skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would pay to experience this as a none deaf person.
Circadia on the iPhone.
The bar exam has little to nothing to do with what's taught in law school. Virtually everyone takes a six week, several thousand dollar cram course to prepare for the bar. Passing is a factor of how seriously you take this cram course and raw intelligence. Both of these factors are predictable before even starting law school -- the first corresponds roughly to undergraduate GPA (adjusted if necessary for major), the second to LSAT score. The only other major confounding factor is that those who have English as a second language tend to fare poorly, even when taking the normal predictors into account.

More prestigious schools don't have better outcomes because they are better at teaching, they have better outputs because they start with better inputs. The market for lawyers knows this quite well, and if anything overweights it. So there is no need to double up on the signal via differential grades.
That would be a refutation then, to which I would reply that I can see why one would choose a serif generally for this site – though I would not – but this particular serif does not make much sense.
Can someone explain this to me:

> When government cannot impose right-thinking via new regulations it must be imposed by our social and intellectual superiors bullying us: “Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders”

I'm having a lot of trouble finding the implication of Greenspun's summary in the quote he uses from Sandberg's book.
Wow, I'm flabbergasted that Greenspun has authored over 250 reviews on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1TNG2A1GAG14B/ref=cm_c...
Wow, that's a pretty serious flaw right there. Pretty messy looking code too, this part in particular: if($city_get == "Delhi-ncr")$city_get = "delhi-ncr"; — would it not have been easier to use strtolower instead? This doesn't appear to be related directly to the Groupon site but rather a special deals portal that is a subdomain of the Groupon India website. I tried doing this on other parts of the site and only http://getaways.groupon.co.in/ seems to be affected.

Aside: I didn't know Groupon was running on PHP, I always assumed it was built in something else.
Philip Greenspun used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.
It's hard to be open about that sort of thing with your friends. Maybe it'd be better to have it be anonymous, so that at least you'd see that other people have these burdens too, and you can vent without repercussions from work/people with different beliefs.

Wait, that sounds kind of like 4chan...
I so incredibly disagree that Android is Linux.

I mean in a technical sense that is true since well it is the Linux kernel.
But there is the argument that Linux is not Linux without GNU tools, build systems, terminals and *root access. I stress the last one, the day I can ssh into my phone and install/add repositories, setup scripts, who knows I might actually make my life easier and for god sakes develop with whatever I want, whether it be C, Clojure or Python. And I mean we all know that Java developers are the renown worldwide for their quality especially considering how wonderfully over designed everything needs to be.

Your writing this from a Macbook so no offense I doubt you have any idea how Linux works deeply or have seriously developed something like say Robotics(http://www.ros.org/wiki/), or drivers, or the kernel.

It's true that the kernel is the most important part of the OS, but the total sum of all aspects of a OS especially for a consumer oriented product is vastly greater than just what the kernel provides.

I'd also like to add that just because something is open-source doesn't mean it's a net positive for the community or the consumers for that matter. Just look at Oracle, hell just look at Android. There is no diversity hence there is no evolution and if developers aren't going to get better at solving harder problems all I see is a sinking ship.
IRS targeted groups critical of government
DRDO moves sensitive data to IRCTC server
Not Getting Expected Results From Blogging?
I think I'm going to add a picture of multiple inbox to make this clearer.
They could do the exact same thing with Nexus. They just need to try and get more OEM's every year involved, instead of one or two.
I first learned "programming" from my brothers copy of "a fortan coloring book". The early 80s were a wonderful time for accessible computer literature. I suppose _why's poignant guide to ruby is probably the closest I've seen since.
IT Crowd's last hurrah
I wish more schools had the resources to go to the aid model that the Ivy League schools (and also Stanford?) have moved to in recent years. Fully need-blind admission and financial aid based ONLY on financial need. At Ivy League schools today there are ZERO merit or athletic scholarships. There are a few special programs that give merit-based grants for research or other special academic expenses but none that cover tuition or living costs. Even more importantly, there are semi-rigid guidelines laid out in advance that show the correlation between family income and expected family contribution (how much you'll pay for your kid to go to school). So if your child gets in on merit, you can reasonably predict how much you'll have to pay and in many, many cases it is a greatly reduced price. This is a good version of the "high tuition high aid" system. Best of all, all of this financial aid is no-loan and no-strings-attached free money.

