skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is but an input field is not really an element you would hover for more info. If additional info for the user is required, some question mark icon next to field does the job well because it yells 'hey! something might be confusing or not so obvious'.

I might be an exception but can't recall a case when I would hover input field.
Not really, assuming that it doesn't (otherwise) break the law.
It's ransomware, yeah. Historically this is never (I mean, literally never AFAIK) been a good way to start a successful open source project. This might fool a few people (who like source in principle, but who don't want to muck with it themselves) into thinking it's "almost as good as open" and contributing. But it's deeply, deeply disrespectful to the community you will actually need to build if you want this to succeeed. Basically the funders end up being dupes; there's no community and probably never will be.

I agree it looks cute, and I'd love to try it if it were available. But I certainly won't be funding it.
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If you start with 100 random time series and then select only those that match the recent instrument record, you no longer have a random selection of data. So why would there be reason to believe that they will consistently "cancel out" to a flat line?

If you ran this experiment numerous times I would expect to see the "average" line prior to the instrument record vary as a random walk.
Clever. I like that. Heart Disease seems especially applicable. Thanks!
How to Edit Remote Files With Sublime Text via an SSH Tunnel
I understand that there is a difference. What I have difficulty understanding is the semi-vitriolic hate.
Yeah, we are! (calvin|friends)@segment.io if you want to get in touch.
How do you apply a custom stylesheet? Do I have to use greasemonkey?
Swartz’s Girlfriend Shares Details Of His Last Days
You're correct on that one. I built this client to make my work with email better. I'm not sure if i have ever received an email with PGP and i'm pretty sure that it would confuse half to all of my colleagues ...
> "The difference in potential salaries, potential connections, business opportunities and so on would put make Denver the expensive one IMO"

If you're one of those near the top of the spectrum, making 25 or more times the median salary or starting up a business that truly blows up, perhaps. In which case you wouldn't be complaining that it's hard to raise kids in SV.

If you're an average joe coder, or even fairly above average, you're making 10% less in Denver and you have fewer options for tech companies (but still plenty locally, and some decent remote options). But you can buy a nice house here for well under $200k and live ten minutes from work. For the vast majority of people, it's far less expensive.

The point here is not to convince you, personally, to move to Denver. Just to clarify that there's a whole spectrum of places to live at all sorts of prices, with all sorts of advantages and disadvantages. The GGP post implied that "live a normal life in SV" was the only option, which is of course absurd. There are advantages to living in SV, but they do not come without costs.
I really feel like times have changed drastically over the past ten years. There are so many lower-cost alternatives to a four year colleges now. Technology is moving so fast, I'm not sure university curriculums can keep up so a student graduates, their knowledge isn't already obsolete.

In that sense, I think you may have been seeing the future and simply opted out instead of weighing yourself down with debt and a bunch of stuff you even said yourself you could learn faster anyways.

Looks like it was a calculated move and its paid off quite well.
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That bookmarklet is wrong. I think hackernews filters out the "s in those links. Here:

javascript:{ try{ titletext=document.getElementById("jqmTitleText"); pat=/([^0-9]+)([0-9]+)/gi; id=pat.exec(titletext.innerHTML)[2]; th=id.substr(0,id.length-4); url="htt"+"p:/"+"/audio.macaulaylibrary."+"org/"+th+"/"+id+".mp3"; titletext.innerHTML = titletext.innerHTML + " <a href=\""+url+"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color:#990000;color:white;padding:2px;text-decoration:none\">download</a>"; }catch(err){} try{ content=document.getElementById("content"); title=content.children[0]; if(title&&!title.children[0]){ pat=/([^0-9]+)([0-9]+)/gi; id=pat.exec(title.innerHTML)[2]; th=id.substr(0,id.length-4); url="ht"+"tp:/"+"/audio.macaulaylibrary."+"org/"+th+"/"+id+".mp3"; title.innerHTML = title.innerHTML + " <a href=\""+url+"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color:#990000;color:white;padding:2px;text-decoration:none\">download</a>"; } }catch(err){} try{ content=document.getElementsByClassName("catalog"); for(c=0;c<content.length;c++){ if(content[c].children[2].classList.contains("play")){ id=content[c].children[0].innerHTML; th=id.substr(0,id.length-4); url="ht"+"tp:/"+"/audio.macaulaylibrary."+"org/"+th+"/"+id+".mp3"; content[c].innerHTML = content[c].innerHTML + " <a href=\""+url+"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color:#990000;color:white;padding:2px;text-decoration:none\">download</a>"; } } }catch(err){} }; void(0);
aaaand that's why you weren't qualified to be President.

I am not a partisan political person, but since gaining the right to vote in the US I find it depressing the lack of professionalism and seriousness by so many who want our vote to seek high office.

