skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they are right. They are many ways to cheat. And there are no ways to prove you didn't.

The system on Coursera (the one I tried) is actually very "relax". You have weeks to do your weekly tests, and weeks to do the final exam. You can edit as much as you want your answers, and you can re-do a test which is usually the same questions but with different answers (and also, when every time you submit a test they tell you what you could have done wrong).

If you wanted to give real credits for that, then you'd have to put a real limit of time to those tests first.

But I like the way it is. We don't learn something for credit anymore. I hate going to a test because that's not what I want to do when I go to university. If you don't get real credit when you pass a course on Coursera, then why would you cheat? You can just learn for the pleasure of learning.
"Google... a monopolist with high fixed costs and limited ability to price-discriminate"

Google is not a monopoly and neither was Google Reader. Krugman is intentionally disingenuous here to further his argument.

Krugman knows Google isn't a monopoly. He doesn't care. He's always trying to push the same narrative with his blog: Big corp is evil so government should step in and save the day! For anyone familiar with his blog, his agenda is extremely transparent at this point.
Nothing short of an asteroid hitting the earth is going to kill open source.
Live video streaming from LibrePlanet 2013
Is there any data out there on this perhaps? I definitely tend to agree with your theory but I'd also love to look at some data or existing research.

Would appreciate any links that anyone might be able to provide for further reading or data related to this topic...
It's crazy that there are so many huge companies that I've never heard of. Instagram's acquisition was huge news at $1B, but I didn't hear a peep about Ariba at $4.3B or Genzyme at $20B.

It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise.
I explain a bit in my reply to chimeracoder, but mostly it comes down to a personal preference for debian over Ubuntu.
Blocked Sites is discontinued
Beautifully Medieval California
This argument is reduced to absurdity because it suggests that everyone will get things cheapest if one Scrooge McDuck accumulates all the wealth and simply sits on it.
I'm with you. Email works. Email replacements are a doomed fashion and those migrating to them exclusively are deluded.
Wow. Looks like time for a revolution in physics.
Fragment.js - A tiny tool for loading html fragments and templates
"Spoken descriptions" doesn't mean you need to record your own voiceovers for your website - you are misunderstanding the complaint.

Visually handicapped people already use screen readers that will read website aloud to them. The demand here is to ensure websites are compliant enough with basic HTML spec that said screen readers work.

The screen readers I've seen don't do anything crazy - they are even fairly tolerant of bad markup, but they aren't magic. The demand here is for websites to care enough to format properly so screen readers actually work.
I switched for similar reasons (though it was before the Mir "disaster"), and have been very, very happy with it. The maintainers are very good at not passing along packages from debian-testing that will break your stuff.
May be better to link to http://www.pl0rt.org/code/goirc/ (sorry!).
Edit: Also, I did not create this, I just thought it was cool.
People using crowd funding can ask for the funding they need, and then offer the surplus to the main project.

That allows people to show support for a new feature as well as support for the project.

It's not efficient because of the crowdfunding tax, where the site will charge a fee. But I guess volume of funders could overcome that.
JS Git Kickstarter met its funding goal and is now funding stretch goals
How do you call them back? It's not like a good company will leave their phone number of the HR department so that you can call them as you please.
Impressive. Hopefully one day I'll be able to whack out a weekend project like this.

Thanks for the time-lapse video, was very interesting to see someone else's working perspective especially.
You can fix the numbers for gender, considering they are in fact the majority of the population. There is no associated power disparity for blue eyed people. Racial minorities will always present a problem.
Looking at the sponsors is interesting. The main sponsor, Mike Enzi, is a conservative Republican, who you might not normally expect to be sponsoring tax bills. But he represents Wyoming, a state that heavily depends on sales taxes, because they've made the decision not to tax personal or corporate income, leaving sales/use taxes as one of the major revenue sources (responsible for ~40% [1] of the state budget).

