skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea, you're definitely going to want to get a basic logon working though, and enable people to upload their own videos (or link to their own on youtube/vimeo if you dont want to worry about scaling yet) -- and watch it really take off.

There are tons of tutorial sites on the web, but I'm not sure that there are some dedicated completely to video, and as minimal of a set up that you have there... Though you might want to let people do things like search and categorize (which will be necessary as the site grows) -- Then show top ranked 200 or whatever on the front page

Definitely a good rehash of an idea that already exists, can't wait to see it grow

EDIT-
Scratch what I posted earlier -- given the uniqueness of how the tutorials work (the sort of code-view vs. current page view dynamic) I'm not sure if you'd want to put in support for just regular videos, but that would make it easier for people to upload/contribute... Unless that's not what you're going for? Though some oral explanation doesn't seem like it would be too bad of an idea -- would certainly help newer people more
I agree with everything you've said, but I don't think the issue is really about those of us who read HN. HN attracts individuals who have a certain amount of both knowledge and job portability beyond that of the average U.S. citizen.

In many cases, an employeer can simply say, "The law allows me to ask for you facebook account information, please give it to me," and the employee wouldn't know otherwise. The original law was meant to ban that activity. The new bill opens up a small loophole so the the employeer can ask for account information for business related accounts.
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Anyone else find the tone of this article to be condescending?

"Let’s focus on how one teenage girl, Jennie Lamere, defeated a room full of smart, motivated, experienced, full-grown men. This would seem to be instructive to the greater argument about women in technology, and besides, it has the added bonus of being -> based in fact rather than opinion <-"

As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion.

“It’s also important to note that Jennie’s idea is a completely universal, gender-neutral one"

Is it? Last time I checked gender-biased ideas can be just as valuable as gender-neutral ones. Why does Jennie need to 'prove' herself capable of producing gender-neutral ideas?
While we're at it, we should probably prevent people from doing things that can kill people.
I've been through something very similar to this as well and it was a severe depression for me. It was due to pushing myself too much while going through chemo, but it's possible that it can happen with any major life change (like leaving a job). I wrote about my story of depression http://jensablelopez.com/depression-what-summer-made-of/ - not sure if that helps at all.

But I agree with others, go see a different doctor. Perhaps try a Naturopath. They'll help you without giving you drugs.
This is a great question! I freely confess that I'm not totally sure about the fully homomorphic systems, but you are making the assumption that you can test for equality "outside" the cryptosystem, and for at least one partially homomorphic case I know of, that's not true (viz. ElGamal).

So you're thinking of a private key cryptosystem, where the ciphertext and the plaintext have the same length and E(.) is bijective, but in the case of ElGamal and public-key encryption in general, E(.) is not actually a function in the mathematical sense and instead encrypts one-to-many. (In fact if memory serves, n plaintext bits become 2n ciphertext bits in ElGamal.)

If that's the case in general then you could indeed compute E(1) := e_div(E(N), E(N)) and e_and(E(N), E(1)), but you could not say that E(N & 1) === E(1) if N is odd, because even though N & 1 = 1 and we've got a nice property of mathematical functions which says that if a = b then f(a) = f(b), this isn't a mathematical function and the one-to-many nature foils precisely this sort of naive comparison.
Laws that create prosecutable offenses in the ILCS say things like "Any person failing to comply with $(CLAUSE) shall be guilty of a $(CRIME_LEVEL)". This one obviously does not do that.

The reason for the legislation is that Illinois companies are specifically not permitted to demand credentials for personal social media accounts; it creates an exception to at-will employment in Illinois that would enable you to sue your employer if you were terminated incident to refusing credentials.
Coding Is the Must-Have Job Skill of the Future
Can you comment in generalities on the scope of changes to LT's behaviour end users can expect to be possible by design, e.g. the entire stack is modifiable to the extent that Emacs (even the underlying elisp interpreter) is modifiable, only via a limited API like Sublime Text 2 has (which results in end users being reliant on major changes coming from the top down), or something else entirely?
I agree with you completely that the universities aren't the answer here. I might have been good at 68k Assembler back when I was taking my computer architecture course, but I haven't touched it since the Lord of the Rings films came out. I wasn't trying to say that Universities were any good at this job, but that they're an example of how a central trusted certification agency can fail.

