skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It brings to light once again what fucked up incentives/goals schools are pursuing, if it's not the safety/privacy of their pupils.

I remember when my high school installed surveillance cameras and a friend wrote an article, "Masses of Apathy", for the student newspaper about how it was so passively accepted. The principal of the school wrote a response scathing him for what amounted to disagreeing about students' privacy. Unsurprisingly, the cameras are there to this day.
This is all very interesting, but can anyone recommend some "puzzles" or "challenges" I can solve to better learn Prolog? Having a tough time finding things to program.
I'm not worried about payment right now.

I'm worried about how you would verify the legality of the client's business, or the client's identity. I've only talked to this client over the phone. I've googled his name, but found nothing.

His LinkedIn profile also has little info.
Where are these schools where these things are allowed and encouraged? Seems like it would be extremely expensive (in terms of money and student/teacher time) and disruptive to learning.
This seems to suffer from the source of prices being the html itself. This implies trusting the client - I'm a web inspector away from choosing what I want to pay.
$12.8 billion constitutes less than 1% of the EU's average budget outlays over a 3 year period. The notion that cutting space spending in this economy will have any meaningful and positive impact on government debt is silly.
Does the free/paid ratio tells us (developer) that the windows8 app market will be more similar to Android than the apple app store?
A lot of schools don't allow mobile phones...
That's my opinion too. I worked in two different jobs in the last years. One of them was in company A, which I always wanted to be part of. The salary was not amazing (in fact, after of some talk with friends, it was low), but I was happy.
Then, I worked in company B. The salary was superb, it was higher than average, but I was not happy. That was not what I wanted. I quit.
It should be schönfinkeling not currying
Great quote: "Going to a networking event to find a co-founder is like going to a party to find a wife" (I think this is by David Tenner, a UK entrepreneur). The co-founder is your other half and you don't become ying and yang instantly on a first date unless you are very lucky!
It had a built-in watchdog with automatic restart of the program: "The normal alarm gives a warning if the computer is inactive for 30-60 seconds. The delayed alarm returns the computer to the beginning of the programme when a period of inactivity is detected if the inactivity is not due to either Signal order."

Rudimentary 'stack trace': "When the computer stops owing to a programme error on a faulty tape it is useful to know what order is stored in the control section of the computer or the address from which an order is being read. Five keys on the Control racks switch in a lamp display showing this information."

Programs were written, debugged and staged on paper tape, then went into production: "The normal procedure is to make a paper original using the keyboard perforator. From this a printed slip is produced and checked against the manuscript programme. Any errors are marked up and if necessary a corrected paper copy is made. The paper original or copy may then be proved in the computer and any further corrections inserted. Where the final loops of tape are required to pass through the computer more than a few dozen times linen copies are made from the paper originals."

Typing errors on the tape were corrected by backspacing over the error, then punching all holes open. I guess the reading unit recognized this as a NOP or NULL character.

Deployment of programs were done by glueing both ends of the tape together, so it formed a loop: "Splice the tape into loops by cutting the ends to a blunt point, allowing an overlap of two or three rows. Coat both ends sparingly with thick paste on one side and join, with the leading end on top. The joint should be lined up carefully to ensure that there is no discontinuity at the edges and that the feed holes are clear. Press the joint together firmly and dry thoroughly before use. Avoid excess paste on the linen tape as the starch impregnation is easily removed by moisture."
Midwestern suburban paradise. Median income for the school district is $52,000. That's enough higher than the surrounding county that they can afford quite a lot of expense and disruption. It was certainly not driven by poverty or crime.

I'm sure it's worse now, 15 years on.
My high school was in a wealthy area with ~4,000 students. Economies of scale apply.

When this becomes the "standard of care" at smaller schools, you'll just see other budgets slashed to provide these dubious "services."
"I recently graduated"

"aced the interviews"

"I got an offer from A"

" I actually prefer A"

"B can become better in my mind if their offer triumphs on the financial side."

I believe that last is the only untrue thing you've said.

You're young, capable and have a lot of years in front of you. Work where you want and enjoy it.
The quote comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista. Allchin was responsible for the move from Win95/98/ME to XP (moving to the NT core technology), and then subsequently to Vista. Vista was widely panned. Sinofsky took over to move from Vista to Win7, and now Win8... so I believe both are correct in that they were sequential.

Interestingly, Allchin had resounding success with WinXP, not so much with Vista, and retired on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. Deja vu.

Ref:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
That would be part of the solution, but doing that alone would cause more problems than it would solve.

But, this won't happen until the United States secures a source of energy that will be a suitable replacement to the oil from that region in terms of energy/mass, volume of production, compatibility with existing energy usage (can be used in average vehicle).

