skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that slurping the content and meta data is bad, and I get that keeping that is bad. And it must stop. And I'm glad people are doing stuff to change government behaviours.

But still, I look at stories like these...

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/29/37770.htm) " Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped teenager's speech impediment for "disrespect," so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from "upward of 20 police officers" after the boy rode his bicycle home to ask his mother for help"

(http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/2-officers-out-of-jobs-in...) Woman calls police for help; is repeatedly tasered and pepper sprayed

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm) 86 yr old bed-ridden woman tasered after pulling knife from under pillow

...and I wonder why Americans aren't vigorously campaigning for better law enforcement.

These aren't hypothetical abuses that might happen in future under a worse government. These are all actual examples of abusive law enforcement, that are affecting real people today.

Having your medical needs neglected until your penis rots off and you die of penile cancer (http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/dec/10/cover/) is barbaric.

Popehat has all of these here: (http://www.popehat.com/2012/05/02/citizen-incredulity-and-la...)

> This is the flaw with the idea that you don't have anything to hide.

I'm not saying that people don't have anything to hide. I'm saying that even the people who do have something to hide have more important things to worry about than NSA slurping 3 days of content. (But not that the NSA slurping that content is acceptable, it isn't.)
No wonder, just look at the code: https://github.com/ben-eysenbach/do_good/blob/master/do_good...
I've always found it's a lot easier if you learn the language (And others' habits & conventions) before picking up the framework. Rails will come a lot easier after you're familiar with Ruby and getting the correct environment setup (RVM/RBEnv, Familiarity with popular libraries, etc)

Best of luck!
> 1996 United States "dream team"

1994 :)
"Sometimes you have to consider the possibility they are getting the results they want." --Atrios
I am curious as to why no one has built a web/mobile app to make this easier for the sellers.
>Why do we celebrate this theme of Professor as omnipotent, benevolent dictator of the classroom? My last year in school the combined cost of tuition, books, and room and board hit $40,000. At what point do you become not just a student, but also a fee for service consumer, with an appropriate set of expectations for some level of responsiveness and customer service?

We don't celebrate it since a long time.

Alas, we have lost it to the cry-baby, demaning consumer student attitude, you very well describe.

That's why university studies are going downhill. He is not there to learn. As a customer, he is, after all, always right.

And if the customer demands an A, he shall get an A. Or maybe a B, is the professor resists giving an A to a C minus student.
Well, I suppose it could have been some kind of mind trick, but the lectures I did attend were real snoozers. The old man would open up with "So as I was saying ..." and then launch mid-equation into whatever he was talking about last time. Like literally "So as I was saying, delta-aich over delta-tee ...."
Thanks, most people do. However, I'm afraid the concept is a bit too "puppies and rainbows". It won't be an easy road to get to the point that our products resemble the concept. In the meantime, we've gotten back some feedback (mostly from the aquaponics subreddit) that our existing prototype ( http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/48893635647/autonanofarm-... ) is too expensive and not high-enough quality.

So, there's a lot of work for us to do yet.
I have a problem with setting the expectation that in order to be a valuable person or good student, one must be better than everyone else. The bottom quartile of Stanford is still pretty damn smart.

We can't expect to be in the top 1% of achievers, because by definition everyone can't. So you end up with 99% of the population that has failed to live up to expectations and deal with the economic and psychological consequences of that. Always, with no exceptions ever, as a matter of statistical fact. That's just stupid and unhealthy.

People should be encouraged to go above and beyond, but making it an expectation of all students is just stupid. If all students could do it, it wouldn't be above and beyond.

We should be looking at absolute measures of competency instead. This eliminates the problem of the A student who didn't actually learn the material, as well as the C student who is perfectly qualified. I would love to see schools raise the standards for "Pass" to a useful level of competency, then grade everything pass-fail. The very best students could still shine on the basis of the quality of their research.
"Rich argues, that defining both lists and vectors with parens (in Lisp list is '() and vector is #()) is complecting."

Really? That strikes me as, well, kind of absurd.

The author of the linked post complains about the use of exceptions over conditions, but you can define conditions using dynamic scope anyway: https://github.com/bwo/conditions
Statements vs Expressions
I accidentally created something like that some time ago. But using website do deliver the script is problematic due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy
>The first key is the ability to recognize that a student or class of students is not understanding an explanation, and generalize it further or change the example to make it more clear. Do that ad infinitum

Em, that's spoon feeding knowledge to a group of random people, with no expectations from them or their previous qualifications.