Yes, of course elite schools will always court rich kids. Need-blind admissions will never change this. If your business school is named McGruberstein School of Business and Mr. McGruberstein's child applies to your school you'll probably take him. While this chips away at the idea of a true meritocracy it does encourage many of the donations that fund the financial aid for low income students in the first place. Yes this is "evil" and is certainly Not Fair, but the colleges need to court these donations in order to build facilities and provide aid at current levels. I know that many of the elite schools spend much more on students each year than they bring in via tuition, and this is financed by the large and ever-growing endowment that they so value.
My point (and I was being a bit snide, sorry) was not that you haven't been clear enough - anyone who needs a picture to understand the end result hasn't been paying attention while reading - but that I don't count it as "inbox zero". It feels like cheating, like saying "here's how to completely clean all of the rubbish out of your living room: dump it in the kitchen".
And what do the masses have to say about the quality of software and development. Especially those markets that have been largely abandoned. I'm look at you Russia, China, Philippines.

Just look at the factory videos by the guy from ARMDevices.net they are selling $61 android tablets to Philippines, Russia and other developing countries. I watched those last week, what happens the other day I see my mom get one of those.
Great app, typo in partying neighbours. You're missing the y.
http://dontwake.me/street_review.php?action=search&listi... - Clicked on it after searching for brisbane, map in the link shows England.
The multi-window feature and the google app support were available with the note 1 with the android 4.x update. Adding support is almost trivial with it being a few XML lines.

There are also mods that let you multi-window any app which makes the feature much more useful.
Missing the trees for the forest. The "hard-working" Indians come from well off families, who can afford private school education for kids. Very few actually move from desperately poor to middle class. I take exception to IT coolies desc. Back when I was in India, my first it coolie salary was more than both my parents combined salaries. At some point before moving to school, I was making more money than the president of India , being an it coolie. It's not how much inr transalated to dollars I was making that mattered. The salaries, low compared to here would bu you a lot of things that you can never afford in us. Like a maid to clean your house, a chauffeur for your car and the like. What is expensive is, real estate in cities because of absense of city planning and anything imported, like cars, gasoline, electronics etc.
> 1) Some countries in other parts of the world developed AS democracies, even earlier than Taiwan.

I don't get this point. Sure some countries developed as democracies, but effectiveness is contextual.

> 2) Taiwan has continued to develop and improve most aspects of its living standards since it became a democracy.

No one is arguing here that democracy is not eventually the best form of government, only when democracy is appropriate. Once a country is solidly middle class, I think democracy is a solid win and the people will demand it anyways.
Show HN: I created a Free Index. Hope you guys like it
This one is nice: http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/
> to pharma corps dismay and nobodies surprise.

Wow. In my head that was the most sarcasm-dripping "dismay" I've read this week.
Why not use a free email sorting tool like this?

http://www.emailtray.com/email-sorting-software.html

It takes care of unnecessary email junk
Integrating Scala Code Coverage Tool (SCCT) in Play Scala project
I meant checking assumptions not just to see whether the use of the big data moved a business metric, but also that the model makes sense from a statistical perspective.

A lot of statistics in business does not bother to check modeling assumptions. Models are chosen based on whether they've been used in the past and what the team is familiar with.

I don't doubt that big data (as we call it now) will one day rule. Ronald Fisher would keel over if he saw the size of datasets we work with nonchalantly on a daily basis. 50 data points (the size of the Iris data) is laughable these days.

My reservation with big data is that the technologies are often unnecessary for the size of the tasks being done. Other than a few data scientists working on truly large projects, most of the big data talk I hear comes from people who aren't fighting in the trenches (execs, marketing, journalists).
You get cheap "broad spectrum" antibiotics instead of more nuanced and expensive ones in the west.
Ask HN: Community restaurant menu generation idea
I am the founder of Menutail (http://www.menutail.com), and what the company offers is website hosting and nutrition analysis services.

To help get sales, what I am doing is visiting the restaurants around me and pitching the use of our website hosting services because either a restaurant doesn't have a website or it isn't mobile compatible.

Now every restaurant owner I've talked with agreed that they need to address the technology side of their business (the website), but have lacked the time to sit down and work on a new site because they are so busy running their day to day food operations.

I'm trying to think out of the box to help these business owners be more receptive to our hosting service, and something I thought of is customers crowd sourcing the website generation.

What could happen is any loyal customer could create the website for the owner, and then later on the owner could claim ownership of the site.

An example of a client that is working on their site is:

https://www.menutail.com/public/site/5

I know I'm rambling perhaps a little bit, but any thoughts on this from the community?
Isn't it a little too premature to be stating that such item does nothing just because we don't know what it does? I feel like this should be stated with caution after the mislabeling of the tonsils, pineal gland, and thymus as vestigial.
Looking for a new workbench
Ask HN: Dev bootcamps for experienced but mediocre developers
Are there any Dev bootcamps targeted at experienced developers?

