we had enough diesel fuel to keep running for a week without refueling (and we did, once).

This does make me wonder, the data centers that Google and Amazon are building, how will they fare in a hurricane? Did they skimp on strength to build them cheaper?
agree on tomcat vs jee
but I really don't care for apache, unless they changed their implementation since I last checked... the whole epoll thing is just too exciting
This is a touching poignant picture.

For clarity, I would point out that while they are still on guard in the rain during this hurricane, this particular picture appears to have been taken Sept 18th.

Here is a picture from today: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515517158472398&...

Via: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/129zv4/standing_guard_...
First picture, from a gallery with date citation: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/25447106_rRDwDr?_escaped_frag...
I truly do not see it helping, especially as a first step. The vast majority of those bad and mediocre teachers that everyone wants fired? They're still around primarily because the school administration is comfortable with them. They don't complain, they don't cause problems, they don't garner parental complaints, they simply implement whatever new schemes administration comes up with to try to increase standardized test scores, etc.

Removing tenure isn't going to make administrators magically start firing bad teachers that they like, even if standardized test results were a good measure of such.

And your comment about parents with strong but ignorant opinions is spot on - one of the best teachers in my high school was fired directly as a result of parental complaints.
Gladwell writes a lot of anecdotes which are then taken as pseudoscience, and unfortunately get repeated as science because of his popularity.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html

> Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell's latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to ensure success, that opportunity, hard work, timing and luck play important roles as well. The problem is that he then tries to extrapolate these observations into broader hypotheses about success. These hypotheses not only rely heavily on suggestion and innuendo, but they also pivot deceptively around various anecdotes and studies that are selective in the extreme: the reader has no idea how representative such examples are, or how reliable — or dated — any particular study might be.”

>

> This review captures what's been driving me crazy over the last year... an unbelievable proliferation of anecdotes disguised as science, self-professed experts writing about things they actually know nothing about, and amusing stories disguised as metaphors for how the world works. Whether it's Thomas Friedman, who, it seems, cannot go a whole week without inventing a new fruit-based metaphor explaining everything about the entire modern world, all based on some random jibberish he misunderstood from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur, or Malcolm Gladwell with his weak theories on tipping points, crazy incorrect theories on first impressions, or utterly lunatic theories on experts, it all becomes insanely popular simply because the stories are fun and interesting and everybody wants to hear a good story. Spare me.
I work as a teacher in the UK, in a Further Education college ('community college' in US I think). The UK has a completely different system for funding and quality assurance in state schools, so I'm not commenting on the original article or much of this discussion as it would not help.

I will say that some of the best and worst teaching I have seen has been in institutions outside of the state funded sector. Caveat Emptor.
Like with so much on the web, with great power comes great responsibility. However, that is not super reassuring.

Most of the time I have seen sites do this so that the link is clear and easy to read for the user, while adding utm_campaign codes and other junk that the user does not care about.

However I am sure some sites use this behavior to .... trick users.

So we need to ask ourselves which is the greater good?

There might be a UX solution here, in how those links are shown, and maybe there should be some rules about HTTPS links in pages. Maybe users could set a setting that if the link is changed on click, that maybe, it would not automatically go to the site, but would prompt the user, or at least inform them on the landing page with some form of notification.
Not at all. I think with every creativity centric professions reaching true mastery is a long process. If a designer is not able to attract clients by previous work this can have many reasons, but improving the ability to produce work suited for professional use might be a great step.
Looking at the close-up images, will having the front-facing speakers located where you hold the device be an issue?
> Your issue can be fixed in a number of obvious ways

Can you elaborate? I can think of obvious ways but they're aren't tasteful and ruin the effect.
"Students need to actively test their understanding by making predictions and failing, and no courses I've ever experienced attempt to do this."

Shouldn't a good teacher prod students in this direction?
http://pastebin.com/1kPU8fyN
There is so little room on the application as it is to try to sell yourself and your cofounder (not your idea) that I could honestly not even imagine wasting it.

But in my case, I don't have a fancy school to list in the founder question, so I would have to find other ways to convince them that I'm good.
He has been criticized for a lack of rigor in his assertions.
What frustrates me the most is a bad blog post about math or science that makes it to the top 5 on the front page with no comments.

