skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could see more usecase in something like yammer/hipchat/hall where you have your work-related contacts in place already w/o the social noise. Cool out-of-the-box usage for twitter though nonetheless!
This is a fantastic list. There are a few people who've expressed interest in working on eigenvalue work. I'll definitely be adding a couple of these in, in the next few days. I'll keep you posted.
Is there some type of IRS cost associated with providing deposits that changes the cost from $5 to $25?
I'm not sure how to feel about you submitting this particular article, and then plugging your own startup. I feel like it is against the common courtesy of HN. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Advertising and marketing companies aren't the only ones that do this. Any corporation which owns more than a couple websites collects bits of information about them from each site and then builds profiles of its users, often then selling the information.

Say you own a sports website, a fashion website, a political website, and a gaming website. The user only specifies a tiny bit of information on each website. Each bit is collected into a single user profile from which they can refer to do things like figure out what product advertisements to show them. They use the same techniques to identify users that don't have accounts, and still collect their viewing/interacting habits and add them to the profile.

Sometimes they'll send you an e-mail telling you to check out their gaming website if you're not signed up, because the comments you write in their other websites' forums have to do with gaming. Sometimes they just sell the information to a gaming company. In the case of Target, they might send your teenage daughter a list of baby products for the little one you didn't know she was expecting.

This is not some horrifying violation of privacy. There is a price for all the free shit you get from the internet. Usually it's paid for by all the personal information you leak onto the net. They're just mopping it up and selling it back to you.
Data Dictionary in Cassandra 1.2
I wish you were right.

My ISP (Time Warner Cable) is basically openly hostile towards its customers and can afford to be since it has a de facto monopoly position where I live. I'm pretty sure this Netflix report will do nothing to get them to fix their many, many problems.

I'm very hopeful that in the long term Google Fiber will make a big impact on the ISP landscape here in the United States, but I think it is going to take a very long time and the entrenched players are going to have to be dragged into the present kicking and screaming (and lobbying) and Google is going to have to expand a LOT more before the other guys start making real changes.
If that's happening the widget is most likely an iframe loaded from facebook, and not accessible to the RottenTomatoes server
1. I wouldn't need to hire an extra IT person. I already have very capable Linux admins.

2. Bad Windows sysadmins are less expensive than good Linux sysadmins. I agree with you there. Good Windows admins, however, are just as expensive. Trust me...I've hired quite a few.

3. Again, I have well-trained Linux guys on staff.

4. This is a very valid possibility we'll need to consider.

5. Not worried about that at all. We use a lot of open source without commercial support options, and our experience with Microsoft support is four hours of scripted troubleshooting on average, with about a 60% success rate of resolution.

6. Not concerned with this at all. Samba has been here for a long while and I don't think it's going anywhere.
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Also when you update Ghostery buglists, it whitelists some sites, you have to select all on purpose each time.
They did; it was originally just a link to a random Gist to show the new design.
There are high tier state schools and there are other lesser tier state schools (usually anything "XXX State", but not always!). But the number of high tier schools is around 30 in the US, so its not a very exclusive club, but once you come from outside that group, life can get very hard to get into a big company. But then, life doesn't completely suck, you can still get a job, especially if its at a local company that already has many employees from that school.
Great insight - thanks for your advice. It all makes sense.
I Am Not In Web Marketting, but based purely on my observations, they were replaced with Commission Junction, Google, & Amazon driven ad networks which mercilessly target you with ads for consumer products you've recently looked into buying.
if those images were ads, how would advertisers track impressions?
use something like pi to create a number of specific length (twice as long as the file?) and permute it according to the card order?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V2xKpZE...
trackalyzer.com, perhaps
That's how I read it too ... I think this is actually a pretty wise idea as it's almost like the "warning shot across the bow" to the other communities that are violating the policies. The whole letter sounds like they've shown a lot of restraint! I love TED and TEDx!
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In the similar "single-view" space: http://hojoki.com
so the author discovered ROR scaffolds, and was able to craft a potentially controversial headline. Congrats getting to the front page of HN. :)
Teenager admits rigging of electronic voting in Brazil (portuguese)
Ruby 2.0 won't introduce as many incompatibilities, though. Something like the 2to3 tool wouldn't be needed. Most code is just expected to work as is.

I'm waiting for Python 3 to become de facto for newer/active libraries. Right now there's still a little standoffish demeanor about Python development for the future. I'd want to write in 3 but some important libraries are still backed up, so you're kinda forced to learn the idiosyncrasies of the porting scenario even though you'll most likely not need to know that 2 years from now when Python 3 is king.

