skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They haven't found any concrete flaws though. Just speculation and outright wrong information.

The "If you can break SSL, you can break MEGA." made my day. I think MEGA is the least of your worries if SSL is broken; credit card transactions would be compromised big time.
"So I gather that you believe the entirety of SSRI's popularity, as well as all the good/bad physiological effects many of us taking them find so apparent, are strictly placebo effect?"

When you say "I gather that you believe" you seem to be implying that it's an opinion question. But for what it's worth, that's not how it works exactly. Again read The Emperors New Drugs for a good explanation. The book Anatomy of an Epidemic also has some good info in the relevant chapter.
I thought I had one. I'll add it this evening.
Money. Lots and lots of money.
Snip.it was a good service. One replacement is Scoop.it. And they have a revenue model, so they will hopefully not disappear too fast.
Appears to be missing most of AD&D (1e): the Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, Monster Manual II, Deities and Demigods, Rogues' Gallery. How is this "Every Edition Available Again"? I don't understand.
Social Media 'Ninjas,' Gurus' And 'Mavens' Are Multiplying By The Minute
> Elixir looks interesting, but the issues it addresses in Erlang are mostly superficial.

Perhaps if you also view the issues Clojure addresses in Java to be mostly superficial, but I have to politely disagree.

> The language has its quirks, but that mostly fades once you're neck-deep in code.

Respectfully, I would argue that the quirks aren't made apparent until you're neck-deep in code. That's when it really becomes painful.
I'll spare everyone the effort and post the mandatory acqui-hater comment:

"Ugh, I can't believe these people would work tirelessly for two years and then leave me on the hook for a product I never paid for. Sell-outs. Don't they realize that anything besides an IPO is failure?"
That's all it is basically. MPAA & RIAA can't just ask the cops to go and take a look; they won't be able to find anything.
In theory that is false, in practice it is less clear (at least to me). The ranking (and subsequent curve fitting known formally as calibration) is done across a level-band (bascially 'job title') across a much wider scope than a single team (i.e. across a division). The idea that your co-workers are actively plotting to somehow take some reward from you come review time is a poor caricature of reality. Does it happen? Possibly, Microsoft is a huge company. Is it common? Not based on my experience and conversations with others in different parts of the company. Anecdotally I have heard 0 credible stories about it from anyone willing to put their name behind it (i.e. I have seen anonoymous posts on minimicrosoft, but more on that in the next sentence). Also minimicrosoft has a clear selection bias as people don't go their to chat about how much they love various aspects of Microsoft culture. Citing that as evidence is like citing a Tobacco company research paper on the effects of smoking, questions on impartiality have to be considered. That said, and as I pointed out in my first sentence, I have no insight into the actual going-ons in stack-ranking meetings, so for all I know it could be horse-trading and petty-politics and curve-fitting on a per-team basis. That would be immensely stupid, and I don't get the impression that accurately models reality, though what the exact granularity between team of 10 and division of a thousand is, I don't know. There are other things about the Microsoft review system to dislike before curve-fitting, but it is certainly up there, and probably the most publically known aspect.
>nearly all beautiful European cities weren't planned, they have evolved

In the smaller and traditional sense, absolutely, but many major European cities have had horrendous suburban explosions that are just as unappealing as US suburbs (except, plenty of buses and usually a train or two). It seems to be a 20th century thing, in my view, but then I wasn't around to admire the bucolic pasture of the previous centuries where I assume dire poverty was the norm, which leads me to question - at least we have housing for more or less everyone in Europe?
I would expect a Carrington sized event to fry all the satellites in orbit. The damage from no GPS for several years would probably be in the hundreds of billions. There is a good chance that anything attached to an antenna or power lines would also be fried. I doubt if surge protectors would do any good. Personally I would pack my computers in metal boxes, unplug all my appliances and maybe even turn off my house at the entrance box. Then I would go outside and watch the display.

The saving grace is that we would have several days warning.
> Elixir-String':upcase(<<"fin">>)

Oh great! That is neat.

> This is extremely important, because it allows you to create conveniences around nil, like the operators && and ||.

Ok, I understand now. Thanks for explaining.

