skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait a second, $60,000 for a one-year program?! Wasn't online education supposed to be cheaper to deliver, more efficient? They claim class sizes of no more than 20, but this is a graduate program, small class sizes are the norm in graduate school, so that's not really anything terribly impressive. I'd really like to hear someone explain why this program is so expensive...
I'm a man and my favourite set is violet/purple along with red. What the hell does that say about me?
I thought this quote was great: "Russia is a state that is effectively run by its intelligence services. Mr Putin is a former KGB operative. Spies and their cronies dominate his inner circle. Indeed Russia – which has become Mr Snowden’s temporary protector – is the perfect illustration of his argument that a state in thrall to its intelligence services would be a frightening place."

It's funny how much the US is starting to parallel this, or perhaps already does (or even exceeds it, and we are just starting to realize it).

We did have one president who was a former director of the CIA, as recently as 1988, and then his son for 8 years.

When we live in the information bubble of US media, we don't think about how it might look to a foreigner. Kind of like a goldfish not noticing the water he's swimming in.
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I saw something on a tv show that looked like a gel brick. They were planting saplings and burying a brick next to the roots, which they said would deteriorate and release water over a weeks (months?). Any ideas what these were?
The Future and Past of Computing with Dan Bricklin
>You give large corporations way too much credit. There's no evidence beyond your conspiracy theories that this is a feature designed for anything other than convenience

Yeah, excepting the whole NSA issue, the fact that Google was previously caught/accused of war-driving every wifi net they could see with their streetview cars etc.

While the feature may be convenient, that does not preclude the worst case from also being true.

Facebook is convenient, but its pretty well proven now that the data conveniently stored within is harvested and mined by "infiltrators thereof"
Asking for a gender on a signup form with binary choice is a good way to end up at the center of a protest from the perpetually aggrieved. Repeating the sender's name in consecutive clauses is clunky and jarring. It would be much easier to just reconstruct the sentence slightly:

"Matt Hofstadt wanted to make your day by sending you..."
Sorry, that doesn't make any sense. The specific use case here is unboxing a new phone, logging in, and having access to all of your standard networks without having to look up your wifi passwords. Clearly that has value to anyone who has ever used a new phone.

But to get to your core point: unless you have an amazing memory (unlikely) or reuse passwords (not unlikely, but, to borrow a term, "idiotic") you have to be storing those passwords somewhere. Password escrow certainly counts as "backup" by any normal definition of the term, although it has some extra requirements.
Thanks for sharing!

The talk is in french so you guys might want to skip the talk and jump to the code ;)
This would require either a whole new field on the checkout form (gender) or some incomplete database lookup for gender-name mappings; neither is a good option. Using 'they' is pretty common practice to refer to someone gender neutrally.
Sorry... part of what I was implying is that the top tier VC firms often have a lot more to offer in what would help to build a great company (better talent networks, better advising, better ins with potential customers, etc).

That isn't to say you should obsess with them; however, if the chances are higher that they'll help you build a better business than you probably should pursue them.
show me a bbc news article about murder, suicide, accidental death etc where comments are enabled? I couldn't find one in the few minutes I spent clicking.
Buy a 1-2 year old car in excellent condition, keep it for a few years, then sell it for almost as much as much as you paid, and get another. No upcoming development is going to change the automotive industry such that a used car in good condition will not be worth something.

Pro tip: this is good advice for buying any type of car at any time.
They already do/did [1,2]. Curiously there used to be a POSIX subsystem (alternative to Win32) but that was removed in favour of SUA.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
[2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
The “Friending” Process: Why We Add or Remove Facebook Friends
Old joke: During the Cold War, the Russians paint the moon red. An American general immediately sends up a team with white paint... to add a Coca-Cola logo.
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The software is open source and can be found at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads

[EDIT] Retracted. This tablet is using entirely different software from the original sugar suite.
DirectFB, I meant (on Linux, typically everything above the kernel is pulled in as needed, no real distro in use).
Soundtrack to my life
A comment in the article pointed out that this one seems very similar to a Cisco article from a month ago: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/hijacking-of-dns-records-fro...
Finding the culprits and extraditing them to Bolivia would be a strong guarantee ;-)
I have an friend's fairly expensive espresso machine in pieces in my living room due to electrical "problems." The (indeterminate far east supplier) blatantly omitted about half the input side circuitry, including the supply filtering. Numerous components identified on the PCB were never installed.

One lonely resistor protected the IC V_in for far longer than I would have imagined possible (years) before exploding.

