skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that students at elite institutions are smarter going in then the curriculum can be designed assuming that the students will pick up complicated topics more quickly. So they have time to simply teach more stuff.

For example I am in the UK and studied computing at an FE college (probably equivalent to a US community college) and also at a "red brick" university.

Both courses contained introductory Java programming modules. At university the first few lectures were spent whizzing through the Java syntax and by about the fifth lecture we were being introduced to BST implementations.

The college course took about the same time to explain the difference between an object and a class and many students still struggled.

Of course if you are comparing "good college" to "really good college" the difference in intelligence might be much more minimal and admission comes down to whoever studied the hardest for their exams.
Someone who plays EVE explain this to me. The game becomes laggy and the time gets dilated the more people "warp" in. But when it's so laggy that you disconnect you have to "warp" in again to get back into the fight. Isn't that a vicious circle?
A problem we face where I work is how designers sometimes limit themselves in the creative part of the work, because they don't know how to implement it later on.

Another complaint is that, if they have to implement something that's hard, that churn of work to do the actual thing ends up taking a toll in the design process.

Of course these problems can be circumvented but I think we're not the only place having this kind of problems.

I agree with the author, one day we'll all be teaching people to be at the middle of design and implementation.
Thanks, I haven't used CodeCollaborator before.

Unfortunately the client doesn't have a team that is relevant for sharing the code with (in terms of interpreting it), really what they are looking for from us is a 3rd party 'assurance' that the code is safe. So more of a security issue.

It doesn't seem that there is a service for submitting code and having it reviewed impartially with respect to security and then giving it some sort of accepted rating.
But did Boeing design those or was it outsourced far away ? There was an article on how they misdesigned the building system, it might have been a integration hell, reducing chances of thorough testing.

I don't know a single thing about this domain, but SpaceX embeds the same kind of batteries in a much larger and complex constraint space, it's another point for Musk POV.

Too bad Boeing and SpaceX didn't work together, it could have been a very synergic, local partnership.
If you don't mind loading jquery I made a version which saves to OpenKeyVal. Just set your secret key..

https://gist.github.com/4672169
WebGL 3D Engine CopperLicht released in version 1.6
What does “it’s a good start” really mean
It's a lot better read than the PCGamer article, considering that it points out the negative metagame aspects of Time Dilation (TiDi). Part of what made that battle a slowly increasing shitstorm was the fact that reinforcements could arrive much faster than combat could resolve.

That means that what socially could be called a flash crowd accretes in that sector and drags the servers further and further down.
A New Target for Google Maps: The Streets of North Korea
Nice, i've added a few divs and borders for my version.

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I'm working on a similar project: http://www.indiegogo.com/aircubus/

been using indiegogo after kickstarter seems to be very cocky about identify validation (bunch of great e-mails).
Also, this: http://selfstarter.us

built by the guys behind Lockitron (https://lockitron.com/) because there were issues with kickstarter.

but don't forget: having a donation/payment setup all wired up does not ring the cash register just yet. it's 90% promotion, 10% collecting payments.
Among other things, the freedom to kill yourself.
I find it amusing that you are one-sidedly complaining about appeals to authority when so many comments, on both sides, in this thread boil down to "my preferred expert is better than your preferred expert".
I prefer Django so my next statement may be slightly biased. I have a friend who likes Rails. I understand why, he's a mouth breather. I would still suggest Django even though my friend, who was dropped several times on the head by his parents, would recommend Rails. This debate is still at large, but in the end it comes down to preference. Python I might compare to, I'm bad with metaphors but something that is perfect and organized. Rails is similar to a group of sorority girls, drunk, on karaoke night at the bar. Tempting but I would probably leave
Top mistakes in handling website images and how to solve them
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I've launched my first hardware product:
http://indiegogo.com/aircubus
> Few think designer's shouldn't code.

I would love to say that is true, but I've met many designers that don't really want that crossing.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, or we're still way behind here (which may very well be the case) but there are still many who think you should separate the design/implementation process. I don't agree with that, but IMHO these concept that people can't be good at both sides is an excuse. And an old one.
Developing offline apps on Android with synchronization
I don't think he necessarily means that the person should tell someone his/her suicidal thoughts. I think he means that the person should tell someone about his/her troubles and worries so that others may provide help and support for that the depressed person. I think no one really really wants to die. People choose to end their lives because they feel there is no other way to ease their pain, emotional or physical. But if others tell them that there is a way to get better, they will choose to live.
Don't Australia have extradition treaty agreements with the U.S.?
What respect is due to a design that puts people's lives in danger?

