skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Its value for its users (basically how much value is gained by using Google as opposed to an alternate search engine)..."

and:

"(other search engines such as Altavista who had results which were poorer, but not hugely so)"

I upvoted you but for many Google is, and since quite a long time, just so much more than just the search engine.

Actually I don't even search that often anymore. My girlfriend hardly ever searches for stuff on the Internet: online life for her is GMail, YouTube (I take it you could hard there's search inside YouTube), eBay, Amazon, FB and a few other sites but that's basically it. What Google offers goes way beyond search: to me the biggest benefits are, by far, a spamless webmail, online backups and online editable/shareable Google Docs. Search is a very very very distant fourth or fifth service compared to the rest that Google is offering.
Same can be done in Firefox on any bookmark using the "Keyword" attribute in the bookmark editor user interface.
Ask HN:  Recruiters/HR, how do you like finding potential job candidates?
Do you rather post a job and wait for an influx of resumes? Or do you like to search websites/internal resources to find potential candidates?
GitHub Down
GitHub is unreachable at the moment for both web and ssh (for me at least).
Bake-sale style funding for the military instead of for schools. That is a fantastic idea. I love it.
"And, in fact, every single one of our simulated trades was profitable, even while the stock overall was going up and down."

This is a huge red flag with respect to the simulation results. You show some trades like this one

> 2013-03-05 6:41,2013-03-05 7:15,14.47,14.48,LONG,5192,75145.75,52.85,100237.47

where you enter the trade and exit a penny higher. It sounds like you're just looking at the trade print and assuming you can execute at that price with a market order (or marketable limit order). Consider a stock at 14.47 bid x 14.48 ask. If I cross the spread to sell at 14.47 and then someone else crosses the spread to buy at 14.48, you will see two trades at the two different prices, without the prices on the inside having changed, this is why the midpoint between bid and ask is considered a more useful value than the last trade price.

With the system you propose, you are a price taker. You are crossing the spread with both your entering and exiting trades. Most of the trades you show are for around 5000 shares. Assuming the spread is $0.01, you are going to spend $100 just to get in and out of the position.

I don't know what kind of data Google offers about the intraday state of the order book, but I think you'll need to incorporate it into your backtesting in order to get a better picture about the profitability of your strategy.
We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate
"We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate. The site may be slow to respond, and you may struggle to pull/push code via SSH - we apologise for any inconvenience."
The article is rather vague on what he thinks are the problem with academia. All I can see is this:

Instead, it’s the politics, the inefficiency, and the in-bred hostility towards change has driven these incredible people out of academia.

Good luck getting politics out of human systems involving more than a few tens of people. It's just inevitable.

I don't know what he specifically means by inefficiency and in-bred hostility. One form of inefficiency I can think of is the constant grant writing professors have to do. But then this is just a product of penny pinching politicians and our anti-intellectual culture. I am not sure how academia can fix this.

I have no clue what he means by "in-bred hostility". I'm not the most sociable person in the world, but the number of positive interactions I've had with other researchers is vastly outweighed by the few negative interactions I've had with academic jerks.

The title of "academia eating its young" suggested me to the lament of many in the biomedical fields who seem go from postdoc to postdoc for years on end because permanent faculty positions are few and far between. Again, this is a direct result of the shrinking levels of funding going into research and higher education. This isn't academia eating its young, it's our society eating academia.
Self driving cars? Android?
They've updated their status to indicate they're under a DDoS attack impeding access to their systems:

https://status.github.com
Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from S. Carolina
can't read on chrome 20, ubuntu 12.04
GitHub hit by DDoS
This is a great list. Little surprised Space Quest didn't make the cut.
I should have mentioned I'm using Feedly on an iPad. On the desktop Feedly isn't as compact as Reader - but there's a setting where you can make it nearly so.

On the iPad I like the magazine layout and swiping to mark an article as read. Having fewer articles presented at a time actually has been helping me better focus on each article. And now that I can see more of the article I can better determine whether it's really something I should read. Whereas before I tended to skim the titles and try to weed out articles and figure I'd get to the articles I might be interested in later. To then find out that I really wasn't interested in that article.

But that's me. You might hate Feedly for the exact same reasons I like it. Good thing you have until July 1st to find an alternative that works for you! Good luck!
Github DDOSed again
One existing institution that is fairly close to you're imagining is the HHMI.

However, I think you are making two assumptions about research that are incorrect.

First, it isn't at all clear that separating teaching from research entirely would be a good thing; researchers need to be trained, and trainees bring diverse skills and perspectives to the labs in which they work.

