skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What were reference books for then? Sneaky cheats of some sort?

For some things relying on memory is not the best way. To exaggerate the point, pilots have procedures written down to follow, a check list. They deliberately do not rely on memory. When I was doing things like upgrading server OSs I always looked for the latest check-list and procedures. I could usually remember the steps, but I didn't want to rely on that in case something crucial had changed or something new added.

Another thing that springs to mind is that courts don't accept memory as perfect or reliable.

Personally I do everything possible not to rely on memory, as I consider my self to have a poor memory, and google helps massively with that. And yes, I considered my memory poor way before google existed.
The top of Upper Manhattan to Brooklyn can be an hour and a half by public transit vs. 45 minutes by car. Queens to Brooklyn can be worse. New York City has transit that is good enough, meaning you don't have to have a car, but it's still atrocious. If you have to do a commute like that, even if you want to use public transit rather than a car, you have to be prepared to give up an extra hour and a half a day roundtrip.
This should bring more honestly about how the system is actually working in practice. I would wager that anyone aspiring to start a business with their unemployment benefits could do so by being discreet and waiting until the business is off the ground before canceling their unemployment benefits. I personally know people gaming or even outright scamming this system. You only need to show good-faith evidence of applying to full-time jobs to receive the benefits. As long as you ensure your business is not making money until you're off unemployment benefits, it's hard to get caught.
This confuses me a bit (Android version)

It generates your ldpi, mdpi, hdpi by rescaling your xhdpi image. However, if you remove the ldpi, mdpi and hdpi images from the Android project, then Android will automatically rescale your xhdpi image for those lower dpi devices anyway.

So why bother at all in this case? Just put an xhdpi icon into the xhdpi folder in Android, and let Android handle the resizing anyway - and save some space on your download.

Am I missing anything?
Only 5300/day and #5 has to be for a given category. Too low to be that far up in the App Store otherwise.
This is particularly true for all thing programming-related.
Ask HN: why do my Ask HN posts get bounced?
Recently I have asked a couple of questions on HN and my posts have been almost immediately bounced to the nth page - virtually out of existence.

What's going on? I don't think they have been unreasonable questions - mainly asking for answers to addressing financial calcs for startups - surely very relevant questions for this forum.
The Story Of How Turning Disk Into A Service Lead To A Deluge Of Density
Interesting too that they did buy Basecamp.com. I guess it's their most important product, revenue wise.
Would be awesome if it generated all the different HTML link tags as well. For example:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="apple-touch-114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="apple-touch-72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="apple-touch-57.png">
They're a marvel. I don't know what magic they're using to get their stocks replenished so quickly but they'd be my go-to for purchasing a pi in the US. In fact they have them in stock right now.
Congrats. Be prepared to still do a lot of work that you don't want to do. It'll just might more clear why and feel more like a rational choice, but make no mistake: you'll have a lot to do that you don't want to do...
> Objectively, elegance is correctness. Good development process is elegant.

So how is deliberately adding an un-needed line that is known to cause problems to the end of a file, only to have to implement a pre-commit hook in your vcs to remove it or trailing whitespace, an elegant solution.

Surely the elegant solution is to not type the line in the first place.
Linkedin CEO: Breakout Opportunities Are What Accelerate Your Career
Just because symfony has fucked naming and use of namespaces doesn't mean namespaces are bad.
Opera Mini is not a web browser; it can't process and render HTML+CSS+JavaScript, it only displays what the proxy servers tell it to (they do all the processing). So, you can't reasonably expect it to fetch HTTPS content and render it by itself. Especially since it's made to run on low-end phones.
This may seem like a detail, but do you ask people "hey can I take a picture with you for this project I'm doing on getting pictures with other people", or do you just ask "hey can I take a picture with you"? Maybe you've tried both - does one work better over the other?
Alibaba Restructuring As E-Commerce Giant Moves Farther Away From Yahoo
Unless you have no contact with your parents, of course. Or they're just assholes who refuse to provide you with their tax returns. Most private schools won't give you aid unless you fill out their own specialized financial aid forms, like the CSS profile. Even if you're classified as an independent student on the FAFSA (like I am), 99% of the private universities I've talked to say I'm ineligible for all of their scholarships/aid if I don't provide my parents' info. (Note: I'm age 24. Have been financially independent and living on my own since age 18.) If you're from a jerk family that won't help you with college, either by paying your tuition or providing their tax info, you're pretty much just fucked. It's also entirely possible to have a $0 contribution on the FAFSA and then like $30,000 or something on the CSS profile--private colleges can ignore the FAFSA and use their own definition of calculation of "financial need," to ensure that you aren't found "needy."

