skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be looking in the wrong place.

Faculty and other teaching staff are not usually paid directly by students paying tuition. At larger research universities, tuition might not even make up a significant portion of their salaries (which are also paid by things like government grants, interest on endowments, etc.). They are paid to do research, and their incentives are aligned not toward better teaching but toward publishing and bringing in grant money. Teaching is time-consuming and takes away from those activities, so not all professors like doing it or do it well.

The people who in my experience are most responsive to undergraduates (and their parents) qua paying customers are administrators and "development" people. These people are paid to bring in money in the form of tuition and donations from parents and alumni. With them, you can expect to get some pretty special treatment if you're willing to pay for it, though of course that special treatment isn't supposed to extend to how you're treated in the classroom. And there are good reasons for that: not everyone can pay full tuition, and students shouldn't get more attention/higher grades/etc. just because they're paying more.

I'm not saying this is the way things are everywhere, and I'm certainly not saying it's the way things ought to be. I do think that many faculty need to take teaching more seriously, and their incentives should be better aligned in that direction.

Still, I'm not convinced that education would improve if faculty started seeing students as fee for service customers. In the extreme, I think that would tend to increase faculty's tendency to pander to students, instead of creating and sharing new knowledge with them.
Except that by count of pages, Euler is the most published mathematician ever.

Who is the most prolific mathematician? Either Leonhard Euler, if counting by single authorship, or Paul Erdös, if counting by collaborative publications. -- http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_most_prolific_mathemati...

The most prolific mathematician of all time, publishing close to 900 books. -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/11/the-10-best-ma...

Euler's work in mathematics is so vast that an article of this nature cannot but give a very superficial account of it. He was the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time. -- http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Euler.h...

He is considered to be the pre-eminent mathematician of the 18th century, and one of the greatest mathematicians ever to have lived. He is also one of the most prolific mathematicians ever; his collected works fill 60–80 quarto volumes. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Oh, not for this particular instance. Just that she has ruled in such a way that Zimmerman is at more of a disadvantage than he should have been as a defendant.
That is how the legal system works, so do you seriously plan to arrest the NSA?

But the topic here is about maintaining a secure system. You must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that every element is either secure or allowed to be owned by your antagonist. Technically no one should have ever trusted something that can not be observed (and it sounds like the people responsible didn't.)

If you chose to trust intel for no good reason, then you must now untrust them given that there is a reason. As a company they would be idiots to introduce such a thing. But if every US company can clearly be threatened with even worse outcomes into going against its own market interests then such an argument does not apply.

As a side note, I do think there was already plenty of evidence that the US was actively forcing companies to do the NSA's bidding. The encryption export laws were largely designed to keep everyone who makes encryption products perpetually afraid of losing all their right to export anything mostly by "governmental discretion" on handling the companies inevitable 'incidents' of support talking to the wrong person about how RSA worked.
maybe the key is not an increase in fees, but in a stricter admission.

Even in Italy everybody does university, even the ones that do not want to study: they find some subject like "political sciences" and lower down the level of the degree.
Somewhat related, there's a great This American Life episode on the same kind of subject called "The Convert":

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/t...
I think a zener diode based solution will suffice in a pinch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_generator
"David House, a former MIT researcher who cofounded an organization to raise money for Bradley Manning, accused the Department of Homeland Security of violating his civil rights when he passed through a Chicago airport in November 2010."

"Homeland Security agents did not have a warrant when they seized House’s ­laptop, camera, and a flash drive, then asked him questions about his ­relationship with Manning."

"The Department of Justice had tried to have the lawsuit thrown out, asserting that the government has the authority to conduct routine searches at a US border."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/30/supporter-leak-s...
It's getting harder and harder to find a distro where systemd isn't a hard requirement. I am hoping Debian will keep the choice of sysvinit available.
> list += seq

uses the __iadd__ method, which almost certainly uses the exact same mechanism as the list.extend() method. When this method isn't defined (c.f. the Counter class from the collections module), a += b works like a = a + b.

> from collections import Counter
> c = Counter()
> c_old = c
> d = Counter()
> c += d
> '__iadd__' in dir(c)
False
> c_old is c
False
> a = []
> a_old = a
> b = []
> a += b
> '__iadd__' in dir(a)
True
> a_old is a
True
Yes there are and it would not hurt to use RdRand as part of the mix in entropy pool.

