skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's more "not a whole lot of MacOSX devs contributing to the UX these days." Plenty of MacOS X devs contributing everywhere else.
Facebook API using Ada Server Faces
Is the 7-minute Workout The Real Deal?
You can do it with shared storage and/or replication without worrying about data loss on a failure.

The key to scaling and maintaining HA with redis is using clustering, either built into the app or through something like nutcracker (https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy) and making sure you properly balance.

The performance of redis makes it very worthwhile to deal with the persistence/HA issues.
I like how your brand of "individualism" relies on your parents paying for most of it.

I don't know if you've noticed, but your school costs $60,000/year now.

http://www.syr.edu/financialaid/costofattendance/

For comparison purposes, a minimum wage worker employed full-time (forty hours per week for 52 weeks), would earn $15,080 annually. Are you seriously suggesting that someone work for four years in between each year of their college education?
A cloud demo churns more instances in a day than Amazon EC2
And a security risk, to boot.
"These business men are here to tell you why you are going to break your leg tomorrow" - I love that :-)
The best part is that the plagiarized site is a nominee for a css design prize?

Infinum is one of the top developers here in Croatia. Nice to see them responding well to this.
There is a difference between "should be shot", and "those people should be shot in the balls.".

He seems to have regarded the leaks surrounding the Iranian nuclear program as potentially leading to war. Little did he know, those leaks were intentional with the goal of preventing Israel from launching a conventional attack, and getting Russia / China on board with sanctions. It wasn't obvious to most at the time that the leaks were intentional.
Arch has never been that bleeding edge.
Only if you own both the site and the ad network otherwise you'll be unable to tell if they made a request for the ad or not. There are also ways of getting false positives with that sort of test, for instance if for whatever reason the server that has the ad on it isn't reachable from the client (say a problem in one of the major backbones, or a bad DNS entry).

The usual approach I've seen sites take is they have some sort of "Please disable your ad-blocker" image that they load everywhere ads go, and then just overlay the ad image on top of that one when it loads.
Assange, Back in News, Never Left U.S. Radar
I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.
If the student only has (say) $3000 worth of debt, then the student would be stupid to have a bankruptcy on their credit report.

But if they had more than (say) $20,000 in debt, that is exactly what they would do.

Therefore, no school would let a student get significantly in debt.

Therefore, the school would have to lower prices.

The fear back in the day was that, without some way of holding students to loans, that the students wouldn't be able to get credit, and college would become a rich person's paradise.

I can understand where they were coming from when they were thinking that, but what we've actually gotten seems a much worse disaster than the one they were trying to avoid.
The physics of magnets can model how Supreme Court judges vote
True, and in this case of Schrödinger’s Rapist it doesn’t work out: there’s little proof that women are raped more often than men.
Successful parameters could also become more immune to mutation with time

I believe this happens in nature. DNA has lots of error correcting stuff to reduce errors.
F.T.C. Member Starts 'Reclaim Your Name' Campaign for Personal Data
Your proposition 8 concerns are very intriguing on a practical level, I would suggest the following:

> California lost, by posting a lackluster defense.

This is a case of Constitutional law review, where legal precedent must be presented to the Court (in other words there will be little if any dispute of material facts that will be decided by a fact finder, simply a ruling on law), it is not as if California could or the other side could withhold legal precedent from the Court (even if it is adverse to their position), in fact the lawyers could be sanctioned for knowingly withholding case law that is on point. Further, the Court performs its own research, review, and analysis of the existing case law. In my opinion there are far to many safeguards for these types of abuses or throwing of a case.
This article seems very American in its pathology, fear, perspective from a "person with issues".

While I find the article rather disgusting, it is this person's right to think this way, and I have no problem with that. However I think it is the case (no idea why) that far, far more American women think this way than European women. On the whole.
It's an awesome eye-catcher, they should make a JQuery plugin (if it doesn't already exist). And the code is rather (minified) simple:

https://gist.github.com/grundprinzip/5868304
Hey look. More creepiness re: Snowden from ArsTechnica.
Since you can already code, I'd say you are already ready to go. 35$/h is not a lot. Why not start now?

You could take up a job you can do from home. Then you could still adjust the hours you bill so that they seem fair to you. Like if you spent 8 hours reading a basic JavaScript tutorial to figure something out, don't bill 8 hours (or maybe do, it depends on your judgement - I think all dev jobs require some time spent on learning, too, so it's not completely unfair to bill for it).
Hey look, more hatchet job done Joe Mullin. Fuck that guy, and fuck ken fisher for defending him.
Chances are woman would look at you differently if you weren't a blonde man from Northern Europe. Because in countries like Sweden (perhaps your country?) a disproportionate amount of rape (80%) is performed by immigrants of Middle-Eastern / North-African descent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fEhy0H3fsM

Of course a big problem in this is the religion of Islam, which values woman lower as man anyway and kafir woman (unbelievers) even lower still: http://bulletinoftheoppressionofwomen.com/2012/01/27/rape-te...
It seems to be down for me, anyone have a mirror?
Food and housing are both a scam, depending on the school--where I went, it was significantly more cost effective to get these things from the free market than to live and eat on campus. Textbooks are also a scam. Often you could buy international editions but god help you if you were assigned problem sets.
> If we were to convert to a STEM-only curriculum, I would be gravely concerned for our future.

