skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, generally n-gram-based analyses are a huge minefield. Computational linguists do use them, with a lot of caveats and careful analysis of confounding factors.

One simple one that comes to mind here is that you need to analyze to what extent changes over the period of the data set are caused by underlying societal changes, versus changes in the NYT itself; the end result will be a mixture of those two changes, some of which may be magnifying and others offsetting. The 1980 NYT and the 2013 NYT are not the same newspaper, not edited by the same people, not sold to the same readership demographics, and not soliciting the same advertisers, so it's somewhat questionable to treat it as a stable proxy for a social group.

Another common pitfall is language change screwing up all kinds of measures (since n-gram models just work on word counts). For example, if two words are used roughly interchangeably in 1980, but by 1990 one of them has fallen out of usage, and been replaced wholly by the other one, searches for just the one word will look like the word's on an upwards trend, but it would be misleading to infer an increase in the underlying concept over the period. Of course, you can account for this by merging words into equivalence classes (most analyses will do basic stemming and merging of alternate spellings), but you have to be very careful to get all the equivalence classes (which is not a well-defined notion). Just a list of the top words in a year will tend to be some mixture of 1) top concepts; and 2) concepts expressed using only a small number of wording variations, so their count doesn't get diluted.
Or possibly Tuonela. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_mythology#Tuonela.2C_th...
When I went to CMU, there were allegedly more "Dave"s than women in SCS.
EXACTLY!

I converted this tool to linux for the archlinux package forever ago:

https://github.com/codemac/ministat

There are a few forks (adding autoconf, an osx branch, etc) as well.
How not to use Google Places
There are a lot of Christians who think Jesus might not have been too excited about a $190 million church. But supposing that to be an accurate representation of Jesus' thoughts, like any other group that gets very large, you're going to have lots of nominal members that only nominally seem to exhibit the group's core ideas, despite the fact that they may gather more attention (especially if the core ideas tend to involve things that don't gather as much attention while teaching that everyone is preconditioned to be very bad at being like that, including the nominal members who are - in theory - trying to become more like that)
Epvm: Python 2.7.x VM in Erlang
The API seems to be offline for 4h already. Hope they fix it soon.
A Taste of PlatformCF: 5 Sessions from a Thriving Community
Ah, cool. So I guess I was wrong that a 5k-city solution was infeasible.
Or a lot of men transferred/changed majors into CS, whereas very few women did—which wouldn't be too surprising since the outreach was aimed at freshmen.

Definitely an oversight in the article either way.
A full rewrite is a great excuse to re-examine all those exceptions and see if they are really, or still, needed. In fact this can be a reason to choose a full rewrite over incremental change.
I'm not able to access that page.

"Oops! Google Chrome could not find help.jumpstarter.io"
Yeah, I'll be abandoning the Titanic ASAP :) .

It's an insurance company, it shouldn't think of itself as a software shop. It does sometimes make sense to build stuff in-house, but not an insurance package (reinventing a pretty expensive wheel).
It also has countless unspoken successes every single day. I have eliminated a great deal of the social clutter and hassle in my life by making a conscious effort to do what other people are doing, unless I have a reason not to. Everyone else is dancing at a party? Dance as well, even if it isn't your thing. Nobody else wears sandals to work? Don't either. Everyone else is driving home from the bar? Well... actually you had to much, take a cab instead.

Don't break the mold without a proper reason to. Now, are privacy issues going to come back and bit kids today in the ass? Maybe, I know I haven't always used my real name online, most people from my generation haven't. I figure that the kids who do are the ones breaking the mold now... I'm on the edge in that case.
Memrise CEO on their two day downtime (forgot domain renewal)
This is lovely.

One gentle suggestion for version 2 is conversions between pico, nano, and micro farads, and the capacitor codes used for these. Because even though it's easy to do it's still nice when you're feeling cognitively challenged to have a cheet sheet.
This is probably a bit cynical of me, but for a moment, I thought this article was a big ad for KnowEm.
Your issue is with Amazon's system, then, not with the affiliates themselves. It's what Amazon has set up. There are plugins to replace any Amazon Affiliate link with your own, if you're absolutely dead-set against it.
"Watering down" also presupposes some sort of "neutral" baseline.

Point 3 from the article:

"Early in the curriculum freshmen learned about various areas of research, which introduced them to the broad potential impact of the field. New classes focused on how computer science could impact society. “Technology Consulting in the Community,” for example, provided opportunities for students to help non-profits solve real-world technical problems."

