skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only visualization I didn't like was the chord diagram:
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2013/04/chordplo...

Did you try this visualization?:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062006
>> For some languages, Emacs is even the only option

Which ones would those be? Common Lisp using SLIME?
From the interview linked at the bottom of the article [0]:

I was sent back to North Korea three times and finally I escaped to South Korea. I was lucky because I got a scholarship from a organization, so I was able to come to the US to study English. The first time I went to China, I thought they were really rich because they ate rice and meat everyday. It was the same as I heard when I was in North Korea.

Edit:

She also mentions an organization called "Liberty in North Korea", which helps refugees to escape via China. China has an agreement with North Korea to send illegal immigrants back to their home country. Apparently, if you know the right people and pay some money, you can circumvent this agreement: [1] lists "rescue fees" as "Costs for fines, fees, and the network of partners and staff in the underground to bring refugees to safety".

[0] http://interviews.kinja.com/how-did-you-end-up-making-it-to-...

[1] http://libertyinnorthkorea.org/rescue-teams-about/
Adobe Social will predict the popularity of your Facebook post
Can someone link a vim setup for python, for comparison puposes, perhaps with a short feature comparison? I'm currently a vim user with a fairly basic setup (I tried st 2 but couldn't figure it out for managing my work flow) , but I find the idea of emacs attractive.
I wonder if they will extend this to the immigration of capital.
I've been addicted to these documentaries on Netflix lately, but they seem to glance over those precious details.
Eggs, Too, May Provoke Bacteria to Raise Heart Risk
I admit to being ARM/Atom M/R curious. Sometimes I wonder about Hadoop for a few seconds until I remember it's heavily JVM-based. Poking around on the web you find folks who sound serious about porting it to Android.
An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong
Obviously the school you attend doesn't determine your future, but it matters. Harvard is better than UW and any other state school. You could share whatever stats you want, but Harvard is better

Maybe it is, but quantify that. And compare the best care outcomes from attending Harvard with people's actual ambitions. For most people, I still contend that going to Harvard (or not) is fairly irrelevant.

and using racism (lets call race-based discrimination what it really is) to limit a race's access to a better school is not something that misinterpreting CEO stats will ease.

Again, just to be clear, I am not trying to support racism or any sort of discrimination. I think admissions should be strictly race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, religion-blind, etc. I'm just pointing out that if you get excluded from your $IVY_OF_CHOICE for whatever reason, you aren't consigned to the scrap heap of life. It's not the end of the world, and it's probably not even a big deal for most people. Now if you absolutely, 110% have your heart set on getting elected President someday, then I guess all bets are off.
If this guy worked for Morgan Stanley then why isn't he coding Bitcoin/Litecoin/PPPcoin trading engines? Screw wallstreet, work for the hacker wallstreet
Yes, same thing, Firefox 20, Linux.
Finally. Next step: removing the option pool from the pre-money? (as PG has tweeted) Lots of other 'standard' terms that need to be reexamined as well
Even though WA is closed source and for-profit, I few them (and the company) as a kind of fellow scientist and not the evil big corporation (like oracle, microsoft etc.).

It all depends who ask for my data.
This summarizes the whole argument quite well. Apparently kintamanimatt and I share the same level of disgust for people who try to create privacy-invading technologies.
I believe that with the current "make it legal" happenings for marijuana, and the fact that huge amounts of people are forever fucked because of posession felonies, the two things should be more inter-twined than they currently are. As such, I would argue that laying the groundwork for this sort thing should be (and arguably is) happening now, while the gay rights stuff is center-stage.
Just 4.5 years after EC2 was available in Ireland...: http://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/DevPay/1924
Even worse, they seemed to exist in a state of denial about the quality of the search, then proceeded to do nothing about it as they burned through investment dollars for a few years. Then put out an even worse automatic encyclopedia.
Some basic facts about college admission in the United States:

1) Most colleges admit large numbers of students who are officially reported as "race/ethnicity unknown." (The graphic in the submitted article, showing race/ethnicity questions from a college application, is dishonest by omitting the part on the application that says that whole section is optional, as it must be by federal regulation.)

2) The definition of "race" categories in current United States regulations is arbitrary, acknowledged by the Census Bureau to be unscientific, does not match categories used in any other country, and has changed several times in my lifetime.

3) "Jewish" has never been an officially regarded category in the United States for tracking data on the issue of college admission, but Jews once faced considerable barriers getting into many colleges.

4) The subset of United States high school students who are college-ready by what courses they have completed during high school has a much different "race" composition from the general United States population.