Might be OK for elementary school, but it's not a good definition for a university professor.
I never argued that. I was arguing that the evidence that was hidden was obviously likely to influence the consideration of the prosecution's argument to the defendant's benefit, and by the law all such evidence must be turned over to the defense. On the contrary, there's no law that any evidence that might make the defendant look worse must be allowed.
Past my edit window. Thanks for the correction.

P.S. I do still have my edit window for THIS comment, so I'll add a (user-edited, alas) link to a description of the 1994 United States IMO team,

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

and a link with IMO results from 1994:

http://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=1994
When space weather attacks
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Steve Jobs cared *intensely* about market research. Video proof.
Oh yeah. Everyone in the target market knows what it is, otherwise it's pretty obscure.

It's a logic test required for admission to law school in North America, highly competitive.
>The NSA never cared about listening to everything, that would be completely unmanageable

Someone sure hasn't been paying attention.
Is it weird that when I saw the headline I thought this was going to be article about how calling a guy creepy is the same thing as slut-shaming but for males? And that this guy was going to offer up a sort of fix to the problem of inappropriately "creep-shaming" men? Instead I got a humble-brag that reinforces the creep narrative.
https://t.co/ALOfgu1Ab2- This twitter shortened version seems to lead to an unlocked version of the story.
I am sorry that your product failed.

Would you mind sharing with us what you think had caused your product to fail?
This practice is deplorable.

It presumes that individuals have infinite electrical and computational resources, which is utterly false. This sort of computation is inherently going to degrade the functionality of computers, and will severely impact the quality of browsing on resource-constrained devices like Chromebooks (which is what I'm writing this on) while siphoning resources from me, wasting my time and money. It's this sort of degradation that compels people to use ad blockers. Excessive and superfluous resource use ruins the web.

Doing this surreptitiously as he suggests is outright predatory and is altogether reprehensible.
Ask HN: What do you do for SEO?
Curious to hear how other people think about SEO. What are you guys doing for SEO today and when do you start worrying about SEO? Are you using agencies, doing it yourself, etc.?
Brings this to mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
What about if the UX of the Root Certificates management gets betters? In OSX keychain you can just click on e.g. the DoD CA root certificates and permanently un-trust them globally.

We need an easy and good UX for every new thing, so why not improve the usability of the existing X.509 world instead of re-inventing the wheel?

Eg. S/MIME support in recent versions of Mail.app and iOS mail got really nice. There is improvement, it's currently just enterprise-driven.

We need to talk to the industry leaders like Google and Mozilla to fix their horrible X.509 browser experience and make this thing available/usable to/for consumers, too.
But were Finns eating too much food 100 years ago?
Probably not, considering their daily caloric expenditure at the time.

"Too much food" is of course relative to how much food your body needs, given how physically active you are.

But, I suspect that Americans on average both get less exercise and consume more calories than they did 100 years ago.
Lots of things I've seen show hardware random number generators to be flawed. That particular device looks much better than those older devices.

(http://www.robertnz.net/hwrng.htm)

(http://www.robertnz.net/true_rng.html)

EDIT: here are some more devices, but I have no idea if these are any good.

(http://www.westphal-electronic.com/)

(http://www.trng98.se/shop/index.php)

(http://www.comscire.com/)

(http://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generators/products...)

(http://www.letech.jpn.com/)
Of course, b and c are completely irrelevant as reasons why nobody built a business model around that.
New York's MoMA is such an insult to one's intellect
Here's my two pence as a student,

I highly admire the approach of prof. Dijkstra here, since the purpose of going to University is to learn the most we can, from people who know the stuff they're teaching very well, or have the ability to understand said things at a deeper level than the student currently has.

Thus, I cannot see how paying tuition entitles us to demand a professor to do X/Y/Z for us, we're paying not for them to be at our feet, but for access to their understanding of subject matter, which often (depending on the prof./University) is world class.

I also do not see how the professor comes across as omnipotent here at all, he gives students complete control, as can be seen in If I use a word you don't recognize or a sentence you cannot attach a meaning to, it is your duty to ask for clarification. If I go too fast, it is your duty to slow me down.

We pay for our professor's time, and very often the professors who treat the students as adults are the most effective, and are contributing not just to the knowledge of the student, but to their growth as independent thinkers as well.
I also found it especially interesting how much interaction the religious leaders have on Instagram for the size of Kuwait. For example, http://instagram.com/mishari_alafasy is the grand Imam of Kuwait. 15K likes for his following size is very impressive when compared to other Instagrammers with similar following sizes.