Amen. I remember this study which said that studying English Lit. reduces police brutality. This makes sense. If a policeman has to read Steinbeck in college, this makes him think about his clients and the nature of the law that he has sworn to uphold.
I think even the public can comprehend the 1st amendment. Could Greenwald go to jail? Possibly. But then the justice department would have every lawyer looking to make a name for themselves chomping at the bit. A case like that puts you on the fast track to the Supreme Court.
I assume the writer's trying to sell the company on the strength of the team, getting them (and him) jobs and hopefully returning his investors' money.

This is a good goal to have when your original plans don't pan out, but the writer needs to internalize that if it doesn't work out, the members of his team will find other jobs and be fine. His investors will be fine, too - they knew the risks going in. And finally, he will also be fine. He should try to sell his company, but if he doesn't manage to do it, he does not need to beat himself up, or feel for a second that he's failed again - which, based on the tone of his post, I'm a bit concerned he's going to do.
Anyone else get the H. Beam Piper reference?
Dialer that predicts whom you will call.
I completely agree. It's awesome in theory, but I would hate this feature if tons of sites started using it. It could get out of hand very quickly.
As a dependent student, I couldn't get anyone to loan me $60,000. :( As a freshman at 18, they'd only offer me something like $4500 in student loans, and I ended up not being able to go since I had no access to enough money to cover a $20,000/year in state public school. As an independent student, the most I can get is something like 13K in federal loans (and maybe a 5K pell grant). I can't get anyone to give me a private loan since I have no collateral, even though I have good credit.
The best thing is that they are nominated to some Design Award http://cssdesignawards.com/search.php?search_term=kintek&sea...
sorry, my joke detection algorithm sucks.
Game of Drones: Does NYC Have an ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ Problem?
thanks, I'll try your level. I saw a really cool looking car on the world "sail" after 1219 generations https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14074521/genetic-cars.pn...
I don't think they create an account for you, they just compute a score based on your activity on social media accounts you already have.

So if you have a twitter account, they can generate a score for the twitter user using publicly available information and then if you sign up to klout, link these existing calculations to the newly created account.
Looking at the nation-state idea via the perspective of the US is probably going to be misleading. The American countries are former colonies where the colonists (as opposed to the colonized) formed countries and the nations were formed from those countries.

European nations mostly predate their states (at least in the minds of the people). You can be Irish-American in the US. That is a different kind of a thing to German-Italian. The US version is a nod to heritage. The European version is an admission of a schism. It means German (nation) citizen of Italy. In modern times immigrants do assimilate but this is probably following the US' example. By tradition, citizenship does not imply nationality. You can live in Japan, that doesn't make you (or your grandchildren) Japanese. The Basques are not "Spanish." Kurds are not "Turkish" or "Iraqi" or "Arab." Israel is probably the country that takes the nation state idea most literally.

I actually think the US is the most stable model, because of its flexibility. But, nothing has lasted forever so far.
We caught that one right before posting; I believe it should be fixed now.
WikiLeaks and Assange lawyer decides not to represent Snowden
It makes sense that public universities would become more expensive (because of state funding being cut), but what explains private universities raising their tuition so much?

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76
But how stable would a planet's orbit be in a two-star system?
What do people think if the way Gobolinux does it? It seems a more sensible (and understandable filesystem hierarchy to me, but I wonder if there are problems with the idea).

Gobolinux: http://www.gobolinux.org/
I think you mean "consolation", but I understand the reasons for the typo.
I am curious to see if the business case against the NSA's power will have an effect. Right now I think things favor the bureaucracy. But if Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. make a broad push against it, we could see legislative changes which protect them.

A likely scenario is something which indemnifies them against any losses incurred as a result of foreign suits related to privacy breaches, so long as they're in accordance with US law.
How a photo on Twitter helped kill a controversial Texas abortion bill
NOTE: The article in question is from 2009.

