skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'm coming up to a decade of teaching CS in high school as well. The best times are when I don't know the answer to something I've been asked (and considering my classes go down the rabbit hole with topics pretty frequently this happens a fair bit :) since not only do I have to go learn about it I also have to learn how best to explain it and ascertain understanding of it in my students. The best moments are finding a really great way of relaying a difficult concept and having my kids have that "ahah" moment.[1]

I also started studying Karate about 5 years ago, and being given lower grade classes to teach helped my understanding of my own technique immensely (sadly it did nothing to alleviate the fact I was a creaky old man of 31 when I started ;P).

[1] One of the problems of teaching a set level of students though is you tend to stagnate at that level without your own side projects, which get less attention because of the time factor. That's about the only regret I have with teaching as a profession.
>Electronic warfare is going to be a thing, and I want to live in a world where the U.S. has the upper hand in it, not China.

It seems like "they're going to do surveillance so we need to do surveillance" is the wrong approach. All that does is increase the possibilities for abuse: By enemies and dictators, by corrupt bureaucrats, by foreign attackers who break into the domestic surveillance apparatus for their own purposes.

What we should be doing is to implement technology that will make surveillance harder for everyone. That leaves the U.S. at no disadvantage without invading everyone's privacy.

And it keeps us from having to fight an asymmetric war. If China has access to every U.S. company's trade secrets, the fact that the NSA has access to every Chinese company's trade secrets is a very poor consolation prize -- our trade secrets are more valuable. The economic damage that attacks on computer systems can do is greater against the U.S. than it is against its enemies. We don't need our government to do everything it can to exploit security vulnerabilities in order to conduct unconstitutional surveillance, we need it to help us (or get out of the way) in reducing the vulnerabilities.

And the two alternatives are pretty clearly opposed to one another. You can't have bureaucrats interfering with efforts to make the internet more secure in order to reduce the effectiveness of China's surveillance apparatus just because they're afraid it will reduce the effectiveness of the NSA's surveillance apparatus. You end up fighting a civil war instead of fighting the attackers.
Facebook Group captures a fourth(10,000) of it's intended audience
It's there, where I mention that I've been following them since their inception. Yataa is also linked to it.
Colin,

At the risk of sounding very stupid I've never understood what was actually meant by statements of the type "the primes appear to be distributed in a manner indistinguishable from randomly". I say this because I imagine that the definition of what makes a prime a prime determines whether any particular number is prime or not. So what don't I get when people make statements like this? :(
You have 3 options for mounting SFTP in Windows.

Open Source and the fastest client
https://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/

Free, but with limited functionality.
http://www.eldos.com/sftp-net-drive/

Best UI, but way too expensive.
http://www.expandrive.com/

They're all somewhat stable, but their performance is far from as fast as Linux SSHFS. Win-sshfs is much faster than Expandrive and Eldos SFTP, but slightly more buggy.

Of those three I recommend win-sshfs, Expandrive would have been worth it if its pricing were not so extreme. You get support though!
Can you further explain why raid/replication isn't a backup? Sure, you can't backup beyond what you've replicated (locally or across a network), but for most folks, that should be fine.
You're not forward-looking enough. 2012 was the beginning of the end of the laptop form factor. Windows 8 needs to last a good decade or so for Microsoft, so it better be ready for the form factors that will be popular in the coming years. That's going to be tablets of all sizes you can dock to a keyboard for laptop-like work. With a hard hinge or kickstand, they look and work like the laptop you're used to. They're otherwise undocked or have the screen flipped down over the keyboard for tablet-like interaction.

There's no wrist contortion when using the same computer if you can move the screen flat in a split second to switch modes of interaction. If you're not convinced that using the full internet on a touchscreen PC can't be as fluid, easy and enjoyable as it is on your mobile device or Android tablet, find a store with a Surface Pro tablet on display, hold it in your hand without the magnetic keyboard attached, and tap Internet Explorer 10. It feels like the future, man. If your phone feels fluid, pinch zooming on an Intel Core i5 feels like you're in an Iron Man movie working with Jarvis. No mobile sites required; the only thing that you'll have trouble doing just as easy and accurately as if you had a mouse is menus that have hover states.
Sure, drop me an email.
I misread the FAQ, it's the institution and not the degree that they care is accredited.

> Why would I care about ABET accreditation for a CS program?
I'm not sure why someone would care (some people do though). ABET does not offer accreditation to history departments (now there's a controversial idea). I found the fact that these institutions do not have them as an interesting curiosity.
Very insightful, thanks.
Maybe I can make a startup based on helping people help others.
> We anticipate opening enrollment for matriculation during Fall 2014

My heart sank a little, I have been looking for something like this forever and was planning on applying today after I read the press release.