BTW great work on Elixir. It is shaping up to be a really fantastic language and BEAM VM is too good not to be shared with other languages ;-)
Same. My Dad gave me a lock and a copy of this he printed at work one evening. I was pretty young (I think 11?) but I learnt a lot. Dads are awesome!
The results are required to be posted on clinicaltrials.gov, though it isn't actually enforced from what I've read. But I was actually talking about how there is no requirement to publish the results in a medical journal. So there could be a dozen trials for every one that shows up in a PubMed search.
it's not all undergrads. about 30% of CS students are not in co-op.
I'm not sure that people who use relational databases would be surprised that there can be data-level race conditions. For example, if you write code like:
1) User requests transfer in the UI
2) Query the DB to see if the transfer is legal
3) If so, update the database.

you have to think about race conditions even if the database implements serializability. First of all, you have to have enough of a clue to do steps 2 and 3 inside the same database transaction, or else the isolation level doesn't help you in the least. Everyone who deals with an RDBMS has to worry about transaction boundaries all the time anyway to avoid race conditions, so it's not too much of a leap to assume that people who are used to worrying about transaction boundaries will have to have some idea of what kind of problems those transaction boundaries will prevent for them. Most databases in production systems don't do full-on serializability as an isolation level (and if they do, it's too expensive to turn on), so pretty much every engineer's real-world experience is that if they do a query against table A, then an update against table B based on that data, that they can have a race condition and they need to lock A or materialize potential conflicts.

I guess it's possible that my personal experience or the engineers that I work with are not a representative sample, but if you're working with sensitive issues like money transfers you tend to be really, really super-paranoid about it, and there's no way that something like that is overlooked by a halfway competent team.
i think the root cause has more to do with under-regulation, regulatory capture and proactive efforts to confuse and blur the boundaries. Bad Pharma is a good intro if you care to move past entry level comments.
I wrote the counterpoint, and although I really respect Professor Holloway's point, I really think his argument is stuck too much in the past.
When I was in college, I wanted to learn how to pick locks (just because I thought it would be an interesting "party trick" -- I would never steal, having been a victim of theft several times myself). I ordered a set of lock picks and practiced on a knob lock from Home Depot...to my surprise I was able to open the lock within minutes.
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There are lots of new companies/employees, businesses are buying lots of computers regardless of how long they are using them for.
This is nothing new. Here's an April 2011 post: https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
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I think you're young and ignorant, you should stay and school and gain perspective before moving to the real world.
As a college student, I'm always torn about whether or not it is worth it to get my CS degree. Sometimes, my classes seem really useless, but at other times, I feel like I'm learning a lot socially at college.
I hate the "biggur is better!1!" fad amongst phone manuf.s... (it seems a constant in every area... e.g. netbooks: started out nice and tiny, but slowly bloated up...)

Whenever I complain about this, my various acquaintances who have large phones tell me "it's really not as much of an issue as it might seem, just try it!" ... and then I try a bunch of large phones ... and they're super awkward... ><

[My hands are pretty average, neither small nor large.]

I hope Apple sticks by their guns on this issue, and I wish other manuf.s would at least try to offer a range of sizes instead of seemingly engaging in a race to offer the largest phones possible—and little else...
1996 wasn't when the Web was born, but it is a lot closer to the point in time when the Web and the Internet went mainstream. IIRC 1994 is often given as that year, and even by 1995 it (famously http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Bill_Gates_book... ) wasn't obvious to everyone that they were now at the centre of computing.
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I ordered lock picks on Thursday. I can't wait for them to arrive!
The hall of fame is a really nice idea.
I would love to see the Onion's take on this point/counterpoint.
This is bad practice from the mailman. The lock is there so that only the owner of the box can authenticate and retrieve the mail. If he allows people to walk up and select mail from the box then he is allowing a circumvention of the authentication protocol.
I got caught up with this guy's videos and watched all of them because they are so cool. Thanks for the share!
If you need to use multiple files (and let's be honest it's better that way), I recommend you try RequireJS.

It's pretty simple, remove ng-app from your body, and add the following to you boot.js: https://gist.github.com/4600740

Alternatively, if you need good boilerplates with multiple files and proper organization: https://github.com/elsom25/angular-requirejs-html5boilerplat... and https://github.com/angular/angular-seed .
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Once upon the internets, there was a story of some tech-oriented CEO or other in the US who took LSD on a regular basis (I believe, daily). I cannot remember the source of the story. As web searches these days seem filled with Steve Jobs results (argh), this seems like an appropriate forum to ask if anyone remembers who that was?

While a quick search failed, it did highlight the 'notable Polish security research group' Last Stage of Delerium (LSD) and lsd.net, a separate programming business. It seems that the relationship between psychoactive substances and programming (as with any other form of art/creativity/invention) seems a fascinating and well attested one.

(PS. I have contributed to Erowid over many years and also use and recommend the rather quirkier http://bluelight.ru/ which can be fascinating, if you are in the mood for forum-browsing)
Tumblr is rated 4+ and is full of animated GIFs of hardcore pornography.
I'd speculate that it's less about politics and empires, and more about not getting too many cooks in the kitchen. It's easy to blur the vision for your product when you have opinions coming in from five thousand people, never mind having the entire world speculate and discuss the product that doesn't yet exist.