Because I only became a citizen last year, I don't have decades of vested interest in one party or the other like many on here, but as someone who came to the country in 1999 and has watched politics since then it certainly seems that one party is far worse than the other in this regard, but they both suffer from this stuff way, way too much. Congressmen/women and Senators thinking that they have the freedom to act like children, and not giving a shit about how bush-league it makes us seem to the rest of the world. It's a disgrace. (Yes, I know lots of Americans don't care about the rest of the world, but it doesn't take a lot of homework to understand that how we're perceived matters and has real impact on every day lives.)
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Probably any company that supports "traditional marriage", ie excludes same sex couples.
> It doesn't make any sense to regret not making a business when you're happy with your current accomplishments...

So, you are saying someone who has a successful business and regrets not finishing college must regret starting said business? I don't think it works like that. It is quite possible to be happy with your business and wish you could have done other things at the same time.

Likewise, I expect many graduates do wish they could have done more during that time of their life (just look at how many lament that they didn't get to party because they were studying all the time), but that doesn't mean they need to regret the accomplishment full stop.
Your suggestion is logical. Or we could just ascribe things to racism. The good professor thinks it's the latter.
If it's premeditated -- as in, you knew your actions were going to destroy an industry or economy -- you damn well deserve to go to jail for it.

Can you please explain to me why the scumbags who were responsible for the housing disaster deserve to walk scot-free?
Testing a theory about hacker news
Let's see if it works
I fail to see the claim, well, maybe the title. The article comes across as an opinion to me. You can have your own opinion as well, but I'm not as quick to label your opinion useless as you are to label her's.

I didn't track and keep statistics on the matter, but I have encountered the very thing that author describes. Inputs that used placeholder tended to have more errors than ones that did not. Take the statement for what you want but in my experience I would avoid such things in my future projects.

Using placeholders as labels will not invalidate the HTML, it is a valid thing to do. This is not a debate over the validity of doing such a thing, but whether it's a good idea.

It's not saying that your users are idiots, but sometimes you do have to design/develop for the lowest denominator in the group. But then you always have a level of "can't make everyone happy".

Most cases of UX I've seen suggests that reducing the number of pages in submitting form data increases submission by reducing fatigue, confusion, and frustration. Think disappearing labels might be an issue for someone then find out what happens when the visitor can't remember something they filled in the page before; or worse, three pages ago. If there are too many fields on the page then you're better off trying to reduce the number of fields involved. Maybe get the bare minimum now and ask for more later after the form has been submitted.
I suspect that as soon as Apple exposes OpenCL in any way on IOS, Android will shortly follow. Likewise, if Mozilla exposes WebCL in FireFox, Chrome will shortly follow. What I don't expect is for them to take the lead in doing so.

Say what you want of OpenCL/CUDA, but what other language smoothly subsumes SIMD, multi-threading, and multi-core awareness? I expected it to already be available on smart phones by now. What's taking so long?
That might be correct. It's pretty hard to read people's minds before meeting them ;)

I really like the GMail editor and their table view. That's why my inbox view looks so much alike :)

What i, however, honestly dislike is their overall sluggishness. GMail seems pretty slow and last time i tried, their offline mode didn't work well enough so that i could use it to work on a train.

So i try to use the good GMail editor and combine it with the somewhat OK Outlook offline mode. But as a complete package, i hate working with both of those.
One of the other comments mentions validating user inputs which makes sense and is an exception to my comment above.

For the most part though, my comment stands, and it is, indeed one of the more unique and charming aspects of erlang.
Walk-through for mutt configuration https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597156
> I've been using it since november, which was three months ago. That's why i consider this mail system
> battle-tested

A very small battle. More a skirmish, really.
Are you asking about adding in these labels to an existing form with HTML that you cannot change? Meaning, running Javascript across the form to inject placeholders into the existing fields?
Any policy that distinguished between employees on the grounds of gender or marital status is illegal in many countries.

Almost certainly there are many newer policies in IBM which state now that marital status and gender aren't to be taken into account.
In terms of its contribution to global warming Methane is 26 times more destructive than CO2. Believe it or not on a daily basis an average Cow emits the same amount of green house pollutants that contribute to Global Warming as an average car. US Food and Agricultural Organization expects methane emissions to increase 60% by 2030.

I understand the logic but I find it counter-intuitive that pollutants emitted from Cows (burps and farts), are contributed to human behavior. Specifically, Agriculture accounts for 14% of Green House Gas, and a majority of it is from Methane emission. Similar to our trying to reduce CO2 emissions from cars, humans are trying to reduce Methane emissions from Cows including genetic modifications and harvesting the Methane to power the farms.