And do you think that the Saudis would just fall over if the US stopped buying their oil from them? China and India are growing energy consumers and their energy needs will grow at a faster rate than rate at which US energy usage will fall through technological breakthroughs.

And doing think the Saudi government as it is now is the worst thing imaginable? There maybe a few religious fundamentalists among them, but even at that end of the spectrum there are moderates and radicals. Moderate extremists and radical extremists: who would have thought? If the current government was to vanish overnight, the tug of war between people wanting more freedom and the extremists who are too extreme for the current government would massive. If anything, the extremists would have the most to lose and would thus fight the hardest (and the most dirty). And if you think foreign fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq were a problem, imagine the level of recruitment when you hear that the two holiest sites in Islam are under threat to "Western-backed" fighters. Even if the rest of world did not offer material aid, the extremist propaganda machine would term their enemies "Western-backed" because they would interpret any sort of sympathy as backing. And besides, they've "always" been fighting the West (think 1984 with a sprinkling of Call of Duty, but from the side you usually don't play).

After reading all this, you'll probably be thinking "you're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't". You're right. The current policy seems to be to stonewall until a new development (for better or for worse) appears.
1) How is this a secret memo, if there's a press release about it? (c.f http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/21/presid... )

2) Isn't this a good thing? Everyone complains about governments not being with the times, and not having adequate security measures, and here is a memorandum on precisely those issues.

We can argue about what the utility and importance of disclosure is (and I don't think this is a cut and dry subject), but surely this isn't a nefarious or secretive move.
The BBC...when is the BBC going to "discover" the famine they caused in Ireland in the 1840s?

Don't worry, they've discovered it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.sh...
You do realize democracy is a less-than-four-hundreds year old concept?

--Wait, WAT? In general, you confuse citizenship with democracy; and more particularly, you confuse a republic, with a democracy (the USA is the former, not the latter). Democracy is an ancient concept. Equally as old and well known are its many "problems", of which the ancients were well versed. The notion of a republic is an (historically) more sophisticated take on a democracy, and is well over two millenia old (Rome, etc).
FWIW and from what I can tell, that is 1 million out of a total Irish population of 6 million at the time (1845, Wolfram Alpha), versus 36 million out of a total population of 682 million (1960, W.A.). So in 1 in 6 vs 1 in 20.

So one could argue that the Great Famine was a much more widespread (factor 100 population), but less severe (factor 1/3 mortality) catastrophe. Disregarding all other factors such as causation. The "baseline" mortality due to starvation may also have been different in both instances.

Of course such number games are both cynical and insufficient to deal with the subject (e.g. your point 2).

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Dikötter's 2010 work Mao's Great Famine, seems like a very similar book with very similar conclusions.
I disagree. By buying oil and selling arms, they are helping them.

In case you aren't aware, Taliban and Mujahadeen were US allies in Afghanistan. And by ally, I mean really ally. They fought together against the Soviets. US was giving them weapons and aid. In a trip to Afghanistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter's National Security Advisor) called the Mujahadeen and Taliban (the same guys that were treating women like trash), "Soldiers of God" and told then

We know of their deep belief in god – that they’re confident that their
struggle will succeed. That land over there is yours and you’ll
go back to it some day, because your fight will prevail, and you’ll
have your homes, your mosques, back again, because your cause is right,
and god is on your side.

Watch it on video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lf0RT72iw

Or, if you have time, watch this episode of the terrific CNN documentary (Cold War, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIU0e23ZTcU

So, in essence: yes, US helped Mujahadeen, Taliban, Saudies and others. And people in the west are profiting from that.

I don't agree with everything these two article says, but at least watch the pictures:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/sleeping-with-the-dev...

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/23860

Just look at this picture: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articlePictures/reaganandmujahi... - It's US president Ronald Reagan with some ass-backward, woman-beating fucks in the White House... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3f9mlUQzJA
Like other people comnented, the django docs is the place to start. If i started from scratch again i would read it all first because there are many important details there, that will even be handy at more advanced stages. Would probably also follow and type myself the tutorial, get it running locally and then learn do deploy it online, perhaps on EC2/heroku/gondor.io . It pretty much covers the lifecycle and its a good kickstart.

I'd also pickup virtualenv + pip skills asap.
What people profess and what people believe can differ wildly. Right now, most people don't see any obvious route towards living forever, and haven't even given that idea much thought; furthermore, most people likely don't see any benefit to their personally professing a belief otherwise, and professing such a belief goes contrary to social norms. On the other hand, many people gain (perceived or actual) social benefits from professing various religious, quasi-religious/spiritual, or otherwise socially acceptable beliefs regarding death. Combine that with the usual fear of any change to the status quo, and you end up with a society of people that by and large professes a desire to be dead at some distant point in the future.

