skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely, given the volumes of applications that they're now dealing with.

It's simply much harder to get into two elite universities these days. At single-digit admit rates, we're well past the point of selecting for qualified students. Which means that a lot of students are selected based on essentially random factors. And when something is random, humans like to see patterns where none exist.

You may be thinking of the fact that the elite colleges coordinate financial aid decisions for students who have already been admitted to multiple schools. Suppose Stanford costs $60k and offers a $40k aid package, while MIT costs $58k and offers a $45k aid package. In that case, both schools might agree to offer a $42k package, so that the $7k difference in out-of-pocket costs gets narrowed to $2k.

Coordination of financial aid makes coordination of admissions unnecessary, as it prevents schools from "stealing" students from each other by offering higher aid packages.
"...these big radio advertisers want cars to have online radio only so they'll be able to measure their advertising reach precisely, rather than relying on estimates."

The difficulty or expense is not the issue here. This is purely an advertising decision.
The picture that makes you feel as if you're on Mars
well, in my experience, cowboy coders fuck up, leave and have others fix the mess they left.
It really depends on what your building. Are you building a B2B application targeting IT departments? Design doesn't matter as long as it's logical and functional. Building a consumer app? In that case, design is much more important.
MongoDB's native storage type is not JSON, but BSON. One should know this if they're about to wade in a deep river, trying to argue against it.
Labels were dependent on radio to sell albums but things like Rdio completely replace buying music. I've been using it for a couple months and already I can't imagine buying music on iTunes or anywhere else. It really is a game changer.
Looks like you may need a bit more testing on this.
On a related note:

rlwrap[1] is not an "online" (ie. browser-based) repl, but it can be quite useful in a shell.

[1] - http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/
Where do you live? My (limited) experience has been that they can be OK away from big cities, but that finding a free frequency in urban areas is really tough. They put out enough power to work when that's all there is on the frequency, but even tiny amounts of external signal on the same frequency make it go to crap.
I was thinking of also checking for the same file size. Would that improve the accuracy of detecting duplicates?
Why the does the (tiny!) window open aligned to the bottom right of the screen? I hate this feature. When I compose an email, I want the typing area front and center, not squished to the bottom right of my screen. Who composes email in a miniscule squished-to-a-corner text area?

The 'user interface designer' who came up with this, and the Product Manager who approved this should (imo) be stood against the nearest wall and shot. GMail has been on a steady downhill path from when the 'new design'ers ran amok.
Seems like this is a possible vector for font based kernel exploits. Didn't Gauss have some mystery font?

Edit: It was Gauss, not Flame, that has the font.
Most of this conversation suffers from tunnel vision. What we're talking about is mass content delivery, nothing less. It was once done with large, expensive, unreliable AM radio transmitters, then FM transmitters, now it's more efficiently done with digital data streams, from any convenient source -- a nearly WiFi hub, a distant satellite, a laser beam, a wire.

People want their data, for entertainment, education, work. How it gets delivered is secondary, except to say the most efficient way is to be preferred. So given that, how is it in any way surprising that car companies would consider removing a fossil from the dashboard?
You can spread this link too, it has images :)
http://badmephisto.com.nyud.net/glass/ (http://www.coralcdn.org/)
Lots of fun, thanks!

On small kibble: It's unclear what the numbers stand for (at least to me) so some sort of unit would be a nice addition.

Again very well implemented!
In my experience, good BD folks have to possess all of these skills / knowledge sets to one degree or another in order to be really good at what they do. However, "BD" in a role-description sense is usually limited to covering partnerships and (sometimes) sales.
Microsoft BizSpark (free for startups, http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) gives quite a bit of azure access (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Azure/Default.aspx) to let you run multiple virtual machines.

HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293098
I'm aware of that, but it is much less obvious whether glass is recording or not than whether a phone is. If somebody is pointing their phone's camera at you, they could be recording you - that's quite noticeable. Glass won't necessarily have any visible signs that it is recording.
How would you discern what is popular and what is not(that is, the "upvotes" of reddit/HN)? Or did you mean only machine learning?
Application fees basically pay for the costs of running the Admissions Office.

There are very few economies of a scale in an admissions office. Each additional application takes an extra half hours to read. Thus, a certain number of additional applications will require an additional Admissions Officer to be hired.

(No, they're not that well-paid. Remember that applications are typically read by two admissions officers, that they have to meet to discuss candidates, and that the reading season only lasts from December to March. The other 2/3 of their time is thus spent on "marketing" activities, like going to college fairs. But it's not like you can eliminate this expense to cut the application fees -- the admissions staff has to have something to do during the rest of the year.)

