skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing silly about that at all. I teach high school math and science, but I also sneak in an intro programming class whenever I can. Right now I am teaching students to set up dual-booting with ubuntu on our school district's windows laptops. They are loving it, but it reminds me how many little details you have to get right before you can even start programming. Setting up the environment is nontrivial if you have only ever used windows boxes before.

That said, students pick it up quickly, and are very satisfied with their new skills. I can't wait to get into actual programming next week.
Thanks for the tip! I'd love to see your plots.
If you don't have a problem with commercial software, you'll probably find Evernote [1] a great improvement on Tomboy.

[1] http://evernote.com
New Orleans Music & Event Calendar:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wheredatwh... and soon at http://nolamusiccalendar.com

http://isshort.com - URL Shortener that uses publisher-provided short URLs (flic.kr, n.pr, wp.me, etc)
No, it's more about the lack of 4G. Streaming full-screen HD videos and playing games on a laptop over 3G is a stretch, but I have no issues doing either with the 4G connection of my Galaxy Nexus. Even loading large web pages was noticeably slower using the 3G connection of my previous Droid.

Verizon's 4G definitely rivals Comcast's cable in terms of latency and reliability, if not in raw speed.
The #3 entry has a cute Googlesque home-page game today. It's like an alternate reality for Anglophone web users: when the game ends, the share butttons aren't Twitter, Facebook and G+, but Weibo, Sohu and QQ.

http://www.sogou.com/
Perhaps it wasn't clear enough, but the post pointed out that typing 'bundle exec' and explicitly using --path isn't necessary. Once you've added one item to your PATH, and two lines to your bundler config file, you don't need to think about it ever again, it just works. If you want all your gems in one place, simply remove the BUNDLE_PATH line and change the BUNDLE_BIN directory to whatever you want (presumably something within your home directory).

I don't want to get in to the rbenv vs RVM debate - they're both good tools and it's an issue that has been done to death. I linked to five articles in the post, and you can find many, many more with a simple Google. My personal motivation for switching was that bundler's overridden 'cd' function includes some commands that fail, which is fine under most circumstances but it breaks as soon as you use 'set -e' in bash. We spoke to the author and he said he said that RVM wouldn't be 'set -e' compatible in the foreseeable future.
How to Commit Internet Suicide and Disappear from the Web Forever
Being a freelance designer
It depends on the source. Articles move up two ways. One is by votes, the other is by resubmission by different users. Peak times also mean peak competition.

If you are the first to post an article from a commonly frequented site such as TechCrunch, then it will tend to gain exposure because others are submitting it.

On the other hand, I've found that posting articles from less mainstream sources benefit from sitting longer on the "New" page. This means posting during times of lower activity. I have woken up to find something I posted just before bed has gained significant traction.
Exactly! I'm also working with an old NYC apartment building. Once I get radiator control working, I also would love to automate opening and closing my window, but actuators to do that can get pricey...
Composer Level2: 5 more things like Class Maps, Forking, & Scripts
Potentially there's less latency on an LTE connection, so far as I can tell from a quick search. This could be useful for a bunch of stuff - playing TF2 via a tethered phone perhaps?
What it's like to move to a city with no apartment and no job
I think the Nexus S is one of the most functional phones of the last two years. I kept returning to it after trying other phones. I will be upgrading to the Nexus 4. Although, I travel a lot with a backpack and having multiple batteries allows me up to 4 days without charging. I guess we're giving up functionality for design.

I might attempt a DIY groin charger.
Simple, you have two versions of the chicken - one optimized for eggs and one for meat.

As an extension to the meat chicken I would like to see extra re-generating legs, a bit like how lizards loss and regrow their tails through autotomy.

They would come with their own super-oven, so you press a switch and they self-cook in 2 seconds. Pooof!
Clients who email over images in Word documents.

