skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, There is a nice counter argument in the article -

But what about the argument that the U.S. is shedding crocodile tears?
America (and Israel) were almost certainly behind the most successful known
cyber attack to date: the Stuxnet virus that impeded Iran's uranium-
enrichment program. There might be some comfort in knowing that the U.S. is
doing unto China what China is doing unto the U.S.

Second, I think people who are saying - "I don't care" to China reading their email account are unaware of the implicit repercussions. Another snip from the article

"If I had access to your bank account, would you worry? If I had access to
your home security system, would you worry? If I have access to the pipes
coming into your house? Not just your security system but your gas, your
electric—and you're the Pentagon? Maybe nobody's been killed yet, but I
don't want you having the ability to hold me hostage. I don't want that. I
don't want you to be able to blackmail me at any point in time that you
want."

It's the potential ability for a foreign host to keep you hostage which is the real worry was a citizen.
I would appear to be Erik Meijer: JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generate is like a .NET assembly. The browser can execute it, but no human should really care what’s there.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageFo...
FYI I've been using the Linux version from Steam flawlessly (Arch Linux, GTX560Ti/Nvidia Drivers)
Ann Arbor debt collection software expands into rental market
But that still doesn't explain why "I would cut a bitch" won while mine didn't.
Actually his post was sarcastic (I think that's the word). Of course passwords should be hashed, and moreover they should not be read to customers over the phone.
Yes, spatial v object based attention. The use of animation could be used to convey information and draw the visual attention.

So for example a rain cloud for it's raining. An animated rain cloud for thunderstorm warning, draws the attention to a piece of text that might be overlooked.
Well wired Ethernet just works in far more cases than faffing around with Wifi - find a spare port and plug it in.

You would also have to add connectors for antennas.
SmartDeblur 2.0 - with blind deconvolution, like on the Adobe's demo
New release of SmardDeblur features a blind deblurring module which can automatically identify and remove complicated blur patterns in an image. Deblurring efficiency of the original version has also been improved.
exactly HOW do you redeem the funds sent to address in the first step?
Aww those are cute! Nice job.

Just wanted to point out that when viewing the demo on my iPad's high resolution display they look pixel-y.
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux
My problem was mainly the availability of the materials. Codecademy and duolingo give you access to as much as you require from the start and you can go through as quickly as you like. The university driven sites limit access to so much per week (though I'm not sure how courses will operate the second time) and demand you stick to their schedule, though granted this may be due to their need to peer-review the more demanding assignments.

Unfortunately my free time isn't available in nice predetermined six-week chunks, but even if I am able to catch up three weeks or more in a weekend the courses gave a very negative vibe about continuing to progress as soon as you miss a single one of their deadlines (i.e.- "you missed our deadline for this multiple-choice computer marked test, so your effort no longer counts"). I've 'failed' several coursera sessions in the fourth or fifth week for that reason.

Timetabling seems a very traditional educational view, and it contrasted sharply with codecademy and sites like duolingo where I spent Jan and Feb learning the basics of new languages - computer and human. I finished the courses I took because I did them at my own pace.
All 10 of them?

Because people have been writing huge programs in plain JS just fine.

More often than not, Coffeescript is used for plain vanilla front end code, the kind of that people can do in JS with their eyes closed.
Yep I already added data export. Just click your profile and there is a button called "Export..." which will ask for a password and create an encrypted zip file.
I can do that in Ada, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Modula-3, Cyclon and many others, what is so special about C?
For many state schools, international students are a huge source of revenue. They mostly pay full freight.
For a nice, portable and generic version of the "do something when the filesystem changes" flavour of tool, check out the "watchmedo" command provided by watchdog (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog).

It's quite similar to watchr in ruby-land, but the executable is easier to use without creating a config file.
I first read it as Kabal Space Program.
It's pretty obvious being isolated from real social and physical connection with other humans tends to have a severely negative impact on people's mental and physical health

No, it's not obvious.

It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and lonelier society over the past decades.