I joined the mailing list and may even contact the admissions office for the B&M College of Computing to see if there are any pilot programs I could apply to. I am currently in Tokyo for work and finding a decent place online to continue my education in computer science has been difficult. Just set aside $7,000 in a new checking account for the associated fees.

This is the most exciting thing I have seen on HN in a while, awesome time to be a Computer Scientist!
All the content will be free to everybody, but you have to apply to Georgia Tech and pay if you want the actual degree.

Really?! Forget the degree then, I just want the content!
I use this really great comparison table for all EC2 instance types: http://www.ec2instances.info/

Summarizes things pretty well.
what program are you currently in?
I moved to SF in Sept of 2010.

My wife and I went to the Folsom St fair because we were determined to experience what we couldn't experience back home (Nebraska).

Might I say, a fair like that would have been SHUT DOWN WITH SWAT TEAMS in Nebraska. I can't imagine anything remotely close to that being tolerated.

It didn't bother my wife or I, but when the extremes can be stretched pretty far with a general tolerance, you find that the middle is further than away from most people's average.

I don't know how the tolerance for the extreme factors in to things, but I think it's at play with SF's success..

P.S. If you want to experience it, it's usually in late September. Do it once in your life.
Gateways are themselves just more APIs. They don't have much, if any, impact on the "zero hassle" question you asked, which is all about the lack of an application/underwriting process compared to getting a merchant account. There's no separate application/underwriting for getting gateway accounts, your MAP typically resells one or more and just gives you credentials once you're through the MA underwriting and get account numbers to attach to it. Recurly doesn't save you from that at all.
It's not a backup because it will happily propagate data corruption through making all drives worthless. The only backup-like protection is provides is for sudden drive failure.
thanks for the feedback and the well wishes. Do you have any suggestions for A/B testing tools? Everything that is on the landing page is deliberate (except the PlaceIt byline, which I hope to replace with a real photo) but haven't been testing landing pages like I should be.

Ringo looks cool. Interesting that you put the Terms and Privacy in the header navigation. I don't think I have seen that before. Any reason in particular why?
Congratulations. Now, can you explain me, in dumbest possible terms:

a) What is this?

b) Why do I want to use this? What advantage does it give me over using just Dropbox?

c) Does it consume disk space?

d) If it does not, does it have a cloud component? Probably not, but I'm not sure what's going on here.

Your website doesn't really tell anything about your product—you might want to take a look on that.
Replication and Raid isn't a backup because what if i do this in mysql

mysql> drop database production;

No way raid/replication will save you then. Same thing for some rogue delete statement gets in the code that deletes too much data.

Raid isn't a good backup because groups of drives are known to die at once or around the same time.
Please. There's plenty of evidence in those photos that more than convinces me. And for Etsy to do this while just about everything else on their site is mass-produced sweatshop crap is total bullshit.
It's been a while since I studied this stuff and I screwed up a crucial part of the argument. The larger number isn't guaranteed to be prime. It's either prime or composite. In either case you end up with a prime not in the finite list of primes that follow from the assumption of a largest prime. Here is a link to a good explanation that includes the composite case:

http://www.jimloy.com/number/primes.htm
This is a great start, but it seems to me that in the current environment (at least in the US) an MS CS is pretty redundant for students who already have a BS CS. Traditionally the MS CS has been more popular with prospective software engineers who lack a formal CS credential. Let's see how flexible Georgia Tech is on its admissions requirement of a "related Bachelor of Science degree."

I expect this program will be a big hit with non-US students who want a US credential.
This is fairly easy to dispute... people aren't even asking for clean water and clean air (we have those already!). They're asking for things like habitat preservation and biodiversity.

Here are the Sierra Club's top goals[1]:

- end use of coal, oil, and natural gas (this is three goals for them, but I see them as thematically linked)

This is a mix. They attack all three for being "dirty". They also attack oil because oil corporations are engines of political corruption (it strikes me that while this is something you can come up with if you're already against oil on principle, you're unlikely to decide, based on this, that you should be against oil). And, they attack oil and natural gas (I didn't check coal) because the extraction process causes "environmental damage".

- "Resilient Habitats"

Seems to be half about preserving existing ecosystems and half about preventing climate change. Nothing to do with clean water or clean air.

- "Protecting America's Waters"

Definitely a clean water issue.

Here are Greenpeace's "What We Do"s[2]:

- Protecting Ancient Forests

"We're working to create a world with zero deforestation." This is a stasis issue.

- Protecting our oceans

Unlike the Sierra Club, Greenpeace is not worried about water pollution. It's worried about overfishing (and especially overwhaling). This is another stasis issue.

- Stopping Global Warming

Yep, a stasis issue.

Look at my sibling comment -- the problem with destruction of this buried temple is that the loss is irrevocable. It's not that the temple was in use for any purpose (it wasn't), or that there could have been a future use; it's just that something we "had" is now gone.

