skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the link. It is interesting to see trajectory of one of your peers. I am from the UofA and want to go in a similar direction. :)
Do you generally do these activities solo?
"Speakers" or whatever you want to call them, but also others. Just a brief glance showed that lots of the listeners posted personal info about what they have gone through. Not sure if I would want the whole wide web to know about my personal mental history.
they could help their search for the right candidate by dropping the unnecessary requirement of a technical degree. you don't need to have studied a STEM degree to know python, SQL, jQuery etc
> who cares if it's written in Go?

HN. Static site generators in Visual Basic, PL/SQL, Java etc are not going to upvoted and will garner no job offers.
lOVE THE lip service. It's extremely consistent with the KA view of "school" -- get the assignment done, collect the cheque.

I'm sorry, but "quality" is not the lesson described in the "open letter.

Quality is not telling students 2 plus itself times one is the same as two times one.

Quality is not stating that concepts are incredibly important, but an average "sort of represents" a group of numbers.

Quality is not mixing impossible problems into an introductory lesson, and assuming advanced background in elementary lessons.

Quality is not ... Khan Academy. GO back to your little insulated groups and the folsk who buy your slick sales talks.

Quality would involve listening when people raise questions and addressing (wait a minute) the actual questions they raise!

But you can't! Please, though, don't believe that people who actually work with students who are actually trying to understand math think that what you've got is going to help. It's fine for all those folks who just need to crank out a mess of problems, factory assembly-line style.
There are lots of people who have this crazy idea that learning math should be more.
Is there a good list on the changes that have ever been implemented on one of Amazon's acquisitions? I thought the consensus was that they really do leave them be for a while. If anything, I would think the question would be "what will change at Amazon from lessons learned at Washington Post?"

Edit: Also, I realize this is not an Amazon acquisition. Just not sure the difference that makes.
Skeptics Guide to the Universe did a podcast discussing this last week. Interesting.
Glad you tried it out and experienced a sense of relief! That is exactly what we are aiming for!
I think that's every state, including the ones where it may not be legal.
To be honest, I tried to use TOR without the bundle and couldn't figure out how to make it work. The software appears only be available as the bundle to a cursory look.
This. Also, these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
With a lawyer's help, many things are possible.
Have to mention best buy here. They built an enormous HQ on "eminent domain" seized land, then proceeded to shrink the headcount by 75%. An entire wing is empty.

I've seen this happen at other companies too. It's a sure sign to run the hell away (unless of course, you have a sweet corner office).

When the pop is no longer free, or the company is building a new HQ, get out.
There are many releases of Ubuntu for almost each DE. For example, I'm running Ubuntu gnome edition, but there's Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, and then more specific things like Studio Edition, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu TV.
If you are interested in marketplaces for online therapy, have a look at Ingenio[1], which has been in this space for a while. Ingenio was acquired in 2007 by AT&T [2], supposedly for its patent portfolio, but it continues to operate.

[1] http://www.ingenio.com/
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/att-acquires-ingenio-and-th...
> solution: seven proxies

Is it possible to route TOR traffic over TOR?
I don't, now that you mention that it's entirely possible that my crawling scheme doesn't work anymore. The beta was 100% free and I didn't pay much attention to what changed when the beta ended.
Only 3 months of the year are very hot, mainly jun, jul, aug. The rest of the year is quite nice. Also, due to low humidity it is much nicer, than say places like Florida, where it isn't just hot, but also extremely humid.
Probably also this:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/arpaio.asp
Poppy - Using your iPhone to turn the world into 3D
This should be pretty easy to set up with a cheap android phone, and some server software. Having it mounted in the vehicle means no need to worry about battery power; the only hard part is how to deal with spotty/poor/low bandwidth reception.

Unfortunately sat phones are still expensive for this sort of thing, although I suppose it might be feasible to do low-frame rate black and white shots.
You should also include a how or where to work in Arizona.
AZ's a great place to live. It's a shame that the local software industry's growth is so slow!
Digital media per day will surpass TV viewing time for the first time this year
This is a good point. We have a hypothesis that there is a care surplus (like Shirky's idea of a cognitive surplus) where there are lots of people that want to give back, but they can only give back on their own terms (i.e., when they are available and want to). We are very careful to not pressure folks into doing too much. Long-term this has to be sustainable. We are developing a strong listener community and that is helping people feel a real sense of pride in what they do and like they are a part of something larger.
So, there's a business opportunity to accept (anonymous) donations on behalf of good causes? Interesting...
And this: http://www.kpho.com/story/19662091/rape-victim-opens-up-abou...
Week #3: Narrowing focus, learning about gluten free, some experiments
Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Dead In 20 Years
check out NYC stop and frisk racial profiles

landslide blue state + being a citizen doesnt help, apparently.

