skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designers have spoken: redesigning iOS 7
By this time, I can assume you’ve formed some type of opinion of the iPhone’s newest operating system. Some love it, lots (of designers) hate it, but either way, I’m sure you have an opinion about it. The design community seems to have a pretty unanimous opinion that the new look of iOS7 is a bit of a fail. From the extremely colorful icons to the inconsistent stylistics, I’m sure there’s something out there a great software user interface designer can point out for fixing.
Ask HN: Have you attended an 'immersive dev school' or hired somebody who did?
Schools like AppAcademy, Dev Bootcamp, Flatiron School, General Assembly, gSchool, Hack Reactor, Hacker School etc... offer 9 - 12 weeks of intense/immersive training in various flavors of web development.

This type of school has not been around that long and have only graduated a handful of cohorts. There's no accreditation for these schools and I haven't found a website that offers reviews of these schools (maybe somebody here should make that site).

There are clearly going to be differences between attending this type of trade school vs. getting a CS Degree, but for employment considerations I would expect that 'outcome' matters more than 'education'.

If you attended a school like this, what was your experience? Were you prepared for employment as a professional developer after the course? If you encountered troubles, what were they?

If you've hired somebody from a school like this, how did you make the determination to hire that person over other candidates with similar skill sets. Also, how do you feel their performance compares with other hires from CS backgrounds?

Thanks.

(edited for structure)
They sell games through the app.
My Excellent $199 Chromebook Adventure ~pj
While over here if you make a terrorism joke and then immediately say that you were joking, you also face jail time.
Well, that's pretty disgusting.
Thanks for this. I was thinking to myself, where have I heard of this before?
Humans May Evolve To Grow An Endless Supply Of Teeth
This made me frown too when I read it in the article (talk about reactionary!).

Monsanto really does seem like the quintessential "evil corporation".

I do like broccoli though!
No, in Europe we have the concept of "freedom of speech has limits". Basically, you are free to speak, but you are not free to make hate speech.
With unreasonable bails, and a "speedy trial" means within a year or so.
Perhaps you could fill it with hydrogen? I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. Hydrogen in a closed-cell matrix seems like it would be a lot better contained and stable than in a bag-of-gas like the Hindenberg.

But this stuff is open-cell, so perhaps seal it into manageable-size beads? Looks like it might hold up to temperature pretty well.

Alternatively, this stuff could be used to produce a lighter-than-air structure in a process that somehow consumes it.
So link to it from your Facebook and Twitter, encourage its spread, it'll get thousands of visits, and if the government is adding its readers to a list then there will be far more people who end up complaining.
There Are Dangers in Drinking Diet Soda
> The first is that even in medieval times parchment wasn't cheap. It wasn't like anyone could get there hands on enough to make 200 pages of gibberish unless they were a relatively wealthy doodler.

But consider:
> The first person said to have owned the manuscript was the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who reportedly was intrigued enough to buy it from its previous owner for six hundred ducats, around ninety thousand dollars in today’s money. (According to the manuscript’s radiocarbon dating, the book was already nearly two centuries old at the time of his purchase.)

Supposing it's random — perhaps the person who made it originally, two hundred years earlier, hoped to charge a similar price from either a gullible patron like Rudolf, or someone who hoped to find a greater fool like Rudolf?
DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy?
That's actually a cool idea - I was sold when I saw the ability to cling it to the wall.

PS: I went to http://cheergram.com/ can I saw the footer twice ("Copyright 2013...")
Keeping Your Online Activities Private Suddenly More Interesting
نتيجة الثانوية العامة 2013 اليوم السابع
Solving the browser crypto problem
Anything by Zed Shaw is interesting. One of the real software engineers. Or should I say "Programmers, Motherf..."
Here's a mechanism that is infinitely times more plausible than the lack of mechanism in any article published so far, which doesn't rely on hand-wavy inter-uterus sperm manipulation:

Mothers with multiple sons (as opposed to mixed gender or primarily female) will have a higher likelihood of having a dominant son, thus more grandchildren, due to one or more of the combination of: 1) competition among sons generates sons able to compete against the larger herd/pack, 2) multiple raffle tickets are better than one, 3) cooperative dominance among siblings (they all work to dominate the rest), 4) in some species, only dominant males are allowed to breed (or are allowed to breed more often), which means that a male will father offspring from multiple mothers, of which sons will tend to be dominant based on their father's genetics, which feeds back on #1, #2, and/or #3.