Don't confuse the reason a movement began with the same movement's current goals. Movements do not cease just because they've achieved their goals.

[1] https://content.sierraclub.org/sierra-club-programs

[2] http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/
I think IRC is the BEST and unique mediums to build a good circle of 'reliable' contacts. This makes immense sense if you are talking about technology.

Not only do you end up networking with some of the brightest minds, but also get your queries resolved in 'near real time'.

IRC would never be dead. It is immortal. Maker has to wait..alas!
Might as well comment here as tweets to the account seem to do nothing. Every 25th click or so has always resulted in a Chrome "no content" error. It's a frequent problem, and it's been happening for years.
Just no. Plain and simple NO!

We don't need to make any distinctions. Private conversations are private.

And gentlemen don't read each others mail. Automated or otherwise.
The primary purpose of jailbreaking your phone is to run tweaks that use MobileSubstrate. I think Saurik himself has said Cydia only contains a handful of "apps" everything else is a tweak.

Unless the author has written an app badly in need of a tweak specifically targeting it, I doubt it's being patched directly.
I'd bet the total volume of bitcoins you could buy for physical cash is less than $5mm/yr/person right now, without a seriously high profile.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but couldn't you deposit money into bank accounts in "less stringent than the US" countries where mtgox operates, convert into bitcoins, then convert back into USD and withdraw from Dwolla as "legitimate" currency? That seems like the main use to me. You're getting around the paperwork and suspicion of a bank transfer directly into the US.

Of course Mtgox says that it complies with money laundering regulations, but you could chop up the transactions (foreign account -> mtgox -> bitcoins -> some other exchange -> different bitcoins -> mtgox -> USD). Once the money enters bitcoins, it's very easy to shuffle it around so it can't be "traced" (by which I mean have it go outside companies that comply with money laundering regulations- it is actually traceable technically, but I'm not sure the authorities have tools that do this yet or whether they actively look at it) and then pull it back out as USD. Seems like a problem to me, but I'm not a money launderer, so I dunno.
Yeah, PECOTA isn't one of the best at all, it just has ranges for variance, which is an imprecise metric as no one knows what he's saying a percentile is under the model. What is luck and what is skill?

Birnbaum is one of the best bloggers on advanced stuff. Tango's blog is the best period as anyone good participating in the "open source" movement so to speak is there pr shows up when they write good stuff. Until you're aware of the work to date, you will be spinning in circles with awful biased errors.
While there are similarities to the "terrorist argument", note that punishment/justice is available in that case. Terrorists are also extremely rare.
Marcel is king!
> There is absolutely no reason, however, to have the source code for a dependency in my tree, Go or not.

Disk space is cheap; much cheaper than time needed to fix something if it goes to hell and some remote repository isn't available.
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You should probably email support@dribbble.com. Twitter isn't an "official" support channel, so your tweets are far less likely to get noticed.

In the interest of saving time: browser / version / OS? Any browser extensions installed?
Corrected link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem
Baseball players believe those things, but no one can prove they actually exist.
AngelHack comes to Australia by GetViable
Blowing sand : http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,3,3,1,3,1,2,3...

Wind Tunnel: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,3,2,1,3,3...

I think this becomes strangely stable: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,3,3,2,0,2,3,2,3,0...

Wavy lines: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,1,2,0,2,1,3...

Mountain: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,3,2,1,2,0,2,0...

Crystal: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,2,1,0,3,1,1...
Contrary to what is said in the article, I find that NDAs are fairly pervasive at Bay area tech firms - maybe with the exception of very early stage startups.

At most of the big co's you have to sign an NDA just to walk past the front desk to attend an event on their campuses or to interview.

I also experienced this at a well known late-stage SF startup when they hosted a developer meetup in their office.
I'm pretty sure these math efforst existed long before the Peano axioms were formulated.
It's software that lets you mount Dropbox as if it were a network drive. It's advantageous to just Dropbox because it doesn't consume disk space. It doesn't have a cloud component; it uses the Dropbox API to interface with Dropbox's servers directly.
AMI's with cost are attached to the resources installed (for example, Adobe ColdFusion).

Also, if you create your own AMIs, you pay for associated storage of the image.
> There's no such thing as, say, Maven binary dependencies for Java.

I'm saying there should be, but not necessarily the same thing. That's my entire point.

I'm also not a fan of the "you have a dissimilar opinion to mine, so obviously you've never used Go properly" attitude in this thread. One way to read your last is that I've never used Go at all, though I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you meant used Go properly. Either way, I don't get the condescension of assuming I'm unaware of everything you're explaining to me simply because I have an opinion that is different than yours. Especially since half of your comment is repeating things to me that I said earlier.
Same for Singapore
School sucks and students are aware of it.
Few more OOPs guys really really really want to screw up JavaScript.
"... this is what you get, when you mess with us..."
Playing hard has very little to do with winning in baseball - oh, I didn't try hard so I didn't hit the ball? Or didn't take a walk? Or didn't watch the ball and it hit me in the head?

