skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you truly rank CS students? Is it by exam scores, or ability to memorize algorithms? Maybe it's by code quality, or fluency?

Just asking because when I ask myself, "am I good programmer?" I come up short of an honest answer, so I'm left asking myself, "have you improved in the last month, 2 months, year?" Obviously I want to be the best, and maybe some answers to the question might shed light on how you can evaluate yourself.
I also have a MOTOFONE F3 as my only phone.

This model continues to be the model to beat in this space, and it is stupefying to see that in 2013, with as little as this Nokia does, it is thicker than the F3, at 11mm (vs. F3 @ 9.1mm).

If they can make a 7mm thick smartphone with two cameras and GPS, etc., why can't this little Nokia be <7mm thick ?
Could he do something like 20,000 pushups in a row as well?
If you disable overcommit then large processes can't fork()/exec(). In theory we should all switch to spawn() but that's not going to happen.
Code Generation with T4 Templates [video]
I have a co-worker who saw my dumb phone and thought it was some new cutting edge device since it was so tiny.

Good laugh for all the devs in the office.
Good explanation, I've used it before. Polish is similar in the lack of a 'th' sound which is usually replaced with a 'f' sound: Think becomes Fink. Was always funny growing up to me.
It is a pretty good indicator of effectiveness of the clearance process, in my mind. I'd hate to be the person that signed off on granting Snowden's clearance.

It was a total failure of the 'compartmentalization' mode of thought, probably by Snowden's own design. He had the somewhat unique authorization to take files off-facility on a thumb drive, then used other clearance-level user information to pull 'juicy to leak' intel.

He was also a sysadmin, so... Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? if you're in charge of user authorities, you're probably in a pretty good position to get into stuff you shouldn't.

I like the quote NBC News [1] used from their 'former intelligence official' :

The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12

lol, whoops.

[1] - http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-...

EDIT - typo
Scientific American: Psychologists Identify the Best Ways to Study
And I disagree.
In real life, if someone important or influential says something, you are MORE impressed. This should be reflected in HN as well.

As said on another comment, I would love to see this feature be tested for a few days, and see what people think.
Ridiculously low? €40k? US$52k? That's quite a good deal I guess, and living costs in Berlin are like 1/4 of NYC for example.

What salary did you expect?
If this can be used as a Bluetooth 3G modem for a phablet then it would be pretty useful. Big phablet for internet + emails combined with a small phone for voice. Plus the battery last more than 5 mins so it's useful for a festival :)
This is a feature phone:
http://k-tai.casio.jp/products/ca007/index.html

Waterproof, 8M camera, snapdragon chipset, full email, GPS and BREW apps, NFC, running 240 hours.

There's quite a gap with a "dumb" phone.
Converting a weak encryption scenario into a Hushmail scenario seems, in a perverse way, an indication of progress.
It may be perfect for me. Smartphones are a strange thing, they are just the wrong mix of everything: Can't rely on it as a phone, (too big, too expensive when stolen, low battery life), and they are not great at user input either: Want to write down some notes? Oh well, use this tiny screen. Oh and you can't do it while talking to someone over the phone.. because you know why. Wan't to find your way to a target destination? Go read your directions on a tiny screen, possibly with sunlight on a glossy screen.

Today I had the idea of buying a feature phone or dumbphone in addition to a tablet. The tablet would ideally still be able to fit into my pocket and have a portable keyboard. Not sure where to find something like that, but I haven't looked yet.

Ideally this dumbphone would still be able to sync seemlessly with the tablet and I could write apps for it.
Chrome canvas issue hits production sites - only windows and chrome 29
By glow-lit, I mean using embedded LEDs to illuminate the e-ink display, such as the Nook, Paperwhite or Aura do. After using it for a while, I like it very much. It enables me to read comfortably in less-than-brightly-lit situations, which is most of the time.
This is a good concept but the execution needs some work. I'm confused that everything is visible all the time - if that's the case, why am I clicking on things? But clicking on things seems to be necessary to 'focus' on a given subject; otherwise, as you scroll, the columns get out of sync and seem to bear little relationship to each other.

I envisioned something very different from the screenshots. I expected you to be able to expand and collapse nodes, with the collapsed nodes existing only to provide a summary of the surrounding information. I can see the appeal of having everything visible so that you can just scroll through the document as you would now, but in that case the scroll positions of the columns need to be dynamically linked and there needs to be more feedback about which nodes serve as a summary or context for which other nodes.

In general, I think the process of reading a Gingko document is not clear to a first-time reader. Fixing this will require changes to both functionality and design.
Exactly. Now, this same phone at 100mm x 44mm x 7mm ? I'll buy that today.
As is typical, he is portrayed as being a genetic freak, someone capable of things nobody else ever could aspire to.