I'm not saying that any of these are the cause, but they are reasonably plausible, and have an obvious behavioral mechanism that could easily result in the numbers that the research shows.
How I went from beginner to selling my app in the app store in 2 months
Social shopping startup Sneakpeeq raises $4.7m
I suspect that's impossible unless you first reach a full post-scarcity economy of nanotech and robotic servants. For rare conditions, it's not overall cost-effective to spend the necessary money to make them cheap, and for everything else there is too much labor involved to ever be cheap.
at least playing real sports you get exercise.
Cool, yet another sport I can take an active disinterest in.
Batteries 'not linked' to 787 fire at Heathrow
You realize you've essentially state that a free market is not possible in health care, yes?
To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Definition of hate speech - anything that can make anyone vaguely uncomfortable or the government don't like.

It will be interesting to compare east and west Germans on their attitudes towards free speech since the last had to "enjoy" the rule of communist party.

(disclaimer - my relatives were prosecuted in the 40s-50s from the newly empowered communist party in Bulgaria)

When a nation lives trough that you become to respect the almost absolute freedom US enjoys.
So does that mean that when you approach somebody you have something shady in mind? Or are you just above the standard you set for others?
>freedom of speech has limits

Well it's not really freedom of speech then, is it? I understand physical dangers like yelling fire in a theater, but this is limiting what can actually be expressed despite the context. "Hateful language" is defined by the victim's feelings, and someone expressing their speech has no control over that. Perhaps someone innocuously posts a picture of Muhammed unknowing that it just offended millions of Muslims who want him punished for his "hateful language". So you can't draw the line when people's feelings are involved.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
EDIT: -Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
the company's website: http://et3.com/
If what's written in this article is true, that basically means that even hosting a server in the US is basically a breach in privacy.

Do you think this is reliable information?
To be clear, ET3 has nothing to do with Elon Musk.
Perhaps not a list worth $20K but I'd do...

#1 (If you don't have one already) SSL cert.

#2 Marketing, SEO, etc
It is just bad journalism.
There's a paper from the 1990s (https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/10.1.1.43.4892.pdf I think, Pfitzmann 1991) on building an ISDN MIX for anonymous real-time voice traffic. ISDN gives you two 56kbps or 64kbps channels in each direction for voice, which you can connect to whoever you want. So you just keep these channels open to somebody all the time and keep them full of data, even if it's nonsense. Using fully isochronous streams in this way, assuming a fully connected directed graph, which is overwhelmingly probable, it's impossible for a global passive attacker to determine anything at all about who is actually talking to whom, or how much; the traffic pattern simply is not affected by the communication graph.

A thing I don't know is whether Pfitzmann et al.'s scheme held up to subsequent analysis. I haven't even read the whole paper, actually.
I think it's just that nobody knows the answers, mostly. HN is not great for questions that require thought.

Also, btw, I still have your AMOP,a nd it would be awesome to see you again.
Google has fixed its roundabout bug
I wish there was a way to do this search only on the currently visible part of the page. Installing a hit-a-hint type of addon would then be less of a prerequisite for me to use the browser.
If you?ve remapped `j` and `k` to move visually, you can still move linewise using `<CR>` (Enter) and `-`. They are equivalent to `j^` and `k^`.
> You know, that whole "SELinux" thing?

You mean that damned monstrosity I always disable? You're claiming it's not a plot to make Linux utterly unusable?
> You mean you can't make a system prove itself within its own bounds?