I'm talking about your average Joe working in the corporate world who knows how to mashup frameworks together and get a working product but lacks a solid grasp of the fundamentals. Things like: Algorithms & DS, Operating Systems, Concurrency, Functional Programming, software design and design patterns, problem solving skills, open source tools and contributing to open source projects, etc.

Basically the skills your average corporate programmer needs to join companies like Google, Amazon, etc.
That's because you don't know what bullying is.
Cycle of addiction http://visual.ly/cycle-addiction
please tell me how you can turn äiti into mama? Closest to mama in Finnish I can think of is mummo or mummu which means granny.
Do not blame this on Groupon's US engineering team. This is code from crazeal.com, which Groupon acquired (check the 'was thrown in' part of the exception message).

A lot of Groupon's international sites are on different platforms than the Groupon US site. This is because they expanded by acquiring the leading daily deals sites in all the countries they moved in to. There's been a big project within the company to move all international markets onto a single system but I'm sure you can imagine how difficult and time consuming of a project that is.
Tetris Attack can deliver #2+#3, but will fail at #1 in every iteration other than Planet Puzzle League for DS.
There is a common portion called the MBE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_examination#Multistate_Bar_...

However, as mentioned in another comment, what you learn in law school and what you need to learn to pass the Bar exam have relatively little overlap.
I think the bigger story is how he 'got into hollywood'
> Now with hundreds of millions of map views across thousands of subscribers, the stability and scalability wins are clear

I'd also be interested to see a write up on these aspects, what are the gains here... 10%? 10x? 100x?
I would argue Oracle's model has been to suggest to businesses that they need to do things quite differently from the way Google does...
>He discredits one of Sandberg's scientifically verified claims that women take criticism worse than men,

I don't know about the "scientifically verified claim". In general, scientific claims made in scientific journals are nuanced, and context sensitive. I would be wary of a lay person with a particular position weaving attributions to journal papers indiscriminately in their essays. Furthermore, Humanities research is notoriously error-prone and lacking in rigor. In this respect, I'd say Greenspun is probably close to the truth.
First of all, thanks for taking the time to provide feedback: Exactly what WTF was built for.

I agree that there is a gradient and I can tell you that if someone wants you to sign an NDA then WTF won't really help them but for everyone else, getting feedback as early in the lifecycle as possible is worth a lot: It could save you a lot of time and money.

We designed WTF for ourselves in a way. We wanted somewhere we could test out an idea before committing too much time and resource to it. Somewhere we could show-off our idea, get feedback, change it accordingly and then re-show it and so on.

WTF is a guide; It will not be 100% accurate but it might just stop you from wasting months of your life on something you thought people wanted.

The other side of that coin is that you may find that your "Facebook Killer" application isn't a total flop: There may be something you could salvage from it, maybe a particular set of features, and that is what WTF is designed to help with.
I personally don't feel comfortable using your service - too much of a security risk giving Databracket LLC unrestricted root access. I guess most other security-minded people would not feel at ease as well.

Having an agent running on the servers would be much better.

First, it will not require unrestricted SSH root access to the servers. Most of the servers don't allow root to login through SSH at all.

Second, an agent restricts the harm that could be done if somebody hacks their servers. This could be achieved with restrictions (specific commands, IP addresses) to the key that is added to root's authorized_key, but there is no mention of that in the FAQ or the other docs.

Third, firewall management - good luck convincing somebody to modify the firewall to allow connections to the SSH service on all of their servers. A restricted agent will be a much easier sell.
I'm relieved to see you type that. Thank you for the sane reply.
As someone who goes to restaurants somewhat often, I've never thought to myself that it would be a good idea to sit down and make a website for that restaurant for free. I don't think you're going to find many restaurant customers at all that would be willing to try that. One idea I had off the top of my head to try and make the service more appealing to restaurant owners would be to have the site generate both online and offline menus.

Kind of like squarespace-for-menus, offer a wide variety of really nice templates for offline paper menus each restaurant can choose from and customize. Then when they update their menu on your website, it also automatically generates a new PDF they can print out or send to a printer without having to hire a designer/intern/nephew to make minute changes to the old menu files. I think this would be especially useful for restaurants when they do price changes on items. Could monetize the thing by dropshipping fancy printed menus to customers.
You'll have to develop a cryptographic scheme makes sure that when your management service is compromised, it does not affect the servers the management server controls. We've done that work.