Think back to May 2007. Remember some of the iPhone mockups people were throwing around? Aside from being largely impractical and stupid, there was clearly no "right" way to do it that was obvious to everyone, as the mocks were so incredibly varied. At some point, you have to make a bet on what the best way to proceed is and go with it, or else you'll spend all day debating and not actually get anything done. That's far easier in small, "secretive" groups.
Which again is not something that the radical majority of their customers is ever going to do.
I felt the same way during my business undergrad -- everything I was learning, from CAPM to Deming's management ideas to queue theory and operations management, has a wiki page and at least a dozen very good blog posts. Essentially all we're paying for is someone with domain experience to tell us what's relevant to learn, and help us learn it.

How expensive is college if we take away tuition? Is a college really more than just an employment agency for professors, an agency that provides its own classrooms and spaces?
That's my observation as well. Perhaps they mean "something from every edition is available" and intend to dribble out the content in an attempt to make the site something gamers revisit to see what's newly re-released?
How RIM is trying to win the app war
Wordnik developer tools are now Reverb (API suite for publishers)
And I'm saying that is not true. Scholar has nearly all of the cases anyone cares about - that's how they can index and serve them. (I say this as a former Google Scholar engineer.) If you are an individual, you can read the cases on Scholar. If you are a business and want to buy the cases in bulk - then you can find someone to sell them to you.

Opening up PACER really doesn't help in practice because the data is ridiculously dirty - crappy scanned PDFs which people then pay to have triple keyed.
The reality is that alot of doing a PhD comes down to the choice of your PhD advisor. You'll be intimately apprenticed to this person and his/her whims for several years of your life, and your life for those several years could be great or miserable (or somewhere in between, as mine was) as a result. Choose wisely and listen to your gut. It's generally the best judge of character you have.

Interview former students too (not current ones - you want the ones totally free to speak their mind).
While that could be a historical cause, these days it's actively part of the American culture. Interestingly there is almost a kind of hypocritical attitude. A lot of American culture involves sexualisation, especially involving celebrities; which often extends to kids in varies ways (fashion, magazines, music). Then parents also try to keep sex and nudity from their children, because they deem it will 'damage' them.
I'd say because they ultimately never generate enough revenue to pay rent? Failure is the final destination of pretty much everything that is ever built - it's a good thing some at least have the luck to be "acqui-hired" in the end...

(the fact that many start projects with that objective in mind doesn't help to improve these numbers either)
~10k/year in housing
> I know a lot of people who like Windows 8...

My experience is the opposite. The reaction I see to Win8 is a lot more negative than the reaction to Vista. They are all power users though, or former power users considering that none of us can figure out how to do basic tasks in Win8.
A brand new thing is not behind things which have been effectively abandoned by their makers, such as Symbian. Even compared with platforms like Blackberry, there is much greater opportunity to build momentum as a new exciting thing (Blackberry isn't going anywhere). Which isn't to say this momentum will be used well.

Like it or not, the core of the idea is using web technologies. And there are good developers who like this. After all, you can use the same mix of skills to make the website as the mobile app.

If you want to write apps in Java or Objective-C, there are already platforms for that. Firefox OS will not get extra traction by being an inferior version of those platforms.
Old adventures were more likely to have puzzles or encounters that required lateral thinking, as well as unexpected traps. Modern adventures are more likely to have skill challenges and encounters that can be resolved using in-game mechanics, usually in multiple ways. For old adventures, the uncertainty is that you are uncertain how or if the challenges will be met by players. "Tomb of Horrors" is kind of an extreme example of an old adventure.

Source: years of DMing every edition except 2nd.
Sutro Bath pictures are awesome, I'm bummed I never got to see them.

Union Square too: http://www.oldsf.org/#ll:37.788056|-122.407500&m:37.7900...
I think the point was that Jobs was working with the teams as a contributor more than a dictator. It very specifically pointed out that Jobs' ideas were decoupled from his role as CEO (as were everyone else's) so there were just lots of ideas, and the best ones stayed around while the rest were thrown out.

Perhaps Jobs started that process, but I'm sure it still exists with him gone.
It all depends on how good of a HS education you got. It also depends on the fun and relationships you are having outside of your school work. For me that was the best part
If you experiment with various size interdental brushes (search on Amazon), you will quickly realize that there can be a lot of differences in dental spacing. Some people might mostly have tiny spaces between their teeth, while some have larger spaces, which will collect much more food residue. Leaving that residue in place can cause your gums to bleed pretty fast, which means you will have problems.

