skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being in a better position financially often does not equate to more happiness. This is one thing about the human spirit that cannot be quantified.
how do you daisy chain thunderbolt?
This is because the iPhone 4 is missing a newer version of the crucial noise reduction chip:

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/06/siri-may-be-iphone-4s-only-be...

The fact that Apple supported iOS 6 on the 3GS is proof that they're pretty serious about backwards compatibility.
> Students go to a CC for several reasons.

Yes. For some time I was one of them. I am uncertain why you interpret what I said to be harsh.

Respectfully, it seems to me like saying "look, at the price you pay at McDonald's, there's not enough money floating around to get a filet."

This is realism, not harshness. It costs a lot of money to run a school, and the US doesn't really fund its community colleges.

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> And the comparison of OKCCC to your alma mater is almost useless.

It would be nice if, while saying I'm being inappropriately harsh, you differentiate between something that's useless and something you merely do not understand the use of.

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> These aren't cutting corners, these are inappropriate expenses

Sure. They're also not even slightly the dominant costs in running a school, and not what I referred to.

But you're right, the topics you raised, that I did not, aren't particularly cut corners.

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> That said, a CC program isn't going to have tenured research professors in a field teaching an introduction course, and won't have the fellowship/intern programs in place, or foreign exchange programs. These can (indirectly) affect the quality of education.

My my. And here I thought you didn't agree with me.

Of course, these also aren't the dominant costs in running a school, and also aren't what I was talking about.

As a point of preference, I generally ask someone to explain themselves before calling them wrong in public. But maybe that's just because I don't like arguing with my own guesses about what someone meant. YMMV.

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> But to say that these are all cut corners is to idealize what an education must be.

I would request that you re-read what I said more carefully. The things you point out aren't actually related to what I was discussing.
Nobody forced him to use Monsanto's seeds

It's not so black-and-white as this. You can typically buy excess seeds from the local grain elevator for replanting; these now contain an unseperable proportion of the descendants of Monsanto's seeds, so it's at least become lot harder not to use any of them.

In other cases (not this one), the farmer's field has been cross-contaminated from nearby fields of GMO soy, so they have been forced to use the descendants of Monsanto seed. Are these cases different? Why, in patent law? (Patent infringement does not require intent).

The environment that Monsanto are trying to create is one in which you must pay a royalty to Monsanto if your crop contains any of the descendants of their seeds, and where completely avoiding their seeds is impossible or at least very difficult (and imposes new costs).
Patents expire.

Unfortunately, so do monocultures.
I find safari on an original iPad almost unusable; after upgrading from iOS4 to 5, it crashed regularly - I presume due to not having enough free memory. Support stopped at 5.1, just under 2 years after its international release, and only 1 year after it was replaced by ipad2.

Seems like they already have a handle on deprecation.
When I got an Nexus 7 finally, I just added the old stock browser for Android to it. It's not too hard to do really (assuming you are rooted/bootloader unlocked [required]). If you're unlocked and rooted, it just takes a few terminal commands to add the old stock browser back.

Tap to zoom works much better on the old browser and the quick controls for it are a feature I can't live without.

I wrote a small guide[1] on how to do it on one of the Android forums for anyone else that prefers the old browser over Chrome on Android.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30834-how-to-install-the-stock-br...
This is exactly where my mind was as well.

Marshall Brain explored this concept very well.

His Robotic Nation articles provide a good source of information on his thoughts as well. Then, you can take that right to his Concentration of Wealth blog and make a big picture.
If you're wondering why this would be nice, it's very useful if you want to write a blog post or something and say, "Hey, we just added support for XYZ to our tool"

Think of the sites that allow you to share on different services and they have like 100s of logos. Imagine trying to build that list. I've done stuff like that and it's a pain to try and find all the images. If there were a Chrome plugin that would tell me that a site has a sanctioned logo, it would simplify this kind of task by a ton.
> There's a vast difference between reporting and freezing.

