skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep Springs is an awesome college. They should reconsider.
Nice read, thanks! It made me more hungry to learn about artistic processes.

I have to say though, as a plug to a service that helps improve your website presentation and flow, in the context of that blog page, to me it's a big turn off. They talk about a master of visual flow, and then present it in that visual mess of a blog. A link to the .com can't even be found around the top left and instead must be dug up from a cloud of menus on the right, basic visual hierarchy point (point that actually makes a short appearance in the actual article) that so many company blogs get wrong but you'd expect web design experts to get right. I'm not saying their tech isn't good, I have no idea, but I find it hard not to think that if it was good, they'd have figured out how to use it to improve their own promotion site.
I think you just pointed out about the only useful thing out of the entire PayPal integration experience.
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I don't think this is true. 50 GB of free storage for each user would be cost prohibitive without (at least) block-level deduplication.
Think of it like Paxos. As long as a majority of unique data points agree, allow access. That way if your back is out which results in your posture being unrecognized, the other factors can still form a quorum and grant you access. There could be 20 such factors weighted by "difficulty to forge", so that a fingerprint counts 15x as much as posture for example. Then if you successfully authenticate with, say, 80% on all data points then the system can allow you to train a new factor.
Cutting a spending habit without losing any quality of life is like an annuity and it increases your freedom. Getting a pay raise keeps paying you for a while, but has disadvantages like:

* By definition, you have to keep working to keep getting it
* Taxes go up
* It may come with some implicit strings that
require you to work more or carry more stress
* arguably reduces your freedom

In our field, getting a pay raise might be the easiest way to improve your savings rate, but we should just keep in mind that reducing consumption has some important advantages.

And it's a good idea to practice reducing consumption now. If your income goes down or surprise expenses come up for any reason (not just retirement), it will help you get through it comfortably. It's a lot harder to increase your income in a pinch than reduce your consumption.
My problem with this - I need money to do stuff I like. And only making stuff makes me happy. Solution to this is to be paid via what I do to make myself happy. I am not there yet, but I will I am sure.
Lala was the best music streaming service at the time and I am pretty sure whoever bought it was going to benefit immensely. (I'm pretty sure it's the source for the iTunes match technology.)
Once you cross the 70k mark, you can have almost anything you want. Sure, people can contrive lots of contra-examples in your replies. But the truth for real/average/majority of Americans is that level of income makes any toy/hobby/charity possible.

It also caries with it dental, health and disability insurance.

Being able to document 70k annual income offers almost unlimited credit if you have good credit and forgiveness if you have bad credit.

But at that level one is an expert and if you do not get your fair market rate it means someone is ripping you off so you want your proper pay just as a matter of fairness.
My experience was pretty similar, though the testing was a lot longer and I was older(around the 6th grade). It was done over the course of a few months with interviews of my teachers and parents as well as with a couple of doctors.

I'm still on the medication, though I only take it when I'm at work or need the concentration help.
What a horrifying reflection of anti-affirmative action screeds.
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Since some people can't access the videos and many of the links will go dead here's a torrent[1]. I also found the text[2] but that seems to have some of its words changed slightly compared to the video.

1) magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f8b92a305da8a7d12081cd348ba9859b299b3486&dn=Martin+Luther+King%7E+I+Have+A+Dream+Mp4&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

2) http://polyticks.com/home/Visions/dream.htm
Oh, hi there!
I would have been more gushing in my recommendation but I didn't want to sound like an advert. No the UI isn't brilliant, but at least it's lean and straightforward. I do wish the support forum wasn't so slow and clunky, but otherwise Virtualmin continues to amaze me. It's great to see features like S3 backup trickling down into the GPL version. I can't afford a Pro license (I'm at university), but were you to put up a donations page for GPL users, I'd certainly give a few £.
My 5-yo son has a hard time behaving at pre-school. I think it has a lot to do with being bored, since he is far ahead of the other students. They are tracing letters, while he likes to write short stories. They are learning to count to 10, while he can multiply and divide.

Nevertheless, we had him tested by a neurobehavioral specialist who believes he has ADD. The doctor recommended either drugs or neurofeedback. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofeedback

I'm very hesitant to give my 5-yo any medication, but we are considering neurofeedback. I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge or experience with it.
This doesn't work with all email services.

The only one I know of is Google. So gmail and private email hosted by Google Apps. Anyone know of other email services that work this way?
This actually wouldn't surprise me. Similarly, not asking for the card type is confusing to some people (even though the card type is identified in the first characters of the card number).
One shouldn't place so much of their identity/desires on getting into a school; if you want to learn, knowledge is always there.
One of the most-cited "authorities" on serif legibility is Cyril Burt, whose 1955 article [2] in The British Journal of Statistical Psychology (a journal he was the editor of) seemed to end the debate on whether serif typefaces are more readable than non-serif typefaces.

