skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cyborg bugs and glow-in-the-dark cats: How we're engineering animals
No, because they don't pretend to be something I'm interested in.
Don't confuse stupidity and ignorance. This is an example of the latter. There are a ton of built-in cultural assumptions to the college admissions process, and the culture in question is college. Expecting people with no college experience to know about it without educating them is no more sensible than expecting them to know calculus when nobody taught it to them.

Sounds like a "how this stuff works" seminar or class could have been really valuable. I know I could have benefitted greatly when I was nearing my high school graduation, at least if I could have actually been convinced to pay attention and care.
It's also a very religious country.
There's only two things I can see that might be the issue:

The rich text toolbar is gone (the keyboard controls are still there), and the toolbar that is there hides most of its icons until you hover over the '+' icon, even though it doesn't save any space.

The second is the only one I see as negative, but I can understand that people would dislike the first, too.
The top people from a larger pool will be, on average, better than the top people from a smaller pool.
You're back! Good to have you here again.
Most people use ribosomes to do this.
CoffeeScript is like a chameleon, conveniently a language when it serves its proponents in an argument and not when it doesn't.

I propose that CoffeeScript is a language, complete and separate from JavaScript and that people start treating it as such so people who prefer readability over less typing don't have to deal with it if they don't want to.
I totally agree. But those CEOs, politicians and investment bankers would like their sons and daughters to attend the same Ivy-league schools and not risk them being outcompeted by some geeky kids from Missouri or Kansas. If that happened too often, the Ivy-league schools wouldn't get those new libraries and lecture halls, and one day the future president wouldn't be from there.
I was part of a poor family growing up. I received many letters and packages from upper tier schools after my PSAT. I got top 5% in the nation for math, so that may be why. I didn't take them seriously, though. Now I'm at University of Texas (at Tyler), where the idea of computer science education is a series of publisher-distributed PowerPoint slides.

I want to move to a different school with passionate teachers and students, but now I have financial obligations(unemployed mom can't find work so I'm taking over her bills while she goes to school). I'm currently looking for a python remote job or job near Dallas. Until I can find something, I have to stay at this job so I can support my mom, thus UT Tyler is my only option.

I wish I would have done more research on scholarship opportunities back in high school. Maybe I'd be somewhere great right now. Oh well.
OT, but congratulations to your son! U Chicago is an amazing school in an amazing city. I went to school cross-town so I have a lot of friends who went to U Chicago, and from what they say, it's uniquely supportive of focused young people who know what they want to study.
> Let's see: Honoring a person who dedicated his life to help make life better for poor disadvantaged workers that were abused by the moneyed interests.

> Yes I can see how Jesus would be offended.

Jesus, maybe not.

The people that have appropriate Jesus as a symbol for a right-wing political agenda serving moneyed interests, OTOH...
Why do you say it's a "killer app" for Android? I think it's a great idea, but it does not use the fact that it lives on a mobile phone, so it's certainly not a killer app for it.

Can we haz a desktop or web version?
There's no reason a third party couldn't host a read-only view into Nightweb, performing something similar to tor2web.org.

The third party would be running their own Nightweb client, then visitors to the website would trigger content downloads on the client, rendered out as a webpage.

This would provide the "public view" without sacrificing the decentralized nature.
Take a look at bcvi if your preferred local editor is vim: http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/
It would be neat to have something like this as JS application. Of course again you have to check the code or trust the author, but I think an audit would be possible.
> That is your interpretation, and it is worded in your vocabulary. That vocabulary means something to you but may mean something else to someone else.

This is a scientific discussion, not one about vocabulary or a post-modern view of reality.

> All the bits in italics (yes, that's most of your comment) are potentially insulting to the person you're replying to.

That's the way it is in science. Science is not diplomacy. And the WSJ Dartboard Contest went on insulting the same people in the same way for years, but without lifting the veil of ignorance in which these people live, as the above exchange proves.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044402420457804...

Quote: "The darts [i.e random stock picks] have historically beaten the readers [i.e. stockbrokers], with 28 wins out of 47 contests."
> It is relatively easy to compute the exact dates for the next N years (or check Wikipedia).

And would you display for the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar, since different christian sects use different definitions of "the equinox"?
It costs $1500
Pretty cool! I think a good addition would be adding the ability specify data type for random numbers. So if I want to test 64-bit integers, I can have it generate numbers in the 64-bit range that exceed the 32-bit range.
Don't Hold the Wall
Interesting, but it's hard to know how much impact streaming had on sales vs. other factors. For example, Justin Timberlake e also appeared on Saturday Night Live and then appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon every night of the following week, both as sketch artist and musical guest. 6 nights of appearances on a broadcast network in a single week is an unusually high degree of promotion; I've never seen as much for any other album launch.
First, the website would only be meant for users without the app, so local hosting would not work. Second, it can only be read-only, unless you upload your private key.

