skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t know if high schoolers use college rankings to decide where they should get educated.

I've found that some colleges have a reputation centered around specializations, for example biotech, compsci, civil engineering, and so forth. Prospective students make decisions based on this reputation, and it's not difficult to assign a number to that. Whether reputation means anything qualitative is something else entirely, though.

More relevant, though, is that students also use a variety of other factors in their decision making. Cost and relative location (ie: distance from home of closest family, distance to place of work after graduating) are high-priority factors, meanwhile student body composition (ie: asian vs white) is another.

My point is that companies and people don't make decisions based on a single and opaque number, it's just one of many variables in determining where to go and what to do.

The factors I listed above can have numeric values assigned to them, and a single metric can be derived from a combination of these numbers, however that's still somewhat opaque.

It may be unfair to assign a number to an entire country, but that doesn't diminish its value. It would be unwise to use a single metric as input for decision making, and again that doesn't diminish the value of that metric. It's just another metric.
This felt more like marketing material than objective information for startups.
Ok, that is pretty freaking awesome. Thanks.

For others who don't know it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd. It essentially is a stack for the working directory, so you can get back to where you were previously quickly and easily.
It's not even speculation (i.e. guessing what might be), it's a wish.
When it comes to pure throughput there's unfortunately no way around physical proximity, but glad to hear the rest of your projects are on DO =]
I thought I had addressed that. But you said it perfectly. I guess the short version of what I'm saying is that there shouldn't be a problem with a spy agency spying. The problem is that they've violated their own citizen's rights and the human rights of all citizens around the world if they really do spy on 'everyone'.

I have to admit though, I'm okay (as a citizen of any country) with my government's spy agency violating the privacy rights of citizens and foreigners when it's done in a targeted way. There's a big difference between spying on a person and their network of connections because you've got some evidence to suggest something bad is coming from them and just collecting everything you can and looking for reasons to go after people after the fact. The former is how it should work, the latter is how its being described now.
Live stream of Apple launch event by the New York Times
is it too much to ask for these stupid live update pages to add content at the bottom? At least as an option for viewing.
You don't prove the security of your algorithm by saying trust me. You don't even prove the security of an algorithm by publishing the implementation ("read the code fool!") that's not how security researchers convince their peers or the public. Should Bernstein just publish a cipher or PRNG as C code and just tell people to trust him?

If Linus wanted to convince people, he could point to either a design document that puts forward the reasoning behind the choices made in the implementation, or a security analysis done by researchers on the actual implementation.
Linus is not a cryptographer or expert in that field, despite his accolades in others. The history of cryptographic implementations, even by experts in the field who have years of experience in cryptanalysis, is that they make mistakes, both in implementation and design, and the NSA presumably is top-notch at exploiting weaknesses.

I just don't understand why Linus has to act like this. He could choose to either not respond at all (which is probably what he should have done with respect to this petition), or he could have pointed to a previous discussion on the algorithm used, or let one of the other experts who did an analysis comment.

There is nothing to be won by being not only a jerk about it, but making what is perhaps, too strong an assertion about the security of it. Prominent cryptographers in the field have had their algorithms and protocols broken by others, and not even giving any consideration to conditional security seems unwise.

Far from convincing me, Linus's assertions have me wary of possible overconfidence. What would lend confidence for me would be an actual academic paper analyzing it, one that is peer reviewed by others in the field.
Mail on Sunday trumpets ‘global cooling’
I know you can, but as you said, it's not the best way to go. If you need 3D games, there are better tools for that than GameMaker.
yeah, I was thinking that too. Must be the fear of negative stigma (we're a bunch of puritans...).

Be kind of funny if a mainstream company (McD's) put a hilarious add that only showed on a porn site and suddenly everyone was talking about it in the office environment...
CNET's Apple Sept. 10 event live blog | CNET
It's association risk. Coke, IBM, Citibank... name any corporation large enough to buy internet ad space at volume, and you can almost guarantee that the company in question doesn't want to be associated with pornography.
Don't hold me to this (I'm on a different team), but I think the goal is a closed beta by the end of this year, primarily for the content creators. This is to seed the platform with lots of content so it isn't empty when it launches.

