skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A follow up on ranking strategies.

This approach was first used for college rankings by Avery, Glickman, Hoxby, and Metrick. I forgot to acknowledge them in the first post.

What we use is an algorithm that says, "For this desirable student (objectively 'desirable' to the schools that were impressed enough to admit them), which school did they choose?" I see this as the "virtuous" approach. In a sense, in this model, schools are rewarded for admitting desirable students and winning the competition for them.

This hinders gaming of the system because most things that you can do to game this generally helps students. Want to game it by admitting students who won't get admitted to your competitive peers? You'll fall in the rankings, because those students will pit you against 'weaker' opponents, giving you less of a chance to rise in the rankings even if you always win.

There's another ranking approach that is fun but naughty. I'll call it the "vicious" approach. This one takes all colleges that admitted a student and all colleges that rejected them. The ones who rejected the student are modeled as the winners, and the ones who accepted them are modeled as the losers. In this way, the colleges that are most selective in admitting a student rise to the top.

I've actually run this "vicious" algorithm, but we don't publish its results. (Gaming this one would hurt students: imagine you're City College. You could do well for yourself by getting all the future freshmen of your rival, State College, to apply to your institution, then rejecting all of them. The kids wasted money on their application, you probably rejected some great candidates just to game the rankings, and State College unfairly drops in the rankings.)
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Linode customer data breach all over again. Guess the new fraud prize is attacking hosting companies since they aren't encrypting customer data.

I try to only use hosts that accept bitcoin, and if they don't accept bitcoin then I buy a prepaid visa with fake name + address or disposable paypal. Not because I'm doing anything shady, but because I'd rather not have my identity stolen from garbage management panel software these hosting companies use.

Lately I've been hosting everything with bsws.de, which is owned by Henning Brauer, pf developer @Openbsd. Every machine isolated on vlan with pf firewall and nobody can access unencrypted customer data because it's not unencrypted.
Ticketmaster just changed their captchas to this format as well, you enter a captcha like "Who's coming with me" while viewing an ad about their social features. Until a few months ago it was a normal, unrelated captcha.
Has anyone done this? What're your thoughts on the OS?
You know, to some extent, this is a direct result of working with Microsoft tools. I am generalizing but Microsoft developers get to used to getting mostly nice and tidy answers to everything (regardless if its good).

With open-source, my gosh, you actually have to do some analysis and make a sound judgement without having the Microsoft mothership tell you whether its good or bad.

I don't dispute that the choices can be seen as overwhelming but this is where experience and your own curiosity work best. You don't have the experience, well there is many many people that do and are willing to share their knowledge. It does require a desire to learn. The more you investigate, the better your filter on what is good or what is bull improves.

I use Microsoft tools, they have their place. It's not a question off giving up control and power, its a question of, what makes you better? Understanding the dirty work that it takes to make software, OS, web frameworks, etc. work, or having a nice little button that does this for you (I know this is a gross exaggeration).

If you have that curiosity to understand the details even behind Microsoft tech, using Microsoft is just another tool.
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I went to a university that is largely unknown outside of the UK. Not that it matters particularly, because I didn't even study Computer Science.

'What did you study at college' might make for an equally interesting poll.
"Meh, i think it's more about having to many stupid laws. Lying to a federal agent is 5 years, even if you don't know they're a federal agent? that's madness."

Sure, but such laws must be enforceable, and they must be enforceable with the resources available to law enforcement agencies. We have a lot of stupid laws, but over the period of time where those lose were passed we also increased the power and authority of the police.

"I think your approach of making everything hard, really just makes government expensive."

Thus making it accountable to the citizens, as those expenses must be paid for with tax money (or debt, which is just a way to postpone tax collection). Eventually people start to complain about the poor funding for education, healthcare, parks, and other things. Eventually, the limited tolerance people have for government spending begins to catch up with law enforcement (though we are nowhere near that point).