It actually takes away from him. The reality is that many, many people WOULD be capable, if they displayed the level of dedication that he does.
Amazon did stop selling the Kindle DX, but they have since resumed selling it:

http://amzn.com/B002GYWHSQ
That's awesome I never knew that; thanks so much for explaining it!
Is anyone else seeing "undefined is editing" and subsequently a bunch of text you didn't write appears?

I'm worried that what I am typing into this might show up in someone else's tree.
It turns out you can have your pie and eat 30% of it, too.
A 'Matthew Effect' in media attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect_%28sociology%29
How the fuck did the BlackBerry Q10 ship?
It used to work like this and then they improved it.
I wonder if being ugly taxes the brain too, as ugly people probably have sex less than average to beautiful people.
You're comparing the price of presumably unlocked phones.

Nobody is forcing you to get a data plan with your Nexus 4.
The restrictions don't apply once the request for political asylum is granted, but that is a lengthy beaurocratic process.
Keep Your Emails Out of Gmail’s Promotions Tab
Individual comments are sorted on a page according to how many upvotes they have. New comments go at the top and sink down over time if they don't get upvoted. There is also some evidence that the commenter's karma affects how quickly a new comment sinks. So, each comment is sorted according to how much people like its content, not on how much people like the user.
I learned it for some scholastic competition once. You're right, after the initial confusion, it was fast and intuitive.

I've forgotten it all now, of course. How often do I need to calculate something?
Your logic is flawed in that people in poverty everything is a priority.

When you live paycheck to paycheck you don't make 'decisions'.
You just function and watch TV.
You can certainly be incomprehensible in your native language. See Sarah Palin. It wasn't the accent that made her hard to understand.
I've found that automating my finances make a lot of those stresses go away.

I don't have to worry about accidentally overspending in my checking account and not being able to pay my bills because my bills are paid from a separate account, and they're all on auto-pay.

Likewise, my savings and retirement investments are automated and I just know that enough is going there. I have a checking account, which is labeled "Spending" and that's what I use to buy groceries, etc. It doesn't matter that it's literally dwindled down to almost $0 a couple times a month because my bills and investments are automatically managed.

My wife and I lived pretty poor for the first 3 years of our marriage, and only the last couple years have I been earning enough to be able to "set-it-and-forget-it" with my finances. The reduction in stress is HUGE, though. Earning more money definitely allows you to spend your time thinking about things that don't cause such stress.
Why Katriona Guthrie-Honea does science
Show HN: Graphical HN
http://ghn.cloudapp.net/

If you can, try right-clicking on an image. This page started off as a random collection of stuff I wanted to try out (spinning up an Azure linux VM included) where I gave myself "1 hour per feature" to learn new stuff. Shell scripts, command-line webkit-based png rendering, pcntl_fork, piwik... Fun stuff. I know, yet another view of HN, no biggie. I welcome all feedback and questions!
Yes, but even then it only needs to prompt when it wants information from the keychain to fill in forms and such. The question is why would this blog page trigger such an event?
Recently I find it annoying that the button I don't want to click is all bright, blue and defaulted and the button I eventually want to click looks gray as if it is actually disabled.

Even google does this.
Was hoping for one without a camera. The camera ruined it. :(
I buy most of my books from thrift stores, the major advantage of this is that I can spend less money, get things that may never be published electronically or that I didn't know I wanted, and don't have to make any record anywhere of what books I own. (On the receipt the purchases are charged in generic categories as opposed to specific titles. Even if I were paying with a credit card you wouldn't know what I have.)

With that in mind the library of books I would even want to buy electronically is limited. A further limitation of e-books is that they often come with DRM. E-books that I've seen are sequential access, paper books are random access. Search helps bridge the gap here. (Paper books will never have search, and it's arguably a more useful feature than random access. Especially if your E-reader software supports bookmarks.) The major advantage of an E-book is that it takes up basically no space. Considering the flexible media potential of electronic computers, that's sort of disappointing.
Don't forget Labour.
The Startup Factory announces Fall 2013 Class
Java pays much more means? can you please elaborate
"But also nearly cripple a site's functionality aside from static content pages.

Even plain text pages aren't immune from the Javascript curse. I've said this before, but Google's blogger/blogspot service is one of the worst offenders. For example, here is the official Android blog from Google

http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/

With Javascript disabled, nothing loads at all. When Javascript is enabled, you get a mostly text page that could easily be served without Javascript.
That's a bug that someone's reported before (through Twitter). Working on fixing it.

No one can see your trees. The "bunch of text" bug has never happened before, will try to track it down.

Probably due to the flood of traffic from HN!

