skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is besides the point. Why the hell should a cab driver instead of being safe with this family and that too during a hurricane drive you around for a everyday price?

The purpose of increasing the fare, is to motivate the driver to drive during the time of a hurricane. This has nothing to do with other things and was never meant to be.

There is a shortage in supply, the demand automatically increases. The only way he can prioritize his work is by offering his services to the highest bidder. He is in business earning just like us. He didn't take a oath to serve selflessly regardless of his own problems.

When the programmer salaries go high because of the demand, do you willingly take a pay cut? Why then do we apply different standards to other professions?
Virgin America is largely modelled off Virgin Australia, right down to the lighting in the planes, the uniforms and the in-flight entertainment. I'm not sure how much of this is borrowed from Virgin Atlantic.

Virgin Australia is a very successful company - started in 2001 by Richard Branson and a few others with about $4 million in capital, 2 aircraft and a single route, and they managed to be around when one half of the cosy duopoly of Australian airline industry went bankrupt in October 2001, as a direct result of the September 11 attacks and subsequent collapse in air travel.

As a result they expanded from 2 planes to 90 in 10 years, expanded from a domestic carrier to an international carrier and have progressed from being a budget airline to much more like the model that Virgin America now has - cheaper pricing but better service, two class cabins and business lounges.

I would expect that if Virgin America proves to be remotely as successful, then it is here to stay.
But the behavior is both counter-intuitive and wrong.

And the resolution is "won't fix" because it's "too hard."
Jesus people. It is possible to acknowledge that Kim is a criminal, think he is interesting, be interested in Mega, find his criminal history abhorrent AND think that raid of Megaupload was wrong and probably illegal, all at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive and there's no reason for this to be an argument.

Why do Kim discussions always turn into arguments instead of discussions?
> You can throw money at existing community colleges - but what good does it do if there's no visionary leadership?

It's hard to have leadership when 90% of your job is triaging "things to cut this year," and the rest is dealing with the fallout. It's been like that in California for over a decade.

It's pathetic, and someone with a couple spare billions deciding to prop up the system would be welcome.
I'm guessing that Amazon has wanted to phase out ephemeral disk on non-HPC instances for a long time, since it costs them money and most people don't use it; and the availability of EBS-optimized instances and provisioned-IOPS disks was what they needed to satisfy the people who insisted that ephemeral disk was the only way to get reliable I/O performance.

And I'm sympathetic to that argument where large amounts of disk are concerned... but I do wish we could have a small amount of ephemeral disk to be used for swap space.
There's actually a more recent tweet than that featured in the article; seems like Uber has done the right thing ...

They are now paying the drivers 2X but only charging the rider the normal price...

https://twitter.com/Uber_NYC/status/263758814061408256
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Sorry I wasn't clear. These were classes set aside for so-called "gifted" children. Not just classes that covered more advanced material. (Though they did.) Nearly everyone in there was really, really smart. I'm sure many kids fell through the cracks and weren't selected, but other than the odd inclusion of some musically gifted children who quickly fell behind and dropped out, we didn't really have any false positives.

That said, I totally agree that all students who can and are interested in advanced coursework ought to be able to benefit from it. I don't really understand why elementary school isn't more like college. If a 3rd-grade student reads at a 9th-grade level, but only does math at a 3rd-grade level, why compromise his experience?

And, as one who had teachers who couldn't always answer my questions, I don't really think asking one person to teach many types of subject matter is always a good idea, either.
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I want to travel Thailand and find out a way to solve my marketing problems!
Nothing makes me think "Mega is going to be the host-proof sharing nirvana," because I don't.

Please, try to respond what people actually say.
The admissions counselors should be very impressed with what you've done. I know I'm impressed.

Of course, someone with your amount of skill and drive will be successful no matter where you go to school.
Small nitpicky feedback: I dread the tagline. I don't really know what oDesk is, and I doubt I want to know. Can't you just say what Hackerlist is, instead of saying what it's almost?

EDIT: And I wonder, are the people listed freelance hackers? They all say they're CEO and CTO somewhere. That sounds like a fulltime job.
Interesting, that got an IT person in legal trouble for trying that in a US school.
Data centers vs Sandy
Related aside: the consistency of lighting across the viewing angle on my iPad 2 was far better than on the 3. (It was scarily uniform on the 2.)
I can't skip forward within the tracks on Firefox 6.
Seriously, the UK government does not give any money to Ryanair. Some local airports and tourist boards negotiate deals with them, but these are typically for marketing expenses and lowering of gate fees.

Its interesting that the major low cost American airline is famed for customer service, while the major low cost European airline (in fact, the biggest passenger airline in Europe) is also famed for (negative) customer service.