I don't, however, see how it's going to get rid of the the bad interviewers. Since the idea is to do a pre-interview to screen out the dead weight, it means that the individual firms will still need to do a more specific interview. Thus, we'll still have the same local interviewers asking the same questions about trigraphs in C. The problem isn't just that these people suck at giving interviews - it's that they believe that they're GREAT at it.
Windows XP supports up to IE8, Vista IE9 and 7 IE10. There's only so much you can do when an OS is on life support, and making sacrifices just to give an OS another version of IE is just stupid.
its kind of tragic that I read that whole post, spent another 5 minutes researching, trying to find some kind of more information, but I still have no idea what this tool actually does.
> We should not allow a computer to do things that can kill people, and a computer-driven car can kill people.

Your car's computer already has control of throttle, brakes, door locks, etc.
Awesome. I was looking for something like this not too long ago, and I was surprised it didn't seem to exist.
You are treating it as a monad, not as a collection.
This link and the comments here make me smile.

BTW, COBOL is faster than every single language mentioned here. And it's more readable. Fact.
"Apple has a huge cash stockpile, but much of that cash is overseas. Raising money in the debt market would help Apple avoid the big tax bill that would come from bringing the cash back to the U.S."

Interesting, so one of the effects of the Fed's lose monetary policy is enabling U.S. companies to avoid taxes.
Has anybody gotten the node.js connection working. I keep on getting 'In order to start a NodeJS client, you have to have node installed and on your system's PATH.' But, node is indeed installed, and in my $PATH. Running OSX with node v0.10.5
The ratings agencies were pricing in the risk that Apple lobbyists would not be able to bribe the US Congress to allow overseas profits to be returned tax-free.
maybe this?
http://www.gschool.it/experiencearchitect/
> Did Path sent texts without permission of the user? No.

No?

The permissions screen is shown in the verge article. It's labelled: "Find Your Friends: Path is more fun with friends. Find out who's already on Path."

I interpret that as asking permission to run my contacts against its database and tell me who else is already on Path. Not as asking permission to text people who aren't.

Permission to do some X with a contacts list is not permission to do anything with a contacts list.
Smart concept, I really like the premise. Two negative points.

First, once it found results for my location, it just sat there with the loading circlet spinning perpetually. Some other locations didn't have that problem (eg San Francisco results loaded after a short while).

Second, the Google maps styling is absolutely horrendous. It's so bad that I'd never use your service because the maps are terrible to visually consume. It reminds me of the flat design style (for GMaps) that someone posted here recently.

Also, figure out a way to get yourself a better domain (as challenging and expensive as that is these days).

Outpost.com used to be Cyberian Outpost, back in the early dotcom days. Fry's owns it now, but they're not using it and there's little traffic still flowing to the domain (and they're probably never going to use it). Maybe they'd sell it.
As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion.

Not "the argument", it's just that many arguments for women are based on opinion.

Edit: and yeah I totally agree about the "gender-neutral" thing. I was kind of disappointed actually! I wanted to see something unusual, something the room full of dudes wouldn't have thought of :)
It is HIGHLY variable. A few years ago, Brazil was dirt cheap. Now, U$ 500 on Argentina would go a LONG way and will definitely get you there (if you avoid the "official" exchange rate) but Brazil is really expensive now and doesn't sound doable on U$ 500.

It fluctuates :)
VC Chamath Palihapitiya Attempts to Shame Entrepreneurs Once Again
You know. You are right. I don't know what I am talking about. Thanks for helping me sort that out. Good day.
How to Read 30 Books in 30 Days
Hi everyone, is there a kind of video/guided tutorial through Scheme and SICP? I have tried picking the book up on my own but have had a hard time retaining the information.
Create rich coding tutorials (novice, API, frameworks etc) in embeddable web ide
No, this is completely wrong: if you are asked for credentials, and you refuse to provide them, and you're fired afterwards for what your employer claims is an unrelated reason, you can sue your employer alleging that you were fired in retaliation; that is why the law specifically says it's "unlawful" to demand those credentials.

By your logic, no anti-discrimination law is enforceable either, because you'd have to be a complete nitwit to actually tell an employee they were being fired for being a woman, or African American. In practice, employers always make up excuses for unlawful termination.

Also, in practice, each of these exceptions to at-will employment is a vast gaping constantly-looming risk for employers, since litigation is extraordinarily expensive and terminated employees are extremely quick to threaten suit. I've seen meritless discrimination suits brought at previous employers; they're settled immediately no matter how wrong they are.

So the net effect of laws like this is to create an incentive for employers to be extremely careful and process-bound for how they handle credentials, because credentials in Illinois are officially an employment law minefield.
Good job. But Hacker School shouldn't be the model for future disruptions in education. If anything this can be an exclusive coders retreat (well, unless we get to cloning Peter Norvig and other great computer scientists), and is sort of a goal to achieve.