Moral of the story: get to know your own teeth well and take care of them in the way that's best for you. You might not even realize how much food is constantly stuck between your teeth, if you never used an interdental brush. Flossing is complementary to them.
Scoop.it and Clipboard are good alternatives. One of these services should work on an import function
I had a very bad habit of buying stuff while tripping. To this day I still have the mirrored aviator sunglasses that I once purchased... That was an expensive but hilarious mistake.
One thing they are doing well is the added value of the product descriptions from the "product historian". It was really neat to see, for example, the reasons for the delay of the Temple of Elemental Evil.
Unless you have a revolutionary and marketable idea and are 110% confident about executing it with the utmost discipline that will guarantee something that you can call "success", please stay in school. Sorry if my tone is dick-ish - I'm just sick and tired of these debates about the value of college.
One thing that irks me about YouTube that I'd love to see implemented is the ability to search while a video plays.

You could put the search results in that right column section.
Regardless, you can just audit classes without paying tuition and all you miss out on is a grade and a piece of paper, called a degree.
Looks like the price was $10m + bonuses

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/yahoo-buys-snip-it-10-milli...
I don't see what advantages Dell hopes to gain by going private. Dell has always been a one-trick pony: reduce the cost of PCs and servers by eliminating retail operations and manufacturing to-order or overseas. Everyone caught up to Dell a decade ago. Their problem today is that they provide nothing distinctive and occupy a stagnant market niche. Are they planning some sort of outrageously-expensive pivot to Apple-style consumer electronics or a Nokia-style desperation move to pin all their hopes on Microsoft's mobile platforms?
You'll never have that level idea unless you make it happen, and staying in school is not the way to do that.
Thanks for sharing. Could you elaborate why you were not pleased with the previous experience with Scala? The project was hard to maintain? Or it couldn't take heavy hitting of requests? Or it has limitation for multi-programmers kind of work?
A $100-to-consumers, thoroughly hackable phone would be a bonanza for geeky hobbyists, feature phone users and Chinese companies selling to the developing world. Let's see if they can get prices down to where people will not think too much about how they'd rather have Android.
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"get more out of future experiences"?

Where is the future and what is there to get?
Not only is she a wizard with current technologies, she is also working on new ways to create music.
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You're related to Borat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen
I'm defending my PhD on friday too! Good luck to us.

The article strikes a chord with me and what I see around me. There are serious structural issues and being a PhD student is a surprisingly weak position. I am glad you are finally managing to finish.
If it is deep, unfiltered introspection you seek, psilocybin is your liege.
As mech4bg said, much or most of people's .mp3 libraries at that point had probably come straight off CD. Napster wasn't even released until 1999, and "Rip. Mix. Burn." was Apple's edgy new slogan of 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECN4ZE9-Mo .
This is impossible to read. Please restructure it in some way that involves paragraphs, fewer parenthesis and doesn't reference it's own sentences.
Which is why most successful startup founders are college dropouts. Wait.

(Btw, if you are being sarcastic and referring ironically to the last line of the counterpoint, my apologies for misreading you.)

I would be interested to know whether there are any cohort studies on dropout success. I know overall dropouts tend to make much less money and perform much worse on many other metrics. However, that may simply be because the weak drop out.

But overall, I guess it is an unsafe bet. If you can't seem to pursue your passion with a few hours of classwork a day in your way, you're going to have a hell of a time doing it while also working ten hour shifts as a waiter because you couldn't get a more lucrative, easier job thanks to your lack of higher education.

College is easy. If you can't pursue your passions while also doing college, you're gonna have a problem either way.
If you are Mozilla, then likely it's not better to focus on what comes after. Because you have no idea what that is, and it might not even provide an opening for promoting the open web, to which "app stores" based on proprietary technologies are antithetical.
I don't see much of a correlation between these goofy treadmill desks and user interface defaults. I like the UI example of what they do at Exec, I think it's a smart design. But the second half of the article just reminds me of Mitch Hedberg's joke about escalators.
I'm sorry, but I don't follow that logic. It might be true for some people, but probably not for most of them. It's easy to forget that the great tech success stories, the drop-outs, were in the right place at the right time (read: major city or centre of technology). For most people, growing up in ordinary towns, going to college is a way to meet new types of people and ideas that you would never have been exposed to before. It's absolutely the place to find inspiration. That doesn't mean it works for everyone, but don't be so quick to dismiss it without some good justifications.
> Like a relationship with a person, a relationship with a substance might also not work out.

Somewhere between stage 1 & 2.