Typically the 14 pound flights are either terrible times or on a Tuesday, which tends to be the cheapest day to fly. Source - I've spent way too much time on the Ryanair website.
Indeed, the department has changed a bit recently, and the student hacker community is thriving. Theory is still strong, but I would like to add to bwaldrep's point by noting that a few classes are (now) dominated by actually building stuff: in Networks, students build an IRC server, a stripped-down TCP stack, and a rudimentary IP router from scratch; in Operating Systems, students fill in some of the interesting parts of threading, virtual memory, user programs (i.e. implementing system calls), and file system access in the Pintos educational kernel; in Databases, students build a stripped down SQLite-alike database library.

That doesn't necessarily discount your point about frustration, but my impression is that the situation has 'improved' (I'm not one to make normative claims though). In any case, as a math-disinclined hacker, I've been very happy with the courses I've taken.

Aside: I encourage you to drop by a hack night and see what's going on if you find yourself in Chicago on a Friday evening. We love having alums visit and talk about what they are doing!
OK, will log a bug if I can
Have fun with my son. Get more access with my son. Move on with life after a difficult year.
This site has some great posts: here is one on the value of listening and how to get better value from it:
http://www.strategiesinlanguagelearning.com/improving-listen...
Integrate several self-tracking services (incl FitBit and Withings) with my generic data collection service, zenobase.com.
Why do I think they are sliding towards Easy not Simple? Its a very fundamental distinction!

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy <- Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure and Datomic
This genuinely makes me hate myself a little less for the fifty bucks I threw at the last three movies.
I have two things that would make me very happy in C: Overloadable operators and constructors/destructors. I have not been able to come up with a way to do that yet, but maybe if I change the entire way I write C like you did with the syntax changes, it might actually work. I'm going to have to think about that!
Steps to Product/Market Fit [video]
The Micro instance remains at 613MB according to:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

So looks like a type-o sadly.
Strategies in Language Learning
>"Ugh. We (developers) are the worst market."

My background is business and I absolutely loathe those unclosable pop-ups. I love the parts of Andrew's personality I saw come through in his early videos (and the more recent ones) and I gave him my email address long ago. But every time I see that kind of behavior on the site it makes me dislike Mixergy.com just a bit more. I'm all for the sponsorships, I can understand paid content, but if increasingly annoying barriers are going to be constructed between me and the content it will eventually drive me (and whatever spending abilities I have in the future) elsewhere.
Done! (minus timezone, will be part of another bigger feature).
I do not mean to comment out of point, however, I just want to point out that to me, there seems to be 'something' about branding a part of the world 1st World and another 3rd World.

"Developed countries" and "Developing countries" seem better terms to describe the infrastructural distinctions.
Notice the S in that CS. Science degrees are generally just that, and political science students don't get gigs in city council, state government, and White House.

What you were looking for is more of a trade school skills experience, which some community colleges provide, particularly for languages.
Many people struggle to learn languages. The reason is NOT because they don't have the capacity. The fact is we all do as shown by the fact we learnt our mother tongue. The problem is most of us have come to believe we don't have an ability because of our miserable experiences learning languages at school. This happened because of the poor strategies that were employed.
Change the strategies, and watch what can happen!!
If the commonly-available applications for an OS are ugly, that OS is going to be perceived as ugly. And vice versa.

If Skype and iTunes -- which together are probably installed (one or the other) on a huge percentage of home systems, and a nontrivial number of corporate ones -- are ugly at higher resolutions, then there's a serious problem.

Sure, they shouldn't write shitty software, but it's now Microsoft's problem due to how it impacts the platform as a whole. At least in the case of Skype, one assumes they could fix it (since they now own the product); iTunes is ... probably more complicated.
You need to understand that English is not the first language for many developers, so taking snippets like that literally really isn't fair. It isn't a "won't fix" because fixing it is hard, the "hard problem" refers to it being a bit hard to explain for him. He explained nicely why this isn't a bug in his native language.
welcome to the internet. you're making way too much sense. :-)
How far are you planning on going with this? More apps, turning into a full on app studio? Just yourself, or hiring? Will you seek investors? These are all considerations as to whether it's worth the hassle and cost of incorporating an LLC or Corporation.
You can start here: http://www.certifiedcareercoaches.com/certifying-career-coac...

Each of these organizations have lists of coaches that have been certified to some degree. I have no idea what career coaching certification actually means, but I found my coach in this way. Each of the programs have search pages where you can look for a coach based on your requirements, location, etc. Once you get some names, you definitely need to give them a call and have a 10 minute conversation getting a feel for their "style". Most coaches have info on their websites or that they will send you that attempts to give you an idea of how they work. In particular I would pay attention to how much a coach follows a socratic method (i.e. just asking questions and guiding you) vs more training oriented (i.e. you need to do x, y and z). Good luck!
Check yourself before you Wreck Yourself
Based on figures from your website, the service fee for hosts is 3%, while the fee for guests is between 6 to 12%. Do you have a projection of how much money your customers will save?