PS. He shared his profile from my app on his Instagram profile and our app immediately shot up to the top 10 apps in the Kuwait app store, and number 2 in photo and video. Users thanked him, and thanked Allah that he had shown them this new app.
I've been using tcplay on Debian for about a year now.
In summary, I think the article is a great way to learn about category theory by building on your knowledge of Haskell, but it is more complicated than necessary to help with understanding Haskell Monads.
I appreciate the encouragement! It's always a bit disappointing to get no karma from such a long thought out comment.

You know, I've actually written about that stuff on my blog linked in my profile. I also put up some videos of me reflecting on my time at the school that I hadn't initially planned on sharing since so many people have emailed and asked me about it.
My read on this is that the software doesn't matter very much, it's the network. Everyone's on instagram, and so you may as well sell on it. My guess (correct me if I'm wrong) is that Kuwait is very cash based for this stuff, and so things like credit card processing don't matter. If that's the case a picture stream is a pretty good approximation of a store's 'inventory,' and the slight benefit of making this software fit the needs of the seller better would be far outweighed by the fact that they would lose the buyer network.
i could not care less about sysvinit because systemd is working fine here.
I wonder what state of mind suggested throwing "asshole" around all over the place leads one to think it's a good stylistic device for a semi-technical article. The text feels like it's written by a 3-year-old just after learning a forbidden word.
I totally agree and think this is an important line to draw. If it's anything having to do with offsetting the core unit economics of the business, I'd get worried. E.g. Not correctly determining the cost of delivery as Instacart b/c the founders do runs sometimes too.
This might mean a return to the 80-90's where the vendors were responsible for an uniform hardware + software experience and no crapware was being installed on the systems.
A great article. One major point that I think would have been worth including though is that if you are not interacting regularly with happy customers, and making unhappy customers happy, you are denying yourself probably the single most motivating factor when doing a startup. A single positive review on the App Store or through e-mail can get me through an entire day of grinding out bugs. If you don't have the humility and empathy required to genuinely enjoy providing customer service for a product you have developed, then you are probably in the wrong game.
You will never be forced to use systemd. You may have to stick with running debian 7 forever and backport your own bugfixes though :P

Unless you're suggesting that developers forcing users to upgrade is bad; users forcing developers to continue providing support for deprecated software forever is good?

> BSD should not have to implement Linux semantics just to start the userland.

If neither BSD nor Linux supported files, and then Linux added support for files, would you suggest that we refrain from making file-based software, and continue giving all apps raw disk access for sake of compatibility?

Using cgroups for service management is that kind of fundamental good idea - the BSDs don't have to copy the linux API, but they should really provide something similar
Give it a thought for a second.

Does the degree of inconvenience caused to you - in requiring you to figure out what LSAT means - necessarily require that you record your disapproval here?

The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.

Source:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Actually, there's this portuguese startup already working on something similar: http://crowdprocess.com

And they are solving very interesting and useful problems. Like for instance execute calculations that help firemen predict the direction of a fire front.
>A colleague had a student mutiny because he refused to put up his lecture slides for download.

I am an educator:

It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.

When Dijkstra says "You will be treated as grown-ups" - this is precisely an example of where you must take this advice and assume that students are asking for genuine reasons.

It's entirely reasonable to offer freestyle lectures (as Dijkstra apparently did), but the only reason to avoid giving students full access to a complete set of written educational material for the course is through laziness/inability to do a proper job or a wish to inappropriately exert power in the student-teacher relationship.

The students were absolutely right to complain here.
Mine is opposite your opposite. :) On my 2.5GB, 1.8GHz Core Duo Thinkpad from 2006, Chrome handles dozens of tabs in multiple windows like a champ. Firefox pre-24 was noticeably slow with just a few tabs in a single window. It's been unusable for me since 2011.
Abandon is too strong. Microsoft depends on PC OEMs for most hardware innovation (for Intel that includes Ultrabook). Microsoft could become more proactive and lead, it has the talent and the desire; it is already doing it with Phone and Surface.
Men aren't the only ones who just won't take a hint. I had a woman that I finally had to physically stop her by twisting her hands when she pulled the chair I was sitting on out because she insited on dancing with me.

So yeah please everybody try to learn to take a hint.
>Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much.

No, it does not negate it one fucking iota.

Appreciating a beautiful woman or dress is not sexist in the least. Period.

Appreciating the beauty (in your eyes) of a person of the other sex, and even more, gathering some courage to go and talk and flirt, is how you (and me, and just about everybody fucking else) got into this planet. It's the very basis of every love story.

Only a prudish society, which evolved politically correctness to take the place of its older puritan religious blockings, would ever make the claim that this is the same thing as being "sexist".