Several of the replies in this interesting thread speculate about details of the practice of colleges in the United States, so I will refer here to the definitive FAQ about "race" in United States college admission,

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/admissions-hindsight-les...

so that those of you who like to look up reliable sources and check facts are able to do that about this contentious issue. The FAQ will have to be revised, of course, after the Supreme Court issues its opinion in a pending case (cited in the FAQ). Full references to the facts listed above can be found in the FAQ.
I think they're also building that dashboard feature.
"Hardware doesn’t need to become smarter, it just needs to be able to sync with our phones which can do the heavy lifting."

General purpose computers are quite good at what they do, however, there are a large number of tasks that you want done but don't need or want a general purpose computer, or a user, in the loop, which is what "smart" hardware is there for.
Yes, I did.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I think the visualization you linked to is much harder to read, because the visual weight accorded to each edge is a non-linear (and somewhat arbitrary) function of the 'true' weight. It also doesn't scale well with number of vertices.

Whereas with the chord diagram, your eye is naturally drawn to the big arrows, and you can easily follow them. It's also bidirectional in a more straightforward way.
Because if he uses a computer for anything but his web development job (unless he is monitored by an appropriate authority), he violates his terms of probation and gets a second felony?
Couldn't agree more. I've am looking at Lua for a new project and got excited when I saw this. However, that syntax looks terrible.

What's worse, is it is inconsistent. Take:

csrf.assert_token @
Users\create name: @params.username

I don't get why they both can't be '.', which would be very readable and approachable to everyone.

All that said, this looks great given it is built on OpenResty (whose performance seems outstanding at initial blush). Wonder if anyone has deployed anything really big with it.
My hiring process is very similar to yours. Every one of 6 devs in my office has a history of side projects if out of college, failed startups if older, etc. I don't know if I would apply the same standard to a high-schooler though.

To give a specific example, I've always thought that community involvement is one of those developmental stages that happen later in life. Bill Gates is a great example: obviously a "leader in business, innovation and politics", who went from active, principled disdain towards all charity when he was younger to the world's biggest philanthropist today. Whenever I see community involvement coming from a high schooler, I always "blame" parents, college admission coaches, church, etc.

Similarly, serious commitment to more than one sport makes me think "ambitious parents" and "affluent" rather than "drive". I just don't buy that a high-schooler, all by him/herself, has the wherewithal to manage multiple athletic training programs. I did serious ballet before I went to college, and let's face it, while I did all the sweating, my mother gets more than half the credit.
The meaning of words does depend on context of course. Regardless, rest assured that when you hear someone say "overrepresented" and they are talking about higher education, they are using the definition I gave you above.
Some of these can be caught automatically, and the more automation (taking the human out of the loop), the better, because humans can gloss over a checklist or accidentally skip something. My current project uses a combination of Gerrit, Jenkins and Sonar, along with unit/regression tests, so that every single change is checked automatically to make sure it builds and passes the tests, along with requiring at least one human review and okay it. Combine this with code checking tools (vera++, rats, cppcheck, cpplint, flawfinder, pscan, valgrind, fuzz, along with just about every warning available on two compilers), and we hardly ever have to do anything but look at code in Gerrit and approve it.
Interesting, no I went through the regular process. Thanks fir the link.
Yeah right, turn his friend in.
You realize they would've jailed him anyways, and his 2 years in prison would've been hell because of snitching.
Most people dont care about most of the things and so they dont vote most of the time. Some people vote only on the lower levels, some only on the highest.

I myself do normally not vote on village level (5000 people) because the matters are quite trival, while I vote on the level that involve things like immigration. I know other people that do to opposit because truth is that the village level things probeblly still have a bigger impact on your live then the country wide things.

If there is a vote on something really importent that a lot of people feel is importent participation rates shoots up quite a bit.
Proposals to end warrantless e-mail searches gain momentum in Congress
Can't reply to my sibling here, but no, they do not get their money back. Once a Kickstarter is funded, the money goes to the organizer and then it is gone. It's on their honor to deliver on their promises. Kickstarter does nothing to enforce that. It's somewhat by design, they don't want to saddle starving artists with tons of debt because they made a mistake on how much it would cost to fund the rewards. But that also assumes it's being used by starving artists. Kickstarter seems like it has largely become just an advertising and presales system for established artists and companies.
I don't get any indication the authors wanted to paint the guy as innocent in any part of the article. I think the point of the article is "does the punishment fit the crime?".

No one is saying the guys isn't responsible, but how responsible, that's what matters.
WikiLeaks wins case against Visa contractor in Iceland
That is the essence, yes :) We’re trying to take a different approach to previous federated social web efforts, and focus on bringing existing UI, conventions and technologies from blogging up to par with their silo equivalents.
I have a similar emacs setup with cedet, autocomplete, and whatnot, but I have one problem -- things like "evaluate this buffer" don't work when your python environment is on a remote server (due to work constraints I am obliged to do this). Files open fine over tramp, but a lot of things (python-mode, jedi, etc.) don't understand that they are interacting with a remote python shell. Is there any easy way that someone here has found to get around that?
Speaking of Erlang, I've got my eye on Riak pipes. Now that the Basho folks have a large object store, I wonder if more in that department is a natural path.
In theory that is true, and it is very nice. The problem just is that the EU is all around Switzerland, they have a huge stick they can use.