Also, many of the top private universities don't take transfer students--non-elite students often have to work for a few years before attending college, and it's unpleasant to find out that having tried to take what community colleges you can afford in terms of time and money while holding down a full time job to keep a roof over your head has literally made you ineligible to apply almost anywhere except a state run university (who also tend to heavily discriminate against transfer students).

Even for your example, Stanford, transfer admissions are significantly more selective than normal admissions processes:

"Transfer admission is considerably more competitive than freshman admission. In recent years, the admit rate for transfer students has ranged from 1% to 4%. Between twenty and fifty transfer student spaces are typically available each year."

This further increases the ability of Stanford to keep its student body composed of financial elites--while touting its "generous" financial aid policy. Plus, even an 18 year old applying to Stanford requires SATs, extracurriculars, etc that most of the non financial elite are unable to afford. Most college applications are at $80/pop nowadays; if you can only afford one college application, why pick the university you probably won't be accepted to?
If You Have 10 {Unaffiliated} Customers in SaaS — You Have Something
How does the post "rank" work on HN ?
At first glance this behaviour of not owing anything to anyone and not respecting social contracts seems sociopathic to me. It's obvious the affair will cause grief and might even break a family. At worst it can ruin the lives of children, lead to suicide, etc.

What exactly makes you think you're a great individual if you seduce a married woman?
in your opinion, are there any ADS on HN?
How Long Does It Take To Build A Native Mobile App?
Probably because they were in fact "bolted on". Saying that Java is OO from head to toes, I can't agree with. Java has primitive types as well, and not everything is a first class object (like methods). Python is more OO in that sense, for example. In a sense, Java is having trouble incorporating modern features in the language too. Just take a look at how generics are implemented, and the endless closure debate.
How much is the non resident tuition? How would you afford the living costs in a foreign country if you can't get a work visa? (It seems a lot of countries have severe work restrictions for students.) A poor US person might not even have enough money for the plane ticket. :/
If the files use mode switching and generate markup, feel free to put a closing ?> at the end of the php in that file. It's a template and it's expected that you would be switching in and out of html/php modes.

The recommendation is to not put them at the end of files that declare symbols, e.g. class files (or function files if you're allergic to OOP), as those files shouldn't have html mode output anyway.
How to install Whatsapp on PC
Very nice, but I see scoring as the important feature of a full text search, which this one doesn't offer. It's still makes sense to use it if you big enough number of documents or if query language suits you use-case, and you implement scoring on top of it, but it would be nice to have in the engine itself.

http://fallabs.com/tokyodystopia/ is similar to this btw.
Why? Just restrict your validation in the UI to a warning.

For email addresses, most deviations from a simple pattern are mistakes.
"Beyond Portraiture" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004NNUYEW) is a good book that explains the specific process of getting strangers to agree to have their picture taken.

I have tried the techniques in the book successfully but never went the full length of getting anyone to sign a release form. Did you?

The pictures from this project on your blog are great! What software did you use for the gallery? It works nicely (although it's a little slow?)
I have not watched the Hobbit in HFR but i felt something very similiar when watching The Dark Knight on a new 3D LED 200hz whatever TV at my friends house. It almost felt like a documentary, so clear that you could feel the filming set instead of being transported into the movies world. It felt very strange and after reading this its exactly how it felt.

Can say i like it or not yet, but it concerns me that because of this production budgets will have to rise because you can literally see every detail. It will make every process of film making more costly, the same that has happened to video games in the last 10 years.
I am detecting a distinct lack of outrage in this thread.

I always thought SSL was largely impervious to MITM attacks due to the third-party CA - in order to get around that, an attacker would need to intercept DNS requests to the CA - or even intercept IP traffic - and then pretenting to be the CA, return a forged SSL certificate. In addition to decrypting the SSL protocol by sniffing key exchanges.

Such a deliberate undermining of a secure protocol, especially the bit where they impersonate an authentication service, seems to cross some boundary of reasonable, or certainly legal, behaviour. Surely a point is reached where it is no longer acceptable to say "our intentions were benign".

What am I missing here? Where are the torches and pitchforks?
Sorry, I'm not quite following you here.

In my experience, the primary limiter of how many A/B tests you can run is available traffic.

Let's assume that I'm running the 2% tests you mention. I can either run 60 2% tests at 95% confidence, or (approximately) 30 2% tests at 99.9% confidence, if the math posted elsewhere in this thread is right, over a year, say - that's how much traffic I have. Let's once again assume a third of those pan out.

I'm still not seeing why I'd prefer 10 2% wins (from the 99.9% approach) to 20 2% wins plus 3 2% losses (from the 95% approach). Yes, there are more errors, but overall I end up with a 40% improvement as opposed to a 24% improvement.