Yes, there is. For example, one is legal in this situation, and the other isn't. So, I'm still a little confused.

Is your position that PayPal should illegally pay money out, then report it?
It was entirely deliberate. You can't write an app to support both iPhone 5 (with full height support) and iPhone 3G and put it on the AppStore, and use the normal compiler. Apple don't support the large image with < iOS 6 SDK, and they don't support armv6 with the iOS 6 SDK.
Yeah, it was memory. Apple undershot the onboard DRAM pretty badly on that device. Really it was a design mistake, not a deliberate support termination.
You nailed it. GPU acceleration was disabled, so I enabled it in about:flags and restarted and it worked.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. You have to take care of survival before you get to betterment and self-actualization. Thank yo for remembering that these things play out in the very real world, not inside a bubble.
I'm thinking perhaps you could have multiple instances of the tag, each for a different purpose. Most tools would use the first one, but if it's something like a browser plugin it would just display them all to you and let you choose.
If this was the case, they should have communicated it.

As an iPhone 4 user, I chose not to upgrade to iPhone 5 when my contract expired because I feel like whatever gets released this coming year (5S/6) might not be compatible with iPhone 5 software wise.
> Word on Windows is better than the Mac version

How so? If find the the OSX version of Word to be a lot more productive thanks to the prescence of the menu-bar. The ribbon bar may look nice, but requires more clicks to do anything.
>Half of it will be taken by the U.S government, that's likely the reason his paypal account got locked.

Yes, that's called taxes. There's nothing wrong with that. Also, the correct number is likely quite a bit lower.

Venezuela's going to take more than the US does.

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> There is nothing legitimate about theft, whether its paypal or the IRS stealing his money.

It's really hard to take you seriously when you pretend that taxes are theft, and that the IRS is stealing.

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> There is no justification for any organization or government to take any of it away from him.

Uh huh.
I created a web app search engine http://iwaat.com that could make great use of this. If you need to index 1000s of sites/apps, collecting logos is still a very manual process. I imagine any other website directory, Google, news site, etc would find it useful.
Yeah /8 what a waste.

Many organizations were asked to return /8 in exchange to /16, but snobs at MIT refused.
Ask HN: What to do with extra Twilio numbers?
We purchase a ton of Twilio numbers, but just for SMS. Anyone have any ideas of productive uses for the voice lines?
Impressive -- I'm excited to watch this progress in the coming months; would love some form of regular updates.
Believe it or not, the single Windows application I still miss after almost 7 years of using a Mac is Microsoft Paint. It's laughably basic, but I used it for so long, and it worked so well for what I needed, that it felt `just right'. I've yet to find -- and probably never will find -- an ideal replacement.
My only real concern with this essay is that the OP bothered to refactor out the duplication, but didn't bother to refactor his internal refactoring when it got too complicated, instead claiming: "look, now it got messy", threw up his arms, and said there's nothing more that can be done, blaming DRY as the culprit.

Except we CAN do something about it.

It would have been just as easy to continue refactoring the tweet_list() method to pull filtering, pagination, and profanity checking out into sub methods-- at which point you've built a strong reusable component that can support many more combinations of those extra requirements. So by the time you get more feedback saying, "we need a new page that only shows 5 tweets per page and hides profanity, but does not filter", you can now easily take that reusable component, pass in those options and be done rather than starting from the top because you refused to clean up your internals. That's why we strive for reusable components in the first place.

In other words, if the argument is that refactored code is messy, it really means you aren't done refactoring.
`n > 2` could be a comparison operator in some architectures. For example, in dcpu16 (fictional, but I'm sure this was inspired from somewhere), `a = b > 2` would be written as:

set A, 0
ifg B, 2
set A, 1

It conditionally evaluates a machine instruction, which is, indeed, branching.
It sounds like some preposterous way to break the speed of light; we'll just accelerate the accelerator, and it's turtles all the way down.