If there where more countrys like Switzerland it would be closer to theory.
I have found EmacsRedux informative for learning GNUemacs. The key for me was understanding that Emacs is command driven and that shortcuts are merely shortcuts to commands - i.e. M-x <command> invokes the <command> of which emacs has hundreds (+ lisp expressions). Unlike shortcuts, commands can be accessed with auto-complete.

http://emacsredux.com/
One thing that bugs me is how comments are linked to "interest". There are many topics that interest people (passive consumption), that do not necessarily translate into engaging in a conversation with others publicly.

As a marketing term - sure, that would be a good indicator of interest. Since this article is more scientific than marketing-oriented, I would clarify what some of the metrics mean (or don't mean).

Excellent, fantastic visualizations though!
Show HN: Just released the Beta of CraftStudio, my coop game-making platform
It seems that at the core of their demise was the fact that their discounting strategy was very Groupon-esque, ie. Done using a 3rd party service and ultimately failing to capture loyalty of their customers.

The article states "when they stopped discounting, the sales stopped" but the way that reads to me is that the 3rd party discounting service was actually their only significant source of traffic.

It seems unlikely that if they were offering goods at a reasonable price that people needed with a trustworthy level of support, that their sales would completely evaporate in the absence of discounts otherwise.
"Bad things don't happen to good people, and good people don't do bad things or associate with bad people."

Evidence please . . . what a one-dimensional statement. It turns out life isn't binary.
Seems like Toutapp ( http://toutapp.com ) solves your problem! :)
In Case You Needed Proof of the Demise of Skeuomorphism
Immigration is not entirely positive, it has complex effects on the society and economy. I don't know whether 80 000 per year is the optimal limit, but I oppose to the idea that foreigners have moral right for immigration. It's a democratic decision, they may be wrong, but it's them who's best positioned to decide what's best for them.
No reason he can't turn web development into bitcoin trading engine development by asking them. I know three sites that would apply to be his auth employer immediately regardless of prison history. That's all he needs to change jobs, a letter of employment confirmation sent to the parole board. I know because I was on probation once when I was 19 for some BS hacking charge and had the same restrictions
The blurry part isn't so nice, but I think that have snapshots of code might actually be better in a lot of ways if it forces people to type code out themselves without copy/paste (no better way to learn than to get it into your muscle memory after all).
Items from the 100 year old time capsule just opened in OKC
I think they ran one JVM per core. If you're willing to spend money, large heaps are supposed to be solved by Azul.
Data is their biggest asset, they wouldn't want to just shar it freely.
This is a general pet peeve of mine - I hate it when people present "rags to riches" or "prison to freedom" stories without giving a real sense of the "how" part. To me that is where the real story and the real character lies. Too often stories focus on the pain and suffering alone and the stories feel very incomplete to me. That is also why I kike reading biographies or autobiographies, because there finally the focus shifts from "what" to "how".

update: this was a general comment, not specific to this article where the writer might need to protect her family and thus have good reason not to go into details.
I was mostly thinking of Agda[1] and, to a lesser extent, similar languages like Coq[2] with Proof General[3].

You could write Common Lisp in Notepad if you really wanted to. I do not think using Agda would be at all practical without Emacs.

[1]: http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php

[2]: http://coq.inria.fr/

[3]: http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/
Bitcoin is dead. Long live bitcoin.
Really? Because even the most amateur exchange operator like Bitcoin24 was making thousands per day. Look up how much cavirtex.com is making lately, or bitstamp.net
Although this article is interesting and worth a read, it is very difficult to verify that your source backs your claim. It is unclear whether the reader is supposed to perform some calculations upon some figures in the source material to arrive at your claims or whether, by exhaustively searching many different paraphrasings of your claims, one could eventually find the same claims made in the source.
Interestingly, Bitcoin does support transactions which have a third party acting as an arbitrator; these transaction require the consent of two out of three participants in order for the money to be transferred. PayPal is essentially a fraud detection business disguised as a money-transfer business, so this seems like a natural niche for them.

(Technically, every Bitcoin transaction has a script in a Forth-like, non-Turing-complete bytecode which specifies the conditions needed for the transaction to be valid. It supports m-out-of-n signature requirements, among many other fun things.)
I'm going to argue contrariwise: say I write a compiler for a language I created. It's a niche thing and some guys find that it works really well for, e.g., doing network traffic analysis (work with me here, it's just an example), and it becomes the preferred tool to write hacks using network traffic (WPA2 sniffers, etc).

