skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, attendance to something like this won't be anywhere near 100% of the people who express interest. Especially considering the prestige of MIT and the publicity, I bet a lot of people are considering it but ultimately won't be able to go because it's really far and a long event around midterms time.

For reference (orders of magnitude different, I know), I organized a local hackathon and heard from probably 100 'interested' people. We ended up netting 30 registrations, which was the cap for our venue, but I only actually turned 2 people away. So 2/3 of the developers that I spoke to and emailed personally couldn't make it, and that was in the city they already live in.
My jaw just dropped! juo@millersville
The Old Reader RSS app closes registration after months of 'hell'
There's an issue in convincing people that harm is completely continuous. If there is a perception that there is some culpability in performing some action, regardless of how small, then it is easy to exaggerate it to a significant quantity in their mind. This would make society increasingly hostile and litigious for even small gestures like offering to watch their stuff while they visit the restroom.
That'd be awesome, especially the photoshops. Some people really ought to grow thicker skin. I think many of these people who can't take it ought to spend a few months on 4chan as an unpopular tripfriend.

Fez was one of the best games I've ever played. It's a masterpiece. But Phil Fish allows himself to be trolled and does a great job of feeding them.

Only a fool expects the world to change in order to suit him. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen, or at least refrain from sticking your dick in the deep fryer.
Well, I'm a humble uOttawa student, but I did get accepted to Waterloo ;)
Can anyone convince me why I should contribute to this project when I can already use the following?:
[[bitmessage.org][Bitmessage]]
[[freenetproject.org][Freenet with a chat client]]
[[gnunet.org][GNUnet with chat]]
[[i2p2.de][I2P-Messenger]]
[[retroshare.sf.net][RetroShare]]

PS
You could also apply a simple Icecast and/or MPD video stream under those proctols, even [[stomp.github.io][STOMP]].
Can you elaborate? We probably don't actually disagree. Did you mean because I extrapolated to all of psychology?
It isn't, it is just that when the exchange rate comes up it is always expressed as yen vs dollars when it seems yen vs pennies seems more appropriate, same order of magnitude and what not.
> A simple bunch of ingredients mixed together? Isn't that basically a recipe by definition.

No, the usual recipe of a daily meal is way more complex than the composition of Soylent in terms of the variety of elements/proteins you get.
Maybe it is because we do not want many new users who are not bright enough to navigate the website.
Every action on the website, including upvoting, clicking 'reply' (to a comment), using the add-a-comment textbox, and submitting things, will ask you to either log in or sign up if you haven't done that before.
Episode 3 of this tv show is very relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes
When gravity is no obstacle
I agree with you but that has nothing to do with the point being discussed here in this particular sub-thread.
Brilliant TV show about tech and society
It's bearable. I avoided Tor for years thinking it would be too slow. My mistake. You can even watch YouTube on it.
"The vast majority" is putting it lightly. All but one 1-star reviewer have zero other reviews. And the one 1-star reviewer with multiple reviews is Richard Bennett of ITIF, someone who is verifiably real and biased against the book.
Nitpick, but its worth pointing out that Hacker School as a program and an institution is a very different beast than App Academy, Dev Bootcamp, etc. and is somewhat mischaracterized in the article.
Dan Ariely's Coursera on Irrational Behavior spent much time on current research in these areas. Very interesting (and a good/fun course, should it come around again).
It actually depends, I used to live in the melbourne suburb as a grad student, I used to pay 800$/mo for 1 bedroom apartment. Now I am living in the US (in northern VA, DC area) I pay 1200$/mo for the same standard of accommodation. In fact, the melbourne accommodation was better, w.r.t. the condition of the apartment and the degree of accessibility to the public amenities. The suburb where I am living now (in the NVA/DC) is literally a ghost town, where the melbourne suburb was very alive.
SQL Server Standard is $2K per core - with > 4 cores per socket, things flip around a bit.

I'm not a SQL licensing guru; so perhaps I'm confused as well...
Lisp is probably never going to get huge and that's ok. It's a niche language for a subset of the programming community that has a specific set of values, and not everybody needs to or wants to share them. Obviously lisp users think you're missing out if you're not using a lisp, and will help you out as much as possible if you decide to join the so called renaissance. However I think the community understands that it's not for everybody.

I also suspect the initial jump into a purely functional paradigm (and then even further into code as data) might be too big of a hurdle to overcome for most developers, who are better off staying productive in their existing idioms.
No, because you can just explain it away by saying there's another rule specifically about cake that undoes the effect.
Ask HN: Any advice on how to survive (and thrive) at a developer academy?
I suppose I should point out that by "developer academy" I mean a class of programs that has sprung up in recent years catering to individuals with no computer science background nevertheless interested in learning enough code to contribute professionally.

