skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ask this from a fairly clueless, out-of-date perspective, but are the current Bluetooth stacks and implementations robust enough at this point to trust? (Aside from all the higher level stuff.)

P.S. I agree with what I think is the principle behind this -- I have for some time, with respect to freedom on the Internet and its like. That being that the only true security and reliability will come from owning and controlling the physical layer.

I also like that, unlike with autonomous wifi access points, the signal might be able to hide -- and move about -- within a larger sea of Bluetooth connectivity and at lower powers and therefore exploitable ranges. If I'm thinking about this at all correctly (I'm unsure).
Great news! I've been using Recon.io for a couple of months now and found the alerting functionality really useful. It's basically Google Alerts for Twitter: just enter your product/company name and have one less feed to worry about.

Their database of journalists is also quite valuable already. I've entered "analytics" as the industry keyword and I get a couple of alerts every week for similar product launches covered by well known journalists.

In the future I'd love to see more history and aggregates on the dashboard (now only shows tweets from the last 7 days).
> Mongo makes dev easy, but I worry about the long term cost when things get complex. I did a job recently and found that my brain struggled to keep the internal Mongo doc structure intact.

I don't worry too much about that. You can use the repository patten to manage the serialisation and storage of your objects. Given this is something you'd typically do in most backends, I don't think it's a big ask. I do worry about the Mongo scare stories.

> You can use Celery (uses RabbitMQ/Redis/Mongo/whatever underneath for the broker) for offloading the jobs in Python. Just add a decorator to your work function, makes it really easy (you can also use PiCloud if you need something with more crunching power)

I can't remember evaluating Celery, so possibly I overlooked it. Perhaps it didn't work with Python 3 at the time?

I'll have to look into Angular.
Sounds like a good idea, seems too big for Flippa if you ask me. Have you asked any of the sites mentioned above if they're interested? Or a largely offline company?
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Apple manufacture consumer entertainment devices that are neither safety critical in nature nor difficult to field test. Think more along the lines of Boeing, Northrop Grumman or Raytheon.
Sorry for the OC. I may have missed something here.
I don't see how two checkboxes equal 4 bits of information by default. In this case you can have two checkboxes depending on 1 bit that can represent and/or count 2 values regardless the two checkboxes being complementary or contrary. Four bits can represent up to 16... Are you referencing "bit" for "piece" and also for "binary digit" ? Other ?
Are you suggesting that the genetic grouping of white males is scientifically accepted as being a better ruby conference speaker than non-white or non-male people?
Could you explain your use cases of `s`? I've basically never found a use for it given `c` and `r` or `R` but maybe I'm missing something.
In many occupancy-based price optimization algorithms (at least in the multi-family sector where I previously worked), it is not optimal to maintain 100% occupancy. It doesn't allow much flexibility. I've seen recommendations for apartments around 95% to cope with fee changing, turn over maintenance etc. I'm sure hotels are in a similar situation (but have even lower percentage due to guest volatility).
Amount depends on VC, Angel, or Incubator stream. (There are three streams.) The reason we did it this way is because we think gov't is bad at picking good start-ups and that VCs, Angels, and Incubators are better. The funding is minimal. (As low as $25K for angels for example.) We just want people saying "this person is good, let them in" have skin in the game.
It seems like a legitimate way to reconcile one's conscience with the realpolitik of modern IT employment, engaged as we are in building the surveillance state/police state/nanny state we were all warned about by 20th century novelists and historians.

I try to do this when I buy an RIAA-published album or watch a Hollywood film. I make sure I donate an equivalent amount to civil-liberties orgs (EFF, ALA, and others) during that year.

"Carbon credits," basically.
Chrome v26 has native DataChannels, but I didn't have time to update my polyfill and also it gave me problem the last time I tried it, so I'm waiting until it gets out of Canary.

Yes: I developed DataChannel-polyfill, the first working implementation of the DataChannels specification, too... :-)
Will this promiscuously share with any other reachable running instance? Does that, combined with anonymity, create a risk that an adversary could distribute misinformation directly to protesters via this app?

(EDIT: rephrased as question)
Seriously? This again?

Anonymous is not Rosa Parks.
Google and Apple already have.

Switching compilers isn't that difficult, especially when they're as reliable as GCC and Clang.
This is true, though arguably lack of any knowledge about anything is a deficit.

