skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in reading something about what they're doing to keep the process working in that case.

I'm involved in various academic conferences, and acceptance rate is a big sticking point, which gets more problematic as the number gets lower. It's very easy to put on a symposium with a 60-70% acceptance rate: you just filter out the stuff that is clearly not good, and is not going to contribute. It's not much harder to go to 40-50%: you raise your bar for how well thought out something needs to be, how well it needs to ground itself in the existing research, and how good the prose itself needs to be.

But once you start going south of that, things quickly get problematic. Now you start rejecting decent stuff, for reasons that depend on random assignment of reviewers: some reviewers are harsher than others, and if you don't correct for it, that impacts things. You have not easily comparable factors: is borderline contribution in area A better or worse than borderline contribution in area B? How precisely do you weight every possible factor? Is interestingness, rigor, or clearness of communication more important? You also, as you get towards 10-20% acceptance rates, easily end up slipping into a mode where papers get accepted more because of "can't find a reason to reject it" rather than "would actually want to accept it". Reviewers become very critical (since most papers need to be rejected), and look for any reason they can find to reject a paper. So what survives is not the best papers, but the papers nobody could find a good enough reason to reject. What that usually means is either 1) airtight incremental work; or 2) blockbuster media-friendly work.

More generally, I think it gets exponentially harder to make any kind of review process meaningful as you accept a smaller and smaller percentage of applications. I believe I can honestly set up a screening system for accepting the top 30% of an applicant pool with at least acceptable error. But the top 5%? It starts looking like rolling dice. If Stanford does it better, I'd love to know how!
EA Spouse says EA doesn't get enough credit
Steve Jobs was an amazing person, but who cares that he let someone show somebody an iPad?

Basically, this story boils down to: "Billionaire CEO lets employee talk about work with a friend." Not really some super amazing thing, unless you are just honored and in awe that Steve Jobs momentarily knew who you were.
Dropin - Cloud Social DAW
Dropin is a Web & Mobile App a new way to conceive the music, producing it online with whoever you want, share and sell tracks with people around the world, connect with friends and artists, listen to best music.

website: http://www.dropin.fm

Music Demo: http://www.dropin.fm/SequencerDemo/

explainer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXFdgVVqFa0
Not only that, but NYC has more single women than men. Which explains the eagerness of women there to do the choosing, and their openness to new dating methods in general.

Silicon Valley is the opposite. Too many single men, not enough women, inevitably means a sucky online dating experience for guys (unless you're in the very top attractiveness percentiles). I don't think any dating site can fix that, unless it matches Silicon Valley men to New York women or something.
I wrote a bot for HN a few months ago, but canned the idea fairly early on. If people were willing to put up with a slightly spammy bot, it wouldn't take much to modify my backend to do something similar.

I'm genuinely not sure how it would be received in this community. It would certainly be something to put past the moderators first.
Isn't optimized for mobile phone much better than a responsive website on mobile? It would seem that unnecessary things are downloaded in a responsive site that may in fact be hidden. Whereas a mobile optimized site is loading less JS, CSS and graphics/artwork/template files.
Unfortunately things are insanely expensive via self-pay. My wife's first pregnancy was in the realm of $25-30,000 if we didn't have insurance.

And that was just a routine pregnancy with no complications...
Still, cost can be put under control. Here in the "outside world", we mostly have universal government funded care with country to country agreement for travelers and people living outside of their origin country boundary.

This is not "free", far from it, but, first, by taking no margins and then having tougher cost review for infrastructure/equipment purchase help reduce the cost. Then using generics drugs instead of branded ones by default also help. Remember, many hospital and doctors have official or under the table deal with private providers.

Then there are side benefits. People live longer and healthier. Their kids don't have to live in fear of having to spend 100k$ if their parent felt ill. My grand mother (91 years old) broke her arm and pelvic bone a few weeks ago. Of course, at her age, it wont heal, so it had to be replaced. How much would it cost in the US? 200 big ones (including a month or so of hospitalizations, the 2 surgery, the drugs and follow up). How much stress would it put on my family on top of the accident?

At some point, even for those who can pay, some level of social security, both health and monetary one reduce uncertainty and reduce crime rate. To some point, I understand US mentality on this. I tried to create startups a few times, it seem a lot harder here than everywhere else. It is not even socially acceptable to both succeed and fail. If you succeed, then you are a greedy asshole and if you fail you are a loser. But even giving that, I still think having universal health care and the other "big government" goodies is a good thing.
My TL takes the Gbus from SF, it's a two hour commute. I drive 1.5 hours from the east bay. If you have a family and can afford it, mountain view is quite nice. But if you're single, it's probably boring compared to SF. Depends on how you want to spend your time I guess.
Here is a related thing that I haven't full wrapped my head around: if I were to lose the key of my hypothetical bitcoin wallet, any bitcoins contained within are lost from the economy ... forever. So it is actually a finite and slowly decreasing number.
"They charge whatever they want" is only the first half of the American way. The second half is that because its "whatever they want" someone else can cruise on up and "want" to charge $10 less and take all of the business.