[1] See the pie chart on pg. 4 here: http://eadiv.state.wy.us/s&utax/Report_FY11.pdf
What are some ways to distinguish between the two?
Love it. I liked that the intro text was minimal, and I just started seeing slides flip on screen. Unexpected!
That's a brilliant idea. I mean simply bookmarking locations. It's also a brilliant idea to go viral in a large industrial country because of Beavis and Butthead aesthetics. The problem is, if I did that on purpose, my productivity would go down just because of the giggling.
Curl is good..but as a .NET programmer httpie(https://github.com/jkbr/httpie) and Fiddler are suffice to me
quite otherwise famous = sadly enough by reinventing himself as a partisan talk show pundit.
Nvidia Says Android Needs a Version of WHQL
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
For a moment there, it seemed we were witnessing what http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ had prophesied:

"Now I've contracted hemorragic e-coli from cleaning cow stalls and I'm bleeding out my asshole. I'll be dead soon, but that is a welcome relief. I will never have to witness the collapse of the world economy because NoSQL radicals talked financial institutions into abandoning perfectly good datastores because they didn't support distributed fucking map/reduce."
Mashing that up with English, and you get "an alternative to getting laid." Not what one aims for in a social network.
Looking for a Google Alerts Alternative? Try This.
> These distributions only want one version of the lib, so when an ABI bump is made all the applications that use the lib will be rebuilt and have to be updated.

That's... a big deal?

Relative to everything else that goes on in making a distribution, it seems pretty trivial.
Based on what you've written here, I'm very interested in what you are talking about. However, what I can't understand is why you would choose to go-it-alone, when other projects are looking to do the same thing. Namely, buddycloud.org and tent.io.

The open source world seems to get so fractured, even among projects that seem to be aiming at solving the same problem, that none ever gain enough traction to reach the goal with any kind of success.

I wish you luck on your project, but I hope you will look at those that have existed before yours (e.g. Diaspora), and those that are taking a new approach (mentioned above).

EDIT to add references:

https://github.com/tent

https://github.com/buddycloud

https://github.com/diaspora
Thank you very much for taking the time to write that out - it was incredibly informative!!
Brilliant work. I'm starting to use it, and I'd pay for it.

For me, it replaces:

0) Having to carry my MBP around if the only use is the presentation,

1) Plugging my Macbook Pro in, always carrying a Thunderbolt/vga and Thunderbolt/dvi adapter,

2) Trying to fiddle with almost always flaky cables to get projector working,

3) Setting up a ad-hoc wifi network, connecting my iPhone to that network,

4) But before that, removing the other saved Wifis because somehow both MBP and iPhone tends to ditch that Wifi and connect to the other ones available that has internet access, by default,

5) Open BetterTouchTool Remote on my iPhone,

6) Connect to the MBP from the app,

7) And finally start presenting.

I end up doing a presentation every week, at least. Job well done. I'm your first customer if you sell it.
This is an honest question: What is the use case for desktop Linux? Why would you switch to Linux? I feel like none of the tools I use are in Linux and I would spend most of my time trying workarounds rather than actually do work. Does anyone use desktop Linux? What for and what are your main tools?
U.S. Treasury Department Regulates Bitcoin
For perspective: "huge body" is ~millions monthly actives (but: many of them journalists), very likely less than ten million (http://www.quora.com/How-many-users-does-Google-Reader-have). YouTube just crossed 1 billion monthlies (http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil...), 100x that. Which of the two would you push?
One solution that a number of people have been working on is called the "Fair Tax." [1]

The general idea (and I'm probably missing some of the significant points, but this is a rough outline) is that there would be no income tax at all — all taxes would be on consumption. Rather than trying to regulate what is taxed and what isn't, everything would be taxed at the same rate.

