skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you don't understand, facebook is doing this for the benefit of their users/customers
Bad News for Bitcoin? Feds Shut Down 'Paypal for Criminals'
It prevents the gov't from conducting nonrandom searches of your car to seize your cash they know you just withdrew.
DailyCost - HTML5 simple and intuitive finance app sweeps global App Store
Yahoo Drops Flickr Pro To Compete With Facebook, Still Offers Two Paid Tiers
Seriously, this article could have been called "what shows up on the first page when googling for "X emulator"
James, that is the whole part of really understanding the benefits of your startup. Focused drive makes it easier not only for the viral growth but it also makes it easier to create your overall marketing plan. Just like target market it is the basis for creating a marketing roadmap, Unique Spreading Point is the basis for creating a successful viral plan. This does not mean you stick with that one point forever; in due course, successful companies create many little things to make it easy for their users to spread the word. In the beginning sticking with one main point makes it easier to focus on all fronts including faster entry to the market. The cost and time for getting multiple viral plans in the beginning may be just too high. Hope this helps.
Time for an updated Activity Streams?
To add [Mou - Markdown editor for web developers, on Mac OS X](http://mouapp.com/) to the list. My fav so far.
Hey (long time no see, btw) there. I played it recently. You've definitely got to go into it expecting what it is to enjoy it. Exactly nothing happens in the game. You don't really interact with anything, you just walk around a beautiful set of landscapes on the island and listen to the story. The game is just short enough that it doesn't become too boring to play in my experience, and it's an excellent experience to relax to.

Hope you enjoy it!
Google preps Dart 1.0 to challenge JavaScript
Is this coded on top of ZenPen http://www.zenpen.io/ ?
It's mentioned in the article, but she's blogging her progress at http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/

It looks like she wasn't able to get into the CS program just yet, but her letter requesting a change of major is pretty interesting, too: http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/post/43498821312/change-of...
The entire workflow of managing more than one write-up needs some more work. Few examples:

- if you come back and try to edit a write-up you'll have to first open the preview then remember the shortcut to edit it, not really another way around except maybe changing the URL.

- if you have more than one write-up with the same name, you don't really know which one you are on right now.

- deleting the write-up is kinda confusing too. and you
can't delete on the view mode.

- shortcuts gets mixed up between control and option.

But overall love it and will try to write more with your help!
I think you're missing the point. The argument is not, as far as I can tell, that fancy schools provide no signal at all. What it's saying is that they're unfortunately the best proxy historically available, but that it's possible to improve on it. You've marshaled various arguments on why it might be a decent proxy, and of course other people can marshal arguments on why it's not as good as you think. That's a reasonable debate, though I disagree with your side of it (context: I went to MIT for undergrad and have worked in the job market for almost a decade with people from a broad range of educational backgrounds). But I don't think it's the relevant debate.

The point is that regardless of the merits of a Yale degree, it doesn't really come close to measuring, "will this person be good at this job?" Signaling is a shortcut, something you do because you don't have time or energy to measure something more directly aligned with what you need. It's not wrong, just a blunt instrument. Yale will graduate tons of dud candidates, and far lesser schools will graduate hoards of great ones, even if they do so at a lower rate. So the question is, can we create a more precise tool for measuring what we actually want to measure? We should certainly be trying. A Yale education might be well correlated to, say, the ability to learn quickly, but a good test for the ability to learn quickly would be even better correlated. If the talents that got you into Yale, not to mention the stellar education you got there, cause you do better in those measurements, then good for you! (None of that is to say this particular company is successful at this measurement, BTW.)

Another thing that went unstated in the article is value. Yale (and MIT) grads are expensive! Penn State grads, relatively speaking, are not, which creates a huge incentive to find the good ones and hire them instead. So at the very least, you should agree there's a big opportunity in a more precise tool for separating the chaff from the wheat, even if you think all the Yale wheat is pre-husked.
Mysterious and Well-Preserved Oort Cloud Object Heading Into Our Solar System
Just my view: reading this is like being harangued by some irate ranter. The style will ensure minimal impact on those who should read it.