Also why waive fees rather than make a donation to the Red Cross or other relief organisations?

Crunchbase puts Airbnb funding at $220 million (with $100 million raised this September) so there seems to be a fair bit of cash floating around.
IBM's Watson supercomputer goes to medical school
"I promise you we will have the AI problem finished long before we have healthcare data that is reliable enough to train it. Until that happens, imagine how Watson would have performed on Jeopardy if it had been trained on Lord of the Rings and The Cat in the Hat instead of encyclopaedias."
That depends on your monthly expenses and how little you can afford to live on.

I would say the "durability" of your income is much more important: will you still be earning in 6 months? Two years?
A bit of unsolicited advice for your indiegogo campaign: dropping the f-word in your campaign title (“seed filmmaking equipment for our college, you f ckers”) probably isn’t a great idea. I am not at all offended myself, but I think it may be off-putting to quite a few folks out there who may otherwise be interested in helping.
I was particulary struck by this quote:

"I promise you we will have the AI problem finished long before we have healthcare data that is reliable enough to train it. Until that happens, imagine how Watson would have performed on Jeopardy if it had been trained on Lord of the Rings and The Cat in the Hat instead of encyclopaedias."
That spelling is correct in Spanish and Portuguese, my assumption is it was an untranslated correct spelling not so much a typo.
There are a few critical infrastructure buildings in NYC that kind of have to work. Two of them are highlighted here in this article. Another one is Google's building on 16th and 9th ave which is a major carrier hotel (not far from the Hudson river). Unfortunately, as the article points out, many of these buildings are downtown literally mere blocks from water. Most of the building outages including NYU Med, Bellvue Hospital and others were due to backup generators and/or diesel tanks being located in the basement and getting flooded.

Remarkably, though, for the rest of us in unaffected areas things just work. I'm writing from Morningside Heights by Columbia Uni and we are fine. I've spent time on 96th and Park and things are fine there as well. The only noticeable issue is routing voice calls. SMS is mostly ok except for the occasional failure.

I drove downtown into the power outage areas and noticed that my AT&T phone lost service while my Verizon phone stayed up. Downtown south of 30th or so, depending on where you are west/mid/east, is still a bad place to be. It is really interesting to see the city divided between the powered haves and have nots. Lots of people have been migrating north and staying with friends uptown or in the outer boroughs. Daylight brings downtown sortees to pack bags and bring out refugees or bring in supplies. Tuesday was the best day to do this. Yesterday, Wed., was a traffic nightmare. With mass transit out of it everyone decided to drive in. Coupled with the traffic lights being out in half the city traffic was just out of control. Google traffic maps were a sea of red. Today only cars with three or more people in them will be allowed into Manhattan.

The only silver lining in this entire Sandy catastrophe was that she was not a great rainmaker. That would have been calamitous.
I'm very happy to tell you that, like most people, I was upset to find that Google collected that data. I was even less impressed with how they handled the deletion and disclosure of their mistake. I'm happy to discuss that, but it's pretty desperate to reach for that when it started with more or less: "Android has ads and Google watches everything you do on it"
Would be entertaining to me if each of the douchewattles who wrote these would have their offers revoked.

Fuck you if you "hacked your video". You didn't "hack your video". What could that possibly mean? Just listen to yourself.
Ironically, I didn't understand Python's list comprehensions until I learned about Haskell's version (which is the original source of Python's), along with the explanation that Haskell's list comprehensions are taken straight from mathematics. Indeed, Haskell's version are almost ASCII-art mathematical set notations.

Even now, I still like Haskell's

[fn(x) | x <- myList, x < 5]

over Python's equivalent

[fn(x) for x in myList if x < 5]

Of course, I'm a mathematician, so that probably explains everything about my convoluted path of understanding these things, and my preferences to this day. :-)
There was a trend of renewed lamentations over the "de-weirding" of UChicago following the Common App switch, but they seem to have fallen off after 4 years...
Arguably these features provide no value already though but only exist because on some level they are fueled by addiction. It always begins with very little effort and a shitton of perceived value. First time using a drug - little hit, big high. The first day in Farmville, WoW, etc all has this exactly the same. You gain multiple levels, achievements, etc. all in a few hours. This is fun you say. I don't need to do this, but if it's so easy, why wouldn't I? You begin doing it more and more. Just like physical drugs, you build up a tolerance. Those achievements that used to get you excited - don't anymore. 100g? Fuck that, you now want 100000g. You need that feeling of accomplishment but it's seldom found. For each higher tier you reach or better gear you find - there is always something better that is exponentially harder to get. Your addiction has changed your perception of what value is. What you once did recreationally for fun, is now an all day activity where you are mostly unhappy. People have been treated alongside drug addicts for game addiction. As we discover more compelling hooks - active gamification is only going to be more prevalent. The future of course is in passive metrics - sticking chips in things that don't normally have them.
Philanthropy is much bigger in the US than in the Nordic countries so there is much more money to go around. That being said there has traditionally been a feeling among the rich that they have already given their share to education through the high tax rate.