Clearly no one is reading the story, and is just upvoting it because they want to believe that it's something they're interested in.
Does anyone have any demographics for the HN community's age? I am curious how many people here have attended schools with standardized tests.

If you did attend a high school with standardized tests - do you feel it negatively affected your education? How? Do you have specific examples or courses?

For clarity - I am not claiming that standardized tests do/don't help. I just want to hear form recent HS grads.
You have to wonder whether Motorola are best pleased about it either - it's hardly a ringing endorsement that Google have farmed the Nexus 4 out to LG rather than use the device manufacturer that they own.
The main difference is that the case I presented, although it may seem to be a stretch, there is a plausible reason for the two random-looking files to be present on one site (or the other). Whereas if each site only had one random-looking file, in neither case was there a plausible reason for that file to be there.
1) I think that's fair, but legal arguments are not always logical. I'm reminded of the Illegal Numbers topic that was on here in the last day or so.

2) Many times I think people forget what laws were originally intended to resolve and they get updated and twisted throughout the years. Not unlike the drug laws. Who even knows why they are illegal anymore? Especially when so many other drugs with the same social/economic problems are perfectly legal.
Israel doesn't bomb buildings in the West Bank right now. They do demolish them randomly in retaliation, or because they need the space to build more Jewish-only roads and settlements, or... (Note that I do genuinely mean Jewish-only rather than Israeli-only here; non-Israeli Jews are allowed but Israeli Arabs aren't.) That's not to mention the odd state-sanctioned and IDF-protected terrorist attack by settlers on Arabs in the West Bank.
It didn't work for me on Firefox as well kept saying: Something went wrong :( Refresh and try again

Refreshed, tried again, same thing.
That's fine for TCP, but not good for a UDP protocol that can't make packets smaller.
The correct figure is 38.5 hours/week for 9 months/year.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

That's about $33.5/hour for wages alone. It also ignores the value of gold plated health care + pensions, etc.
Surface Pro will not compete in the same space. Pricing alone will push it out of that space.
Using Mailgun with Capistrano recipes
They have not became touch ready. Their desktop shells have, the actual applications all still have cascading menu's for god sake's. As a platform they are ready, as an ecosystem, not even close. And few if any of the stakeholders are focusing on the actual applications, so i wouldnt hold my breath.
Apps Around: discover apps and trends in your area 
What do you guys think? It could be really cool during conferences like SXSW.
Chrome is just Chromium with some additional features and different branding. So yes Chrome for Android is just as much Chrome as Chrome is.
Rails 4 in 30 minutes slides
UK perspective: have a look at Functional Skills Mathematics tests at what we call Level 1 and Level 2.

http://www.edexcel.com/quals/func-skills/about/Pages/Onscree...

Functional Skills Maths and English tests were introduced nationally in the UK after concerns from employer's organisations and other stakeholders. Preparing students to take these is mostly a vocabulary exercise I have to say. I would be interested in any reactions people have to these tests. They are aimed at mature adults who work in factories, administration, medical services with non-degree qualification levels. We use them with non-academic teenagers as well as stepping stones to the 16+ standard exam called the GCSE.

There is a lot to the idea that learning needs to be situated in a context... but then assessment gets expensive!
Thanks! :) I'm glad you like the site.

Search and categorization are implemented in a reboot of the site design that will be released in the next few weeks (along with other neat changes and additions). It should make it a lot easier to narrow down what you're looking for.
What you teach is INCREDIBLY political. My mother had to have a multiple meetings with her principle because as a 2nd grade teacher, with a biology degree, when one of her students asked about bird beaks when watching birds eat from a feeder she mentioned evolution. The school wants to keep evolution safely inside the 10th grade biology course where you can send in a note to skip it.