No lives are in danger, because the planes are grounded. They will not fly again until the cause of the present issue is found and resolved. It doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me that that puts Musk's comments in a slightly different light for some people.

Note that if Musk were a (Chartered) Professional Engineer (which afaik he is not) he might well be called upon to explain these comments to an Ethics committee. Here is a snippet (from the IPENZ Code of Ethics) that I imagine is probably fairly representative of Professional Engineers' obligations:

11. Not review other engineers’ work without taking reasonable steps to inform them and investigate

(1)	A Member who reviews another engineer’s work for the purpose of commenting on that work must take reasonable steps to—

(a) inform that engineer of the proposed review before starting it; and

(b) investigate the matters concerned before commenting.

(2)	Subclause (1) does not apply if taking those steps would result in there being a significant and immediate risk of harm to the health or safety of people, damage to property, or damage to the environment.
I don't have a lot of data on this, but I recall reading that one significant factor involved in increased incidence of suicide is when there is a great discrepancy between personal expectations and actual achievements. Along with this it was mentioned that there is a higher rate of suicide in wealthier societies than poor ones, and among graduates from prestigious universities than average ones.

As a result I suppose it would not be an unreasonable hypothesis that entrepreneurs (who might have very lofty goals) might be more likely to commit suicide if they are either unsuccessful at sustaining a business or are successful, but never achieve the level of success that they had expected of themselves.
Youre focusing on what Elon Musk has to gain, which is very, very little. This is actual all about what he stands to lose. Tesla's business is predicated on the public accepting that cars packed with Li batteries are safe. If the public loses faith is Li batter mass power storage, Tesla is toast.

That doesn't mean Elon is either right or wrong, but it's sufficient to explain why he feels a pressing need to be involved in the debate.
Taking a look at iosched android app
You win in the taste department, IMO...
I agree , without flash & actionscript i would never have become a programmer.

The irony is js is harder as it requires a lot more effort in coding/debugging/building a stack.
Information is being withheld. It's hard to expect respect while at the same time withholding critical information in the name of company secrets.

Take building designs, public accessible for any engineer to take a look. If a flaw is published like in this article, it can be verified by independent sources. If someone was hiding blueprint designs and a article like this was published, everyone would assume the architect was up to no good. The respect for the work, talent and dedication would only go as far as a courtesy phone call before publishing.

So regarding planes who's design and inner working is now days mostly regarded as company secrets, staying quiet would be worse than speaking out about a issue. Boeing should see this is an perfect time to publish their electrical and electronic diagrams, together with test data, and let independent engineers either verify the authors claims or denounce it.
Might be harder to extradite a senator?
I imagine it's probably a bit tricky to extradite a sitting member of the federal Parliament...
Extraditing a senator for whatever reason would be much more obviously political discrimination.
This looks great - And fits perfectly into a need I had at the moment for sharing smaller screencasts.

I had a few crashes with it this morning on a rMBP, what's the best route for support ? (your forums do not seem updated yet for phosphor)
I'm just surprised there isn't more damage from the fire! I use similar chemistry batteries (although much smaller) in RC planes (they are very energy dense for their weight).

When they are damaged (normally through charging incorrectly but in some cases through puncture / crash damage) they burn extremely rapidly and very violently for their size.

The damage in the photographs of the 787 is not on the scale i was expecting.
One thing to keep in mind is that when a person is depressed or manic they are not thinking in what you might consider a "logical" way, or in a way that treats events with proper proportion and perspective. Thoughts can be very disorganized, small defeats can seem like crushing blows, minor slights can seem like significant insults, and you may feel unworthy of help or assume that nobody is willing to provide it.
Please, stop using MongoDB as SQL database
I doubt he would actually get into senate, the ranks and file,would just use his evasion of litigation as volatile ammunition to make sure his stay in politics is a quick one
It’s a bad time to be a hacker in the United States
I feel that it puts a fork in it.
We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
If for anything, I hope he wins so he can go back outside, and live a decent life.
Same community or not, it is a fact that in each government's view, we are all 'the citizenry' under those legal jurisdictions. That means that, while you may label Kim a Trade Unionist, a Socialist or a Jew, if you deny him rights your own are worthless.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin, 1755.