Since it's impossible to know everything about everything, it's really a question of "what is the probability that this will be useful?"
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Thanks for the feedback damon_c. A friend of mine had similar ideas. I'd love to add features like this. I can use all the help I can get. Can you shoot me an email abrahamagopian@gmail.com, or I can contact you.
I can't find where that is explained thoroughly. This was claimed but not explained very well in the comments on the article. If I write some music and then later put out a cover version of another song set to that tune, how do I lose my copyright on the music I wrote?
Amaingly transparent organisation too. You can see every patient they've ever funded and the outcome of their treatment in a Google spreadsheet, here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...
Do you have a link to that email? Interested to see what he said.
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Right, which is why I was making the point that there are a great many situations where an understanding of probability will help.
Education and income both seem to effect fertility independently. There is evidence that income correlates with higher fertility, even controlling for education: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/52/09/48/PDF/publi_p... and vice versa: http://csde.washington.edu/~scurran/files/readings/May12/Why...

That said, all of the science on the subject is measuring very specific things and should be interpreted narrowly. You can say income is broadly correlated with fertility, and rule out some specific measures of education as an explanation for that particular (small) piece of the variance pie, but you can't then just make up an explanation and pretend it's supported by science. Just-so stories like the one you're telling are at best food for thought, or fodder for future experimental hypotheses. There's no scientific basis that I know of for the kind of mechanism you're proposing. Though I'd be happy to see more studies on the subject.
Maybe 3 needs to become 42. Maybe x needs to become price. Maybe miapelling needs to become misspelling. I pretty frequently have a one-character thing that needs to be replaced.
This "we're the best because we're the best!" attitude is harmful and resting on laurels "as an American" is why we're not the best, leading to a continued erosion of freedom, ill-action, and our deserved opinion in the eyes of the rest of the world.
That's really interesting---I assumed it was just really bad JPEG compression!
I got the impression that when mentioning HIV and toenail infections etc., he's talking about the overall technique of a "nanomedicine" delivery via a hydrogel that "self assembles" when it comes into contact with water.

The specific instance of that which they are currently focusing on appears to be targeting only bacteria, but since the method is focused on mechanical destruction of the cells, presumably they might be hoping that they can adapt the technique to detect and destroy other things as well.
That could be interpreted as sarcasm or not. Wish you'd used a /s or whatever the marker for sarcasm is these days.
Can someone explain to me how young earth creationists can even exist at high levels in our government? It just seems so embarrassing. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.
"Sounds like "Rich White Guy" is the best person to solve the problems, then"

This is not a binary "problems" or "no problems". The manner by which colonialists "improve" the rest of the world is at the expense of the rest of the world.

Not commenting on Gates' particular methods, but injecting money generally comes with a cost, and at various freedoms of the countries involved. At best of intention, throwing money at a problem is not usually solving the conditions behind a problem.
Do alternative alarm apps still require you to leave the phone on all night?
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I don't know about the PlayStation, but there's reason to suspect that the XBox leak was fake:

http://x-surface.tumblr.com/post/41282771026/x-surface-dont-...
"With his penchant for harems, I imagine McAfee will need all the anti-virus protection he can get."

Heh.
The application process is one of those interesting ones. I completely agree that having a different ruleset but same grading process is completely wrong, but I think that says more about having involvement from too high of a governmental level.

Personally, I think our best option would be to do away with the notion of age-based grades. Make progression based on competency (at least for the core curricula), so if you are highly competent in math, you may be with students several years older than you but if your writing stinks, you may be with younger kids. Instead of trying to force kids into a mold that very few fit comfortably in, let them grow in their own ways.

I would love to have my kids attend a school like that. My daughter, who is a gifted writer and artist but struggles non-stop with math (and there are physiological reasons for that) would be able to be comfortable in school and, as a result, better able to focus on her strengths instead of trying to shore up weaknesses that only matter for testing programs.

If the charter system allows more experimentation, then that alone justifies its existence; but the transition of more than 100 years of "prepare them for the factory" type of education to "prepare them for knowledge work" will not painful, especially since we still need some of the "prepare them for the factory" and many more "prepare them for a trade".
I smelled sarcasm, thanks for clarifying. Otherwise, why would you consider getting back to college? Nostalgia for college days or just because you didn't had that experience? What value do you think it could bring? (I dropped for 2 years, and still not sure what to do next)
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Considering that the movement of money is all that ever changes anything in today's world, I don't think that's a bad idea. I'd listen to their pitch, put it that way.
Complicity is only with those willfully ignorant, I imagine. Colonialism ~is~ a malevolent mass. "Rich white persons" tend to be the force behind colonialism, but theoretically it could be anyone.
> pretty corrupt

Based on those two examples?

