skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't argue that it is a modern Western democracy, a great place to live or a place of reasonable social equality. However, Indians do have the fundamental right to move about India and to leave India without special permission. It may be a meaningless right for those unable to convey themselves out of India (true for the abject poor in any nation), but it fundamentally separates India from Iran, North Korea, China, etc.

Not every place that has injustice is the same. There are gradations, and drawing equivalencies between places that are not the same only makes legitimate critiques less so. I think you have a lot of good points about India, and my reply was not to say they are invalid. I just don't think it is helpful or correct to compare them to theocracies and dictatorships.
Thanks for pointing that out ... I missed it as I read the article. In that case, I can tell you that the pool of WASP kids (like my daughter) at Princeton consisted of those who had "almost perfect" SAT scores, documented extra-curricular activities, proof of social awareness (best shown by volunteer work with disadvantaged populations) and good interview skills. I'd say it's pretty hard to get into that population as well.
Seems like he was using a groupon like service to sell $40 coupons for $20, and then only getting part of that $20 back from the marketing company. Built in 66%+ loss on every sale.

Those coupons have hurt many a business. People buy only $39.99 and not a penny more since the coupon anchors the price and the expectation.
As someone who works with someone who got an undergrad degree from Wharton, I seriously do not believe you. But I'll assume you are telling the truth - even if so, it certainly does not apply to 90% of Wharton's student body. By my co-worker's own admission, finance is all about prestige, and the primary reason he went to Wharton is because of the name and how it gets you into IB jobs, not because of its rigor. In fact, he didn't want to go to a rigorous school but liked Penn because it was more of a party school than other Ivies.
There is a lot of disagreement among modern economists. I definitely don't subscribe to the account you're giving.
It takes a few generations for these things to work themselves out. I imagine the former Dutch colonies would have preferred a more limited subjugation as well, but you can't always have what you want.
It's misleading to paint it as a simple "free market" issue when STEM education in the U.S. is massively subsidized by the public.
Subtlepatterns.com is hardly a bastion of skeumorphism. Sure, there are some "realistic" textures there, but they account for probably less than half the textures, and, more importantly, they're not used for UX. The problems with skeumorphism have more to do with confining UX to realistic actions than making things look realistic, and subtlepatterns only barely qualifies for even the second case.
I actually think it would be cool, at first, but I would be painfully quiet if I knew everyone used it. It's the kind of thing that would be neat to try for just a day. Once lots of people use it, there would be a nice little market for Retrospect-jamming hardware.
True enough! Is it complex numbers you're considering? Now I feel like I'm playing one of those puzzles where there is puddle of water and a dead man and you're supposed to figure out what happened.

edit: Puzzles like this: http://kith.org/logos/things/sitpuz/situations.html
There is no such a thing shortage of IT workers. These companies (google, facebook…)claim shortage of talents because they always want top ones (at least with the standard they think). As far as there are better quality foreigner workers they always claim shortage.
My point wasn't really the amount of smart people that exist at either schools. It is more so that existence of smart people does not equal a more challenging or more educational experience.

Although I agree with you that the further you get in a field, the more likely a prestigious school will be better. But I would credit that to having a more direct relationship with professors. When you are actually helping a professor with their research, the quality of the research matters more than when you are simply being lecture by that same professor.
The problem from the stigma point of view is that, even if our better judgement is saying "stand up for your privacy rights, even if you have nothing to hide", our (or at least my) brain is also saying "if he was innocent he wouldn't have a problem un-encrypting the drive(s) for them".

That's in my head, despite the fact that I am well aware that he could be taking a moral stand, or he could have stuff on those drives which he doesn't want to be seen for reasons completely unrelated to child pornography (maybe photos of his mistress which his wife doesn't know about, maybe profit spreadsheets from his drug-dealing... etc.)

So if he is innocent, I imagine the stigma will be there regardless, assuming people hear about the case at least.
A Metro-style launcher for Android actually sounds quite nice. The only problem is that few to no widgets actually adhere to that style, so it would look a little weird. Still, I can hope.
Design of machine intelligence must read
Design of machine intelligence must read

[1 paradox]Why 0.999... is not equal to 1?

Written in 2012

The current mathematic theory tells us, 1>0.9, 1>0.99, 1>0.999, ..., but at last it says 1=0.999..., a negation of itself (Proof 0.999... =1: 1/9=0.111..., 1/9x9=1, 0.111...x9=0.999..., so 1=0.999...). So it is totally a paradox, name it as 【1 paradox】. You see this is a mathematic problem at first, actually it is a philosophic problem. Then we can resolve it. Because math is a incomplete theory, only philosophy could be a complete one. The answer is that 0.999... is not equal to 1. Because of these reasons:

1. The infinite world and finite world.

We live in one world but made up of two parts: the infinite part and the finite part. But we develop our mathematic system based on the finite part, because we never entered into the infinite part. Your attention, God is in it.

