skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Removing that would make me (as a consumer) happier. Instead they'll probably reword it to say "We can change any part of this agreement that we want, at any time, not even bother to tell you, and you (the consumer) still agrees to it. Except for the mandatory arbitration by an arbitrator we choose and we pay... we can't change that part."
No doubt
note this does NOT appear to be what i had imagined (and maybe some guys had hoped), which was "date a SG", although that effectively would have turned SG into an escort service.
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:/ the more I learn and read about quantum mechanics I'm starting to realize the FTL quantum communication seems to be an SF pipe dream hoped and imagined on some possible theories but they seem to be less than likely. What a PITA.
Ah well, maybe we can still use singularities or something to punch holes in space/time and shoot info through singularity routers :) Though that does seem even farther away then making quantum mech doing communication for us. ah well
Awesome! Our team already applied but NYC is shut down for at least 2 days. Would have been hard to film a video if the subway is shut down and we couldn't meet up.
Very cool! I can definitely see this being useful.

Out of curiosity, what encouraged you to choose Lua instead of JavaScript or another server-side language?
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What is the easiest way to customize Bootstrap without changing Bootstrap code? I mean, the easiest way for its intended audience, CSS amateurs.
scripting? I have no idea what you're referring to, but using a browser capable of rendering the web properly is a requirement these days. That's why they have mostly gone to an automatic update model, the web is fluid and changes rapidly, to keep up you need to be running a modern browser.
Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity with App Engine
Is it multidocument summarization? I wrote a term paper on this back in school some years ago and though the technology is very interesting, it left a little to be desired (so I wonder what the state of the art is now). The applications I studied for this are removing bias in e.g. news articles, critic's reviews, etc.
Most popular answer this year for 'Name something you hacked'

- 'Submitted my YC application despite the storm' :)
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The comments on this thing gave me the best laugh I have had in a while.
Not a physicist (theoretical or otherwise), but to me the introduction of the concept of "hidden variables" reminds me of the addition of Phlogiston to the body of knowledge.

Unless... they're using it as a placeholder for as-yet undiscovered ways that entangled particles can interact, and it's known that it's a placeholder.
Totally agree. Jeff is almost acting like a common bully here. I am surprised people are coming to the opposite conclusion.
Yep, some of that gear from the 70's and 80's is still very very excellent, pair it with a good DAC (nuforce say) and you've got great sound for small $$'s.
"Siri, open the Google Search App."
I still think Flask a much better choice for RESTful APIs when it comes to Python. It's a lot more lightweight, and companies like Twilio have done a lot to make building APIs with Flask very easy: http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Steve's course is a great starting point for web development. It helped me build http://votersentiment.appspot.com :)
Then that very well could turn out to be a complete nightmare!

Yes, if you're in the business of writing compilers - traditional, JIT or otherwise - then you're going to hit all sorts of issues with this stuff, and rapidly head off beyond the realms in which I have anything useful to say :)
Which phone do you have? I suspect this could be disabled on older iPhones. I have a 4 and I don't get any voice feedback.
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not for me, they all restore perfectly, there's likely a setting you're not using to restore tabs.

4 seconds of googling shows this for Chrome

you should try the voice search, it's amzingly fast and got everything right that I asked it. I said "directions to cafe prage san francisco" and as soon as I finished the results came up and it talked back saying what it had found - traffic adjusted driving time and map. I tried "oracle stock price" and that showed and spoke the result back to me.

lots of cool features. its >50mb so you need to be on wifi to download it (for some reason)

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

and this for firefox

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-previous-session
Its still not fixed on iOS chrome. I like bootstrap but it's a disaster on ios.
Smart people are hard to find! Soooooo.... true.
Looks like cPanel has redirected the releases.cpanel.net site to an interior page and you can't see it the same way as before. Wonder if anyone got some screenshots. It was blatant.
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“The blond and freckle face red hair Midwest devils are the most wicked of them all as they are the most deceptive looking. Their parents feed them lots of grains, red meat & wheat so that their bodies mature so and they can be deceitful in their appearance.
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I don't think they compete on price much. They have different quality APIs, availability, support, etc.
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I'm not sure if that part of the comment was aimed at me: I don't hate it, I just think it fails at reaching or perhaps even understanding its stated design goals.
"Hidden variables" have been proven to not be a satisfactory explanation for quantum mechanical effects for some time now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

Though, I should add, what makes this paper interesting is that they try and find loophole around Bell's theorem. This would be a big deal if true.
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How do you know which of the older stuff is good?
We probably need to write a FAQ for this. Until then, the short answer is that Lua is well-designed and well-understood as an embedded language (how we use it). That means it was easy and fast for us to integrate.

