skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and it's easy to tell just in the way you can describe it. The first thing video/audio chat brings to mind to anyone is 'Skype in the browser'. That's still cool and there is definitely more potential than that, but just having an arbitrary connection is a lot more open ended and exciting.
The tell-all tale of Bitbucket’s redesign
Another reason not to do this: browser autofill. Now and again, the browser will guess wrong on what value to insert, and now the user won't know what's supposed to go there. Even if they clear the value, no user will assume that de-focusing the input will reveal the label.
> The problem is that states aren't seeing the sales tax revenue from out of state purchases and have become increasingly insistent that they receive said revenue.

That's not a problem: It's a use-case covered explicitly by the US constitution. The real problem is that the states have been slow to change and adapt to a world where interstate commerce is edging out intrastate commerce. Trying to overrule the constitution is just waiting for someone with deep pockets to make a federal case out of it.

Already amazon is losing biz on electronics to the folks that aren't collecting.
This reeks of affiliate marketing. Background check websites are big business among affiliate marketers (https://www.google.com/search?q=background+check+affiliate). Advertisers only pay for clicks, so creating 10,000 campaigns targeting first names is basically free. The CPC on most first names is nearly $0.00, too.

Google is involved to the extent that they serve ads in response to specific keywords. Instant Checkmate is involved only to the extent that they ignore the source of their referrals. Someone with a little more free time could probably trace HTTP traffic to find the specific affiliate responsible.
I'm confident when they see a significant traffic drop-off that idiotic behavior will adjust itself.
>Will this script ever run anywhere that I don't have the GNU toolchain? Effectively-0% likely.

That's not the case for most people though. I can't even remember the last time I saw even a tiny project assume the world is all "whatever gnu/linux distro I happen to use". Tons of people use linux distros that aren't ubuntu, tons of people use OSX, tons of people use a BSD.
The school I'm at does 10 week quarters, but I think the typical university uses semesters these days, which would obviously be longer.
Prevent incidents like Delhi Gang Rape, Alert my friends with location based SMS
This is precisely it. The conventional advice goes along the lines of "treat each person on their individual merits and characteristics". This scales fine when you only deal with a handful of people on a day to day basis.

As we do more stuff algorithmically and globally this approach does not scale at all. This can cause technology to re-enforce our biases no matter how subtle.
It causes a bug on the iPad browser: when tapping the field, my cursor goes to the right side, within the label.

Which brings me to my opinion: often it is better to just not mess with things like this. Keep it simple.
My impression, by how widespread it was, was that someone adopted it for a Wordpress theme, and it's now on Themeforest.
Come on, people have been predicting utility computing for decades. See Multics, for example.
I do think that's actually a hole in the show. One can infer socially that Sheldon really must be all that or he'd be long-since fired, but it would be helpful to be a bit more direct in occasionally showing it.

I've also noticed that for all they dump on Howard, he's the only one in the show who they show accomplishing things (plural!); I have not yet figured out if this is dramatic oversight or something they are doing on purpose. I'm assuming accident; neutering your main characters like that isn't a good narrative move, unless they're being really meta (which I doubt in this case).
Affirmative action is not when you fire someone to make way for a privileged class.

We _have_ affirmative action because of these more extreme forms of discrimination.
You'll need to wait a moment at the green screen for the world to load. (It'll look like it's frozen for a few moments, but it's loading.)

After the world loads, you can click in the world to start exploring (you'll need to let Chrome grab your mouse; you can release the mouse lock by hitting escape). If you hold down the H key after clicking into the world, it'll display controls help.

You won't be able to edit that project, but you can go to Project->New to make one (after signing in with a google account), and you can save your project from the Project menu, too. It would pretty much make my day if anyone posted some screenshots or links to their projects.

Finally, please forgive my shadows. They are awful. I'm working on them.
I once posted an article here at HN which got some interesting discussions about Chattanooga and how it is actually paying techies to relocate.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615159
Could your smartphone be your new doctor?
I'm sorry that the community has treated you like this. I guarantee we're not all like this.

Maybe they're all trying to call on their inner DHH, or maybe they're really just assholes in real life, either way it sucks. Were these people you've actually met or were they online?
This also makes it very difficult to maintain for your client and a pain in the arse for any other designer or coder who has to deal with your work.

IMHO, unless your client is completely aware and onboard with this and has access to the original, un-adulterated version, you're doing a disservice to them.

(I say this as a designer and coder with degrees and 10+ years of experience to back up my opinion)
Looks neat.

One thing I wonder about tech' like this, is that it is encrypted from you to the service, but there is no assurance of privacy.

Someone who runs a service like this can easy drop in on your calls and ease-drop. Which is a legitimate concern if someone wanted to use this either in a corporate environment or for very private calling (e.g. husband and wife, doctor and patient, etc).