The broken part is that they charge whatever they want and then stop anyone else from being able to charge less. If you do the first half, but not the second, its very much not the American way.
I'm with you. Transcripts are golden, but if that's not an option, at least the Stanford MOOCs and Coursera got it right with the ability to increase the playback speed. Most talks lose nothing at 1.5x speed.
Congress plans to make computer crime law much, much worse
After years of using screen i switched to tmux.. i'm sure i'm not even using a 5th of the functionality but i love it.
Small forms... Sure. Long forms... Not so much.
If he cared that much, then why would he leave? A captain should go down with his ship. Here's a guy who made a boatload of money, and now he's leaving 4,000 employees behind who are probably going to be looking for new jobs inside of a year. He should take it personally.
He actually devotes a few slides to picking the right company (the part about the company being a burning money pit or whatever). I think you're reading a whole lot of optimism that isn't there.
I live 30+ miles from any town of any size and there's still sufficient light pollution seeping over the horizon to make the hills stand out black against the sky. I'm lucky I can see the milky way at all, although somewhat washed out.

Being in the lower side of Manhatten, there would still be sufficient light pollution from all the areas nearby that still had power, that I'd doubt you'd see more than a few stars. You can see the sky glow in your pictures; compare the sky, with its visible clouds with the full-black buildings.

It's basically impossible to get a proper sky anywhere east of the Missisippi.
If the code is crap, that might explain why it gets thrown away over and over. In my experience, if code is well-written, it should pretty much always be possible to update, revamp, pivot, etc. Rewriting from scratch (especially repeatedly!) is a waste of time that a startup can't afford.

Reminds me of this Joel Spolsky essay: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

The focus being on people does not preclude writing good code.
I'd rather they be forced to release the documents intact, vs. waiting even longer to release them themselves with redactions. Although I suspect the Internet/wikileaks/etc. will repair any redactions in released files.
I find it rather an epiphany to realise that our distant ancestors must have seen the sky like this all the time, rather than the vague haze most of us experience. No wonder then that the movement of the stars and planets played such a cultural and religious impact on their lives.
We have an over abundance of solutions just begging for problems.

"In startup we have great of capability for churn out solution. Please send problem, we are pay good money." - https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/315549020326088704
I did forget the obligatory IANAL. Good catch.
Anyone can implement new Titan storage adapters by implementing a few interface classes.

Look at the Titan/BDB storage adapter for a simple example:

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/tree/master/titan-ber...

It implements the KeyValueStore interfaces (there are other interfaces for different types of DBs, such as KeyValueColumnStore, etc):

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/blob/master/titan-cor...

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/blob/master/titan-cor...

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/blob/master/titan-cor...

If you are interested in implementing a Titan storage adapter for a new backend datastore and you have questions, you can discuss it in the Aurelius Graphs group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/aureliusg...
They would look nothing like those photos.

The city would look much, much darker. You can really tell that those are day shots of the cities with the brightness and saturation reduced.

The sky would look much, much less impressive. Photographers like to perpetuate a fantastic idea of the night sky by taking overexposed pictures, and this one is no exception. I have been in the middle of the savannah in Africa, with no light around for miles, and I don't remember the sky looking anything like that.
Vim in the terminal (along with tmux). Been using vim since about 1980. Favorite language currently is ruby, earlier it was C.
Completely unrelated: 13 paragraphs, 4 of which are single simple sentences, and the longest of them is 72 words, qualifies an apology for "wall of text" now?

This makes both very sad and very angry.
Which guitar model would the community recommend to a beginner who is used only to computer keyboards ;-). Can we start with an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar will work better for learning.
The scarcest resource  (in Canada): successful companies
You're missing the whole point. It's not the insurance companies. At least not to any great extent. Their margins are usually under 2% (though their marketing and administrative budgets can be quite large). Hospitals' margins are ten times that. I see the bills that my insurance company pays and they are usually an order of magnitude higher than the Medicare rates.

As an aside, what you need to look up Medicare rates are the HCPCPS codes (call them "hick pick" codes on the phone so you sound like you know what you're doing). Just call your hospital and ask for them. They'll give them to you; they just mail you a new form separate from your actual bill. Then, just plug those codes in here:

http://www.cms.gov/apps/physician-fee-schedule/search/search...

