skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you deserve flame at all. I agree partly that his suicide has been covered too much, but then I remember how it's not really about the suicide, more so about what every other reply to your comment mentions, which is the law. I wish there was a way for his name to not be plastered all over regarding the cruel punishment of hackers, but unfortunately his name is the only one that chimes the bell. Think Les Miserables, the bread was so small, yet changed everything; the problem was not in the man, but in the law.
Does your back hurt from moving those goalposts?
Are you saying that an image that is similar to a federal ID but with the numbers removed could be mistaken for a legitimate ID?
"The institution’s financial resources are sufficient to sustain the quality of its educational
program and to support institutional improvement now and in the foreseeable future. The
institution demonstrates, through verifiable internal and external evidence, its financial
capacity to graduate its entering class. The institution administers its financial resources with
integrity." -- New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Standards for Accreditation [1], Page 22

I'm sure the other regional accreditation agencies have similar requirements.

[1](PDF) http://cihe.neasc.org/downloads/Standards/Standards_for_Accr...
This is a standard CodeIgniter error message.
Hey this seems really cool, I'll have to read up on how you do some of this stuff - do you keep bluetooth connections open to multiple other devices?
Here's my variation on bind() - generating executable code on the heap allows you to treat the bound function as a raw ordinary function pointer; https://gist.github.com/3154939
That's more or less what LexBlog is for Lawyers: http://www.lexblog.com/

It's a simple, cheap publishing platform for lawyers that takes the difficulty out of setting up/running a website, and it just works.
The last two articles from Phoronix that I've seen pee on the FSF/GPLv3 efforts. Do they have an axe to grind, or is this just my sample bias?
This post is a summary of a WSJ which is mostly a summary of this blog post: http://stevencrowley.com/2013/01/23/googles-confidential-tes... It includes more technical information and less idle speculation.

The frequencies used are 2524-2546 and 2567-2625 MHz which are licensed to Clearwire but not (yet) widely used for anything.

> We don’t know yet exactly what Google is testing here. It might be devices it created. I suspect, though, that this is a test of a network architecture or service, using existing equipment. Google has been lobbying the FCC to approve the agency’s proposed shared-spectrum small-cell service in the 3550-3650 MHz band, and these test results might be relevant there.
"And they are seriously ideological. McLeroy is quoted as saying, 'education is too important to not be politicized'.'

So Ars supports abolishing the public school system? Let me know how that works out.
I would assume so, since when I clicked at the link sp332 provided, it says that I'm not part of the HTML5 trial, and asks me to join.
Actually, colleges build buildings because USNews gives points for new construction in its annual ratings, whereas educational quality is too hard to measure.
Can anybody help to find some other interesting blogs by graphics programmers like this?
I can't tell you much I'd love to see smarter scalars in PHP, but then for a business what's the difference between upgrading to PHP 6 or upgrading to, say, Python?
To embedded youtube videos on your site is not a copyright infringement
This is great! I imagine it can also be used for areas of low connectivity or high traffic. (e.g. rural guy & postman, hurricane affected areas)
They did support them, they released VP8 royalty free and supports it on Youtube. What 'support' were you referring too?
can't see any video, on firefox/linux - no flash.
Are you objecting to the removal of "overpriced" (irrelevant opinion) or the addition of specific examples?
Ask HN: What would an MVR mean to you?
So earlier I stumbled onto the idea of a "Minimum Viable Repository."

What would that mean to you?
What about Chinese colonialism?
It's not rigorous science, it's informal science. The sort of science you do when you discover and investigate the source of a leak in your plumbing fixtures.

It may not be ideal but there's still a lot more value to it than just throwing up your hands and dismissing the problem as un-explainable/impossible to solve.
When booking flights (and probably hotels) use incognito mode. I was booking a flight direct with united.com the other day - found the flight at ~$400 and was entering information. Got sidetracked and the booking session timed out so I started again. New price for the exact same thing: ~$700. Incognito mode (or just clearing cookies as I've heard of this happening but never saw it myself) and it was back to the old price.

So just watch out when booking direct as well.
Persistent connection pools are not popular in the PHP world :)
Most PHP developers I've worked with had no idea of different encodings, serializations, etc. They just wanted to echo $_GET['input'] and be done with it.
Wouldn't some freelancing sites be a good option? If he gets familiar with some basic PHP skills, he could at least get a start with real life coding challenges. People who hire on elance or other freelance sites don't pay much attention to personal details as long as he gets some decent reviews.
You don't have to have Drake.jar in the same folder as the workflow you're trying to execute.

You create the script as described in the documentation, and you put it somewhere on your PATH along with the JAR file. The JAR files has to be in the same directory as the script.