Each Hacker School attendee needs to be the best they can be and motivated to learn more and teach others. The fact that there are no teachers and each attendee is a teacher is a wonderful model, and as such they have to be exclusive. Not everyone who could code up a FizzBuzz deserves an admit.

This is not where you go to learn common stuff, this is where you go when you're already good at coding & looking to expand further and can contribute positively to the class.

Disclaimer: I applied for the second or the third batch and got rejected promptly. Only then did I realize that I never deserved an admit.
By being better than the competition. That is the answer.
It's possible to win a hackathon? I thought these things were for fun, not for competition.
Though your example is not the best (pilots are still there and can disable the auto-pilot and drive in the manual mode) I will correct myself: I think we should now allow computers, which can be easily accessed and potentially altered/hacked, to do things that can kill people.
Show HN: C-Level positions to fill before you incorporate
Chief Getting Things Done Officer *

Chief Making Sure It Scales Officer

Chief Get the Numbers Up Officer

Chief Raise a Round Officer

Chief What About Churn Rate Officer

Chief Build Something People Want Officer

Chief Get Them To Pay You Officer

Chief Node.js Officer

Chief Blogging Officer

Chief Does This Run in Firefox and Chrome Officer

Chief How Does it Look On Mobile Officer

Chief People Still Use Internet Explorer Officer

Chief Show Hackernews Officer

* added suggestion by from comments.

Did I miss anything?
I don't see anything about a trial period on the site. This sounds really promising but I'm hesitant to spend money without seeing it in action.
Sublime Text will never be a plausible replacement for Emacs as its design does not encompass all of possibilities a lisp machine provides. Sublime Text is a plausible replacement for any tool which only targets text editing though. It has many converts or new users whose use case is only a text editor though, so to that extent Sublime Text has been successful.
The AirBnB leaked email fiasco was seriously wtf. (http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/chamath-palihapitiyas-state...)

I could almost see a third party who wasn't invested in a company criticizing it like that (but, if you're an active investor, it's still probably a bad idea; I doubt Airbnb or any of their investors were happy with it, and you might want to do deals with them in the future, even if not that round).

But, if one of your own investors fucks you like that, in public, you should figure out a way to get them out of your cap table. I'd offer a slight premium to buy their previous-round equity out at the new round valuation.
Nope, that only mentions importing from GReader. I’m talking about exporting from Feed Wrangler.

- I want a backup so that I still have my data if FeedWrangler crashes.

- I want a backup so that I can pack up and leave if FeedWranglet leaks my password or other user data

- I want a backup so that I can switch to a different service in case FeedWrangler goes bankrupt or is acquired.
Precisely. This is at least how I do it.

It is also pretty nice to have an Instarepl where you can see live changes, either in your source files or in a separate repl. Don't forget that if your paths and namespaces match you can require your namespaces at will.
~1GB/s
Do you refuse to hand over your passport to hotels that require it for foreign visitors? Do you follow the waiter back to the payment terminal after handing over your credit card to make sure they don't copy it?

Personally, I would trust Airbnb much more than some of the hotels/hostels I've stayed in. Anyone can make a photocopy, but passing it off as a legitimate document is pretty difficult.
Yes, but there are so many brands of materialism. I'm not an expert on Dennett, but I believe he is best characterized as an eliminative materialist. He denies that qualia exist (or at least he used to).

As for "mental properties supervene on physical properties" as a characteristic of materialism, even a dualist might consent to nomological supervenience.
I could tell you the same thing ("re-read my posts") and that you're blatantly wrong. I don't really want to debate back and forth beyond where we've gone since we're just reiterating at this point (I feel like your missing a basic fact and apparently you feel the same way). I'm agreeing to disagree because I can't persuade you and you sure as hell can't persuade me and this conversation is no longer thought-provoking and its frankly a waste of time (that goes for both of us).
You're talking about a supply side scenario, after they already ask.

The text of the bill instead discusses the demand side "It shall be unlawful for any employer to request".

I am not seeing the punishment this unlawful act would result in. Maybe there isn't one. However, I am not a lawyer and anyone relying on this post for official legal advice is a moron.