I think it would provide a window into the social network, kind of "Oscar is using this, join him now by downloading the app!"

The implication I see is privacy of people clicking a user link, but the problem already exists now.
Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.
Need a Job? Invent It
You can still download the code (as ZIP archive from github) and run it locally.
Have you ever heard Dark Side of the Moon live? Pink Floyd basically try to recreate the album note for note onstage, including playing tapes of the famous effects. The production was timeless, an integral part of the music. They have probably played it hundreds of times cover to cover over the years.

Or you can take, in contrast, Like Spinning Plates by Radiohead. The music was recorded backwards, then run forwards. Thom Yorke learned the backwards melody, which gives the lyrics a clipped, alien quality. When they perform this song live, they use significantly different instrumentation.

Is the album performance fake? No, it's impossible to do in any other way.

There are many more examples I know, including bands that aren't worth a D live and bands that just record their live performances in the studio and call it a record. For me, hearing an album that is hard to perform live is a thrill, can't wait to hear what the band does with it.
This of course is JavaScript application. And it is downloadable and locally runnable (read footer on the website).
Rust 0.6 RC is out
Bitcoins: Could virtual cash replace money?
Raspberry Pi Model A (the $25 one) finally on sale in US
Count me in. He's one of the few pop artists I pay careful attention to.
The people who complain about the timing on Easter are almost certainly the same who would complain about any positive recognition for Chavez, no matter when it happened.

It states "it is unclear why the company chose specifically to honor Chavez’s birthday, instead of Easter Sunday."

That's easy. Google has only had a single Easter doodle (April 23, 2000). There's no tradition for that doodle, and there's no explanation for why Google is obligated to have a doodle for Easter every year.

I conclude that it's unclear simply because they wanted it to stay unclear, rather than do any sort of research. Like looking at the list of Google Doodles that Google has. Spreading outrage is a lot more fun than doing boring research.
bandwith limit XD
Brute-forcing a 55-character password is a transcomputational problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcomputational_problem), i.e., it's impossible to accomplish using a computer the size of the earth within the expected lifetime of the earth. So I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Thoughts on SimpleBDD - the test framework independent BDD tool
I've used something similar before, but I've always found that after a while it makes me wary to save a file. Saving means a rebuild, meaning potential errors, leading to a let-down or sense of failure.

While computers have become a lot more stable, I still like to save often, and this kind of setup eventually makes you feel less like you want to save.
It's fun to try to apply it recursively.

That is, if I take a lesson from a story about an experiment that never happened, I'm acting like the hapless chimpanzees that merely learn to fear the ladder. So I must choose to not model other people as cartoon chimpanzees.
It's never too late to transfer - and being a transfer doesn't make you ineligible for financial aid!

I went to a major public university my freshman year and transferred to an Ivy League school once I decided I wasn't satisfied with my experience at the public university. It ended up actually being significantly cheaper for me to go to the Ivy League, and opened up a world of opportunity and support I would have never found at my original school.

Since then, my sister has also attended the same Ivy League (you see a lot of families/siblings at such schools) almost free of charge. I could also go on about how the resources and individual support from a private school (effective tuition of 50-60k) far exceed that of a public school - even a top UC.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to chat.
When I make a new instance of a window, I don't find that I am 'thrown' into an expose-like view. The window comes up as it would in any case. If I click on the dash icon for a program which already has multiple windows, I actually find it helpful to be presented with a choice between them, which is what this does.

Use alt-` to switch between windows of the same program, without using that feature. With this minor adjustment from the Windows routine it is more pleasant.

I agree it is a little cryptic, and overly concerned with space saving, only to show menu bars on hover and otherwise to show the window title. But, I think it is not an actual problem after a few seconds seeing how it works.

On the other hand: I still have problems with dash coming up very slowly, and with windows nondeterministically moving to the wrong monitor, and with power usage on laptops. It isn't as though it's perfect. But I think the design is basically OK and Ubuntu is having more trouble on the technical end of things, with endless technical papercuts that never get addressed but always get their issues closed.
About looking weird: people will get over it. Five years into being the local Segway guy, nobody in my community gives me a second glance anymore. Early on I got lots of hoots and hollers, but the novelty has long since worn off and nowadays I'm just part of the landscape. Glass will be accepted the same way.
I think this needs a SQL export format. It is 'databasetestdata' after all :)
You have a bug. It returns null for a random number.
Tell HN: Tomorrow is April 1. Bogus news articles posted
Tomorrow is April 1st and the April Fools news stories are already starting.<p>Posting multiple copies of April Fools jokes just seems pointless.