Sorry if it wasn't clear. I'll fix the doc.
Drip now works with Drake! Yes, it's still less than ideal if you're calling Drake hundreds of times from an automated script which you need to run quickly, but for interactive development, it should work just fine:

https://github.com/Factual/drake/wiki/Faster-startup:-Drake-...
That is easy to solve. The school should price the building inclusive of the cost of classes held in it.
In politics, attack ads work well because if it causes someone to stay home it is a win. In business, negativity can damage the entire segment enough that both sides lose. Imagine if Coke and Pepsi accuse each other of selling "poison for idiots", then people will quit drinking soda altogether. Politicians don't have to consider this dilemma.
Names of the files prefix posted

Scalia - Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Kennedy - Anthony McLeod Kennedy, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Thomas - Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Ginsburg - Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Breyer - Stephen Gerald Breyer, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Roberts - John Glover Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States

Alito - Samuel Anthony Alito, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Sotomayor - Sonia Maria Sotomayor, Associate Justice of Supreme Court

Kagan - Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of Supreme Court
I use both, and I think a lot of people in my age group (30s) are the same way. Gmail is for low-importance things generally I don't need to read, like order confirmations and the random lists I get on because I gave my address to some site. Apple Mail is for stuff I care about - work, personal projects, family relationships, and other serious topics that are worth investing time in.

Gmail has top-notch spam detection, and there's no need to wait while thousands of emails download, which is great. As for negatives, I find the GMail interface to be cluttered and confusing, with its ads, the annoying black bar at the top, random hovering elements, and the occasional exhortation to Buzz / gchat / new Compose experience / whatever it is this week. The UI is unpleasant to spend extended periods in, which isn't conducive to thoughtfulness. Also, its search is bad ("1-20 of many"), so I am uncomfortable storing important data in it.

It's part of a larger pattern. The web is for large quantities of stuff, with low signal to noise; desktop apps are for focusing. I read blog posts on the web, I read books with a native app. I watch cat videos on YouTube, I watch movies with native players. I think this separation is robust.

Incidentally, YouTube does have a native iOS app, which I find to be much better than the web site on my iPad. The same is true for Hulu, NetFlix, and ABC's player. Oh, and Facebook!
What next if you don't do this are they going to send round her flick and von smallhausen.

I am tempted to join instagram just so i can upload a picture of ian lavender - "Don't tel Him Pike"
Emulate slow network connections on Linux
I still remember SPYW, when sharing across Google services got overblown. It is nothing compared to Facebook automatically making your data public that wasn't public before.
... and I can wipe my ass with pine cones. Toilet paper is masturbatory nonsense for the weak of anus.
Hello, XSS :)
Is that interview question supposed to be for programmers or account managers? Is there a difference?

I can't imagine how answering that question correctly indicates a good candidate for software engineer.
In my experience people tend to use webmail for personal and native for business. I guess because native mail clients can be a pain to setup unless you understand IMAP , Port numbers yadayada. Also people don't use personal email much apart from in a few instances whereas for business it is the defacto communication method.

Using the gmail web interface for work email would drive me nuts.
Email can be pretty important to me so it's something that needs to be omnipresent on my desktop.

This is where thunderbird integrated with Ubuntu/Unity is perfect. When I have a new email I get to see the sender and subject instantly on the top right of the screen, the notification icon lights up and the launcher icon tells me how many unread emails I have.

If I were using gmail I would have to keep a tab open and would spend half of the day OCD switching tabs to check if I had anything important.

Of course you could fix this by adding notification features to gmail that integrate with the desktop and showing it in a window that is distinct from my other browser windows.

But then is it really a web app or is it a desktop app that happens to be written in JS?
Why not? Scaffolding looks plenty constructiony.
Yeah! How about if I kill myself would you pay attention to that? Someone important just did thAt so people like you would give a damn. What does that tells us about the world we live in?
Why The Idea of a Google Driverless Car is Nonsense
Yawn.
Look, i'm actually a GCC maintainer. I was heavily involved in GCC development for quite a while, though I now work more on LLVM.
I'm still a listed GCC maintainer.
I guarantee you, without a doubt, that GCC will die out on its current path.

The only thing that could stop it is if it's no longer an FSF-run project, or the steering committee actually started replacing older members with people still working on GCC, or something else drastic. This would enable folks to do things that currently take a lot of energy to fight about. It may also have to compromise some core values in order to serve the most users.

Yes, LLVM currently lacks optimizations GCC has. But LLVM will do the same thing GCC did to commercial compilers when we started the tree-ssa project, and cherry pick the high end of research, and implement it (it has already started).

As long as GCC stays on the path it is, it will die. It will be a long time, because it has a lot of users.
LLVM is friendlier to developers, researchers, and users.
GCC can't win any fight as long as that is true.

