skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too late! The feature was removed (I think quite some time ago). Ok, admittedly it’s still there in the menu, but no longer given any space in the UI.

I understood what it was but I also never used it. It sounds useful, but somehow isn’t for some reason, at least that’s the case for me. I wonder whether there were ever any number of people who really used the feature.

That also goes to show that just having a useful feature isn’t enough.

I think the problem with the feature is that it isn’t useful often enough. The common case when looking at search results is to open a page, see that it isn’t the right one and go back. So just hitting the back button once is quite often all that’s needed.

Sometimes you will click through several pages before you notice that what you found isn’t quite right, but I would guess that in a majority of cases you will notice that immediately. Which means that just hitting the back button just works in a majority of cases and the Snapback function doesn’t provide any additional savings.

Moreover, the back button is probably the single most used UI element in a web browser, so everyone is really used to using it. Switching to something else that does something similar in some situations but you are not used to is a painful transition.

Also, the back button degrades gracefully: Just slamming on it until you are back where you want to also works. It might take a little more time, but it works.

So in summary, the Snapback function is only rarely actually useful compared to the back button, and if it is the back button requires only a little more effort but also works. That’s why I think it doesn’t really work.
I tested the webpage http://m.chromeexperiments.com/ with chrome and chrome beta on both my Galaxy Nexus and my Nexus 7.
On both devices the new beta feels a lot slower and the Nexus 7 I can't even scroll the index page smoothly using the new version.
You can also check out the GPU database I've been working on at http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap. Its VERY beta but if you move the start date back to early December and the end of Decemberand you'll see a spike, particularly in the south. Sample size is ~ 175 million tweets.
The Lumias have this Xpress thing?! Why?
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What is Home PNA?
Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (Home PNA) [HPNA] has standardized a technology which allows networking of devices using the existing telephone wiring of the home.

There is no need for a central control unit in the network, but each device is required to have a Home PNA adapter. Those come either in the form of PCI cards or Ethernet to Home PNA adapters, which allow connecting a standard Ethernet device to a Home PNA network, as shown in Figure 1.
Ah. Well I talk about the cost of data acquisition for a reason.

I've seen a number of businesses who have a current body of active users, and this does not change that fast. So when they run an A/B test, before long their active users are all in it, and before too much longer those of their active users who would have done X will have done X, and data stops piling up. In that case there is a natural amount of data to collect, and you've got to stop at that point and do the best you can.

Businesses are as alike as snowflakes - I am happy to talk about generalities but in the end you have to know what your business looks like and customize to that.
> kids see drug dealers, gang bangers and violence in school

Kids that are seeing those things at school are seeing them outside of school as well.
HDMI 1.3 supports this resolution and there are numerous sources that indicate that the HD4000 will not drive a 2560x1440 resolution over a DVI port. Also, me and everyone else with a Dual link DVI port and HD4000 will tell you that it flatly doesn't work.
Why not create a non-mandatory bar, like the ABA? This group could create high-standards teacher certifications, possibly something similar to how actuaries have a series of tests in order to get accredited at a specific level (and the amount of schooling they have isn't relevant, just the level they've managed to pass). I know a lot of states wouldn't require it, but if I'm a principle and someone's taken the time to get accredited, I think that's a good reason to hire them. Especially in more competitive areas like English and History. We wouldn't prevent people from practicing teaching without accreditation, but it should be more difficult, in the long term, as more and more teachers do get accredited.
On the subject of the conversation, we can either let the computer do the work for us or waste time specifying it manually in a way that it's nearly impossible to do as effectively.

The code is already explicit enough, requiring directly is pointless busy-work that is more likely to be wrong.
Personally, my favorite is how NT4 and 2000 Terminal Servers were limited to 8-bit color depth (without Citrix, of course).
In that case, why are there not better teachers in poor school districts? After all, if my school was receiving less funding and still had good teachers, then those poor districts must have stellar teachers. And yet we continue to hear about how teachers suck.
There's a thread on the AnandTech forums claiming it is possible: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2251899
It selects those who are motivated to jump through hoops, but not necessarily those who are motivated to become better teachers. To throw away a hypothetical someone who is clearly the best person for the job just because he doesn't meet some artificial criteria seems reckless.
I'm sort of confused as how this works. If it is not a MITM attack (i.e. using false SSL certificates), then how is Nokia readily decrypting data? I thought SSL was relatively non-trivial to crack.
If they can add a TJ's near me (SFBay but not PA/MV), I'll use this weekly. With 3 kids and both employed, my wife and I have difficulty finding time to shop other than the weekends.

Features I'd really like:

1) Ability to create a persistent shopping list (see specialtys.com and their "fav" reorder).

2) Amazon-style "people who bought this bought/browsed XYZ also".