If we get a lot of feedback about it, we can definitely change course on this later by adding JavaScript and/or other languages.
This reminds me of the Ansible, a communication device allowing instant or near instant faster-than-light communication. It is seen in many science fiction works and often justified as quantum entanglement in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
Tegra 3 already has this big/little architecture, but using the same core design for all cores, the difference being that the "little" core is clocked lower and fabbed with a special low-power process. I imagine using two different core designs would be even more effective.
Ludicast, go home, you're drunk.

But for real, what is this? Redeem yourself.
this isn't limited to anonymous and doxing, this has been going on for a while now. the internet's role in mobilizing people as vigilantes - in the name of truth, justice, etc - is growing. see the stories here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_vigilantism
Yea, I tried to see if Google had a cached version, not seeing anything though.
It's difficult to prove why a decision was made, though, because there are generally lots of excuses. Similarly, hiring employers can't discriminate based on a lot of things, but it's still best to avoid mentioning them because you can't prove why they didn't hire you.
Designers should contribute to open source too
I've heard this sort of sentiment come from Europeans before. Apparently it's part of the "stupid americans" myth in Europe that American construction is "shoddy" and that's why weather is so destructive here.

Of course Europe receives very few hurricanes because they typically move from east to west from the intertropical convergence zones and Europe has no east coast exposed to an ITCZ. Some parts of Europe (such as Britain) receive many tornado strikes but ones with the intensity of those in America are rare. The USA is the only country that receives several F5 strikes per year, and the British tornado scale starts classification of cyclones at much lower wind speed, were we'd just describe it as an 'F0' or not even classify it as a tornado.

An F2 on our scale (T4 on theirs) struck Birmingham in 2006 and caused forty million pounds of damage to many brick buildings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Tornado_%28UK%29

Brick is actually a poor material to use against high wind loads because has little tensile strength. When high loads are applied to a brick wall, the two ends of it are supported by the adjoining walls, which cause bending stress on the wall, and tension on the interior of the wall between supports. The wall then buckles inward.

The only truly suitable building materials are ones with high tensile strength: steel, reinforced concrete, and core-reinforced cinderblock. Practically speaking, the odds of any one building in the midwest getting hit by a tornado are very small and so people understandably don't want to live in a concrete bunker on the very slim chance that they get hit. Florida, however, does seem to have a great deal of concrete and masonry construction, even in homes. Although it's worth keeping in mind that the majority of the damage from a hurricane comes from flooding rather than wind.
I'm referring to outlook.com on the microsoft side. You can read more about it here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044422690457756...
they sure do
Jellybean adds offline speech recognition (which is at least partly responsible for Now being wicked fast); there's no mention but wouldn't be surprised if they ported it to iOS for this app.
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The benefit of node is not in the language selection, though JavaScript does have it's advantages as well as drawbacks. The real elegance of Node is that it provides a low level server toolbox that you can rapidly build high level frameworks and applications on top off. I was never really taken by the hype but we decided to use it on a project and I was really surprised how quick it was to set up a REST layer for our app using Node. That's really it's greatest benefit you can bolt together some pretty impressive network based applications pretty quickly.
$8 registration fee for the next 8 days, instead of $99
As far as I understand it doesn't have to be annoying. Simply having the legible text "By clicking the Purchase button you agree to the Terms" should suffice. There'll be just one Purchase button in both cases (of course, getting a legal advice wouldn't be a bad idea).
Did you ever see Gattaca? That great movie, all about eugenetics!
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Of course, the manager is going to want to know. People would rather have information than not have it, even if it's wildly inappropriate.

Microsoft was destroyed by stack-ranking and the global visibility of political-success review (I mean, "performance review") history. Are you seriously trying to use Microsoft to make a case?
I must be missing something. Why is a versioned source code repository the ideal place for this?
"At the same time, it’s hard not to think that audiophiles are on the wrong side of history. As the rest of the world joyfully listens to Spotify and Pandora on their iPhones, audiophiles still listen to CDs! The march of technological progress has many casualties, and sound quality may just be one of them. The product desires of audiophiles are so idiosyncratic and contrary to popular tastes; they have an uphill battle to protect sound quality against faster, cheaper and more social access to music."

This is not how I see it going down. There are a couple reasons why older formats of music aren't going anywhere and will always serve as compliments to the newer digital formats.

The biggest difference between buying CDs/Vinyl vs. a subscription to Spotify/Pandora is ownership. For the foreseeable future there will be a significant market of people, including audiophiles and DJs who want to own the music they buy rather than lease it. And it's now possible for regular to receive the benefits of both formats by buying CDs, ripping them to a media server and then streaming them to your phone or tablet using services such as Audiogalaxy and Google Music.