The current flood of posts comes from the fact that Linux allows RdRand to bypass the entropy pool.
How about a country which doesn't spend trillions on spying and thys probably doesn't have capacities anywhere close to those of the US, secret or not.
I'm pretty sure it's standard jekyll http://jekyllrb.com/
It's not like muslims need to be "baited".

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/vubyx/only_a_tiny_m...
It's like Google doesn't even realize.
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No, he didn't. He said it would cause embarrasing damage to the US Government, not to the US per se. Besides this is no news, Snowden himself said so earlier.
tl;dr: Don't bother with confidence intervals. Use a G-test instead.

Calculate it here: http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/g-test-calculat...

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-test

And plain English here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_ratio_test
You can't believe that providing 1 bit of information
every four years is sufficient to maintain a democracy,
can you?

Novelly and thought-provokingly put.
You can use Chromium. There is no way using closed source Opera is safer than open source Chromium.
It's sad but accurate. The safest route for the reporter is to sell it to people who want to attack their enemies, the vendor wont bully them, administrators wont attack them and you're shielded from criticism.

It's unfortunately common for administrators to believe security is the state of perpetual ignorance of vulnerabilities that affect them, if Windows Update says "No updates available" then you're secure. If you tear them from that blissful ignorance, then they get angry and shoot the messenger.

Security researchers do not introduce insecurity, they expose it. This is apparently a very hard concept to grasp for a lot of people.
I agree there; somehow I got the feeling that mostly Chinese and Russian folks are using it, meaning that up-to-date resources/tutorials in English are limited.

One of the major things in v1.x that put me off from feeling too comfortable with it was the lack of coding standards - naming conventions, spacing etc. This might be personal, but to me that was one of the little annoying things that didn't really let me make the switch completely.

v2[1] addressed these things which may lead to a better adoption. It looks pretty promising, but it will need more time to become stable.

[1] https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2
Monads Made Difficult
Seth Godin's stuff is great! http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/
You are technically correct, but coming up with those magic numbers(43, 48, 63) requires the user to manually try and find them, is more error-prone, and requires a whole lot more keypresses for larger blocks that don't fit on one screen.

I would argue that the author's way is the more idiomatic usage of vim.
SaaS spending trackers?
I've recently come across Sush.io.
Are there other services that do something similar?
I'd be interested in something for personal usage.
Would you feel comfortable submitting your username/password to a site like this (since it seems that many SaaS' do not have an api to pull billing data from.
lol, thanks, i fixed it
Is it still maintained? I used to use it but it didn't seem like it tracked well with FF updates. Just tried on 22 and doesn't seem to work correctly anymore. Bummer. :(
This looks interesting, I might use it in the future (currently a Rackspace customer). I'll definitely keep an eye on you though.

Do you have plans to add any other features to the service (I know one of your selling points is keeping it simple, but that doesn't mean adding other features is impossible!)
I'm going to guess that it is a little fancier than that, because simply being "always on" would kill the battery, the CPU would have to be constantly running hotword detection. It needs to have some kind of extremely low-power hotword detection for this to work. Like with Glass, some of the conspiracy nuts in other forums are out with ideas that its recording everything and piping it to the NSA, but that's unlikely for a device where they've hinted battery life was a major thing they're concentrating on.
But what exactly is "holding back"?

I feel like Linux distros today come with too many crappy, overthought, over-engineered daemons that don't really offer much over the previously available interfaces. I guess parallelizing init scripts or making dependencies more explicit is a good thing in some sense, but I have to say, it's a breath of fresh air to see something like a *BSD system, which has an /etc/rc shell script that is easy to follow. Unlike Linux which frequently seeks out complex solutions from simple problem spaces.
The article mentions Rogers as 'one of the most popular Canadian cellular companies' but the term 'popular' implies Rogers is liked, however in my limited experience they are either universally reviled or many feel indifference towards them.

They are effectively Canada's Comcast (largest cable company) so take that as you will.
but then how you will make money. For the survival we need money,how do we get some money.
If you will put whole energy on your un-monetized website,you may have a difficult life,I guess.
Fix the known bugs: Gerrymandering, campaign financing.
Right, now I remember - just double-checked, and Crawl-delay refers to seconds, not minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl...
The 'answer' is light on technical details, however.

Given a 'random' number generator which always outputs the number 4, how can you attack ARIA, DES, 3DES, ARCFOUR, AES, Camellia, RC2, IDEA, SEED. That should be easy enough to show.

Now take a random number generator that seems random when N values are graphed, when N is small.

How do you exploit that?