No, that's not what the incompleteness theorem says. "proving a system" is not even meaningful.

It says that in all but the most primitively simple systems, you can make statements that are impossible to prove right or wrong within the system.
It really annoys me the way a lot of people picture evolution. The genetic mutations happen before the need is realized. If mutation helps a species survive in it's environment, the gene is carried on through natural selection.

An endless supply of teeth has no environmental advantage in the modern western world. The loss of an adult set of teeth does not inhibit an individual from eating or mating.

However, it will be interesting to see what genetic mutations carry on in the developing world assuming it never attains a western standard of living.
Its the law of diminishing returns. When I had 30Hz and 60Hz monitor on the same desktop (as in I could drag windows from one monitor to the other) it was barely noticeable and not at all distracting.

Maybe different people are more or less sensitive, but after seeing a friend's 120Hz monitor, once I can afford to upgrade my primary display to a nice 120Hz screen I'll never go back. I have a very low tolerance for latency and jitter.

That's interlaced. So 60 fields per second but only 30 frames per second. You can make an argument that proper de-interlacing requires a 60hz display but in practice its only the kind of thing that videophiles will notice.

Not necessarily; AFAIK some stations might still broadcast in 720p60. I think most people will notice that the athletes seem to be "moving slower" if 60i is deinterlaced to 30p, they just won't have the vocabulary to describe it.
I don't think he was hellbanned for the schizophrenia specifically.
When Oculus Rift gamers start running all day long in their Virtuix Omni's, they will indeed become athletes who optimize food intake and workout schedule.
Sin Business – A woman entrepreneur making the right products for women
>-Voltaire

Just FYI: Nope, not Voltaire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
How many of these were due to officer involved shootings? How about how many were shot by officer's weapons?

Further, how many of these were drug related?

Since Newtown, we've all seen increased discussion about the 'need' for more restrictive gun laws.

However, we're still not seeing any honest controls (at least in this unscientific slate article) for how overly restrictive drug laws create opportunities for violent individuals to monetize their willingness to commit violence.

We also don't see any consideration of how many of these people in the Slate article are shot by cops.

Finally, if you consider 43k people die a year from traffic accidents... then you get an understanding of what we're dealing with. Nobody is trying to outlaw cars, which kill just as many people.
Nope, this is what Packages.bz2 shows for Debian 6:

Package: vim
...
Version: 2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1
...
Filename: pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1_i386.deb

And the file is still available here: http://debian.ipacct.com/debian/pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.2.445+...

Edit: and no, it wouldn't be available to Debian Squeeze users, since it is served as an update to Wheezy users and not as a separate package (even if it was, it would have been made available only to Wheezy).
What more could one want than a government who suppresses freedom of speech via an over reaching police force? Wait a second..
Disgusting was the right word for me - I literally felt ill reading those statements. But should saying things like that be a criminal offense? Personally I would say no.

However, I can also understand the extreme sensitivity in various European countries in this area - especially when there are still people alive who survived the camps.
Before drawing any conclusions from this, I recommend reading Gabriel Weinberg's response in the comment section. I felt considerably better after reading it.
Well ... mostly because we haven't found yet such difference (that I know of) and sperm has been thoroughly studied.

IVF in humans can be very telling if number crunched properly - the eggs are extracted and the mother body is out of the equation for a moment.

Now if the sex selection/discrimination is population based - it is simpler and easier to make it in the males. If it is per embryo - than you have no choice but make it in the females no matter how complex.
>However you won't notice the difference between a 30Hz display and a 60Hz display unless playing video games.

