skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably in the same situation as ffmpeg, x264, lame, (previously) gif encoders etc are or were.

If it is true that non-US countries do not acknowledge the related patents, it would be a very interesting situation if anyone were to make it integrated in a git fork of the mainline kernel. Could we end up having a richer git branch/repo hosted on "kernel.eu"? Would others do pull requests on top of this, thus meaning further kernel patches (related or not so related) get interwoven? Would a "us compatible" mainline linux stagnate while an off-limits-for-americans "eurolinux" flourish? Probably not for just a fringe fs driver that can stay separate. But what about possibly-US-patent-covered patches to the core, if they provide enough benefits?
Woz had a bit more to say later..
http://gizmodo.com/5978777/woz-says-kutchers-steve-jobs-movi...
While Go doesn't directly generate any revenue, it's probably not without reason that Google is rewriting some important pieces (dl.google.com for example) in Go. I can imagine their engineers being much more expressive in Go than in C++, causing them to spend less time on writing the code as well as resulting in simpler code (easier to comprehend and maintain, so less time/money spent on maintenance). This doesn't generate revenue but it does optimize development processes, which could indirectly save them some money.
> Use Pathogen for managing them.

or Vundle

or NeoBundle
I agree with you. I like what Dave Ramsey is doing in this area. I just don't want to make a blanket statement that they made their choice so be it.

I would love to know how many of these students sit down with their career councilors at school. Even if they do, how many of these councilors actually give proper advice versus just saying "great idea, go to that school for your liberal arts degree, here's the student loans you need to fill out, don't worry about the $80,000 tuition, the loans will cover you."

I think that you are right that the real discussion should be how do we change the culture so that the right "social pressure" is there to allow someone to reject going overreaching with their school choice.
as I wrote: this is a simplified example ...
What the New SAT and Digital ACT Might Look Like
I downloaded all 7 CDs for Woody, but didn't actually know how to burn a CD from an ISO, so I ended up with 7 coasters. I figured out my mistake and tried again the next week, but this time I picked a distro that only needed one CD: Ubuntu (Hoary). Never managed to get back to straight Debian since then.
There have been laws, prohibitions and taboos against usury since time immemorial, and for good reason. It's a dangerous thing. "Personal responsibility" is manifestation of this same societal impetus to restrain debt, in this case as an internal constraint.

But with something as dangerous as debt, redundant constraints--internal and external, customary and statutory--are preferable to a single line of defense. I don't want a stable society predicated on the ability of 18 year olds to accurately predict their future circumstances 30 years out.
The licensing situation of the leak was quite clear; it was proprietary code without any doubt.
In light of the recent comments about mods editing article titles, I gotta say that when I saw this earlier today I didn't think it sounded interesting. After the rename, I clicked on it, and man, it's awesome.
Look at your computer again and pay special note to the Command + Tab keys.
Does that mean third of British population is sad? Well a report says so: http://www.technostall.com/facebook-makes-you-sad-report/
But that brings us back to the original question, would it be appropriate for a web developer to call himself an engineer. What engineering effort is there in web development?

But I agree with you, talk is cheap, and certifications are meaningless if the person cannot do the job.
Which would be a fair point if I had turned on an automated filtering system. I didn't want tabs, Google just turned them on for me and the opt-out process is not exactly obvious.
Funny story, went to the Los Altos Art & Wine festival which had a free shuttle provided by a bus/limo service. The shuttle was a limo-type bus (held about 15 people in its config, as an actual bus it would have held 25) and was taking a really circuitous route to get from the high school to the festival and back. My wife and who road it one direction, and out walked it the other direction, realized that it was using this as a big advertising opportunity not actually trying to shuttle people. If you road the bus you got to see what a party bus was like on the inside, as you drive by people they get exposure to all the ads on the outside of the bus, and inside of course there were brochures if you wanted to rent them for your event. It was "free" but didn't do a very good job of being a "shuttle" (in terms of moving a meaningful quantity of people from remote parking to the festival)
Couldn't have said this better myself, this is exactly what we are doing :) We are also conscious of making sure that charging the device becomes part of a seniors daily routine to help ensure that it remains charged. We are also using induction charging to make charging the device as simple as placing it on its holder (no micro USB to fiddle around with)
They recently replaced the battery on my Macbook Air. They didn't replace the whole computer, just the battery. Took about 15-20 minutes.
Free Google Apps accounts have ads.
Agree - I've a 2 year old mid-2011 MacBook Air, 225 cycles and 95% health.
Up until recently (at least I hope it's finally starting to change) students were told that money doesn't matter, just borrow as much as you need because college is always worth it.