(use a "specific locality" to get the rates in your area). Then you're ready to negotiate! But... good luck with that...
"Demotivated by statistics": This is the topic of the thread. Someone quotes a "failure rate" and it is demotivational because it suggests you will probably fail, when in fact that is a naive and over-simplistic interpretation.
> I don't have any reason to think that doctors and hospitals are more expensive in the USA than they are elsewhere

They definitely are. Doctors in the U.S. make more money. Drugs are more expensive, partially because the U.S. subsidizes R&D for everyone else. Hospital construction in the U.S. is insane in the major systems. They're "spare no expense" affairs, very different from the utilitarian facilities you used to find in the U.S. in say the 1970's and which you still find in the U.S. today.
I remember noticing this in high school as I prepared for Stanford's review process. It's not so much the pursuit of greatness as the pursuit of non-failure.
Author here. I know it's better for you to get the book cheaper, but PragProg gives authors 50% royalty on the sale of the book. If you buy it from pragprog, I get more in my pocket than if you buy from Amazon.

Either way, thanks for reading. I hope it's enjoyable. Some minor updates are coming to the book too.
But the entry cost is prohibitive and create an oligopoly. So, no, they wont charge 10$ less. They can handle a limited number of patients and have an increasing potential market with median age increasing. It is basic offer, supply and demand. If it was only offer and demand, then yea, they could charge less, but they have an hard limit on the number of bed they can fit versus building+workers cost.
Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
I guess when your content width is 400px, 200 words is all you need to make it a wall of text and push it past the fold.
Similar news just came out here at Cornell: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March13/Admissions2013.h...

The real news both in Cornell and Stanford is that more people applied but more or less the same number of places as always is available. My first guess was that this might be simply because there were more births in the years that have now reached college age, but that seems to not be true (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...). Or it could be an economic effect, namely that people who couldn't afford sending their kids to college during the crisis years now can. Or maybe universities really just did better PR and therefore get more applications. Would be nice to have this data for every university to see if the same effect applies everywhere.
Glad you liked the book. I'm going to rolling out some minor changes in a couple days just to keep it updated with 1.8.
More like they invent drama to cover their bad days. Akamai tells its clients when they are under DDoS, Akamai didn't really notice anything going on. CF just had a bad day and decided to make a story out of it. One other time when CF claimed a DDoS it was because the Google Bot Decided to up it's crawl rate, and took down many CF sites. CF told clients it was DDoS and then later admitted it was an issue with Google.
Agree with you. LivingSocial ran a big "spam" ad campaign targeted towards India in 2011. They would show ads online asking users to sign up to check deals in local cities.

After signing up one would find that LivingSocial was not serving ANY Indian city. It seems the objective of the campaign was to collect e-mail ids.
If the noise levels are too high, why not let the neighbors call it in? It seems like a waste of time to proactively try to find parties when they could just wait around at night for people to call in the noise violations.
Any model that plays reasonably music.
Does it matter if you learn programming on a i386 or i7, on a PC or a Mac?

What matters is not the tool but the time, love and patience you put into learning to play music.
Still not necc. if the shift has stickykeys behavior, which is configurable on almost any modern OS.
If you use bind-key -n C-f some-tmux-command it'll bind directly to Contrl-f. The -n means no prefix. I don't know how you'd make tmux recognize the Mac's command key though.
> Ten years ago I was spending at least half that amount

The same thing happened to me. Over a span of 10 years, I went from having HMO $30 copay and no deductible to $5000 deductible plus another $7500 out of my pocket for co-insurance and the monthly payment being 2X as high.
Related note, I tried to sell Hank scishow.com sometime last year but was told they had no cash before we'd even got to discussing figures. I would have thought they'd be pulling in decent revenues across the network
I think the linked article is completely the wrong way to respond to pessimism. It's also a rather naive approach, reminiscent of daytime-TV self-help stuff, or perhaps certain libertarian novelists. The correct response to pessimism is not to promote delusional, unscientific "magical thinking" that fantasizes about how any individual can accomplish whatever they want with enough grit and determination etc etc, riddled with survivorship bias and lack of critical reflection.