Of course, for the past few decades, we have taken the alternative approach: prioritizing law enforcement over civil rights and reducing or eliminating the obstacles to law enforcement.
This dude was charging $8. Pirates are endemic regardless of price point.
PG went to Cornell IIRC
For some reason this small comment made me very sad. I'd hate to imagine that our human desire for sensationalism could make the sight of outer space bland to a desensitized public. I have the APOD set as my phone's background every morning and I am always astounded at the incredible array of colors and the degree of contrast. I never really thought that I was being fooled.

It sucks that I really do think the non-false color image is boring, because that should be really exciting to someone who enjoys thinking about the universe like I do. Although I still think my mind would fucking explode if I ever got to go deep into space.
It looks like it was a manual process:

https://twitter.com/veltman/status/328613691392143360
You can mark things so that their names aren't mudged via ^:export.
You can tell whether you're doing well at Minecraft if you're still alive, creepers haven't exploded in your face, and you're not starving. :D

That said, you can always play Creative mode and/or Peaceful difficulty if that's your style.
That's correct: anything that makes a college desirable vis-a-vis its competitors will factor in here. We don't attempt to control for that (that's, currently, intentional).

Avery, Glickman, Hoxby, and Metrick do control for that, as their goal is to use this to get an isolated notion of "best". For now, I prefer to answer the holistic question of, "Which schools do students prefer?"

If we get to a future in which some schools are paying students admitted to Harvard $100k to attend their institution just so they can rank at the top of the Parchment rankings, maybe we'd want to reconsider.
I too thought the end was near for the billion dollar tech behemoth when I saw that design of that one app they released for one of their products.
I dropped out of college, having obtained most of a BS. Thank the stars I didn't load up on student loans. I went to a public university that isn't notable for much (Univ. of Houston). My own opinion is that it was mostly pretty average with a few areas of quite-goodness. I don't regret going. I do wish I hadn't arrived so unprepared.
Sure, it performs better, but apparently there are a lot of network environments where long polling works and forever-frame doesn't.
I was luckier, because I got an actual computer instead of a console, and in the era when kids were just as likely to get an Usborne book of BASIC programs to type into their computer if they wanted to play games.

Kids getting consoles and similar hermetically-sealed boxes depresses me.
Take a look at Luminus.
It's clearly a puff piece. Having said that, there are a lot of MS server customers and I can imagine Azure being a compelling option if you don't want to do a rewrite.
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Interesting. I checked with a few people that have my version, and they don't see it. Seems like a test.
Kloudless launches service to move files between cloud apps
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This article is meant to highlight the goal of brining together the multiple different systems a sales team must use to in order to streamline their job and allow them to focus on the skills that are uniquely human.
I understand the visceral reaction to the fake leather and hatred of metaphors taken too far, but I wouldn't go expecting iOS 7 to look like Metro.

I'd rather expect a toning down, a reduction – not banishment of gradients and all texture and personality. Look at the iOS 6 App Store redesign and iTunes 11 for visual hints.

Just as OS X toned toned the gloss and lost the pinstripes, iOS too will have its refinement.
Sure, non-asynchronous XHR could have been usable. Opera at the time actually did give you multiple JS threads, but no locks or other synchronization primitives, so it was effectively unusable. We complained and, perhaps coincidentally, they "fixed" it by making it work like IE and Netscape.
I actually like it. It takes some getting used to, but it helps me fumble less when I start a search. Now I just go direct to Omnibox everytime.
Once you actually study at multiple universities in these rankings you realize what a joke it is. I can't believe Penn is ranked so highly, outside of Wharton. I was recently there for CS coming from a UK top 5 in CS and Penn CIS was a joke. Also, Oxford > Cambridge for CS? Wat. When you get to about the top 50 universities, it becomes so specific to the strengths of the particular department that these universities really can't be ranked in a single field.
The Open University.
Surprised it took me this long to realize that Ars doesn't have much better quality control than VentureBeat et al, but it's crystal clear now. Tim Bray's twitter is obviously unofficial, and the headline uses broadness and extrapolation to make it misleading in a way that makes it seem more interesting.

Farewell, Ars Technica of old...
Yep, in IE 5.5 it looks peachy.

http://i.imgur.com/XulRdv4.png
Yes, that's how it works and is why the TechCrunch article calls flat design a "fad".
Edit: No I'm not an Apple fan, I genuinely have a newfound love of flat ui (not block ui).