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A great example of why Xeons are superior. :-)

Snapdragon S4 completes the Linpack benchmark with 460 MegaFlops: http://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-s4-pro-vs-exynos-.... Snapdragon is rumored to use ~3 to 5 Watts of power.

Consider a Xeon E5-2690: which gets you 347,000 MegaFlops of performance in 135 Watts. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeo...

Xeon just blows the ARM chip out of the water in Performance per Watt used. A modern day Xeon gives you somewhere on the order of 20x more performance per watt compared to a Snapdragon S4 Pro. Otherwise, all the electricity that it takes to run your supercomputer built out of crap chips will make your supercomputer more costly to run in the long term.
I would absolutely without question go with the investment with the fewest hassles. Even if it meant a smaller initial dollar amount (within reason), there's a lot of value in simplicity.
The unofficial ethic is that minority students must be treated fairly or have a bias in their favor. This is the first time that a minority group is negatively effected by racial preference policies, so it is newsworthy.

This unusual event happens because Asians are an outperforming minority. Most minorities suffer from the "cultural bias" of the education system and do worse than whites. But Asians just seem to kick ass regardless.

Affirmative action was designed to come at the expense of majority students only. Now that minority students are negatively affected, we have to rethink the justice of it.
Microsoft certainly have the resources, and some interest as proven by their Singularity experiment. Obviously they haven't found it commercially viable as of yet, we'll see what the rumored Midori can bring.

But if Microsoft with all their resources can't make it performant enough to be of interest outside of academia (where Singularity ended up) then I doubt anyone can.

The thing is of course that native non-garbage collected operating systems aren't crash-prone, if they were then we would have seen a shift in systems language out of pure necessity ages ago. As it stands, bugs are found, bugs get fixed, systems end up stable and very performant.
* Is writing much slower than reading (although I guess you sort-of covered that with your penultimate point)?
Well, it is always "people how clicked on FB that they like X", regardless whether it is shallow or deep interest, genuine or ironic, or random, or "because my friends like it and I want to be as cool as them" etc.

If more fine grained, I wouldn't be surprised to see ties between seemingly exclusive things... e.g. in this http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/157976/map-of-all-se... (not interesting, but participation in particular Q&A sites) "christianity", "judaism" and "islam" are in the same category (as opposed to people apathetic to that topic).
What you don't see in the news is the zillions of times a day the system protects peoples' rights through criminal appeals, etc, and the massive overhead that arises from actual criminals abusing those protections in order to try and get out on technicalities.

My friends who have clerked for judges talk about how frustrating it is to deal with appeal after appeal from people who are clearly guilty and just abusing the system.

You have to take what you see in the news in context of the reality of the people who work within the system every day. It is a system, after all, and systems involve balancing competing interests, but the tech media rarely tackles the complexities of that process.
> Zach Braff has GOT to have 2 million dollars. He could totally fund this himself.

How do you know this?
http://devsbuild.it/forum/industry-discussion/general-develo...
The css :visited pseudo-class now only allows certain changes, such as changing the color of text. The browser does show those changes. JavaScript can ask what color a link is, but the browser will always lie and say that the page is un-visited. If blue is un-visited and purple is visited, you may see in the browser a mix of blue and purple links, but your JavaScript will only see blue.
Quick correction @Lock1689: It is possible for someone with an H-1B to transfer from one employer to another.
Of course anyone would use a lawyer in such a situation. I'm just saying that it is indicative of a hair-splitting, underhanded mentality that would raise immediate red flags about doing business with them in the first place.
Decomposition and evaporation, I'm assuming?
Why not try naming all those dictatorships in Latin America? I'll help you out:

1. Cuba

Does that look like a list that's getting US support?

Also, the Saudi dictatorship is nasty as is much of Sub-Saharan Africa but they're not nearly as nasty as North Korea. At least in other backwards places there is a chance to do better through work and initiative or a central government that cares about alleviating the suffering of the people or -- most often -- both.
As I understand it, the assertion is that admissions people are, in order to unfairly disqualify Asian applicants under the guise of "holistic application", negatively weighting stereotypical Asian extracurriculars.