To fight any regressiveness involved in that, everyone would get a set amount of money every year, which is equal to the consumption tax you'd be paying on the first, say, $30K of purchases a year. So if the consumption tax rate is 25%, you'd be given $7,500 a year. (The term they use is "prebate.") That way, everyone's first $30K of expenses is a wash. After that point, you're only taxed on the money you spend beyond it. The more you buy, the more tax you pay.

A number of Republicans have been in favor of the Fair Tax, and it was one of the planks of Gary Johnson's presidential campaign last year. But it gets support from Democrats as well, and was one of the main components of Mike Gravel's campaign in 2008.

I'm sure others will point out downsides to it, but one that I know of is that current retirees, who have already paid income tax on some of their savings, would have much less purchasing power under the new plan. That is, they'd be double-taxed on the money used to buy goods under a Fair Tax plan. I believe there's also been skepticism from opponents that the numbers actually work out well enough that a Fair Tax system would bring in enough money (as compared with current tax revenues). [Edit: the double-taxation wouldn't be limited to retirees; they're just the group that's often mentioned as being significantly affected.]

(I'm not an apologist for a Fair Tax approach; just wanted to mention it as one theory for introducing a consumption-based tax in the US, in case you're interested / want to learn more.)

1. http://www.fairtax.org/
>This needs to be resolved quickly to keep Coinbase and Bitcoins reputation.

Bitcoin's reputation has survived much worse. Mt.Gox hacking, Bitcoinica hacking, and several others. Bitcoin has intrinsic value independent of the private company infrastructure that springs up around it, no matter the foibles of the latter.

Coinbase's reputation on the other hand, is another matter.
Had to look this up. Looks like there was an earlier ruling in 1969 about sales tax on mail orders. The 1992 case seems later further refine the ruling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bellas_Hess_v._Illinoi...

http://www.infoplease.com/cig/supreme-court/sales-taxes-mail...
I mean the neighborhood. It's a great consciousness raising exercise for heterosexual males.
There's ~1Mb PNG in there as well, depends heavily on the content.
OpenSSH 6.2 released (adds aes-gcm, encrypt-then-mac)
Apple and the Jaw-Dropping Grandmaster Chess Move
>both buttons exit the game immediately. See the one on the left? The one that's always there?

And that button is clearly labelled 'Buy Now!'. I don't know which school of user interface design you went to, but when I see a link labelled 'Buy Now!', I figure that if I've no intention of buying the product, then I've no business clicking that link. I don't think I'm an atypical user in this regard.

Plus, since clicking that link does bring up your online store in a web browser (which, I'll reiterate, I've no intention of using), no matter which way you cut it, it still counts as an obnoxious nag and a user interface peeve.

What's more, it's not immediately obvious, in these days of in-app purchases and whatnot, that a link marked 'buy' will exit the game. For instance, suppose this demo was downloaded from a Steam account with some actual cash attached (I don't know if your demo is on Steam, this is a hypothetical), there's no way that I, as an ignorant user, can tell whether you've made some arrangement with Valve or if there's some call in the Steam API where clicking the app can extract the money from my account to automatically buy this game. Similar things are already in place in mobile app stores.

Asking users to go clicking on your 'Buy my product' links willy-nilly is definitely much worse than the behaviour I was originally grumbling about!
Is it really that hard? Just talk as if you had your mother, sister, girlfriend, wife ... all in the audience. Maybe one day you will have!
List of worthwhile DOS games
Should team have more than basic proficiency with source control system(git)?
i use this for displaying a very deep set of FAQ (img below) that once used a treeview but found it too messy.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/702/53758010151491375964161.j...

of course it has some improvement, like use some custom type and more css styling.
Please note that BOTH California Senators voted in favor[1]. They also both voted for PIPA.

Dear internet - we fail at politics.

