skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you get into McKinsey/Bain/Boston...

Fun fact: If you are a college dropout and apply to these places, they will at best politely rebuff you. However, if they need you, and you run your own consultancy, they have no problems being your customer in in order to get a job done. How you handle the awkward inevitable conversation at lunch about your lack of degree is up to you, though personally I always try to have fun with it.
AdBlock is for blocking (annoying) ads, not trackers.
Gross headline. I'd hope, at the very least, that a designer would spend more than 10 minutes designing the thing.

That said: I've dropped AFIncrementalStore into a Core Data project, and it was wonderfully easy to add to the project. I'm still getting started with it, but it's proven to be far easier than working with RestKit's setup.
We were really blown away by some of the use cases. One of my favorites: analyze support tickets in HelpScout, Zendesk or Desk.com and tag them based on sentiment (positive vs. negative).

The incredible thing is there is no code involved. It is crazy cool.
Christmas tree made of pushpins
Marketo has this too ... they are all over the place!
I manage multiple "online" identities so I can track who is me directly (and who is implied me).
Student Tweets Entire History of US Drone Strikes
I use nearlyfreespeech.net.
Bare-bones simple settings, and also very cheap.
ES have debs on their website
Speaking of competition. A while ago I saw an announcement of the Habari project, set out to build a "WordPress done right". I checked just now and they're still around. Released v0.9, which is PHP 5.3 only. It may be worth a look for those who seek a more modern approach.

http://habariproject.org
Show HN: DealSauce, A visual UI for deal discovery
The HTML5Boilerplate.com project has a big fat button on their site that is a link to a download on their GitHub repo.
I'm sure some people will find a way to complain about this, but this is a welcome removal. I can't really think of any instance where I've seen downloads used in a Github repository in a very long time, especially considering you can generate a ZIP file of any repository by doing this to the end of the repository URL: /archive/master.zip the downloads functionality has always felt redundant anyway.

If you need a compiled binary, you should be getting it from the official website or Bittorrent not expecting it to be up on Github already compiled considering Github is all about collaboration and source control not a file hosting service.

Two changes in one day, Github are nailing it.
I wasn't aware of this, but mildweed posted later that PDO is coming. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907099
http://recursivedrawing.com/

When you drag and drop the shapes, the drawing changes in non-trivial ways. For example, try dragging a shape deep down in the recursion hierarchy.

In a normal drag-and-drop application, it's fairly easy to compute how to, say, adjust the left/top of a div in response to the mouse movement events. However, with Recursive Drawing, I knew that there were certain properties I'd have to adjust during a drag operation, but because of all the nested transformations, it was tricky to figure out the math of how exactly to adjust them.

So instead, I set up a constraint problem. I know that the exact spot I've mousedown'ed on needs to stay under my mouse no matter what. That's the fundamental constraint of the drag-and-drop gesture. Then I set the properties that I knew I could change (e.g. positions or scaling/rotation of a specific shape) and set them as free variables in an energy minimization function. I solved the problem numerically using numeric.js's uncmin (unconstrained minimization, an algorithm originally written in FORTRAN, I believe).

I probably could have figured out how to do this without numerical methods, but this approach was a god-send when rapid prototyping the interactions.

Another good use of constraint systems for UIs is Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad. His paper on it is long but really worth at least skimming through if you're interested in developing next-generation UIs!
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf

I also really like Rebecca Fiebrink's Wekinator, which is a framework for making musical instruments from arbitrary inputs. The approach is similar in that she uses numerical methods to solve for the constraints (the training data).
http://wekinator.cs.princeton.edu/

I think there's a lot of potential in constraint-based UIs and for me it's the most compelling reason to have good numerical libraries in javascript.
Well then, what about Gitub Pages?

So, with GitHub, I can use the fancy git tools, I've got bug reporting and issue tracking, I can make a website about it, but I can't offer a download that's not a snapshot of the repo (barring any silly workarounds)?
Yes, Clojure is the exception. From an institutional standpoint, its support derives entirely from the fact that it runs on the JVM (as you pointed out) and can talk to both the company's existing Java code and the vast pool of Java libraries out there.