This is absolute rubbish. I have an HTPC, and I played with the refresh rate settings on the TV. You can definitely notice the difference between 30Hz and 60Hz. Heck, I could even notice the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz (mouse movement was faster/more fluid).
NSA backlash hits privacy legislation
I had many friends curse programming forever. A lot of them went into the class with the dream of CS as a major and leaving and saying they'd never program again. It's a real shame.
We need some startups to fill the void of typewriter demand resurgence. I can see it now: "100% cyber network secure technology, impenetrable to electronic surveillance".
Thanks for the note. I suppose this is why some reports about use of 4K monitors talk about laggy rendering of the mouse?
"with a finished product"
"Vacuum Tube" should be "Evacuated Tube". It took me a bit of puzzling over why a company specializing in pre-semiconductor devices would be building a transport system to realize that.
Spend it all on an epic launch party. Get the tech press and the silicon valley elite to come. Build so much buzz in one night, all of sand hill road skips work the next day to slide checks under your hotel suite door.
The author doesn't understand the concept of a blimp. The only reason for filling it with helium (or hydrogen) is to counter the atmospheric pressure. Since aerographite doesn't do that (it would just collapse under the pressure) there is absolutely no point in filling a blimp with aerographite.

If you found a way to create a hull that withstand the pressure, and prevents the aerographite from being compressed, why fill it with that stuff in the first place? Just use a vacuum inside your superstrong hull!
I guess I may be biased, because on our office guys also do that, which makes me wrongly extrapolate the common situation.
If you don't have any offices, money or staff based in a country, and no-one visits it (even for holiday), then they have nothing to enforce the law against.
First Posts and Products on the World's Most Popular Websites
In my experience building http://instantdomainsearch.com/ I found that the "slow" part was actually the network round-trip to the server. WebSockets don't make packets move across the network any faster. We came up with a way to select the closest/fastest server when you first visit the site:

http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_name_s...

This works well, but I think I'll switch to Amazon's Route 53 (DNS) implementation now that it can do failover.
"Option 2
Many smaller internet companies, including DuckDuckGo, do not operate their own data-center, but instead are “hosted” in another provider’s datacenter. In DuckDuckGo’s case, they are hosted by Verizon Internet Services. We’ve all learned about the cozy relationship between the NSA and Verizon, it is quite imaginable that Verizon would simply give them access to a DuckDuckGo server, or the load-balancer which is likely owned and operated by Verizon and upon which the SSL decryption key is installed. They don’t need continuous access, 30 seconds is all that would be necessary to copy the cert."

And Gabriel's response to that:
"There are many additional legal and technical inaccuracies in this article and I will not address all of them in this comment. All our front-end servers are hosted on Amazon not Verizon, for example."

Might as well %s/Verizon/Amazon/g…

I also found what Gabriel said here to be interesting:

"We have not received any request like this, and do not expect to. We have spoken with many lawyers particularly skilled and experienced in this part of US and international law. If we were to receive such a request we believe as do these others it would be highly unconstitutional on many independent grounds, and there is plenty of legal precedent there. With CALEA in particular, search engines are exempt."

So apparently speaking to a couple of lawyers who are probably not upon the FISA court (who apparently pretty much just stamp what has been decided) now have a say in whether such actions can be taken by the NSA and whether they are unconstitutional are not?

Don't get me wrong, I've been using DuckDuckGo for a couple of years now, but that's laughable.
Announcing Kunjika, a Free Software Stack Overflow clone
I am actually in this situation (roughly speaking). Although I have a bit of a head start, I just signed a deal for $30k of funding. It is designed to carry me six months (i.e. $60k salary for half a year). I know this is not that low by some startup salaries (I lived off $35k/year in my first startup), but I have many more expenses now like a car payment. I am not building a "finished" product per se, but a prototype to demo for Kickstarter and raise my next round of funding. Six months is a fairly short amount of time to build even a game prototype, but if all else fails I have $20k saved up myself and I can also sell of my car. My project is at gavanw.com if you are interested.
Thank you for the link. Amazing.
Like US freedom to joke online in a way that some Canadian women thinks could be a terrorist threat?
FTA: For those who say that they wish there was more attention paid to the substance of the NSA stories than Snowden: here is the list of the NSA revelations we've published over the last month. Feel free to focus on them any time.

http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/07/nsa-revelations-ov...
Timeline of Edward Snowden saga
Because it seems that most of these people are making troll comments, like yours, although that's an even more subjective judgement. Anyway, it's important to detect overt abuse of the community, because in some cases, things can be done to preserve the community.
Tons of other stuff is digusting too.