Second, many of the "smaller problems" have been getting bigger, in that they depend on large expenditures for equipment and professional staff to keep things running. To execute your example of characterizing digestive flora from different countries, you'll need a facility with the latest sequencing equipment and people to run it, computational infrastructure, and boots on the ground to collect the data in all those developing countries.. it'll quickly turn into a multi-million dollar collaborative project.
Why Telerik?
The stock market is not economic growth. A far simpler explanation is that investors simply expect things like the labor market to recover, which is exactly why the markets react dramatically when the monthly jobs numbers are released.
ADP Enterprise eTIME *REQUIRES* an older insecure version of Java
Several non-tech savvy companies even have instructions for their employee's to disable java updates, how to uninstall the latest version of Java and install an old version:

- http://www2.gordonstate.edu/humanresources/adp-java-requirements

- http://media.callawaygolf.com/webupdate/osrupdates/javaforosrs.pdf

- etc. etc.
I think you are probably talking about the story linked below. Very sad but I guess it is a form of fraud and theft.

Certainly it indicates something is wrong with our current education system but there are so much other evidence (e.g. dropout rates, test scores, college preparedness) that this is hardly news.

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Tanya-McDowell-sentenced-...
There are some nice closed bugs too. Here is an argument over whether it should support ^C by default: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598992
Serving gzipped assets from your Rails app
Keep studying. Get coding. Do side projects. Do as much as you can. Study up on typical basics that interviews normally ask... data structures, algorithms, etc. You're smart and passionate - I don't know about your area but here in the SF Bay Area I don't think it'd be too hard to find something.
Except it doesn't, not when improvement is so dramatic.

If he rewrote Python in Ruby, the perf would have been more or less the same.

If he rewrote in C, he would get even better perf but at much bigger cost (in dev time).

The point of his article is that Go is almost as easy to write in as Python but gives you 10x perf and that's why Go is attractive. It has the right perf/coding effort ratio.
If nothing else, SOME time would HAVE to have passed, to get from one subject to the other. For one person to finish one sentence, and another person to start another.

Time enough for her to turn away, and the assumption that she wasn't part of the conversation any more to be reasonable?

I don't know that it was... Any more than you know it wasn't.
> The code in question is not valid C code.

If it were not valid C code, then a standard-compliant C compiler would be required to reject it.

Now don't get me wrong, having code that is dependent dereferencing past the end of an array is not a good idea. Having such code in a popular benchmark is a bad situation to be in, particularly when it interferes with progress in compiler optimization. It is not, however, "illegal" for any standard definition of illegal, and in this context clarity is important as ambiguity can interfere with compiler optimization :)

Edit: Assume you have a machine/OS with a page size of 1 byte. Can a compiler generate a program that does not raise an exception in the situation mentioned by the OP? Saying such a program is illegal would surely imply that it could not.
On reflection, I don't have enough information to know that you were being intellectually dishonest. Other explanations are possible. So I'm sorry I said that.
You'd have to place caps on items. That said, you'd have to deal with complexity in pricing: $500,000 for a house in Houston is probably a luxury, but not so much in markets like San Francisco.
http://isup.me/github.com

It's not just you! http://github.com looks down from here.
There really isn't anything substantive in this post. Almost all of the problems that are linked to are due to funding cuts.

"Science and academia are entirely broken today, but we can longer afford to wait for the dinosaurs to die." Please - what exactly is the author trying to say? What exactly is broken, who are the dinosaurs, and what do they have to do with it? Science works very well, as it long has, and in fact in works much much better than it ever has, due to increasing transparency and fairness in all aspects of the academic pipeline (admission, graduation, funding, peer review, publication, etc.)

Certainly, funding is tight, which might drive a lot of very creative people away - but a lot of very creative people remain, and not everybody wants to be in academia anyway.

Also, it's true that academia can be very inefficient, but that's not globally true, and neither is it an academic problem alone. Most importantly, it's something that can be fixed.
Is every period of downtime due to a DDoS, or has it become the industry catch-all phrase?
Open Source, Passwordless Login with a Tweet
sad, sad adria. shes on a crusade to delete everyones opinion that outs her as a hypocrite. shes deleted all the comments on her facebook, all the negative comments on her blog, wherever she can shes deleting it. all of this couldve been avoided if she could learn to act like an adult, and apologize. i HOPE she's really reflecting on all of this and will change her ways. i doubt it though..
Krugman lost it a long time ago. The final nail in the coffin was when he wrote that it actually was a good idea to mint a $1 trillion coin to dodge the legislation preventing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

If you're into economy at all you should know that disciples of Friedman did predict the precise situation the eurozone is in right now (including Spain unemployment, the Greek default, Italy and France struggling) before the first euro even circulated... Meanwhile Keynesians have never been able to predict anything more than two or three years before they happened.

Keynesians are ultra-short sighted but politicians loves them because they're basically telling them what they want to hear: more state intervention, create even more money (the $1 trillion coin was just ultra rubbish, really), etc.