No current video tech' really offers much in the way of assured privacy. Skype used to but it has been largely rolled back since Microsoft took over.
I am competent, truthful and not a jerk. I get many job offers. But sometimes I don't. Say, about 2 in 10 discussions lead to either never hearing back or being told I'm not a good fit.

Often this happens because I'm in the wrong stack and they didn't specify. Other times ... shrug

What am I doing wrong on those occasions? I don't know. And never will.

Although once, just once, I managed to figure it out after a few months. That was with Google. But they gave me specific technical feedback on waht I did wrong. Eventually I was able to realise what I was saying wrong that made them think I didn't know those technical things (it was an extremely consistent brain fart that lasted all day, through all 6 interviews, but they can't know that, they just know I was saying the wrong things)
Loads of people do the CC -> UC route in California. The last two years has seen something like 25,000 students transferring from a CC to a UC per semester.
There's good evidence he was poisoned, and after his death he was pretty quickly denounced, but he ruled for long enough that we can still count it as a win I suppose.
The best things about D3 are how well documented it is and the volume of examples available:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock

I wanted to map a few tweets the other day and the examples helped a lot

http://shanes-tests.appspot.com/d3
>>>The context of this discussion is this comment by olliesaunders:

Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I will try to explain my original comment for you.

I agree with you that starting a business is possible in the legal sense and it is a culturally acceptable thing to do. The US government and the general socio-economic climate of the US makes it morally, legally, and socio-economically possible to start a business. Agreed.

Here is my response to olliesaunders:

>>>Most people in the United States do not have this option [starting a business] because they do not have enough money to do so.

If starting a business takes X amount of time, Y amount of money, and Z amount of skill, my contention is that most Americans do not have sufficient levels of each. To say nothing of the luck involved.

So with that in mind, let me reply to part of your most recent comment:

>>>You are making the argument that people in the US don't have options. Of course they have options.

This I agree with, as stated above.

>>>The costs may be high to exercise those options, but that doesn't mean they don't have them.

This I do not agree with. Starting a business costs Q amount of money. A certain segment of the population will never earn that much money in their entire lives.

To be snarky, I will likely never earn enough money to buy an island. The fact that it is legal to buy an island does not make buying an island an option for me.
Soldiers and veterans are not privileged. That's why we got the G.I. bill for example.

Edit: it seems like you also mean that firing someone cannot be affirmative action. I disagree.
The Power Failure Seen Around the World
Fanciful embellishment on the part of those involved. It's impressive what some will do to 'get their name out there'. I guess when you make a career of it some will spill over into your personal life.
I would agree with you, except that these look like remnant ads (i.e., no one specifically bid on this keyword, which is common with names).

You see this with Amazon and eBay too - if you search Google for something weird which no one has bid on, you'll often see "Find [bananaphone] on eBay/Amazon". These "people search" results are similar: extremely long-tail, very generic ad.

So, I think its probably algorithmic vs intentional. Could be ML that's learned racism from the internet itself.

Who knows though! Your explanation would certainly make sense. Its a fascinating problem.
Ask HN: When does the Summer 2013 YC batch application process start?
Looks YC was accepting applications ~10 days ago this time last year.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but already a few of the sites on his list have been taken down for "upcoming new design!"

It seems shaming does have a palpable effect.
You mean “How is silence an action rather than a non-action?”? Which I already answered before you even asked it?

When people ask you for help and you don't give it, that inaction is telling these people you won't give them help.

Inaction can make you be criminally accountable, so stop having this weird belief that inaction automatically clears you of all responsibility.
Does google allow you to pick any keyword you want? Words like slavery, Holocaust, KKK?
see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166239
+ Social skills; how to talk to people AFK; how to make friends. Probably prefer mix of audio and class.

+ Modern data recovery; including different file-systems (not just FAT32); including different media types (flash drives, SSDs, etc); probably video and print.
There's a great 37 signals article somewhere about this same topic. The gist is, that if you steal someone else's design, it's never going to meet your needs properly because it's not born from your business. Especially true for service based companies.

This is the same reason I started obfuscating javascript, css and html. It at least make it difficult enough to copy/edit that people may consider creating something themselves.
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Chattanooga is a special place. The entire community is a living breathing organism that exists to see you succeed.
You can "Feel" the energy/excitement.
Proud to have started my company in CHA.
Love to tell anyone more nd [at] supplyhog.com
Web developer replaces clients website with image of unpaid invoice
Reversing engineering apps is always educational. You can see a lot just with a class-dump of an unencrypted binary.
It looks like it works very smoothly and the fact that no account or additional software is needed is great!
Show HN: Please Review Our Project "1 Million Valentines"
For fun this Valentine's Day, a couple buddies and I decided to play around with the idea of digital Valentines. We cranked out the project in the month of January as a "nights & weekends" project.