On the one hand, it reduces YC's risk even further, by giving them a miniscule stake in a wide range of companies. But I don't think they would be content with helping the meta-accelerator; they'd want to be hands-on with every node on the tree. That's a lot of time investment with little capital investment, which is not really their bag.

The proposition generally seems less like an accelerator, and more like a small-scale VC fund. Less intensive, less structured, just a way to invest money in startups.
It probably wouldn't be in their interest to accelerate a web startup accelerator. Maybe an accelerator for some other field. It would be interesting to watch this artificial organism reproduce.
Thanks! I had just come here to ask about the typesetting on this... it's pretty lush. Good job.
"1. No easy way to maximize window."

- Of course there's a way. You have to go to System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Keyboard Shortcuts >> Application Shortcuts >> + >> (Application) All Applications, (Menu Title) Zoom (http://cl.ly/image/1k462h342I28)

"2. Sometimes, my window would get minimized and when I cmd+tab back into it, I don’t see anything."

- Yep, you have to hold alt/option when you let go of cmd +tab for hidden windows.

"3. On Windows, I’d just start+e and just start typing to get to any folders/files on my PC. On Mac, closest I’ve come across was to just locate finder from cmd+tab, or launch finder via an app called Alfred."

- Alfred is amazing, but you can also bring up spotlight with cmd + spacebar.

"4. No Zend Studio 5.5. This was almost a deal breaker right on the spot."

- Can't help you there since I'm a vim user, but it seems like you've found an IDE you like.

"5. Mac keyboards aren’t too friendly for emacs user. Hitting that option button for meta is quite an excercise in itself."

- Also can't help you here since I haven't really used emacs enough, but I'm pretty sure you can remap the key to the windows counterpart.

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For a GitHub app, I recommend you trying out http://mac.github.com/.
I'm a fan of SequelPro (free) for MySQL http://www.sequelpro.com/
This submission needs a better title.
Possibly you are not that interested in the main topic?
Possibly adult ADD?
Looks cool. It should be straightforward to make it avoid cycles itself, and default to infinite depth, which feels like a better default than 5.
No that doesn't follow at all. However a skepticism of attacks on whistle blowers is necessary, given the risks they take.

The idea that it's a reward to be living under effective house arrest despite having no charges leveled against him because he faces the real threat of being handed over to the custody of a nation which has demonstrated its willingness to ignore laws and intern without trial for years on end its enemies, is facile.
I don't feel as though you know enough about the man or his situation to make these judgements.
Porting Perl 6 to the JVM
I have been looking at Samsung's ARM chromebook. It looks like it might be the best of my options right now, but I would really like a higher-resolution screen, even if that meant a bigger screen size. (Every laptop is 1366x768 these days...)
No doubt, and that's a failure of the design, not of the theory of the font size. Don't use bad execution as evidence of a bad idea.
Cynically, the point of doing science is to secure funding. Your ability to receive funding is based on your publication record. Improving software takes time away from writing papers, and is therefore counterproductive. Improving free software is even more counterproductive, as you are giving your tools away to your competitors.
I was wondering about this. Thanks for clarifying the pronunciation.
I know what you mean. Lookup paintbrush, it was good for me
The R tutorial on codeschool.com is also really well-done, similar domain to matlab but not quite the same.
Okay, that's pretty awesome. I almost wish I was still doing web development so that I could play around with the great stuff coming out for it!

If I ever get back to web development--and, the way these things usually go, it's probably inevitable--I'll definitely give kite a go.
I second slate, it's been a hugh time saver. Here's the url for those that are interested.

https://github.com/jigish/slate - It's free and open source.
JSON-Schema Validation
The only thing that's protected Assange from being bundled into a jet and whisked to a foreign jurisdiction is his high profile.

The only reason people are debating the drone strike situation at the moment is because of leaks. Once you show that you can silence even the most high profile of leakers and their mechanisms for getting information out there, don't expect more to step up and do it.

I don't think we're better off with the world getting increasingly closed off and governments being able to better protect secrets.