That's just your experience.
And wanting explanations (much less doubting them) for the obvious is neither science nor wisdom.
chris_wot: Just did so, check your mailbox.
really great points in this article. I hope that Coursera sees this and really takes it seriously. I love what they're trying to do, and have signed up for about 30 classes myself that I totally intended to study, and just couldn't finish a single one. And its true, artificially imposing the traditional college course model just does NOT make sense in the online context. Why are there deadline for problem sets, and test schedules? Fix that, and it'll change everything
One of the things to that I found confusing with the coursera classes was that each one seems to have its own set of rules for dealing with homework assignments, late homework, and partial credit. At one point I was signed up for two classes at the same time and I assumed they had the same policy for when homework was due. It wasn't a big deal but there were several times I would have a free hour or so and it was a task to figure out the best way to use that time. I think it is a positive thing that the courses are trying out a lot of different approaches to see what works best but this reminded me of the parts of academia that I didn't really care for.
For example Electrum client (electrum.org) allows you to import these keys. Or you can use MtGox Redeem code feature. I'm pretty sure other clients and web wallets have also this functionality.
There will continue to be low retention until there is an incentive to finish. Without the credentialing piece, I don't see a problem with low retention. I think it's awesome that people dip in and out as their needs and interests change. In every class I ever took at MIT/Caltech there were at least a couple lectures I would have been happy to skip. MOOCs enable that.

I hope there will be more short and tightly focused online courses in the future instead of monolithic traditional-length courses we have today. I think that'd go a long way to improving the apparent retention rate.
Speaking as a one-time rural white kid, ivy league grad, and now alumni interviewer who was interviewed kids in both rich suburbs (palo alto) and poor rural northern new hampshire and vermont: neither one of the kids you described is getting in.

What matters isn’t what you do; it's what you do with the opportunities that are available to you. Your hypothetical rich kid didn’t do anything more than what was put in front of her. Your hypothetical poor kid didn’t try to find ways to challenge himself either.

The rich kids from Palo Alto who got in were the ones who weren’t loading up on AP classes, they were the ones who had gone across the road to Stanford and kept walking into bio labs until they found one that would let them do grunt work.

The poor kids in rural New England who get in go down to the library or online and teach themselves grammar, then go on to learn a couple years worth of college-level linguistics and philosophy of language (which even rich kids don’t get to take in high school) because the books were there and they were interesting.

I wouldn’t pretend for a moment that the deck isn’t stacked. But it’s not stacked in this particular manner.
Time management hacks
I know its not there, was wondering if there were any plans. Its very much a chicken and the egg issue with "enough code 'in the wild' to justify this"
Craigslist is the only exception I know of.
The number of partners you need is not the log of the number of startups. It's more like n/15.
The future of Java went downhill as soon as Oracle bought Sun.

I miss Sun. Dearly. They were perhaps the only major IT company with a true heart.

And now there's none left. Google? Hell no.
You're missing the point completely, If a private Ivy League institution wants to redistribute wealth, that's fine. One must opt in to be part of that group, and it only affects members who choose to be part of that group, knowing the consequences. If the federal government wants to, it's much different as one's choice to belong to a national government is much less free.
That's what he told me from reading the terms sent. Since this is secondhand, I don't have the exact quote.
Ok so one of the coolest things in this game is that you can have multiple flights occurring at once. Has anyone been able to intercept another flight they have put into space?

What other crazy feats would be interesting to accomplish?

From what I can tell you can only attempt things based on this solar system.

This game is so enthralling for an engineer. It plagues me every moment since I got the game I love this sandbox space simulator. I hope they keep taking my money and really improve the game. It seems to work slightly better on my mac than on my pc, and the ship builder is a bit wonky, but I hope they improve that soon. Right now I spend too much time building things that should be much easier to construct.

Are any of you sharing designs on the wiki yet?
>Living Alone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

why? because I don't HAVE TO wash the dishes immediately after every f-ing meal?

I'll accept the risks and danger of dying happy over living longer with someone else and being miserable.

It's crap like this article, the propaganda of conformity, that aggrandizes stupidity and servitude over autonomy & freedom that makes me hate humanity. Suck teh dick of society, team up, so you don't have time to think and learn and realize how you're getting screwed by corporatism, government, religion, etc.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself
than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
[ Thoreau, "Walden" ]

Here's the truth about living alone vs family...

The family! Home of all social evils,
a charitable institution for indolent women,
a prison workshop for the slaving breadwinner,
and a hell for children.
[ August Strindberg ]

SINGLE FOR LIFE

CHILDLESS BY CHOICE

BETTER THAN YOU and your slave mentality

The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by an endless series of hobgoblins.
[ Henry Louis Mencken ]
His biggest argument is that CoffeeScript isn't run on "multiple architectures". However you could consider multiple browsers to be "multiple architectures". While this isn't super common, it's entirely possible to have CoffeeScript/Foo to compile to different "builds" of JS -- one that gets loaded in modern browsers, and another that gets loaded in older IE where built-in ES5 functions aren't available.
I'm sure you're a lot of fun at parties.

This is a scientific discussion

No it's not, it's a fucking web argument between a couple of strangers.

not one about vocabulary

All thought is about vocabulary to a large extent. Certainly all communication is about vocabulary.