Small point: why the focus on the Roma as against non-Roma Romanians and Bulgarians who are also very poor but shut up, get down to work and obey the law. Anecdotally (I live in Romania) I would say that many Roma do just that. Plenty join the professions as doctors, lawyers, engineers and media folk or simply do an ordinary job of work but there is a criminal minority who are the authors of their own problems. However it's pointless trying to explain this to some of the right-on human rights brigade.
What happens when Google and NASA build a computer?
Well, do remember the money has to come from somewhere. It isn't a simple black-and-white, "Should we provide medical coverage for our citizens? Nah, that's silly."
It's not possible for any other system to be civilized?
Nifty little app! I am sure I will stop using notes or open up text wrangler to jot down a few things every now and then. I like the simplicity (great shortcuts) which makes the whole thing, elegant.
This whole comment thread is a disgrace.
Google Checkout Nixed In Favor of Google Wallet
Or what if a 9 year old girl clicks through? She can not enter into any legal agreements (unless she is an emancipated youth). USA laws.
Microsoft Connect for SQL Server - a good argument for open source?
Microsoft Connect for SQL Server is a Microsoft publicly accessible issue tracker:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback

The top voted item with 477 items is relatively simple, but has been open 5 years with only a template response from Microsoft:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/339410/please-fix-the-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-message-to-give-the-column-name

It turns out that it's a reopened issue from 2005 with a similar generic response. So nearly ten years without a meaningful response for the most updated issue on the issue tracker.

It's a similar case for many of the other issues on the site.

The site itself seems like a good idea, at least they're tracking the problem, but I can't fathom why they can't get some of these simple fixes in. Would this be better if it was open source? Perhaps, but there's still the problem of getting patches / pull requests in past the gatekeepers. Maybe the real money makers come from somewhere else so they can afford to ignore the community feedback, or maybe they're so locked in with existing users that there's no incentive for them to pay attention to them when they can work on getting new customers.
Do most people actually like things that are useful? Most of my friends "like" stuff like Starbucks and Wal-Mart.
I have a cplex license on my work machine so that is another avenue to explore!
The correct term is advertorial. It is when the editori staff does an advertisement disguised as an article. It works wonders, more so when it comes from the NYT. This company is now front and center. Well done to your marketers. You will get a lot of flack here, but this is one more way to jump start growth. Good luck.
War has changed.
I think that it introduces a (minor) security risk : if you have access to an idle session, and you can force a user authenticate through another means, then you can exploit the idle session to change password.
China and Linux: A Lesson in Industry Transformation
Nothing here that would qualify these emulators as the "best". And higan (aka bsnes) is not even mentioned, which makes the list bit suspect.
seems obsolete with one page MVC's like backbone and ember.

They have compiled templates so you would get even better performance with no network requests.
So I have done plenty of A/B testing with Facebook login and I can tell you one thing: having just Facebook login converts multiple times better than having either email sign up or both. The quality of signups are also much better. Sure, you lose out on the hackers but they're a minority and from reading this thread a pretty rude crowd as well.
I've always wondered, why do people use this argument for medical care, but not food? Both are necessary to carry on living, and both are provided by people who themselves work full-time and need to keep the lights on somehow.
Any open source ones?
what about the other way around? Maybe people who get bullied disproportionately wind up becoming geeks.
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Or maybe just different. I always had to deal with people who felt insecure around me. School was easy and I got good grades without trying. Meanwhile, others were struggling. That made them hate me. Though the joke was on them when I started practicing martial arts. (:
Note that CPLEX and CP Optimizer are two completely different products. AFAIK, a license key for one of them can not be used for the other. But I've never actually used either myself, so don't take my word for it.

Also, since you seem to be interested in using Minizinc for modelling, you can use other back-ends than the built in one for solving models.

For some more code examples, see also Håkan Kjellerstrands blog (http://www.hakank.org/constraint_programming_blog/) which, among other things, contains numerous solutions to the xkcd problem suing different systems.
I blame the parents!
The most important thing to teach your kid as soon as possible is self-reflection.
What does Android really need?
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It's extremely common in the animal (incl. human) world to seek dominance. In cultures where physical domination is rewarded, you have violence to establish the dominance. In cultures where intellectual dominance is rewarded, you have more expressions of contempt for "stupid" people. When you have a diverse group, you have the strong beating up the weak and the smart verbally humiliating the dumb. It's not complicated. It's about public status and privately making yourself feel superior.