I think this article is referring specifically to print given the dates of the research.
While the windows phone isn't bad, I think Microsoft made it impossible for Nokia to succeed.

I have a feeling if they had decided to go with android, their phones would have been purchased as a direct competitor with Apple and Samsung, though Samsung may have played a smaller role if Nokia had jumped in sooner.
Not only is location important to video content, so is time (both date the video was uploaded and the date the video was created). Why? because that information is invaluable for video discovery.

How does the average person discover content on Youtube? Surprise they don't discover it on Youtube, because it was likely shared or embedded on another website. 500 years worth of Youtube video is watched on Facebook everyday, that could be users going straight to Youtube and discovering great content for themselves (there is no shortage of great content), but the problem is that video discovery on Youtube is so bad people do not go there to browse content, rather they go when they are looking for a specific video. If you still disagree look how many cable shows there are that simply have hosts showing YouTube clips, those shows would not exist if it did not take an entire team to browse Youtube just to find a half hour of quality content.

If posting videos to Google Earth and finding videos in Google Earth does not sound fun or interesting to you, and you need to be sold on the "value" I am creating, maybe this is not for you. The user experience is the inherent value, your question is like asking why you should care about Google Earth itself, it is simply a 3d representation of the Earth using satellite imagery for the purpose of location based content what value are they aiming to provide? Now if we can agree that location based content is valuable, then I appear to be the first to tackle location based video content, and I welcome anyone that wants to register for the Beta and I promise not to sell them on anything and let them make up their mind for themselves.
Expansion? It's not clear what you're saying here; I don't see any walled garden here.
As someone with A.D.D., I kinda find this piece offensive. A lot of people not afflicted with A.D.D. like to give their armchair opinion on the effects, classification and understanding without having spent one day with A.D.D. I was diagnosed late in life, so I can't speak to the longer term, or even child-related effects of Concerta or Ritalin, but I can vouch for them as a 32 year old. Since taking prescription Concerta, I have started a successful business, become a more vocal and engaged citizen and have had much greater relationships with people in general. I do see the benefit in other therapies and methods of treatment, but this dialog is probably a step backward.

My larger point is this: Don't let prejudice of big pharma allow you to "throw the baby out with the bath water". No one benefits from that mentality.
Wow. Just, wow.

Double the average is not enough? (36k in NY urban area)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest-income_urban_areas_in_t...
Yes, for some definition of "English": http://cdecl.ridiculousfish.com/?q=declare+bar+as+volatile+p...
This is how business people get paid the big bucks.

All your startup's engineering work = $11 million

A month of CEO hustling = $149 million
I think you missed his point. But I will say the parent is not alone. :)
As has been discussed elsewhere, this slides a bit depending on where you live and I've seen charts that list how much you need to make for your market to be happy enough, but that's not germane to the overall point.

It is ultimately true that money and things can't buy happiness. Life experiences, friends and family have a far greater affect on happiness. Going on a memorable vacation, for instance, will do more for your happiness than remodeling your home. There are several reasons why increased money doesn't necessarily make people happier:

# Making more money often requires more time and responsibility. Neither tends to make people happier. If you have to spend more time working to make more money, you might be happier making less because you'll have more time to spend on your hobbies.

# People tend to spend more money the more money they make, often in ways that don't make them that much happier. Making $150,000 a year? Time for you to buy a house fitting of a man who makes $150,000 a year! Even though, you might be happier living in a smaller, simpler house and a bigger house and mortgage means you may not be paying a lower percentage of your income towards housing. Or you might be happier with a smaller mortgage that doesn't require a $150,000 a year job to support (it's harder to find high paying jobs, which makes the threat of losing them more stressful).

# One of the great keys to happiness and longevity is friendship. If making more money requires you to spend less time with friends and making friends, it won't make you happier.
And just because one particular serif font looks better to one particular person than one particular sans-serif font on one particular medium quite obviously does not mean it is true.

Nor do your amateur fontophile gut feelings matter--and, I should add, nor do mine, or anyone's.

> but I think the market is evidence enough that serif fonts are still the choice of book designers and typesetters long after the initial technical reasons for doing so have become obsolete.

Trivially true, but that's not at all evidence that book designers and typesetters pick them due to their readability[0], rather than, say, cargo-cult psychology.

For my part, I'd rather wait until there's evidence either way, rather than presuming that my personal preferences (which probably align mostly with yours, FWIW) are due to objective factors. That's what science and evidence are for, after all: to prevent us from convincing ourselves of things that really seem true, but aren't.