Great work, guys. Can't wait for you to expand to my neck of the woods.
> The thing is, poor school districts are often, comparatively, unattractive and unsafe places to work even with the same expenditures of funds

Why is this problem so difficult to fix, at least within the school environment? Schools are a relatively confined space and should be quite easy to police.

> And NCLB wasn't created to fix this problem, it was created to divert funding from education to private testing vendors and provide a mechanism to rate public schools as failing as a political maneuver to build support for privatization of schools.

Sure, that could very likely be the ulterior motive for the program (among other similar theories), but the public justification for NCLB was nevertheless to improve schools in poor areas.
All my static and newLisp based sites are hosted on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has enough power to handle blogs or small traffic sites. I use no-ip.org to get a static address for the Pi at home.
Nokia is not faking certs. The "browser" only talks to .browser.ovi.com and the SSL certs are issued to .browser.ovi.com. SSL is working exactly as they should. The "security researcher" didn't understand the results he was seeing and freaked out. The Nokia phone only does a DNS lookup of .browser.ovi.com, it only connects to .browser.ovi.com, and it only gets an SSL cert from .browser.ovi.com.

Here is post from the "security researcher", so you can see who the certs are issued to:
http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/
That's true. And You'll love the good support.
If you're looking for basics. Google's Webmaster Academy is a good place to start - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/static.py?hl=en&...

You have google search to your rescue too. Type your queries and millions of blog posts will popup.
That's one of the problems: the process would not inherently be better at chopping off the low end.

Bar exams are guild based funnels. In my opinion they more often than not act as barriers to competition, protect the entrenched, and inflate pay artificially for those that get into the guild. They limit supply, but nothing guarantees that supply is the best of the possible candidates. That would depend on the nature of the examination/s (not to mention some of the best candidates simply won't like the hoops that have to be jumped through), and good luck with that given the hyper political atmosphere around teaching / teachers.
Should we remove the qualification for med school being that you do exceptionally well on the MCAT? Should we eliminate the LSAT and Bar exams for lawyers? Because it's likely that, at the very least, the best teachers should be able to pass rigorous tests, even if they aren't the absolute best at said test.
And setl influenced ABC, then Python
"Would you rather wait 2 months just to see a specialist and another 2 months for treatment like patients in nationalized healthcare systems frequently do?"

This is so misinformed it's borderline laughable (if it wasn't thrown out there by someone who is a member of the HN community and, I'd assume, an intelligent peer.)

I have been treated in Argentina for urgent and non-urgent issues and never, ever, had to wait 2 months for anything. When I was referred to a specialist (best of her branch of medicine in a city of almost a million inhabitants) I got an appointment the following week and started treatment within a month. Whenever I needed something, like an X-ray or bloodwork, I could either get it free of charge at the local hospitals or just pay for it (incredibly, a CT Scan with the same machines they use in the US costs 1/6 the price in Argentina. How's that for free market economy?) and get a result immediately.

So, all in all, this is complete bunk. People who have never experienced any other system are by definition the worst to make a comparison with the US system. I've used the Brazilian, the Argentinian, the British and the US system and by far my worst experience has always been in the US, even while paying through my nose to get the same care I'd get for free in either of the 'developing' nations. Heck, I've used the _private_ system in the UK and even if I paid the extra bit to be seen by a doctor (20' wait at the practice; Oh! The horrors of endless lines and dead panels!) I only had to pay ~£2.50 to get all the medicine he prescribed (that's the upper bound, after that everything else is free.)

So yeah, definitely the US is not a welfare state. If anything, it's the contrary: a profiteering system where healthcare is just secondary to profit.
I use ASO, their customer support has been great in my experience
Simple analogy: Dealer wants to sell you a car, but requires installation of an internal monitoring camera.
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You've hit the nail on the head.

I think there is one answer: boarding schools. It's not a panacea, it's certainly not going to solve all of the social problems, but it's one way to get significant progress.
This looks really great. Silly question: is there any way to access localhost from other devices on my WLAN?
Teachers can earn National Board certification[0]. This is a fairly rigorous process, that demonstrates teachers have a higher level of proficiency.

[0] http://www.nbpts.org/
I will recommend you http://www.xhtmljunction.com. I have used their services. The converted HTML will be w3c validated, clean, light, table-less, search engine optimized and printer friendly web pages.
Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003)
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Not sure if the article mentions this, but I guess not everyone is getting the "pay-wall" because I just sent Mark a message.

In fact, I think because of this feature, Mark has enabled the Direct Message capability to the Public by mistake. (i'm pretty certain it wasn't there before)

screen grab:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fsgdt34x7m20ld1/Screen%20Shot%2020...