If we are saying "Black student life is just playing basketball", then that is clearly an unfair stereotype. If however college admissions start disqualifying anyone who has ever played basketball, then I think it would be prudent to ask if perhaps the admissions people are attempting to disadvantage black applicants (particularly so if the "has played basketball" metric is accompanied by a series of other metrics that have a relationship to stereotypes).
Not to mention that "having a dictatorship" is not reason at all to invade a sovereign nation. It's up for the people of the country to solve the problem themselves. (Especially if that dictatorship was your old ally, which you helped back in the Iran-Iraq war era, when the US gave guns to Saddam).

Even worse, since, now, there is a unsolvable chaos of civil war and terrorism, much worse than the Saddam regime situation for the average citizen.
Why is that?

Do they implicitly acknowledge that it doesn't take a smart person to become a doctor as long as they get admitted and can get a loan?
"Exercising casually" is not the sort of "well-roundedness" that colleges select for. They look for "team captain", which, by the way, is far more common when your (expensive, private) school has 100 students instead of 1200 like a common public school.
Wow, this actually looks very impressive. Do you have any idea why most of the "simple" game-making platforms are using Lua nowadays? Is it just because of its ease of embeddability into other systems, or is there something else at play?
My vimrc is at https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc but it isn't really divided up into Python specific stuff.

(It's also a bit in flux as I migrate to tpope/vim-dispatch)

I can try elaborating feature-wise when I get home.
Isn't the case in the story also one of "technicalities," since the police seem reasonably sure the material is on one of the drives, just not exactly which one?

People who clerk have a skewed view of the judicial system compared to someone who has been convicted.
>I wouldn't mind so much if there was a reward structure in place. GS made like 30 million dollars in gross profit. Okay, so if I give Zach 10k of my money and he makes 10x on his investment, why am I not going to get 100k from him? Oh right, because its kickstarter.

This is why I've generally only backed things I believe are genuinely novel and in need of support. I recognize backing as a donation, not an investment.

I'm all for the creation of a true "crowd" investment platform, but I imagine the administrative and regulatory aspects of a such a service pose a big challenge.

>It exists under the guise of this "help us kick this project to life" but for Zach this is just a "get money, and dont give investors who made it happen anything back other than tchotchkes."

While I have no clue about the costs involved in making movie and I don't know who this guy is, I've certainly seen projects which fit that bill and yes, it's absurd.

As far as I can tell, Kickstarter has done very little to prevent misleading projects other than added guidelines for hardware projects last May.

For instance, there doesn't seem to be anything stopping people from creating projects that only deliver the titular product as a stretch goal - blatantly misleading.

>Kickstarter's reputation could be hurt if it just becomes a way for the well off to connect with investor rubes who are being ripped off and don't realize it.

I don't know, as long the people get their tchotchkes eventually they're likely going to be happy.

I think the imminent danger to Kickstarter's reputation is having a large notable project go completely sideways. Suddenly, thousands of people who thought they "pre-ordered" something are going to realize that they actually just gave their money away and Kickstarter doesn't guarantee anything.
Analogies do not work that way!
/Morbo

You're using a very selective definition of 'equal.' Switzerland is certainly different from Turkey in various ways, but in this context they should be assessed on their degree of legal ties to the EU - treaties signed and complied with, for example. Arguably, Switzerland is getting far more benefits from the EU than Turkey despite neither of them being actual members.
'Self-Proclaimed Leader' of LulzSec Hackers Arrested
And you can actually work for 2 of them by holding 2 H1Bs at the same time (which is what happens naturally when you transfer to a new company).
And you want the EU to treat Switzerland like an EU country, even though they are manifestly (and deliberately) not equal. Everyone fails!
The point you made was that India et al are bad too, so why are we judgmental Westerners always harping on North Korea.

North Korea is a grotesque among nations, reminding the Western observer more of dystopian, cautionary literature more than a nation-state in the modern era. It has a theocracy founded on a religion invented by its reigning family, it has profound poverty, it is militant and provocative in a way that overshadows even Iran. Especially recently this is the case, with North Korea making nuclear threats against its neighbor and the United States which we know are backed up with at least some know-how. It engages in such bizarro control measures to keep its population as isolated as possible from the rest of the world.

It couldn't be more clear to most why it is a country of focus for the international community.
Why doesn't Paypal create their own virtual currency (alternative to bitcoin)?
I don't understand choosing the pump from the beginning... People choose that as a solo option and not an additional means? Is it a nipple thing? | (sorry if too personal, just hacking) Isn't it natural comfort for a woman to breast feed? Brings the connection together? I do not know everything about brains and emotion bit it kind of makes sense, just like making love to her.
From the back, the guy working on some codes in the photo looks like Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network :-)
I suppose it's all in the wording. Have the cheaper options but don't call them enterprise, and then have the really expensive enterprise option for managers for who the pain of being called anything but is more than a slight blip in the budget.