[0] Of course they pick fonts based on readability--they wouldn't use Zapf Chancery for Moby Dick--but I mean that they don't necessarily eliminate sans-serifs for such reasons.
Some guy breaks into your house while you're away and steals all your valuables, including the contents of a safe he found.

What do you think his punishment should be if caught?
Honest question: how many felonies the MLK commit? If he committed a lot of felonies but was charged with none, that would be quite surprising.
The idea that scientific research is infallible is exactly what the article is arguing against - in fact, it claims this attitude is a bigger problem than the scientists or the media.

Human-performed studies with limited budgets and unrealistic controls should not supersede expert opinion per se. When there is a disconnect between the two it is irresponsible not to question the scientific studies (in addition to the experts, of course).
Yes, I just wanted to expand on how completely different these reactors and accidents were. Also, it was a minor point but LOC Accident (TMI) is different than a Station Black Out (Fukushima), these are defined accident scenarios in the design basis documents for the reactors.
yes, the button is no problem...everything after that is loaded in an iframe though, and so i think xss safeguards prevent you from modifying any of the elements.
All I could think in reading this was "Brokeback College". Going to an all male college as a straight guy sounds just awful. Plus, cowboy hats.
Another woman here! I think HN readership is more varied than it first appears.
Media outrage over Te'o hypocritical
Stripe, When are u going to support Micropayments??
Before you make any decision, please join a gifted list. Bright sudents who are suffering from "bored gifted kid syndrome" are frequently pathologized by teachers and other experts, who are usually unqualified to appropriately assess them. A grade skip, enrichment, homeschooling or some other means to challenge the child might be a more effective "cure". I know of kids who were distractable and never on task until enrolled in college at age 13 and things like that.
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> My 5-yo son has a hard time behaving at pre-school. I think it has a lot to do with being bored, since he is far ahead of the other students. They are tracing letters, while he likes to write short stories. They are learning to count to 10, while he can multiply and divide.

It might make sense to find a more advanced program for him before you go do anything else. If he's as advanced as you say, boredom could be the major factor beyond anything else. If his behavior doesn't change after that, I'd consider the other options then.
Hey guys I'm actually writing a piece on this! Why do you ask? I'll have my first post on it next week. Add me on twitter to be notified: @taigeair

There are so many companies using gamification. Some big ones: SAP, Oracle, EMC, Samsung, NBC, Deloitte, Rogers Communications, Bell Media, CA Technologies and eBay.

Check out:
http://success.adobe.com/microsites/levelup/index.html

There are startups like Box, 4sq, and Codecademy using it too.

Here are some studies:
https://www.box.com/s/0dg61wsrlqu2q1bdmz68

Take a look at customers of Bunchball and Badgeville.
They have all the experience to know how to run this business. The monetization will be regulated with bandwidth throttling.

It's typically just human nature to want everything NOW, so they'll pay for instant high-speed downloads. The free tier bandwidth will affect user acquisition and retention. If it's too slow, they'll hate it and never convert into a paying customer. After that, the affiliate stuff will take care of marketing costs and keeps the network virally expanding.

Most bandwidth-heavy sites could use the same monetization model... I think.
Well since it was an article in American Banker, yeah, I'd say that he was referring to the US.

Also, thanks for the down vote based on hard facts: "probably hundreds of millions", "kinda safer".
http://www.techspot.com/news/51037-trojan-bypasses-two-facto...

An identity card is not a commerce solution -- there is no cost/benefit analysis for governments, they just decide which vendors should get lots of money (I know, I was one of them! Thanks governments!) We did this in the US and now there are no fake passports here in the US, we win! Ooops...
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/hackers_clone_...

A card reader not hooked to the computer --- nah ,that can't be hacked:
http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/C_Miller/BH_US_...

smart card PINs, those can't be hacked:
http://blogs.gartner.com/mark-diodati/2012/01/15/deja-vu-%E2...

For a thoughtful presentation of both sides, try:
http://www.kansascityfed.org/PUBLICAT/econrev/pdf/3q08sulliv...

I think you'll see that it concludes much the same thing as I mentioned the banks (here in the US anyway) conclude: the costs are not worth the theoretical "kinda safer" gains in security.

Security is a nuanced, no-one-solution-fits-all, dynamic, evolving systems engineering problem. The adversaries are smart, but more importantly have common sense (unlike governments and consumers) - they will exploit weaknesses in the weakest link. Replace passwords with smart cards, no problem - they will go after the next link. The (US and EU) banks know this -- they all employ layered fraud and security measures --- despite consumers who may have unquestioning faith in the perfect security of smart cards.