[edit:] Nevermind. I went back and read the article. Jumped the gun
As a long time outsources I think you touched on a commonly missed technique for getting your project done on time. Get two people who duplicate the efforts of the initial request - this virtually ensures that you'll get the work done within the timeframe requested.
When a device I own tells me I'm talking to my bank directly, but instead I'm talking to the producer of the device that's a man-in-the-middle-attack in progress.

After that said producer of my device is definitely in my 'to be avoided' category.
Looks like they are finally following through on the promise of aligning the desktop and android versions. But i wonder does it have same html5 support as desktop as well or just a version bump with regular improvements.
http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-course-training-book-or-...
Back in the early days of the web (I'm talking 1993-1995), perl had a bunch of huge advantages:

1) It derived a lot of syntax from the classic unix tools. So if you knew sh, sed, awk, troff, grep, you were halfway to knowing perl.

2) The performance of fork() on many unixes was bad. Or at least, bad enough to make you avoid starting a lot of processes. With perl, you could usually do everything in-process.

3) Bash existed, but did not have the wide acceptance that it has today. Remember, Linux was brand spankin' new, and we were mostly using proprietary SunOS/Solaris/HPUX/AIX systems at the time. Those systems which shipped with /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. Heck, most sysadmins did not bother to install bash, because what as the point of installing some non-standard buggy and redundant shell? (Whether or not if this was true at the time is more up for debate, but that was the attitude.)

4) Bash didn't have associative arrays until much later, I believe.

5) There were things awk just had trouble doing, or at least doing quickly. Perl had a lot of the sysadmin-y system calls available as pure perl functions.

6) Perl's regular expressions were second-to-none

7) The comp.lang.perl community was probably the best, or at least busiest, of the applicable newsgroups at the time.

8) The perl community was very quick to provide example CGI code, so if you wanted to write a CGI script, you could bootstrap yourself very quickly with perl.

If you can ever find a copy of the 1991 edition of Programming Perl, you should pick it up--it was an amazing introduction to the language, and explains a lot of the advantages over other scriptish languages at the time.

And of course when Perl 5 came out, the language gained another huge advantage with the module system and pseudo-OO features.
Works fine in Chromium 23.0.1271.97 on my Arch machine.
"Undefined behavior" in C is much more insidious than merely "unspecified" or "unpredictable". All those security holes and exploits resulting from buffer overflows, stack overwrites, heap spraying, etc. are manifestations of UB made possible by a badly written program. (Or by the interaction between an invalid program and an optimistic compiler, as in the case of assuming strict pointer aliasing.)
"Multiple MOOC's have taken the problem and squashed it."

I have been watching some of my high school students enroll in some MOOCs recently. Most of them only do well if they have the support of at least one skilled adult around them - skilled meaning that person can help the student find the right course, get the computer working properly, help understand assignments that may require background knowledge that the student is lacking.

I am in support of MOOCs, but we can't just dump these courses online and then claim that everyone now has equal access to a high-quality education on their own time.
The massive forced population transfers involved in making the US like Finland would probably be a splotch on our history.
Alternatives to Windows 8
hardly using safari.

it not so fast as chrome, not have so many productive add-ons as chrome and firefox, not so flexible and customizable as firefox, not so open and powerful as firefox.
I started http://www.wcfstorm.com about 3 years ago. Been working on it on weekdays and weeknights and am now up to my 3rd product WcfStorm.Rest (a desktop-based REST test client)

It's been pretty good so far. WCFStorm (the WCF client) is fairly well known and WcfStorm.Rest is now starting to get some sales.
C is a fine language. So is Java, and so are Python, Perl, Javascript, as well as Lisp and Scheme.

Saying C is always effective without further qualification is like saying that high speed racing cars are always effective. You need vans, trucks, bulldozers, etc, etc.

Then there is the question of what is really meant by "effectiveness". Is the code execution speed, maintainability, collaboration, compile-execute cycle, extensibility, etc?

As always, it depends on what you want to do. In many cases C is the most logical choice. But in other case Java or other languages get the job done more "effectively".

Anybody who is limiting him/herself to a single language to "rule them all" is certainly not effective.

Edit: Usual spelling mistakes.
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Your phone is basically just remotely using a browser on Nokia's servers. Their servers are the ones actually initiating the SSL connection.
You're already the Yankees. You pay far more than everybody else, and you're not winning enough to justify the vast expenditures. The only thing keeping your franchise afloat is a media network that pays for it all (tax payers endlessly subsidizing horrific teaching results despite the highest pay scale in the developed world).

And who in their right mind would want to be the Yankees? You pay two times too much for all your players, and almost never win a championship because of it. You've got A-Rod, a broken down disaster that you pay $30+ million per year for, that you bought because you were foolishly trying to buy a championship instead of building a real team.

The Pirates get more wins per dollars spent. The Pirates won a mere 16 less games (17% less than NYY), but paid roughly 66% less for that performance.

