skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that just because someone has a different opinion, like that Medium piece on why "I won't wear Google Glass", it suddenly rises to the top.

This article basically reiterates what others have argued for the longest time. One platform is better than the other, one company better than another. Who cares if you switch what phone model you use? It's not like someone is going to be converted because of what you did. Your phone isn't a religion.
I'm curious, why did you choose Laravel over Symfony?
Movies, TV and books are still DRM'd though.
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Hi HN!

We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start.

We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API.

I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to answer any questions you might have.
Hacker School founder here. Some thoughts on how to get started:

Choose a single language, and focus just on that. Python (which it looks like you've already started with), is a good choice. Spend some time with books, online classes, etc, but spend ~80% of your time actually programming and not just reading. Start with small projects that take you an afternoon and gradually increase in size as you successfully complete them (some ideas: a game of hangman, a game of tic-tac-toe, a game of tic-tac-toe with artificial intelligence). Find someone you know who's a better programmer than you are, and ask him or her to review your code -- going over the code together is best. Do this repeatedly, if possible. Make sure you have a clear understanding of what all of your code is doing. Learn to debug systematically (i.e., when something doesn't work, don't just change your code randomly -- read the error message or look at the output, think about what might be wrong, form a hypothesis, and then change your code accordingly).

Most importantly: Don't give up, and have fun!

I hope this helps and I hope to see you apply sometime down the line!

EDIT: To more directly answer your question, we look for smart, friendly, intellectually curious people who enjoy programming and want to get dramatically better. We care much more about people demonstrating that they can get a good understanding of one language than a shallow understanding of lots of languages.
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How dangerous are small flying rocks? I mean does it really pose a big threat to the station and the crew? His tweet seems to imply so.

I also don't know what kind of contingency plans you can have in the ISS,but I'm not aware of how space-structural integrity works
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You come of as one of those ultra religous people advocating for sex abstinence before marriage.

If you have gone into such a religous faith that coffee or caffeine is bad for you, then you are probably the one with the problem to begin with, anything should be taken in considerate amounts. You can literally die from water; if you drink enough of it.

And this discussion isn't even relevant to the posted link.
Gmail works perfectly fine on iOS.

and for Chrome, you can use Xmarks to sync bookmarks. I use both Safari and Chrome on the desktop, and the bookmarks are in sync completely, which makes them in sync with my iPad.
"On 11 May 2006, the High Court ruled that a 2004 Order in Council preventing the Chagossians' resettlement of the islands was unlawful, and consequently that the Chagossians were entitled to return to the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago. [...] According to a WikiLeaks disclosure document, in a calculated move in 2009 to prevent re-settlement of the BIOT by native Chagossians, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a "marine reserve" with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
I did not downvote you, nor do I think you deserve a downvote. I think your scenario highlights something to be careful about when rebasing, but I wouldn't say to avoid rebasing because of it. You could, for example, do an interactive rebase to fix or squash those commits.
That's not just any temple. When the Aztecs discovered that city, they gave it a name in their Nahuatl language: Teotihuacan means "place of the gods" because they had no idea who built that city, and to this day no one has figured out the origin. 2 millennia ago, it was the largest city in the Americas, covering 30 sq km. The mystery can take your imagination on a wild ride, and I half-expected to see the Predator dropping down out of the sky as he made his rounds on the world's pyramids. ;) I recommend you visit, because it's quite accessible via a half-hour bus ride from the north station in Mexico City.
For the purposes of this question you are probably correct.
MD5 for password storage isn't broken. It's still incomparably better than encrypting passwords. The problem is that it requires you to have a very strong password to start out with. This is 'acceptable' in that the security works with MD5, but 'unacceptable' in that it makes security much harder than it should be for no benefit. And it has always been this way, regardless of what people have thought about it in the past. That's the benefit of hindsight. Nothing has actually changed MD5's security. Finding a broken library is a completely different and more easily fixed issue.
Also, multi-line selection, please? =) That's probably the main thing that's keeping me in ST2 right now...
...but room and board in NYC isn't...
I learned it as rebase on branch, merge to master. Is it too much to assume, this being git with it's focus on branches, that what the original pro-rebase article was espousing was to rebase on branches so the merge back to the parent was cleaner? What am I missing here?
"If however you rebase your sequence of patches onto another sequence, and this introduces build errors (not uncommon), bisect no longer works on this segment of history, even after you fix the build issues with a final "cleanup" patch."

Well, not if the cleanup patch goes at the end of that sequence rather than the beginning. Guess what tool you can use to change that.