As someone who is actively working to increase my electrical circuit-related design chops, intuiting how this thing continued to operate has been an interesting exercise.
That's interesting, I'm unfamiliar with what sort of data is available for App Store users, I'm assuming there's no way to really test the performance of different icons?
I don't know about weak. It makes the other party look rather hypocritical if they should ever complain about being treated in kind. This can be manipulated to sway public opinion and that can at times be a powerful thing.
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Can Edward Snowden be Deterred?
This is my list of P2P managed file transfer (and counting):

ShareFest: http://www.sharefest.me/ and https://github.com/peer5/sharefest

https://www.getshareapp.com/v2

http://www.jetbytes.com

http://host03.pipebytes.com/

http://www.filesovermiles.com/

Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998630
Cmd-click. On a Macbook trackpad or magic mouse you can also set three-finger tap to middle click (with third-party tweaks like BetterTouchTool).
Starbucks UK have taken the advice from #6 ("How to keep your plants watered") and accurately applied it to their teabags:

"Loosely plait two or three strands of wool together, immerse completely in water, and place one end in the pail, weighted, and touching the bottom."

Thanks to their kindness in this matter, I no longer need to worry so much about watering my own hands.
Well, slightly more than one year, anyway. Or maybe that was in tech-years.
$3500 is a price for a iPhone on a next day after it is released in US. After that price gradually decreases.
You are right, and I quickly went over it because I was scared of loosing the focus of the post by explaining into details many small parts.

This is a balance you have to consider. If a user never clicks on the link, this method has an advantage over minifying everything since you would load the JS without using it.

On the other hand, if a user keeps clicking the link while being on the same page (Important to stay on the same page), it would be better to have it stored in your minified chunk.

It's a low hanging fruit optimization that can be very useful IMO.
I wonder if it still has the mesh networking too.

They also totally ditched their OS.

This just seems like a stock tablet with some apps preinstalled. The device is a software/design project more than a hardware one now.

Also it seems like they are trying to push the content to the kids rather than letting them explore themselves. The problem with the content push is now you have to provide all the content. You have just created a replacement for a text book. They can still fire up a webbrowser or dig through layers to what they want but it's not the same.

Without a keyboard it is going to be massively less productive. Say goodbye to teaching them programming skills. Kids learning to program on a tablet will probably begin to hate the entire concept as they are fighting a sluggish interface. I love reading comics on my tablet, but I still use a keyboard/mouse device for browsing. A plug in keyboard might help but it isn't enough since its a hassle (Also will they be providing keyboards to students?)

I don't think they are going to be able to fire up a copy of GCC (I remember having a go at C++ when I was like 12, my main problem was getting a compiler and tutorials since I had no internets, now days it should be easy). I learned heaps with qbasic since that was just sitting on my system.

imho tablets are largely hype/marketing. They are a massive growth industry right now because it's a new market and everyone is trying to grab the market share but we aren't going to see desktops/laptops replaced, just augmented. The tablet market will likely die back when it has reached saturation. They have basically 'perfected' the tablet already. People won't really need to upgrade their current generation devices, they already have fast, smooth web browsing, gigs of ram, retina displays and so on. I don't see a new version of Android being released over the next 5 years that will no longer be compatible with the hardware out now (although manufactures might not release the updates for those devices) other then a few gimick hardware features things like NFC or that TV streaming stuff which will be desirable to some but not all. About the only thing would be more storage space which will also reach a point when its enough for most people. Then it will mainly be people replacing broken devices or just needing the latest. Maybe we will see a glassed free 3D display and then a retina version or it. Maybe they will make a transparent one.

In any case the XO project isn't supposed to be about making a product to sell. It seems like it's been taken over by designers.

Maybe for the XO-4, they will do something like a dockable tablet. With Ubuntu's Mir based Android hybrid. You would get the productivity of a keyboard and the power of a full desktop OS under the hood. They could also bring back their Sugar stuff.
Chrome 29 beta adds resolution media query
Distributing iPhones at scale for $920 is a different beast than selling a couple of them for $3500. In the latter case, the costs per iPhone for the seller are much higher.

The game for selling $920 iPhones is "find a price point were demand times price minus cost is maximized".

The game in the black market is "find the highest price point at which the inventory sells out quickly enough".
If you're in the habit of connecting wifi at cafes/bars etc. you can easily run past 10 (wow - just checked the list on my 18 month old laptop, it's currently 110 networks).
What about a test over time?

I'd guess the time scale required is a bit long....
Possibly a transformerless design... regardless I would guess that the DC ground side is connected to AC neutral... (but only when it's plugged in the right way and when your outlet is wired properly), so plugging it in backwards connects DC ground (the exposed shield on a USB connector) to AC Line voltage. ZAP!
s3cmd is to ec2 as what I'm working on is to Heroku.
The kosher-for-passover stuff is only available in the weeks leading up to passover, and I've only really seen it in areas where there are large Orthodox communities.

I do have some friends who will stockpile it for a year so that they don't have o drink the 'swill' that the rest of us enjoy.
Fundamentally at some point there has to be some trust. Equally you could slap your own RFID tag over someone elses (perhaps inducing a high enough voltage to kill theirs first).