Blaming it on class and gender roles is one of those things that urban intellectuals do to maintain their status among urban intellectuals. Maybe he should analyze it from a Marxist-feminist perspective for good measure.
I've come to the conclusion that lying would be my best bet, until I obtain some stable work history. If I lie, I can get a job. If I do not, I do not even get a "too bad, soo sad" letter.

I've also tried (badly) in entering the web design market. Where would you look for training yourself in this area? I know my skills here are nigh nonexistent, so I won't lie about what I do not know.

And yes, Kafka was already taken.
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Too bad negative keywords (what baidu/bing/google/yahoo/yandex/etc use in search ads) don't really work in this context. Display ads are hard :(
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As a developer who's taking an increasing interest in the design of the products I work on I'd love to read some of the material you'd be exposed to in a proper design education. What are the bibles of design that students are generally exposed to?
Yes. Its like saying that malaria is not a problem because people die in road accidents.
really? As an ethnic minority, whose diseases are underresearched, and for whom drug safety and efficacy are unlikely to be statisically well-validated, I'd be paying into a system that disproportionately helps, well, to be crude, white men. That's just the way medicine is. Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to have the freedom to opt out of a system that redistributes to the already privileged.
Importance of HTML5
It's just easier to tell people "check out my music - yeah I'm in iTunes/Spotify/Amazon etc" when you're in all the stores. Plus there's just a special satisfaction for a musician to be in the major stores -- at least that's how I feel as a musician.
The hackers are an efficient way to advertise a product for free. They are continually online and like to go from website to website and talk about stuff they just learned about.
Australia's KFC recently switched to Canola Oil [1], I think because it's cheaper to use the local oil than to import. Maybe other companies will follow?

From the press release:
>High-oleic canola oil contains more oleic acid (a monounsaturated fat) and less polyunsaturated fats (namely alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid), allowing for greater heat tolerance and longer shelf life than regular canola oil.

>A healthier, home-grown alternative to palm oil, high-oleic canola oil also has an extended fry life and is thus more cost efficient than regular canola oil.

Source: [2]

[1] http://www.kfc.com.au/nutrition/canola-oil.asp

[2]
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Right now I'm playing it by ear (no pun intended). The goal isn't to make the stores a dumping grounds for low quality music. The goal is to make it easier for musicians to be prolific. Thanks for the note - this is definitely an area where I need to pay attention.
Firefox 23 set to boost open source dev tools
I want this but anonymous. I like meetup but its the same drag, digital me showing up to an event feeling akward. I'd use the digital equivalent of picking up a flyer from a coffeeshop.
First, people do talk about healthcare costs and education costs and housing costs as grand problems.

And startups can do something about those. For example:

1. Co-Abode.com which connects single moms to share houses , while getting cheaper prices and better support from each other.

2. A recent YC startup , which helps people who are getting a divorce, settle without lawyers in a relatively peacefull and much cheaper process.

3. All those new education startups who make college more affordable.

And there are plenty more , and plenty more that's could be done. One such example:

Making dental crowns is costly. There are some few large companies who built a small cnc machine who automates this, which can reduce the costs of the whole process by a lot. But they are expensive to acquire.

Find a way to make this available for cheap for every dentist in u.s./world.

Now the question is how does get into those opportunities ?

Well, i don't think it's hard. just focus on the right area , and try to join the communities which try to think about those things. I'm pretty sure they are willing to share problem and ideas in order to see solutions being made.
No catch. There's a small monopoly going on right now in the digital music distribution industry. That's why prices are artificially high. I aim to change that.
I think we may have met on the FB campus when I was visiting some of other UCF interns at FB. I was interning at SFDC back then.
Great job! Most recently I have just been using Google Docs for writing out my blog posts before syndicating them to Medium and Tumblr; I might give this a whirl. The biggest problem I see is that I'm very heavily integrated in the Google ecosystem, so for things like jotting down quick ideas and documents to share with others (esp for collaboration), I'll probably continue to use Drive.

The biggest complaint is that I don't see the usefulness of the sounds. Most people probably listen to music while they work, anyway.