On the other hand, if you had a practical implementation of immortality, today, with no major drawbacks, what subset of the population would actually refuse? I suspect far fewer people would profess a desire to die at that point.
We still haven't really solved the problem of getting a digital piano to sound anything like a Steinway Concert Grand. Even if we could replace artistic expression with algorithm in this instance, the instrument sound itself has miles to go as well, and may well never be replicated with the precision that a true piano has.
That's not any different from today's liberal arts degrees, which have nothing to do with the careers most people end up going into.
Porting all of the Windows desktop is essentially negative effort, in that the new parts of the shell are (intentionally) so technically intertwined with the pre-existing parts that it's easier to just port everything than try to separate them.
Mine had 1600 students and probably a higher median income and none of those things. I would guess problems of crime have more to do with this than economic status or size.
Sorry, but this is completely inaccurate. Normally I would let it sit here as this post is over and nobody will see it, but those figures are not worldwide data. In some areas Mac certainly has higher penetration but it is absolutely not the case in worldwide sales. Again, for every 1 mac sold, there are 95 computers loaded with windows sold worldwide.

Latest peer-reviewed stats I could find:

In August 2011, Gartner estimated Apple's PC market share in US as 10.7% for Q2 2011. Apple's worldwide market share is not listed, because it is not in the list of top 5 computer manufacturers, and is inferred to be 5% or lower.

That suggests a lower than 1:90 ratio for worldwide, at 1:95

Im sure that there are many mac-fanboy stat posts showing more penetration but the fact is, they simply are -not- shipping anything near the levels you are talking about. Apple is a public company and you can simply see their numbers vs just one or two US shippers (HP/Dell) - Never mind the overseas producers.
Terrible is right. And I'm viewing from my Nexus 4.
I'm still waiting on your counterexamples, but in the mean time here are a few links.

In Switzerland, most 20-30 year olds are in the militia, and have automatic assault rifles in their homes. After their service, they are made into semi-automatic rifles and generally kept by the servicemen in their homes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
2006 - 34 gun killings, 7.6mil population - rate of killings or attempted killings with firearms at about one for every quarter million residents yearly

DC - poster child for gun control, had 137 gun killings last year with a population of 600k. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/11/18/effect...
Without commenting on your product I'd like to be frank about why this mentality can be unhealthy.

Motivation is great, but sometimes the fuel that motivates you isn't always healthy. The way that your article reads comes off as having a point to prove because you were rejected.

Analyze the psychology of that for a second. You're indirectly implying that you will make decisions because of rejection. Your problem solving and decision making will now gravitate towards whatever bias that "chip on your shoulder" created.

This may seem obvious, and you may be thinking you're impervious to such a fallacy, but let me point out a few warning signs in your article.

1) "... Investors look for it since it’s an indicator of persistance. When you’ve got something to prove, you’re more likely to blast your way to success. But how do you actually get this fire?"

Do investors really look for this? These statements come off like a confirmation bias.

2) "And with a chip on my shoulder, I find myself more focused, thinking more clearly and getting stuff done."

Can you quantify why?

I've been in analogous situations a few times in my past and observed it in many colleagues. I've rarely seen healthy work come out of it.

In summary, while there is room for personal bias and creative preference when building a startup, you shouldn't take your motivational fuel lightly. It's really easy to let the ego get in the way of doing what's right for your company.
I find the colored tiles in the store very difficult to skim through. https://twitter.com/TDUupdaterHD/status/271344469108989952/p...

In other app stores, the white background lets you navigate quickly, as a simple list with icons.
It's nice --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7LFI-k
Made me think of Terry Pratchett's Strata:

"Kin's flyer circled the low offices and headed northward to the big complex on W-
continent. It skirted the bulk of what had been Hendry's machine, its new pilot now
laying down a pattern of offshore reefs. The manoeuvre gave them an impressive view
of the big collector bowl atop the machine, its interior velvety black.
'Why?' said Jalo, peering. Kin twirled the wheel.
'Beamed power from orbiting collectors, slaved to the machine. If we flew over the
bowl we wouldn't even leave any ash.'
'What would happen if the pilot made a mistake and the beam missed the bowl?'
Kin considered this. 'I don't know,' she said. 'We'd certainly never find the pilot.'"
>That’s it! See below for options you can set, and take a look at the checkout methods and different customizations available.

>http://simplecartjs.org/documentation/simplecart-checkout

Nothing but spam...
It probably just means the quality of the apps are currently fairly low. Once there has been a bit more time for developers to create apps, the quality and the paid/free ratio will go up.
Leaving aside the fact that a "free and open internet" doesn't preclude plugins that receive and transmit data via the internet (the opposite, in fact), it looks fine in Safari here. It uses the HTML5 youtube player instead of the Flash one, but it does the layout just fine. Maybe you have an old version of Safari?
Pretty much all famine are caused by government policies.
I can't go long periods of time without seeing friends and family who are all over the world

-- First world problems, people !
Why do we need this?