The point is that even if Kim is an asshole and a pillaging brigand, he is one of our own, the citizens. Even if he breaks the spirit of a law (and I am not sure that he does: perhaps that achievement goes to the copyright lobby), far greater criminals are the beastly, sprawling mass that is government, commercial mass media, global finance, and perhaps the science of public relations. We are all but one exploitable citizenry (or shall I say, 'human resource', 'consumer' or 'market'?) under them. And quite frankly, if Kim fights for the dissuasion of IP, it is not a great stretch to say that he fights in part for the same cause as Aaron did, albeit in different ways, and with monetary benefit. That is not necessarily stupid or evil, actually, IMHO, it's pretty damn smart: in other words, a really good hack.

After all, the law is the law. It is a system. Legal systems have been exploited since time immemorial. (I am sure there are lawyers reading this) Private citizens and large corporations exploit it regularly (a phenomenon particularly associated with modern American culture, but also multinationals). What we must not do is allow governments, the same governments raising omnipresent surveillance against us, to evade the spirit of the law, when they are supposed to be serving us... and not the other way around. For should we allow that, there is no easy way to go back... and some within this community would argue that it is almost upon us.

Remember, if the society you argue for is one in which it is not possible to break the law without being caught, then the society you are arguing for is totalitarian.

To quote Assange once more (sorry, he is far too well focused on these matters to avoid referencing): I have a view that we are dealing with really tremendously big economic and political forces, as Jérémie said, and the likely outcome is that the natural efficiencies of surveillance technologies compared to the number of human beings will mean that slowly we will end up in a global totalitarian surveillance society — by totalitarian I mean a total surveillance — and that perhaps there will just be the last free living people, those who understand how to use this cryptography to defend against this complete, total surveillance, and some people who are completely off-grid, neo-Luddites that have gone into the cave, or traditional tribes-people who have none of the efficiencies of a modern economy and so their ability to act is very small. — Julian Assange, Cypherpunks, 2012.
I was slightly disappointed by upverter, the simulation tool is basically useless, but it's the mot important feature in design. And the schematics is buggy (like when you rotate resistors).
I really hope they fix those basics before starting some new features (but I understand they are working on a API already). It's so much important for mac users like me who have no real design tools.
The server controls everything. Clients just display whatever the server tells them to (plus maybe some temporal interpolation).

If you start doing P2P, you're opening yourself to all kinds of hacks, and increasing the amount of duplicate data traveling around.

So if you're in a battle of 3000 people, you would have to somehow connect to 3000 people, send 3000 times more data. This would probably saturate your uplink and get you banned by your ISP as a suspected botnet victim.
I'm not sure that erring on the side of caution is a bad thing when it comes to commercial jets, especially when "erring on the side of caution" means requiring an airline carrying large numbers of paying passengers needing to pay two qualified pilots to sit in a cockpit just in case things go wrong. I suspect most people underestimate just how many different separate electronic systems, usually developed and manufactured by independent specialists, are involved in controlling an aircraft (not to mention the new ones that would need to be developed for when things go wrong: there's a big difference between an autopilot landing an an instrument landing system and a pilot gliding his plane to a perfect stop on the Hudson River.)

Also worth pointing out that the CEO of Google (yes...I know his company tests driverless cars) isn't really more of an expert on the FAA certification process than the average person here.
I think he's on the right side of the bet, but I'd also note that the avionics which assist the pilot in controlling the plane and monitoring what's going on have changed more in the last 50 years than any other aspect of commercial aircraft.

Commercial considerations are a bigger factor than certification in new aircraft programme inertia: airlines' economies of scale hugely favour existing models, and expensive radical innovation in aircraft programmes can often be improved upon at lower research cost by rivals.
I bought a 500 gram bag of pistachio nuts shelled them and found that exactly half of the weight was the shell.

It's the Surface Pistachio.
It's Hacker News… can we PLEASE talk about computers without resorting to car (or truck) analogies
But what is the practical difference?

Plenty of jobs advertised as "software engineering" are mainly about writing wordpress plugins.
Hi Nick. What about it being a Web app prevents it from being able to provide built-in calling?
Ex-Gas Powered Games dev starts his own Kickstarter..
I'm I right to assume that Javascript might be the next main web language for back-end and front-end in the next couple of years ?
I was always suspicious of UPnP on routers anyway - why allow a compromised device on the inside to just open up whatever ports it feels like?
Portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places
I like to think that some form of commenting must work, since commenting is just textual conversation, and I hope that conversation isn't fundamentally broken. I'll admit that a lot of conversation (even in person) is made of rehashes. I also agree comments attached to news articles are pretty broken.