Apparently YouTube is shutting down.

Google has invented some new outlandish invention.

Ugh. What a waste of time.
The average writer will have read hundreds if not thousands of books before they write their first one.

You picked some very specific authors then pointed at readers. Either you missed the point of the argument or are trying to create a straw man (or just don't understand how analogies work).
I would have been so pissed if I won and found out I still had to pay $1500!

Don't they also have to fly to New York? I think I heard Chris Pirillo mention something like that.

$1500 + Round Trip Plane Tickets = Early Access to a device that they may not like at all? Sure makes me glad I didn't win.
Equal opportunity is nice :-) Here is the study, that the op-ed refers to: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/spring%202013...

The study suggests that around 4 percent of all US high school graduates are high-achievers so we are talking about somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 high school graduates yearly who fall in this category. It's clear that not all high-achievers can go to Harvard. Right now the qualified applicants are sorted based on extra curricular activities etc. If more of the 25-35,000 low income high-achievers, which the study suggests there are, applied to Harvard, most would probably by filtered out based on the lack of extra curricular activities.
Ditto. Definitely seems like it has the potential to be the Killer app based on the viral potential of P2P, anonymity and widely adapted OS platform. All the best.
Google has modified Java for Android. They could have instead modified Python. There have been academic papers that have shown that Python can be made to be statically typed (ignoring one or two keywords, like eval).

Assuming that Google had done these, there should be no reason that Python would not be fast or robust enough.
The Mercedes Benz radio has both Sirius XM and AM/FM. I wonder how much they would save by removing FM and adding Internet support
Debian/Ubuntu packaging is far too difficult and thus creates bad incentives for people to install software from untrusted sources.
Justin Timberlake is a cool guy that makes great music.

And.. he shares his fun times with everyone, SNL, dick in a box, motherlover, 3somes with lady gaga, jizz in my pants etc, he even made the five timers club. Then he hangs out with Jimmy Fallon for 4 days, does a new tune every day and the absurdly funny suit and tie sketch. He tops it all with his medley.

Not to mention his acting career , guesting several big hits during the time he didn't make music himself.

He might have been gone for 7 years, but he really was here all the time building his street cred to unseen heights and backing it up with an album that is worth owning, just like the previous 2.
> Discovering and exploiting them [i.e. inefficiencies] is a matter of study and work which the public is unwilling to do, and actually actively discouraged by the status quo of this industry.

Yes, but it's well-established that the average investor comes out behind by trying to exploit such inefficiencies, and this outcome supports the idea that the EMH is true, and that a buy & hold position produces the best returns on average, overall.

The problem with Wall Street anecdotes is that successes are given undue weight in the telling, misleading people into the idea that locating and exploiting inefficiencies puts you ahead. On average, this is false -- very, very false.

> Warren Buffet doesn't buy and hold indiscriminately.

Berkshire Hathaway's long-term success is easily explained -- its position is a matter of public knowledge, so others, hoping to see the same growth, buy the same stocks (too late to benefit themselves but just in time to benefit Berkshire Hathaway). It's called the "announcement effect".
Ah, there was a typo. It's fixed, thanks.
Here goes: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=4zfhmwiio7kdp5oc...

How does the protocol differ from, say, tent.io?

Just in case anyone has the same issue: on my device (Nexus 4) it took a while for the UI to become responsive when first opening the app. Patience solved this one :)
In Linux systems good chunk of graphics stack already resides in userspace. The kernel provides only modesetting, GPU memory management, access multiplexing and isolation.

Applications render by calling OpenGL library, which obviously executes in calling processes. OpenGL library asks the kernel to allocate required memory buffers, prepares code for the GPU and submits it to the kernel for execution. Kernel collects jobs submitted by processes, executes them on the GPU and notifies processes on completion.

When application wants to display something on the screen, it shares its buffer with the X server (or equivalent) and instructs it to redraw its window from this buffer. The display server uses some special syscall to obtain access to screen output buffer.
so now April fools comes on March 31st, just like Christmas season starts in October?
Google Maps - Treasure maps view (early April Fools?)
Not "could be". It's a total fantasy. Real world chimps wouldn't even start beating up other chimps for touching the ladder before you start replacing chimps.
Yeah, one of the things I had in mind were special option fields for each kind of data. Like specifying range of numbers, number of words, formats for data/time/zipcodes... But I wanted something out of the door quickly and had to leave that out for now. Thanks for the feedback :)
CHAR(8)
It may even overshadow the Rails or Java exploit of the week.
Jason, I might be a hn n00b comparatively, but I reckon go for it. If you can't have some fun one day a year, what good is living?
Wow, what gives you the right to define what sort of musical activities are valid? You come off as someone who resents artists and think they should only be allowed to make a living on your terms.
Here is mine:
http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=bicbgdgdxvv5ifxa...
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The convention for Haskell is to keep the active scope of variables very small. Any variable with an active scope of larger than maybe 3 lines, I make longer. Since these examples were hardly longer than that, I feel quite justified with short names.