Can you explain?
Yeah, and thanks to this, you end up with a "beast" like Magento, written by "experienced" programmers, and then you have novices tasked with writing themes and components for it, but it doesn't work that way because the "beast" is not "black boxed" well enough for the novices to ignore it. (I keep quoting "experienced" here because the example Magento is just "Java written in PHP" and I'd fire anyone turning up this type of code.)
Opera Mini and the Nokia browser are not HTTP web browsers. They are specialized clients talking to specialized transcoders.

Opera clearly states this in their FAQ[1]:

Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and — for example — paypal.com or my bank?

Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the webpage. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote web server is possible.

If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile.

On the plus side, it may actually add security on public WiFi networks, as the connection to the Opera server is encrypted.

[1] http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#security
Your ATM does not use transactions
In my case I couldn't receive FAFSA and in turn many other forms of financial aid until I turned 23 (technically, the year where on January 1st I was 23) because I'm estranged from my parents and couldn't get their tax return info. I was making between 17K & 20K per year before 2011. This pretty much put a University education out the realm of possibility for a while.

In the end my (paid out of pocket) associates degree, some luck, and a few Hail-Mary career moves put me in roughly the situation I hoped to be in post university and I didn't have to graduate at 25/26 years old with student loans.
I did look at it, but it seems a bit unfinished. Have you used it?
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Yep. In fact you could say "Why I won't be reading posts that start with Why I won't be..."
re 1: yes, that's where the secret notes are.
For completeness it's also worth mentioning that gem 'rails', '~> 3.2.0' may not necessarily update Rails to the latest version when you run `bundle update rails`. The reason is if there is another gem which requires a gem that does not match the requirement of the latest version of Rails, it will backtrack until it finds a compatible version across the board.

So you will want to double-check the specific version that you end up with. If it doesn't work you probably can fix it with `bundle update rails something_else`, unless you have a true conflict in which case you will have to do some spelunking yourself, and perhaps the Rails hotfix should be in place in your app first.
Yes. Memorizing answers when learning the method is possible. Takes longer, but you tend not to forget. The reams of notes I used to watch people take to avoid learning the method and equation.
> low-quality pull requests

Many people who put out open source projects would be glad to get any pull requests at all. Linus has just a very popular open source project and he's got problems we other guys would love to have to worry about.
A lot of this will come down to your environment, if you can use PDFLib, etc.

Me? When I needed this last for generating printable/downloadable invoices in PDF I used the system binaries "html2ps" & "ps2pdf". Not ideal. But certainly good enough.
Better! Although its a corner of one's brain that harbours some pretty nasty stuff that can spring to the fore at the slip of a key.
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Early Surface Pro hands-on review: RT was mistake, Pro "superior"
From your point of view, maybe. But these aren't museum exhibits. They're people. They want the same sorts of things the rest of us want, and they're willing to make adjustments.
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Hmm, resizing? Isn't that rather low quality?

From my icon designer I know he creates a new file for each resolution as simply scaling down would add too much visual clutter.
Yes

If I'm not mistaken, when sampling @ 44.1k your analog filter has to go from 0db @ 20kHz to "nothing" (-20dB or even less) @ 22.05k. Of course it doesn't (or at least, not nicely)

Now, if you record at 96k your analog filter has to do that from 20kHz to 48kHz (and that's not really needed most of the time as there's almost nothing there to begin with)

Downsampling digitally from 96k to 44.1k is easier and with much more control over the process.
Slightly irrelevant, but how valid would it be to be asked the SVN commands in an interview? Should I go an memorize the SVN manual just to succeed in interviews, although I use a graphical tool?
I came here to say this. Look at my comment stream and you'll see me post the Amazon link probably once a month, haha!
Fire the employee and either commit to counseling or separate from from your wife asap. If anyone presents any other options they are sugar coating the situation. Either way short term you are in for some pain personally and professionally. Deal with it and move on with or without your wife but the employee has to go.
It sounds diabolical if you approach it from the direction of "what have they done to my browser sessions!?" but I think if you approach it from their development path it seems much less so.

From their perspective, the phone was too weak to run a full browser so they almost approached it like an XWindows session. All the work happens on their servers and the phone just collects keystrokes and taps and displays pictures. Of course they can see all of your encrypted sessions. The real browser is running on their hardware at their office. "We're the good guys, we'll keep our users' sessions private!".

What makes it muddy is that the display mechanism is a cut down browser-like thingy instead of a framebuffer. In their minds, who cares what happens to https on that section of the link; all they're doing is showing pictures... but from the users perspective? WTF did you do to my https session?!