Early next year the platform will begin to open up to the general public.
The other potential effect is that startups continue to spend the same amount of money - but purchase lower benefit levels e.g., move to $5-10K maximums from $2-3K maximums.
I agree. You can't protect kids from each and every threat. you cannot fight their battles for them all the time. But what you can do is prepare them with the confidence and the knowledge to begin fighting. At some point your kid needs to build character by encountering adversaries. The boys telling the girl to make sammiches are one of many that she'll encounter in life.
The ACM is very relevant for academics who publish and attend conferences.
Env -i: how I wish I'd met you ten years ago
Casetext seeking a CTO to help make all the world’s laws free and understandable
ABOUT US

Casetext's mission is to make all the world's laws free and understandable. To do this, we have amassed an enormous database of legal texts, starting with over a million U.S. judicial opinions. A community of law professors, lawyers, law students, and citizens interested in the law are annotating these cases, adding insight and explanations.
Casetext (YC S13) is disrupting an $8 billion legal research market currently controlled by a duopoly (Westlaw and LexisNexis) that has put access to quality legal information behind a paywall.

Casetext was founded by the former Presidents of the Stanford Law Review and the Harvard Law Review. We quit our cushy jobs at big law firms to start Casetext. We’re also coders, and built the site ourselves. Now we need a talented CTO to help architect our platform and build a world-class team.

YOUR ROLE

As CTO, you will help take on the interesting and difficult technological challenges faced in making all the world’s laws free and understandable. You will help build a search engine that accurately finds the best legal document out of millions, a community-based site based around annotating legal texts, and advanced analytics drawn from our immense and growing dataset of laws. As our first technical hire, you’ll also help build our culture and define how we work as a team.

As a key member of our team you will be rewarded with substantial equity and a great salary. We are based in the Bay Area (South Bay).

~Who we're looking for~

Our ideal candidate has:

- Extensive experience writing awesome code (Casetext is programmed in Python/Django, but if you're a Rails guy/gal we should still talk) and working with a complex back-end architecture.

- Experience building and growth hacking an online community (e.g. Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Stack Overflow, Yelp, LinkedIn, etc.)

- Experience with search, natural language processing, and analyzing large collections of data.

- Experience scaling a company and growing an engineering team, ideally as a CTO of another company.

- A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

- A high value on shipping code rapidly and iterating.

Bonus points for:

- A belief that the making the law free and understandable has tremendous value to society.

- Being an active member of an online community (e.g. you are a Yelp Elite member, are a heavy Wikipedia editor, have a ton of karma on Reddit, etc.) - An eye for design/UI/UX.

- An ability to communicate with both technical and nontechnical folks.

- A love of The Wire and/or Arrested Development.

~How to apply~

Shoot us an email at jobs@casetext.com.
Why doesn't it let me put donotlink.com in the box? Rather shitty of them.
I remember as a teenager I had the first issue of PC Gamer that talked about Ultima 9 and Ultima Online - I must have read it 1000 times. It was a shame U9 never lived up to its plans (I blame EA! :), hopefully Garriott has better luck with his current venture.
Another apologist on HN, what a surprise..
Let me guess.. you are a white male. Nice. So am I. We have no idea what its like..

Gender equality in America has come a long way. However, there are still many occupations and places in America where equality is not the norm at all.

The best example of an occupation where women are not welcome is the military.

The best example of inequality in the courts is this recent case:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/hacker-faces-more-jail-time...

Inequality is all around us.
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what what it means to connect "across the channel", but it sounds important. Do you know a link that explains the concept? I've failed to Google it.
I agree entirely with the OP. For a good color scheme, I suggest blue and white, with perhaps a touch of green. I imagine it's not a coincidence that these are also the colors used by escrow.com

For a little more information regarding color usage in web design:
http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/color-meaning/
What's the deal with international payments? I often work for clients on other continents, and I need to get paid in the UK.

Amazingly, Paypal are working out to be the cheapest option for me so far. Are you cheaper than them, including exchange rate?
my thoughts exactly. i'd love to see an actual tutorial on how to do this with dummy data.
What should you look at when deciding to work for a software company?
Changing the law is actually the ideal solution IMO.

The power asymmetry between the government and private citizens and companies is a matter of law not technology. Even if each person and company encrypts their data perfectly, they can still be compelled to give up the encryption key with the threat of jail or financial ruin.

I'm not saying that perfect technical security is not worth pursuing--it is, because it will force the matter into the legal realm. But if the legal realm isn't right, the technology by itself won't save us.
You wont see it in your ports tree because it's part of vim:

$ grep xxd /usr/ports/editors/vim/pkg-plist
bin/xxd
What "harmful environmental regulations" are you speaking of?
Scientists trace origins of India’s tigers, elephants and other large mammals
> I just don't think it's particularly fair that just because you are offering information products around some potentially dubious business opportunity that it's a valid criticism to essentially say "oh, he's selling picks and shovels, so he must be a douche" (I'm paraphrasing of course...)

No, I said nothing like that.