If a certain statistical interpretation is simplistic and naive, the response I'd like to see is a more sophisticated but still evidence-based interpretation. I don't think that "I'm a unique snowflake and I don't need evidence or science because of GRIT" is a good substitute.
Students also now apply to many more schools than they did in the past, especially when you add in the Common App, which Stanford and Cornell both participate in.
An electric guitar is physically easier to play (easier on the fingertips, finger muscles, etc.) and more forgiving of technical mistakes, IMO. Whether that means you'd like it more for starting out is up to you. :)
This is fantastic, I love the content moocs are creating.
The stars look like this in the fall, in the western US, 60+ miles from the nearest city, and above 5000 ft. I've spent a lot more nights camping on the east coast and while you can see the milky way if you're remote enough, the altitude or the humidity or something makes the stars dimmer.
A friend of mine that had insurance cut off his thumb a few years ago; all told the bill to him ended up being around $80,000. It is unfortunate, but you can't really just save and hope that a tragic thing like that won't happen - it is possible.
I went camping on an island just off the coast of florida a few years ago. There was a bit of a glow looking back at the coast, but looking out over the ocean the view was pretty amazing.
Is Cmd+R such a hard to reach combination to warrant the precious keyboard real state Caps Lock occupies? Me, I double mine as both Ctrl and Esc by using the excellent xcape https://github.com/alols/xcape on linux, and KeyRemap4MacBook otherwise.

I actually find it more relevant on my mac than on my linux box, since Ctrl on the Mac is in a horrible position, and it opens up a whole world of new easy shortcuts that conflict with little else. Plus Ctrl-C and Ctrl-L (clear) on the terminal.
Who is this guy?

I'm trying to find other stuff he's done but I can't find his Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, anything...

Tumblr does frustrate me...
It's not about the cost of college, at least here. Places like Stanford and Princeton have generous enough financial aid programs that if you can't pay for it, they will (presuming you're accepted).
I agree. The whole post made for some rather uncomfortable reading, with an undertones of desperation and bitterness all the way through.

I feel that the path he's gone down is quite an eccentric and possibly misguided way to deal with the feelings of loss stemming from an unpleasant break-up.
Remapping Caps Lock to Control is a worthwhile alternative for heavy bash/vim users. Makes shortcuts lie Ctrl-D a lot more natural to type. Besides, it's super simple to do in OSX settings.
Much of the health care system isn't for-profit, but that doesn't stop money from getting spent. When I lived in Chicago, the local hospital was Northwestern Memorial, which is a non-profit hospital attached to a non-profit university. But the university owns literally 5-6 city blocks of prime Chicago real estate (tax free, of course). It's interesting to note that between 1972 and 1994, there was no new construction on the Northwestern Memorial campus. Then in 1999, two huge new buildings went up, then a women's hospital in 2007, a new children's hospital in 2012, and a new outpatient facility is slated to open in next year. These are each $350-500 million high-rise buildings. And these aren't utilitarian buildings of the kind that were pervasive in the 1970's. They're nicer than most F500 headquarters.
On most editors, I can type, then select ( opt-shift-rt-arrow) the word and apply a case change - it's often faster than remembering to use the capslock and then remembering to unlock afterwards.

Also doing the double-shift = capslock can be useful if you're not double-shifting often (ie, gaming).
Who is stopping anyone from charging less?
I received my letter on Wednesday, so I felt this one personally.

I applied for the masters program, but I'm sure the trend is the same. It's been 3 days since I heard back, and I still think I'm feeling a little down. Interestingly, none of my other declines bothered me much at all, even from amazing schools with programs I may have picked over Stanford. I think it is because Stanford was the first graduate program that I got excited about.

When you start a project, you never know where you will end up, but I think it's important to pick a star to follow, a goal to motivate yourself. After reading about the mobile and internet computing specialization at Stanford, I finally felt like graduate school was a place I could fit in, and I set Stanford at my star. When I was being lazy and not focusing enough, I set the Stanford logo as my desktop. Since then I have found a number of places which would be just fantastic places for me. Picking a star motivated me, and got me where I needed to go, but it's hard not to be sad when it doesn't work out.
I've seen sky that looked pretty close to that--about like this video. (Probably a bit less bright, but still more impressive actually being there.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p...!

I remember that it was different enough that I was blown away by the contrast.
This was posted on Tumblr, which is generally known for its short attention span, and the blogger has a large contingent of younger fans, who may not be interested in reading about Youtube and would prefer to continue viewing cute cat gifs.

That being said, I didn't realize that YouTube was funding original channels! I'm reminded of the talk Dan Harmon (creator of the television series "Community") gave regarding the death of television/the Internet as a new platform for stories [1]. The majority of people already consume television shows on the internet, I'd love to see a larger shift towards an internet-only tv series model.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...
http://youtube.com/vlogbrothers

http://youtube.com/crashcourse

http://youtube.com/scishow

http://twitter.com/hankgreen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green

(In addition to that, he's also my employer, but that might not be relevant to you)
Actually I'm a bit confused by this one, because this looks nothing different from 100 books you can find at Guitar center (or your local music store) or any of the many introductory lessons to various instruments on YouTube. In fact, there's quite a few excellent private courses on YT with an abundance of free material to get you started, so I'm having difficulty seeing the rationale for this course.