Anyway, I'm done wasting my time with this. Someday you'll be ready to get on with the rest of us humans. We'll be glad to have you then.
> Ok so one of the coolest things in this game is that you can have multiple flights occurring at once. Has anyone been able to intercept another flight they have put into space?

Well, yes. That's how you assemble space stations :)
256 Shades of Grey
I did it too, that's probably the reason why it's in frontpage LOL
KSP uses the Unity engine for rendering. They've recently switched to version 4 I believe. There are options in the game to hold back on the graphics rendering and get some CPU back. I love this game as well, there's a tongue-in-cheek approach to some stuff that keeps it from getting too serious about itself.
The convergence of product development, social, and SEO
I always found it silly to compare an expensive language like JavaScript, that couldn't be further away from the machine, to assembly language. A language where data stuctures are hash maps with string keys, where numbers are boxed doubles on the heap, etc.

An array of points in C:
http://s3.mrale.ph/images/array-of-points-structure-c.png

An array of points in JavaScript:
http://s3.mrale.ph/images/array-of-points-structure-javascri...
> stop discriminating hiring practices

There's the rub. You have powerful, entrenched players working to protect their own interests. Even more importantly, ignoring cues like an Ivy education reduces the SNR for hiring managers who are already overwhelmed by noise. Stopping discrimination will require them to do additional difficult, thankless vetting work.

In the tech world, github makes this relatively painless, though not entirely effort-free. Perhaps such a system could be extended to legal and regulatory fields? A central platform for open source laws, regulations, and debates would do the trick. The difficult part would be getting people to use it.

Maybe you could start by targeting law schools and debate clubs, giving them an easy way to visualize the back-and-forth of an argument, and then try to use that traction to move into the public sphere? I seem to recall hearing about a few sites trying to do this, but evidently none of them have reached critical mass yet.
Yes, also getting a scholarship to an Ivy League implies hard work on the part of the recipient whereas welfare can be abused by free-riders.
There are capital controls in place in Cyprus, it's illegal to move more than a certain amount of money out of the country. Thus you can't just move your money to CHF or USD.

Clearly, if you need to move illicit funds around, Bitcoin is a reasonable way to do that.
Respectfully, that merely explains how they are able to read it, not "why" as the parent asks.
Uh... yes it does? It has a light that blinks on the front when it's recording.

Factchecking is cool, yo.
> We also think people from former times were idiots for believing the Sun went around the Earth

Erm, I don't think they were "idiots". And I'd say you're pretty safe to totally dismiss the opinion of somebody that does. Our understanding of the world, and the mental tools that we've developed to aid our understanding have developed in step. To call our forebears idiots for a misapprehension is to fail to comprehend the continuum of our advancement.

> We take it on faith from others in an appeal to authority.

You're certainly free to "take it on faith", but I wouldn't recommend it. Learn about science as much as you're able, and if possible try and understand things from first principles. You might find it rewarding to leave your "faith" at the door and get even a glimmer of the self-supporting system of tested knowledge that science provides.

> Equations are simply abstractions to model the real, physical world.

Equations and models maybe be abstractions but there's nothing simple about it, and they are capable representing profound truths related to the nature of the physical world. Those truths let us directly affect the real world in practical ways.

I'm sorry but I find your statements a little wishy-washy!
Google Maps: “Treasure Map” mode
There are far more meaningful reasons why JavaScript is not Web assembly than metaphor wrangling.

There are things that you simply cannot do in JavaScript that you can in assembly. Many of those are horrible practices with little use. In assembly, if the computer can do it you can do it. C retains most of those abilities because it compiles to Assembly/Machine code.

How does one even write the unix cat command in JavaScript?
The structure of while(read())write() does not go down well in JavaScript.

JavaScript needs to be able to fork, wait and preempt if it wants to be assembly.
I love the idea of this game...but how the hell do i get it??!
Poor kid: school counselors dealing with problem students and not helping with college entry. Good luck knowing about the PSAT or anything other than state requirements.
That is a very clever writing. It reads like there is a problem and then finishes with a punchline that there isn't.

She and her other friend from Pahrump, with the "standard" free public school education, she ends up an assistant professor and her buddy ends up with a Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Purdue (which is pretty darn employable).

That she didn't even "imagine" or think about the Ivy League schools made no difference to either of them. They were smart, the worked hard, and boom they are both "successful."