Say we have a daemon though - the daemon would require root access in order to create user accounts. If the management service is compromised, the user accounts can be created. That's why we've made it infeasible to access SSH keys even if the management server is compromised.
For D, vibe.d is great for web development, and it comes with a package manager:

http://vibed.org/
http://registry.vibed.org/
Thanks a lot - wonderful collection!
Thats also a major cause. In fact Ugly Indian group has noticed similar effect. When they clean certain areas of the streets and improve it aesthetically, it stops being degraded to its original state more often than not.
did you write your own valid email address checker regex?
It doesn't follow http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
Thanks for the feedback.

You are right in that not everyone that comes to the site will be representative of your audience but "outsiders" can have their own insight into something that you may not have considered.

All the mechanisms we will be putting in place (comments, voting, project questions etc.) are designed to help you decide if your project is worth pursuing: They will not be 100% effective but they will be much more effective that creating your project in total isolation with no feedback from anyone.

These mechanisms will evolve over time, for example, we may find that straight up comments may be useless but a scoring system, where other commenters can vote some up or down, could provide far more value...

WTF is still evolving.
Thanks, that's a great point that the agent is an easier sell. We're going to add one soon so people won't feel uncomfortable opening up their SSH ports. We've heard this a lot and really appreciate the feedback on this point.
We`re a Startup for fitness and we need cheap marketing. E.g. Growth Hacking?
Awesome!
Where do you store the info? Is it possible to sync between multiple machines?
Seeking Clues to a Heart Killer in the DNA Binding a Family
There are a huge number of useful machine learning techniques that don't have checkable "modelling assumptions" per se, just good performance on given tasks (decision trees for instance are really difficult to think about in terms of underlying statistical properties). Heck, even most statistical models are demonstrably false for any given application, yet simultaneously very useful.
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Could someone explain this paragraph? I've read it several times and I don't understand what his point is:

"Sandberg’s personal experience, however, contradicts this. She says that she has never worked for a woman. All of the mentors and sponsors she describes are men. When she was 27 years old, a man hired her to be Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Would a woman have been willing to hire her for the same job at age 17?"
I've never read anything of Greenspun, other than this review. I don't know, or particularly care, what his "fanatical political ideology" is. As far as I'm concerned this essay is perfectly capable of being judged on its own merits.

I am however greatly annoyed whenever someone thinks they are doing everyone else a favour by trying to dissuade others from reading an opinion (especially through vague ad hominem attacks). I don't think you need to protect anyone here from uncomfortable opinions.
Talked in hall with a guy during my test. "Oh, shit! That's right on that problem!"

Wasn't planned.

1985 tried to have a dog lick my dick.

As you judge you will be judged. I guess you like this? I know you will be punished, so I'm okay with this.

God says...

66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the
incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he
hath done for my soul.

66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my
tongue.

66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of
my prayer.

66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
mercy from me.

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That's bullshit -- He talks no matter what. Yer gonna get judged, however.

God says...
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They way these things work is I am unfairly robbed of my glory, but God is just. It's hard to explain the unfairness, but I don't care cause God's fair.
Looking for a mentor in programming.

I work as a java developer, but i think i need a certain boost from someone who's more proficient than my colleagues.

I can spend at least 20 hrs a week helping/learning on your project.

skype: misha_ring
For those who are not familiar with CC — and since most of the comments so far refer to speech-to-text — CC is more than regular subtitles.

CC often displays contextual information such as what kind of music is played and how it's played (soft, intense, etc.), sounds that are important to the scene, the names of out of view character who are speaking, etc.
If it interrupts your running code, it only can happen at moments when you allocate memory, just like with malloc. You cannot predict when malloc calls brk(), either.

Also, most OS-es are non-deterministic, anyways. You cannot predict whether your code lives in cache/main memory, or on disk. In some systems, your data even might have to be brought in by a tape robot without your code being aware of it. As soon as a garbage collector manages to get its interruptions to be about equal to delays caused by caching and virtual memory, I doubt many people will care.
that's not the point. saying left-handed people make 20% more than right-handed people is equally (if not much more) dubious.

you can't argue that someone's references are possibly fabricated, and then support your own point with your own "scientific" reference.

really it comes down to: if you ever find yourself arguing that someone's references are likely wrong because they are in the humanities... well...that's a conversation ender.

and i have a phd in math. believe me sometimes humanities people rub me the wrong way. but i would never make a general statement like that, and especially not to "prove a point."

it's the refuge of a scoundrel.