The 1 in 6 (and 1 in 33 among men) chance of being raped from the article is absolute nonsense that comes from a terrible 1992 "survey" by the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

That said, excluding prisons, women are vastly more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than men.
What negative consequences do you believe would occur?
And in a 5-4 decision the US Supreme court rules that he can be prosecuted (just looking into my cystal ball)
I like the prop 8 ruling for the fact that it bars interest groups from fighting constitutionality rulings in the future. This basically eliminates the possibility of 'Citizen's-united-ization' of the court system. Otherwise interest groups could dump hoards of cash into fighting court cases that they would otherwise not be a party to. While I would have liked to see a stronger ruling on Prop 8, I'm even happier that the court provided an avenue for keeping money out of the last government institution that has a fighting chance.
Last Day of Armikrog Kickstarter
Man, talk about Jaded!

Well, I want to be a believer, but unfortunately I had the exact same thought when I saw it.
On Losing Our First Hire
This is wonderful - we've had a todo on our board for a long long time to write a very similar tool.

Goddamn I love the FOSS community. Thanks guys!
But the procedural precedent will stick. This isn't the first time a voter initiative was declared unconstitutional because the state government wanted it declared unconstitutional, and it won't be the last.
There's a lot of speculation that Roberts' vote swung the way it did because he was concerned about public perception of SCOTUS in general, and the Roberts Court legacy in particular.

It's apparently a 'well-known fact' at this point that Roberts switched his vote at the last minute on the ACA ruling.
Not impressed with him in the slightest, and he'd be criticised severely if in an American context and the mechanisms shown in this link were noticed.

Lurking on Whirlpool isn't a skill required for championing sensible communications policy.

http://powerhouse.theglobalmail.org/the-australian-governmen...
I'm using arch and it works fine
There's a lot of thinking in engineering, but not much critical thinking.

The type of thinking involved in STEM is mostly instrumental rather than critical. It's about mastering techniques and learning "how".

Critical thinking, on the other hand, is about asking questions, especially reflective questions that are more "why" than "how". It's about examining taken-for-granted assumptions and considering alternative perspectives.

In general, it's much easier to see your assumptions when you are confronted with people who have very different ones. Every age has its dogmas. Studying history, philosophy, and foreign cultures usually opens our eyes to them.
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/...
This one's easy. It's obviously the availability of cheap money (loans) that has caused the price of college to go up. Just like homes and cars (which are equally ridiculously priced), we can only afford them because they are comparatively leveraged. If people had to pay out of pocket for these things, you can bet they wouldn't cost nearly as much. If you can tack an additional X thousand dollars onto the price and only affect the payment for the item marginally, you can bloat pretty damn quickly.

That said, the quality of these things might also go down, but I have a hard time believing our elders got a comparatively worse education/home/car, adjusting for technological advances.

This may be a ridiculously sweeping statement, but I truly believe consumer credit is one of the worst inventions of the modern era, and has drastically reduced quality of life across the board.
I am for all intents and purposes a massive Mozilla fanboy, however I regularly switch to Chromium to use any nontrivial 2D graphics js (e.g. the Python plop profiler).

Not sure why, but Firefox definitely seems to have a weak spot around 2d (SVG?) performance
It looks like they both have taken from twitter bootstrap. Both look like very uninspired marketing sites. Infinum, get over yourselves.
EFF Throttles Notorious Patent Used to Threaten Public Transit Systems
Were they even able to do that, since it wasn't part of the case in front of them?
Google certainly appears to have at least one European subsidiary (Google UK Limited, Company #03977902) and I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't have subsidiaries in most European countries.
The lawsuit targets the Irish subsidiary because that's where the money is. If they move they will probably pay higher taxes. Quite clever!

> The group’s complaint draws on the precedent set in 2006, which found that a mass transfer of data to the US authorities was illegal under EU law... The Swift case was closed when the company moved its data centre from Belgium to Switzerland.
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Sure, my point is that there is a technical legal argument and then there are social mores. We shouldn't let the legal argument start leading our values.

I invite you to actively start photographing or videotaping some strangers if you think such behavior is entirely within people's expectations.
http://codelearn.org teaches rails.
Those aren't rape statistics, they are sexual assault statistics, which she then incorrectly treats as rape statistics. Sexual assault is a very different thing and has an incredibly inclusive definition.

For example, if a woman happened to see a man peeing, in the eyes of the law (in some jurisdictions at least), she was sexually assaulted. If a man touches a woman's ass in a bar without an explicit invitation, she was sexually assaulted.

FWIW, I'm a man and I've been "sexually assaulted" well over ten times in my life.
I hope we can finally see big businesses use all their political clout for the public good for once (well, at least indirectly).
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This.

Every single time I do a hackathon I get job and freelance offers. Being visible and impressing people is key.
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It will become a problem when European countries / organisations start requiring that data cannot be stored or managed at a US datacenter or by a US organisation.