So I personally think the idea of measuring "human contribution" is complex, especially when Cow farts and burbs are contributed to human activity. That said whether or not there is consensus that Human activity is responsible for global warming it does not matter, there is certainly consensus that Human's are the only ones who have a chance at addressing global warming, unless unknown to us the Cows are currently convening in secrete meetings to discuss how they might better regulate their own emissions of Methane and Ammonia because their contribution to global warming is weighing so heavy on their conscience.
This is absolutely interesting but I'm not sure if post-Kickstarter you'd regain a target goal or some of other same functionality. Rather you may want to be able to pre-order with a different model. Like Pebble took with their website.
http://jsfiddle.net/UMfAy/3/
It is very ironic that the worst class is precisely that one about online education. May be it is a class about what not to do.
Making this as a deployment step should be pretty straightforward.

On the plus side, this might also discourage the random client from just uploading updates via FTP..
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Anonymous Hacks Alabama Government Site, Posts Details of 4,000 Bankers
"I have chosen to charge a nominal price for this" is different from "I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free."
"It's a pretty well documented problem (e.g. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm.... for a collection of security related anecdotes"

At this point, I'd say it was the opposite of well documented and that's a problem. We do not have the statistics on this since it is not being reported to law enforcement or another body that collects these statistics. Does tech have more incidents than lawyers, plumbers, or actors? Don't know and I wish I did. I believe that it is a problem, but I cannot point to finding or study.
Your use of the emotive word 'fucking' in this context is suggestive of a zealot but you confirm with your second paragraph above. Crystal clear that you simply have not read any of the recent peer-reviewed literature relating to climate. If you want to comment on this subject in public, get informed first. Once you have done so your comments will be a good deal more nuanced.
> Very few people make the argument that climate change isn't happening. The "anti" argument is that it's not due to mankind's activity, but rather a natural cycle, and has changed in the past, will change in the future.

It seems the same group of people with vested monetary or emotional interests in doing nothing on climate have simply dug in their heels, and their arguments change as they get dragged along. In 5-10 years I'm sure it will be solidly "well duh the climate is changing and it's our fault, but nothing to be done now except learn to live with it". This is extremely frustrating.
Well, iOS does have its "Newsstand" app, which is essentially a reader for paywalled RSS feeds.

Still, the standalone apps for every publication that this thread is complaining about are free, too. I don't see paywalls being effective for anything but the most established media properties - NY Times can (sort of) get away with it, but can everyone else?

If the propagation of native apps really is because of an "everyone else is doing it" mindset, there's no reason not to just use RSS instead.

And all of these sites, even NY Times, already have RSS feeds of their content anyway.
Is it smarts or having a "good" perspective on what to focus on? Or is that the same thing?
The top-level post asked specifically for books, and more generally for reliable scientific information. It did not ask for random people to share their own opinions on the subject.

> Scientific opinion should always - always be encouraged.

Scientific research should always be encouraged. Anyone can hold an opinion.
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Stylish[1] would work.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
VVVV.js is vvvv (see http://vvvv.org) JavaScript porting
It is when you use muttils, that I describe at
http://lee-phillips.org/muttheaven/
Not to minimize anyone's strife, but... If spending one year in college is actually your "biggest mistake" thus far, you've had a comparatively sweet life.
They're not really comparable.

That's not the point. If you read only realclimate, you are getting a biased viewpoint. The fact that it is written by academic climatologists does not prevent it from being biased.
This has nothing to do with the article. Though, since I just love me some flame bait, Google will never take ad block out of Chrome because someone would just fork Chromium and keep it in.
That's sort of the whole point, isn't it? Anonymous, by definition, is anyone (including employees of the US Government) acting on any motivation (including discrediting itself or other groups within itself), so long as they don't sign their name at the end.

It would be interesting to see how many factions exist within the cloud of self important people that capitalize the letter 'A' when they withhold their name.
Profit sharing
The cable distribution giants like Time Warner Cable and Comcast are already making a 97 percent margin on their “almost comically profitable” Internet services...

That's just begging to be disrupted. If Google or anyone else is willing to take half or one-third (etc.) that margin, they could offer vastly superior service and still turn a healthy profit.
Yes. He's actually fairly well known, but I'd rather not betray his privacy.

He's also one of the nicest and unassuming fellows I've known. He's like what people say Woz is like (I've never met Woz).
I thought that the conservative christian base was being manipulated through religion, by the likes of the Koch brothers...

Maybe I underestimate the power of obscurantism.
New OWASP Chapter in Kitchener, Ont
Pleased to announce that a new OWASP chapter is starting in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. If you're in the area and have the slightest interest in security, secure coding, or penetration testing, would love to see you come out.
Cheers and thank you! It is the first story in a whole collection called "Common Fantasies for Strong People."

http://www.miraclejones.com/common.html

I wrote code for the collection so that readers can comment on every paragraph, and also, the paragraphs light up to signify where the comments are. The darker the paragraph, the more comments that are lurking inside.
/var/mobile/Media/Recordings is a folder that you can upload files to from a PC. I would bet that some stage of the jailbreak copies those files to their proper place in the filesystem (places that the PC uploading interface doesn't have permissions to write).
That seems to be well-reasoned criticism.