UPDATE from my cofounder:

"fyi: I fixed that bug
weird one"
- Aleksey Kulikov
New Data Mining MOOC
Apple iphone trade in program
Going slow is very important. I'm from New England where we apparently speak very quickly, and in the South I'm often asked to slow down because people can't understand me. And this is between native American English speakers.
by "bunch of text" I mean several list items. I took screenshots if there is an email I can send them to (assuming that's helpful, I understand if it's not) let me know.
Nice! I love high end dumbphones. Bad title though; this[1] is a much 'nicer' dumbphone I can buy.

radicalbyte said what I was thinking exactly: this plus a Bluetooth modem (way to share data plan between devices) plus a big phablet/small tablet would be a badass professional setup. Battery life sells it for me, but not carrying my GPS-enabled google box everywhere with me would be pretty appealing too.

[1] - http://www.aesir-copenhagen.com/ae-plus-y/
Getting Started with Git...Introduction to the basic work flow
Thanks for clarification; I already had a pretty good idea of how this worked.
I still believe that we should map what happens in real life, which is: "if someone influential says something, you listen more carefully".
Do you think this makes sense on HN?
Takedown of bogus copyright claim on bank routing numbers
Microsoft, Google Push Forward with Lawsuit Against US Government
I think this is quite a nice experiment in UI. However too small and simple to start charging for (but please proof me wrong!).

1) What I miss is the possibility to attach files. This would be essential in typical collaborative environments.
2) I don't want to give you my data. So localstorage or export/import is essential.
Tony Hsieh's Vegas
The premise here doesn't support the hypothesis. We start out talking about Facebook apps, and it makes sense. The name of a game, when it appears on a timeline, is far more compelling than the brand names. If you're trying to sell a product, you need to get the product in front.

Here's where things start to break down. People don't look for meetups in their apps - they look for meetups online. No one looks for a "SF singles app." They don't even go to the appstore for that - they go to Google. And despite the fact that I pulled this term out of a hat, guess who's first in Google for "SF singles meetup"? Meetup.com.

The second reason this doesn't apply - meetup isn't selling a SF singles app like a company sells a game. They're selling a platform to help people organize. By putting the app name in front, they put the product in back.

Honestly I think the fragmentation of apps would be a mess, and that it would ultimately result in lower visibility, awareness, and traffic figures for meetup.com as the meetups themselves become the brand.

You cannoy simply assume that a branding strategy/architecture that worked in one case will work as well for a different product or industry. Sometimes umbrella/family branding is the way to go.
"In her witness statement submitted to the British court on Friday, Detective Superintendent Caroline Goode, who said she was in charge of Scotland Yard's Snowden-related investigation, said that among materials officials had seized from Miranda while detaining him was an "external hard drive" containing data encrypted by a system called "True Crypt," which Goode said "renders the material extremely difficult to access."

Goode said the hard drive contained around 60 gigabytes of data, "of which only 20 have been accessed to date." She said that she had been advised that the hard drive contains "approximately 58,000 UK documents which are highly classified in nature, to the highest level."

Isn't this supposed to be very unlikely to happen when using TrueCrypt? Can someone explain what could have gone wrong in the process of storing this data?
Maybe I'm alone in this, but for me the controversial bit wasn't about accents and communication, but correlating a strong accents to intelligence.

"Or, it could be that anyone with half a brain would realize you're going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent."

It's very similar to what you would hear about geeks ten years ago.
I agree that most people would do just as well with a $50 phone. The difference between this and every other option is superficial.

But the RAZR wasn't that much better than everything else either and it sold over 100 million units.
Why there is no comments?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585918

Is it removed?
The Sorry State of Recruiting
Play Framework sounds good
I think Nelson's use of a more general graph has some value. I could see an encyclopedia or a program being edited/viewed in Gingko with circular references. With some tweaks on the UI (being able to put more emphasis on the card currently viewed, maybe by partially sliding out of view the parent cards or shrinking them when they're not focused).

I think this project is pretty cool and the idea is awesome. It would make a lot of sense on a tablet/phone and as a generalized editor.
What makes BitTorrent Sync secure against brute force?
The only authentication needed to sync a folder is access to the shared secret. What protects against a brute force attack on these hashes? If you didn't care about which folder you pulled down, couldn't an attacker poll random hashes?

Obviously the device would be visible to the other devices, and it would take some time to run through the space - but that seems to be just a matter of time and current tech.
If you can sprint slowly for 1600m, you will do pretty well.
I see the point, thanks!
It's too old to comment on. That particular thread is 131 days old.
I don't think Mayor Menino is hard to understand for native Bostonians: he speaks with their accent. If anything, it's probably helped him in what has traditionally very xenophobic city.

Hawking was famous in physics circles before he could no speak.
Of course there is no absolute measure but they held various contests from hackathons to coding puzzles/challenges and took the top performers of each challenge. Obviously this won't get the absolute best students but it is arguably a sufficient enough filter to at least get very skilled CS students.
CLOCK_MONOTONIC is not available on OS X. Also, isn't CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW fetching the counter from rdtsc instruction on x86? (And therefore can go backwards in time if your process is migrated to another CPU).

