skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to work out at a popular commercial gym and would see trainers doing the most ridiculous things with their clients: swimmers press on a bosu ball for a average 45 year old non-athlete, all kinds of pointless machine circuits.

Which brings us neatly to my second point, which was injuries/Kwh.

Most commercial gyms don't perform exercise selection; it's done by trainers who generally focus on stuff that seems difficult and exotic because that's what brings in the business. The gyms themselves select insurance-friendly machinery.

While Crossfit gets people up off their backsides to do actual work, there's a lot of flat out stupidity mixed in with the legit stuff.

High rep Oly movements? Dumb.

High rep box jumps? Dumb.

Kipping pullups? Let's not go into that here.

Mix in the fact that a bosu ball pushup, while stupid, is less likely to cause a bulged disc than say deadlifting 65% of your DL 1RM for max reps; and suddenly we again find the quality control thing swinging back into central view.
How the Internet of everything will change the world
A good programmer who consistently ships great, high quality code regardless of the situation is still a better programmer.

I think you just shifted the problem of defining a "good" programmer to defining "high quality" code. Some people might argue that the code that gets the job done most efficiently has the highest "quality".
Ironic you are saying this on an entrepreneurial forum Phil. As I mentioned elsewhere, Donald Trump has filed been through bankruptcy more than once.
Interesting, as a customer of ubank I was concerned with the concept, especially after the data deanonymization techniques developed post AOL and Netflix.

However after using the site and entering my demographics (all public properties) I could see that I was like 56 people in area; their base spending patterns did not reflect me at all and I felt like a snowflake. Sometimes big data makes you feel special.

At no time was I shown transactions, merely aggrigate figures in categories. No privacy issue here, keep being decent and ethical national bank!
That it can be cumbersome for an expat, doesn't mean it's not a broadening experience and an intellectual delight.

For broadening experience, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias/

And for intellectual delight, see:
http://www.amazon.com/Le-Ton-Beau-De-Marot/dp/0465086454
http://books.google.gr/books/about/Experiences_in_Translatio...
Link somewhat looks like a little girl. But Lara Croft as a guy?
Did you know the IRS has their own court and judges?
So you have used iTunes today as well?
The point is: unexpected debt happens. Arguing semantics over a hypothetical case is not a meaningful tangent :).
It is not especially the fear of losing knowledge, more about opening our industry and what it does.
This is irony at best. Techcrunch talking about journalistic integrity. Do you know Apple sponsors them to write in favor of them? Even Matt himself admitted this once on the comments. Techcrunch is one of the shittiest organizations there exists ever. They include so much bias in their posts, that they are a shame to the fair Journalism community.
>Saying that jobs of type X require a degree IS NOT saying that getting a degree guarantees that you will get a job of type X.

No, but he was talking about the majority of jobs. I understand people get unlucky. That's life. But there's a huge disconnect between what the population of college students is paying for degrees and what the job market is paying for labor. This isn't a question of some small percentage of people getting unlucky. It's a fundamental overestimation of the value of what they're buying.

>I also see that you are happy to blame the victim.

People who make dumb decisions are not victims. Like I said, not everyone is in that position because they made a dumb decision. But most of them are.
Why we think bloggers should blog about us (but we're not having much luck)
Yes it would drive credibility. It would drive it away.
I'm curious about the example of Apple sponsoring TechCrunch. Do you have a link to the comment?
malandrew committed conspiracy with that post!
Neat. Something like SafeBuffer is a practical way to approach the problem.

It seems like with the rise of 'zero copy' approaches we could do even better - simply designate a memory region as unsafe, and transform it into a safe version depending on which context it is used. These transforms would want to add a little metadata pointing to the original unsafe region in case the transformed region is ever subsequently used in a different execution context. Alas, from the perspective of one program the input to another always just looks like a string, which means that somehow our host program (and programmer) needs to signal the appropriate transform on, say, concatenation. The only way I can think of around this requirement is to force implementors of contexts to tag their interfaces as a context, and for callers to construct arguments to those functions such that constituents that derive from unsafe regions are detectable. For example we have a SQL context that takes an array of string pointers, where some of the pointers point to 'unsafe' regions, and we just concatenate the elements of the array to construct the context argument.
Anyone know of any other good online ressources to learn more about bioinformatics? I think its a fascinating topic and have been meaning to learn more about it for a while now.
If we go by the history of such anonymization attempts (AOL, Netflix) it is only a matter of time that someone figures out how to get PII from this data.
Tell HN: It's still worth putting your name on the waiting list for HN London
Hey folks. As usual, the 500 spots for HN London have been filled in under 24 hours. It's worth noting however that at least 10% of the people on the original list of 500 fail to show up on the night. Most of those also forget to change their status so it doesn't appear like slots are available.