That's not "watering down" to me. That's providing students with useful context about their chosen field and giving them hands-on experience.
Really interesting - how did you guys downloaded the 60K articles (is there an API i do not know about)? Also - what graphing lib are you using (I see it is not d3)?
This is 100% correct. The google apps have always been proprietary, custom roms for example arent allowed to include them.
People work better in diverse groups. Just because the industry has grown doesn't mean it couldn't have grown more.
You are right in pointing out the asymmetric nature of job interviews, namely "You may want to work for this person" vs "You may want to hire this person".

In the current model we wanted to keep things simple and leave as much as possible to them to decide or know. With a check box, we may ask them to select exactly what they want with this particular person.

Do you think, for every selection, asking whether you want to hire or you want to work for a particular person is really necessary, or is it enough to leave this to them, of course with a certain risk of misunderstanding in some cases. I would be pleased to hear your opinion.
I bought a set of these a few weeks ago.

https://www.tindie.com/products/NsN/pcb-color-sample-set/?pt...
I became an English major because I'd been coding since I was six years old and preferred to learn how to become a better writer.

At the time, the majority of incoming CS freshman did not even harbor the most basic ideas or curiosity about how a computer functioned. They had all heard they could make mounds of money. When I took elective CS classes in college, I had graduate CS students attempting to copy off of me.

It's possible CS students and programs have changed since the 90s, but based upon the CS graduates I encounter, I expect they haven't improved that much.
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I've read these for years and have known people who appeared.

The factors that enter into getting in (from my observation strictly) are a combination of things like:

- parents who live in ny metro

- the parties getting married living in ny metro

- having gone to school in ny metro

- parents or parties getting married working in ny metro

- what the parents do for a living

- any lineage "grandparent governor of NY"

- what the parties getting married do for a living

- school attended as far as perceived impressiveness

- whether an impressive job or title of any of the parties mentioned.

..and so on. That's off the top.

For example, "physician" and "went to school in NY" is probably almost assured to get the announcement printed.

"father a mechanic, mother a homemaker, inlaws are nobodies, parties are cashiers who work at walmart, no college, live in jersey city"[1] and so on either don't get in, don't care to get in, or don't have the drive to even submit a form to get in.

[1] Unless of course one of the parties is related to a famous former politician or some other mitigating factor.
The prices of many Redis-Service-Provider will drop rapidly after amazons release ?
Thanks Dan! Maybe if this one goes well I'll get to do a sequel :)
CMU's overall 4-year graduation rate is only 71% so that sounds like women in the CS program graduated at the same rate as men: http://collegeapps.about.com/od/collegeprofiles/p/Carnegie_M.... CMU, like most engineering schools, has high levels of major attrition: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/dfe_readings/fisher_2002_clubhouse.... (see Figure 2).
I was only talking about what happened at MIT; the brutal class of 2004 4 year graduation result suggests there might not have been significant watering down in CMU's CS department.
why even use EC2 then? It would be much cheaper to use any other hosting provider.
This addesses a real vuln though, "classified by Intel as a security issue, that affects any server running 32-bit VMs in PAE mode"
Thats... not how statistical significance works.
Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch in action
Code may not rust overtime but it does become harder to maintain and more importantly harder to find quality innovative people willing to work on it. I would guess that very few of the people making a pro argument for Joel Spolsky’s article would be willing to support 1970’s COBOL banking software for a living.
Not sure I understand - Vishay[1] MRS25 resistors are 1% and use a colour code. (http://www.vishay.com/docs/28724/mrs16m25.pdf)

They're generally pretty nice as resistors go. Do you spec better than that?

[1] I used these when they were Philips, which shows how long it is since I was doing this stuff.
SquareJive was founded inside of the office that I work in. I personally knew all the founders, and even considered joining to help early on. I followed it from the idea stage to the end, and even though I was not deeply involved in it, I am very much affected by the outcome of everything. I am very upset to see the way things went at the hands of Square, Inc. It blows my mind that Square, on the surface, seems like a great service/company to work with. Yet, they go and do something like this out of public view. I wish this was getting more visibility on HN. I already started using an alternative myself and I'm going to do what I can to convince other small businesses taking mobile payments not to support Square anymore.
Luckily got a AWS reminder. And a shameless plug... my own 2FA app on http://gauth.apps.gbraad.nl can be used everywhere you have a webbrowser, offline when your browser supports it and updates without problems when a new version is available. Besides, no updates were needed in months due to good QA. ;-)
Technical debt will never go away unless you confront it directly. If you put it off for too long you simply cannot recover it. Yes a complete rewrite is painful, and can kill you, but so will technical debt. By the time you're drowning in it, there really isn't any easy escape, if there is one. The cost to fix is an investment, it pays off over time, so any refactorization work will eventually pay off, it's just a matter of whether you can pay the cost. Eventually the cost will be so big that a full rewrite will be cheaper. If Netscape didn't do a rewrite, their technical debt would have stayed and they would have died a slow painful death. The real worst mistake you can make is having a policy of putting off technical debt. I've seen it kill companies, and for them, it's a permanent death with no hope of a revival.
Terrifying Search Engine Finds Cameras, Medical Devices, Baby Monitors
I get the strong impression from many sources that transferring into that department is very hard, just like it has its own admissions process (unique among the top 4 CS schools (Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU and MIT)).
I prefer using a multi-meter. That might be something to do with being colour-blind though.
I don't know if this will inconvenience the one customer unless they bought it used. Someone with connections to the counterfeiters would have owned that valid product for some short period of time and probably kept it.
Since the meaning apparently eluded you let me spell it out;