Its decidedly suboptimal, but not quite so outrageous as it first sounds.
Presumably the people who see your questions on the /new page don't find them interesting enough to upvote to the front page.
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I'm 33, with a PhD, a full time job, a start up on the side, and I am still in tertiary education. I'll be in the library this evening. I'm fine with this. I think I'll do an MBA next.

Ye good folk States-side need to quit slamming on 'college education' and start complaining about the 'costs of education'. Education is just learning. Maybe some sources of education are better than others, and in particular for some fields, but you shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, and keep railing against university, which really just opens up opportunities, and lets somebody who knows more than you choose what you should learn.

Although, to qualify, I choose graded self-study courses where possible, because I'm kinda a dick as a student.
This is very worrying. Due to a small minority of scammers, the entire dev community is being made to pay.

Right now, iTunes Connect is pretty much broken. Sometimes your screenshots won't appear on the App Store, and you have to keep re-uploading them until iTunes Connect decides it wants to properly sync with the Apple CDN servers - even when that happens, often the screenshots order will not be the same as what you set.

Also, this is going to increase review times. Now devs will have to submit 'updates' just to change their screenshots.

What Apple should have done is offered an alternative screenshot review process, that does not require a new app binary to be submitted. Essentially, this current implementation just wastes everyones time.
But there's a big difference in thought process between "I think voting this way is best for everyone" and "I think my benefits will go up if I vote this way".
Koalas to the Max - cool case study
A lot of Chinese go to Australia for college. It is seen as the fourth option if they can't afford or get into a nice school in the USA/Canada/or UK.
Clarify.io - Streamline your Frontend Workflow.
Clarify is a new way to manage & share your design screens, whether they're wireframes or finished designs. Just create a project and upload a screen (png or jpg) to get started.
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Yeah, that will totally stop them, while not at all making legitimate use harder.
Well, if you go as far as to say that without Lisp nobody would have been there...
Is it fair to say that Lisp started the war?
I know, but it's slightly related :P
IllumiRoom already uses a Kinect. That's how it captures the geometry of the room.
Except in the case of MP3 it was a while before the encoders and bitrates became good enough that MP3 sounded as good as the CD. In this case, people weighed the convenience of portability of MP3 over the sound quality.

Of course, these days it's pretty much impossible to tell which is the MP3 and which is a CD recording but there was a long period of time when this was simply not the case.
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The actual Microsoft Research page this is here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/
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"That's a good thing. It frees people up to do what they want with their time."

I agree with your premise.

IMO, socialism, like or it not, is an inevitable result of a highly technical society.

This is a good thing in the long term but it is going to result in decades of horribleness, at least in the US, because so little of the population is going to accept this until it is clearly inevitable.
Proof-of-Concept Exploits for CVE-2013-0156 and CVE-2013-0155 are here:

rails_rce.rb (https://gist.github.com/4499206)

rails_sqli.rb (https://gist.github.com/4499032)

rails_dos.rb (https://gist.github.com/4499017)

rails_jsonq.rb (https://gist.github.com/4499030)
I wonder if Heroku's current downtime on their MyApps site is related?
In Europe I don't think this holds true. In several countries there are many shops which will not take credit cards, but only bank cards which have a lower cost to them. The whole Dutch rail system for example excludes the purchase of tickets with credit cards.

But more importantly may be that this 1-3% that you "gain" is all lost by getting used to the idea of credit and spending too much and getting in to very costly debt.

In the US the average is US$ 7,194.[1]
Significantly higher than in the UK, US5,082 (£3,175). [2]
Which is higher than the average for the EU US$ 2,495 (£1,558) (somewhat old EU/UK data, but the general point I think holds.)

[1] http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-cred...
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5380718.stm
This reminds me of the difference between pointers and actual values - it is more efficient for you to memorize where the detailed and possibly complex information can be found. Memorizing all the long-winded data just doesn't give you that much advantage anymore in this era of information explosion. I think it is fairly natural that most people accept this trade-off.
This is comparable with the invention of cars vs. walking. Cars might increased the rate of obessity but we certainly did not forget how to walk. It is very interesting to see how human adapt to these big changes without the biological evolution rate anywhere near the rate of change in technologies.
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I'm assuming this whole thread is performance art to tie in with the whole "don't take grudges public" point.
Yes I had the same thing. It looked like the film was playing at 2x the speed, but the sound was in sync,so I don't know what was going on.
Nice article, great recommendations. Proper instrumentation and aggregate metrics are essential, but its also impt to know the user on an individual basis- intercom is the only one on this list designed to help do that. If I was writing this article I'd include some funnel tools on mobile too: tapstream, flurry, and paid marketing, like adstage.