We already have issues with bank card scanners placed on ATMs. I don't think we've really solved the problem beyond user awareness and frequent monitoring.
PhantomLobe, you are hell-banned.
Given the value attributed to shipping and minimum viable products, I find it appropriate that HN has validation errors.

Perhaps we should design an image badge that says "This site has invalid HTML!" to go along with Reid Hoffman's motto, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."
Command-click also works.
Do they mention that it will be unencrypted? I don't remember that, and I think I would have remembered that.
Whatever happened to DOSSHELL?
> Setting up a password for an Android device only needs to be done once for each device->network pairing.

So you want _yet another_ password between the user and his magical experience or whatever ?

I see myself as a "privacy enthusiast", and even I recognize that wanting to encrypt wifi passwords in this way would only appeal to ~0.01% of android users.

You could argue that google could make this an option hidden under the three dots / context menu / whatever that thing is called, but there's probably much lower-hanging fruit than this.
Shouldn't the quality be calculated doing DeepSleep/TotalSleep as opposed to LightSleep/TotalSleep?
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Morales' jet was not searched. The Austrian president welcomed him: http://www.voanews.com/content/austria-did-not-search-morale...
Why would you need angel investment if you were profitable? It seems like the terminology has shifted a bit or something.
The title is, I think, a bit misleading. That's because it is not Android per se that is sending your wifi passwords to the cloud, it's the use of the "backup my data" tool.

If you're interested in robust, secure storage of your data, the candy-flavored OS built-in-cloud-tool may not be your best bet. It's only there to check a feature box on a sales card.

"Oooh but I get 5 gigs for free!"
Mass is relative, measured by a standard object of arbitrary mass to which we've given a value. What we consider a "kilogram" is determined by one specific object sitting in a vault somewhere, and if that object were to be halved or doubled without us realizing it, then the official value of the kilogram would be similarly halved or doubled.

Since we determine the mass of things by comparing them against that object, if everything in the universe changes mass in precisely the same way at precisely the same rate then we would have no way of knowing. All we can do is compare them with each other, and relative to each other the masses would remain the same.
Lulu printing is very affordable and the shipping for a medium sized book is 5$ in US, 6$ in Canada.
Outside of North America they charge for 10+ shipping if I am not mistaken...
I don't understand the outrage over singular "they". I agree that it's not particularly logical, but what part of the English language is?? It sounds natural, at least. It's certainly widely used, and will likely become a "correct" form within a few decades.

The OP suggests guessing gender from names. There are too many unusual cases and gender-neutral names to be able to guess gender from a name alone. Even ignoring non-english-speaking world, I know several guys named "Kelly" and "Kim" and I have a female cousin named "James" (she goes by "Jill", though).

Adding a gender field is often not feasible and a bad idea for other reasons (gender identity, etc). It's far better to sidestep the issue with commonly-used-but-not-quite-formally-correct grammar, i.m.o.
Of course. And fast forward 100 years from now when public is smart enough to call this BS and after spending trillions of tax payers dollars on programs like this one, the last resort would be something like this:

"God forbids all those reports of people being abducted by aliens were real, we would have a tool to analyze the data from an alien abduction and like 44th President said once hundred years ago: if it saves one life, then it was worth it!"
It also looks like the other 2U online college program (MBA@UNC) is about $93,500[1] over the course of the degree.

[1] http://onlinemba.unc.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid/
Yes, much better when there are none or very little phone subsidies. They actually compete on services.

Unfortunately, since the iPhone, carriers in many countries have started adopting a very similar subsidy program to the one in US, and the value/buck has done downhill since then. But the pre-paid market is still alive and well at least, and you can get a ton of minutes and data for small prices.
> There was also quite a bit more advertising for the bigger brands, which leads me to believe they have to work harder to acquire and keep customers

Nah, don't be fooled. Most of the time, The Big Three (MTS, Beeline, Megafon) have almost identical pricing. They have been under regulatory scrutiny for price fixing more than once. Besides, there are several ridiculous features here (like inter-regional roaming, when you pay significantly more in different cities). However, it's really easy to buy a sim card, and that's what many people do, they have a Moscow SIM card and a Saint Petersburg SIM card.

Quality of data connection is usually about average, could be better, could be worse. FWIW, I live in a small city (<300k pop).
Interesting thought, thanks! I was thinking an approach like that would be good for non-dictionary words.

One of the things I didn't go in detail in is the issue where there are multiple pronunciations for a word - I was thinking that the way to address that would be to compare pronunciations between lines, but looking at metaphones across Shakespeare's work overall might also help build a solution to that.
Bolivia lost all diplomatic credibility with Spain before this plane landing incident.