The comment about the military and its recruitment was also interesting. Because having been a military brat (the child of a military officer) it was clear that the military got their leadership from a wide swath of participants, not "just" folks from the military academies, one of my friend's dad was a general (1 star) and he always let us know he enlisted as an airman because his Mom couldn't afford to feed him as a teenager.

So the conclusion is that there isn't really a problem here. People who have the talent and motivation can get a good graduate degree from a good school. They need only finish their undergraduate degree at a state school. All the angst about Google or Facebook only hiring if you went to one of "these" 21 schools, is moot if you can get a masters degree there after you graduate from your "loser" school.

So I see the argument that the Ivy League won't even see you if you don't come through the right schools as an undergraduate, and that doesn't matter for anyone who gets an advanced degree. So if you have the talent get an advanced degree, it doesn't matter.

That said, it implies that if you are a loser and by the luck of having a wealthy family who shepherds you through the process so that you end up in an Ivy League school, you may find it easier to get hired as an undergraduate. But you are also just as easy to fire so that benefit is fleeting if you don't know your stuff.

Anyway, I read it thinking the author was trying to point out a problem only to discover that there wasn't a problem. I found that to be pretty clever.
That site exists. It's called College Confidential: http://www.collegeconfidential.com

Especially interesting is the forum. Unfortunately, it may not feel "at home" for all types of students, as most the participants are planning on going to top-tier schools, and have been all their lives. But if you post "I'm a rural student from X. Here is what I could pay to go to college, and here are my current stats (such as class rank, etc.). Does anyone have suggestions on where I should apply?" you'll get a whole bunch of people trying to help you out, pointing out schools that "match" your statistics, and schools that are "reach" schools, and explaining that you don't need a bunch of money to attend the reach schools, as they offer need-based financial aid. While I don't support spending ridiculous amounts of time on the site trying to figure out whether or not you'll be accepted, I think it's a reasonable place to learn about college admissions, especially if you have no background.
YouTuber kurtjmac has a let's play for Kerbal Space Program if anyone wants to see it played before buying it.

(http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD603D8234AE51EF0)

I'd love to see someone in the future optimise a docking procedure and say they got into it from something like Kerbal.
The internet is great for finding the answers to questions - once you're able to formulate them correctly.
I follow development a bit, but am not yet involved heavily.

From what I gather, one of the goals of a 1.0 release is that any subsequent releases will have enough tooling to painlessly upgrade to a new version. Something like a 'rust fix' command is surely how you'd want to implement that.

Making such a tool shouldn't be enormously painful, given the infrastructure to pretty-print your code exists in the rust compiler.
You can do the same with a video. You pause it, get on a relevant IRC channel or internet forum and ask "what does she mean by X at 23:51?" Or you Google the term or process you were confused about and find someone else's explanation (I have personally done this loads of times). Or you turn to the person you're watching it with and ask. Or you call up your study group on skype. Do those two latter things usually happen now? No, but they easily, easily could if this type of learning became mainstream.

Is having a professor there that you can ask immediately in the moment (and interrupt the lecture for the other students who understood the material) worth $1000 per credit hour?
Want to learn to code? Start here.
I am proud to say that I went to.university with the game creator, and he already wanted to make it back then, and seeing it coming to fruition makes me really happy.
That's the problem then -- you need to be running a release. The argument being that if you can get yourself to -STABLE, you're obviously comfortable with source upgrades.
The mysterious case of a disappearing island
If the new Compose interface was actually that awful, it wouldn't have seen the light of day. What do you think Google employees use for all their email all the time?

The window is not that tiny - compare it to the chat window, for example. And since so many of my emails reference other emails, it's nice to be able to browse my inbox at will without opening new browser frames.

I was thrown off a bit by the auto-hiding of CC and From fields, but it's habit by now to use Tab and Shift-Tab to navigate the form elements. Thankfully, it's still about as keyboard-accessible as before, since I don't like to use my mouse much.
If you're interested in this area there's a Ruby project which does the correct thing here, which is to only recompile/run `make` when a file changes. The original author has stopped maintaining the project. I've been working on a fork, called `observr`, and looking for contributors:

https://github.com/kevinburke/observr
>It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and lonelier society over the past decades.

alone ≠ lonely. SHAME on you for failing to grasp that concept, and imbuing your personal emotional neediness on everyone.

The emotions can be educated and developed, just like your physical body can be developed.

You are praising your emotional immaturity as a virtue instead of the poverty it truly is. The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. [ Ibsen, "The World as Will & Idea" ]
I guess it depends on how general you mean "generally" to be, but there is a history of people targeting C for new and experimental languages. It's a convenient target because we have a good idea of what kind of assembly will be created for a given chunk of C, and you can get architecture independence for free.