[1]http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...
Some good reminders for all of us. Case study material, in fact (hopefully it won't turn into a full-blown, "oops, where did all the money go" case study).
> "because they're vastly more likely to be unbanked"

This is not true in the US, where your debit/bank card is also a VISA/MasterCard fully usable online. Even people with zero credit can easily spend money online. If you have a bank account in the US, there are effectively no barriers to spending the money in it, online.
Have you ever happened to find you got under the skin of someone you thought was a prig, but then turned out to be a legitimate victim?

Reality with human beings is complicated. Pattern matching simple rules is bound to produce a false positive. Have you always stuck around and gathered enough data to be sure?
(Web) Sandcastles Made Of Sand
>Or just raise more money hoping that the price of a bitcoin will stabilize in the near future.

Using a business model entirely dependent on the best case scenario would not be wisest play they could make. Even if BTC did stabilize, we now know market prices like this are not guassian but fractal/power-law based. Infrequent but sudden unexpected extreme volatility is a natural characteristic of such systems.

A better idea would be to develop a business model that at least expects that and does not fail when it happens, or at best exploits it.
I'm not saying it's a clear-cut case of policy violation. But in my opinion, asking for money to go to something as normal as summer camp (by "normal" I mean very common for kids her age) -- and then using additional funds to buy something as standard as a laptop -- veers way too close to the policy I called out, even if there are ways of explaining around it.

Regardless of whether it violates policies, I'm more worried that it sends the wrong message. Call it "training" all you like, It's ultimately just a week-long class for children who want to learn RPG Maker. And don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge fan of that particular piece of software. (I taught myself to use RPG Maker 2000 back when I was 11 years old.) But let's call it what it is -- at best, an impromptu scholarship for this girl, and at worst, a hand-out.

Again, I'm hoping that the girl and her mother can use the overwhelming success of the funding to turn this into something great -- something far bigger in scope than the original proposal. But until I see that happen I'll continue to be skeptical.
It's not just cheating, it's also the fact that when you have to use automated grading, it's much more difficult to create good tests.

I hope in the future they offer you the option of taking a real test at a testing center, which is graded by a human being.
And that's pretty much what Yahoo! Tried to do without so much success.
By the way - I've got a corporate app that has a file-store for presentations. This would be a perfect add-on - is there a way to embed/integrate with your app?
The problem is that putting together the distribution is "someone else's work", not the work of application software developers. The division of labor has always put everything on the distro maker, and almost none on the developer.

There's no automated pipeline of code -> build -> distro package -> testing happening, because almost everyone is still stuck in the bad old days of "download the tarball and compile it" and if you're really lucky you get a checksum on the tarball.

Ideally, we'd move to some automated means of putting together software. Imagine if there was GitHub/TravisCI style automatic process that spit out packages for Linux/BSD/Solaris/OS X/etc. on every checkin. That's where we need to go.
Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1
Which endpoint(s) of the CrunchBase API are you using? I'm planning on doing something similar graphically.
Very cool! Thanks for making this.
I'm curious if it's worth upgrading servers; I've stuck to the 3.2.0.39.47 (current) on 12.04.2 LTS boxes so far.
is there already a server framework?
This article made me kinda curious - is it common to go into an interview expecting to have to write algorithms? I've read about this frequently but writing enterprise software I've found very little occasion to write algorithms. I say almost but I probably could just say that we never write algorithms at all.

I'm not saying algorithms are unimportant, obviously a lot of the tools we use rely on that type of skill. Just that enterprise software is almost always more about workflows, schema design, UI layout, automating processes, etc. Possibly some accounting math is used but generally those formulas would be provided by the accountants anyway.