According to this: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

...4 nordic countries place in the top 7. Sweden is nr 4. The US is nr 19.
Even if there were no advancements, which is certainly not the case, no, it would still probably not be a good use of the money. If all forms of cancer are simply unsolvable (not the case), then research would be better spent on researching other diseases, working to change healthcare so the costs are not extremely expensive, and so on.

And why spend $100K+ to save one child? Why not that money, to, say, feed many starving children? Or build housing?

If "trying to help him" would be a form of "great research", then chances are someone would be interested in it. You might need to realise that he is simply unlucky. But not necessarily any more unlucky than a child that gets polio, or has their skin burned off, or is left brain damaged from a car accident.

It's complicated and sad, but denouncing long-term investment because of immediate sad situations will only create more sad situations.
People liked Gmail, though. It was a product everyone loved, a major upgrade for webmail. Google+, on the other hand, has some cool features but is also a cudgel that Google is beating us over the head with if we want to post YouTube comments, Google Local reviews or Play Store app reviews, none of which ought to require using a real name. As Gmail users we're constantly nagged to "upgrade" to Plus. These are legitimate reasons to dislike G+; it's not just jealousy.
When reading this title my default reaction was "Oh God Why" I am happy to see the author agrees with me. As an intelectual excersize I think this is great showing that yes C is very very flexable ( You can do the same stuff with C++ and it will look nicer BTW[0]) but please don't do this, Its messy and hard to trace.

[0: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/range/doc/html/ran...
It's already starting.

http://www.cva.edu/ This college in St Paul last year just got some art accreditation that purportedly takes into account future financial viability. They just announced they can't remain financially solvent. So much for accreditation.

At this point I think education will have a rather interesting next few years.
Really simple. They need to pay their bills.

I'm sure your frinds rather be working for some project that would make the world better (hey Linux, I'm at you!:) But, still, they have to pay bills.

That's life. Don't like it? Change it.
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This is quite true. For state schools, new buildings may be a "gift" from the political class to show the public their support for higher education. The stupid irony is those buildings typically don't come with operations and maintenance funds. At the same time, state appropriations are decreasing, putting the pinch on O&M and department support. The university (or publicly supported research institute) has a shiny new building in which they can put neither equipment nor people.
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Why not create a P2P server that runs on something simple like a raspbery pi to provide supporting backbone for the network. They are cheap and small. This could make an awesome kickstarter project. Maybe make it like a keychain that wakes up every 5-15 minutes to update/broadcast messages
And yet you expressed your idea in under 140 characters.
If they did decide to ditch real time and low level control on the next Xbox is there any reason it couldn't just be type of Windows RT device?

Basically turning the xbox into an alternative to a desktop PC?
Have you ever wondered where the money comes from to pay you the cash back? It's from charging higher merchant fees for rewards cards - so it's just a shell game really.

If merchants can charge a higher excess for rewards cards, that will help level the playing field.

It's a shame AmEx isn't included in the deal.
Because huge swaths of the population either agrees with them or agrees with their other political/economic/religious views.

Personally, what shocks me more than individuals getting elected, are the educated individuals who believe it. I work in an office filled with engineers. Amazingly, my first cubicle neighbor, and I've found he isn't an outlier, was a diehard young earth creationist. Electrical engineer, 4 year degree at a good school. Still somehow believes in a vast conspiracy by scientists in league with the devil to hide The Truth. At a previous company, another engineer, this one with a PhD, was not ashamed of the time he berated guides/curators at the Museum of Natural History for a display on dinosaurs.
> It's worth noting that GCC already supports significantly more C++11 than either MSVC11 or ICC, although this article makes no such comparison

Really great point. I don't understand why this article focused on C++11 of all things. Until recently, gcc had much more complete C++11 support than Clang. Now, it seems they're about on par (if feature tables are any guide[1]). In fact, a couple years ago I was about to switch to Clang but when I started using C++0x I had to stick with gcc because Clang's support just wasn't there yet.

Also, LLVM's C++ Standard Library (libc++) is still pretty immature on Linux, so even if you use Clang for C++11 you're probably going to end up using gcc's standard C++ library anyways!