The lesson here is that it was incredibly smart for adoption to target the JVM and CLR. The JVM in particular will almost certainly outlive Java itself as a primary development language.
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Coding is good for the brain, it keeps you thinking and on your toes. I hope I live long enough to get to 85 and am still coding. This was inspiring, if an 85 year old can learn Javascript maybe I can learn other languages I've been putting off learning because I felt as though they were too hard.
"What's most interesting is that Julia has Lispy macros in an infix language. I'm not quite sure how they do it"

Yeah, Julia-macrology seems to be a funny mixture of operating with infix and prefix representations. You write the macro in infix (in Julia), and the generated output code in infix (or I guess you can generate Expr-type data structures directly), but if you want to inspect the piece of code that was the input to the macro, you need to understand its internal representation as an abstract syntax tree (lisp-like representation), and inspect that.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/
Please... A clever use of GA + Wolfram Alpha can reveal a lot of potentially identifiable information already. You can't expect the Internet to become a big part of our society and, at the same time, remain a place for complete anonymity.
Who the fuck are you? Worry about your own finances.
At work, I've got a pair of 27.5" monitors @ 1920 x 1200. I've moved to a standing desk that has a riser which puts them more at eye level and also further away than they were at my cubicle desk. At home, I have a pair of 25.5" monitors, also at 1920 x 1200. Each of those monitors are on articulated arms, so I can keep them at a better height than their original stands. I can also adjust the distance as needed. Both the additional height and distance have reduced the strain on my eyes considerably.
Tell HN: AWS south america has been down for hours, only now Amazon confirms it
It started at least 6 hours ago. I contacted Amazon various times they said everything was 'normal'.

If you are using cloudfront, your assets are not accessible for south american users, no matter which region your origin is located.
Well it does seem to block some retargeting pixels -- and this seems like a worse form of retargeting.
If your binary files are not huge you can always add them directly to your repo (they don't have a repo file size limit anymore). If we're talking about multiple GB just go for S3, we're talking about cents per month.
If you aren't looking for realism, robohash.org is fun
ahh, much better! Thanks! I'm assuming the top section was the generated content on it, correct?
Which makes one wonder as to what the justification was for aggregating the data in the way it was aggregated, or aggregating it at all in the first place, other than to contrive a statistic to argue for whatever policy position the authors already support.

If the honest purpose of the study is to compare the results of various educational methodologies, I don't see that there'd be a useful unit of analysis any larger than an individual school, and even that might be too coarse. It's true that American states have de jure authority over public schools, and that there isn't any singular "American educational system" to speak of, but even within the individual states, there's still a great deal of variation from district to district and from school to school. Plus, there are plenty of schools outside the conventional public education systems, whose methodologies aren't determined by policy from any government.
>None of them can be used to single out and identify individual users

...by 42 floors. They're still telling all those networks that I visited the website.
Is the analyst/consultant career path a solid way to get an upper-middle class life? I don't know anything about that sector but I imagine the average GS/MS/JPM finance-type peson makes 300-700k? Or am I way off?

Would you be limited to living and working the East Coast or getting huge pay cut elsewhere?
I have to say that Microsoft convincing businesses that they need to pay to connect to servers that they've already paid for is a shear piece of economic genius. Morally abject, but still brilliant financially none the less.
They're not removing downloads, only the uploads that can't be generated from the repo itself. You can still provide downloads that work just a a .zip of the repo contents.
And the bottom. That you didn't notice is a testament to how well it works... sometimes :)
Depends on the filter list. EasyPrivacy is designed to block trackers, and if you look at the list

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt

you'll see that Demandbase is there.
How do you get them to contract out to your consultancy?
That's using the zips github generates for every repo, not the downloads section of the repo.
That's what I've been doing, but not because I believe it to be a better way, but because I'm to lazy to implement my own FreezeGun. I don't think the production code should contain unnecessary complexity that is only used for testing.
That is enormously unlikely.
I see what you're saying, but hasn't this been going on for decades? Wouldn't that indicate that it is actually efficient for the scale of their business?

I think one of the key points in the article is when the recruiter suggests that basically they are free-riding off of the admissions committees of the top schools. That makes a lot more sense than blanket elitism, which would be costly and inefficient in the long term.
Not 100% certain, but nearly.

They were just two examples I could think of off the top of my head though. As the other commenter said about TWP, the practice is common. I see my name and other social data displayed on sites I've never signed up to regularly.
Depends on how you do things. I make sure to always grab album art for my music, and I remember the art. Despite having thousands of albums, I can identify most by the artwork. I also tend to listen to one album at a time. For my needs, iTunes 11 is almost perfect

The biggest flaw for me is that they got rid of the composer view, which makes quickly finding classical music vastly more difficult. Stupid, annoying omission.
It just seems seems bizzarre that someone who has invested many years of their life into a hard science degree (much less a graduate degree in hard sciences) and has the intellect and work ethic required to excel in a scientific field would genuinely be more interested in "business" than in advancing their field. I mean that in the pure sense of puzzlement rather than judgement: I understand the value of business people (more-so having been in a few startups), but it seems like a role much better suited for economics, political science, or some of the liberal arts majors; I just don't understand that why it would appeal to someone who took pains to study a scientific discipline.

To quote Democritus, "I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia." I can understand a scientist or an engineer doing "business" work in the context of a startup -- usually their own (as there's simply no one else to do it, or no one else who understands the product and is capable of doing it, etc...) -- but choosing to do "business" when given the choice between an engineering role and a generic "business" role is what I just don't get.