I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike the overdone blocky look) but I've decided to embrace it after realizing it's true purpose.

It's NOT to destroy skeuomorphism. It's to destroy "forced focus design" in favor of "distraction free design". In the past we used gradients to aim the eyes towards a direction, shadows to make elements pop out of the page at a viewer, overly rounded corners to seem friendlier to the viewer, etc... We styled elements like this so we could draw attention to certain things and away from others. The same way people wear certain clothing to stand out or fade in with the crowd.

However, in this era of instant gratification online property owners not only realized that content is king but that there's too much shit to do and not enough time to do it. They need to give the viewer what they want and give it to as quickly as possible. Confusion breads negative feelings and pissed off viewers leave and don't return. So pages became lighter, more minimal, and lost unnecessary elements, and so designers adjusted to this.

By getting rid of the un-needed information on a page we no longer have to draw attention to one thing and away from the other because everything on the page is important. If it wasn't, it shouldn't be there in there in the first place. The buttons don't all need to have massive rounded corners and huge shadows because they're no longer lost in a sea of text and ads. They're easy to spot.

This is why you'll notice a lot of Flat UI sites are a lot more minimal than usual.

The Flat UI that I HATE is the blocky kind. Minecraft / 8-bit / designer out of college / what the hell's an a/b test inspired extreme flat ui. The kind where you don't know if that's a header with a colored background or a clickable button. The flat ui where everything on the site is so white white white you'd think the owners were clansman. That crap I hate. And it's only a few dozen A/B tests away from disappearing off of prominent sites.

I don't think this is "just a fad" anymore. There's a reason big companies are switching to it. Microsoft, Apple, Google. They're not stupid. They run A/B tests. They're not going to sacrifice market share, page views, usability, ease-of-use, and their bottom line just to blindly follow a design fad. That's just an insult to them. To say all Flat UI is backwards while the internet's biggest companies convert to it just goes to show how delusional and unknowledgeable we (especially I) can be. I apologize for my past remarks.
Can you break this code from Boards of Canada?
Comparing against Amazon's total cloud sales may be comparing apples and orange. To quote from the article:

"Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview."

What software is included "to create related Windows cloud services", and is that the only use for said softare? i.e., are they including things like MS Visual Studio? And how much of MSDN subscription fees included in the $1 billion dollar figure, I wonder?
I bought a box of these recently and they are really great; I used to have TRS 80 III and 4 so when I saw I box (don't hit me) of model 100s for 10 euros I bought it. They're a very nice addition to my museum and batteries last forever. The box had 1 Sharp PC-1211 too. Talking about battery life :)

What always amuses me is that my computers from around 2000 are not working anymore (heck, most laptops I have from the past 10 years are not even booting anymore) while computers from my parents basement which are around 30 years old just work like they just came from the shop. Even the Philips computers from that time who had known capacitor issues in the power circuitry work like time didn't happen.
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Maybe to protect this product from the competition ? Why releasing the source code if they provide some good API ? I understand that open sourcing is better for us, the consumers, but Google is still planning to make money out of these glasses.
This comes down to what your goals are.

If you want to do Django, just use this:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/django

It might not be the latest, the best web server, etc. but it will get you going.. Give it a few weeks and you'll be better able to answer your own questions.

At this point, starting is the best approach.
Single-page printable version:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/emoney_pr.html
The exact ranking is somewhat arbitrary, but the rankings do generally put the schools most people consider as "top schools" at the top. Comparable schools have somewhat similar rankings.

But at the end of the day, the education is only as good as the effort you put in. You can graduate from a school that isn't ranked highly and still be incredibly successful
For completeness of the headline (specifically 'declares platform open'), Google needs to also make the Mirror API available to those, who are not part of Explorer Program, may be via a simulator.
I would argue against making CS classes heavier on Math/Theory side of things unless you are going for a PhD. In the industry we need to follow the footsteps of Stanford and offer more practical classes such as iPhone Programming, Facebook App Development, Machine Learning...I would add to the list new technologies such as HTML5 Single Page App Development, NOSQL Based programming, Android Programming etc
You know there's a whole thing in Minecraft now where you can kill a dragon which triggers an "end screen", right? And to get to that point there is traditional game grind stuff, of collecting stuff to get equipment to get to the place where you get the stuff to get the other stuff? And there are even achievements? And that the player has health and armour?