An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports.
Definitely. There's no comparison. Especially for devs. Having the updated packages daily is great, too. The community is the best I've seen.
If you don't know what you're looking for, you don't have someone you trust to help you, and you're unable to sample each oil in a taste test, the best way to buy high quality Italian olive oil is to look for the D.O.P. (in Italian; P.D.O. in English) certification symbol on the bottle [1, 2]. There's a similar looking symbol if the produce is also organic. This symbol means that inspectors have physically gone over the entire operation of the producers and checked it against a list of standards.

Other things to look for: the bottle says if it's filtered or unfiltered (the unfiltered stuff has much more of a peppery kick), there is a production date, there is a best before date, it says that the oil has been cold-pressed and mechanically extracted, and there is an indication of the region of Italy that the olives come from.

I have never been disappointed by using this method, but of course not every good oil is certified. For reference, today I bought Planeta DOP Val di Mazara oil, which is even available on Amazon [3]. Their price is 50% more expensive than what I paid though.

[1] http://italian.about.com/b/2008/07/19/waiter-my-cheese-has-b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Planeta-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil/dp/B005...
We still allow this. You are just more limited in how frequently you can do an on-demand crawl with the free plan versus a paid plan.

You can also ping our API to update a specific URL immediately, which is really helpful is cases like this.
You'll see synthetic depth of field effects in a lot of stock photography intended for websites. The subject is sharp and the rest of the image is blurred, like shallow depth of field but it's faked in photoshop.
Find a place that does olive oil tastings and taste them. Seriously.

The Spanish wonder why Americans like Italian olive oil. The Italians wonder why Europeans like Spanish olive oil. The Greeks wonder why people call anything but what comes from Greece olive oil. The French wonder why everyone doesn't use butter.

But the fact is, the best olive oil is the one you like best. I'm lucky enough to be in the Bay Area and olive oil tastings are very easy to come by and so I've found a couple California olive oils that suit me just fine.
If you have a sufficiently JavaScript-heavy client-side codebase, there is a very strong argument for essentially unifying the server-side and client-side tooling. Being able to write and run unit tests in exactly the same way (jasmine or mocha), being able to use the same IDE or text editor plugins, being able to use the same package manager (npm), being able to move client-side and server-side developers relatively effortlessly, being able to use the exact same build tools (grunt or something else). You also get to share code between the client and server (this isn't a huge benefit, though).

As a bonus you get the fact that node.js can scale better, though this should not be a huge concern.

Python has a real advantage if you're doing lot's of data analysis / machine learning, as the node.js ecosystem for those applications is nearly non-existent.
In the alternate universe where Apple bought Be, Apple is dead because most programmers aren't smart enough to write GUI apps for Be's asynchronous model. They find it bad enough in Javascript's callback hell world- But doing that asynchronous Node.JS style stuff in C is a non-starter.

In the alternate universe where Apple bought Be, nobody can take advantage of most of the existing C libraries, because they were written expecting to be used in a synchronous programming model.

I don't think this would have worked. As cool as Be is, and as much as, fundamentally, it is a better operating system in most ways than NeXT. Be does things 'The Right Way'. But sadly, Worse is Better. You have to optimise for the programmers you have. not the ones you wish you had. Be was ahead of its time, and it's still ahead of its time.
>It doesn't have to be said (but I'll still say it): Venture Capital funding does not by itself mean that either A) the founders are millionaires or B) that the company is successful.

How does that work, then? I mean, if I'm managing tens of millions of dollars in someone else's money, I'm going to want some compensation for that. You can afford it.

Hell, personal financial advisers generally take 1%, right? that'd be north of $177K right there. And surely a startup founder does more work than a personal financial adviser.

I mean, I don't have insight into what founders of funded companies get paid... but I find the idea that they are worrying about student loans, well, to be pretty unlikely.
There is a science fiction story where there exists a network of anonymous listening "terminals" - supposedly anonymous for both listener and speaker (in the end not so much for the latter). Anybody here remember a title that describes that scenario?
They don't necessarily do a terrible job at optical imaging though. http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic.php?t=50166
A small oversight to be sure. [lol]
Greenwald: U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of NSA?
Do you only get one shot to post a link on HN?
If I post my website on hackernews for feedback do I only have one shot?

If so, I will take a bit longer until I post it :)
Tech startup helping entrepreneurs bring social change
Considering my ISP does the same, I'd say that's a minor inconvenience. I mean it's not like searching the desktop will send results to Amazon et al.

