skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is always the littlest one but if you can just use AdBlock, it usually hides the fake ones.
> Crimes do not, as a rule, become "better" or "worse" based on why someone does them.

But sometimes crimes are defined by what the perp was thinking or expressing: "Hate Crimes"
Ask HN: Anyone Familiar with Building Analytic Dashboards?
Hi HN, I'm running into a half-wall with building a dashboard to incorporate social media and google analytics of the user's website.

Anyone interested or could point me in the right direction to get started? Thanks all!
Drop shadows serve as a cue that something is clickable. With a flat UI you need to look for what to click on because it doesn't stand out instantly.
I don't think so. The content is not immediately understandable, but I think it's simply because the subject of the writing is very academic. The article is not intentionally obfuscated.
Big data create big job opportunities
I might be wrong. But, I think the then CEO was actually one of the current YC partners, Geoff Ralston.

Bill Nguyen was on the board I think.
Yeah, I understand the value of a brand. I was thinking that, without trademark, there could still be ways to ascertain the authenticity of a product. For example, tiffanys.com could list their physical stores on their website. A fake store wouldn't fool the neighborhood for long enough to be worth the effort.
I think his point is that low DPI devices don't render detailed fonts well so we're forced to use fonts that are optimized for the screen (Verdana, Georgia, etc) if we want to see decent results (i.e. not a blurry mess). Because these fonts are optimized for low pixel density they tend to be pretty simple and boring, or at least not as rich and expressive as they can be if there was no resolution constraint. As a result of using simpler fonts designers compensate by adding additional details to the interface in the form of skeuomorphic effects. Yes, the effects also often communicate function, but they also act as decorations that make the interface more interesting to look at.

Now, on HiDPI displays we can go back to using more detailed fonts that we use in print without loss of quality, so the text part of the interface gains a lot in aesthetics and character, so much so that we no longer need all the stuff around the text to make it look good.

Additionally, because HiDPI displays are able to show that much more detail, it is a lot more difficult for designers to create skeuomorphic interfaces that look believable. The crudeness of the old displays helped mask the simplicity and lack of realism of the skeuomorphic design. Our eyes and mind knew that what was being represented is not real, just an impression, and so we evaluate it as an impression, not as something real. On contrast, HiDPI resolution is so high that what's being represented actually looks real, but if the smaller detail is off the effect of realism is lost, so the overall thing ends up looking like a poor fake rather than a good impression.
How to see previous versions of LinkedIn Pages?
Hi guys,
looking to see if anyone knows of a way to go back in time and see previous linkedin pages from 3 months, 6 months, 1 year ago. Perhaps someone could write a script to do that/get around robots.txt? Would appreciate it, uses could be in seeing company growth. Thanks!
Install GNU+Linux, problem solved.
It wouldn't be the first time that Google releases something in very limited quantities and very high demand. In fact, they do it every year (Google IO tickets), and raise the stakes every time. In fact, the Nexus 4 release was very reminiscent of Google IO ticket ordering. Google seems to love to tout how quickly X sold out.
Specially when they promote unpopular music bands in the front page, its not illegal but how do they dare to replace record labels like that! That's just evil.
I read this as Qanda, thinking it was some ancient teachings on the principles of consistency, but then saw it was Questions and Answers.
Alternative Programming Interfaces for Alternative Programmers
14 year-old Aaron Swartz being interviewed
The problem is they're all crapware, even the real download.
Les blondes saison 1 intégrale
> Base-8 is simply too small

I don't think so, this is just a viewpoint of the article's author.

I think prime numbers are the only real bases, which makes our decimal system a 2x5 system. When people count they usually say "1,2,3,4,5,<pause> 6,7,8,9,10" rather than "1,2,<pause> 3,4,<pause> <etc>", so calling it a 2x5 system would be more accurate than calling it a 5x2 system. I'm not sure about non-English speakers in this regard, though. I believe the French counting system goes 60, 80, 100, so perhaps they have a 5x2x2x5 system.