Is this just something interviewers are asking because it indicates school training? It is just a benchmark of general awareness? Does it indicate understanding of the simplistic recursion that some algorithms use? It seems to me just testing plain old memorization of forumulas - it's not like I expect the interviewee to have thought up the fibonacci sequence on his/her own.
Petition to US Dept. of Education
For just a general surf the internet machine sure Linux has a lot of power that just isn't needed (and a lot of the time a lot of hassle to get it working right) and Windows does a good enough job. However I really dislike Windows for development. Perhaps I am just spoilt by the Linux (and GNU) world of tools but Windows to me is a real hassle to get working "right" for a developer machine.
Test Twitter Flight components with Jasmine on RoR
Could someone, please, clue me on something that has been on my mind for a while now: The thermal radiation coming from distant stars has been red-shifted by the Universe expansion, together with the light in the visible spectrum. I suppose. Is it now in the same spectral area as the background radiation? Or is it the same thing?

Also, if we see the stars, do we also see the thermal radiation coming from them?
"Note: I actually didn't use a marquee for this. The one good use for one, and I missed it. Damn."

Is this even a good example for using html marquee?
It was a work for hire. He got paid in lunch.
I wish I would have seen that they use MongoDB before using the site.

My account has data inconsistency issues. They are letting me double-sell coins, which makes me wonder if the first sale went through (at $70). Also, I have experienced up to 48 hours delay in sending BTC transactions out from my coinbase wallet. These sound like Mongo problems and they wouldn't be the first to have their Mongo databases fail under load. I am making screenshots of my major transactions to ensure that they are not lost. Hopefully they have the logs to get everything in the correct state eventually.
Cyprus has agreed with EU/IMF lenders on a 20% levy on deposits over 100K
Richard Feynman: Fun to imagine
Still a bad name for a car though.
Also, I think the Pinto never made it to Brazil.
It depends on what you do. For development, especially in systems/infrastructure space, desktop Linux is by far the best choice. Nearly every piece of software that Internet runs on is developed/tested on Linux first, and everything else second (if ever).

So I keep jumping between OSX/Ubuntu. I use OSX to run PhotoShop, proper Excel and (unfortunately) Outlook.

Also it's hard to beat Linux desktops for typist/coder use case. Unity/Gnome3 have made it worse, but not as terrible as OSX (yet) I just could never get nearly as productive on OSX: everything breaks apart after you open more than 5 apps, no proper virtual desktops, keyboard shortcuts are limited and not easily configurable, the list goes on and on.

This also applies to Python/Ruby libraries with native extensions. They always just work on Linux and on OSX I kept running into weird issues. Even though the solution is always a Google search away, it's still easier to just use the OS where everything works all the time.

There is another, less popular reason to use Linux desktop, and it's Thinkpads. OSX does not run on them, but - according to some fans like myself - a Thinkpad is the best laptop money can buy. But this reason is soon to become obsolete: Lenovo is discontinuing Thinkpads replacing them with cheap macbook clones.
Im a Coinbase customer. I'm waiting for my pending transaction to go through, and for USD to hit my bank account. And I'd rather have Fred and the rest of Coinbase working on solving that problem than explaining what, exactly, the glitch is, and while they're at it, what their entire infrastructure looks like. There will be time for explanations later.
How about BIND for rocket scientists. There are easier to configure alternatives, I have heard good things about PowerDNS which has multiple backend support and third party web gui administration.
I wonder if a lot of the "there's no innovation any more" talk is a result of the fact that things like biotech just doesn't get the same coverage as the web startups?

There's a lot of biotech/pharmacutecal companies in those lists. Something is happening in that industry, even if we don't hear much about it here and elsewhere.
Slackware is a great distro. Did you never try Gentoo during that period? Especially around 2002-2005 when the community was the most active. I'm asking since you loved compiling and troubleshooting. :)
There was a large DDoS attack that went after the peering exchanges that CloudFlare participates on in London and Amsterdam. It appears related to the DDoS against Spamhaus we wrote about earlier this week:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-of...

The attack did not only affect CloudFlare but also other members of those exchanges. The problems were localized to the region. We've moved traffic so it doesn't pass across the affected exchanges. We'll continue to monitor.
Buy the book and the buy butcher paper for the walls of the kids room - works fairly well

laminated white cardboard and dry erase markers for older children
Synchronization sucks