As a side note, I also find pursuit of power and status (not saying that is what all those who enter management consulting have -- but I am sure at least some see it as motivation) to be far scarier than pursuit of money: if an unscrupulous character is hungry for money they'll be satiated quickly as money has diminishing marginal returns. Desire to have power over others knows no bounds.
Penultimate

Paper by 53

^^my inner designer coming out^^
Sorry, my post came off as being a total dick. I didn't flag it lol.
Souped-up immune cells force leukaemia into remission
"Musicians make money from playing live... This is the future of the industry."

I see this sentiment repeated often. I don't buy it. It seems like a better way to put it is that if musicians are going to make money at all, then it must come from live performance. It certainly won't come from recordings, because more and more consumers don't want to pay for recordings, regardless of the practices of major labels, who have always been irrelevant to the majority of practicing musicians anyway.

I have only anecdotal data to back myself up with, but of the independent musicians I know, most of them lose money or make trivial earnings from live performance. They do it because they find it rewarding, to be sure, but they're not doing it for money. And touring is usually mutually exclusive with a sustainable day job.
PC-BSD seems to be a good alternative for Ubuntu :)
I just got a delivery 30 minutes ago, in fact. For years, I'd used Safeway.com's delivery services and now that I have used Instacart, I'll never go back. The UX is 100x better, delivery is much quicker (and cheaper), and I can order on my phone.
> i'm planning on waiting until there's a result i'm truly interested in.

I did it on a whim, then it turned out I carry the gene for an elevated risk of something nasty. Then I was like, yeah, you got my attention now.

Just an example of how you could become "interested in" it post-hoc.
Air Force sends mystery mini-shuttle back to space
I'm surprised by their extensive list of customers, and also the fact that customers seem to be happy to be identified as their customers ...
http://www.demandbase.com/who-uses-demandbase/customer-list/

Hardware manufacturers & telecomms seem to feature heavily:

(a selection) ...
Adobe, Dell, IBM, AMD, Box.net, Cisco, CSC, Comcast, Freescale, HP, Lenovo, Motorola, Novell, Qwest, Salesforce.com, Siemens, Symantec, Verisign, VMWare, Vodafone.

And there's several anti-virus/anti-malware companies listed there.

UPDATE: The LeadLander.com site also lists their customers - Microsoft, Motorola, Red Hat and Cisco, among others.
A possible solution would be anonymize the browser fingerprint, at least in private mode, ie lie about the details of the system.

Google, Mozilla, Opera, can you hear me?

== This. The system needs to be fixed. Need to know (only) vs nice to know info exch, etc.
Slicy is a gift from god. Not only does it save time but it makes it easy to do a full batch export of all assets, at 1x and 2x resolutions.
The Game of Books now has Reader Cards. Earn XP and level up by reading books.
Show HN: My Make blog - robotics, machining, photography, etc
try: http://www\.leadlander\.com/trackingcode\.asp.*&id=.*
What if the project needs to be compiled?
> should be producing small files

You'd be amazed how even small zip files can quickly make a repo an unruly monster. Tread carefully if you take that route.
Why is Dart able to run so much faster than JS?

The Dart team came from the V8 team, and presumably they're still involved in V8. I'd expect any optimizations that were developed for Dart and were applicable to JS would be backported into the V8 engine, so there must be something different about the Dart language that enables more optimizations.

From what I've seen of Dart, if you ignore the type annotations (like the VM does), and you don't consider syntax, the only performance-relevant difference between JS and Dart is the OOP system, which wouldn't explain a 50% performance difference...
Not only does panopticlick say my browser is unique, but it said that last time I visited it, several months ago.

Maybe it's forgotten. Maybe it lies. Maybe every time I rev Firefox Nightly I change identity.

What is true is that every time I leave an email address, it's tagged with the name of the site where I left it.
Not everything is distributed as source.

Eg. Android app - source in git repo, apk in download, what's wrong with that?
I don't think it's pollution they're looking at here: it's cost. E.g. the cost to go the equivalent distance as the cost of a gallon for an otherwise equivalent car. Perhaps I'm wrong. But bringing emissions in adds significant value to the electric option: value not yet realized since externalities like CO2 emissions are not currently paid for.
bieh's had a pretty good run when it was live!