You already see this happening with with datacenter locations...
I'm curious: does state funding apply to out-of-state students? When I went to college in the 90s, out-of-state tuition was about 3x as much as in-state, a ratio that seems to have held to today--at least for my school. I would have expected the ratio to decrease as in-state students presumably received less state funding, but both have risen equally about 300%.

(I worked at the cashier's office, so historical tuition prices are still in my memory, but I have no other schools to base this on.)
Please stop the drama.
On the other hand, I can see why the federal courts don't see that as being their problem. If California wants to have a crazy, dysfunctional, mutually self-vetoing electoral system of both direct and representative democracy at the same time, then that's a matter for California.
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Ask HN: How does Kayak.com referral system work?
Example: when you do a search and click a airline link to purchase the ticket from the first URL contains a forward parameter:

https://www.kayak.com/book/flight?code=1945498033.FWACDsQKhR.0.F.ORBITZAIRSYN,ORBITZAIRSYN.73702.d454964dc0e43df142432c90a5fd16a4&sub=E-150470716a7&resultid=d454964dc0e43df142432c90a5fd16a4&sr=1&pg=0&cp=0-4-5210&sc=4128

and secondly once the forward is complete:

http://www.expedia.com/Flights-Search?trip=roundtrip&leg1=from:JFK,to:IST,departure:11%2F15%2F13TANYT&leg2=from:IST,to:JFK,departure:12%2F15%2F13TANYT&passengers=children:0,adults:1,seniors:0,infantinlap:Y&options=cabinclass:economy,nopenalty:N,sortby:price&mode=search&mdpcid=US.META.KAYAK.MULTIBOOK.FLIGHT&mdpdtl=FLT:JFK:IST

It seems that there is a 'kickback' model here once a ticket is purchased. Any ideas/views from a technical perspective would be appreciated.
hey guys - Mike Young from Digg here. thanks for the comments. would love hear everyone's feedback if you give it a try. i agree on the whitespace too - something we are updating now. lots of fixes+features coming. we're rolling it out today but if you'd like an invite link, please drop me an email...which is my username at digg. thanks!
Virginia will probably be the last state to change. They deny any kind of protection for any kind of sexuality, identity, lifestyle or relationship other than a straight biologically-male man and a straight biologically-female woman getting married. If you want equal rights you end up moving to DC or Maryland. They're getting closer to transpeople getting protected status after a spate of individuals beaten nearly to death in public.
The First Rails App I Built at Google
Thanks, it's just brought back memories of IE6 where a website could arbitrarily read user clipboard without notice
Thanks! You're right, having music notation in Soundslice would be great!
The day Klout scores start being taken into serious consideration in performance evals is the day people start gaming Klout hardcore, and consequently, the day Klout scores cease to have any value whatsoever.

Case in point: some recruiters are starting to take Twitter follower counts into consideration. That trend, coupled with all the perverse incentives associated with having a putatively massive Twitter following, have led to the gaming of Twitter, the purchase of zombie followings, the proliferation of bot farms, and so forth.

We'd better believe the same thing will happen with Klout if it ever becomes even mildly important in professional life.
It's PHP but it is not my favorite, by any means.
However, i am planning to switch the job to get rid of this plague!
Yammer - anyone?
I suspect he has a larger obstacle right now. Heh.
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I'm confused - people consuming helps me because maybe I can work hard to enable their consumption? Huh? Explain how this helps me again?
The not-so-subtle difference is this:

For a lot of crimes on which we have data, such as drug use/possession, the numbers of black people who commit the crimes are proportionally the same as the numbers of non-black people who also commit the crime. That means, for instance, that the percentage of white people who admit to using and possessing marijuana is the same as the percentage of black people who admit to it, and hispanic, and so on. But, if you look only at the number of arrests and convictions, the percentage of black people arrested and convicted is much higher. This difference suggests there is something besides "being black increases the chances of being criminal".

On the other hand, the reasoning in this article is "across the board, being a woman comes with a 1:6 chance of being raped by a man, therefore women will have defenses, here's how to respect them".

Here's another way to look at it: something far less than 1:10 email attachments in my inbox are malware. Yet I take precautions against ALL attachments as a result. My buddy that works in computer security probably isn't sending me a virus, but I still consider the attachment from him to be that until I know better. I'm sure you do too, it's just sane and rational security. Hell my work has banned almost all attachments, and most email services just automatically screen all attachments for evil intent. Even the ones that have a picture from my mom's phone are default considered to be evil and come from an horrible monster. Are you up in arms over this? Do you get pissed about articles about how to safely send email attachments, or transfer files in alternate safe ways?

So why is it that when the odds look to be similar for a woman, but where the consequence is "get raped", it is sexist and batshit crazy for them to be concerned? Why not just have a de-facto "be very cautious" approach?
How do you expect to be great it you don't study greatness?