Either way, those are my only complaints. The simplicity and great shortcuts make this a great app!
HTML5 - great disrupter of the mobile ecosystem
The source is pretty clear: taxes. My guess it that ratio of tax money spent on health care vs. money spent on killing people (military) does not look nice.
Controversial, Harmful and Hateful Speech on Facebook
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Also, I wonder if emulation of these newer systems, which is a special kind of retrocompability, will be feasible. It seems that the PS3 and XBox360 are already hard to emulate, not only because of complex hardware but because of all the annoying (from an emulator developer's point of view) non-gaming capabilities interfering with the third party software (achievements, online capabilities, etc). Another sad consequence of the consoles who want to be more than consoles. The Wii, on the other hand, has been emulated for a while, despite its unusual controllers.
Does the Windows 8 OOB setup environment support Shift+F10 to open a command prompt, or one of the keyboard shortcuts to open the task manager? If so, it might be possible to boot into UEFI from there.
Australian doctors generally use a combination of this type of technique.
> Before I used Python, Java and C were my main languages. I was amazed at how short programs became in Python. For this reason, saying "Python loves explicitness" strikes me as strange, since it gets rid of braces, semicolons, variable declarations, the 'new' operator...

I think you have confused "explicitness" with "verbosity." Indentation is no less explicit than braces.

> I'm just a little surprised the momentum isn't swinging back to Python. Since IMHO Ruby's syntax makes the language...very undesirable

That is very much a YMMV sort of thing. A lot of people actually like the Ruby syntax because they find the greater flexibility and ability to define pseudo-DSLs to be pleasant.
My doctor works like that and I love it. I've never had to wait in a waiting room or anything, appointments start promptly and last as long as they need to (I've had an appointment last over 2 hours). She charges $220/hr, but after insurance reimburses me it costs less per hour than a doctor at a traditional clinic, which was about $15 for a quick 15 minute appointment.
I wonder why AAPL isn't ever mentioned in these discussions. They may be chiefly hardware focused, but they do plenty of software.
Well of course it would have to be taxes if the government was going to cover all that, but do you raise taxes? That isn't going to fly. Do you take money from other programs? That isn't going to fly either. And thus, the problem.
Exactly. Your country has just chosen to draw the line at a slightly different point.
Does internship to employment transformation imply easier interview process overall? i.e. rather than apply to full-time position directly.

Another concern - does this also imply the offer with a below average compensation?
You don't need to pay with insurance.
And this is how dental care works in Romania and why almost everybody can afford it. If you charge too high people will not come. So they charge prices that are affordable.
Check out HSA.

Can be used with high-deductible insurance. You can still file the claim yourself, even if you pay the doctor cash.
Once you reached the deductible limit (paying with HSA), the normal insurance will kick in. With $8,000 limit that must be pretty serious stuff anyway.
Pictures are certainly worth a certain number of words, but sometimes all you really need is the hook of an idea to really grasp a much larger concept. In this case, I've always been caught by something Jared Diamond wrote in "Germs, Guns, and Steel". (What do you mean you haven't read it? Drop everything and go read it now!)

I'm paraphrasing, but the gist was this: You know that war that the US has been fighting in Iraq? You know all the images of desert warfare from over there?

That's the "Fertile Crescent".

If it doesn't seem so fertile any longer, that's almost entirely due to human activity.
While there may be much debate regarding who should receive them I don't think anyone in the UK is arguing that we should get rid of social benefits.
That a unified (sub)-combatant-level command has been newly created for this very task speaks volumes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command

The author's frustration is justified, but his conclusion that they do not take it seriously is misplaced. In my opinion, the U.S. (and specifically, DoD in this case) suffers from two things:

1. Defense is hard. Once a vulnerability in a system has been found, defense is reactive. It is currently very hard to protect against a determined attacker.

2. DoD is a large ship, and while they have identified the need for an intense focus in this area; building the skillset and practices to make this work effectively in such a large institution is hard.

To summarize, the author is right to be frustrated but the examples he lists come from a lack of effectiveness, not a lack of focus.

It is worth putting into context that the defenses of other nations (and private entities) are not much better, and often worse. Offence is much, much more powerful than defense in the world of InfoSec currently. This is an issue that all nations are dealing with. I am reminded of a line I read on a popular security research's blog shortly after the Mandant report came out:

"The #1 APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) actor in the world today is...the United States."
This looks cool! We made something similar - http://blog.functionspace.org/news/2013/5/8/a-beautiful-read...
I find the top navigation bar to be distracting. It even gets in the way of the actual text.

http://scrot.it/350