If you are really, super desperate to come along and you are on the waiting list, drop me an email.

We've got some decent talks lined up for this month but we are also really keen to talk to some high profile names about headlining upcoming meet-ups. If you're kind of a big deal or know someone who is (we'd love to speak to people of the same calibre of previous speakers such as Joel Spolsky, Eben Upton & Rand Fishkin) then please let us know.

Finally, remember that Dmitri & I organise this on an entirely voluntary basis and it's just the two of us so please do all you can to help us ensure the night runs like clockwork.
>I believe that the vast majority of student debt is not people going to an Ivy institution.

The difference is nobody goes into $200k debt studying at the University of Phoenix, whereas people who go to lower tier Ivies on student loans and get less marketable degrees have literally sold themselves into debt slavery.
You could buy a specific corporation's debt but I think consumer bad debt is sold in big blocks of anon accounts until you are the owner.
Cool, thanks for that.

(My hobby: posting "nothing like X exists" in a Hacker News thread. :)
Comparing Ruby and C# Performance - CodeProject
"and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior."

That's the important part. "Using race as a classification upon which you base your actions" is not by definition racism. Just as using sex as a classification upon which to base actions is not sexism. There is a requirement that those classifications must be used to discriminate or suggest that another group is superior in order for it to be racism or sexism.

Thus your definition is wrong because you selectively ignored a key part of the actual definition.
There is a case to be made that a corporation is not inherently evil, but is inherently amoral. If it can maximize profits by being socially responsible, great. But if it fails to pursue a socially harmful action that would maximize profits, the leadership can be sued by the shareholders. (Obviously, this is not relevant to privately held corps.)

Division of labor is a beautiful thing, but the division of moral culpability, not so much.
You guys should keep in mind occupy 'interacts' with ALL levels of law enforcement on a daily basis.

This is not our first rodeo.
There is an open source app for Razer mice, but it's fairly basic (or was, the last time I used it) and doesn't have support for very many mice.

That said, I use a death adder, a mamba, a lachesis, and an Orochi with Linux just fine. Admittedly I don't have the advantages of advanced configurations, but that's what you get without An Internet connection with Synapse 2.0 anyway.
From the name I thought this was an API to send a PIN to a customer that they could use to verify themselves with another service (much like a credit card PIN).

Looks nice though.
I'm not sure what you mean by "half a decades debt".

At some point people have to be treated as adults. If your parents aren't up to advising you on financial matters you have to get outside help. Or you figure it out yourself.

I refuse to accept the notion we should alter agreements freely entered into by adults in an effort to protect them from themselves.
I was about to mention the same, kind of ironic isn't it.
Saying You can't put a price tag while their Url is saying give us more than 3K and we will think about it.
I like the overall concept. It's a topic close to my own heart. A bit of feedback though, the 11k homepage image takes up far too much real estate and is really distracting. Also, it wouldn't hurt to provide info on what qualifies you to be able to provide decent, reliable advice for job seekers.
GNOME 3 drops fallback mode in 3.8
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's been on HN before (although I can't seem to find it now).
BS Checker
That last photo is just hilarious. A group of people wearing safety goggles so they can pour ketchup out of a bottle. Those lab coats also look brand new.

You can just imagine the photographer saying "quick! everyone! do science!".
Every day, in every way, we get better and better.
I disagree. There are all kinds of things you can do that don't require a college degree, including any kind of owner-operated business, a military career, or a skilled trade.

Even today only 40% of the population gets a college degree. That other 60% is doing something to make ends meet.
I put in my numbers to see what it would be like living on the other side of the world (I'm in Dublin, Ireland - it is currently 9C and raining) using the Sydney postcode 2000.

It says my expected house & home costs are $2000, which seems rather high for me. In London and here in Dublin, pretty much everyone my age (mid twenties) is in a houseshare, so we would pay that for the whole property, but split it three ways or so. Is housing just that much more expensive, or what?
Is There Much Of A Market For A Universal Translator?
I went through a technical interview with Google a few months ago (the first stage phone screening).

The best tip I can give you is to expect some relatively basic CompSci questions, but ones that might catch you off guard if you're not from a CompSci background. Examples being things like finding a value in an ordered list when you don't have direct access to the data set (just a method call to get one item by its index), and don't know how big it is.

Try not to go for the easiest answer (like incrementally pulling every item in the dataset until you get the one you want) first, try to solve the problem the "right way" - even if it takes a bit longer.

Other than that, relax - Interviews are for both the employer and the candidate, it's not an interrogation.

Good luck! :D
Inspired by your idea, I created this web page: http://vocabulate.me
Vocabulate.me
Thanks. And yes agreed - we need to articulate how we will provide decent advice. We'll look to add that. And take your point about the image.