I find commenting most rewarding in groups that have a medium-sized, long-term membership, so the community has some familiarity and shared ethos. A few mailing lists and web forums I'm on feel close to that.
I give permission for IBM [...] to use JSLint for evil.
I have made an attempt at a more accurate translation:

"""

I bow to the ground before you and wish you in the name of the Lord good health, above all salvation and well-being, and may God save the fatherly Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church till the end of time from discord and herecies, the devious webs of enemies...

I bow before all with a great big request: I need someone to be my helper, I cannot survive alone, and it's not proper to live this way, spending whole weeks alone. Do not leave me for Christ's sake, have mercy on this miserable orphan, suffering in hardship.

A true believer is needed here, believing in Christ as the Old Believers do, and a male is needed to chop wood, cut down hay ... My health and strength have deteriorated.

"""

The interesting thing to note is the terminology she uses in her first sentence to specifically define the church she believes in using the Four Marks of the Church (though she leaves out one), thus proclaiming the orthodoxy of the Old Believers' beliefs (also note that the term "Catholic" here in no way means "Roman Catholic"). One may even infer that the "devious webs" are being cast by the reformed Russian Orthodox Church.

I would also note that the archaic nature of some the terms she uses ("наипаче", "многокозненных сетей вражиих", "не добре", "седмицу"), and the archaic sentence structure is more consistent with the language used in the Russian Bible, rather than with the conventions of the early 20th century. The English equivalent would be the language found in the King James Bible.

A note to astral303: I noticed that you translated "сырая земля" as "raw earth", which is interesting, because while "сырой" means both "raw" and "damp", it most certainly is meant as "damp" when describing the earth. I know "raw earth" sounds more natural in English, but I think simply saying "ground" is the best equivalent, since I can't think of an English turn of phrase that invokes the connotations of describing the ground as damp in the intended manner.
Rough translation from German:

'Everyone knows Apple. But who actually knows that Linux is much more important?'
we have a tool that lets you hover over the page and see precisely which piece of code is powering that element

Wait, what? You can't just drop that in there. More info! Do you think they're creating a custom html attribute in debug or something? Then some sort of browser extension?

Is this wonderful magic something I've totally missed the boat on and now look a fool?
Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm..
Grails tries to kickstart plugin development
Great app. Kudos to you for open sourcing it! :)
If he won, he would be the first person doing so while not being physically in Australia during the election.
Eve Online: when 3000 players collide
Is he still in the Ecuadorian embassy? I've not really heard what hes doing or where he is recently.
You can't compare a rare successful startup exit to a regular salary. You could, but you need to multiply both by the risk factor.

$1.5M is quite low, in my opinion. Not even close enough to retire in the US.
We aren't happy with the available web calling options, yet. The more traditional route, Flash, has obvious disadvantages. More recently, WebRTC has been used for calling, but it's still too immature for serious applications. Long term WebRTC is the technology we'll choose for web-enabled calling, but it needs wider adoption among browsers and proven rock-solid reliability and quality for us to trust our sales team (and yours) with it.
DerbyJS is a pretty cool project. I was checking it out a while ago but there was no way to hide private data (user details etc) from the client. It seems they have made a start on that now though[0]. Might be time to take another look.

[0] https://github.com/codeparty/racer/blob/master/lib/accessCon...
There's no guarantee that winning a senate seat would allow him to exit the UK. That said it would add considerable political pressure...
> A problem we face where I work is how designers sometimes limit themselves in the creative part of the work, because they don't know how to implement it later on.

My experience is actually the opposite. If the designer I work with is thinking about HTML (for example) he limits himself where implementation might be difficult. (I do the same in my own design.) So by separating the roles completely, there's much more freedom – the designer designs without thinking about implementation, which forces me to upskill, which means he can push design further next time, in a virtuous circle.
It was an engineer, Roger Boisjoly, who repeatedly warned about the safety of the o-rings, particularly in low temperatures. The decision to launch the shuttle came from management not the engineers.

http://www.space.com/14522-roger-boisjoly-shuttle-challenger...
Assange announced this in early 2012, then again late in 2012 and then again today to co-incide with the announcement of Australia's September 14 election.
So yes, by all means, let's give the same piece of news coverage for a a THIRD TIME. There's VALUE in that aggregation.