Perhaps because the gains from Ruby 1.9 compared to 1.8 were a lot more enticing the community ported the libraries pretty swiftly. I don't see much hurry in the Python community, and some even talk about not porting at all.
I am by no means a Microsoft fan or Windows developer, but if auto-generated code is that big of a deal to the author then he really needs to spend some time playing with Visual Studio...
As a russian-american on HN, I'd be curious to know how this made the front page. Untested assumption: High concentration of russians/easter-euros.
I love it -- I've been looking for a place to put trivial programs that is lighter-weight than creating your own repository.

I just wish that the advertising when you embed into another website was a bit more subtle. Right now it's a full line of text "This Gist brought to you by GitHub" that is tagged onto the bottom of every embed. If your blog post has a lot of these, especially short ones, it can quickly become intrusive.
Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Office Sales for iOS
I often comment on "promising" cancer therapies around here when people get too caught up in the hyperbole of press releases. This one however is a huge deal. For those of you following along at home, note that actual people (very, very sick people) who had basically no hope using standard care had their cancer obliterated. Note that the subjects were not rodents (we have cured rodent cancer a million times) and that at least some of the people have no detectable cancer anymore. Having worked in oncology research and development in pharma, I can tell you that outcomes are never this dramatic with patient populations like this one. This is true personalized medicine. It's straight out of science fiction. The science is crazy hard and the fact that it worked is just incredible to me. There are millions of ways this could have failed (and U. Penn is no stranger to the painful failure of gene therapy firsthand in the past). (Disclaimer: I work at an institution involved in the treatment, but have nothing to do with it at all).
The New Sharing Size
I don't think some of the rules "scale" that well in India... like the 100-attendee limit.
30 isn't older you cheeky fucker!
The Psychology of Social Sharing: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Clean design. But what if I don't want to follow everything from a merchant. I don't care about women's fashion from Target but electronics I do.
So when I see a Like button on a site I've never visited before, that displays my name, FB avatar + social data - you're saying that the site I'm on has no way to know that I've visited it unless I click the Like button? Only Facebook knows that and is displaying it in a way that is undetectable to the owner of the site?

This is a bit over my head programmatically but that doesn't seem possible. If Facebook is serving something to visitors on my site, surely there must be a way for me to capture that data?
Guaranteed delivery is super easy.

Oh, then why do you propose a wrong solution right there in your next paragraph?

you call and the server with your payload, and inspect the server response.

Wait, what if the response gets lost on the way?
Are your messages idempotent? Do they depend on state on the other end? How long are they valid? Is each message atomic?

You may want to take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_commit

Guaranteed delivery can become quite tricky depending on which constraints you can and cannot enforce in your system.
From talking to TEDx organizers here in Taiwan, it's a major pain to satisfy some of the arbitrary rules. I'm sure that many of them has reason why it is like that, even if they sometimes look very stupid or made by people who have no idea about things that are local to here (for an arbitrary definition of "here").

I'm personally confounded that people who have so many problems with the rules they forced to follow are not starting their own event? Really, then no more headaches of despots, build your own brand, make your own rules.

I for one really enjoy organizing Ignite instead of TEDx, so fewer rules (I guess mostly self-regulation, and only the format of the talk cannot change).

(Disclaimer: never organized TEDx, but know a bunch of people who did or were volunteers somewhere, Ignite Taipei is going on for its 7th event tomorrow)
? if anything, he is stimulating the american economy
Split MS Word documents using Saaspose.Words REST API
Wow, I really like this idea. It's a different way of using the technology, and the features of Twitter could actually make it quite easy to get into that workflow.
Alternate hypothesis: a high concentration of Americans, who are fascinated with anything to do with themselves. That's what I found interesting about it.
After giving this a quick whirl, I like the concept a lot. However, for me to start paying they need to add a lot more features.

Here are my initial thoughts:

- Ability to select multiple Google calendars, not just the default

- Select more than just 1 Google Analytics account

- Load the Inbox faster (takes about ~2 minutes to load currently...?)

- Remember my layout of the cards

- Some form of notification counter

And finally, how much will this service cost per month after my 30 day trial?
... or did the bot give you a reasonable excuse to family and friends as to why you have a 55 gallon drum of lube and an anatomically correct blow up donkey?

Hmmmmm. I sense a startup: "we hide your filthy, disgusting pornorgraphy habits from your family by hiding them amongst 'random' automated purchases. Get six days of boring things like glitter and used wing nuts and the seventh day you'll get your favorite, delicious porn. BUY NOW!"
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You can follow individual boards from merchants. For example, when you're logged in you can follow Target Electronics http://www.dealsauce.com/target/electronics
Indeed. I found myself eager to get a copy and see how I really behaved. I suspect I'd learn rather a lot about Russian culture by seeing how we stand out via the descriptions in the book.
Phase 2a Model S

Phase 2b Model X

At some point there is supposed to be a refresh of Roadster (model R) using the model S drive train. Probably itching to make the car for the masses the Tesla Model T (trademarked?).
This is understandable, but a bit sucky for me. Since day 1 I've hosted todotxt.net's installer files on github, and the project's landing page uses the downloads API to link to the latest version.