The only thing "new" I see is returning `this` from setters, which I think is pretty lame. I've never been of the jQuery way of chaining.

Also, there are several mistakes (as noted in the comments), most notably the use of Object.create, which isn't supported in IE8 and below.
Alright, I'll bite. I have no particular solution in my head, more particular results. I would want to have a service that yields compelling results and goes beyond simple keyword matching. I know you do a little bit more by looking for synonyms and misspells, but it would be good if you looked into web semantics (e.g. OWL) in order to better combine the keywords and thus produce better results. I would like to be able o submit not just a couple of keywords but the 20 plus keywords I typically generate every time I am looking for a domain. Btw you have a great name, I was just going to look for a domain and I remembered NameMesh immediately. Plus good looking/simple interface. Cheers.
The article is wrong, Sinofsky came on at the very end of Vista development and had little to do with getting it out.
I also noticed that most people actually want to be dead. It really surprised me...

But then, most people live crap lives.
I just love the supreme amount of xenophobia an arrogance packed in the expression "these people".
Is it possible for an idea to be funded by a VC
When the incorrect payment price comes through to PayPal however, you just wouldn't ship the schmuck the goods, would you?

For simple, small online stores, I think this could be a nice option.
Your on hacker news. You need to break conventional thinking and "hack" the world to make money. Billing others to program is a dead end. Think of creative way to generate income!
What I said was that American hasn't helped the women. Obviously they have helped the Saudi govt. That doesn't make them responsible for it.

It is very easy to argue that the US would be worse off if a rebel govt made Saudi Arabia unstable. It is not the US's fault that the govt that helps our goals also does bad things.

Like I said, I'm perfectly fine with you arguing we should do something about the oppression, and that we shouldn't be helping the current government. I'm not ok with saying it is our fault they are being oppressed. Just because we could do something about it, doesn't make it our fault.

If Joe shoots Tim, is it your fault because you didn't stop Joe? No. It's Joe's fault. He's the murderer. The Saudi govt are oppressing the women, and it's the Saudi govt's fault that the women are oppressed. By all means argue for doing something about it, but don't shift the blame where it isn't due.
Surface torture test reveals that electronics are still vulnerable to liquids
I thought for a moment that this was a node js library.

Why would the creator have overlooked such an important factor?
I know it's a tired cliche to bash Microsoft for poor UI design, but those small multi-color squares plus horizontal scrolling?

Wasn't there someone at some level in the company who could point out how unusable that is?
They actually switched the Office interface into a 'touch friendly' mode that spaces out the buttons quite a bit more to avoid missed touches. Speaking as a Surface user, this works but is definitely missing some elegance.
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia
Having been dead, I'd say it's nice being not dead. Relaxing even, knowing that things can't get much worse than what I've already been thru.

A CPR instructor once was adamant "your heart stops, you're dead." I pressed him on various edge cases, but he did not relent - and the notion suck with me. Twelve years later, a nurse in the waiting room told my wife "your husband is doing fine; they're stopping his heart now." An hour or so later it was restarted, and a few hours thereafter awoke.

Over the next few years, if not for modern medical technology I'd be dead some four times over. Not such dramatic brushes with the other side, but more reminders that not being dead is, as life progresses, ever more unusual and precious.

Like most things, there is much fear of something until you've been there - and sometimes greater appreciation of not going there. As I stand here writing this and discussing turtles with my toddler, how precious every tiny moment is being here - and how calm the knowledge that, in short order after any moment, I might not be. Nothing bothers me now - except perhaps when someone is unappreciative of the little time we have.
I didn't say death is without cost. I said, eliminating death has bigger implications than we can imagine. It's certainly conceivable that the net effect would be negative.

The original post was phrased to the effect that anyone who thinks death has a purpose is a priori not just wrong, but very, very wrong.
Here are your vitualevn/pip skills:

1) virtualenv --no-site-packages <project_name>

2) source project_name/bin/activate

3) pip install <package_name>

4) pip freeze > requirements.txt

5) pip install -r requirements.txt

Thats pretty much all you need to know to get a LONG way with those two.

In general pyhton and django are very easy, dont be intimidated by the number of new words showing up. Best thing to do is start a practice project and get coding away.
Pen tester builds wifi war-bike
They cover this.

"What simpleCart(js) Does Not Do:

Is Not: Foolproof

Clever hackers can change prices of simpleCart(js) items before checkout. This is a known security flaw that exists with ALL javascript shopping carts. It is highly recommended that all orders be checked upon receiving or backend security checks be put in place (View Tutorial.)"