Because costs scale in direct proportion to the number of applications received, application fees are a natural way to pay for it.
That was a great comment and I'm sorry to latch onto one detail, but people actually intentionally cut guy-wires???? I'm hardly ever rendered speechless, but that's just too baffling for words...
This is probably because a lot of those universities are private, and not publicly funded, and most of those scholarships are probably also privately funded.
Oh don't worry about it. Kinda saw it coming as I had that problem before. And that's great! Been meaning to switch to the dev channel for a while now.
It's a passive way of notifying you that you already have this file on disk. You can resume the download if you want to keep the second file.
Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention
To be fair, most of the "anti-welfare" troupe don't seem to be against "wealth redistribution" per-se (which is what makes it such a weird battlecry) but against government handouts to people who don't "contribute" via taxation.
This article was great! I had implemented a side menu on my own a couple of days before this came out. It was using css transitions on the width property which was fine on desktop, but clunky on mobile. I re-worked it following your approach and was really happy with the results.
Depending on what exactly you want, you may be able to use a cell free translation system rather than transfecting a bacterial host (or yeast, or whatevever else).

Short peptides can also be produced by solid-phase synthesis: there are automated machines (peptide synthesisers) that produce a peptide with any arbitrary sequence from the constituent amino acids.
The added security benefit of server-side hashing is the same as if plain text passwords are sent, to prevent knowledge of the authentication secret if the database contents are disclosed to malicious third parties. The client side hash of the password is only to ensure that a fixed length secret is sent and subsequently processed, to avoid DoS attacks on the server.
Official: YouTube closing down (1st April joke)
Really cool. Could you point me towards any resources for learning the electronics side of this? I've had my pi for awhile and want to get into the hardware aspect of it more, but have zero experience.
When I checked hstore's functionality the last time (~6 months ago) it was rather limited compared to Mongo's full-blown API. Any new observations?
Me too! http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=psvmye7nw7mp53yp...
A program director for one of my local video stations sent me this link. The author of this article retracted his claims:

http://ericrhoads.blogs.com/ink_tank/2013/03/retraction-the-...

The actual conversation read:

Rhoads: "But if I own a radio station and I've got a lot of money invested in transmitters, or HD Radio or otherwise, and everything's gonna go to IP and you'rre gonna pull that AM and FM receiver to save twelve cents out of each car, I want to know it. Do you think that's likely to happen?"

Koslowski: "Absolutely. I think you will see that happening."

Rhoads: "When will that happen?"

Koslowski: "That will not happen over the next five to ten years, but past that absolutely."
There are some [1] in the Rust source code, but I'm not aware of any comprehensive number for these benchmarks.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/tree/master/src/test/bench
Ah I see, thanks for pointing that out. Haven't thought of it myself.
Doing a big git pull frequently leads to trouble. The rerere command might be particularly useful for recurring conflicts.

http://notes.envato.com/developers/rebasing-merge-commits-in...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874968

http://git-scm.com/2010/03/08/rerere.html
India's Uber, facing even worse political hurdles
You need a prescription for Detralex
Detralex (Daflon) is made by the pharmaceutical company Servier contains two active ingredients: micronized Diosmin 450mg and Hesperidin 50mg.Detraleks increases venous tone. Plethysmography with venous occlusion showed a decrease in time veins draining
AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub
16 years uptime
For what it's worth there's already Chocolat.app which is a text editor for Macs. :/
Yes, the Demo site has a self-signed SSL certificate.
What kind of projects do you want coded? Could you be more specific? [Your email is not in your profile so I couldn't email you privately]
I had an error that killed the site a few minutes ago, was that what you saw? What errors have you found?
"Some of them are misses—Leica’s cameras look completely silly to me—but the hits are there."

Perhaps their A/B tests have shown that presenting you with what you call 'obvious misses' increases the odds of you making a purchase decision...
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.

It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and lonelier society over the past decades.
Many banks require you to use numbers only for your pin a smart engineer probably figured that cracking 10 char numerical "passwords" is trivial so hashing would be a waste of resources and hence energy and emissions. It is greener that way.
so basically bills?
How did "If I had glass, I'd cut a bitch" beat my entry?

https://twitter.com/GregMozart/status/304338422951206912
Does this have a particularly adverse effect on phone battery life, when compared to a well-written app for a centralized social network (aka, not the Facebook Android app; perhaps the G+ app)? I can imagine that a lot of uploading of social network content to your peers would take place.

Also, what is the bandwidth utilization like compared to an app for a centralized network? With a lot of us on tiered data plans now, this is a crucial concern.
if you don't keep the password lists in plain text you wont have this problem...
Actually, it's even harder than you state. MIT's quota for international applicants is not 15%, but 8%.

Sources:

(1) http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/international_men_women...