We'd love any feedback in general! Our next step is to figure a way to seed this in key communities, to see if it has any chance of taking off.

The URL is www.1millionvalentines.com (or www.1MVS.com).

Thanks!
> "When they were computing the orbits of outer planets on the SSEC [IBM's Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, which operated between 1948 and 1952] the machine took up an entire room, including the ceiling, under the floor and all the walls," she tells Bosker. "My husband has 13 symphonies on his iPod Mini and they only take up a third of the space. That boggles my mind. You don't even know what a miracle you're living in."

My first thought was, "Wow, 13 symphonies take up a third of an entire room?", and then I thought about it and realized it's probably time for more coffee.
I've worked at least one technical job where having having a "black" or even just generally "American" name would send a job application straight to the trash.

Relevant: "Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?" http://www.chicagobooth.edu/pdf/bertrand.pdf

edit: I see martey beat me to it.
His approach appears to have worked, 4/5 of the websites are down.
> If all you're asking for is someone to say "yep, that's awful" whenever someone else reports something awful happening, I have to question the notion that there isn't enough of that already.

That's pretty much what we're asking for at a bare minimum, and no, there isn't enough of that at all. Educate yourself, man. When women are blogging left and right (all those links in the article were from just the past week) about still being harassed on a regular basis, it's Really Quite Clear that this isn't happening enough at all.
Immediate gratification is the ONLY advantage local chain stores have over Amazon for me. Every other aspect of shopping with them is inferior. With Amazon having to pay sales tax, they have no reason to NOT build local warehouses, and then the local box stores will have to learn to provide decent service or, more likely, go out of business.
I wish I had your courage. I toughed it out and did the whole four years. I would have been better off not going. I listened to people who told me I would end up a loser working minimum wage. Well done sir.
I think filepicker.io use flask (based on reading some of their posts on HN).

Also, found an ad posting by Tutorspree (YC W11) which uses flask.
My understanding is that it's possible to not have a 'service' and instead form connections from one person directly to another. That decentralization would be a privacy boon.
My classes are 15 weeks, but I've been told we have abnormally long semesters.
They actually took some steps to try and mitigate this - the version of Cydia that this jailbreak installs is pre-loaded with the catalogs of the main repositories.

The repos are still, of course, slammed. Keep in mind that there's no money in hosting one AFIK. Who's gonna pay for ramping up more servers? Can you even easily do that with Cydia or would it require a lot of hacking on code that mostly works well enough?

I think anyone aware enough to be jailbreaking the first day the jailbreak is out is also aware enough to know that a royal fuckton of other people are also jailbreaking, and that if they can chill out for just a couple more days then they'll be able to load up all their favorite tweaks.
will do. thx
The 25 Craziest Things Ever Said by Tech CEOs
I'm on neither side of the debate but I can tell you that saying stuff like "I think its pretty fucking logical" automatically puts you in the zealots category. I would advise you not to use such emotionally charged language if you want to get your point across, especially not on HN.
How much a stressor is stressful to a person is subjective. For a psychopath who always had troubles with the law to face longer sentences, he/she probably wouldn't feel as stressful as Aaron did. In Aaron's case, he is NOT ONLY dealing with depressed feelings. He is also dealing with a lot of anger due to the injustice.
> I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class.

That was true for me in high school, but not in college.

At Caltech, it took me about an average of 3 hours to learn the material covered in an hour of lecture. A joke at the time was "one week into the semester, and I'm already 3 weeks behind!"

A friend down the hall could learn a Caltech course in a few hours by flipping through the textbook. I was nowhere near as smart as him.
Clojure managed to keep the Lisp expressiveness while keeping the parentheses nesting low. I don't think I can list every Clojure feature that aids this goal but here's a few:

* bindings (let forms & similar) make implicit pairs, so it's (let [a 1 b 2] ...) instead of (let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...)

* square brackets as shorthand for vectors - the nesting level might be the same, but the second kind of brackets somehow helps the brain find the way in the parenthesis jungle.

* lots of helpful macros (e.g. -> and ->>) and other helpers that help write terse code with low nesting. #(+ 5 %) as shorthand for (fn [x] (+5 x))
Look, I did CC -> State University as well and it served me okay. But you are ignoring the fact that the university could not exist if all students went that route. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody HAS to pay the full price or the University system could not continue to exist in its current form.
Well, the article was in itself a bit anecdotical, as someone else put it, so i tried to keep up. Yes the experience is quite different, and while i am very passionate for what i'm doing (i'm programming a way or another since i was 12), i really think college is worth something, beside having fun: you learn how to think, how to evaluate, how to apply what you know ... and how to finish things you started - projects, jobs, assignements.
Is that a signed integer or unsigned? How many bits? What's the lifetime of i? One needs to know more than is inferred by a few characters. Seeing the long options just makes you think you understand what it's doing without knowing what it does. The latter comes from study; there's no short-cut. Fortunately, Unix is worthy of study unlike for example the Windows API.
The passivity of your analogy doesn't apply.