Historically construction has been the most popular type of philanthropic project. But in recent years the scope has been broadened a lot because the welfare state has had to retract some of its branches, and thus education has also risen in popularity.
Fortumo Brings Its In-App Payments Solution To Windows 8
Now I regret missing hack night last week! I hope you got to meet some of our outstanding crew. Sounds like you talked to Borja. I had the good fortune to meet him when I visited and probably wouldn't have even bothered with a 4 year college if I hadn't. Here's hoping your essay does the trick! Shoot me an email if you want to discuss UChicago: mvz@mvz.so
Death is completely painless non-existence. Absolutely nothing to fear about it.
Well, the difference was big enough for Apple iPad sales last quarter that they shipped 28% more YoY, while sell-through increased about 44%. The difference was due to inventory increases last year, compared to inventory decreases this year.
Precisely. I see no point in teaching them in anything but English. They're children, if they don't know it, they will learn fast. In fact, teaching them in any other language would be a step backwards.

I am not a native English speaker myself. I am Mexican. Yes, native Spanish speaker which is supposedly one of the top 3 most widely spoken languages on Earth and I must confess that most of the time I don't see the point in reading any content in Spanish anymore (except for some literature - in other words, yes, you probably want to read Shakespeare in English and Cervantes in Spanish, etc)

Foreign news, science, technology in Spanish? all that content is nothing but translations (sometimes bad ones) from the original English source. I see how something could get posted on HN one day and only after many days (usually weeks) it would finally appear in the "Technology News" section of the most "cutting edge" newspapers and media in Latin America or Spain.

I live here in Japan and most scientific papers and research from major universities (like Kyoto or Tokyo University) is also published in English.

I think it's cute to try to keep one's traditions and culture alive but at the end of the day being able to communicate efficiently with each other and do stuff like hacking Android is what keeps the world spinning.
Anything else in your way is just extra overhead.
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a Distance
Yeah, that's closer to what I think would work. But it's actually not all that different than "co-op" programs. For engineering majors, it's common to have programs where you work at a company for 6 months in the middle of school instead of a semester of classes.

I happened not to take advantage of that because I was having fun in college. But I know people who did.

Really, CS majors shouldn't be complaining that they didn't learn any skills in college, because they learned about the halting problem and network flow rather than source control and automated testing. Logical thinking is a transferable skill. Liberal arts majors should the ones complaining!

The current system is somewhat broken in that a lot of smart kids get sucked into academia without realizing how little what they're doing matters in the professional world. But there are a lot of other systems that would be equally or more broken.

I think there are some schools with a mandatory coop program for engineers. I think Waterloo in Canada? Looking back I think that's pretty close to ideal... within 4 years you can't really do much more for a student.
I like that the new instance types have a more balanced ratio of memory to ecu, but wish they had included some smaller sizes. I'd like an m3.medium with 4gb and 4 ecu (or an m3.large with 8gm and 8 ecu).
By coincidence, I spent a good part of today looking at very powerful magnets to extract needles etc from cut grass! If only we could find the analogue for your problem...
I don't like either of them, but if I had to choose one I'd pick the 3D one, it looks smoother and the red in non-3D version is really emotionally negative, like it's the kind of red that makes you angry or scared.
Pity they didn't introduce smaller High I/O instance types. I would love High I/O but don't need anywhere near 60Gb RAM :/
I actually stopped using Pocket (phone/tablet) and just use Send to Kindle for everything. It doesn't bother me too much that I can't archive/mark as read articles, I just delete them from my kindle once I'm done. Also I just order the articles by most recent and just use search if I need to find a specific article. I wanted to avoid relying on hacks so I guess this setup will be stable for a while.

It's actually amusing that since back then I've used ipod touch, android phone, android tablet, and now the kindle, for specifically reading articles from the web.

When I was in college I was actually printing web articles in batch during weekends, I just paste the plain text to MS word arranged in 3 columns in uniform font so it looks like a newspaper. Those were fun times since everything was so new to me :) that's way before all the instapaper/pocket came out.
Eh... wants and goals are not really the same.