It's like taping a picture to a piece of paper, putting the paper in the envelope, and snail mailing that to me. Instead of simply putting the picture in the envelope and sending that.

EVERY. TIME.

</rant> :)
We just had an African American man elected to his second term as president. We don't need aa anymore. Just stop discriminating. Don't put skin color on applications at all.
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That Women deactivated the feature to see who is a member of that group. We can't contact all of them, only the people we know. Manually.
It shows multiple angles from one viewpoint being assembled into a panorama. That's very different from taking images from multiple viewpoints and generating a 3D model.
Haha..

I like your little reproductive capacity caveat.

But since it's a purely philosophical argument.. If you create a program with all the sentient properties, feels pain etc.. Does it not afford these magic rights you speak of? After all pain is just an electrical impulse expressed as a negative emotion..

If vegetables prove to create a chemical response to trauma, does that not mean they feel pain too?
My Cheese Wants Me to Follow It on Facebook: 5 Super Wrong Social Media Strats
You forgot a crucial part: reversing the original title.

"No, NYC is NOT playing second fiddle to silicon valley"
>Aug 31st 2012
It's Your Lack of Focus That's Killing You
Racket v5.3.1 is now available (IDE enhancements, Typed Racket update, etc.)
You could have conveyed the non-snark by just omitting your parenthetical. Everything before that is totally valid, but the parenthetical invites the kind of reply that doesn't actually move the conversation in the way I think you intended.

(Edit, adding): Also, when you use "", it's much better if you are actually quoting. If not, you are putting words in their mouth.
At the very least, the CPB requires that the budget actually adds up mathematically, something that cannot be said of the things that politicians proclaim ("everyone will get tax breaks!! we will close the budget by removing inefficiencies!"). Even though the prediction is not perfect, a group of experts can still detect outright wrong and misleading policies. In the US if a politician says "the middle class will get tax breaks!" you don't know if that actually means anything since another take hike might totally negate a small tax break. Even though the CPB cannot predict the future accurately, it can verify such statements by adding up all the proposed tax hikes and breaks and premiums, and use its statistical model of which policies apply to the middle class population to come up with a number like "on average a middle class person will have €56.30 more per month".

For example, check out this graph, which breaks up the effects of the new government by income level: http://static3.volkskrant.nl/static/photo/2012/14/8/6/201211...

The idea that you would do better by listening to the words of politicians on TV, than a group of experts working on this full time who actually calculate the effects of all the proposed policies sounds preposterous to me.
The argument being that someone (not the voter in this example) may have specifically wanted that sex offender registration part, but didn't feel that that one single part would be juicy enough, and so instead managed to get it tacked on to a much larger campaign.

For whatever reason it was included, however, as an individual voter, if you are for "increased punishment for human trafficking" but against that smaller part about sex offender username registration, you don't really have anything you can do other than decide "on the balance".

(To be clear, I went into this in more detail, as I think you were interpreting me to say that the sex offender registration part was the way to push through the human trafficking change: I was attempting to imply the reverse, although I think the argument stands even if the parts are just considered related to many people, as you still must decide what to do if you agree with the first half but disagree with the second half.)

As a specific example where I had to do this, I was for the changes being proposed to the California nexus tax formula that were on this same ballot, but was not certain if I agreed with having a large percentage of that new corporate income tax be earmarked specifically for clean energy (locking it away from education, infrastucture, or any number of other number of things it could be used for). However, as that part had a limited time horizon (five years), and as I felt the other change made sense, "on the balance" I decided to vote for that proposition.
I understand the interest in a novel kind of engineering, and this seems to be more of a thought exercise than anything else. I also understand that not everyone shares my views on animals, but this is such an awful exercise. This absurd mechanization of a living creature is just disgusting. Modern factory practices already deny animals of so many of their natural behaviors. This kind of thinking totally lacking in empathy and consequences scares the hell out of me.
So just confirming, you really, REALLY think rounded rectangle was a great design innovation by Apple God, which now looks obvious in hindsight right?