I wrote eachdayisagift.com and it was funny to see all this come back on HN today. I had to freeze mine as it was buying a lot of stuff from Hong Kong that Australian customs classed as 'weapons' (laser pointers, throwing stars), that got me a stern letter from the government.
Learning Python via Django Considered Harmful
Oh I see... well right now our focus is in sharing contacts easily and keeping the parties connected. We do provide an organizer that is powered by search, ex: "PHP developer" will find contacts that has PHP development skill-set. What's interesting is you may have never known that person is a PHP developer until now.
Or every JavaScript library that has a .min build
Travel the world, talk about Koding
there's a lot of stuff that people do that has nothing to do with thinking, and i'd argue that the idea of "intelligent choice" explains pretty much nothing in the context of mating/pairing. example: why are some people of the opposite sex "your type" and some not?
Danone is a Fortune 500 company.
It is true that Brown and Cornell are second tier. Cornell isn't even truly private. Part of Cornell is actually a public school (most people don't know this).

I disagree that nobody cares about MIT though. MIT is definitely top tier.
I suspected that, but then I considered if he went to the trouble to obscure it on his blog post then he probably wouldn't divulge it here [publicly].

But I could be completely wrong; is the guy who relpied with the rx Darren?
Don't do that. After a while it really adds up and slows down cloning times.
I've had the opposite experience; while with a fairly small library Songbird is fine, with mine (~700GB, lossless) it's incredibly slow and prone to crashing. Last time I tried it was about six months ago with no improvement.
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Ask HN: idea to "avoid" iPhone beta test limit, autogoal? 
Hello,

I've been looking and searching for a solution about giving the app I'm working in beta test to more than 100 devices. I got two reason to do that:

1 - more beta tester = more feedback from different devices (old iPhone, old iOS etc)

2 - the app I'm working is a social market place, so I'd love to have it well populated when there will be the official launch

I have an idea, but it might be an autogoal. To submit the app in the app store, so everyone - I'll write to - can download an test it, but, keep the press release, media/web coverage and on our website written "coming soon" - so no links to the app store or something -

People will be able to subscribe on our website to be notified for the real official release, while in backend I can have a look to who's subscribing to see if he could be "interesting" to have as beta tester.

Autogoal or not? I was thinking about how many occasional customer could come, bad reviews or whatever.

If you have any other ideas I'd be very grateful.

Best,
Filippo

www.needle.me

- Looks like a solution could be to have different Developer Program so I'll get 100 invite for each one, but it's kinda expensive since we're a small startup
I may be one of the few and perhaps I've just been desensitized with all the social network invasion, but I don't find this stuff that reprehensible. At worst, its moderately annoying because its one more email that I have to archive but its definitely on the lowest totem pole of annoyances. Recruiters have been cold calling and emailing me for years based off of my LinkedIn and Github profiles and all I have to do is tell them "no thanks" and my life goes on.

What's the big deal?
> Maybe every time I rev Firefox Nightly I change identity.

Indeed; the user agent is part of the fingerprint.
Interesting idea, would have to figure out how not to let people cheat though - a test or something?

I like the whole genre-specific experience thing, maybe it could be used with an actual game that you would play when you're not reading? Maybe that would somewhat defeat the point...
I misread the article, the company the OP mentions is doing something far more sinister than what Marketo does. I can understand not wanting to be tracked at all, though.
Ask HN: Is Syria back online now?
Is Syria 100% back online now and how long were they cut off for?
You said it yourself: everytime your Firefox build is updated, you change identity.
automatic language detection would be great
There's an easy way to weed out unlucky people. Just randomly throw out half the applicants. (You can substitute any proportion for "half" based on business needs)
I don't think blunt and inefficient are necessarily the same in this instance. The hiring managers are basically outsourcing the prescreening to the college admission boards. That method certainly allows a huge number of great candidates to slip through the cracks. However,it also is an incredibly quick and efficient way to narrow down applications to a group that is on average "better" than the general population.

Another firm can try to capitalize on the market inefficiencies and hire tons of Brown grads. Although they will likely need to spend more time and money on the hiring process since the candidates aren't as thoroughly prescreened. None of us know if that will really pay off in the end.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this, but: none of these complaints have anything to do with the concept of "dogfooding".
The big one not on this list (because not in PiP) is SCons.
if the data transfer is done from the client (and i bet it is, as it's much harder to persuade people to run code on their servers) then ghostery and the like still work, because they block the transfer (since the code to do the transfer must be loaded from the weasel site - same origin policy).
Railo, Tomcat and Apache on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu AMI
Which link to github downloads? :)

http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/2012/12/07/0.20.1.html
it means if you visit a website they could know exactly who you are, might not be an annoyance when it's a technology startups homepage but what if it's a pornography site, or a site for an engagement ring, or a surprise holiday you're planning? There's lots of examples where this could be a concern. Anything with questionable legality (eg: piracy) would be a more pressing concern.
You also need to do it right away, as they are shutting off uploads today. This isn't just deprecation, but immediate removal of a feature. If it were just deprecation, it would stay up to give people time to change their practices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
"The heritability of prostate cancer is estimated to be 42-57%." My chance of prostate cancer is 25% instead of 17% for baseline european-ancestry males. I eat even more fruits and veggies and avoid animal fats now.