In Haskell, if you see a short name, look up and down 3 lines for the definition. If you can't find it then complain.
Note that http://bitaddress.org was the pioneer in this field.

Bitaddress.org has more options, and includes all necessary code in a single .HTML file. So if you download it to run it locally/offline -- as you should -- whether you grab it from your browser, or from the Bitaddress github project, there's just one file and hash to check against the published hash from others who have reviewed the code.

Papercoin adds the 'printer' graphics and the folding-friendly layout, but trust should be the top quality in any such utility, since private key secrecy is everything.
StackOverflow, /r/developers, LifeHacker, TechCrunch
Mantis Touch: The $100 mobile app.
I was looking around for ways to implement Bug Tracking.

I found that Mantis Touch is $100 for the iPhone/Android/Windows phone app.

For a single person that is way out of a price range although I know they hope to target organizations with a lot of Mantis users

You have to buy the app for each Mantis instance you have. So if I need access for 2 different companies I have to pay twice.

http://www.mantistouch.org/

This pricing seems like something we dont usually see with mobile apps. Does anything think it is way to outlandish or opposite and a very viable pricing model?
> writing scores are massively arbitrary

I disagree, especially in the context of standardized tests. Sure, it wold be nearly impossible to objectively determine the difference in quality between two well-written articles or books on the same subject, but these media have little to do with the writing on the SAT or ACT, where you are given a generic prompt and asked to produce an essay under fairly intense time pressure. You will be forced to make tradeoffs between flow, source incorporation, structure, diction, angle of attack, and so on. The only people for whom these tradeoffs don't apply are at the low or high end of the score spectrum anyway.

Most of these tradeoffs can be evaluated in a somewhat objective manner: were there transition sentences? Were multiple sources incorporated into the argument? Did the writer maintain flow despite the time constraints? Doing all of this for a full-length essay under time contsraints is incredibly difficult, and I am fairly certain that ranking people by the extent to which they manage these objectives provides an internally consistent measure of writing skill (possibly unrelated to applications in which you would actually use writing, but that's another issue).

Back when I was applying to college, I remember being quite surprised at how straightforward the rubrics were. I was consistently able to predict my score immediately before/after completing the essay, both in the context of practice essays and for the "real deal". There was nothing arbitrary about it. I knew what my objectives were, and I knew weather or not I was achieving them, so long as I was willing to be brutally honest with myself.

> although one of my AP practice tests was deserving of a nine (out of nine), I almost assuredly would have gotten a four

This doesn't pass my smell test. I suspect that there was more wrong with your essay than a double citation. Perhaps you made redundant arguments in addition to using the same source twice? Then you would suffer penalties under structure, flow, AND source usage. In any case, I think that your teacher might have been trying to say "there are only a few details between you and a 9" rather than "this one detail separates a 4 and a 9."
"excellent students from poor schools really should apply to the elite private universities, because the private schools will pretty much pay for their education through their huge endowments"

How long would the Ivy-league schools maintain those huge endowments if most spots were taken by students from poor background?
Use the Julian calendar in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and the Gregorian in the West? With country-level resolution, it should not be too difficult to choose the appropriate date – if everything else fails, you can likely pin it to the relevant bank holidays in the country.
Will look into it, thanks for the tip. Also had an idea of accepting an SQL schema dump to auto-generate the right columns. There's definitely stuff to improve.
IMessage denial of service ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages
Agreed. Now the hard part: how do we do it?

/Ivy grad
Don't worry too much about it. It's vastly more likely that it's actually their change policies that make the increase impossible.
Seems absurd to remove radio support, even todays cellphones have a radio, why should car companies just rip it out to save maybe 1 cubic centimetre of space?!
This is just GM shooting themselves in the foot again.
IMO, government should not have bailed them out, when you screw up your business, it should have consequences.
I just feel like so many other sites cover these April 1 jokes to where we could keep HN on task for its purpose.

And "some fun one day a year". I have fun everyday already. I dont need bogus news stories for me to let loose and enjoy life.
ha, ok, I can grant you that.
It seems this is a bug in jsPDF - the same happens with their basic example. I might look into that, but for now please use Chrome/Firefox.
Zippers are really awesome data structures indeed. More people should use them. (But not for numerical computation)
I know where you're coming from, but a lot of the weirdness of glass is what it actually does. I keep imagining somebody walking around recording everyday people for no good reason, and find it hard to imagine that being accepted. The 'novelty' of constantly being recorded by strangers might not wear off.