We originally got covered by Mashable before the 11K Club purpose was known. Once we unveiled what it was no one would cover us. I've tried to contact some bloggers but no one seems interested. I then thought about trying to do something different - that's why I created this, I'd hoped it would grab their attention. But still, nothing.

Got any tips on how to get someone to blog about you?

We're really passionate about our product. We're not after making money (we can't make money), but we want to really try and help people but we can only help people if we can get people to the site and get the young people applying..

It's very frustrating!
The Free Software Media and Cults of Personality
They actually collect on some small portion of the debt, which, along with the sale of the remaining obligations, ends up being enough to pay their expenses and produce some amount of profit.
Show HN: Our first Android app, made in 1 week
Hey guys,

Would really appreciate your feedback on our APP.
> Their privacy policy prohibits sharing of personal data with third-parties

That's good to hear. Based on what I'd read elsewhere* I'd thought otherwise. Still bizarre though.

*e.g. http://boingboing.net/2012/11/07/razer-naga-gaming-mouse-req...
You only picked one of the most expensive postcodes - that's the Sydney CBD! Yes, it is VERY expensive. In fact, it is very expensive to live in Sydney, full stop.

Try using a 40?? postcode for Queensland.
Russia's Bargain-Basement Cybercrime
Drop me an email. We blog regularly on our site about this exact subject matter so if you fire me across more detail on your background, your story, your vision, your plan, etc. I'll see if I can put something worthwhile together and get it up on our blog: http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/blog
Microsoft patents spying on you with your TV's camera
please have a look at the history of antisemitism in europe. you cannot compare things which are not comparable at all.
Not sure why the OP's title Occupy Wall Street is buying up debt and forgiving it immediately was changed to The People's Bailout (that was more meaningful, IMHO).
I suspect there's good reason why HN is still using this old codebase. YC after all is not short of the cash needed for a complete revamp.

The site is very much hacked together, but works... In a lot of ways, this reflects the hacker ethos of getting something up and running quickly at low cost while still producing value.

A revamp might have negative impact too by attracting a wider, more mainstream audience which could possibly dilute the purity of the community here.
Russian Underground is just part of a global criminal network
In general, individuals with white coat hypertension have lower morbidity than patients with sustained hypertension, but higher morbidity than the clinically normotensive.

There goes my plan to live forever. Foiled again!
The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years
That's brilliant, thanks so much. I will send something over soon. Thanks again.
Have children? Back The Fungooms for iPad on Kickstarter
Makes sense, since no one was interested in maintaining it.
UK cybercrime victims get response team to call on after attacks
If you just want to block sound:

Get some earplugs (squishy silicone work quite well). Put them on under some earmuffs. I like the Pro Ears (just get the cheap passive ones). It basically buys you 29-30dB from the plugs and maybe the same up to 33dB from the muffs, which is pretty good (as much as 35dB?).

If you want or will tolerate music (or background noise):

In Ear Monitors, ideally with custom made earmolds. Try a cheap pair first just to see if you're comfortable with the feeling of having earphones crammed in your ear canal, but if you like those, I'd strongly suggest getting custom earmolds made at an audiologist (maybe $200).

I have both Etymotics ER-4s and Logitech Ultimate Ears 6vi.

I wore them (underneath my electronic shooters muffs, sometimes, other times bare) on ranges with 14.5mm machine guns firing, as well as on helicopters, and they are awesome. Essentially 29-30dB earplugs and audiophile-grade headphones. As a plus, they're the size of a set of earbuds.

These are what professional musicians wear on stage.

The absolute best are the custom Ultimate Ears (well, there are 2-3 other great brands) -- they go up to about $1500. You can get what I have for $100-300, and those are also great.

Also, uh, Ambien. For her or yourself.
I really don't think youtube transcribes audio for every single user. You can see it's not available in many videos. I'd guess they run some test on the audio to see if it's worth transcribing, and only then run a background task to do the job.. doesn't really matter how fast.

You are right about the source quality though.
Uhm, why is it unacceptable that 15 yearolds are unemployed?
Arduino Micro shrinks your favorite DIY platform down
Sometimes I forget how fortunate I am to have the NHS.
Thank you for reminding me.
You can see where rich people eat.
I just went to your homepage and I have no idea what you do. Might be part of the problem.
Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software
I agree entirely and I would just add that if the OP is worried about the time/gain ratio inherent to learning what is essentially an applied field of mathematics he should check if having a minor in software engineering is possible. My bet is that if he is taking a double major in economics and physics, he will be proficient enough in computational thinking after graduation to teach himself theoretical CS once he has a job secured.
Hey now, it sounds like you haven't embraced the Agile way.