And when you come back in 5 years and payment cards are still NOT being used in the mainstream (US anyway where cost vs. benefit is important), please have the courtesy to up vote.
Can this comment please not be the top comment (I'd prefer it gone altogether). It is politically charged and ignores two centuries of politics that have led us to this point. Further, it detracts from Lessig's poignant article and will not further constructive conversation.
From the mega website "Mega are looking for investors". Can someone explain why they'd do that? Kim has more than enough money to cover all of the costs of this site yet he'd rather get investors? I never understood when to use my own money or raise money for my startup.
The takehome on $36k wouldn't even be able to cover my tiny (~180sqft) studio in Manhattan ($1700/mo), let alone a decent place. And that place was a steal. As I said, it's possible to live very cheaply in NYC, if you're willing to be far away from everything; I know people who travel an hour and a half each way to get to work, to save a few hundred dollars a month. I can't make that sort of tradeoff -- my time is just worth too much to me.

Edit: I should note, this is the primary reason I left NYC about 6 months ago. I'm paying all of $1400/mo for a large house in CT now, and working from home. Much as I love it, living in NYC is just too crazy.
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Most people have no idea how to manage their money; therefore, $75k/year is probably an overestimate if you can soundly manage money. Besides... it's not silly; it's a generalization that (like all others) has caveats.
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Wow, Deep Springs sounds pretty awesome. I would've applied if I'd known about it when I was in high school.
I do both. Most companies respect unsubscribe requests and those that persist get blacklisted. This seems like an an easy problem to solve; not sure that it warrants a 650 word blog post.
I'm just going to put this here, re: trust law:

"I set out on this ground
which I suppose to be self evident, "_that the earth belongs in
usufruct to the living_;" that the dead have neither powers nor
rights over it. The portion occupied by an individual ceases to be
his when himself ceases to be, and reverts to the society."

(Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789, http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/lit/jeff03.htm)
Mens only colleges are not acceptable, but these are okay?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_colleges_in_the_Unite...
fwiw -- my site is hosted with a company that doesn't have ssl, and we just direct our payments over to a heroku page, which is served by ssl on their free plan.
I didn't know we had any competition named "Porn and Guns". Cool name though.
>I agree with Zoe Lofgren. Any DOJ apologies or measures would be insufficient. The 80s-era laws need to be changed to account for the modern world.

Completely agree, but I feel the need to publicize Orin Kerr's point about the first draft of her proposed "Aaron's Law": It would actually be a regression over what he expects the Supreme Court to do in the upcoming Nosal case, and there are better improvements to the CFAA that he articulates.[1] So let's be sure the changes we advocate are the right ones. (I assume Lofgren will become aware of this information in time, but the way she will is by enough people pointing it out that it gets through her staff, so I encourage anyone inclined to write or call her office to do so.)

[1] http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
Although it is possible to collect the customer's billing address (using the 'address' option) using the Checkout form, it isn't (yet?) possible to add other, arbitrary fields.

For instance, collecting an email address would have to be done elsewhere.
At 90k in NYC you can easily cover a nice 3k / month 1br apartment and have ~2,000$ / month leftover which is enough to cover expenses and have solid savings.

Edit: used wrong calculator.
Haha, i had that too.. fun game.. i think the characters were polygons, though :)

Also there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_series even before Outcast. I don't think it used polygons. It was launched years before 3D graphics cards, too..
That would probably be dangerous. The drugs prescribed for ADD can induce psychotic episodes, and cause mood swings, and otherwise have negative psychological effects. Switching between different stimulants could amplify the risk of such episodes, or complicate treatment should such a patient have such an episode.

I would be a bigger fan of moderating the drugs. Don't use the drugs on weekends or holidays; use lower doses on days where it is OK to goof off a bit or days where the workload is light. I suspect that doing this with children would be a good lesson in and of itself, in that they can see that work and play can be separated and that the withdrawal symptoms from a drug can be overcome (this could also serve as a way to identify people who have some innate problem with drug dependence before they get into trouble).

Of course, there is also the matter of school being so boring and so undesirable that children need to have pristine focus just to survive. Perhaps it would be best to solve that problem first, before using drugs to keep children focused on "busy work."
The Romney campaign did not really have much choice, because of their need to secure the GOP nomination first. As the incumbent, Obama had a much longer lead time, which allowed his campaign to invest early and bring more of the development process internal.

And they needed it--they've been pretty upfront that for an uncomfortably long time it was not clear the decision to centralize the technology was going to work at all. The field and other outreach teams did not like or use the products that the tech built for them for months.