And if you want to talk raw winning. Let's talk the Cincinnati Reds. They won two more games than the Yankees, with 55% less payroll.

While other teams with half the payroll take home the world series title year after year, the Yankees might be lucky to eek out one title every ten years, and pay $2 billion dollars for it.
Also in Fortran you can get aliasing pointers, if you ask for it (mark the pointed variables or arrays as 'target').
No, not localhost. But you can make the built-in debugging server bind to all IP addresses, including the one used on your WLAN.

In backend/local_server.py, change the line that says:

app.run()

to instead read:

app.run(host='0.0.0.0')

You should then be able to access the server at the WLAN IP address of your machine, provided port 5000 is opened by your firewall.

Even better, however, would be to use uwsgi in standalone mode. I've updated the README with instructions on this.
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Some things about what you said weren't entirely clear (to me at least), but having read through 1, 3 and some of the relevant parts of the report referenced in 3 here are some comments I'd like to add. For any HNer interested I would say the report is more interesting [0]

If you are between 18-65 and got the flu vaccine this year, eli's comment is correct and it is unlikely that you will get the flu.

The key point behind the articles is that flu vaccines very well might not help reduce flu related mortality. So as an issue of public policy are not as effective as preached. One guess as to why this is, is because the vaccine doesn't produce antibodies well in the at risk population with weakened immune systems.

The rest of the research says what I think most HNers probably know, if you're 18-65 the efficacy of the vaccine is dependent on the strains in the vaccine, and what strain of flu is going around. Even well matched vacines don't always work as well as hoped.

In the general case, if you're 18-65 and healthy, the vaccine is about 60% effective, and in the case of h3n2 is about 88% effective. All of this comes from [0]

[0] http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/files/80/ccivi%20report.pdf
Facebook and Gmail will not have bank details or credit card numbers sent via them.

These servers probably do, as I'm sure some people use them to do online banking and shopping online.
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Pretty interesting. What does your uwsgi line look like? Mine keeps failing with "ImportError: No module named zmusic.login". I'm running:

uwsgi --socket /tmp/uwsgi-zmusic.sock --file /home/user/zmusic-ng/backend/zmusic -H /home/user/zmusic-ng/venv --callable app --processes 4
how does it compare in size though? why can't you use an image with 3 channels instead to achieve the same goal (avoiding inaccuracies)?
Telescope - An open-source social news app built with Meteor
try resynthesizer
funny^2 - she just got a wacom tablet for christmas :-). did you get the wheel to work with gimp?
Try adding a --pythonpath or --chdir that points to the project directory in addition to the -H pointing to the venv.
let her try mypaint! it is made for drawing and rocks.
Where I went to highschool, there was an obvious difference between schools in upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class areas. The upper middle class public schools had access to the best/most resources, to the point where their football teams would recruit students from other areas in the state and some of their games would be televised. The buildings were newer and better maintained. The schools in poorer areas were ugly, aging, had problems with mold and flooding, etc. Being in that kind of environment is demotivating to both students and teachers.
Ask.com and the fact that their epic fail probably gave them great SEO :).

In all honesty, I think that a 100M investment would've been enough of a runway to right the ship IF anyone could've stomached it after the horrific launch. Cuil could've pivot'ed their algorithm or their model and been a relatively large search engine (1% of the market is ~$1.5B).

Success, in all things, is relative. Cuil could've been the fifth biggest search engine on Earth and STILL have made a ton of money.
SEOmoz.org is the best place to learn.
I completely agree. These 37signal posts that are popping up on HN are just ridiculous fluff buzzword-laden crap that are simply advertisements and blogspam. It's annoying to see them on the front page over and over again, and while I'm no conspiracy theorist, the accusations of an upvoting ring sound plausible to me.
not with current remote sensing technology from planes or satellites.
It's also much less useful with tabbed browsing.
The higher level of funding does not translate to higher-paid teachers. That money goes to supporting students. It can be used to implement school breakfast programs, hire additional support staff, develop afterschool programs, etc. But a school can't just decide to pay its teachers more.

The other important answer to this question is that low pay is not the major disincentive for working in an urban school. It's the challenges of working in a high-poverty environment. Those challenges are numerous, and pretty well documented. There are many similar issues in low-income rural areas.
It's not a web browser in the way you are thinking of. It's a client for a Nokia service. The client does not attempt to connect to a website, instead it asks the Nokia service to render a website and provide a rendered version.

These phones are too under-powered to render modern web pages. It's either this or they have to view only WAP pages. If you have never used WAP on an old phone, go login to Yahoo Mail at http://wap.yahoo.com/
In some WWII submarines, the sleeping room lined with bunks for the bulk of the staff, the lighting is red. Why? Because you can sleep in it easily -- it's always just red in that room because there are some day and night shifts even on a sub.