The way Westerners group digits in three's ("thousand", "million", "Mega", "Giga" etc) could even make our number system a 3x2x5 system. And Chinese and Japanese group theirs in fours so they'd have a 4x2x5 system. In fact, ancient Chinese had distinct words for groups of two above 10,000, so perhaps theirs is a 2x2x2x5 number system.

I think humans could easily have developed a base-5 system, using only one hand instead of both, and grouping digits in fives also, thus using a 5x5 system. Even grouping fives in groups of five, making a 5x5x5 system, where only the number 5 is used for anything.
Shannon didn't stand on the shoulders of Gödel.
I always liked Economics. I was accepted to PA School but could not come up with the funds to attend.
Hey netcan - I wanted to shoot you an email, but it's not in your HN profile. It's completely irrelevant to this topic (email is for jewelry dropshipping), but I think this is the only way to message you.
In hindsight, the CS cirriculum I did was pretty bad. There were only three units which I think really had any value for me in terms of application to my work in IT. The units I did outside of CS (mainly maths) were much more valuable.

But there are two things I got from university that were invaluable:

1.) People. The people I met at uni are still my best friends today and a diverse bunch of talented and interesting folk. The social aspect was invaluable.

2.) Learning how to learn. By the end of my second year I
felt I had the cognitive and critical thinking skills to tackle new topics without the aid of a professor guiding me. I take this skill somewhat for granted and it has been a critical part of my success in the workplace. Some people are born with this capacity for self-learning, I wasnt, I got it at university. So there is still something to be said about the old brick-and-mortar educational paradigm.
Hey Jacques, may ask for a code review ? :-)

http://stdio.be/revseq.c

Compiled with "gcc -pipe -Wall -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c99 -pthread" on my Mac, it's about twice as fast at the blog author's version.

Time spent:
coding: 30 minutes
bugfixing: 30 minutes

I have a feeling there is some kind of catch in the description of the algorithm in terms of implementing the output, but I for the life of me could not grok whether they wanted me to parse the entry into these three pieces or not...

EDIT to add: The only optimization I made was inlining the tightly-called "subst" function, did it without any profiling (so the optimization process literally took about 30 seconds:). Before inlining this version was still about 15% faster than the blog author's one.
> While the vulnerability that Aspect Security uncovered is not "trivial to exploit," acknowledged Williams, he has no doubt that determined attackers will do so.

The quotes should cover 'not' as well i.e. "not trivial to exploit".
Ask HN: How to teach my kids programming?
Has anyone tried doing this? I want to them to be interested but not force it on them.
It is a pretty neat game. I have no idea what MTH$RANDOM is.Can you suggest some links where could i look it up?
Yeah, I agree with the consensus thus far. To me the sign-up ruins this. Anything that gets this to the point where that's not required, adds a lot of value to your service.
Gruber managed to spin the whole idea of skeumorphisms being rejected as a praise for retina display and the bright future it will lead us to. WTF!?

Skeumorphism has nothing to do with pixel density at all. It's being used since the inception of UIs for affordance, reusing knowledge from the physical world and increasing usability.

If there's a trend toward a flat design, it's because we're past the mimicry phase, current users were already born in the digital age and don't have a problem understanding new paradigms and touch screens. Now we can focus on UIs that put content forefront (back to print design) and interact in different ways.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
The semantics are different with regard to lazyness: a boxed vector can contain thunks (unevaluated values), so individual elements can be evaluated on demand, while an unboxed vector must be evaluated all at the same time (making it difficult to run a transformation in parallel with multiple threads, for example).
Hello Again, 2006: The Economics of Reference Management Software
Ugly couch, but I love Ariely and it's an interesting little talk.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?srchType=A&zoomTo...

Three listed today.

I am sure there are issues with most of those. But still.
Yes and no.

