skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought the Microsoft makes money with server-side .NET by making people buy expensive Windows server licences. The whole .NET platform can be viewed as a "feature" of their server products, differentiating them from Unix-family alternatives.
Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt is an excellent book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0742516857

There's a review of it here: http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/higher-education-review.h...
Price Discrimination and the Illusion of Fairness
As you've framed it, it's a loaded question that assumes the author is a moron who somehow expects a half-assed port to produce equal returns. Reasonable people can presume he has an idea of the quality of his own Android app and managed his expectations accordingly and yet he was disappointed. This is not a new story nor does is contradict the vast majority of data points we have.
> partner with Redhat and move their product line to something more standard with solid Linux support

Your suggesting they should turn their back on the majority of their current user base.

Doesn't sound like such a smart business move to me.
This is one of the more mindboggling snippets of CSS you'll ever see. It's up there with techniques that keep two columns the same height without using Javascript or a <table> element.

I've implemented this before, but still wouldn't be able to produce it on the spot without Googling. This post encouraged me to take a deeper look.

This page goes in depth on how it works, but is still a bit confusing:
http://code.google.com/p/cleanstickyfooter/

The craziest part is the #wrapper element, which uses a nifty hack to support old and new browsers. Old browsers don't work with css min-height, but they do allow the height property to expand. Moreover, old browsers will ignore an "important!" tag if the same property is addressed later in that selector.

It's a perfect storm of dumb luck that "min-height: 100%; height: auto important!; height: 100%;" actually manages to do what you want, for this exact scenario, in all browsers. That line looks pretty stupid to most modern css devs.

Here's an arguably cleaner approach that I believe will work for most modern browsers (I think after IE6, but could easily be mistaken). No need for the wrapper around all content, but you still need that darn "push" div. Actually now that I think about it, it might even work for older browsers if you add "height: auto important!; height: 100%;" to the body. Maybe someone can test?
http://jsfiddle.net/A3BLm/1/
Announcing Native Client support on ARM
Sure, its not as robust as a generalised queuing system, but it's web analytics - the driving reason for queuing is more about high performance than about guaranteed message delivery. Lightweight and _fast_ in-memory queues seem like a perfectly adequate solution fr the problem domain, while being (as claimed) significantly less of a pain to set up than "traditional" queuing techniques.
+1 to this, drives me nuts.
Larry Page's opening remarks from this afternoon's earnings call
I think the right thing to do here would be to ask them to remove mention of YCombinator from their website and not use it in press mentions.

At the moment, their website states:

"We are a YCombinator company (YCW2012) and are backed by some of the most prestigious investors in the silicon valley."
so?

don't disable js if you want to use the www. It's not worth web developer's time catering to people like you.

if I take out my car's engine it takes me forever to get anywhere, but is that Honda's problem?
As the husband of a PhD (in the U.S.), I agree with many of the OP's points. It was an arduous process with little in the way of internal controls or milestones and subject to the whims of her adviser. I was struck at how academia lacks the people and project management concepts that I've taken for granted; it really is a fiefdom ("deeply dysfunctional training system").

She made the choice to move into industry and not academia a year before graduation (because the concept of a post-doc, nontenured professorship, and continued toiling at below-market rates [and other reasons] was... unappetizing), and at that point was sort of sidelined.

She made it out in 4.5 years, where many of her peers are still in the program. Which brings me to my main point of contention with the article: "it's because you're brilliant that you're contemplating doing a PhD in the first place". Not all PhDs are brilliant any more so than every brilliant person considers doing one. As the OP points out, the key to PhD success is self-motivation and a dedication to the field ("appetite for pain") rather than any particular cognitive blessing.

As in all things, whether it's a PhD or the decision to go work in finance (for a great salary but no personal life for several years) or doing a start-up, you need to weigh your personal goals and limitations with the expectations of your environment.
Goodbye, Anecdotes The Age Of Big Data Demands Real Criticism
It was do 3 papers, write your thesis, and get out.

I'm a CS grad student at Technion, and that's basically how my advisor has described our grad-school process.

Paper 1: your MSc thesis.

Papers 2 and 3: If related to paper 1, combine into your PhD thesis.

3 related papers on one broad topic => thesis, you're done.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Why do people keep bring up with this stupid Myspace argument ?

There are plenty of examples of market leading companies that have remained on top despite additional competition e.g. Windows, Office, Google Search.
I've never used this app. But assuming I'm an adult and want to use an Apple device to show my penis to other adults with Apple devices, why should Apple care?
The concept of PLOS waiving the fee is interesting to me- as it establishes a bit of a "pay what you want" thing on an institutional level.