Tor seems like the perfect honeypot for government agencies looking to lure people who are involved in illegal activities online (child porn, drug trafficking, stolen credit cards, black hat hacking, etc.) Its origin is also well known to be based in government research. The source/identities/ownership of the various Tor nodes is by design unclear as being "safe".

In other words, if I were working for the NSA or FBI or whatever and designing a honeypot to lure in as much illegal activity online under a guise of safety and security but enable me to fully track it, I would design something like Tor.
It depend on the service.
Usually scale is not a problem, but scale in a short time (hours) can be a huge problem.
But most companies would love to have this problem ;-)
Samsung Reveals The Galaxy Gear, Will Be Available Starting On September 25
The industry has grown, that doesn't mean it can't be improved.

I'm not sure where the term "serious consequences" came from, but I think it's pretty straight forward that a group comprised of similar individuals will come up with similar ideas. More women, means more diversity, which means differing ideas, which means more innovation.

Silicon Valley is already referred to as echo chamber.
>wasting time on HN instead of finishing Chuu2
Sasuga Daiz.
Note that this won't work for MathJax, since the certificate won't match the domain. For a workaround: http://www.mathjax.org/resources/faqs/#problem-https
If women are severely underrepresented in our field, then we're doing something that they find exclusionary. Does the work we produce have a similar problem? How would you know?
Googler’s programming board game for kids meets Kickstarter goal in 5 hours
What We've Learned About Interviewing Engineers
Flexible Usability Testing
Mine, too (he's 11). He's also got an XBox live account for Portal 2, a youtube / gmail (mostly for videos about Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program), and an account here: http://scratch.mit.edu/ .

None of these things existed 11 years ago, and I expect there will be a new set of things 11 years hence.
Comparison of 4 different NTP stratum 1 clocks
I did a short bit of contract work for Viñoly some years ago... and while I can't attest to the entire process you've outlined (I wasn't involved in the architecture stuff), I can attest to the bit about working conditions. The long hours, deep stress, harsh deadlines -- all spot on from what I'd observed.
It's fun, but I'm not sure what it's for as I can look up these things on the internets if I forget. Is this just an executive engineer gadget?
If they're washing out, that's a terrible waste of the faculty's effort and limited seats. But if they're merely taking a fifth year to graduate, well, between unavailable prerequisite courses and part-time jobs, that was getting common at my state school long ago, and it wouldn't worry me much.
Actually, all this tools you mentioned are great but based on wiki mechanism/technology.

I'm just thinking if out there are something that solves all problems that wiki solves but is not "wiki based".

I'm looking for a paradigm shift.
How The Art of Computer Programming was ruined for me
This wall of text would be much more engaging if you included some photos. :-)
Galaxy Gear II will see a massive industrial and UI design change sometime after Apple's smartwatch is released.

Yes, I am saying this thing looks kind of awful.
And so the 'production' smartwatch era begins. Notionally kicked off by the InPulse and iPod Nano wrist straps, "proven" by the Pebble kickstarter, now in jumps Samsung and if rumors are to be believed Apple and possibly Google.

It is a testament to the new sensibility that something like this can be worn in public and be "cool." I had a CASIO Data bank watch that was really cool but man the nerd-griefing I got if I wore it outside of the Science Club crowd was intense.
> Combined with the findings of one study, which says that we consume 34 gigabytes of information (or 100,500 words) outside of work on an average day, it’s no wonder that images come as a relief from our regular information overload.

Can someone explain how 100,500 words is 34 gigabytes?
Provocative article, but as with many things, the answer lies somewhere in the middle.

I think it's cute people think social networks (in their current form) will still be around in 18 years. Technology will be in a place that probably very few of us can fathom at this current juncture. I like one of the users' comments on here that the act of registering all of these accounts for their child is akin to registering a geocities name back in the day. We all laugh at it now.