To the degree that capitalism is about efficiency by means of competitive markets, net neutrality is no more "anti-capitalist" than, e.g. requiring all drugs to be tested for efficacy.

To the degree that capitalism is about blind accumulation of capital, then net neutrality is anti-capitalist.

You could consider Government as the solution to the problem of natural monopolies.
How well would this work for a desktop environment, in combination with a Leap?
Can I take a ^ from the ^ shack?
How are you able to have such a high age range? Did you have a teacher on board to design lesson plans?
A world without market inefficiencies is a world where there are no excess profits--everything converges to the natural rate of profit. Any place money could be that offers an economic profit would immediately receive many competitors who would drag it down to the natural rate.

What I gather he's saying is that the natural rate of profit is itself zero: given that and no economic profit, capitalism could not reproduce itself. It's probably true that, in a world with complete and perfect knowledge, the natural rate is zero: that world, however, is so radically different from our own or any conceivable socialist one that I've got to reject that part of his point.
Erm, it's called remixing.
Someone capable enough to design STL files from a dimensioned drawing is probably also capable enough to make a dimensioned drawing using calipers and the phone.

I agree that it is a PR thing, but I also see that what they are doing as quite different from Apple. Apple is enabling hardware developers, Nokia is letting people who don't have mechanical skills make the cases. I think what would have been more interesting is if Nokia had released both STL as well as CAD files, which would allow for the modification that you point out.
Interesting. Do you remember what kind of problems you ran into and what version of HBase you used?
The state of WA offers insurance for <$200 a month for people under 40.
Leave it to (taligent|barista) to turn an informational post about Apple into some off topic bitch about Google.
I don't regret getting a CS degree one bit, since it exposed me to people I wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise. I wouldn't have taken ballroom dancing, buddhist art, or learned how to fly had it not been for getting my degree.

My intuition is that school marginally helped by day-to-day coding, but gave me the tools I needed to dig deeper. It was invaluable to take operating systems, and learn about the nitty gritty internals of how a modern OS worked, along with the details of CPU caching. I probably could have learned the information outside of school, but it would have been a much longer process, and I might have large gaps in my knowledge.
Git Legit
How many lessons do you anticipate will be added to the app?
> The only question that seems silly to me is the last one. Of course a DoJ prosecutor is aware of the concept of prosecutorial discretion. To be fair, it's also a good counterpoint to the current silly "Congress made us be mean" line the prosecution is taking. It's just more of a statement than a question.

Keep in mind, the question is coming from a Senator on the Judiciary Committee. It could be a preemptive objection to having the blame sent back at him, perhaps also a threat to alter the law to reduce the "discretion to charge defendents".

You're right that is is more of a statement than a question. Political letters like this are often calculated more to produce effects than answers.
OP:Why do you need a sign-up?
Actually, there are 2 versions of this file.

Depending on how long you have had your Mac, you will have both com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents and com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV2

Naturally, both files will have to be cleansed.
I didn't get a CS degree - I did Elec Eng instead, which has some overlap, I suppose - but I haven't found it too much of a problem. I occasionally become aware of gaps in my knowledge, but I find that a bit of reading can usually fix that. I think I'm more motivated and self-directed now than I was back when I was a student, so I'm not sure I really missed too much. Education is wasted on the young!

In any case, once people are more than a few years out of university, they've forgotten enough that it doesn't seem to make a huge difference. Experience, receptiveness, and willingness to continue learning become bigger factors.
I was under the impression that Opera Mini iOS uses the Opera servers to transmogrify pages into a simpler form, but that UIWebView is still used to present this simpler form.
I can tell you that it isn't, as I've written it (thought I should show up here when I saw the traffic spike). I suppose though, that if people come to this conclusion on reading it, I've failed to make it clear and accessible enough. The original manifesto I'm reviewing/criticising is written in the same language register, which I would admit is perhaps too academic.