After making the personal decision and doing the research, I learned the material necessary to complete the entry exams and apply to several developer academies across (and outside) the country. Now I'm at the point where I'm completing the prework and executing the necessary logistics to attend one in the fall and would love to know from any alums of programs like Hack Reactor, App Academy, Bitmaker Labs, etc.: what did you wish you knew going in? I'm a little late in the game to make much use out of "don't do it, they suck" but I'd greatly appreciate any advice you could give on maximizing the experience! Thanks!
Because they predate Github by many years Lisps tend to have already established other repositories.

That's not to say that Lisp is popular, only to suggest that Github is not necessarily the best sampling of its development communities.
Does this mean some people will be turned away if turnout exceeds capacity?
I'm reading that book right now and I absolutely love it.
I also suspect that Github might be a terrible sample of the overall programming community. I'd be curious to find out what the real numbers are if we also take in consideration the large corp, gov and science conglomerates who might be using anything form COBOL to Ada.
You can, but then you need to stay within the limitations of GitHub pages:

- Needs to be versioned with git to be deployed

- Space limitation (I assume, not sure what it is)

- Deploying new content to S3 is a lot faster - github pages has some sort of build process with a substantial delay
Correlates? Are you trying to imply that it's not causation? The experiment randomly assigned people to groups and then increased the cognitive load on one group. Then it found a statistically significant difference between groups in a particular measurement. That's the most basic way of showing cause and effect. Go ahead and talk about how it's not that simple in the real world, but don't imply that such a correlation isn't because of causation.
Yep, this is how I think about TDD too.

Testing is a good tool for QA, but I find it's even better as a tool for design.

Writing code that's designed to be testable helps clarify responsibilities, dependencies, interfaces, and relationships.

The bit where you actually run the tests is less interesting to me. :-P
Anecdotal evidence is not scientific, but this makes a lot of sense in the context of my life. At work, when I hit a tough problem, I'm much more likely to tab over to HN or reddit, yet I've found that somehow I manage to hit the deadlines at the same pace regardless of how much I force myself to focus.

I do think though while you might be drawing from one 'pool', it's a pool that you can work to expand. To me this seems to be the same vein of psychology that makes ADHD medicine ineffective for kids on the long term. There's one pool of resources you are drawing from but like muscular strength you aren't doomed to your current limits.
I just mean that the claim can't be tested directly because the brain is more-or-less a black box.
I seem to remember Kevin Mitnick making use of this feature at some point, I think it was the time he's trying to make more than one phone call from inside prison; he basically never hung up.
Tipler, "Rotating cylinders and the possibility of global causality violation" Physical Review D, vol. 9, Issue 8, pp. 2203-2206

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhRvD...9.2203T
You do belong! but need to clear your head. you will think more clearly if you do the following 4 things:

1. get good sleep. 8-9 hrs for at least 5 days.
2. go to the gym. run. lift weights.
3. eat healthy. no sugar.
4. try to reduce your stress.

also may want to consider seeing a psychiatrist. they may add 5-9, but will start you on 1-4.
Motivation, passion and inspiration are mostly figments of the mind. It's the dopamine hit you get when you learn something for the first time or when you come up with (what you think is) an inspired idea. Just like a hit of cocaine, the high doesn't last forever. What you want to do is establish routines and habits. When the excitement, passion and motivation wears off, what's left is the routine.

"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work." - Attributed to Chuck Close, echoed by countless writers and artists.
Quantum Computers Will Give Artificial Intelligence Big Boost, Studies Suggest
Applied Minds?
It being what?
Everything has exceptions. Look at how balloons fall up! I do not understand why you think "increased cognitive load lowers willpower" is something that can't be objectively measured and shown to be true or false.
That's not really how it works. Either way, you shouldn't be using just a regular "hash function" anyway. Even basic constructions like PBKDF2 use HMAC constructions where SHA1 and even MD5 are still pretty safe to use (although not very computationally expensive.)
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I thought (although I could easily be mistaken) that one of the big features about SQL Server 2014 was its lock free tables [1].

[1] http://sqlserverrider.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/hekaton-recap...
For what it's worth, I wasn't disputing the results of the experiment, I was disputing the claim about the internal model of the brain. Yes, people chose cake more frequently if they memorized a 7-digit number and there is causation there. This might even happen if the sample represents all of humanity. But the explanation as to the mechanism for this in the brain is hand-waving.
Life imitates art?