I love how people think they get downvotes only because they hit some hypothetical soft spot. :)
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I noticed the thread disappeared from the page again...
The best part is that they give you high speed LTE but with only 3 GB/month cap, and after that it caps to GPRS; at least here for vodafone.de
Building Windows: Microsoft Pins Its Hopes On A New Generation Of Developers
I Have a Great Idea, But it's Already Been Done
"Any resident aliens or future human colonists would probably be extremely physically powerful compared to Earth residents"... Krypton :o
I'm trying it out at the mo.. It seems to be fairly full of Google searchers.. The fact that there are so many $1 means I thought by going in at $10 I would get a good response.. I've had quite a few, but there's no incentive for the responder to test their solution that it has met the test.. It's like Stack Overflow in that the first to respond often wins.
Foxconn offers to train Americans on manufacturing
Vermont School Cut Off From Technology Faces Its Intrusion
It would be neat to add a little ball motor so that you can control where the ball goes after it has been thrown.
For me it was a system for tracking errors in weather forecasts. I downloaded 400-odd forecasts from the NOAA twice a day and dropped them into a database.*

Figured out the following technologies on the fly: Python for the machine learning part, the backend and web scraping (after I finally gave up on SOAP), SQLite, HTML/CSS, PHP (after giving up on Django), Apache web server, FTP protocol (for backing up my stuff to my external drive). There are probably other things I tried and gave up on but forget.

I definitely went down a LOT of blind alleys and generally found out-of-the-box frameworks incomprehensible. The difference in the various communities was fascinating, too. For instance, try comparing forum answers to CSS or PHP questions against Python or, gasp, C. Holy cow.

*The result, if anyone cares, was that I figure they systematically overestimate High temps, underestimate low temps and overestimate POP.

EDIT: forgot javascript/jquery.
I just copied a .sh script to my desktop and clicked on it. It launched the application. However the right click and make new shortcut has been removed. Was it a feature , yes. Should they have kept it, I say no You can't keep every menu option ever in all your dialogs. There are other ways ( and better ways ) to do the same thing.
>The idea of "reverse racism" is baloney, and I can explain that opinion further if necessary.

I'd be interested in that explanation. Combatting discrimination by allowing discrimination by or for minorities seems like pushing the pendulum too far back in the other direction.

Isn't the idea equality? Having everyone playing by the same rules regardless of race?

Example (in my own home state, no less) For jobs offered on native lands, the advertisements are allowed to say "Indian preference applies" - which means exactly what it sounds like. Isn't this wrong on a number of levels?
Roll your own election model in R
I have some batteries!
Ask HN: Can anyone list the startups using Haskell in production?
Also, along with startups, are there any exclusive haskell shops, or companies dependent on haskell for infrastructure?
The butterfly effect in full effect!
Yeah I've dropped mine a lot of times and the screen didn't crack, just got a few minor scratches. Then I got some new jeans that were a bit tighter than my normal ones and I cracked it in my pocket with a hairline crack going across the screen horizontally.

Direct blows = pretty good.
Torque from twisting = damn it.
OK, what's your solution? Affirmative action is a bandaid, and its effects are at best poorly distributed. But it actually works to reduce ethnic imbalance, and most people (I assume you too) agree that's a good thing.

You have an alternative to suggest that doesn't have equivalent problems?

Just recognize that (I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume) that, because you are a middle class white man, probably 90% of the reason you oppose "affirmative action" is because it negatively impacts your own demographic group. Well, sorry. We're in a priviledged group; get over it.
How are they "two different laws"? The amended law IS the law.

"I don't think it is a good idea to have two different laws for the same thing, marriage, as it makes the law-system more messy, difficult to maintain, opening up all possibilities of treatment differences, and so on. I prefer to have the law system as simple and clear as possible and amending laws or adding laws to cover all kinds of exceptions is detrimental to that."