There's also a certain tendency to using this register in Marxist circles, which certainly doesn't help us put our message across. I could also plead second-language privilege. Sorry about that.
Terry Tao made a good point when he joined the boycott of Elsevier journals. He said he would stop submitting to their journals, and stop doing editorial work for them, but declined to stop reviewing papers.

The reason he gave is that while he is at a stage in his career where there is no pressure to publish in any particular set of journals and so can exercise discretion in where he publishes, he recognizes that some mathematicians, for reasons beyond their control, are unable to do so, and he does not wish to penalize them.

For fields where many of the high impact journals are not yet open access, I think Tao's approach makes sense. Publishing in high impact journals greatly helps the careers of young researchers.
The idea is that first you run the DELETE statement from TFA, which marks the records as deleted and "hides" them but doesn't completely "forget" them, then you run the VACUUM one, which should basically erase any trace of those records ever existing in the sqlite db.
I wonder about trauma from "dying" in a game that is so immersive it "tricks" your brain into thinking it is real -- example from the article about him sticking out his tongue to try and catch snow without thinking about it.

I wonder if we will start seeing more people in therapy for PTSD from gaming.
Your torrent link is breaking the page. Consider removing everything after "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f8b92a305da8a7d12081cd348ba9859b299b3486".
Selecting data is important, inserting is also important see: [1]A comparison of NoSQL dbs: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak (includes MYSQL cluster)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5076130
It is kinda scary most home loans in CA are rated 'Jumbo' by lending guidelines.

One can buy a 3 bedroom home in Kansas City for <180k. But you will have to sell it for the same price you bought it for if you put it on the market.
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench 1.5.0 Released
Sure, I'll pick it up in the post. Neat little project this. I won't peek at your code until I'm done.
we currently have 5 of them in the app, and will probably add 4-5 more in the next month. Since all these are games it takes a while to build them for us
We do consult and work with teachers to get our content
My take on vipassana:

http://andyjiang.posterous.com/vipassana-meditation-ten-long...

Humorous account of the ten days.
My Nexus 4 was $350 straight from Google, unlocked and unsubsidized.

shrug
There is a problem with Google's two factor solution. If you need to use things outside the browser (eg checking email via imap, chat via xmpp) then you need to generate secondary passwords. That is fine. What isn't is that those passwords are not scope restricted - ie if you generate a password for imap access then it can be used for anything else (eg chat).
So can't you submit some papers to the prestigious journals, and others to the not so prestigious journals?

Out of interest, does prestige really advance society and/or the sciences in any way? Genuine question - if the answer is yes, then how does it do this?
Nike+ Releases Developer API
Wacky celebrity fads of 2012
If anyone saw the Oprah interview, I think it's clear by now that Lance Armstrong is a sociopath. Even his admittance was a very calculated move intended to curb additional financial loss (even though it was supposed to be a tell-all interview, he chose not to talk about a handful of things; and a good half of things were straight lies: UCI gifts he made were not 'bribes', he did not use drugs after 2005, etc.). His appearance on Oprah was a calculated move to avoid jailtime and position himself for the coming onslaught of legal trouble.
I realize this isn't exactly what you're asking, but most all capable Android devices end up being able to run far-future software via the custom ROM community. My old HTC Sensation (launched May 19, 2011, running Android 2.3) happily runs Android 4.2 thanks to the Android developer community. Even my old underspecced Nexus 1 can run 4.2!

The OTA support may not be there, but that doesn't mean you're hard-stuck with an older version of Android on the device.
Yeah, we've had various iterations of this live on the site for a while, though we never announced anything. We renamed it to "Checkout" a few weeks ago.
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Some of these are a bit dated, but it's still a reasonably accurate list of companies that have publicly disclosed their usage of Cassandra: http://www.datastax.com/cassandrausers.
I should have become a physicist.
> people liking high-level languages aren't arguing you should never use C

Some do; the most frustrating such conversation I can remember with such a person was this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537155

This person argued that the only way to make progress in systems programming is to ditch C as the basis of the system and linking model, in favor of something more constrained. That's the kind of talk that gets me cranky. It's precisely because C and assembly are so unconstrained that such a wide variety of programming paradigms can all be implemented efficiently and run under a single OS, and that we can so easily experiment with brand new paradigms without having to get buy-in from the VM gatekeepers.
Why not use CFDictionaryRef and pass it along via toll-free bridging?
The site's really neat! It reminds me of Songsterr (http://www.songsterr.com/), which is my go-to site for guitar tabs.