His whole book "End this recession now" is a gigantic pile of shit.

The situation ain't good because of the Keynesian doctrine and yet these people want to do more of what does obviously not work: let's print more money.

I never had much sympathy for Keynesians but honestly since he wrote about that $1 trillion coin I've entirely lost interest.

He lost it.
I'm German. I'm not sure what you are talking about. You do need to graduate a "Gymnasium" (years 5-12 or 13, right after elementary school). But any "Gymnasium" will do. Every town has a "Gymnasium", you don't have to move or bake cookies.

However, the "Gymnasium" is just one three schools. Only about 30% of students attend. If your marks get too bad you have to leave for "lower" school. On the other hand it's possible to attend a "Gymnasium" of pupils of a "lower" school if they have good grades. (About 20% of my final class came form "lower" schools.)

The German system is a kind of elitist. And it's criticized that the parents income is too important. But it is elitist regarding to your marks, and not your district.
Anyone counting how many DDoS attacks github saw this year? I don't doubt they are having issues, but at this point it seems like they are blaming every outage on a DDoS
You're completely wrong. Krugman hates capitalism and free markets, and is on a crusade to end them.

Claiming that X's property is a "public utility" _is_ a power grab.
App.net:  A Developer's Perspective
To charge or not to charge? Your Pricing Strategy
Neither C nor PyPy is "commonly used optimization strategy" so the comparison is very much correct.

People reach for C when they are desperate for performance, have the skills to do C, have the time to do C and are ok with loosing the cross-platform capabilities. Pure python code runs on mac/windows/unix (90% of the time). The moment you add a C module to the mix, you end up with the usual cross-platform mess (separate installers for each platform, complicated build processes etc.).
> There's a lot of truth to what you're saying, yet plenty of platforms, products and services with perfectly viable business models go away. The Apple Newton (for which people paid good money) was launched and discontinued in less time Reader existed.

... and nobody's Newton disappeared.

In fact, you can still find one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Newton-Original-MessagePad-OMP...

This is the major difference between cloud architectures and DRM-licensed media that you rent, versus actual products that you own.
What disturbs me is how it's okay for Google to allow this "for Chrome users only" but it's a $700m fine for Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer into the OS. Is Microsoft really more of a monopoly than Google? Of course not. It's ridiculous that MSFT gets fined such high amounts but no one questions Google's ethics or says, "Hey, wait a minute..."
Except that this bill won't create a comprehensive school system (which Linus clearly is in favor of) - it's just mess up the backdoor selective schooling system that at least serves 10-20% of the students. Turns out there's a third option - no functioning education at all.
Not sure where you live, but most school districts are already a combination of county and state funding. The state funding does the work of helping poorer districts, and targeted federal funding in turn helps poor states. You are assuming that money is the problem, when the reality is that the US spends far more per student than Finland.

http://rossieronline.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-...

In fact, some of the worst performing districts in America are also the most well-funded, like the District of Columbia.

The problem is the teachers unions control the delivery system, and swaths of American culture that don't value education.
The good stuff is on the shelves of the research libraries, and it's not going anywhere.

If someone does a lot of good research early in their career and publishes it, then they can get funded to continue. In the US, there are billions a year for research from NSF, NIH, DoE, etc.

For teaching, did I mention that the good stuff is still on the shelves of the research libraries and is not going anywhere?
The problem with intrinsic motivation is that it often makes itself unaccountable to getting results.

And I don't mean economic results, I mean results of any kind. This is actually one of the reasons I'm in CS grad-school right now rather than anything else: I could spend my life hacking away at Cool Stuff as open-source projects, joining open-source projects, coding whatever for a day job. I could. But I've already done hobby stuff in realms that intersected partially with research, and found that it's just too easy to completely bullshit myself if I don't have real research training.

So I'm here getting the real research training, in hope of writing things that are less prone to self-delusion and bullshit.

No word yet on my final career plans, because the grandparent was definitely right about one thing: I do my best stuff when intrinsically motivated and I find money-motivated careerism more of a burden than anything else.
I really wish they'd release geographic information on who's launching these attacks. On the bright side, a Saturday @ 7 eastern isn't near as annoying as something during the workweek.
> The vibe of the Royal Society was a bunch of stuck up nobility debating worthless issues.

To many, that wouldn't sound wholly unlike academia.
Exactly. He's a Keynesian freak who lost it a long time ago.
> at this point it seems like they are blaming every outage on a DDoS

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576964
Resume/CV LaTeX template for students or recent graduates
LOVE this, with one major caveat. I hate, Hate HATE the ads. It's a visceral level of rage that I find remarkable since that's not how I generally respond to in-app ads.