How about when N is large? How about when N is huge and you've got researchers writing programs looking for predictability?
Oh come on, really? I thought Hacker News was better than this sort of thing.
(I'm from Europe) Does the word "socialism" actually mean something different in the US, or is it just an abuse of notation? I see this all the time. I don't see what worker-owned means of production has to do with the efficacy of healthcare.
This reminds me of the incident in Florida where a teenager fell in love with an undercover cop stationed in a high school, who did not smoke pot, but after the cop insisted he get her marijuana, he was arrested.

This article talks about that and a bunch of other stings. An undercover cop in NYC tells someone he has an iPhone for sale and he really needs money to feed his daughter.

It's pretty sickening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/teen-falls-in-love-...

I think there's been plenty of times NYPD has baited Muslims in mosques.

And the FBI has been known to do the same thing. Cooking up terrorist plots and hoping people will join them. Ridiculous.
Sell a pair of blue jeans and live like a king for a week
Awesome! You might consider removing the years before 1978 on the FISA Court page though:

http://www.plainsite.org/courts/index.html?id=223
No. SPF13 and the other so called "distributions" are the worst things a new vimmer could install. Starting with vanilla Vim is the only sane option if you are serious about it: learn the basics, get used to them and, if you don't like them, create your own mappings and/or look for plugins.

Be a Vim user, not an SPF13 user.

Also, you don't need to remap <Esc> to <C-p> as there's already <C-[> or (the slightly different) <C-c>.

And it's Vundle, not VBundle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy9tNyp03M0
Picnicmob was a really clever idea. I think I remember that it got cancelled though, which was unfortunate.

I like the tutorial though. I'd be willing to bet it's his style and work that inspired the "Learn you a..." books. The Haskell one is great, and so is the Erlang one.
In the leaked Rogers video, they say "OK Google now, what is the weather." Maybe that is the keyphrase?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUmuI...
It's been fixed and shouldn't be a problem now. Link to the PR: https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2
Ask HN: Are television news stations no longer a reliable source of information?
In light of the recent verdict of the George Zimmerman case, and the witch hunt seemingly propogated by television news sources, is it unreasonable to believe that television news stations can not be trusted as an honest medium for which information, not pseudo-knowledge, to be presented?
I'm a PhD student working in machine learning, on the border of mathematical optimization. I also have a research project about mapping influence and innovation in the history of contemporary music, with ML tools.

I heard about HN from my brother, who's a psychiatrist. I wonder how he got here though.
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"You must use the .md file extension for your files. Also, you must use underscores instead of spaces."

Why? Are we still using MSDOS or something?
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What do they mean by "New Google"?
You know you don't need Powerline to display information like line number in your statusline, right?
Is mathematics necessary for programming?
The problem here, while it does create some "criminals" it won't help in the slightest against real threats. It diverts attention from them if anything.
Show HN: Indentation markers for HN comments (CSS hack)
Use this add-on [1] or the userContent.css file in Firefox.
That’s what it looks like: http://oi44.tinypic.com/2je5usy.jpg

@-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com/) {
td { vertical-align: top }
td > img { background: repeating-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(0,0,0,0) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 40px); margin-top: 4px; height: 10px !important; }
}

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/generic-css-loader-2/
Cool demo gif, but what is 'j'? It distracts from seeing what 'graf' outputs.

It looks like some overblown 'cd' command?
After a little trial and error, it appears that Python caches the values in range(-5,257).

> -6 + 0 is -6
False
> -5 + 0 is -5
True
> 256 + 0 is 256
True
> 257 + 0 is 257
False
Please go back to Stormfront and the pathetic circle jerking of /r/atheism with this hate. This is HN.
Ironically the screenshot shows Python code.
srm and shred are both filesystem and hardware dependent, and are likely not to actually overwrite the original bits on disk for many common setups these days. Never write anything raw to disk that could complicate your life if it were disclosed to the entire world somehow.
> mechanisms by which an egg can somehow "sense" and reject sperm.

Evolution doesn't work like an engineer. If you or I were going to sit down and say, "Hmm, how do we control the sex ratio from within the female's body?" we'd come up with things like a mechanism to differentiate the sperm and then try to apply that to a mechanism to block or help one group or the other, because modularity is good and such.