P.S: The option to hide the guitar at the top would be nice.
This remains a problem - that researchers in many field don't appreciate the utility of true open access (free to read and free to reuse).

see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY

Cheaper is nice, but free (and machine accessible!) lets us do things that have never been done before.
It's funny because after I heard everyone rave about the UI in Letterpress and I then I tried it, my first thought was "When will everyone address the elephant in the room, which is that this good UI design is essentially metro-style UI"

Apparently it has been reduced to a footnote in an article.
First, I'm highly dubious that a reconstructed Neanderthal embryo is really that viable: look at the success rates of assisted reproduction when the parents are alive and in the room, let alone dead for tens of millenia!

Second, what ethics board would approve this experiment? There are risks to the surrogate mother, and, even if the child did come to term, what are the chances that it would be physically healthy? What about its psychological health?

As with mammoths, I can see the appeal, but this is about human beings.
Where are you getting hung up?

I have built a fair number of analytic dashboards for a variety of clients. Google Analytics is pretty easy to export data from and integrate to overall. Social is a little more of a pain depending on the source and what you are trying to measure.

Overall I find the hardest part is selecting the metrics to communicate to the client/user so you are providing the most value without noise. Creating the dashboard(s) is usually the easy part, definition and analysis are where you show the clients/users why you are special.
The point is that WE DON'T KNOW and CANNOT KNOW what his thoughts were when he was tying the rope around his neck.

Stop acting as if depression was logical.
A Bite-sized Strategy for CSS
Does anyone use homepages anymore?
https://www.google.com/search?q=mth%24random ??
Metro's root is in Zune.
I've used Windows since version 3.0. After spending a few hours with Win8 I still can't figure out how to so much as display the calculator. I see plenty of others in the same boat.

To get to the desktop you apparently have to click in the very left bottom corner, a single pixel. Choosing the desktop icon that displays when you move the cursor to the lower left corner just makes the icon go away. Maybe it makes perfect sense to everyone else! I think I'll save a lot of time by switching fully to Linux or the Mac.
Totally cool concept! I'm already dreaming up some pretty interesting use cases for our enterprise mapping application in board room presentation scenarios.
It would require more than just perfect knowledge, wouldn't it? Market inefficiency has other sources, too, like transaction costs, non-excludability and non-rivalry (e.g. public goods), etc.
All three of those are apartments, and one of them is $1600, above our $1500 limit.

Here's the link at a $1500 limit: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?srchType=A&zoomTo...

8 results. Total. All are apartments (one is a duet, a couple aren't actually in P-town but are apartments nonetheless).

(edit: I'm not trying to dick with you here. I've just been searching for valley housing for a long time and have a good idea where certain cities land price-wise.)
Thank you. I have to admit when I reached

By this I mean that the category of rent is deployed to explain
the hegemonic power of the bourgeoisie vis-a-vis the working
class.

I found myself wondering whether it was a conscious imitation of "The Architect", but I'll give it another chance when I have more time.
You would need to define "consistency" in order to have a more reasonable discussion about what each system provides, but Cassandra certainly isn't only eventually consistent. You can choose the number of replicas that must respond in order to consider the read/write operation a success per operation, which allows you to have quorum-based strong consistency guarantees.

There are more details on the options here: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/dml/data_consistency
Technically this is still not the "first generation".

Oculus is releasing a dev kit, and they have stated that the initial retail version will have higher-resolution screens.
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