I don't care that you don't like a game, but you're wrong and should feel bad. :p
I can see why there's a demand for a P2P/distributed routing for voice/video services to get around this as they would require working with multiple ISPs at the least and at most involve some sort of end-to-end encryption.

Wonder if it's possible to implement something like Tor for VoIP.
Paper doesn't harm the environment. Most lumber from NA is carbon neutral at worst, carbon capturing at best
I think he means a developer who is actually reliant on the financial outcomes of his work, like the OP. If you work for somebody else in exchange for a salary, yeah, of course you don't care about throwing good money after bad — it's not your money. (Obviously I don't know whether this is the case, but the difference seems significant to me.)
The flattening of design
I transited through Melbourne airport last weekend coming home from a holiday. Checked my phone and Google Now told me the projected travel time to the hotel I always stay in when I'm there for work.

(Judging by the other comments here, maybe I should complain about that - it should have known I was on holidays. But I'm not jaded enough and so I was just dazzelled by the wonder of it).
You might be right, but I think the shift is because of Job's death and Forstall's ousting.
Sure, Facebook would rather service the warrant themselves than have cops in their datacenter. So what? Let them create a system for working with the police if they are concerned about it.

Consider this problem: if you are running a Tor relay, would you want to be forced to keep logs and make your system readily-accessible to law enforcement agencies? If you use Tor, do you want your circuits to have nodes with special backdoors built in? Do you want to see Tor, Freenet, proxy server and remailer operators put in legal danger or pushed out of the United States?
Hey Saurik - don't take the hating so personally man. Google gave you Glass precisely because they knew you'd rock the boat and piss a bunch of people off (and get people talking about Glass in the process). You're doing a wonderful job of that. Be proud.

In reference to: https://plus.google.com/118343182830485155505/posts/ERUJ8e1y...
How does this interact with existing international copyright law?

For instance, if a professional US photographer's work was infringed and a mere fraction of their going rate were held in escrow by the "independent body", would they get paid a pittance and told "tough luck"? Or could they pursue a more proper recompense?
I have been using Pelican for while but this project seems more complete and active
What's your point, that people should not read content that's over a month old?
I am annoyed, my school was #20 when I went, now tied for #24, so I still picked the first option. University of Virginia (at the time was tied for top ranked public university in country)
He didn't say cut off an IP address.
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Doesn't shock me. They're one of the biggest proponents of trying to get people to update their browsers. They created http://www.ie6countdown.com/ after all.

It's also probably near impossible to get their current site working on IE5, and to make a completely separate site just for them (and it's a really really small percentage of worldwide users) would be highly cost prohibitive.
There are a lot of badass older programmers in Real Technology, but VC-istan does seem to be a young man's game.

It's not that these people think older programmers are incompetent. A few of them do, but mostly, it's just brutal age-grading of peoples' careers. If you're a 45-year-old non-manager (never mind that you might not want to be a manager) they're afraid to have you around their 22-year-old, Red Bull-drinking brogrammers-- especially if you've done a couple startups and you're still not rich. Then the VC-istani founders definitely don't want you around because you might indicate to them that billion-dollar exits don't happen just because you're a nice guy.
So a soft DOS then. Not much of a solution, still fully exploitable.
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The actual report's at https://www.soluto.com/reports, but it seems a little slanted to me. The Aspire seems something like twice as reliable, but the Mac wins because it boots 4 seconds faster?

Crashes/wk:
Aspire: 0.74
Mac: 0.88

Hangs/wk:
Aspire: 0.4
Mac: 1.06

BSoDs/wk:
Aspire: 0.06
Mac: 0.01

Avg. background processes:
Aspire: 66
Mac: 60

Average boot time:
Aspire: 155s
Mac: 151s