Focusing on being offended by someone's personality rather than the core issue of exposing things done behind closed doors in the name of people who may not approve of those things were they aware of them, is an unfortunate tangent to go down.
That's a good enough answer, but then take it a step further.

If your application and Google's cost the same, why use yours over Google Reader?

Google is a powerful brand and it's free. What can SubToMe offer to gain users?

I understand this is open source so you're not thinking about things like market share but just a helpful thought.
Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com
Huh? I'm a little confused. I thought you could do multi-line with the Chrome JS Console by hitting Shift-Enter?
> Most corporations are run by people (the managerial class) who are more interested in power than results.

This made me a lot angrier before I realized that this is just the primate dominance dynamic expressed in business organizational structure. It's the default human response to the circumstance, just like street gangs are the default response to different circumstances.

That has changed my attitude to "I hope these assholes get hit by a truck" to one of compassion to people whose wiring has gotten them trapped in a local maximum. There are no villains, only people who the system has trained to serve the system.
I looked at Clevo's site a while ago and was kinda put off by their obscure model numbering. Can you recommend a friendlier site to look at, and where I could potentially buy one?
...so is the alleged narcissism a worse wrong doing than what's being exposed?

The only thing protecting Assange from having been bundled into a jet and whisked off to Guantanamo by now is his rather high personal profile. It's not like his enemies don't have a track record here...
You could make the button "Try" a bit more obvious. It's the only uncolored button, I find it a bit weird.
Mathematica is powerful because of its syntax. http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
"I find a lot of code I want to hotswap runs on DOM ready and assumes that the page has just been loaded."

Maybe it would be possible to put all your "setup" code into a single myscript.load() function and then when you've edited your js in chrome devtools, then call myscript.load() in the console to reboot all your DOM events and so on.

Just an idea, completely not tested.

P.S. Just tried your extension using vim to edit a Sass file, while compass watch is running, and your extension is watching my CSS output directory. Awesome to see changes in vim almost immediately appear in my browser!

EDIT: Formatting. Adding P.S.
That approach can set a sort of lower bound on how much work a feature requires, but judging productivity also involves measuring how often the program fails to meet its specification and how much work to modify it could have been avoided up front.
Actually it does mark visited objects to avoid cycles in its search. The default depth limit prevents it from taking too long on huge dom objects, but the choice of an arbitrary depth limit (of 5) does seem kind of gross. I'm open to suggestions for improvement.
Sounds like you haven't discovered Pixen [1] yet.

[1]: http://pixenapp.com/
Sheesh. It's an undergrad term project. They're not trying to line up an IPO.
I think Naomi Wolf has been one of the best articulated voices on the "rape" allegations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/jaccuse-sweden-brit...
Is there an implicit claim being made that go is already competitive with C# on performance? If so that would be huge, the CLR is very mature and tuned, much faster than the JVM.

I'm also surprised to hear they are ahead on garbage collection. Assuming they are using a sweep and/or copy collector and not reference counting, why is it more deterministic than the CLR's?

I'd like to see some benchmarks/numbers if you have them handy.
you make a good point. there could be a setting that asks the responder to not provide the answer. Sometimes kids just need more worked examples to understand how to do problems.
Well, that's the thing. They're the best out there. So personally, I give them some latitude with the spammy ad-driven experience. Most of their numbers are just "more of the same", but occasionally they break something truly interesting and everyone rushes to explain it. This particular post wasn't one of those times though.
Grid++ CSS Frameworks
Check out Path Finder from Cocoatech.
Well, to be fair, they really don't have the same purpose.

Say you're a blogger. You want to allow your users to subscribe to your content. Would you only allow those who use Google Reader to do so? Certainly not!
SubToMe actually plugs nicely into Google Reader for the Google Reader users as well as it plays nicely for those who use BlogLovin'... etc.
My almost two year-old HTC Thunderbolt was supposed to be the "next big thing" when I bought it. It finally got upgraded to ICS Saturday (yes ... 2/9/2013) morning. It takes an effort to support the hardware you produce, but if you're putting people into two year contracts, it's pretty pathetic that the upgrade finally occurred within two months of my renewal (OTOH, I won't be trading this for another HTC phone as I've learned my lesson).