There are lots of examples of various people in other fields (music, indie video games, restaurants, etc) charging a 'pay what you can' strategy. But not many institutional ones.
Because once a corporation takes it, they've got it, and it's theirs. There's no turnabout allowed in this game.
The oddest one I have: you can't press the number '4' when calling from a Google Voice number. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/voic...
What's the rating on the iOS web browser? 17+? Presumably your hypothetical 4 and 14 year olds would have access to that too?

Although I notice that several web browsers in iTunes have 17+ ratings too, so at least they're consistent, maybe. According to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mercury-browser-fast-web-bro...

You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.
Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence
Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

update: did you actually look at the picture that you linked? I doubt a 14 year old is going to be harmed by it...
But it may be increasingly assembled by the providers of virtual services from components, rather than purchased from Dell.
Redis Masterclass: Part Two - Monitoring
Ask HN: What not-so-well-known website do you check at least once a day?
Just curious what websites HN users visit regularly each day that may not be so well known to others (e.g. apart from HN, Techmeme, Techcrunch etc)

I guess the definition of "not-so-well-known" is subjective, but hope you know what I'm getting at.

Love to find out!
You don't seriously believe that any age restrictions are able to prevent a 14 year from seeing whatever porn he/she wants? Or whatever else.

Sure, they might make the process a bit annoying, but in the end it's always possible to simply jailbreak the device. (not to mention that most 14 year olds know more about technology than their parents)
Show HN: An App to Help You Speed Read
why is that HN crowd is so much into Django? Every day I see something Django-related on the top page. I feel like I'm left out... is Django like the world's number one web framework (for hackers)?
I've found that I've really enjoyed the Little Schemer series quite a bit. I do have SICP which is a great college-level text but for a pure-introductory book for someone who is completely new to programming I would suggest Little Schemer.

Either way, SICP or Little Schemer aim to teach a theory of computation. The unit of computation is recursion and they go to show just how powerful it is. I think the fun stems from learning the theory and allowing your mind to toy with the applications of it.

Conversely, HtDP is first and foremost practical. I find it boring precisely because its goal is to show you how to design computer programs. There's little creativity involved!
Hackers Deface Entire MIT Website in Aaron Swartz Suicide Revenge Attack
Luckily for humans, we've already developed mathematics to deal with things like "what's a sensible investment" - probability and expected value.

The expected value of lotteries is less than the ticket price, so it's not a sensible investment, if we assume "sensible investment" means maximizing expected value on every dollar spent (which is what you seem to be doing implicitly. Feel free to suggest another definition).

On the other hand, people will tend to put very high utility on living longer, and if cryonics works, the potentially vast number of added years is amazingly valuable.

Run an expected value computation on this, and because of the crazy upside of cryonics, you can have very low levels of confidence that it will actually work, and it will still be worth it from an expected value point of view.
Running into Sergey Brin on the Subway
If anything, he didn't want to sell the data, he wanted to sell the story.
Email me (jacques@lizibot.com) if you remember it. I'll try to track it down and revive it if I can!

The old opensourcerails site directory is searchable here: http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/
Now, I want a PhD. Because I know of no other way forward to where I am tasked with advancing our field, publishing the result, and building a paying career on that.

This is the basic problem we have to solve. Yes, doing a PhD can suck, and the job market for academics sucks, but there's basically no other way to do original research and make original research-grade scientific advancements for a living.
I am referring to the whole shebang. From what I know, pension and unemployment insurances are mandatory. Am I wrong?

Now, with pension and unemployment insurances, will the tax bracket be higher than 30% for 100k ?

You are right, no one sensible would go without the health care portion. But some people (moi) don't trust pension with governments. (Argentina, Hungary.. etc)

Now, if those things are mandatory, how much would be left of a 70k salary? Still on the 30%?
hedging your|you're grammatical bets using both forms :)
I'd understand if you were wanting to host private side projects, but you're using Github to help you make money. That's very unreasonable, especially when you can claim these costs as tax deductions.
My hopes were very high based on the title, but the site seems down :(
Is Live removing OSC? That's really unfortunate. I use it with my Monome right now for Live stuff.
I installed Mixel for its collage capabilities but I was turned off by its social network aspect.

Sadly, I've noticed that it's the case for a lot of apps in this space (e.g. Instagram of course, Cinemagram, Viddy, SocialCam, etc.): instead of providing a simple function, they provide it wrapped into a dedicated social network. I see why they do it: some people want a fully integrated experience and it's likely to make the company more valuable if it becomes successful.

However I personally like the Camera+ model much more: an app that stands on its own, but that provides an API for other app to use (http://api.camerapl.us/app-api).