Next you'll be looking for specifications and time to do the work properly.
Hase, being masculine, is a bad example here.

But cat, Katze (feminine), and dog, Hund (masculine), work. There are versions of these words for the opposite sex, Kater and Hündin, but there are used rarely. So 'Ich habe eine Katze, Felix' and 'Ich habe einen Hund, Bella' would be perfectly acceptable even though the gender of the noun doesn't match the sex of the animal.
Exactly. Many people and companies (including Google) have fought tooth-and-nail to stop scenarios similar to this on the wired space when the telco's wanted to make websites pay for premium access from their users. And now Google is offering to foot the bill for Free Zone users?
They're not dead. They're pinin' for the fjords.
Seriously. The management/owners have financial interests in the majority of what they cover. And by "cover" I mean "advertise for".
Skip the Prezi and go straight to the website contact page.

Reasoning -

1. Your landing page displays an already powerful statement.
2. Your site (post-Prezi) looks professional, the Prezi doesn't.
3. I find it annoying to click through the Prezi.
Hundreds of thousands protest in march organized by social media
You have to start with organic chemistry and genetics. If you don't, you won't have a good understanding of what's going on.

Bioinformatics itself is huge, there are many many areas - protein folding, protein interaction, DNA/RNA interaction, all kinds of taxonomies, evolution, gene mapping, systems biology, etc etc etc.

I strongly suggest you pick something particular, because, otherwise, it's easy to waste years on learning many topics and not have any deep progress on anything in particular.
This is really freakin' neat. The beginning of the future of the interwebz
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A reply below says that the username is a coincidence. I'm inclined to believe it. Why use your real name to troll HN over a pretty obscure topic that's not even related to the site's userbase?
This is the sort of thing that scifi films usually get wrong. It must be hard to do a scifi film where most of the common mundane stuff we do in life is the same but subtly easier.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010762
Interesting.. Are you guys available for hire?
do you do iOS as well?
I am aware of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

German, for example, has no word for "silly", while English has no word for "gemütlichkeit".

Eliminating the overhead is worth any of these sacrifices, though.
Building Great APIs: Simplicity, Flexibility and "Time To First Hello World"
If you want to go full on conspiracy mode, you could argue that Fox news' owners wanted Obama to win due to the belief that 4 more years of being able to lament the horrors of a having a Communist Muslim in the White House would be much better for their ratings. And that is why they pushed the Romney by a landslide thing so hard.
Waiting for the ketchup to come out is an important part of the experience.
That figure is based on those who are 15-24 who want to work but can't. I.E. Who don't have the luxury of going to school or college. Who at the age of 15 have no alternative but to go to work but who can't because there simply aren't enough jobs. That stat is from the UN statistics for Global Unemployment.
Time to Review Your Website
...somehow the fact that it's only made out of FDA approved ingredients doesn't make me feel save at all. it's a lot of dangerous stuff that is approved for food and drug use in certain quantities... but it's always about the quantity and nobody can even begin to test the effects of the combinations. and it clearly spells out the fact that some non-negligible amount of it ends up being ingested, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered to use only FDA approved stuff. patent it or whatever but until they publish the exact formula and expected daily intake from foods packaged using it so I can search the safety studies for the substances in it I'm doing my best to stay the hell away from food packaged using it ...hell, even canned soda freaks me out a bit because I know it has a layer of "coating" sprayed on the inside to keep the juice from corroding the can

...I like high tech stuff, but not in my food. if it's gonna make me live longer or cure cancer than I can balance risk/benefits ...but my not so short foray into medical research thought me to be very very very worried (actually freakin scared to the point that I have to ignore much of what I've learned just to keep on living as a normal person eating "normal" food and taking "safe" otc drugs) about what we think we know about chemicals safety and how "safety" is define

...just my 2 cents for people "less in the know": don't approach innovation regarding food, health or anything biomedical the same way you approach it in software engineering or other field of engineering ...it's a whole different ball game and there's a reason why it take 1 billion USD to brink a drug to market (besides bureaucracy and buggy "peopleware" that probably makes up 50% if the cost) ...anyway, the point is that it's this kind of thing you need to approach with the "we're building a nuclear reactor" type of mentality, not the "let's hack together a cool robot and show off" type
Hacking your Belkin Wemo switch
Nice. But I can't wget the datasets. There's magic behind the "Download Dataset" button for each of the problem sets - that's quite annoying programming via an ssh connection.
Yeah, the code you're working on is really treasure in disguise. Whatever gets you through the day...
We struggled deciding whether to go to the Prezi page or straight to the homepage. We opted for the Prezi because we thought it was a bit different and gave us a chance to tell our story in a neat way. But I think you are probably right, it doesn't look as professional as it could so we should probably reroute straight to our homepage. Thanks.