What exactly would be the "right thing"?

To only ever be attracted to a person you're in a relationship with? To which you'll end up with in a magical unicorn way, because it would be sexist to like (and even lust) for that person (and, say, his smile or her dress) before you are together?
But systemd already works in Debian. Though it's optional: http://wiki.debian.org/systemd
It's not an interpretation, it's a suggestion of a more specific (which is what I meant with "refined") idea. Both the article and the linked fellowship description only mention a very broad topic.

A bit like when I tell you that I'm making a salad, and you suggest that I try quinoa.
This is great advice. But I wanted to briefly mention an alternative perspective. We did things very differently.

Now two years later we have 250,000 monthly users, and we're getting ready to roll out our technology to them in a few months.

When you are building an app for people, businesses, or whoever, you have to go where they congregate. Pick an existing social network with a messaging channel that people haven't grown apathetic to. Then you have to have an onboarding process that's simple. Then you have to develop a sales process and maybe even incentivize your existing users to sign up others. Viral coefficients decrease your user acquisition cost. And so forth.

That's why we built our framework. We spent two years solving the problem of "how do you build the next generation of successful, useful apps? And soon we will see if we were right.

I wrote this back in 2008: http://luckyapps.com/blog/?p=12
> The problem [...] is that [...] making it much harder [...]

But the title of the article is "Monads made difficult", so I don't understand why you think this is a problem.
Downvote LOL.
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Not to mention: I know several very happy couples, were the other person ignored and or denied the other's approach for a long time, before they finally clicked.

Should the approaching person had quit, lest he be called a creepy sexist?
What? It's not returning 0 from isPrime once it hits a divisor? I think I wrote better prime-finding code in middle school.
> Kuwait is very cash based for this stuff

also, there is no personal income tax or vat, so they can legally post whatever at any time and any quantity and put 100% of cash straight into the pocket - no need to formalize those transactions, no IRS hunting your instagramic wealth.
It follows a feminist narrative where woman are asexual beings and sex is something only men like and force upon women. (sex-negative feminism) In such a narrative every statement of attractiveness is ultimately a outing a want-to-be rapist or a predator. If you are in such a narrative it also makes perfect sense to say it's sexist. Outside of that narrative hardly.
Yup. This is straight cut from Control.Category module:

instance Category (->) where
id = Prelude.id
(.) = (Prelude..)
Sounds like a successful academic project but not so much for the industry. I'm hard pressed to find a company willing to use plain, publicly-available Javascript to write their number crunching algorithms. That said, I would loved to be proven wrong - good luck to you!

Berkley has a similar project going on where you can download a program that donates your idle CPU to their tasks.
You can compile away those issues with a sufficiently smart compiler!

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2364563

(Caveat: I'm the author of that paper)
"One time setup fee" of the order ~ 100 EUR per server is enough to deter me from setting up and try out the servers/bandwidth/availability claims etc. on an immediate basis. This fee clearly separates these pretty good prices from Digital Oceans equally good server prices.
Ask HN: Comcast keeps screwing me over.  What can I do?
I'll keep the story short, but after two install attempts and far too many phone calls, Comcast has repeatedly lied to me about what would be needed to install, what speeds I'd get and how much it would cost. I still don't have internet at my Alameda apartment.

I know too much of this is covered by the evil asterisk and the words "up too," but do I have any legal recourse for the hours I've wasted listening to their lies? Is a BBB complaint worth it? As far as I can tell, they're the only ones who can provide service to my apartment. Does anyone know of alternative ISPs in the SF area (specifically, west Alameda)?
In the same way that Android is a really decent Linux rebranding.

But I would ask that the platform be in some way open. Windows has always been open in that it will run on a variety of commodity hardware and there are no restrictions on who can develop for the platform and in how they can distribute their software. MacOS (and iOS) has always been restricted to Apple hardware. So Apple has always been more closed and walled garden-y than Microsoft with the exception that they use a load of open-source software in their OS stack once you look under the hood.

Microsoft (seeing as how they won't go the open-source model cuz it aint in their blood) could try and make the Windows Phone OS installable on a whole bunch of phones, it could allow for easy side-loading of apps and have a very low $ (perhaps even zero?) entry into their app store. That way Microsoft might eventually replicate the dominance they have on the desktop. But even then a lot of geeks are going to be wary.

Android really seems unstoppable. Nokia should never have gone exclusively with Windows Phone OS - it seems really strange back then and it seems practically suicidal now.
"An oath and NDAs prevent me from disclosing the facts to back it up"
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