If you're concerned about exposure, then avoid doing business with risky firms. It's entirely possible that a smaller firm is more risky than a larger firm; it's the risk that you choose to take on that matters, not some arbitrary measure of "bigness".

But let's set that aside: if many people think "big" firms are more risky on that basis alone, and they choose to avoid them, then smaller firms will emerge from the market process.
Im also working on a job board soon. Drop me your email and I will make sure to follow up with you when it launches
yes indeed, especially to allow multiline. (but maybe that's not your original intend ... ?)
(Days matter.) Another issue is that open-sourcing the exploit makes it easier to use for nefarious purposes in the mean time, and it isn't like knowing exactly how the exploit works actually helps end users protect themselves, due to Apple's platform policies. In essence, this is all a really dangerous ethical tightrope to be walked.
I was very amused at how Hugh Fenning just read the script the whole time.
Vietnam-era veterans are privileged from a non-discrimination perspective in private industry.

Veterans and service-disabled veterans are federally (and in some states) given privileges in contracting and some employment (police, civil service, etc.).

As well, NG/Reserve service is legally protected.
Not the OP, but the only people I've heard of pirating apps are those for whom $20 is the difference between eating and starving (e.g. students whose phone is paid for by family, but their food and apps are not).
> Thus, 230 / 216391 = 0.11% of all websites are vulnerable.

> Latest stats say that about 13.8% of the top 10,000 websites run CMSs. If we just focus on CMS-powered websites, then the percentage of vulnerable sites is much higher:

> Thus, 230 / (216391 * 0.138) = 0.77% of websites running a CMS are vulnerable.

I don't think those numbers mean what you think they mean.

13.8% out of 10,000 doesn't say much about the top 216,391. And perhaps 0 out of 230 of the vulnerable websites use CMS, however unlikely that is.
Exactly. As I have heard it, they originally tried to sell their big developers (e.g. Adobe) on total rewrites for Rhapsody/NS/Cocoa and were more or less laughed out of the room. Carbon was a compromise.

I don't think the evolution of C vs ObjC APIs was a good proxy for the future viability of Carbon vs. Cocoa. If an API was intended for Carbon apps, it had to be C. If it was exposing core OS services already implemented in C, it was more likely to be C. Even fairly new APIs like Grand Central Dispatch have both C- and ObjC-intefaced components, based on the level of abstraction.
Nope, that's not actually how science works. Rather, that is "formally" how science work. Actual practice is far more messy. Personalities matter, personal bureaucratic clout matters.

And happily, informal communication and message boards matter more than you would think!

Also, the published papers reporting these studies are all easily available. I highly advise reading them for yourself.
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If the algorithms behind Adsense can reason about maximising [sic] revenues, [Sweeney] says they ought to be able to reason about the legal and social consequences of certain patter[n]s of click-throughs.

What?!? Does not follow!
You're right, -delete is not standard, but I think that + and -print0 are.
Syncing and merging come to Bitbucket
Another fun but related aside: I used d3 to help generate layouts of tightly packed circles, which are then used as the animated background in my agency's 2013 holiday poster.

Generator:
http://2013.poster.thirteen23.com/generator/

Poster:
http://2013.poster.thirteen23.com/
Note that Chrome (or the application) chooses to reverse the self-view so that it acts like a mirror, whereas Firefox (or its application) chooses to display what the other person sees.

It's a hard choice to make.
Sure, but I was not arguing against that. The tone of your comment made it sound like the OP was an extraordinary case, when in reality tens of thousands of students save money in the same way. (including yourself!)
While I don't think we'd agree on whether or not this is a good thing, I really think you hit the nail on the head.

I know I personally view world news through the lens of "how will this affect me?". If I want to learn something about how things are going in Iceland, I'll read Wikipedia (which I do fairly often, but most people probably don't).

As for looking to other countries for a solution, I'd say that's part of what makes us Americans. The idea of "we rebelled against the European power for a reason, we don't want to be like them" is ingrained into our culture. I don't think that's a terrible thing, but rather one of the things that make us unique. Diversity is not a bad thing.

The other part of what defines American culture is our individualism. That's changing rapidly these days, as our population centers become more concentrated and a larger percentage of the population are more closely tied to a larger social community. I think you'll see a bit of a "whiplash" effect, as we quickly lose many parts of our "Americanism" and become more like Europe. When that happens, the media coverage will change to reflect that.