Thankfully I changed the app to link to the landing page rather than the downloads page.

In any case, it was nice while it lasted. Especially the ability to track the number of downloads.

Guess I'm spending the night changing my release process and landing page :(
I don't think that's a valid argument.

-- It's not an 'argument' as much as it is a negotiating strategy/dynamic.

The food case is trivial. Its not the case that you negotiate from a position of massive information assymetry. There are 1XXX variations of healthy diet, for example. Medical, legal, and Banking services are akin to the food case if you were in an alien planet where 90/100 items in the food store or to be foraged were poisonous/deadly to humans, yet indeterminately so. So, you must pay for the 'information' element to not kill yourself (ie, like a local alien guide).
Here you go (second one from the top of the page):

http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1546
That can be a great movie plot.
You argued that "who we have sex with is a choice we make by thinking about it, not something pre-encoded by our genes." I was trying to suggest maybe the opposite is true to some extent by sharing that study regarding the rats with you. Female rats unconsciously have sex with male rats whose pheromones smell like their immune systems are very different, in other words, who they select as mates is something pre-encoded in their genes.

Are you arguing that because we have brains we can 'override' what our genes would otherwise have us do?
While we're on the topic of K-12 CS Education, does it strike anyone else as insane that the state with Silicon Valley does not have a proper credential process for CS?

Last time I checked, there were a few ways to be authorized to teach CS/programming related classes in a school, all with problems. The three credentials that authorize you to teach computer sciencey things don't test any CS at all:

- Supposedly, the business credential test has a question about flowcharts

- The industrial tech test asks about part of a computer

- The math test might have some set theory, but good luck trying to teach computer science with a math credential. The administration at your school would prefer you teach math as there's always a need for another math teacher.

CS is a delicate and fledgeling field in K-12 and right now it's a bleak road ahead. The small number of schools that have programming classes (let alone a CS track) is shrinking and the credential problem isn't helping.

One demonstration of the state of CS education is the college board's discontinuing of its Computer Science AB test in 2009 due to a mixture of lack of turnout and lack of qualified teachers to teach it. (Of the few CS educators out there, even a smaller subset could teach AB, most stuck to A).

With all of the opportunity generated by the industry pioneers here in CA, our CS education should be at the forefront nationally. We don't even have to embrace CS for its career potential. CS is a liberal art of the 21st century and I believe CS concepts would be worth it alone for its application and transfer to other subjects, especially math.
Scaffolds are a dead end. Learn to work without them as quickly as possible. Idiomatic modern Rails code is simple and lightweight and doesn't require boilerplate.
This is neat. Although I'd really like it to change the "lol sure" for some other thing when the weather is really nasty.. e.g. "LOL SURE, CAN YOU HANDLE -12ºC AND FAIR WEATHER? OH, 82% HUMIDITY AND 23KM/H WINDS TOO"... (when I searched Moscow).

If it is a possibility to get the average conditions on the place, you could define some thresholds to determine the 'advice' and thus answer the actual question of 'can i leave?' :)
Actually, that should be updated. Only poll questions are not allowed, survey questions are, the "what do you think of..." ones are fine now.

The rules are a bit nebulous between poll/survey but generally they are loosely enforced, the main thing that's not allowed are ones where the question offers a set of specific choices and asks for the answerer to choose one.
Title edited. Thanks.
interestingly enough, this is how i felt when going from rails to python/django.

i felt like i had much more control and the admin section really sold me.

rails always felt a bit "too magical" for me. I could get anything done, but I didn't know why or how. I didn't feel like I was getting much better as a programmer. With Python, I felt like I was getting better after the first day.
Alternatively, if you're just looking for a way to put placeholders on a page, image services and javascript solutions seem like overkill. You can achieve the same thing with a bit of css:

https://github.com/adamsanderson/placeholder
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For those who missed the context of the title, the footer of the page:

> Note that this subdomain's called "python3wos" - once the status goes beyond 50%, the title of the site automatically becomes "Python 3 Wall of Superpowers". I kid you not.
Django too seems to make things specially hard for beginners, I'm not sure why that is. I don't mean the getting started part, the doing something useful by yourself part after the tutorial.
I used Mathematica to give the solution to Wirth's Problem (http://programmingpraxis.com/2012/12/07/wirth-problem-15-12/).

Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/math/problems/wirth/wirth.png

Output: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/math/problems/wirth/wirth_outpu...