(2) http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/admissions-2011-0404.html
Anyone else having trouble adding pics? They seem to attach properly but don't show up after I hit send.
Show HN: A Crowdsourced Metaphysical/Lexical Cat Evaluatior
I'll check those emulators out.

> I really find historical technology to be edifying in the same way political, musical, and broader cultural history is edifying. I think it's a shame that we don't spend as much time teaching technology/design history to software engineers as we spend training 6th graders to understand their local political/cultural history.

I couldn't agree more. My local Science Center is currently running an exhibit on video games of the past 60 years http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/GameOn/, and while I was familiar with most of the 90s and onward ones, it was incredibly cool to walk by and see all the different hardware and games pre-Win 95 which was the first computer I ever used. I would love to go through a curated presentation of the history of other types of software, and see them evolve over the years, see what concepts stuck and what concepts were dropped in time. It would be even better if along actual demos, I could read about some of the quirks that they had to deal with and anything else to give a young one like me more context about those times. EDIT: It was even cooler going there with my younger sister, and reliving some of the fun times we had as kids.

Now that I think about it, a physical exhibit where they can recreate the hardware (even if only on a superficial level of aesthetics), and the rooms and settings where that hardware would have existed, and the software it ran would be incredibly interesting. It would essentially be as close as we could get to a time machine for the foreseeable future. That kind of exhibit would probably become one of my favourites very quickly.
What I would like to see is something like a Raspberry pi, but without any of the video/usb outputs or GPU/Soundcard.

So just a tiny server running Linux with an ethernet port.
I you can get the pi down to $25 you could probably get such a thing down to $15 or so.
I used ROTC as an example of something that was decidedly not a generic leadership club, sorry I didn't make that clear.

My opinion of 4H was based on 10 seconds of skimming their website, but in that time the generic terminology and cheap selling points targeted towards parents were enough to turn my stomach. It's possible that their website is just targeted towards a different audience, but you would have to convince me.

> they demand substantial amounts of time and effort

That doesn't exclude the possibility that they are a generic leadership club. A leadership club that didn't demand time and effort would be entirely fraudulent rather than simply having dubious value.

> and give achievements for the mastery of specific skills.

If it's like the Scouts, I'm tossing it in with "generic leadership club" unless they provide a metric by which I can judge the engagement and independence of an individual within their system.

Part of what I would want to see from an applicant would be personal goals outside of the framework of the institutions surrounding them. The ability of the individual to bend the institution to those goals would then count as the type of leadership I think colleges are after. They want people who will use the resources around them to do interesting things, not people who aim to collect every badge in the pile.

The pollution of the term "leadership" by those seeking to sell educational experiences is regrettable. Got your morse code badge? Not leadership. In charge of a group of kids learning morse code? Possibly leadership, depending on how much initiative you took to go beyond provided materials. Started a morse code club, created a curriculum for newcomers, advertised, handled paperwork / fund acquisition to get materials & go to a morse code contest? Leadership!
The usual concern is the database storing the passwords/hashes being stolen. This has happened to dozens of small to medium size web services. The attacker could then hash away at the passwords to his heart's content. Then end-goal of this is to get user/pass combos to be tried on other, higher-value sites, like email services and, uh, banks.

Which gets us to the strange part. Who hacks a bank's service to steal a password DB in hopes of using the passwords against some other target? I'm thinking nobody. If you managed to compromise a bank's web service to that extent, you'd be trying to transfer all of the money from all of the user's accounts to one you control, not trying to crack their passwords.

That means that your bank's password storage method and complexity is not very important. What is important is that, whatever password you use, you never use that password on any other site. And that you use a bank that requires real 2-factor authentication, via text or mobile app or something like that, not with "security questions".
I agree with you Felix. BD is normally associated with partnerships and sales which is why I decided to use Full Stack Hustler to cover a wider range of skills.
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This article only scratches the surface of why most brilliant lower-middle class kids can't get into an Ivy. Just look at what's expected:

- lots of extracurriculars

Rich kid: spent the summer spoon feeding starving children in Honduras

Poor kid: works during the summer at the mall to make some money, and has never left the country.

Rich kid: joined a dance troupe, plays two sports at varsity level

Poor kid: Doesn't live within 50 miles of a dance studio and can't afford the extensive travel/coaching/equipment needed to excel in a bunch of sports

Rich kid: Fluent in Spanish due to private language tutor and aforementioned trip to Honduras

Poor kid: Never was even formally taught English grammar (most public schools don't anymore)

- lots of AP classes

Rich kid: Got a 5 on 7 different AP tests.

Poor kid: Goes to a school that doesn't offer AP classes at all.