Giving them ways to pad their budget was also an eye opener for me. The idea that they might not even be conforming to our rational actor model of balancing cost and value opens up new pricing considerations. I wonder if a monthly 'flex' option where they can temporarily boost their budget to some ridiculous figure would work. The engineer in me does cringe at the thought of it though
i'm interested to hear you experiences. Most companies I know (circleci included) are dying for skilled devs, though there's no shortage of not-great devs.
I'm confused by their conflation of STEM (in particular CS) grads and IT workers.
For example they say, “For computer science graduates employed one year after graduation . . . about half of those who took a job outside of IT say they did so because the career prospects were better elsewhere, and roughly a third because they couldn’t find a job in IT,”

None of the people who work in the IT department at my company have CS degrees. They have, however, held various sysadmin and programming positions, and do a bloody good job running our IT. I'm not sure we'd hire a fresh-out-of-school CS grad for our IT jobs if they didn't have any experience doing sysadmin or equipment / facility maintenance stuff.
Good point. I'd argue that this was a more significant issue in the past when computational capability was lower and components were more expensive. Now that sensors are getting cheaper and phones are getting more powerful it makes sense to offload more work to the phones due to the benefit having it done via software provides.
I found a look back at previous years breakthroughs[0] more enlightening. A little like reading an old stack of Popular Mechanics you would find while cleaning out a closet.

[0] http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr10/?year=2012
If you found this article enjoyable you should check out the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/d...

This article is from a while back and in the intervening time the journalists came out with a book that goes into more detail.
@pyre I think 'someone' is jealous. I say promote what you love instead of bashing and counting comments. @Camillo I'm not worried about looking 'bad', I'm a badass Molecular Biologist. ;) I do things for a cause not for applause and I happen to believe in using synthetic biology to create sustainable natural lighting.
It also created wealth and tax dollars, which fund many things that you use today.
Your "anecdotal" experience is rubbish.

I'm getting unsolicited requests for interviews from software companies by the bucket.

There are 180 open positions at Google in Mountain View alone (https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#t=sq&q=j&j...).

Multiply that by all Google's locations, add job listings from hundreds of other tech companies in SV.

Every time I hear this topic discussed by people who actually know what they are talking about (i.e. those running companies that try to hire competent programmers or those that are involved in the process, like VCs), it's always the same: finding good programmers is brutal.

Now, I'm sure that what you said is true in Alaska and many other parts of US that are not one of the tech centers, but when it comes to SV/Seattle/NY etc., it's clear that there is more demand than supply for skilled developers.
Define "merits". That is a huge problem in itself, as traditional measures of merit encode cultural discrimination.
Not a problem, I imagine many people don't know that.

After all, Kickstarter's business is taking 5% rake on those donations so it's not in their interest to make it apparent.
Strangely, the article really glossed over his past and made it seem like he was just an everyday programmer.

He is the same person who goes by the name of 'the unix terrorist' and was pretty active in the hacking world: http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=65&id=2
The problem is that you can't get very talented developers unless you're willing to let them enter into IT as low-level IT trained workers. That first job is often difficult. (The problem of course, is complex. An entry level worker may be worth x, whereas someone of 2 years is worth 4x. However, corporate incentives rarely work like that, leaving trained workers to leave in order to get raises.)

If we're really honest, starting salaries should be low, with a near doubling of salary within 6 months, if we were looking at real productivity.
Race in America is such a messy clustering of arbitrary phenotypic and cultural features. I wonder what our "racial" categories would look like if people treated these groupings as a statistical problem, rather than some sort of given natural phenomenon. Maybe we'd just give up on the concept all together?
What a charming little game. Just watching the video was strangely relaxing.
Imagery to the Crowd - U.S. Department of State
I am very interested in that angle - let's connect when you have time, twitter @iTrendTV
I wonder why people place themselves in a position where it's possible for them to decrypt the drives under coercion. If I wanted to secure something and I thought that I might be under coercion at any point, then I'd stick part of my key files on a system that would delete them if it didn't get the all clear, and have another part that I could destroy in an off hand manner - maybe by smashing a USB key with a hammer or burning a bit of paper with an QR code or something on it,.

"Unencrypt that."
"No longer possible."

Whether I'd have backups somewhere, well, who knows. But it's certainly possible to imagine systems under which the likely actions of an attacker such as the police would render the files useless.
This is a common misconception. Because a bitcoin is fundamentally a proof of work, it has some "intrinsic value" in the same sense that gold has "intrinsic value." A bitcoin is proof that a certain amount of difficult computation has been performed by or on behalf of its owner, which can be used anywhere proof-of-work systems like Hashcash can be used.