I don't really see how introducing a breaking change in a merge commit rather than a rebase fixes anything. In any case, you should squash, build locally, and fix before merging to master anyway.
I couldn't read it on my iPhone. That stupid popup appeared and when I tried to click on the cross it sent me to some stupid survey...
I started an SICP study group at work, where a few of us get together and watch the MIT video lectures given by Abelson and Sussman. People were a little skeptical at first, given that they consider themselves top-of-the-line l33t hackers and this is an introductory course, but after the 3rd lecture, nobody questioned the value of it.

It's a timeless course.
Right, which is why the Ruby and Python threads just tend to get ignored -- because everyone in those communities already knows everything about everything... (especially PHP)
Given the caustic nature of the fallout, she's doing the only smart thing and minimizing any streisand effect by keeping a low profile. Note that I'm not suggesting that she was in the right or wrong, but that she's identified that there's no percentage in trying to "win" this, and that the spillover will have a detrimental effect on causes that she cares about (women in tech, for example).
"Register the work with the Copyright Office" $35/batch

"With registration before infringement, you can seek
statutory damages ($750-$30,000) and attorneys’ fees
and statutory damages can be enhanced up to $150,000 if
the infringement was willful."

"Section 1202 Damages for Removal of Copyright
Management Information (CMI)Elements-Remove or alter
CMI (watermark/copyright information) intent to induce,
facilitate or conceal infringement Statutory damages
$2,500 to $25,000"

see http://www.pacaoffice.org/library.shtml
The Ivies give out financial aid packages far more generous than most other schools. There are all sorts of ways in which they are exclusive, but affordability (for American students, at least) is not one of them.
"Untraceable"?
Are we talking about this same financial system where everything happens in clear view of everyone?

I've been thinking about it: "Cool, I'll start a script on all of the school's computer and have them mine for me in a pool". Ain't that awfully easy? "30 under 30", here I come!

Oh well, no.

- The school sysadmin can find which pool my slaves worked for and ask him who he paid the relevant shares to.

- Then he can just follow the money flow, one exchange after the other. Don't forget to track multiples wallets too.

- Oh nice, the money's coming out to the real world through Mt.Gox, too bad they adhere to the law and will disclose my identity to the school sysadmin.

With money laundering, I could just take a case of cash, go in the street, quick exchange at a shady corner and my money is laundered, yay. With Bitcoin, the money trail is as easy to follow as the white rabbit.
I'd bet that the countries with the lowest barriers to exiting bankruptcy (eg 6 months in the US) also have the highest start-up success rates.

Perhaps, but someone is still footing the bill for those failures that were able to write off debts they couldn't afford, so I wouldn't be too quick to assume a very liberal culture with regard to bankruptcy is always better.

Remember, bankruptcy doesn't just mean a company failed to make money, it implies that the company ran out of money without even paying its debts. In this context, that usually means taking on a bigger loan than it could afford to repay.

If banks are going to lend more money to businesses run by people who make that mistake, they're probably going to be putting up interest rates on loans across the board to pay for it. That's going to hit other businesses that are borderline successful in their early days instead, possibly even killing them off before they become established and sustainable.

I know it's popular around places like SV and around HN to talk up failure like it's a badge of honour and guarantees you'll have valuable experience to learn from for next time, but a failure is still a failure. Even if most one-time failures shouldn't merit the end of someone's entrepreneurial career, banks should lend responsibly and be hesitant about lending to someone with track record of not repaying their debts.
What is the Android equivalent for Reminders?
Hoping that they publish some registration numbers after the Business plan has been around for a little bit, interested to see how many people will opt to pay.

Now, the really interesting question will be how much time do they spend adding free versus business features in the coming months? Does free start to get no new features? What makes a feature a business feature over a free feature?

EDIT - Removed my surprise about no backlash since I am geting negative points for it.
"It’s hard to say if a speculative market will ever emerge for bitcoin."

I would say it's pretty easy to say: a speculative market has already emerged. Mt.Gox is already an exchange that allows you to place orders at market price. I'm not really sure what the article is trying to say.
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Hacker School is 4 days a week (at least this batch and last batch). You can definitely work part time during HS. I worked during the last batch of hacker school, and as a commenter above says, it's possible to live (he's doing it!) in NYC paying $650/mo in rent.

That doesn't look like an arbitrary social barrier designed to exclude the many to me. MOOCs are still there, and still awesome.
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TL;DR: Yes, and yes.

Annotations from PaperShip are saved directly to the PDF file, so they are synced accross devices, and readable everywhere. Please note that the official Desktop app from Mendeley uses a different kind of annotations (closed to third-party developers). We hope a future release from Mendeley can improve that.