Without tenure, for have a factual enriching conversation with her students she would have been fired. She's going to retire soon, and is worried about teaching because "her generation" only went into it because they didn't fight to get what at the time were men's jobs. Today a 4.0 college grad with a biology degree would never teach 2nd grade.
Charter schools. There are a wide range of approaches, but the charter school I attended provided an alternative for both teachers and parents looking for flexibility in their child's education.
At Monetate, we rely a great deal on Google Analytics as well as a tool like Raven. With some TLC, Google Analytics can tell you a great deal. Here's a blog post that one of our marketing director's wrote recently that may be helpful: http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/06/content-mar...
Police inundated by thousands of online disputes
Cequel: Active Record with Cassandra
I read it more like "after playing with all the phones on offer, I'm keeping the Nokia to take home with me"
Chrome/ium OS has been experimenting with more touch friendly interfaces so it might work better in that form factor soon.
This kind of tutoring is already very common among homeschoolers, though without involving frustrated teachers. Homeschooling law varies by state and local district, but I've never heard of requirements for teaching to physically take place at the home.
I will not spend another day wondering how I can have classes that are full inclusion, and where 50% of my students have IEPs, yet I’m given no support.

I had to fire our public school (in North Carolina; this was in the first district he moved to in the state) because it took them 3 years to do an IEP. In another example, a family member moved out of state, and it took the school two years to call up and ask if she would still be attending.

I'm know in some places the teachers are the problem, but the teachers we met were working their hardest. The administration just didn't seem to give a shit.

Teacher responsibility is a great thing, but we also need administrator responsibility.
Show HN: we open sourced our Django drip email app
Honestly why do you want LTE?

You are going to burn through your data alotment very, very fast.
Yeah - I would keep the demo, maybe add another one - or show an app that was built by the platform that has a unique look and feel.
Your statement is true, but also useless, as in the true spirit of hacker culture, you're arguing semantics.

"Chemicals" when used in the context of food, means "artificial food additives".

You may disagree that such additives are bad for you health - but just how our early ancestors had low-lactose tolerance, we also have low tolerance for such additives. Maybe our children's children will be able to digest such foods better / more efficiently and without side-effects, but in the meantime there's a wealth of research showing strong links between food additives and increasing rates of cancer, obesity and diabetes.
With kid's corner feature in windows phone 8, you can have fine grain control over what the kids have access to.
I believe the recent Nexus 7 update was 4.1.2 and not 4.2, so this feature is (unfortunately) still missing for Nexus 7, as others have affirmed.
And at a higher price!
It's actually 10" not 10.1".
Have detailed specs of the Nexus 4's components been released yet? One of the most surprising features of the Nexus S was the superb Wolfson DAC audio, which is almost unheard of in a phone. If the Nexus 4's compares I'll preorder today.
Actually, we do have a good way to determine how someone will perform. The US military has used the ASVAB test for decades, and studies have shown that performance correlates with test results.

http://official-asvab.com/validity_res.htm
> 20% time can easily destroy your career. Most managers view it either as a waste of time or a flight risk.

So at Google, you're job isn't to make Google more successful, but to make your manager look good.
I finished my degree, but nobody ever noticed since I started working full time years before graduation. I've been reluctant in recent years to give the "drop out" advice, however, since this was 12 years ago and I have no idea what things are like today.

Hearing that it can still be good advice is heartening. It's nice to know there are still some skilled professions that don't have huge regulatory or academic entry barriers.
Data centers batten down as Hurricane Sandy blows in
Simplest question: has anyone made an Arabic translation for Waze?

Also, they take salaries of 70% less than us? Ya Allah, we're fucked. Better get all the West Bank tech workers employed to bring the wages up to our levels.
> Does anything like this already exist?

Google "homeschool co-ops"
> Because Windows and Windows apps don't support resolution-independent UI scaling.

I upgraded my HP 17" laptop panel to 1920 x 1200 (bought less than $200 on ebay 2 years ago). That was on Windows 7. I don't notice any visual issues. Just upgraded to Windows 8 and all Windows apps look just fine too. So applications aren't real issues here.
Not sure a redaction is even necessary ... Twitter is public and all parties posted that information in a public manner. Your resharing it doesn't make it any more public, although it may make it more popular.
Interesting read. It was even cooler to see Drew from dropbox posting in the comments there.
You're not providing much value with your comment yourself. I thought it was an interesting personal story of what can happen the company you work for gets acquired by a large company. Just because it's not "top 10 hiring mistakes" doesn't make it uninteresting. The comments also include far more insight than usual into things that aren't necessarily found elsewhere.
Paypal Restructures, lays off 325