- testing

Rich kid: Took an extensive SAT prep class, then took SAT 3 times and ACT 2 times and uses the best score

Poor kid: Didn't take a prep class and just took the SAT once

- connections

Rich kid: has a parent who went to an Ivy League school, or has a family friend who is an alum/Important Person who can write a letter of rec

Poor kid: Doesn't know a single person who went to an Ivy League school. Gets letters of rec from teachers

Pretty much every step in the admission process is designed to favor the haves over the have nots. There's a lot of things selective schools could do to make the process fairer without too much effort, but it's reasonable to assume that the deck isn't stacked by accident.
The new JSON functions have landed in the development version, for anyone interested in seeing the future syntax: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.h...
I'll look into this.

EDIT: Ugh, yep, a bug I introduced recently. I am issuing another update, 0.0.6.
I fear that this is one of those "I've heard someone make a metaphor and taken it too literally, then rebutted that literalism broadly."

I imagine 99% of the time that metaphor is made the author would be just as happy saying "JS is the new C", it simply doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Anyone having trouble attaching pics to posts? They just vanish after I hit send.
Double the brightness in low light photos with new color filtering technology
I had XM radio for a number of years, when it was cheaper and I had a discounted plan. I actually had great luck with reception, except in extreme geographies like the Columbia River Gorge. I like taking road trips, and it was awesome to have good radio in the middle of nowhere.

However, I canceled when my prepaid discount plan ran out, because it was more expensive than it used to be. ($12 at the time... $14.49/mo now, yeesh!) Also, they had to drop some of the channels I liked to make room for Canadian channels when they expanded into Canada. :/ I tried it out again recently in a rental car, and was disappointed that all the news stations seemed to be trashy sensationalist garbage.

For me, the way to go these days is to just have a phone full of podcasts.
> JavaScript is not the Assembly of the Web. It’s the C of the web. The to-JS languages are lining up to become the C++ of the web.

Point well made.
OP nailed it on this one - got nothing else to add :)
i think the "JS is assembly for the web" strictly refers to the fact that you cannot write closer-to-the-metal code than javascript. it'c certainly not the C-of-the-web either, but some combination of the two. i do agree that there are more parallels to C than to asm, but nit-picking the differences will lead to no adage at all :)

"Assembly varies wildly between architectures" - but javascript runs on a single architecture. it's just that browser vendors all implement the same one.

the other points are valid, but i dont think this was ever supposed to be that deep a comparison.
“Google owns the right to everything you do with them and can take them back at any time evidently.”

Could you elaborate? (a source would be helpful) If I understand correctly, Google retains ownership of the equipment and everything you record is owned by them?
So, because coffeescript doesn't optimise well for different JS platforms then JS is not like assembly?
Jumping on the bandwagon as well! http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=wlvkr6lmjrz7stgf...
Ah, that explains a lot. This looks useful because I often have an itchy trigger finger and download more than one copy. But you know what I really miss in Chrome would be a decent download manager that lets me select multiple files from one page instead of DLing them one at a time. Last time I looked the only extension for this practically announced itself as malware.
Definitely agree with the option to become non-contributing, or at least introduce some limiting - it's a struggle to get a data cap of higher than 500MB here.
Speed doesn't seem too bad, even on 2 year old hardware.
Is there an (easy) method for transferring your key to another device, and conversely if there is such a way, is there anything to protect the file if someone was to get access to the device storage?
Could you elaborate what you mean by "the same level of productivity software ability"?
> I often think about how incredibly inefficient modern software is given that we've had roughly the same level of productivity software ability (with varying levels of usability) for a few decades now. I distinctly remember my NT4 system of the late 90's, and how it was roughly as productive as my current machine, and I wonder just how much cruft is inside modern operating systems and applications.

As a fellow young person (probably even younger than you), I remember watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 two years ago when it came out and I remember gaining quite an appreciation for all the work put in over time in Windows and the complexity that it probably brings.
Yeah it happens occasionally (it's rare on an individual tower basis mind you, but I know of several instances over 20 to 25 years in the mid east coast region). And for every time it actually happens, there's two or three times more threats from some crazy person that they're going to do it. This kind of stuff seems to have increasingly died down over the last 15 years (I assume due to radio losing its center of focus, radio isn't as local as it used to be now that almost everybody uses services like JACK FM or Dial Global or the former Westwood One etc etc).

Towers are often isolated, a long distance from people (ideally at high'ish elevations of course).

So someone with a grudge, maniacs, whatever, can pretty easily sneak up to most towers and cut a guy wire. It's not difficult to topple most radio towers. And it's not very difficult to get away with it, given the isolated nature of most towers; you're also not going to likely kill anybody doing it (except maybe yourself).