Regarding Zotero, we just started working on it! There’s still a lot of work, but it’s definitely on our roadmap.

Thanks for the interest!
tabbyjabby didn't say it's bad. They just said it's not OO.
Is anyone using Laravel 4 in production already? I thought it was still in beta.... I'm still messing with 3.
RE: TouchWiz UI - Did you know that you can use your own launcher and apply any theme you wish (legally; without even rooting the device). While I agree that it is not as polished as iOS, it can look great too. You can even make it look like iOS or Windows Phone with some effort.

RE: Display - Just like normal TV set, you can select your preferred display mode on the S4. According to DisplayMate, the movie mode gives you the most accurate colours. Please read their detailed display shootout between the S4 and iPhone 5: http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S4_ShootOut_1.htm

RE: Battery Life - Are you kidding? From my experience, iPhone 5's battery life is shorter than that of many Android phones.

RE: Call Quality - Wow. Really?
The current name makes me envision an edgy, cool site.
Why would there be a backlash? It's not like they're taking features away and making them pay-only.
Congrats! Unfortunately, your server isn't handling the load and the google cache is a SASS error. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:knsEMz3...

Got something more descriptive you can link to?
I agree. A type system is good if it allows you to express everything you want to express, if not (as in Java), it is a tool for oppression.
They have always been open about it, why would there be any backlash? http://help.trello.com/customer/portal/articles/887713-how-m... They have stuck to their promises.
Ask PG: Do you invest in any startups outside of YC?
Do you invest, advise or other ways involved with any co.s that choose not to participate in YC or have matured beyond a YC stage? Some startups need more your sage advice, than any investment.
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Open to abuse surely?
A worthwhile example is the problem of encrypted spam. In theory, spammers could use public keys to evade spam filters, and systems like PGP and S/MIME do not give you any ability to prevent that. On the other hand, an FHE system would allow Google to perform spam filtering on your encrypted email, and so that you receive both the email itself and an encrypted "spam or not spam" bit from Google. You can imagine this sort of thing be applied in other situations -- advertising, options modeling on EC2, etc.

Unfortunately, FHE is nowhere near practical enough to do that sort of thing. Maybe in a decade or two we will see FHE implementations used outside the research community.
Hi twog,

The blog appears to be down, but as an individual very interested in open science could you explain a bit more about the use-case Banyan targets? I imagine this is very focused on things like analysis or computational biology where the primary iterative factor is measured in lines of code changed.

Do you see this tool being used by adjacent sciences? Life sciences, human subject research, materials?
Looks to be back up now. Sounds like it was a load issue. Would love to hear any information about what actually caused the problem.
And there's no crime in that. I'm firmly in the iOS camp, but have several Android devices for testing/playing.

Unfortunately, there's been a rash of proclaiming! (iphones, androids, standing desks, whatever) posts submitted to HN, and you go back a week or a month later and the poster is back to their old ways.

I would rather see submissions that are something like "6 months ago, I switched to x, and I'm never going back!". To me, these are the more insightful posts.
Did the OP just get an iPhone? Sounds like he's had one a while and over time has started using more and more Google apps because he finds they work better for what he does. He's not alone, Google's apps are some of the most popular iOS apps.

I too use Chrome/Google Maps/Gmail instead of Apple's offerings, not because I didn't give Apple's kit a chance, but because Apple's apps are simply bad.
OK, I read this as homeopathic. I need some sleep
This is a great move by Fog Creek! $20/month is so cheap that I can consider getting Trello Business Class without much thinking.

As opposed to Asana, where I try to stay within the limits of the free offering, because their cheapest paid offering is still expensive at $100/month ( http://asana.com/product#pricing ).
Just realized I edited out (before I posted) my qualifcation for my statement, but it should've been prefaced as "from what I've noticed with no hard numbers."

The reason I assume that it has the feeling of being slow, from the applications I've had to clean up, is because many times there's processing happening right before the mail() function. So while, yes, its relatively fast the the total time is what feels slow.

And for comparison I've ran your commandline test as well with two of my cheap-o VPS instances, one of which is a Linode instance:

Linode: 50ms, 13ms, 14ms

Crappier VPS: 677ms, 149ms, 188ms
This looks like a great and useful service. I'm going to give it a try. However, I tried signing up for "Banyan for Mac," but whatever email I provided was said to be invalid!
Can you tell me where every country in the world is?
Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
There's more to a company than just that...
I don't get it. I can't see any information on the homepage that makes it different from just using github.
It is. Removing natives, stealing their land, then declaring there is no population so you also get their TLD is chauvinist.
It's good to have options...and options are what the market is providing to us.