Notebook: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/math/problems/wirth/wirth.nb

Mathematica code turns out to be surprisingly readable.
Are you referring to the population of India? Doesn't that just mean there will be more TEDx events in India? The reason for the 100 attendee limit is obviously to start a conversation between the attendees and to save it from becoming a large and impersonal convention.
Great! I love this game!
You cannot get access to the database as an academic (the privacy-implications alone give me a headache - contact all customers, ask them to consent to research project X, research project X has to contact all people for their own ethics-commitee etc.) - typically you can only access results from one of their studies.

Projects like openSNP however give people a space to voluntarily upload their data for scientists to use.
I was going to make the same comment. The 100 attendee limit is very hard to do in a country where 1,000s would be willing to attend. Maybe, and this is really just back-of-napkin-math, if the limit was 0.00001 of the total population?
At the same time, I don't see very many iPhone 5s around - I only know one person who has one (though they can be difficult to differentiate from the 4/4S), whereas it seems like everyone has a Galaxy S2 or S3.

The S2 really caught on in Australia due to some very agressive pricing. I'd say I see as many S2/S3s around as iPhones (and probably more than iPhone amongst younger people). They're everywhere.

That being said, there is an additional layer of difficulty when it comes to purchasing apps on Android that iPhone doesn't have - most people had an iPod and one point and have an iTunes store account set up already, possibly with some credit already on it (ITMS gift cards were popular presents for a while). Play store requires you to enter your credit card on a new account, which I suspect is a significant barrier to app purchases for many people, out of caution or laziness.

Also, due to the more technical nature of the Android developer crowd, with the exception of games, there is almost always a free equivalent to paid apps which are as good or almost as good.
TekSavvy under pressure to reveal user details to L.A. film studio
The fact that this is inauthentic should be reflected in the title.
I'd like to know more about Americans not drinking hard alcohol. Doesn't seem to be the case here in Canada.
> Django 1.5 is in python 3

Django 1.5 has experimental Python3 compatibility.
Great game really fun! Has a great community all the mods are really nice!
Making it real with 3D printing
Auto-generated code is great - I'm more questioning if it's causing learning gaps when people try to move to languages that don't have the community or commonality as Ruby/Rails.

Ruby seems to be an anomaly in that you can pretty much obscure away the hard parts of building a web application, but have it still be programming. If a programmer starts with Rails, does that impact their ability to eventually go on to other things?
"If this isn’t the dumbest thing I read all week I fear for my sanity."

Try to read your own articles John ... it may open your eyes
That sounds like a different Nitin Gupta (but it's interesting to hear of this guy operating in my home state!)
Maaaaan This game is the SHHIIIIZ! I spend mucho time on there since the community is so awesome and the game is so fun. 100/5
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 1.0
How is it hard to satisfy the rules that are being complained about here? It should be trivial to arrange for no sponsor logos, no sponsor speakers, and so on.
Twitter can't search for hashtags past like 7 days. How do you deal with that?
SEEKING WORK:
C#, Windows Phone, Asp.net,
(including Freelance/Remote opportunities)

I'm looking to help my brother who has graduated with a Bachelors in CS with a mediocre overall grade but decent grades in Computer Science subjects.

What's the best way to apply and where can such
opportunities be found ?

Please no ODesk, Guru or Freelancer.com sites.

I'm talking about direct clients , companies, startups all over the world,

Who are willing to take a fresh graduate, or an entry level employee who's hard working, smart, eager to get that first opportunity, get a glimpse of the what it takes to code an app or product from scratch to finish, etc
for a project or two and beyond if possible
( hopefully paid but reasonably based on skills and experience. if unpaid, must have good reasons)
?

Please kindly suggest, and happy to answer questions
I was homeschooled back in middle school. My father had me work through the manual for the parallax basic stamp & it's robotic platform the boe-bot.

It was great. If I was homeschooling a kid, I would do exactly the same thing, except with an arduino... no awful BASIC.
After living with a Native Russian for the last 2 years I'm sure much of this book wouldn't surprise me.

From what I've seen there are some really good things in Russian culture, and some not so good. Just like America. We can learn from them, and they can learn from us. Maybe this book will help that.
I designed at 2x (even pixel sizes) for a long time. Now I design at 1x using vector shapes. With vectors you can double the size and remain perfectly crisp. My workflow is now MUCH faster.

Bonus: 1x comps are better sized for clients to view on non-retina screens anyway. I always got complaints showing giant 640px wide mockups…
Obviously we at Fetchnotes like approaches like this :)
I attended TEDxBrussels recently, a pretty massive event with Steve Wozniak as first speaker. The number of attendees was well over 1000, so I guess the 100 person limit can be increased after more vetting?
In soviet Russia, the front page makes you.
I'd never heard of this module until now. Have you successfully replaced Make with SCons in your projects?
I suspect he means that Americans don't drink hard alcohol by Russian standards.