FWIW: I also don't think most GCC developers harbor any illusions about the above. I think RMS may, or may not be involved enough to care, but nobody seriously involved in GCC thinks that GCC is in "a-ok great shape no problems"

The other possibility, of course, is that LLVM will end up on the same path GCC does, and thus, they will be on the same terms again.
I doubt this, since Chris Lattner saw what happened when he tried to merge GCC and LLVM, and despite his flaws, is much more savvy about politics and community policies than GCC is.
.net and java aren't unpopular because of their compiled nature. They are certainly much more performant and development lifecycle is quicker. The problem is their licensing fees. Python, Ruby, Node, and PHP have no licensing free and deployment costs are negligible. Most developers would agree that PHP is horrible; despite that it is very popular, because it is free.

Once performance becomes an issue, compiled languages become more advantageous. This is why twitter is now on java/scala, and stackoverflow is on .net.

Dynamic languages are certainly less restricting and may be faster to development at the start, but have a major maintenance and debugging cost. I shutter when I think about trying to modify and huge javascript or php codebase. With .net, no big deal.

As a personal preference, I like objective-c, it has the benefits of dynamic and static languages and it very performant. Too bad it is mostly limited to the apple platform.
I think sadly that changing without notice is the standard language, but I'll check against some other TOS on the site to be sure.
Actually, it was in the doc. If you followed the instructions below precisely, just send us your terminal log so that we can see what you're missing.

A nicer way to run Drake

We recommend you "install" Drake in your environment so that you can run it by just typing "drake". Here's a convenience script you can put on your path:

#!/bin/bash
java -cp $(dirname $0)/drake.jar drake.core $@

Save that as `drake`, then do `chmod 755 drake`. Move the uberjar to be in the same directory. Now you can just type `drake` to run Drake from anywhere.
While I agree with the overall point, I don't think the "I don't know C" hand-waving is very useful (both from the author and various commenters). If you want something done, then one should not be afraid to dive in and learn some C to figure it out. I don't know a lot of C though I learned on it, but I knew enough to open up the PHP source code and figure out what was going on with a multibyte encoding issue to file an accepted bug report and a follow-up feature request. Why don't I do that for parameter ordering in functions? Because, like the author stipulated, I'm not one of the people who cares enough to want to. But, those who do care enough to want it should stop making excuses for themselves about not knowing C and go learn it. Move on from there to writing documentation for the Zend stuff if it sucks in the places you want it to shine.
I think PGP signing could be a great way to prove authorship on publicly available messages (in those cases where rather than anonymity one does want to definitively know who wrote a message).

EDIT:
If you are not already familiar with it, take a look at the PGP web of trust idea to get a better feel for the "proven authorship" use case. Some linux distros use PGP keys to prove authorship of software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust.
Did you find something?

(7) Science concepts. The student knows evolutionary theory is a scientific explanation for the unity and diversity of life. The student is expected to:

(A) analyze and evaluate how evidence of common ancestry among groups is provided by the fossil record, biogeography, and homologies, including anatomical, molecular, and developmental;

(B) analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data of sudden appearance, stasis, and sequential nature of groups in the fossil record;

(C) analyze and evaluate how natural selection produces change in populations, not individuals;

(D) analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, including inherited variation, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources, result in differential reproductive success;

(E) analyze and evaluate the relationship of natural selection to adaptation and to the development of diversity in and among species;

(F) analyze and evaluate the effects of other evolutionary mechanisms, including genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and recombination; and

(G) analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning the complexity of the cell.

Hardly damning stuff.
TeamTissa Will Rock Empower Network in 2013
This is actually not what happened with EGCS at all. EGCS was a political fight.
The FSF in fact, fought EGCS all the way until it was completely clear that GCC would die.
Google search mystery
Can someone explain to me why searching for the phrase "this is great" on Google returns 2.7 billion page results whereas searching for just "is great" returns 230 million? Shouldn't the "is great" search return more results than "this is great"?

Bing results seem more consistent with expectations: "this is great" returned 12 million results and "is great" returned 53 million results (on a side note, I'm a little surprised by how much less content Bing seems to have indexed vs. Google).
Big Pictures are Made Up of Smaller Pictures
No. I figured I'd make it easier for interested parties to evaluate the standards by linking them.

Without comment.
The netflix example is interesting. I recently installed with super-hacky Netflix for Ubuntu PPA (works surprisingly well, but can cause your screensaver to activate). It's basically just windows firefox wrapped in a custom version of wine.

The important thing though is that it launches fullscreen and attaches to the unity dock as an independent application whereas with Windows it's just a website that you browse to.