I don't see how anyone who makes an open-minded choice can go wrong when selecting what best fits _them_.
It's a convenient way to regulate an industry without having to pass any additional laws.
Yeah, Scala is the new C++ - immensely powerful but there's ten different ways to do everything.

I like the language, but I'm simultaneously disgusted by it.
Operations which preserve structure aren't just confined to group theory. Everyone in a quantitative field should understand the core idea.
So your saying to avoid burn out dont work as much, this is amazing cant believe others havent thought of that!
This is awesome. I applied a few weeks ago...really looking forward to hear back from you guys. Any chance when that might be?
> I get the impression that, unlike the article's intended audience, you know git well enough to not need to follow its advice. When giving advice, you have to aim at the expected level of understanding. That can easily lead to examples that frustrate people with a higher level of understanding, because they seem to over-simplify.

Fair enough. I think I would have been more understanding without the unilateral declaration that rebasing more than once a week is a "process smell" as it were.
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This fact is not lost upon them. It's why they offer financial aid and scholarships.
I wrote about this recently in post about future startup ideas [1]. Go is young and building an IDE along with its evolution would be amazing. LightTable might be very successful with that, but I imagine the more exciting place for Go IDE experiments could be Android and tablets. As multicore mobile takes over, I think a few years out apps in Go might be a popular thing; and building software on the target platform hasn't happened much with mobile yet. AIDE [2] is really really amazing, but it's not quite the revolution that I'm looking for. I'm quite excited for where this goes.

[1]: http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2013/03/living-in-the-future-star...

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
Eh, maybe not[1].

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2013/02/12/buttered-coffee
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Sorry, we cross posted to reddit & HN and the response has been outstanding. Working on getting this fixed right now.
The studies really are top notch, at very competitive prices. There are hidden gems around, like Toulouse School of Economics.

Generally, in every french university, you can really learn stuff, have a good core curriculum - and even do that at a discount price if you shop around or know how to play the game.

Your decision to study in France is wise. Make the most of it. I just recommend you reevaluate where to start your business when the times come, because of the opportunity costs.

I'm french, and if things had been different (or in the future) I'd consider starting my business in India :-)
The hardware on the HTC One is impeccable! Hold one in your hand and tell me that it doesn't meet and surpass even Apple's design standards. I couldn't bring myself to even put mine in a case, it feels so amazing in the hand. My Apple-philiac family are considering switching after the next unimaginative iIteration comes out and fails to impress (again).

>Switching to HTC One, would be downgrading my camera

At worst, the iPhone vs One camera battle is a push. These things are somewhat subjective, but the HTC One's camera is far from a downgrade.

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/phone-camera-shootout-g...
One quibble with the poll: For those with graduate degrees, that degree probably influences employment more than undergraduate.

Actually, now I wonder about the percentage of grad students here. We can't all have dropped out at twenty to found our startups.
Galaxy S4 display was tested by Displaymate[1] and even in the most accurate calibration mode (Movie Mode), it is still significantly less accurate. The maximum brightness is also significantly lower than that of iPhone 5's, which matters a lot to me. There are also other serious issues, like Dynamic Brightness Reduction based on APL.

I personally used a Galaxy S4 and immediately noticed another very serious issue with the display. You can check out this thread on XDA forums[2] if you are curious. In summary, green subpixels have lower refresh rate, which causes gray (RGB 50,50,50) lines to temporarily turn into purple (RGB 50,0,50) while scrolling. This is unacceptable for a such an expensive and high end device. And this isn't the only issue.

There are things I like about Touchwiz. I perfectly understand if you find it better than stock Android, which isn't perfect either. But my personal opinion is that it just seems to lack the design taste and consistency that stock Android and iOS have.

[1] http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S4_ShootOut_1.htm
[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252445
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Don't Sign that Applet
Don't use $_POST and $_GET globals directly

May I ask why not?
20 years of web history, here are the 12 people who've made the most impact.
Just posted this on Reddit and it's getting quite a good debate going.

Reddit discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1der6u/on_30_april_1993_cern_made_the_worldwideweb/

Original Link - GetInspired365.com/world-wide-web
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Is this the man deemed ‘too handsome’ and deported from Saudi Arabia
Let your process fit the way you work, not vice versa
Just to be smug: In Haskell and Lisp you can add those control structures yourself in your source code (without having to hack up the compiler).

(Haskell even does it as a function, and not as a macro.)
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