The other reason is the lack of innovation in high quality audio formats. As evidenced by the failure of SACD, the demand is simply not big enough to support the research and marketing of new physical mediums designed solely for music. In the future we will be forced to rely on CDs (which are never the weakest link anyways in an audiophiles system) or piggyback onto other, more popular formats such as Bluray for 5.1+ high quality audio.
To be clear, let's compare an AMD chip based on the Cortex-A57 against a Calxeda chip based on the Cortex-A57, or maybe a Samsung chip based on the Cortex-A57. The GPU is an obvious differentiator, but not in servers.
What HN tends to discount are useless and derivative comments of the sort which may turn into "insider" memes.

Humorous comments may get upvoted, particularly when they extend the content cleverly and are well written. However, you are correct in so far as the threshold tends to be higher than is common.

In my experience, it is best to view downvotes as editorial suggestions rather than personalizing them as "hate." A downvote may mean a lot of things, but in general it is often best to consider them as an indication of how well one's point has been communicated. I recommend using them as feedback regarding the quality of one's writing.

Likewise on the subject of communication, one might read your post as a bit uncivil in regard to the way it addresses the author of the parent comment. Curtailing incivility is a current point of emphasis within the HN community.

My question is, how could your point have been better communicated in a way which promotes meaningful dialog, and how could the "edit" feature be used to implement an improved version?
How does this service differ from ifttt? Why would I want to use it in place of ifttt?

I see that you have a paying account, which is nice - ifttt has limitations (limited number of accounts, etc.) that limit its utility for me (and I'd certainly pay for those things).

I see you have an API, which is really handy for dev-minded types. Can I build things that plug in as triggers or actions in an "ad-hoc" manner - things that are only for my use, and not advertised to other users? That'd be pretty incredible.

I only wish the hardware I acquired recently to work with ifttt - my WiThings body scale and WeMo Belkin outlet/sensors - were compatible. I'd like more complex rules involving them.
It reminds me a lot of Geordi talking to Data about a perfect shave needing to not be perfect.
There is conclusive data on what we want from reproduction systems: [1][2]. Sad that a place calling itself priconomics can't even google for the most straightforward econometric study on the topic.

Engineering for the above metrics is straightforward, and not particularly costly. Even a 10k system can tie for top rank in blind tests if you pay attention to the details that actually have leverage against perception. If you're paying 250k for a home audio system, you're being sold an expensive trinket through a narrative of fetishism.

[1]: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=12794

[2]: http://www.waynejones.net/wayne/documents/T&MW_Harman_Ar...
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"However, both particles have the property from their inception, and so no faster-than-light or non-local interpretation should be needed."

This is incorrect, both particles have a superposition of k and ~k (to use your terminology). It is not the case that when the wavefunction collapses, we just suddenly find out the "internal state" of the particle. This "internal state" simply does not exist until the wavefunction collapse has occurred.

The "no faster than light" doctrine refers specifically to the transfer of information. And no information, in the strictest sense, has been transferred. Think of it like this: try to imagine how you could communicate with someone using quantum entanglement. If you can communicate something, then information has been transferred. But you can't. All you know is that if your particle is k, then theirs is ~k.

Now, you could make up a rule book that says "if my particle is k, then I'll do x, and you'll do y" but that rule book will have to have been shared between both parties before hand, at less than the speed of light.

Edit: should just mention I'm not an expert here, and articles like this are always interesting. Finding loopholes in our conventional understanding. But it's important to know just /what/ our conventional understanding is first to realise why things like this are important.
One of the best crossfeeds is the VST plugin hdphx from Refined Audiometrics Laboratory. They don't offer it anymore on the original site but you can still find it. I am sure crossfeeds built into an amp are better but for a software solution it sounds the best to my ears.
When you factor in the huge R&D costs, the cheapest models are definitely sold at a lost.
How are you sandboxing users, so that they don't mess with your environment?
For me part of the music experience is also feeling the music. That's not something you can get with headphones (well, safely at least :-)
What you seem to be missing is that implementing complex designs means spending a lot of time dealing with cross-browser issues and platform-specific minutiae. Using these frameworks saves a lot of time, if the affordances you accept by using them are okay for you. Yes, it is a lot of boilerplate CSS. "Boilerplate" just means the boring stuff that's the same every time and is appropriately abstracted away in a framework. Your complaint about bootstrap not cascading properly is non-sensical. It's verbose in comparison to a custom job that's perfectly tailored to the situation; that's another tradeoff.