I think that the way it integrates on Ubuntu actually makes much more sense in many ways. Though VLC integration would obviously be the most superior option.
I wrote portions of this middle end.
In fact, the "middle end" is the least muddy part of GCC at all.

It's muddy mainly because GNU coding standards and portability rules prevented people from doing things right when they had the time to do it.
as far as i understand freebsd is there just because some license fanatics want to maintain a commercial-izable alternative to linux. they switching to clang doesn't mean much, because it is most probably a dogmatic, ideological move.
Or generally possible directly with web requests. Pretty much everything is torn down at the end of each request. (Yeah PHP-FPM slightly muddies the waters)
Love it how she is the self-appointed poster girl for you can have it all, family and career...if you're worth a cool $1 billion or so.
Yep. That's the oldest shuffle in the business, too, since the college will simply decrease their existing scholarship budget by $1 for every $1 of a restricted gift. They're literally as good as cash.

When I was signing my docs at Wash U they gave me an eight question sheet. "You don't have to answer anything that would make you feel uncomfortable, but some of our alumni have restrictions on which scholarships they fund. Check any which apply. Don't worry, your aid package is the same either way."

The two which I remember several years later are a) widow or orphan of a US military veteran and/or b) Methodist St. Louisian desiring to study engineering. They were sort of a fascinating time capsule into what really motivated the ~1945 graduating class.
Heh, that's what you get for not serving cached content.
>anonymous

why?

releasing confidential government information is probably going to be bad for everyone involved, and does it really serve a real purpose?
Police have done more than prisons to cut crime in NY
numbers don't mean much once in the millions is my guess.
I don't know - just telling my facebook friends that I couldn't get out of bed in the morning? Sounds too mundane and even relate-able. "Oh Jim didn't get out of bed again," big fucking deal right?

Let's up the stakes here. You know what alarm I would never fuck with? The one that's about to "like" a certain fetish video on redtube or youporn.
No, I read the whole sentence. I didn't think (and still don't think) that it changes what I was saying. Here it is in its entirety:

Maybe we are in favor of artists who obviously get it (JoCo sells his music with no DRM, in any format you want, not to mention plenty of free samples) not being plagiarized by huge media conglomerates run by ruthless fatcats without an ounce of creativity, who are still stuck in the mindset of being the gatekeepers.

Please, enlighten me as to what I've missed.
Creativity, Imagination & Innovation
John Carmack .plan 1999
Al Gore on How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think
I don't have a better source, but Freakonomics had a whole chapter dedicated to the fact that having books impacts learning outcomes much less than having money. While giving kids books and encouraging reading at home seemed like a logical solution, it seems like after school programs, summer camps, etc. are a better predictor for success
don't underestimate the capabilities of `volunteers', or floss developers; nearly 30 years of apple software was thrown away again and again, and apple jumped to something new without much backward compatibility. So, they enabling sophisticated development by paying is a temporary illusion.
What does this comment have to do with the linked article?
This little homily adds nothing. That's why it's getting downvoted.

(It's also wrong, or over-simplified, in that all programming doesn't really fit into those little boxes.)
FWIW Java doesn't have any licensing fees to use for web apps, there are plenty of OSS frameworks available also.

Compiled languages have never been super popular for web development. Before Python/Ruby it was PHP/Perl that were the driving force outside of "enterprise". I guess enterprise adopts Java and .Net mainly because it is what most college grads come out of school knowing well, also the type safety may be advantageous when building big systems across hundreds of developers with ranging skill levels.

I think the main reason for dynamic languages being popular on the web is that the "Save Text file -> Press F5 in browser" and deployment by copying text files to an FTP server feels intuitive , has a quick feedback loop and a lower learning curve. Adding a compile & linking step just feels like it adds friction.

I worked with developer with a design & some PHP background on a small project that involved Java and he really struggled to understand why I was messing around with tomcat and .jar files rather than just copying .java files to the webroot.
I'm embarrassed- you're completely right. My apologies. It's working perfectly now. Thanks for putting up with me!
Doesn't seem to be cached by Google, yet. Does someone have a copy?
The PHP world is mired in legacy codebases. I have seen many code bases that are on very old, unsupported PHP versions. Although PHP strives to maintain backwards compatibility, it doesn't always work. And many of the backwards incompatible changes are only apparent at runtime and are incredibly difficult discover due to the dynamism of the language and the abuses that are present in most legacy PHP code.
> Man up or shut up.

This is sexist. That's why you lose.
You've missed the part where plagiarism is not the same thing as copyright infringement.
Yes,we do open connections to multiple devices, 7 being the maximum limit of the Bluetooth stack. We also have a thread that runs every 10 seconds and checks the last time a message was send to a device. if the time is greater than 300 seconds then we used to disconnect that device so that new devices could add to the topology.