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

Is Mike already lurking in some massive instance?!
I spent a lot of time on http://buildafund.com/ which is a tool to create and track custom mutual funds. The end goal is to allow other users to invest in funds they can see are doing well.
That's crazy... I think I'll contain my frustration more now when my GPS takes a few minutes for a cold lock. It's even more crazy because with the latest GPS systems in phones, I'm able to get a fix with only a very small portion or even no sky visible.
How do you measure cognitive load and willpower directly? I can only think of indirect methods.
in general github rankings are not a good measure of anything. f.ex. javascript ranking as #1 is no wonder, when every other web project packages some jquery plugins (or jquery the lib), and even docs often have some js in them. the ruby bias was also noticable on github from the beginning (while f.ex. I believe bitbucket has a python bias), one can only doubt it dominates less cool languages in the wild.
Bloomberg is comparing apples and oranges, to the point of caricaturization. They are also link baiting with false statements.

First, the link bait: "The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services." Funny thing is they actually cite their data source, so I downloaded the Excel sheet and looked for myself. The $106,385 is the "Average Covered Charges" for "238 - MAJOR CARDIOVASC PROCEDURES W/O MCC" at Cleveland Clinic. If you read the definition of "Average Covered Charges", it is not the cost of the procedure. The cost, aka "Average Total Payments" was actually $26,898. That's what medicare pays, including co-pays, deductibles.

I spent a few minutes browsing http://my.clevelandclinic.org/ - the Ohio Cleveland Clinic has over 3,000 physicians and scientists, 1,700 residents and fellows in training, with 47 buildings on 167 acres. They helped develop coronary bypass surgery in 1967.

Shetty (the "Henry Ford of heart surgery") is standing on the shoulders of giants, and as well he should. The Cleveland Clinic and Narayana Hrudayalaya coexist symbiotically, and I'm happy we have both in the world. Coronary bypass surgery has to be invented first at Cleveland Clinic before Shetty can put it on the assembly line.

If you have the time, read the Cleveland Clinic's 2012 Annual Report (http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/71bd62a6#/71bd62a6/1) and you can see what they think they are doing differently to provide the best service, continue driving innovative research, support their local community, and reduce costs. Take a minute to appreciate the breadth of research that goes on in their facilities, in areas including high-performance computing, robotics, 3D printing...

Cleveland Clinic had $228m in Operating Income on $6.2b in Revenue in 2012. Their $6b in expenses are dominated by $3.5 billion in "salaries, wages, and benefits" which unfortunately is not broken down much further that I could find in the report. "Functionally" their expenses are $4.7b healthcare services, $450m on education and research, and $663m on G&A. I was disappointed to see their education and research expenses are less than their G&A, but it's hard to draw conclusions from such high-level data. It was interesting to note they have $1.6b of accumulated pension benefits, which are 68% funded.

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be anything resembling a financial statement on http://www.narayanahospitals.com/.
I'm glad she's back. I always enjoyed reading her articles back when blogs were new.
That may be true, but you can still make models and qualitative explanations. Something can still be valuable without being precise.
Very interesting.

I'm not very familiar with Javascript but :
The design used to solve test problems here is to pass the useful variables in the parameters of the function instead of using global variables.

Is it not slowing down all the program by passing all these variables by value ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/518000/is-javascript-a-pa...
Definitely a beginner's thing. The hardest part when coming upon a subject is learning enough so you can get around and pick and choose what to study next. I think this niche is still starved for good starting material, so if you got the basics of music theory along with the basics of Overtone, well that would surpass my expectations of the dream book I'm looking for in this area--mainly because Overtone seems to have momentum and appears to be the right technology on which to place my bets at this point (I have considered ChucK and Impromptu before but never took the plunge.) Also a great excuse to learn Clojure.

Regarding your publishing system, is it something you can point me towards?
i hear stuff like this all the time. all it accomplishes is to make CS a field of very similar people that happen to have the required mental models for entry. it's ridiculous. other fields don't have this arrogant "you either get it or you don't" attitude. even math, the most opaque of opaque subjects, tries to dampen the learning curve to thinking like a mathematician.

most kids that weren't living their childhoods on a computer simply don't understand how to think about computers and programming. to deny them entry to your field because they can't figure out how pointers work is toxic - especially when introductory CS classes are huge and students don't get much one on one help.

programmers that think like programmers are a dime a dozen. programmers with more diverse mental models are the ones that innovate, even if it takes them longer to grok programming.
Yeah, I agree, I just don't like it when people aren't clear that something is only a model and we actually have no way of knowing. (At least presently.)
There are 32 from Indian Institutes of Technology. (But the data is under various names.) IITs (acronym) are unique because its a really small system - graduating 2500 students across all 5 IITs in 1996 for example. Would be one of the few foreign university systems to bubble up.