I'm wiling to tolerate that just to not have to put up with Unity malarkey. Besides that (though I haven't tried 15 yet), I was able to dual boot 14 on my old Dell Inspiron 8200 and use it as an OK browsing rig. This was intolerable with Ubuntu.
Submitter here (and an Arizonian native):

I know we receive a lot of bad press for our politics. I will not speak for the many people in my state, but I will say we are pretty diverse, and a lot of us agree with you. Boycotting us does not help the issues we have, I believe that staying here and fighting helps a lot more.

The site was made to show a different side of AZ, and I think the discussion here proves that it is needed. We have our bad stuff, but we also have a lot of great stuff (just like anywhere else).
I bet part of the problem is, execs often use floorplans as a way to help create silos.

Every sane manager wants silos. There's no way they want to risk their employees getting too chummy with the enemy. They might jump ship for a new team, or worse, help the other team out while still having the salary budgeted to their real boss.
No. The Conversation is a private spook doing surveillance.
I feel the same about this as with the Ubuntu affliate-link issue:

I appreciate the work that distro maintainers put in, and I understand that many would like to earn revenue somehow from the distribution. If you give us the option to opt-in, then I'm fine with that being part of your revenue model. The fact that people have the option to disable a feature doesn't make it any less sneaky or inappropriate to put in (in my opinion).
I'm not sure. I think that if you want to be a pure technologist, titles don't mean as much, because anything beyond Sr. Engineer isn't standardized across companies, and if you're good at what you do, that say more than any title history.

If you want to take the management path, you should have some kind of management title by 32 and Director by 36.
Was it banned for awful gossip stories or some other reason?
Thanks for the feedback Yuhong. As you correctly pointed out .NET 2.0 SP2 and .NET 3.0 SP2 are sub-components of .NET 3.5 SP1 so it makes sense to have these on the same lifecycle. The good news is that this is already the case, the Knowledge Base Article 2696944 clarifies that when .NET 3.5 SP1 is installed the same lifecycle will apply to .NET 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 too.

This is the relevant snippet from that KB article -

...snip...

However, Microsoft will provide support for the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 components for customers who install the .NET Framework 3.5 for as long as the .NET Framework 3.5 remains in support.

...snip...

Thanks,
Jamshed
Program Manager, .NET Framework Fundamentals team
I'm embarrassed to say I know it features in the latest Fast and Furious movie.
I kind of know regular expressions but every time I have to write one I head off to regexpal to write it. For instance, off the top of my head, I have no idea what the "?" in the parenthesis does. Usually expect a character to precede a "?", "." or "*".

I also don't use them often enough to commit all the rules to memory.

However, given VerbalExpressions, I don't think I'd have a problem building regular expressions. For a newbie, startOfLine and endOfLine is far more memorable than "^" and "$".

> Which you should if you are a programmer.

You can be pretty productive programmer without knowing regular expressions. Depends on the kind of programming you do really.
Right, then if the non-US find out, they change their practices, and the surveillance may become useless. I think this is what the GP meant by saying it is complex.
A number of startups sound exciting, but this may be the first one I would also describe as heartwarming. I really hope you go far.
The best way to learn to program is to build stuff particularly a web application what better way than an obligatory blog which is something most programmers want anyway so it's a good starting point and fun.
Allen Stern, Blogging Pioneer and Entrepreneur, Passes Away
>that can not be solved.

Would not go that far.
> it's not like searching the desktop will send results to Amazon et al.

But it is similar - if you use web applications in your every day life, then a misspelling may well send your misspelled info to Amazon, if they advertise through OpenDNS (though I'm unfamiliar with how OpenDNS works).
This is the one complaint I have about Mint. Since most of my things are on external drives, I've resorted to the wipe/install method of "upgrading" just so I can avoid the hassle. It's not a deal breaker by any stretch, but I do hope they can change this to be more streamlined in the future.
There's a whole lot of difference between soil and trash, even if both can also be referred to as "dirt".
tomato, tomahto -- your comment does make me wonder just how much the NSA contracts out its surveillance though. Remember, Snowden was working for Booz Allen Hamilton, not the NSA.
[video] The Wonderful World of Composer Tutorial
I love the way people communicated in the 20th century, and the writing is very much how it was spoken. There's so much candour and mature sentiment. I feel all that is lost today, there's less candour, less vulnerability and less elegance.

I guess languages evolve over time and it is to be expected, but it does sadden me (not in a bitter way). I'd love to find further works like this. They're exceptionally delightful.
The latter three articles are economics pieces, which tend to spark good, scientifically-minded debates on HN.

The first article is political, and I would hope that pg would think better than to post if he was given the same decision over again. It probably felt "less dangerous" to post it two years ago; back then, HN didn't have nearly so many people interested in discussing the political side of an issue--you know, the people you see in this thread :)
Yep that's it. Less then half of the total people involved are made happy by this.