After years of hearing this repeated to them, they do think they are making the responsible choice.
Out of curiosity which model do you use? Cherry MX Low-force Linear Feel (Red stem) key switch or the Cherry MX Low-force Tactile (Brown stem) switch.
That's funny, I can't imagine being tethered to a single spot and accomplishing anything worthwhile!

Snark aside, I love big monitors as much as the next guy, but I've seen very productive developers that never even maximized their code window, let alone used multiple screens.

Getting in the flow is way more important than having a nice setup.
I only have firebug installed and am also using ff 23.0 (in reference to another comment), still skewed (even with firebug disabled).
What Papa John's doesn't want you to know about their food
a) I did not make such a prediction. For what it's worth, Hideyoshi Kase mentioned my initial common-sense reaction: "If United States withdraws its forces from Japan, we will spend the next ten years re-arming in various ways, including acquiring nuclear weapons". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_of_Japan)

b) Japan has significant weaknesses, like historic lack of natural resources. I imagine it has enormous dependences, and not just on the US. (Dunno how the recent finds of rare earth metals changes this.)
Edward Snowden Leaks Again — And It's a Bombshell.
Great point - the marketing for this device is going to sound quite a bit different based on the audience that we are reaching out to. For the TechCrunch crowd, we can say things like "a micro-controller to keep all those bits running in harmony"...definitely not something we would be telling our end-user :)
This is interesting, and they appear to be having a valid business plan, but how 'tech' is this startup really? It seems to be about flowers and logistics. Sure, that doesn't matter for the business, but I wonder if these guys would've been on sites like techcrunch and hacker news if YC hadn't taken them on.
Yes, I should have said framework instead of language. However, MRI also happens to be one of the slowest languages. What are proposing as a good combination that people are using?
"If prototype gets traction and scales..."

How is that going to happen if the business partner is working a day job and waiting for Godot?.

Products don't sell themselves. Customers don't provide their own customer service, etc. Having final say is just having a non-technical opinion, it's not a real commitment. A founder who puts up cash is nice, but not a substitute for sweat, and is best treated as a loan rather than exchanged for equity.

I am not saying the roses won't grow, but I don't see the scenario as ideal for either partner - the employee/employer relationship is well below ideal.
Unclear. GPLv2 has implicit patent grant (see Section 7), so if Samsung has a patent license from MS then that Samsung is required to extend that license to all recipients (direct and indirect) of the code.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents
The American Girls of Tumblr
This is a full proof idea. We should all do it...tomorrow.
> there will be no end to the cries that millions of young Americans are being denied a college education by well-to-do politicians who are out-of-touch with the economic realities of the average American.

I'm not convinced it would happen as you say, since the crippling burden of college loan debt described in this article is increasingly familiar to many Americans. Once it begins affecting us personally, it becomes significantly harder to sweep these things under the rug.

No doubt, they would try their best, perhaps suggesting that reduced loans will result in higher taxes for average Americans and will shift the financial burden onto the older generations. That would be much easier (and more desirable, to special interests) than attempting to tackle the underlying issues that have resulted in hyperinflated tuition costs.

If only there were a way to broadcast the views of an intelligent, non-partison, and informed demographic to the average American household. Though I'm not sure anybody would tune in, as people find Fox News' fear-mongering and political divisiveness so entertaining.
Right along with "anecdotes are not data" should be "long-term success is not made of little bits of short-term success".
How much people left Athens so far?
For what it's worth, I had a friend who worked at Google a few years ago and asked her about her 20% time. I was extremely underwhelmed, as it sounded like the exact same project she was working on from day to day. My idea of 20% time was always this really creative unbounded time to pursue ideas and things that are interesting to you, but for her it really just sounded like a logical extension of what she was already doing. It was just weird, given all of the projects in all of Google, with all sorts of interests, why would she just focus on the things she was already doing?

If that was where 20% time was going, I don't think we're missing much.
Hopefully, students arriving to college know how to think - though I realize that's somewhat rare, given the "teaching to the standardized test" mentality that so many students endured in school. And then college could help even more with learning how to think - and learn. But it's hard not to want some "job training" in there, especially given the amount of money being spent AND the fact that most of the graduates presumably need to start earning money almost as soon as they graduate.
The problem here is that we can't just use a magic wand to fix the situation. There is over $1 trillion in outstanding student debt that needs to be dealt with. Much of it is already going bad.

But the problem is bigger than the trillion dollars in debt you and I are already on the hook for. A lot of people like free candy, and if you take it away here, we'll go from "Tuition costs are too high, and I have too much debt!" to "Washington politicians are denying me an education!" The education lobby is strong and too many people are dependent on federal student loans for this to be "fixed" in a logical fashion. Everybody has been sold the idea that a college degree is a prerequisite for access to the middle class, and government-subsidized student loans are practically seen as an entitlement.