I pitched 5 mph less due to mental effort? Well, now you don't get to throw again for 5 days. Or you walked 15 batters in a row to try and get taken out of the game. It's not going to make your night easier, you sit there till the game is finally over. No clock to run out. Just outs.
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When a problem first rears it's head, we usually don't know what the actual cause is. Some problems take 5 minutes to resolve, and others keep me up until 1 in the morning. So, making any kind of specific statement in the middle of a crisis is often impossible, and always imprudent.
The AMIs that cost merely have an additional cents-per-hour charge.

AMIs are kind of hard to avoid if you manage your AWS through the web console - create a new instance and the first thing that pops up is "choose an AMI".
I don't like that banner. It uses "forking" in a sexual manner.
The original "value proposition" of the WWW -- the thing that made the first 100 million users install a web browser -- was the ability to publish and consume text, images and links. Since then of course the web has become an "application-delivery platform" while remaining the most important and popular way to publish text, images and links on internet.

Although I freely concede that making it into an application-delivery platform had large benefits, it also had the adverse effect of making its use for its original purpose more confusing, more frustrating, more tedious, less secure and less reliable, which is a thing to be regretted because there is much utility and promise in its original purpose of giving people a convenient and inexpensive way to publish and consume text, images and links on the internet.

I wish the people who wanted a platform on which to deliver applications over the internet -- a platform neither owned or controlled by any single corporation, which I freely admit was a worthy goal -- had found some other way to get their wish without making so many headaches for the people whose goal is to use the internet to publish or consume text, images and links.

Although it is nice that this second set of people have the opportunity to learn this new health-monitoring subsystem of Firefox, it would have been even better if the software for viewing text and images and for following links were uncomplicated and reliable enough to make a new health-monitoring subsystem unnecessary.

So, to answer your question directly, yes, there is an alternative to viewing websites in a complex, general-purpose browser other than downloading "website" apps to run locally. Namely, it is the alternative that existed in 1994 when web pages were not executable programs. Their being "just plain documents" rather than executable programs drastically limited the kinds of things that could go wrong.
Another alternative would to persuade the online publishers of 2013 to move to a new system that does not double as an application-delivery platform and consequently does not suffer the reliability and other problems that the web has. (Yes, I know that is very unlikely to happen.)

May I suggest that if you want to continue this conversation, you switch it to email? My address is in my profile.
Millennials move away from car ownership
Like so many such tools, it assumes you will only ever be using US East. :/
it will not be regulated , it will be shut down , plain and simple , unless everybusiness out there accept bitcoins , one needs to convert it to a sound currency in order to use it.
Fractal: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,1,3,1,3,1,2,3...
> Now that I mentioned that I'm from Pittsburgh, I'd also like to nix the 'Stanford is a great engineering school" argument as well. Why? Well because so is Carnegie Mellon--has boasted the #1 Comp Sci program in several rankings but Pittsburgh is galaxies away from the bay area in being a startup hub.

Right, it's not that CMU has a bad engineering school, it's just that Stanford is so close to Silicon Valley (and helped create much of it) that it holds greater prestige in the startup community. I don't think anyone looks down on CMU as far as getting a good education goes.
If a technology could self-proclaim anything then that would be pretty game changing :). Your point is well taken though (most technologies don't change anything). However I think Bitcoin _has_ already changed more than most.
This line of reasoning seems to make it hard to suggest that certain things are and aren't idiomatic in different languages without being accused of being closed-minded and hostile. If I read an article claiming that Ruby sucks because of some project where the developer decided to use a Makefile instead of bundler, I would say "the developer should have used bundler!", and you could accuse me of the same hostility you're accusing Go proponents of here. Conventions really do exist for a reason, and really should be followed until you understand them well enough to reject them for a good reason.
Absolutely, Here is a list of USB hardware compatible with the Square Stand.

https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5125-square-stand-su...
Do i get a discount for being alum?
------- Quoting the parent:

This turns into this beautiful JSON:

[
"users": [
{
"id": "abc",
"phoneNos": [
{ "type": "home", "value": "123456789" },
{ "type": "work", "value": "321654987" }
]
}
]
]

------ ... endquote.

That's a strange, contrived example. In Javascript, I would write it like this:

user = {id: "abc", homePhone: "123456789", workPhone: "321654987"};

(And the next time that object goes across the network, my libraries will be nice enough to put the quotes around the keys for me.)
Maybe Denis is a really nice guy who just wants to help startups out. With the pitch deck he can help summarize your company to show to his network of investors/advisors.

Or he's looking to screw you over. Who knows? The internetz is a crazy place.
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