They're just so very very wrong in this context, mainly because they're deliberately distracting. For someone trying to focus on delivering a presentation, this is 100% unacceptable. It would be tolerable (barely) if the ad never changed, but when the damn thing changes every few seconds, it's more than enough to break one's concentration. And that is LETHAL for public speaking.

I know HN guidelines discourage the use of caps for emphasis, and I almost never use them for this reason. But my negative reaction was SO strong that it's worth breaking protocol just to emphasize how awful those intrusions really are.

Aside from that one hideous, terrible, awful, repulsive, glaring deal-killer of a flaw, this app is brilliant. Bottom line: I'd pay $5 for a version without ads. I'd refuse to use it with ads.
Why is anyone DDoSing GitHub?
Somewhere else on the Internet: "We are currently giving a DDoS attack and are working to..."
Not to mention that there's a significant portion of people who really are so poor they aren't online. I understand that the HN community may be sheltered in many ways from a world where people can't afford a computer or Internet access, or a smart phone, but that world exists, and is not as small as we'd like to think. (I grew up in a family where a trailer home with a broken-down Pinto in the yard would have been a step up ... for some family members, very little has changed)
I'll ask you to cite a sources for these quotes; neither sounds at all like Jefferson's writing style - especially the latter one - and the vocabulary seems to indicate a much more recent origin. (The term "corporation" wouldn't have been used in quite its modern sense during his lifetime.)

There is a similar quote by Jefferson that speaks about banking establishments being more dangerous than standing armies, but the term "establishment" there isn't a synonym for "institution" - think about what "establishment" meant with respect to religion in his era - and the position that I interpret here was one that could be described as somewhat aligned with his position on religion: that there ought to be a sort of "wall of separation" between the financial economy and the state in parallel to the wall between church and state. In other words, Jefferson is arguing against the politicization of banking, not banks themselves, which seems a strongly free-market position, and somewhat contrary to what you appear to imply.
Over 1.5 million students are home schooled in the U.S.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91
Your profile says to contact you via email but you don't have one listed. I've lived in Latin America for the past couple years and also plan to move to Chile this year. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
This is a great idea. I am sure this would be really useful to astrophys undergrads. Last time I need to use it for a project I had to make a python script download from their telnet service.
MPAA: BitTorrent is the Best Way to Pirate Movies and TV-Shows
Amazing. I've been doing flat design for over 10 years and didn't realize it. I never would have believed that my unfinished Photoshop layout mockups would one day become a design trend and be sold off as "flat design". Where the design is simpler, cleaner, easier for the designer to produce, and charges the same amount of money to the client. It's basically selling less to the client at the same cost and creating an easier experience for the users. I'm not complaining, it's just interesting how design works.

These sites are beautiful. When done right, it really makes the content stand out over the containment.
There's a few sites focusing on offering a "vetted freelance marketplace" of some description. Toptal, Scoutzie, and one or two others that I can't remember the name of right now.

I actually just quit working on a startup that aimed to do exactly that: http://endorse.io. Turns out that some of the bigger sites, PeoplePerHour and especially oDesk are already working hard on ways to ensure quality of their workers. Although oDesk has lots of cheap third world coders, too, I've known first world contractors get lots of quality jobs through there.

But yeah, if you're actually looking for work, try tapping your network and hitting up local tech meetups. I found a tech recruiter through my university alumni network who gave me some useful pointers about the London freelance market, so try that as well.
It seems like there a ton of these clever "control a webpage with your phone's browser" demos that they probably deserve their own shorthand name.

Is there already a name to shorthand this whole process/idea? "screen pairing"?
"...keep it that way."
Thanks, I think it boils down to tokipin's comment above.
Thanks! I know how old code gets lost under the couch and all, but if you have it hanging around, I'd love to see it.
While 'neat', it won't reveal who's actually controlling the botnet and launched the attack.
Potential security problem with the HipChat Mac app
(BTW I'm jealous you got to work on the project)

The great majority of my work was at night (nighttime noise patrols). Looking back on it, I learned a lot about construction in general and the Big Dig in particular, but at the time it was a pretty miserable experience. And Big Dig workers did tell me about Bova's in the North End which helped passed the time.

But I have stories. So many stories. However, none that I want to relate with my name attached. :)
Every sane public school system should. And the systems i know have a though recruiting process. Just because it's not hire and fire it's usually not laissez-faire.
NY argues that Amazon's relationship with NY-based affiliates constitutes a NY-based Amazon marketing force that produces a sufficient nexus with the state to make them subject to NY law on collecting sales tax. It's currently being litigated [1].

I recall reading [2] that Amazon actually supports the federal legislation though, because they're slowly moving towards having a 50-state presence anyway, as things like grocery delivery and same-day delivery become a bigger part of their strategy.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/us-tax-amazon-cour...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0...