However, one thing management should be more happy about is that usually the highest paid people are the nosiest. With a tool like this perhaps they can shut them up.
if you like living in weather almost as hot as Africa. Personally I couldn't live anywhere where it doesn't rain at all which is why I live and love Seattle (:
The "blog" part isn't really what's important - what you're learning is how to make a CRUD (create, read, update, delete in a database) application which is what about 99.99999999% of the internet boils down to. Blogs are useful because they're a well known structure and can be progressively complex to build.
Conversation at events is a proper channel. It's not like one day you cross a threshold of influential-ness where it's unethical for you to share ideas with others who have crossed that threshold.

We may not trust the people in this world who tend to gain that level of influence, but I wouldn't describe the general idea of influential people talking, even in a group setting, as problematic.
Note: Valleywag is banned because it's a subdomain of gawker.com, which is banned for obvious reasons.
AOL is really pumping these stories out.
LSA and truncated SVDs on a user-item matrix date back to the 1980s, don't they?
Are you doing it full time or while on a day job?
Apple starts 3rd party USB power adapter takeback program
Ask HN: Are there any free, worldwide electronic medical records (EMR)?
Here's some info on their advertising :

http://www.opendns.com/support/article/76
Pass GHC the -O2 option to turn on optimizations. You need the strictness analyzer to run so that it can determine that sum is strict, otherwise you get a space leak.
On the free plan you can only have 3 projects/websites. Is that at a time or in total ever?
You got someone to fund you, even though you're doing it alone?
If you look at the screenshots, listeners can charge a fee. So far it appears to be all free, but eventually I'm sure they'll have a few professionals (psychiatrists, etc) on there who you can pay to talk to.

The startup will obviously make a commission on that.
Can you not trivially turn off dns hijacking?
One thing I learned early on from working at a college computer lab in my late teens is that people very often don't even see certain elements on the screen. The post I responded to made it sound like people are deciding not buy because they consciously evaluated the button color and didn't like it.

Maybe people didn't notice the button when it was a different color. An A/B test couldn't tell you that but having watched a lot of people using unfamiliar software, that seems a lot more plausible.

If the point of a website is to communicate then A/B tests are a good way of making sure that you're communicating effectively.
Ian, I like it and I wanted to share this freebie with community. If you do not like it then please comment on the site so that the original designer knows his/her weakness.

Ranting here wouldn't help!
The sunny climate might have a positive net effect on your creativity :)
Awesome idea! I wish you the very best of success. Turning what can be an alienating technology into a means to reach out to people in need is really heartwarming.
When you decide to post it, remember to add "Show NH:" to the title, to encourage feedback.
GHC's strictness analyzer will recognize that sum is strict for Integer and optimize the laziness away. It will only cause a space leak when optimizations are turned off.
> Not sure if I would want the whole wide web to know about my personal mental history.

Wrong. You're absolutely sure that you don't want that.
I think the main difference here is that you're aware of the problem: if you were a minority race or religion, this is an old story which has actually gotten better in some ways because now the news spreads rather than being quietly confined to where you live.
Not by massive corporations or their ceos.
That's good to know.

Cobram Estate is the oil I buy for dripping/drizzling on any food I eat. I just found it to have the best flavor out of the oils I tried and since they are Australian I thought I woulds stick with them.

I use random Spanish out of a can for cooking though.
I need front page clarification on:

1) What if I rent out my lens and the renter breaks it?

2) What if I rent a lens and I break it?

3) What if I rent a lens and return it safely, but the seller fraudulently claims that I broke it?

These are questions that eBay has answered to a pretty good extent, given the limitations of person-to-person commerce. It's essential for a high-value marketplace like this.
Perhaps they don't collect luxury items as status symbols because to start, scale and sell a successful company is the ultimate status symbol of them all.

It's a silly anecdote, but long before I sold my first company, when I was just another college dropout eating from the dollar menu and paying for gas with spare change, I really, really wanted a brand new BMW M3. To say I lusted after that machine would be an understatement; to me, that sexy car epitomized success and oozed the kind of vibe I wanted to send out.

Once real success arrived, however, I was surprised to find I really didn't care any more. I ended up with a used Toyota Camry because I could drive it around the city without worrying about scratches and dents.
For a lot of people, it's not a matter of a boycott, it's a matter of practicality. My two co-founders are both naturalized U.S. citizens, and they don't want to have to carry proof of citizenship with them everywhere they go, so we don't do business in Arizona.
Obscure kernel settings to increase performance of Linux TCP servers
Fiou... I ordered three new servers yesterday, this time using my credit card!

I hope we'll all have good news soon.
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