That being said, congratulations to the team there! My personal preferences shall not hinder their success :)
> You do know the web browser and pretty much any apps can be turned off in restrictions right?

Please enlighten me as to how to restrict apps other than Safari, Camera, FaceTime, and iTunes, because that's all there is in that menu.
The last thing we need is pundits and newspapers making wild and broken accusations and 'analysis' based on trying to find the linkbait side to every result.

To me, that doesn't sound like a problem with open access, it sounds like a problem with trusting untrustworthy sources. How many times do you see something you know about being reported on, and them getting it wrong? Why would anyone trust pundits and newspapers?
I wish there was some way to fix the situation with protocols in biology. Maybe we could attempt to identify the reasons that they suck, and then fix those reasons. There was a stackexchange site for protocols called methodmint, but nobody used that. Biologists either hate the internet or they hate computers because all of the attempts to get informal web communication happening have failed (even by email). It complicates things even more.
Have you guys seen LiveScript?
Unless that "teaming with Red Hat" meant going full enterprise/server and dropping consumer lines, I just don't see that going well (though I'm not sure I would say that enterprise equipment is really lacking in the Linux support area right now anyway...).
The course material is still available, although you'll need to sign up for a Coursera account. It also looks like they're running another course in March 2013.

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index
I suspect either people dislike the use of the word retarded in a offensive way, or they didn't get that you meant retarded as in "delayed".

I like to think you were downvoted because they didn't grasp you meant delayed or behind progress :)
This reminds me of boomerang for gmail [1]
followup.cc has the advantage that it isn't gmail specific.

[1] http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
I meant that Detroit is an example of a city that did not meet the needs of the Market and so has effectively become bankrupt / collapsed while those people who could have moved to competing cities - I was trying to say that the competition between cities was working (although it's hardly a perfect market)

In answer to why - tax revenue is one less than compelling answer - my preference is to look back at the city states of Greece - they competed and fought for supremacy, for survival for riches - but mostly they fought because their city was their tribe and their home and the others were enemy. It's pretty human basic stuff I believe - nations are too big to get really worked up about but a city - it's the right sort of size.
Good idea, we have something similar in mind. Would love to chat. Ping me if you're interested.
4 years of structured training, followed by the presentation of a research plan that is signed off by examiners before any research is begun so there are no surprises in the final examination.

And ideally, this plan has been discussed at length with the advisor before the formal proposal happens.
Exactly. Which is the definition of unauthorized penetration testing.
U.S. Cyber Command Plans To Increase Workforce By 15%
What server side trackers do you suggest?
It looks like they know what they're doing. I was especially curious about deduplication. The way they do it sounds perfectly reasonable:

> MEGA indeed uses deduplication, but it does so based on the entire file post-encryption rather than on blocks pre-encryption. If the same file is uploaded twice, encrypted with the same random 128-bit key, only one copy is stored on the server. Or, if (and this is much more likely!) a file is copied between folders or user accounts through the file manager or the API, all copies point to the same physical file.
I got a quick look before we broke it. Looks promising but one can't help wonder the legality . . .
Multi Thread Web Scraping in Ruby Using Mechanize and Multiple Tor Circuits
By that logic, Safari should be 17+ only and should not be installed by default unless the user claims/proves that they are 17+. It's much easier to access nudity/porn via Safari. 500px's app required much more work, and contained "artistic nudity" not porn.
Host your own, go to BitBucket or pay. Github sets their prices so they can make money, I'm sure if they could work the revenues they'd do a cheaper plan, but as they've yet to do it (despite BitBucket offering unlimited private repos) I'd assume they favour making money over being popular.
What will you pay an M&A Advisor or iBanker to sell your company?
Unfortunately there are are many contributors to suburban sprawl other than market forces. Zoning and regulations like parking minimums contribute to suburban development and prevent developers from building housing that would otherwise be in demand; the way property taxes are calculated also encourages sprawl.

An interesting article from a little while back - "How Suburban Sprawl Works Like a Ponzi Scheme"
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/10/su...
I believe it's being put up by wizards of the coast. They've been working on it for a while. So I think it's totally legal.
We've tried switching from GH Enterprise to Stash (because of the $5000 thing, which pisses me off and makes me feel like I'm being ripped off at the same time!), but it's really "not there yet".

The file browser sucks, the repo management doesn't make sense (repos live in projects, instead of organization/project or person/project), you can't run git via ssh on port 22, no activity stream (so you need to combine it with Fisheye), etc.