The Bolivian government unilaterally nationalised subsidiaries of Spanish private companies without any explanation, in exchange for nothing. I really doubt Bolivia will get the apology they believe they deserve at the EU level.
And if an experiment gets the result you want, condescendingly dismiss any attempt to question its validity.
Let's buy HackADay (indigogo Campaign)
Back to my Mac pretty seamlessly establishes an ipsec connection back to a time capsule or other Mac on your home network.
http://shop.beeline.ru/msk/iphones this is weird. Maybe they haven't updated their site though.
Or use a password manager, which does proper encryption.
Seriously, unlike 99% of hackernews users, if the average smartphone user even knows what PRISM is, he/she probably doesn't give a damn.

And carriers go where the money is. This sounds like a purely economics driven decision.
Curious what you mean by "kind of leaf behind the standard way"? We've been pretty impressed with storm, and are cautiously eyeing Datomic (the closed-source community makes us pretty cautious to rely on it too heavily).

Similarly, the ideas behind pedestal are intriguing, and while we won't likely switch into it wholesale without a much better understanding, we would love to curb some of their techniques.
I think so, since it's fully community made, and beyond the "official" CyanogenMod team, there are hundreds more developers making "unofficial" CM ROMs for other phones, and they get to see the code, too.

Plus, the CyanogenMod team is now working on encrypted end-to-end messaging that is built-in:

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/23vfN2qdZTu
Seems like you can take advantage of the fact that a) footnotes come after the links in the body to them and b) footnotes start with 'f'

https://gist.github.com/aJanuary/6021827
Thanks for that, but in truth, I don't want lots of features - I want to send a piece of text to a URI and get back a string from which I can pick out the lat/long.

And you've given me no indication of how to find what you're recommending, apart simply from searching for the text "Nokia here map/geocoding". Is that what I should do to find it?

Added in edit ...

So now I've done that search and found a description. Based on your recommendation I decided to try it, so I clicked on the link on how to get my API credentials, and I got this:

404 Not Found

Code: NoSuchKey
Message: The specified key does not exist.
Key: docs/maps_js/topics/credentials.html
RequestId: 92390AF64837E443
HostId: <omitted>

An Error Occurred While Attempting to Retrieve a Custom Error Document

Code: NoSuchKey
Message: The specified key does not exist.
Key: /error.html

This seems typical - things just don't work.
Just what I wanted to wake up to. Client emails asking me why their sites were down. Sigh.
How is the bio data collected (by what device)?
You'd think that it would be a good idea... until someone decides YOU are going to be the target of a DDoS attack. I speak from experience. I have many (at least 15) years of experience dealing with DNS and hosting of it, yet when a bot-net decided to attempt to use our DNS servers for a reflection attack. Obviously the servers were setup to not allow this, but the sheer volume of the traffic making attempts was still enough to saturate the connection with our provider at the time.

This is only one of many possible scenarios with self-hosted DNS. Essentially there are services out there (generally Anycast are best) that do only DNS and have had very high up-time. I'd suggest if you are anything over a 'small' target to look into these services. Sadly it's one of the few things I basically suggest not self-hosting at this point simply due to the unrealistic requirements to scale it yourself under attack scenarios.
I know what you mean. But an object of 1Kg today would still be 1Kg in 1000 years since everything gained mass (that includes what you are using to calculate the mass)... but like I said in my first response I am in no way the best person to give an answer to this question (still I lost karma :P). It is just a subject I find interesting!
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Really wicked API. Got to see it a week and a half ago when three friends and I attended a GoInstant hackathon. There we built a web IDE for web languages. The really neat thing is it was collaborative (like google drive) and persisted what ever people we were working on, though our project was completely client side.

GoInstants API took care of both storing our data, and relaying changes between clients. Really really useful and easy to use.
Some secrets best remain
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It's pretty darn funny....must watch to the end
Name five statisticians, now name five young statisticians
true. at dwolla we've taken from USV, AH and other great VC's. They have helped tremendously. It's just not the end all and be all. Product is above all and VC's can help shape it but just a PSA that people shouldn't obsess.
If time is relative, and mass is relative, and space is relative ... then what's the point of science?
Also, I have my Shift-TAB bound to menu-complete-reverse. The way I got it to work is to chuck these two lines into ~/.inputrc

TAB: menu-complete
"\e[Z": "\e-1\C-i"

The second line is the non-obvious one, can't remember where I found it. I wasn't able to get this to run unless it was in .inputrc though.
Ask HN: Ideal skillset for Data Analytics?
Hi All,
I would like to know what are the ideal skillset which is required for Analytics (Data Analytics, Big Data Analytics, Data Modelling etc,) Shortly, the skill sets required to shine in the field of Data Science. I did google about this and did a bit of homework.

Programming Language/Packages:
R
Python
Posgres
Hadoop/Hbase/Hive

Theoretical Knowledge
Statistics
Machine Learning
*Econometrics

It will be great if people can also point out to the appropriate resources also :)