I think i would need to further polish it before people will invest time on their own accord into keeping the open source project alive. To achieve that, i need some money to pay to pay for work and design.

Giving software away for free and asking for donations doesn't seem to work well. At least i got like 500 support requests but no single donation yet for my last email project:
http://tentacleworks.net/Site/Nostalgy_4_Mail.app.html

So i thought that the best way to make this work would be to ask interested users to pay for the development costs, like Light Table:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table

Do you have any experience / suggestions on how to launch this?
It does look like mobile GPU vendors are about to start offering OpenCL support. For example, ARM submitted OpenCL 1.1 Full Profile conformance test results for the Mali-T604 last year (http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/775-opencl-with-arm-mali-gpu...), and Imagination Technologies showed mobile OpenCL demos last year at CES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDrz-w1jzEU).

It's easy to see why OpenCL hasn't rolled out fully on mobile GPUs yet: writing and debugging a full OpenCL software stack is very expensive and time-consuming, and there's still not that much real programmer demand for OpenCL on mobile.

As for Renderscript, it's always sounded like a bit of "not invented here" syndrome Google's part -- we've already got CUDA and OpenCL, and RS doesn't really bring much new to the table. They've already deprecated the 3D graphics part of Renderscript in Android 4.1, so perhaps they'll do the same to Renderscript Compute soon.
UDP is kinda the only game in town with in-app analytics (if you don't want to drop ZeroMQ all over the place); Metricfire's PHP (and other) client libraries have been on this for a while now - http://docs.metricfire.com/
Beyond HTML5
There's a video here:
http://youtu.be/SgdFxiY5nvg

And a sample app you can play with here:
http://nativecss.com/docs/tutorials/intro/ios
I just looked up "regret" and it says:

"to feel sorry and sad about something previously done or said that now appears wrong, mistaken, or hurtful to others"

So, yes, if you regret something then, by definition, that means you wish you hadn't done it. That's what calling an action "wrong" or "a mistake" /means/.
I don't think "we" as a community can or should outright reject people who behave badly. We can only reject (or try to change) their behavior. Let's not forget that 8+ hours a day in front of a little glowing box nearly requires a specific personality type. If people who are bad at dealing with other people are blocked from software development, the field would suffer (a lot).

> ...a 22yo guy persistently pursuing a girl who clearly isn't interested...

To be fair, you came >this< close to describing the plot of the average romcom here. The only difference between "sweet" and "creepy" is in judging whether or not the person is interested, or might become interested. A lot of nerds (I use the term with love here) aren't even good at mingling at social events, let alone reading whether or not their advances towards someone are going to turn out well. (This isn't limited to man-woman relationships either, as a recent case shows.)

...I wonder if maybe a huge root cause of this problem is simply that there are few enough women in our field that any attention from men feels like it's too much? I have to imagine that if you got regular, "Hey, are you busy Saturday night?" inquiries from different guys, you'd start to feel a little like chum in shark-infested waters.
This might force Skype to move into the browser. Sort of how Spotify can be launched from the web, users will be able to call from inside the browser via a bridge plugin as long as Skype is running in the background.
Building the Gogobot Social Graph
How about NERF guns?
http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en_US/vortex.cfm
Those vortex type ones have disc ammo. You can buy them on Amazon.
Try AppCake or vShare. Installous is dead.
Inside Higher Education reporting on same story, with several links to other detailed sources:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/04/coursera-force...
I also went to RIT. Was the education worth the price? I don't really know. I did learn things, but I almost definitely could have learned them with some other less expensive form of education.

Do I regret it? Not at all. If given the chance again, I would go to RIT again every time. It was, and still is, the nerdiest school around. I froze my ass off, but it was still worth it. The people I met there are basically my second family. The times I had there are fondly remembered. What dollar amount can I put on people who turned out to be lifelong friends?

If all I cared about was getting an education, a job, and making money, it would have been a dumb idea. But the memories and awesome times that were had are priceless. It is sad that the author went there and graduated, but did not have that experience. Perhaps it is their attitude that prevented them from having it. If you are in the library, you are doing college wrong. You should have been at the hockey game instead.

Also, thanks to my CS degree and the RIT co-op program I was able to get a well paying job immediately upon graduation. I have been basically constantly employed since then, and all of my student loans were 100% paid off months ago.
Correct has no need for obscenity.
Is the innovation here "making encryption easy to use"? Or are there genuine cryptographic advances within?