That shouldn't make excuses and laws to ban free speech.
Photographer.io now has beta Dutch and Polish language support
I would also mention following tutorial on CLJS: https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs
Sounds like a nice shorthand for asian americans :)
You don't want your hydrogen contained, you want to be able to vent it quickly in case of fire.
Probably the lawyers are experts in the FISA court.
Indeed, audio production would have been but one of the use-cases that would make me interested in an Optimus.
Reports of Java’s death greatly exaggerated
Thanks.

Regarding the Russians: Oh, I see, now. Yes, you're right that if country X cracks our encryption, we can't assume that they didn't get help from <insert China or Russia here>.

> for example a near-real-time flight application.

Wait, why do you say such a system wouldn't use NSA-grade encryption?
That is precisely what I was looking for (and from Norvig, no less). Thanks!
There is a protocol called Zerocoin which may be integrated with Bitcoin. AFAIK it is currently being tested. However it's not sure if Bitcoin developers will integrate it with current protocol. In theory it makes possible to do totally anonymous transactions.
Various sources are regurgitate the claim that building such a track would be cheaper than either a high speed rail or a highway.

Maglev tracks (of any type) are much more expensive to build. Evacuated tubes safe for human transport and standing up to the rigors of catastrophic scenarios will not be cheap either.

The TCO of a maglev track and cars can be lower than the one of a traditional rail and cars because wear on the maglev track is much reduced compared to traditional rails.
Copy-paste of recent Yahoo news which was already fairly bad.

Discussed on HN 4 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018064
I'm sceptical of the pricing. I can certainly see their best case costs being as claimed, but what about practical realities like safety access (every how many metres?), land purchasing, endless lawsuits due to the electromagnetic radiation, needing multiple tubes in order to get reasonable throughput, NIMBYism and all the other crap that goes along with large civil projects.
Contact with lawyers with access to closed hearings and classified proceedings?

I wonder if Google talked with those lawyers too…
So, you're not free to speak.

Because somebody else gets to decide what's "hate speech".

Speaking against the aristocrats, back in the day, would also be regarded as "hate speech". Or speaking against class privilege, now.

And of course, anybody talking against mass immigration (which, as a social phenomenon has a lot of downsides too), will easily be classified as "hate speaker" too.
Stickers: From Japanese craze to global mobile messaging phenomenon
Reimplement all the things (refactoring code)
Yeah, but I still agree with the article.

If the information flows via machines located in the US, NSA can get to the information at several levels.

Then it also depends how much of the law, NSA makes for itself.

Like any HN reader that lived through dictatorship governments can attest, what the law says and the secret services do, doesn't need to be in sync.

And opposing them, well, there are plenty of ways to change people's mind that the right way is to help them.

If this is the direction the government will carry on doing, good luck opposing them just by switching providers, without doing anything more active.
Thus article states that the NSA will get the information anyway. Even if this is true it may be a good thing to choose a search engine that makes a point of at least not tracking you itself. Sadly Google has much better search results...
You don't even need to ask ddg for a private key, go straight to certification authority.
>I think you will find "causing serious offence" is also a crime. At least it is in Australia. Which means even jokes and flippant remarks can result in criminal convictions if you didn't show enough sensitivity to some minority group.

Yes, after fucking over the native population for centuries, hunting them like animals, and closing them in concentration fuck-camps, suddenly the Australian government is all-too sensitive to the effects of ...hate speech.
Does anyone have a mirror of this article? I can see the Reuters one fine but this isn't loading at all for me.
Scarcity of braids and the rising price of propperty in China.