Like I said, the answer is somewhere in the middle. You don't have to do all or nothing. Just be judicious, as you would in your non-digital life (I would hope). Anything in excess can become problematic.

When my partner and I have a child some day, we'll probably be very careful about what we post online. It won't be excessive, but we won't be hermits either as unexisting can be just as odd/problematic as superexisting.
but it had some clear effects

Such as?
Are you actually sending arbitrary files over SMS? How does that work?

My thought is it would be technically possible over MMS, but most default messaging apps wouldn't play nice with them. Also getting into the network is a huge challenge.
Different Styles, Different Paths to Success
MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014
[Email sent to myOpenID users]

Hello,

I wanted to reach out personally to let you know that we have made the decision to end of life the myOpenID service. myOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014.

In 2006 Janrain created myOpenID to fulfill our vision to make registration and login easier on the web for people. Since that time, social networks and email providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo! have embraced open identity standards. And now, billions of people who have created accounts with these services can use their identities to easily register and login to sites across the web in the way myOpenID was intended.

By 2009 it had become obvious that the vast majority of consumers would prefer to utilize an existing identity from a recognized provider rather than create their own myOpenID account. As a result, our business focus changed to address this desire, and we introduced social login technology. While the technology is slightly different from where we were in 2006, I’m confident that we are still delivering on our initial promise – that people should take control of their online identity and are empowered to carry those identities with them as they navigate the web.

For those of you who still actively use myOpenID, I can understand your disappointment to hear this news and apologize if this causes you any inconvenience. To reduce this inconvenience, we are delaying the end of life of the service until February 1, 2014 to give you time to begin using other identities on those sites where you use myOpenID today.

Speaking on behalf of Janrain, I truly appreciate your past support of myOpenID.

Sincerely,
Larry
I Further Predict the Death of Your Web Framework
There are plenty of projects where by the time you've finished your rewrite the product will have moved on so far that you'll have to rewrite some again. I seem to recall Facebook making several attempts to rewrite in a language other than php but the codebase just evolved too quickly.
The Kickstarter page itself was submitted to HN yesterday by creator @danshapiro, but it's taken off enough at this point to get some press.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321383
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles...

There's also coverage on TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/04/robot-turtles/
That doesn't explain the gap, though: the same class went from 42% women starting in 2000 to 30% women graduating in 2004. If 71% of both men and women graduated, there should still have been 42% women at the end.
If you honestly think it's "unfortunate", then isn't that enough of a problem?
Assuming your code base is even clean enough to do that. Lack of encapsulation and modularity is also part of technical debt. Getting a disastrous codebase to the point where gradual refactorization is even possible will be a blocking task, and if the technical debt has built up high enough, just that single blocking task may cost you more than a complete rewrite. It depends on the code base and how much foresight was had when it was first written. If technical debt is such a serious problem that you're even considering a total rewrite, the blocking debt may be so massive that it makes a gradual refactor impossible.
Amazon’s Relational Database Service Adds High-Memory Instance With 244GB Memory
I'm using MyOpenID but with a delegation through my own website. In theory transitioning to another provider should just be about changing meta tags in my homepage. However, some consumers store the delegated OpenID URL instead of the one given by the user, which makes transitioning more painful than it has to be.
> Maybe you're not taking pictures of your daughter, but someone else will, and they can tag her with metadata for their own purposes.

The article didn't mention anything about not taking photos, it was simply about not sharing them publicly in any fashion. That's pretty much how it has been until the past few years--most photos were kept private.
My first thought was that the mysterious WIFI outage that the London stock exchange suffers once a day and this building were somehow connected, but they're a mile apart so I don't see how.

Link (I'm not a subscriber)
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21582288-satelli...

Discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123535
When will we reach a point where the use of WebGL is no longer a headlining feature? WebGL is cool and all but I have never wanted to play a game based on the current coolness factor of it's underlying technology.

Games should be about fun.

I'm interested in WebGL but i'd rather be seeing links to posts about how people use it and how they performance tune it than just links to games built with it. I don't learn anything from just playing it.
No, just like reading an article isn't.

Look, I'm being pedantic. We don't appear to have any real difference of opinion. But the fact that something is published on a website doesn't give you any more copy-rights than if it was published in any other way (say, on the sleeve on a CD you bought). I don't see how that is a controversial observation.
B. F. Skinner's Superstitious Pigeons
https://twitter.com/davidrupp/status/375290808640884736

"Not all who wander are lost."
Samsung reveals smartwatch, new Galaxy Note
We can't say that which such limited data. E.g. it could be the whole school lowered its admissions requirements without sufficiently lowering the real graduation requirements, due to pesky faculty, departments determined to maintain their reputation and/or not lose accreditation, etc.