As much as one can hope for a better system, it isn't likely to come. We're well beyond the point of no return.
Shih is shrill, but the response is also. A lot of his criticisms are based in a kernel of truth for a lot of people (especially the public transport, the nightlife and the bicylists), and while he may have intended satire, the delivery was caustic and withering. I can find parallel complaints for almost any major metropole.
I had a manager who believed that such metrics were the only true measure of performance. This same manager also believed that CUDA on a VM (which is itself on a server hosting numerous other VMs, and the bare-bones minimum graphics card--so no support for virtualized usage of CUDA) was a good suggestion for improving performance, that running a debugger on a specially compiled Apache webserver in the production environment would be a great way to troubleshoot performance issues, and that having an 8-12 week sprint/"rolling release cycle" was "Agile" as long as we called it that.

So, yeah, some people just don't get it. At all. And in my experience management is definitely a place where one is more likely to find such people.
They really need to get their shit together on the Moto X website and store. I am in the market for a new phone and after reading that article, I'm ready to buy it, but I've spent the last 10 minutes going around and around on their website trying to figure out if there is a way to order/preorder. They don't mention when it'll be available and most of the material is written as if it's available now.

The only clue I have is that the marketing page for it only has a "Notify" button prominently displayed where I'd expect a "buy" button (weird verb choice in "Notify", btw...) and that button takes me to a page that makes me think I'm just signing up for generic motorola marketing junk. They even have it listed in the store for $199 and when you click "buy" you're just taken back to the stupid marketing page.

They'd have my money right now and I'd be happily waiting a few weeks to receive my phone if not for this experience. They got this handjob of an article from wired and no way for readers to act on it. How did they screw this up?
So this is the first I've heard of the upcoming NFC plastic tokens which automatically keep your phone unlocked.

If you're too busy to build those Moto, I could handle that for you. And I'm in the Chicago area...

[Edit] Looks like they are just making an appearance today.

Motorola Skip. Also comes with three dots (NFC stickers) to put by your bedside, etc.

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/08/hello-skip-goodbye...
The writer is the president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which has a vested and financial interest in keeping the status-quo. The fact that this organization is pushing so hard for federally backed student loans should ring some warning bells that its members may benefit. I don't have the will nor energy nor need nor the time to research this topic extensively, but because of the clear conflict of interest that the writer has, I cannot just accept what she argues. Interestingly she doesn't say what is the cause of tuition increase.

Here's what paints a picture for me:

- Tuition since the 1980s has increased by an order of magnitude. Out pacing inflation, cost of living, and medical costs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_tuition_in_the_United_S...)

- Federally backed student loans are non-dischargeable and are available to nearly all students (regardless of credit score or financial issues).

- Student loans total around $1.2 trillion dollars (50% increase from 2008!)

- US has the highest tuition costs in the developed world.

Whether or not you think tuition is too high or is correlated to federal aid is almost incidental to the issue. There's a big fuckin problem with the amount of student loan debt out there, and if the federal government isn't to blame for this with the way they structure student aid (i.e. guaranteed, non-discharable loans to anybody that wants one), who the hell is? It's also hard to imagine that this much available cash for post-secondary education wouldn't have an affect on demand.
#4 has also been abetted by the decline in state investment in higher education. A generation ago, I felt I got a great a deal paying $1000/quarter at a UC school. Registration for community college, where I started, was capped (capped!) at $50/semester and served a much more broader segment of society.

What's UC tuition nowadays? $3700 for resident tuition. $4900 when you include all the fees (which my $1000 figure did). Push everything forward 20 years and my parents would have no expectation to be making much more money now than they did then. I would be carrying more debt.

Pick your narrative for explaining what happened in the meantime. "Rich people demanding higher returns, enslave unsuspecting youth through their loan seller proxies" works for me.
If people are curious about the price, they seem to start at 14 tulips for $35.00 or a succulent plant for $25.00.

I guess given my income and life priorities, I can't afford that much money for a one-time gift; but more power to those of you that can :)
Would be interested in seeing this if you can find it.
Precisely. Business school is for people who don't know any better.
At this current state is safest to assume that all code is patented.
Yup. I grew up in Arkansas. Our highest--and only ranked university--is ranked #138. The smartest students leave the state, as you can see from the SAT/ACT score ranges at in-state schools. I went to a top university and took out many loans to do so... had I lived in a state like Texas or California, I would have had access to a fantastic state school and not need to do so.
Hyperloop was inspired 100 years ago by pneumatic tubes (and a cat)
I've been using fish for a while and have generally been very happy, I'm even working on creating a set of functions for ROS to integrate with fish the way it currently does with bash and zsh. My one tiny gripe is the way that if I

set foo this that "the other"

then

echo $faux; echo $faux[1]

doesn't produce anything, but

echo $foo[4]

gives me an error message that I can't just pipe to /dev/null

Also, writing autocompletes for functions is both far simpler than in bash, but I'm also missing some of tools that bash provides.
Great points, this is something that we have given a lot of thought towards. We are going to be pinging the device at certain points (when someone logs into the portal for example), and the device will also send data at set intervals (we can adjust how often we send data to save battery life, and based on a few other things). When the device is not actively sending data or establishing a connected we do sleep the device.