So yeah, this article is pretty sensationalist.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html and http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
Of course, this skips negligible parts of C programming like memory management.
1) imperative programming
2) functional programming
3) OOP
4) etc programming

They're jus programming paradigms. Take what you need and get the job done. Anything else is just a buzzword.
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does anyone know where to look to find out how much debt a college has or what their financials are?
As much as online degree may be the future, this is really out of touch. An online degree is still considered absolutely useless in academia, law, and medicine. Literally none of the students currently graduating in the top 5% of their classes will pursue an online degree as opposed to a traditional school.
In order to stay afloat how many larger universities will no longer allow transfer credits to prevent people going to cheaper schools for gen Eds?
Please don't bully him like that. Have you learned nothing from this incident?
This is a lot better, and works on most browsers: http://dropandload.com
http://dropandload.com

It works on most browsers
Thanks for the idea, I'll give it a try.
But what I'm proposing is to gain the rights to create a derivative work based on TWO original works. So, the copyright of the derived work would be assigned JOINTLY to the copyright holder of the original arrangement (the artist himself) and the copyright holder of the original lyrics.
FreeBSD is making the change, most of the code for the company I work for is only compiled with clang ... we do government work.
To the GP, that was probably me. Unfortunately, we never got anything off the ground.

dpick, I'd be happy to share the ideas we were kicking around when thinking about this if you want to shoot me an email: john [at] nineteeneightd.com.
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins is a good starting point. I have no reason to believe that page deviates significantly from what GNU's. stance was at some point in time.
There actually is a really basic diff tool right now (Click on revisions on the recipe page). I'm working on creating a more advanced one now. Any ideas on what a good interface might be?
The only problem is the Facebook already has a billion users.
I don't necessarily disagree in this case. Though I can't think of many times in my career where I had explicitly calculate probabilities, though may be an outlier.

I think it's more a concern about a general attitude sometimes displayed on HN like "You don't know how X86 handles memory alignment, dude you even code?"
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I'm pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic. Even vague knowledge of Europe makes that statement obviously silly.
Ooh, one of our competitors generalizes the idea of Facebook humiliation as a commitment device: http://aherk.com

Other startups offering commitment devices as a service: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
My opinion of Sweden's government has worsened considerably thanks to those extremely blatant examples of politically-motivated injustice. A high ranking shouldn't be an excuse to sweep real problems away.

For more on the Pirate Bay trial, see Falkvinge's post here:

http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/06/banana-republic-justice-behi...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016277
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You have better things to do than tell people to invent time machines to go back and not do things that are already done.
Maybe I misinterpreted your question. My answer was to a question more along the lines of "why do parents talk about parenting all the time?" If the person offering advice is being a dick about it (be it about parenting or anything else), then sure, it's inappropriate. But at the same time I remember when my first was born, I was pretty darn receptive to advice because _I had no idea what I was doing_. I'm less receptive now because half a decade in I think I have a decent handle on things, but I'm still not hostile about it -- I generally smile and nod and ignore (which, come to think of it, is what I do whenever anyone offers me advice I don't need).
I'd be interested in seeing the study. For me, at least (and I think for many others) the thought of creating yet another login is enough to make me back out.
I actually did that, several times.

My mistake was that I didn't realize I was supposed to have Drake.jar in the same folder as the workflow that I was trying to execute (I'd keep getting the error 'Unable to access jarfile drake.jar'). Naive error, I suppose.

However, I'm still having trouble executing the 'A nicer way to run Drake' instructions. I created a file named 'drake' on my path, and inserted the given text. However, I keep getting the error

'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: drake/core'

Was I supposed to alter the script in any way? I just naively copy/pasted.
Watching these made me feel disgusting. Like I'm some creep going trough other people's laundry. Closed the tab and still can't shake off this feeling.
I really think for once Anonymous guys should shut up and find another cause to defend, because If they wanted to harm the currently insightful ongoing debate on the handling of the Aaron Swartz's case they wouldn't do otherwise. And btw the actions of Aaron Swartz were not even remotely comparable with the reckless behavior of Anonymous. All this can do is make Aaron Swartz guilty by association in the mind of the average person when she hear about the actions of Anonymous. It doesn't serve any meaningful purpose.
Personally, I think our best option would be to do away with the notion of age-based grades.

Agreed.

I've been chewing on two ideas.

Assess student achievement with actual achievements. Just like achievement badges in the Boy Scouts. My son is an Eagle Scout. After meeting the minimum requirements, and completing his project, he was able to assemble whatever achievements tickled his fancy. Promotes self direction and working at one's own rate.

Have students teach each other, work more collaboratively, grade each other. Versus lectures, rote memorization, and testing. I've experienced this first hand (as the student). Peer pressure and expectations work wonders. Hardest, most rewarding 'A' grade I ever earned. (I was otherwise a terrible student.)

Alas, to date, there's very little research on these two reforms. Some places have tried the achievement system, results inconclusive. I haven't looked to see if the peer support system has been tried else where.
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Sticking an advertisement in there is enough to turn me off the service.
What if someone needs less money (20-30k)?

BTW thanks for the info Sam.
This appears to be at least one of the source emails:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html
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