On the job, assuming you've actually been out there, for quite a few years its "normal" for coworkers and bosses and such to friend each other and talk smack about each other and the boss. From observation of extensive experience the biggest problem with social media mixing with work tends to be professional contacts both making and reading highly unprofessional comments outside of work resulting in huge raging arguments / battles at work. (edited to emphasize battles between employees not mgmt vs employee. Although this inevitably drags mgmt into it when one employee whines about another's comments online about their religion/ethnicity/orientation/blah make it impossible for them to ever work together again, even though the topic would never have been discussed on company property at any civilized employer. Most of the mgmt where I work would relish a law prohibiting people from work socializing in any manner, especially social media flamewars, outside work.)
I can't see any screenshots, link to a demo, etc. Asking for $18 up front with no indication of quality is a bit rough.
not a huge conspiracy theorist, but isn't this the kind of thing that would make us not rely on purchasing Adobe CS7 exclusively (for fear of incompatability) in the future?

Standards wise, open-source wise, and generally it's a good move (who wouldn't want to get a standard complex image format that would make sense to the common programmer?), but I don't think the finance department over at Adobe is going to like it very much?
Absolutely. SMTP through your own host is likely to result in mails ending up in SPAM folders without you even knowing it, because you have better things to do than monitor dozens of RBL listings on a daily basis.

It also creates a significant business risk -- virtually all hosting providers have a zero tolerance policy for spamming, and overzealous enforcement of that could mean a few undeserved spam reports originating from your server can have your whole site shut down.

I used to use SendGrid. Now I use Mandrill. They're bigger, cheaper, and I like their people.
If your credit cards are really willing to give you an unsecured loan that another bank won't accept a car as collateral on, then someone's risk analysis is wrong.

Regardless, there's a lot of work in analyzing "risk" that has nothing to do with assets. Pull up a list of the most successful tech companies in the world 30 years ago. How many of them look like "AAA" bets today? Do HP or IBM look like solid borrowers in hindsight? At least (I don't think) they never defaulted on a bond. How about DEC or SGI? Even Apple Computer itself went through some pretty lean years where it looked like a pretty bad loan risk during that period.

The point is that companies aren't like economies that can sustain themselves on scale alone. You just can't tell what market conditions (or just plain mismanagement) lie in Apple's future.
I really don't like blogs like this. I'm not staying around for a part two.
In a world where US government debt isn't triple-A either, it's hard to take the distinctions at the high end of the rating scale seriously.
As everything else, it is a matter of cost. A web site targeting millions of people while trying to attract some clients has no choice but to rely in better UX design and implementation, in other words to inflate the cost of the application. A behind the firewall application will not necessarily be benefited in the same since its targeted user is well defined, already has a need to use the app for, and since he is a frequent user of it can afford a more primitive and less user friendly interface.
Like I said downthread, reading the statute in the airless vacuum of a message board, it's easy to try to poke holes in it.

In reality, anything that amounts of an exception to the at-will doctrine creates an enormous minefield for employers. Terminated employees are very frequently disgruntled and can be counted on, over time, in the large, to bring meritless cases. Employers who want to survive without being stuck up for settlements are going to become very process-bound for how they handle credentials.

Think of it this way: worst-case downside to employee from this law: early termination. Downside to employer: horrifically expensive legal debacle.
The course webcasts of CS61A from berkeley for various semesters are online:

The ones prior to 2010~2011 used scheme, and it tracks SICP fairly closely.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,Fall_2010,EC6D76F0C...
So I tried Dwolla last week to pay somebody back for some concert tickets and it was not a good experience. I, naively I suppose, thought that maybe Dwolla had come up with some clever new workflow for on-boarding people you wanted to send money to. Alas, I got a few angry texts from the person complaining about having had to input their social security and bank account numbers and, after feeling uncomfortable about having done that, not knowing how to cancel their account. The transaction did eventually go through after I convinced them to be patient, but it's not a rousing endorsement of the platform.

I echo some of the other concerns in this thread that there just may not be an easy way to transfer money to people given all the security concerns. I still far and away would prefer to have my bank send a physical check to somebody I owe money too because at least that doesn't require them divulge sensitive information to an entity they don't know.
This article is pretty much the correct response to the pull --rebase discussions. No need for it -- you should be using a branch.

But I'm not sold on no rebase at all: a common workflow for me is commit often while getting something working, then rebase 4 or 5 commits into a presentable unit (using magit). I have to admit I hadn't noticed that the timestamps were preserved by rebase. And there doesn't seem to be a rebase option that tells git to create new timestamps with chronological order matching the new commit order? I could use `filter-branch`, but it seems heavyweight.

One other criticism of the article:

> A soft reset back to origin's HEAD, and then re-commit your work

That leads to errors: if you've added new files, you may very well forget to add the same set again after the soft reset.