We opted not to send GPS location via SMS because it is a lot less secure. We are also sending more than just GPS data, all of which we would have to interpret on the server side anyways thus complicating the implementation. We looked into this and for a variety of reasons it made more sense to use data to transmit information from the device.
> No one forced them to go to college, especially not one that leaves them $40k in debt.

Have you looked at college tuition recently? In-state school will bring you $40k of debt. Private school is more like $160k. It's not a matter of students choosing expensive college over cheap college. They're all expensive.

Take a look at http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...

For 2012-13 the average tuition for public in-state education is $8,655. Then add school fees and student housing & food and you can get to $10-15k per year.

Kids aren't out there shopping for luxury cars, they're buying whatever gets them on the road. And it can still bring crippling debt.
You have more than 1 space from uniq. 2 options:

parallel --colsep ' +' echo {2} {3}

or:

parallel --colsep ' ' echo {7} {8}
Mori – Clojurescript's persistent data structures for vanilla JavaScript
> but I do question why it's the fault of anyone but the student if they apply only to $50k/yr schools, ignoring whatever their state schools are.

State schools aren't at $50k/yr (for in-state; some are for out of state), but they're not dirt cheap either. 4-year universities averaged a 15% tuition bump in 2011[1]. Median base tuition in 2011 was over $11,000, which does not include the thousands in miscellaneous fees, books (which are all "customized" for each school or only available as a non-downloadable ebook), online course software licenses, and mandated laptops that must be purchased.

> Is it the loan companies' fault for trying to provide loans for students who likely can't pay them back?

Yes and no. It's actually the government's fault for enacting legislation that forbids discharging he loan in bankruptcy. That completely removed the bank's need to do any risk assessment and price/approve loans accordingly. This in turn removes the incentive for schools to remain cost competitive, because their constituents have virtually guaranteed access to limitless capital. I don't have time to dig for it now, but I saw a graph not too long ago that showed tuition prices and average loan debt over time, which showed a considerable increase when that legislation was enacted.

[1] http://collegecost.ed.gov/catc/Default.aspx#
I'm doing: https://github.com/jawj/pigeonsim (now with speech recognition + geocoding, supporting a beam-me-up gesture).

Web speech API: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-...
Make it so if the student fails to graduate, or graduate and cannot get a job in their field

In other words, "If the kid doesn't graduate, all of the other students should pay for that kids chance at an education." Do I have that right? If that's your point, why not do away with tuition all together and just have the state/feds pay for "College for everyone"?
You're a very special case, going to one of the best schools in the country at a good price. 3/4 of American college students are not traditional college students going full time to a four-year university. And only 30% of Americans eventually achieve a bachelor's degree. But plenty of the rest take out $20k in student loans and never have anything to show for it.
It's also significant because it is a part of the SDXC standard.
ahh, some useful tips here :)
Let me take this a step further then.

If we're going to cap tuition (price controls), why not increase taxes as well? College becomes much cheaper ($10K for your degree, not your semester), and society, the student, and every future employer benefits.

I understand people don't like taxes sometimes. Even me. But with them, I buy civilization.
This type of response is why I gave up on Python entirely. Not to pile on you pekk, it isn't your fault, but it is a tone... defensive apologist... "first of all there is no problem, and if there was a problem... it is that Python is too awesome"

As someone who has had to ship stuff using multiprocess & gevent to actually meet real world scaling needs -- and integrating them with C code and communicating to a C++ application via ZMQ (inprocess by sharing the object) ... the sad fact is once we started to tackle really hard problems in Python that aren't pre-solved via a nice library all those early advantages fell away and we craved the blessed simplicity of C++ (note: sarcasm, C++ isn't simple, but it was far simpler than the Frankenstein's monster we built).
I made the mistake of trying to learn Dvorak part-time while typing Qwerty during daytime. Took me over 2 months to switch over. I would recommend taking a week when you dont have to work and making a abrupt change. It will require a lot of will power, because you will feel awful typing at like 5wpm but in the long run it might be the fastest way.

I will also recommend using dvorak label on the keyboard(you will get it for 5 dollars). It helps you type with one hand(I tend to eat while watching something on my PC).

I agree with the other comments, the special symbol will be a problem, but I doubled my speed for english prose and I feel a marked decrease in finger fatigue especially when typing at higher speeds.