I've read your responses below and you're weirdly contemptuous of these frameworks. It's like saying "sure you can use Rails, if you're not competent enough to write your own app code, but then you'd be doing it wrong anyway." Devs make choices; engineering is frequently about tradeoffs. If you sound needlessly critical, work on your tone.
You seem to be asserting that developer performance has improved while teacher performance has declined.

A) I see no evidence for either of these

B) If teachers are doing a worse job, shouldn't the new generation of developers be worse than their forebears?

C) We could argue both points all day. Both jobs are hard to measure. That's my point.
I know a couple angels in healthcare and medical devices. My email is in my profile if you want to talk.
I tried it on iPhone 4 as well and it does speak some answers. Touch the "i" button on the left of the red microphone button and make sure "Speak answers back" at the bottom is turned on.
There's one line that says:

"Optimise" JavaScript code taking advantage of the fact a function can access all local variables in the scope of the caller.

Is there a good explanation of how/why this is bad/unmaintainable practice? To me, it seems more maintainable than making an external function that requires you to pass the caller scope manually... and wouldn't a good engine make those kinds of optimizations?
> the main advantage is that you can see both source and compose at once without needed to switch back and forth.

Until you click back on the Reference window and your Compose window suddenly disappears into the z-order void of your windows manager. I find it much easier to flip between two tabs than two windows, especially with Chrome's excellent tab strip UX. I'm not interested in having to constantly move/resize windows to see both pages at once.

(A decent focus-follows-mouse (no autoraise) solution for OS X would be nice as well!)
I am on the iPhone 5
You can open Compose in a new tab with Control-click for Win/Linux or Cmd-click for Mac.

You can also click on the Compose button normally, then click on the "In new window" icon, in the upper right hand corner.

Most web browsers then offer the ability to drag that new window back into your main browser window which turns it into a tab.

Kind of a hassle, but it does work, and someone might find this information useful...
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Check out the dev platform (https://zapier.com/developer). You can build any app into it that you want and create it privately for your use alone.
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Critically, though, middle-clicking the Compose button doesn't work (Chrome, OS X).
Standardized tests claim to measure those quantities. To be fair, my school system was quite good, so I don't think I suffered too greatly from teaching to the test, but I did read quite a few of the study/test guides put out by Kaplan and their ilk. Much of it was tricks based on the structure of the tests; the "types" of question that will be asked and type-specific solution strategies. These tests are not about basic understanding and skill at adding, reading comprehension, etc., but rather a well-defined subset of those skills. The assumption is that skill in the subset is a good proxy for fundamental skills in the student. If teachers are evaluated solely by these partial measures, it is in their best interest (and, in the eyes of the administrators, produces the best results) if they optimize for these partial measures; the argument from standardized testing opponents is that teaching for these partial measures has not been shown to produce general understanding.

In that sense, NCLB created a race to the bottom; schools that performed below-average got less funding, so if any schools successfully "taught to the test", they all had too or face budget cuts (that's my understanding, IANAT).

Is there evidence that these partial measures reveal and/or necessarily lead to a more general understanding?
> "Hey Bryan, its Paul. We loved you guys, we'd like to fund you."

Zapier is pretty awesome, and the guys behind it are pretty sharp, it's no wonder Paul funded them. It seems like one of those things where after the fact you wonder why you hadn't thought of it yourself. Zapier is like the pipe in Yahoo Pipes, but more so. We added Zapier integration with Leftronic and some of our customers have been pretty excited about it. Zapier is especially great for real time dashboards. Ducksboard also added integration, before us even, because integrating a product like ours is just common sense. Now you can get any kind of data to show up on a dashboard (or via some other service) by just dragging and dropping.

I hope more companies and projects add integration for their APIs on Zapier, it seems like it is in everyone's best interest, especially in the interests of our users. Eventually if this takes off you could build a successful product based just around integrating with Zapier.
Steve has been a mentor and speaker at Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com) for our last two cohorts and he's fantastic. Our students love him and he's a kind, patient teacher.

Many of our students tell us Steve's udacity course was their first run-in with web development.
Well, that's certainly a use for an R-Pi I hadn't thought of.
Grids are fundamentally the exact opposite of good design.

From a software perspective, perhaps. From an aesthetic design perspective, grids are a common tool used widely outside of web based design.

by tightly coupling content and presentation.

CSS has always been a hack that disallows completely or properly separating content and presentation, except in toy cases. Thus, frameworks like Bootstrap.
The voice recognition is shockingly fast. It's printing words on screen as I'm saying the next word. Any idea if that's being done client side?
This is awesome! May I ask whether it will support custom domains in the future?