Evolution doesn't pay attention to the mechanism, just the result. Maybe it happens that one type of sperm is disproportionately affected by acidity levels or viscosity of cervical mucous or any of potentially hundreds of attributes of the environment the sperm will be encountering between meiosis and conception, and that's assuming any differentiation happens pre-conception. If there is such an effect, there's a good chance evolution will "spot it" and exploit it where the gain outweighs the cost; the female has (evolutionarily speaking) far more motivation to make use of it, if it involves any tradeoff with chance of conception.

Note that by his hypothesis, smaller litters or longer time between pregnancies probably is what you'd see if the decision was being made in the female's body, whether pre- or post-conception.
I'm not sure about list += one. Would have to dissemble to determine "why". The '+' operator is not defined for all possible sequence types (could never be given user definable types). So, in many instances (e.g. adding tuple to list) l=l+s will TypeError. += for list must be defined to "cast" the sequence into list. Something like "l = l + list(s)". List constructor must iterate over the sequence to create list. By definition a sequence must be iterable. So l += s will work for all (s).

"is" operator determines if two things are the same thing, contrast with two things evaluate to the same value, "==". It's probably implementation dependent but "same thing" is same memory location. CPython "interns" (keeps a table/cache) of small integers rather than allocating them anew (for speed and space efficiency). All names referring to the value of integer '4' are referring to the same value. Possible cause integers are immutable. Were as names referring to larger ints may or may not be referring to the same value, even when those values are equal.

Default mutable arguments have been talked about a lot. Google it. You should already grok it after learning what OA taught you about names / reference and knowning that function/method definitions are executed once (at import/"parse"). So, the list that the name "mutable" refers to is created once, when defined (which is usually once But inner functions and programatically generated functions could be more). All calls of that function will be using the same name "mutable" all of which refer to the same list.

def func(mutable=[]):
mutable.append(len(mutable))
print mutable

I'm not sure what is meant by class attribute and esp, given that he just wrote whole article on how names (attributes are names) don't have types, values do, what is meant by list or int attribute.
http://pastebin.com/WPBdUy36
What sort of thing? Tons of data with references?

Or are we only allowed positive views about one of the most violent dogmas in the world?
I disagree with the UK stance on such things but such behaviour on your part would rightly be taken as proof of ill-intent because it would be an unreasonable thing to do and so could only have been intended to avoid complying with the law. These people may be 'unreasonable' but they are much, much, much cleverer than you.
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I think this was/is a smart move for Nokia.

They were right to predict Samsung would be the major Android player.

Instead of competing against a company that already had a major lead and essentially becoming one of the smaller fish in a larger Android pond, it's taking a bet on becoming a large fish in a smaller pond that has very real upside potential. I stress potential because we've all been a little disappointed with Microsoft's latest maneuvers, but there's still a chance for the company to turn it around.

At the end of the day I respect such a great risk being taken at a massive firm (you don't see a lot of that these days). Nokia still believe a third ecosystem can be a very real option for smartphone consumers and they want to be that third option. Takes guts. I'm all for a little more competition.
seriously saying,I don't think ads are the true solution for a monetization. Users are visiting on our website to read content(or to use our service) and if we show them ad they will leave our website.We don't want them to leave, i invested $1oooo+ to bring users to my website and now i showing the route abandon my website...

In the fastmoving world where everything is going better, it is hard to believe that ads are still surviving and sitting comfortably; where all entrepreneurs cleverness goes , why don't they solve this problem.
So, now that we now Samsung is somewhat dominant in the Android space we get an explanation that the reason Nokia went with WP was that Samsung would be a dominant player in the Android space.

I guess I would have been kinda impressed if they actually gave this as the reason two years ago.
I'd like to see some numbers about `in Italy everybody does university`, maybe also showing how most people do "political science" sort of thing and how THAT is supposed to lower down the level of the degree, because it looks made up.

OTH It's true that a lot of people drop out or take way longer than they are supposed to graduate. In that I agree using a stricter admission we could let fewer people to get university education but there would be more funds to treat them better.
They're exactly the same, except the seller turned it on beforehand to check for defects.
I'm a bit puzzled by your post to be honest;

While there are significant numbers of Chinese and Russian Yii developers, it's always been an English first project, all documentation is in English (as well as other languages) and almost all 3rd party extensions are written in English too.

Regarding coding standards, Yii 1.x code does indeed have quite a cramped style and this (afaik) was never documented, it was more of an informal agreement between contributors to maintain a consistent feel. But why did you find this a barrier for entry when writing applications on top of it? It's only whitespace and of course, you're free to use your own conventions in your own code.
You make it sound like the US doesn't do anything similar.