How: Look for the words or substring "Indian Institute" and "IIT".
ME too. She's brilliant. Her blog was some of the most insightful work I've ever read - http://headrush.typepad.com/
also known as the Startup mom, making sure all the children(Founders, Employees) don't starve and die in the office.
Cognitive load is hard to measure, but you don't have to measure that part, only induce it. There are plenty of ways to get one group performing easy tasks without much thought, and another performing tasks with a lot of thought.

With willpower you can be more clever. You don't actually care about an abstract willpower meter, you care about the application of willpower to make good choices. Application is downright trivial to measure in a narrow way: just provide a tempting choice. Do the same thing with as many different choices as you can think of and you've shown that willpower is impacted.
We're a Microsoft shop ( "gold partner" ). We have to throw nearly $1m at them every year and they reward us with expensive license audits and absolutely fuck all support.

It still takes us weeks to get a hotfix for something yet if they think we owe them something, it's instant audit.

It's bloody depressing really: products are going to shit, prices rising, support declining and we're treated like criminals.

That's where you BizSpark customers are going to be the moment it expires. You have been warned.
While that may be true - its completely opaque in its design.

I have been on HN for a few years - and I found an article that I needed to comment anonymously on due to it being related to an employer... I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to create a new account and had to email HN directly.... A real person had to tell me how to create the throwaway... this could be done so much better by on of those things, what are they called when you have to answer commonly asked questions?
You do realize what's his 'profession' right?
I have read his book aside of his many essays, so I can agree his style is lengthy - that's actually the only issue I may have. That doesn't change the fact that his arguments are well-thought and usually supported by references. You don't have to agree with him or like his style, but bringing it down to a 'TLDR' is silly, his writing has more substance than the usual blogosphere content posted around and it's worth taking those few minutes of overhead (instead of scrolling some blabbering on twitter f.ex.).
I'm certainly open to the possibility, I want to end up with the best possible open-source PaaS system.
Do you have any Ubuntu instances running or saved? If not, then they would have no reason to notify you of the issue.
Leap Years and Testing - Rails
7 Year Old Girl Becomes First Person to be Diagnosed with 2 Types of Leukaemia
The author mentions Lisp on Android. Shameless plug: https://wukix.com/mocl
Nothing educates you like an actual personal loss. If its always other people's money, people will figure out how to game it. And those okay with gaming it will soon crowd out the rest, as they can work for less because they get paid extra for gaming it.

If the banks writing bum mortgages had to take the loss instead selling all the losers to Fannie and Freddie, many bum loans would have never been made.
Thanks for the clarification - that does sound more nuanced than what I gathered originally. It actually sounds like a quite interesting way to do discussion - I'd love to hear more, if you've fleshed it out any further.
Or you could have been Adbrite.... or AdEngage.
The interesting takeaway from the article is that Elisp is probably the most popular Lisp. That might be an important fact if you're an autodidact.

As to your second point, I think code-as-data is both a smaller hurdle and a bigger part of Lisp than functional programming, which was always more of a thing in Scheme and really didn't catch up to "modern" FP until Clojure. Any programmer can appreciate the usefulness of macros and templates. The argument for pure functional programming is a lot more cerebral.

I'm sure I would have been more productive if I only knew one language. The "which language should I use?" conversation that seems so debilitating would simply never happen.
Mmmmm..... Funnel cake.

(Sorry)
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Phones in general are ridiculous for authentication. You can spoof nearly every bit of data, and there's no way to know, and little weird bits of flotsam like this float to the surface occasionally and make it even worse than it normally seems.

If only I could ask them what their favorite restaurant is, maybe we'd finally have two-way verification. Nobody else picked McDonalds, right? That's a safe choice?
Ask HN: What are the relative values of online marketing metrics?
Dear HN,<p>I've been working on a spreadsheet for the online marketing campaigns of the new company I work at. Currently page impressions, open rates and click-throughs are each valued as equal actions.<p>It seems obvious though that a click-through from a banner or link (whether it be from an email or website) is of more value than a page impression or open rate. Does anyone have any insight into what value we should be applying to each of these metrics (or if there are other metrics that should be considered)?<p>Considering Google ads are done on an auction system I guess they are a good indication of market valuation of each action but I am hoping to hear HN's opinion on this.<p>(Of course please feel free to go off topic.)
Err, no.

In the UK we have a thing called Northampton bulk court. This is an automated court which is used to issue fines and summonses locally. people can actually integrate with it with their billing systems.

I've had three summonses for things that weren't valid/legitimate. Each one of these costs me literally a day to sort out.

The cost of each of these "misses" costs someone time and money. They should be fined for each invalid claim.