The price of Stash is really the price of Stash + Fisheye. At that point you're only looking at $2500, but still. Unfortunately for us, GitHub issue tracking and wiki suck compared to Jira/Confluence. So we run GH Enterprise + JIRA + Confluence. :)
RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors
Startups: How to make sure you aren’t wasting your time
The TDD Django Tutorial is both a good example of Django TDD and a good introduction to using Selenium for integration/functional tests. It was my first introduction to both.
We went with Acer desktops, Apple portables, and HP or SuperMicro servers. Dell decided to classify us as government when we are an educational institution. It was a very, very sore point[1], and the government pricing was 2x the educational price.

1) only time I have ever lost my cool with a vendor
Introducing VoltDB 3.0
Could I survive and save some money earning 65k in NY?
I'm a very austere guy by the way.
Dell's strategy is to grow its non-PC business: services and software. It's already executing it.
The most telling thing about PhD programs is the attrition rate compared to elite professional programs. Attrition reates "for academic reasons" appear to be under 2% in elite JD and MD programs.

https://www.aamc.org/download/102346/data/aibvol7no2.pdf

The spread for law schools is much higher than for med schools, but for elite schools, it is also exceptionally low, well under 2%.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/04/law-school-r...

(note - just realized these are only 1L attrition rates. It isn't going to change much here).

Ph.D programs, even at elite schools and in science or engineering, are by comparison a horror show of failure and attrition.

It looks like completion rates for engineering - best of the bunch, are around 65%. For mathematics and physical sciences, it's about 55%.

www.phdcompletion.org/resources/CGSNSF2008_Sowell.pdf

I know this is a trick, dividing by such a low number, but I suspect that the PhD completion rate for the 3rd rated Engineering school (Berkeley) compared to the 3rd ranked law schools (Columbia) is about .3/.003. About 100 times higher. This is silly, because the attrition rate at Yale is zero, which means it's actually impossible to compute how much higher the top rated Engineering (MIT) PhD programs's attrition rate actually is. Or, as we said in grade school but not grad school, "infinity higher".

There are a couple reasons for this. Speaking as a PhD dropout myself, half of a PhD in engineering isn't as much of a loss as half of med school. I don't need the PhD to be licensed, so nobody's going to put me in jail for writing code. Completing 2 years of med school and dropping out is far worse than Mastering out of engineering. I just got to earning more quickly. At the same time, I think that many elite schools are able to suppress their true attrition rates by counting MS students as having achieved their degree goal (in short, I suspect the true attrition rate is higher than the already grim numbers).

But our wise elders in government (almost always lawyers) who wring their hands about the shortage of US students in PhD programs never seem to ask... why is Berkeley's Engineering PhD attrition rate 100 times higher than an elite law school. Are the magna cum laude applied math majors with 800/800 on the GRE and specialized subject tests just dumber than lawyers?

In reality, Americans have pretty much given up on PhDs in engineering and science. Sadly, this is rational for people who have the choice to go into the professions. However, if you'd like to come to the US, and you're looking for a way to sidestep our byzantine immigration system, a grad degree in a STEM field from a good US based university can be a wise move, especially since the professional schools are far less likely to admit large numbers of international students.
This happens a lot and tech is not without its elitists, but that doesn't excuse rude behaviour. I have found this happens a lot, but a lot less than in England. Fortunately we have people like Zuck in a hoodie and Brin on the subway, both with more money than god to thank for leveling the playing field a little.

Next time, don't wait for the VC to let you drink your coffee. You could be American about it and pander to his/her ego, or you could be British (since you use both word forms I am assuming you're also a transplant) about it and tell him to go fuck himself.
Dell is not being purchased by Microsoft. Silver Lake Partners, a PE firm that does investments and leveraged buyouts (LBOs), is conducting an LBO of Dell. Microsoft is merely providing some of the capital for the buyout, which would likely take the form of a loan to Silver Lake Partners.

Again, Microsoft is not buying Dell, Silver Lake Partners is.

It makes a lot of sense for MS 1. from a strategic standpoint, 2. Microsoft having tens of billions of cash reserves which need a return, and 3. MS + Silver lake have a prior relationship: MS purchased Skype from them.
Yes they can. Although there are special tools to discourage non-tagged or improperly tagged photos.

We don't check, but our community self-monitors and reacts very quickly (few minutes at most).
Django is the leading Python framework (by any usage measure) for web development. Python is a popular language. Ergo . . .

As someone who has been learning Django/Python for 4 months, I very much appreciate both the getting started with Django site and the book 2 Scoops of Django that just came out. Would have saved me weeks of time if I had access to these 4 months ago. It's coincidence that they came out within a few days of each other (and a few days after Django 1.5 release candidate came out).

There's even greater interest in Ruby on Rails, the leading web development framework for Ruby.