Keep in mind, also, that the CLOCK_MONOTONIC is not part of the core POSIX standard, so OS X is technically "compliant" even though they didn't implement it. Add this to a list of annoyances, such as no pthread_cond_timed_wait().

You can, however, get a monotonic clock by getting access to the clock service on mach.
We attach files using dropbox links. It's a workaround, but it's been useful so far.

Offline & import/export are features in the pipeline.
Ah, but there's a more apropos one combining the two:

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
Lil' pain
Whaddya think of my idea?
Growth-hacking is a science, not an art.
This is commonly "known", but actually, I don't agree. It's all about exposure. I learned English in class, but most of my learning came from watching TV/movies and reading books in English, and posting on online forums. By the time I came to the US, some people confused me with being a native once in a while, even though I had never actually spoken English to a native, or spoken it much at all really. Of course my vocabulary is/was not as great as natives, but I made a concerted effort to try to sound American from the start. Most people in my country don't try to sound American, partly because it probably feels silly/fake to them, and partly because British English was what was taught in school.

My point is, if it's not true for English, then it's not necessarily true for other languages either. You just have to be interested in the culture, and expose yourself to media during and after taking classes.
I found the Lumia 900 to be the cure for both of these. Indestructible polycarbonate and pushing 2 weeks battery life. And the screen is great, I can even read my emails in direct sunlight.

Edit: I realize it's no replacement for a Nexus 4, just pointing out that it's definitely possible to make a decent smartphone with different design parameters than Android or iPhone have been chasing.
Paper books have search in three forms: flipping quickly to scan for information, a chapter index, and a concept index in the back.

There's nothing fundamental stopping e-books from being random access, type in the page number and there you are. Then again, e-books can sometimes lose page numbers altogether.

e-books don't come with DRM or a record of purchases if you torrent them or get them from Gutenberg, whereas you cannot conveniently steal a paper book.

Just some more pros and cons I thought of.
Lockbox Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round To Help Encrypt Your Stuff
How should one read HN on it? :D
I often thought that it would be cool to have a feature phone that has extremely long battery life and a very minimalistic and thin design. I like their approach but I think it might be too expensive considering the fact that you can get a nexus4 for 199€ without contract here in germany.
Ask HN: what is a good free text / HTML editor to manage website content?
I am currently building a startup website and would like to have a built in text or HTML editor to manage the website page like About Us, T&C, etc.

Anyone can recommend good and free text or HTML editor so I can install it?

Thanks.
It looks nice, but I think it' a bit thick. I feel like they could have made something half as thick as the Razr.
Wait until they start using words like "assault crypto" or military grade-crypto. Why does any citizen need the crypto that is used in warfare? They aren't in combat, why do they need more than 54-bit keys? Who are they so worried about anyway?
On Being an MBA and Non-Technical Co-Founder in a High Tech Startup
Questhub - share your quests
Is the article available online? Do I need to be a subscriber to access it?
Damage control time.
Yes, dont see any comment since it should've been a hot topic. Was wondering if it is removed?
Sublime Text is great. Most of the people I work with use it to code everything from HTML to Rails.
1) Dark patterns do empirically work, that's the whole point.

2) Market won't magically shift - they work based on homo sapiens basic psychology, and that won't change so soon. However, dark patterns can (and are) reduced by making them illegal - effective consumer protection / truthful advertising laws can mitigate them. For example, if 'I agree' opt-out boxes are legally considered invalid, then it makes sense to use opt-in subscriptions; similarly for other [mis]representations.
Nokia Unveils Its Connected Car Platform
Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice
With SSLv3 you can prevent MITM attacks as well as replay attacks where the cert is compromised in the future. The SSL cert is used to verify the identity of the server. Once the handshake is completed a symmetric key is chosen for the session using Diffie-Hellman key exchange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...) to compromise the session the NSA would have to subpoena the data from the servers memory (a real possibility) but would be unable to attack any sessions that had been previously recorded. This is called Perfect Forward Secrecy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy). It is supported by OpenSSL using elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman. If this was adopted universally it would make conventional attacks on SSL impossible without compromising the servers memory. However there is still a risk that any government may compel a company to preserve the session keys under a gag order.

If a CA is compromised then we have much larger problems since it is impossible to verify the identity of the participants in the session. Since an attack was used to create valid certificates as part of the attack on Iran's nuclear program it is likely that other attacks exist and are in the hands of the same actors. We can't move to ECC based SSL fast enough.
> It relies on Markdown (and LaTeX through extensions). We export to Md, but will be adding more import/export options in the future. We hope to create a publication standard for it.

Do we need a new standard for structured documents? Would a <section> not be sufficient?
seems nice, but I have a question: can it import - export to other formats? Latex, markdown, csv ....