The "law system" is meant to be adaptable. Simplicity is not to be prized over human rights. This seems to be an internalized moral argument masquerading as some sort of strange appeal.

Which, again, is your personal opinion, but it is unnecessary to suggest that it is in the interest of society to avoid all "legal complications". The law can adapt to any complexities of reality.
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You mean there was no extreme poverty amoung marginalized groups before affirmative action?
Interesting. I wasn't aware of this resubmission mechanism.
I've never understood why Ubuntu takes a couple seconds to open a terminal window. I don't have a fast computer, but... it's a terminal window.
I think I saw in Food Inc. that chickens have been bread to have enormous breasts to serve the market demands. Same goes for basically all fruits and vegetables, raised and modified for unnaturally large sizes.
It is taken into account in my article...
Neat, that would probably work really well. Now that i've gotten my mind set on electronic control, though, i'd love something that I can also put on a timer. The idea of controlling the radiator via the bleed valve seems to be a solid one though... Duly noted.
The downside of Upstart: mentors come at a price
Why can't we just try to remedy those ills directly? Why does there need to be an association with race?

Because targeting based on race is a simple and effective way to target these ills. Race is often strongly correlated with these problems.
I know professional photographers (and amateurs) use Fickr and Smugmug a lot to show their portfolios.
A Proposal for Campaign Finance Reform
I'm just surprised they're alienating so much of the U.S. market. People here were writing off the Galaxy Nexus because of the missing SD card slot alone. Take away LTE and the removable battery and this thing has absolutely zero chance of being successful in the U.S.
Yet, today more blacks live in New York state than any other, so this pattern isn't unbreakable. The southern black belt's problems can be addressed through regional policy rather than more government racism.
> I really wish people would make virtual machine images with dev environments already set up on them

I think this is actually often more of a problem in the long run, as it just pushes the learning of how RoR interfaces with the rest of the stack to later. If you're seeking to teach someone how logic, program control flow, and separation of concerns work (as the author did by abstracting the "grunge work" as he calls it), why not pick an environment a bit more bare-bones?

I see the merit in allowing someone to get something up and running rapidly, but I think they may miss important concepts when learning in an environment that favors convention over configuration.
Pasting a wikipedia article does not end an argument.

Have you read Jacobellis? When you do, please respond using your own words. In case you do not have WestLaw open in front of you:

https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/378/378.US.184.11....
I apologize if I have hurt anyone's sentiments here. I didn't intend to hurt anybody here.
My comment was probably an impulsive, but unwanted, reaction. It being the startup group forum, I was under the impression that only things related to ideas and their execution will be discussed. But I was probably wrong. I am seeing that topics are varying a lot here. There are topics from generating power from urine to how to predict the trend of twitter.

In any case, I consider it as my mistake to put this comment which has been considered by some as offensive. I regret the same.

I wish there was some way to delete it. I would have deleted it if it was possible.

Thanks
For as much as I would be excited to see something like this happen, I can't help but feel like when the acronym precedes the implementation that's a bad sign.
Ethnic Chinese in China were not subject to systematic oppression like blacks in the USA not even a century ago. That is a pattern, and it has far reaching effects.
I really look forward to the media and prefetching API's. They seem really needed, and now that I've read about them, I wish I could use them in production.
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You do realize that race and class are heavily intersectional, right? That rates of poverty are higher for non-whites, right? Also, helping people who are affected by institutional racism is not racist, it is an attempt to correct for existing racism.
It's probably the way that some blog posts make it.
I'm one of Hubbub's developers (the one who attached lasers), and just wanted to respond to this because I can completely understand the distaste you're feeling.