Do I have a responsibility to turn these people in? I know some/many/most of the users are grey/black hats. I might even have a notion of who those people are.

---

Let's flip the argument a wee bit. Say you're working for a weapons contractor building simulators and other tools for drones & ICBMs. You have a pretty good idea that your work is being used for death and destruction. You see some videos on the evening news of some people getting killed by a drone you helped build. Do you bear responsibility for the use of that drone?

Because I see the answer to both to be about the same.
Billion Cell CFD Model of Ship Hull
These snafus compared to the dot com bubble are orders of magnitude smaller.

I remember when PayPal gave $10 to you just for signing up. (People of course signed up many times and got many bonuses. People howled about how they would never build a business if they had to buy customers.) I remember when Yahoo bought the domain Broadcast.com (and a few assets, but not really) for billions (with a b!) of dollars. I remember when Pets.com spent $10 million on advertising to get $500k in sales (not even net, sales). I remember when Amazon.com paid workers in a Seattle high rise to call mom-and-pop book stores in search of a $8 out of print book that had been ordered on the website. Etc., etc., etc.

I understand the urge to yell "bubble!" when reading these stories -- but comparisons to the dot com era is to make a mountain out of a molehill.
I'm just going to note that you're claiming that theology is a science and say that you're wrong.

Here's a write-up on the problematic nature of the methodology you use:

http://www.wideopenground.com/fundamentalism-and-foundationa...
This would be great. I would back that. I did suggested to Weev that he should write a book with his time in prison when he is not fighting his appeal. #freeweev
FBI Background check is not really accurate. I am from Iran. They can't really check the background of people form Iran and North Korea because those governments do not help FBI for background check. All they can access to is international flight information and anything outside of those countries.

I saw an Iranian man in Ankara who were rejected for Green Card Lottery visa because he had a trip to North Korea (Iranians can go there without a visa). In a private talk he admitted that he was working for army and he was educated for missile stuff in N. Korea. My point is, if he never went to N.Korea, he could have make it to the US. Someone who worked for Iranian Missile Program. FBI background check is not accurate.
On a related note, emacs support for ipython notebook with ein (http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/) is marvelous. If you are comfortable with emacs, ein is far superior for interacting with your ipython notebook compared to the browser experience.
If you have a remote file open with Tramp, you can also get a shell open there with M-x shell. Try doing that, running python in that shell and renaming the shell buffer to Python. It might work :P.

If that doesn't work, you might have to find the variable which specifies which buffer has the current running Python process. You should then be able to just change that to a remote shell as above.

You can also automate all of this with a bit of elisp. After you've played around with it a bit, ask around on #emacs--I'm sure there are people there both willing and able to help you out.
Yes, section 3.4: "Heap size - By default each Hadoop map and reduce task is run in
a JVM with a 200 MB heap within which they allocate
buffers for in-memory data. When the buffers are full,
data is spilled to storage, adding overheads. We note
that 200 MB per task leaves substantial amounts of memory unused on modern servers. By increasing the heap
size for each JVM (and hence the working memory for
each task), we improve performance. However too large
a heap size causes garbage collection overheads, and
wastes memory that could be used for other purposes
(such as a RAMdisk). For the scale-out conﬁgurations,
we found the optimal heap size for each job through trial
and error. For the scale-up conﬁguration we set a heap
size of 4 GB per mapper/reducer task (where the maximum number of tasks is set to the number of processors)
for all jobs."
There's a nice list of checklists at

http://www.projectcheck.org/checklists.html

including a "checklist for checklists" (!)

http://www.projectcheck.org/checklist-for-checklists.html

Great article on the use of checklists in hospitals, by Atul Gawande:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
I'm guessing you're probably referring to this, which is, as of now, $8k from its goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2120630809/the-hedgehog-...
Glassdoor data suggests otherwise:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/us-sales-representative-sa...
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/us-software-engineer-salar...
Palantir is worth multiple billions of dollars (based on secondary market trading).
Stanford for everybody: Startup to make elite education available to all
Conque shell can 'run a terminal' inside of vim, but it's a bit buggy. It's not really fair to compare vim and emacs, because vim is _just_ a text editor. Vim + screen or vim + tmux (my preference) is much closer to the same ... category of thing that emacs is.

You can split tmux tabs so that you can have vim up in one pane on a 'tab' and python running in another pane in the same 'tab'. Both tmux and screen have decent copy/paste functionality that mimics vim's movement behaviour to some degree. (Tmux also has scriptable sessions, if you like different workflows for different types of projects)

If you want a nice vim setup SPF-13 is a decent place to start. There are tmux configs everywhere. Also Ipython does a lot for you as far as completion, looking at documentation, and the like.

I think that's kind of what you're after, sorry if it's not.