I'm another person that's perfectly content with my iPad 1, I have a laptop that's working great (with Ubuntu) after 6 years and I tend to wear things out before I upgrade. I was disappointed with Apple's "throw-away" chassis on the new MacBook Pro and it seems like the trend is only getting worse.
Use a logo that incorporates symbols normaly associated with subscribing buttons, an "S", and symbols associated with universality and cross-platform utilization.

This will give you a springboard for incorporating your project's name, and illustrate that it's universal (a central point) along with showing its main purpose - subscribing.

I would recommend something like an S with an infinity symbol overlaying the top curve of the S, and the lower curve curling into an arrow pointing down towards the bottom of the screen.

Hope that helps :)
I became irritated when quick sort was claimed be O(n^2). Not only is that not true in practice, it's just wrong for all but the simplest implementations of the algorithm.

With minor tweaks to the selection of partitions, quick sort can be made O(n lg n). Specifically, if combined with linear time median finding, we can pick perfect partitions every time. (Of course, this algorithm is painfully slow in practice).

All this said, the idea of analytic combinatorics is interesting for a deeper understanding of algorithm performance. It quantifies behavior that good engineers understand is swept under the rug by Big-O notation.

Of course, if you really want good performance, you'll have to understand the algorithm beyond just it's combinatorial properties -- caching locality and coherence, branch mispredictions, function call-overhead etc. play an enormous role when it comes time to really make code fast.

To write fast code, you need the whole picture.
It was definitely a noticeable improvement over remote with just email / phone communication (and occasional trips to the office), but easily not as good as being there.
Lately I've been doing some JSON-Schema validation in two of my web clients at work. It was news to me that I could. Really useful stuff, cleans up your code quite a bit. So I wrote it up and hopefully someone else will discover it too :-)
If I wanted to choose one app that I miss from Windows, it is Visual Studio, XCode even the most recent version 4.5? does not even come close.
"A moral of this is that any lucky series will always eventually be reversed
and an expected outcome of a random walk is always 0.
Or in other words - don’t play roulette ;)"

The apriori expected outcome of a random walk is zero. The expected outcome of a random walk from a given position is the position itself. So no, 'any lucky series' will not 'always eventually be reversed'. I'm afraid that's not how probability works.

But you still shouldn't play roulette.
Maybe Apple's crisis is because its investors worship growth, foolishly expecting it to continue without end. You can only grow so much...
They'd have a front row seat when the companies in 'tier 2' eventually apply. After all YC is a lot more than just cash.
"...so is the alleged narcissism a worse wrong doing than what's being exposed?"

No, and that's not what was stated. What he was alleged to have done would be a wrong, as are many things Wikileaks covers. Does Wikileaks require Assange to do exactly what they're doing? They don't need such a figurehead.

"The only thing protecting Assange from having been bundled into a jet and whisked off to Guantanamo by now is his rather high personal profile. It's not like his enemies don't have a track record here..."

The second contradicts the first, there is nothing about his high profile that protects him from being whisked off. Those forces aren't particularly concerned about the media operating independently from the governmental interests.
I hate the green button.

Shift clicking it maximises the window, which is handy to know.
They did communicate it. They have communicated it for a couple years now.
impasse is spelled without the accent ;)
The correlation could also be due to a flaw in your experimental design (e.g., something in your lab is contaminating your samples, or the researcher has an unconscious bias that skews measurements in a particular direction), in which case repeating the same experiments will not solve the problem.
It does :) Thanks!
Just like with Firewire, the screen has both an input and an output. Not unlike a daisy chain, you just plug one into the other. There's security implications, but it is fairly efficient.