As you seem to realise, this is just an exercise in thinking "what if", I don't think anyone here would actually want to go ahead and make any of this happen, and we're definitely all very much against factory farming. Thats why we do what we do, giving independent butchers who genuinely care about the animals they raise a chance to compete with the big chains.
I agree the premise of the article is ridiculous. I was taking a tongue-in-cheek jab at the self-importance exhibited in the article... Harvard absolutely dominates MIT in finance, business, politics, law, medicine, and all the fields of the humanities. I wouldn't be surprised if a higher proportion of Harvard graduates started their own companies, considering Harvard's massive MBA program.
Visited your site, read and re-read the description and still had no idea what it did. Suggest you add a Bette e explanation or an example.
If it's going to be of any help for world domination, or at least in serving as a good guard chicken, it'll need the personality of a goose, the fangs and venom sacs of a deadly snake and the talons of an eagle. Something will have to be done to make it sound more intimidating as well, so we should add a rattle on its tail. Oh, and unlike a regular chicken, the wings should be functional in order to control the skies. Behold the fully-realized rattle-chicken.
Google uses it if the first link is "very probable to be the desired hit". [0]

Minor nitpick: prefetching is not an API. Still cool, though.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching
Obama didn't win any of those states, so how is it a secret weapon?
> since that's a signal from the community that my contribution isn't wanted

It's a signal from one single person, not "the community".
As I have said, the alternative is affirmative action for the poor in general.

Medicaid, Food Stamps, and other social programs don't discriminate based on race, but certainly have that effect where there is larger poverty among African-Americans. What would be the advantage of basing them on race?

I'm questioning the best way to achieve the economic effect that we agree on, reducing racial inequality, in the same way that I question if Carbon credits are the best way to reduce emissions (simply taxing fossil fuels, I believe.
Arguing that "importance" of a university can be quantified by "how much money the graduates make" is even more pathetic than bickering over which university is more important.

I sincerely hope this is tongue-in-cheek.
Is energy classified as information?
Coursera Codeskulptor autosave Chrome Extension tutorial
Felt Coursera's www.codeskulptor.org Python web environment lacked an autosave feature, so I made it and followed up with a tutorial. I'd gladly take feedback on both the code and the tutorial from some vets as I am preparing for a much bigger project.
Domino.js - a new JavaScript controller for fast Web apps prototyping
Um. What does this do? Entering my blog and facebook.com return nothing.
I'm also interested in any advice that people have. I'm in the process of teaching myself programming and I try to take in as much guidance and advice as I can.
Galaxy S3 takes No. 1 position in smartphone market: research
The dismissals have nothing to do with the quality of the radeon graphics drivers, as described by the last paragraph in the article.
I opened up the developer console on Chrome and copied in his code to make the whole page full-screened. It doesn't seem to do anything and doesn't show an error message.

Is there an issue with the code? I know Chrome supports the full-screen API.
Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZ6JD0g9Y
Designing apps for the Nexus 7
Here are some links I've been collecting for when my daughter is old enough:

http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-...

The Scratch programming environment for kids: http://scratch.mit.edu/

http://hackaday.com/2012/10/31/olpc-tablet-distribution-prov...

If you're in the UK:
http://www.codeclub.org.uk/
Ask HN:Are these scalability issues mentioned by Indian Railways credible?
I am sure HN has many people who have worked on scalability and web. As an ordinary developer I can certainly see holes in his arguments as to why Indian Railway's booking service does not work but I dont have experience managing a website of that scale.<p>I will really be thankful if more knowledgeable members on HN can tell me if he makes sense.<p>Here is the complete interview:<p>http://www.techgig.com/knowledge/IRCTC-chief-talks-about-bandwidth-clogging-e-commerce-and-steps-to-improve-services--3540<p>Background:
http://irctc.co.in is the only website through which we can book train tickets in India. Trains in India are controlled by government alone. This website too is managed by one of the railways department. Overall it is reported that only 20% of the attempted transaction succeed. During peak time it is below 2%.<p>Forget about completing the transaction, even the stylesheets wont load during the peak time and the very next page you see after logging in is "Session Expired".