I often skim the top few comments of an article before I read the article itself, to see if the article is worth my time. I appreciate seeing the kinds of comments I made, because it saves me time when others do it. Judging by the number of up votes I received, I'm not alone on this.

I suspect these articles are often up-voted based on the title alone, since they generally have no real content worth discussing (sometimes interesting discussion does arise despite this).

The long and short of it is that as long as there is no down vote button for articles, you will continue to see skeptical comments from HN users.
does it generate documentation for all link relations, media types, and available resources in workspace?
Perfect answer to the diversity "problem"?
That's fair enough. Cheers for the discussion.
Watchmaking Renaissance is Yielding Most Complicated Mechanical Timepieces Ever
It doesn't mitigate untrusted software, but an interesting approach to tamper resistance can be found in
Infineon SLE78 security controllers (for smart cards, etc). They run dual CPUs out-of-sync and compare results after each instruction.

http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/chip-card-and-securit...
I really don't ever want to buy a trash can size PC again. Is there some reason that we can't make most PC's the size of the Mac Mini? Just throw out as much legacy as possible and make a new sweet standard. A new video card standard is probably the hardest thing.
Google's N-gram: The Language Time Machine
Impressory -- which I happen to be working on at NICTA -- only requires you to be able to post and tag.

It has a few other goals -- it supports live interaction in-class as well as online, social content, and is part of a push towards disaggregation and content re-use. It's also much smaller and easier to set up if you want to run your own server than edX's software.

It's a work-in-progress, though it is live on a course at The University of Queensland. Though that is an on-campus course rather than a MOOC. This iteration of the course is, anyway ;)

At the moment, Impressory only deals with the content and interaction side, not assessment and marking. Though that will follow. We figured that lecturers tend to have more freedom in how they do content delivery than in how they do assessment, so social content and live interaction would be a better starting point than assignments and marking.

(Initially at UQ, we created a separate tool, Assessory, for group based peer critiques in the course. But we only even started using that ourselves on Monday.)

Our UQ course is up on a server at http://impressory.com

Though we're not running that as a public service yet -- it's very alpha -- we are interested in early adopters trying it out. But please ask first.

Docs (very incomplete) for Impressory are going up at http://impressory.github.io

Code (essentially an alpha) is at http://github.com/impressory/impressory

Part of the aim of this is that whereas Open edX is something rather large that only institutions with significant IT teams would run, this is something that it's viable for you to run yourselves, on your own server. WordPress to their Blogger, if you like.

The software is approved for release under the MIT licence. The licence file will be pushed shortly. Contributions are very welcome indeed. You've just met the development team ;)
Gizmodo's live updates of Apple's product announcements
Which is exactly why we posted this to this community. Appreciate it.
Thanks for posting this. I've had a few toes (ok maybe a foot) in the indie game development world for quite a few years now, and they're definitely amongst the group of developers who are the most averse to putting their shit on github and open sourcing their libraries etc.

The game dev community has a love/hate relationship with open source: on one hand a lot of widely used tools are under open source/free software licenses (box2d, SDL, etc.), but on the other hand you'd be hard pressed to find an indie willing to release his source code (Jason Rohrer I love you).

There's definitely a technical reason for it (game code is often hacky and not that reusable), but I've observed that it has to do more with the sense of pride of the developers ("my code is too ugly people are going to think I am a bad developer").
Startups and companies with younger employees will (should) early renew in December of this year, extending their current coverage til late 2013, avoiding the price increases in the short term. For the long term, partnering with a good broker and making sure you're on the right insurance plan can wring out some savings to make up for the increases.
> OpenGL and Direct3D are the only way to do real-time graphics.

I'm sorry, what?
Why U.S. News' college rankings hurt students
Is the best strategy here to leave your devices at home and just bring a burner phone on holiday or other travels and no other devices?

It's strange as an ordinary citizen who might choose to contribute to someone like Manning's defence fund, or post statements supportive of Snowden online, to have to consider that GCHQ or the Homeland Security might put your name on a list for questioning and confiscation at the border, requiring drastic action like this.

Given the abuse of them in many countries including the US and UK (which was inevitable), I can't see any case for these powers of arbitrary detainment and confiscation to be given to the police in any country.
Knockout.js tips and tricks
I would never be an author like here. Looks at the cover of her books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/186-3227527-8974765?u...
I assumed it was written by a man at first as well. Would you take the accusations of sexism stronger if it was coming from a dad? I would.. and there is something wrong with that.
So, basically, design your own chip on paper (because you can't trust the CAD tools or the compiler that made the CAD tools), build your own fab and make your chip at home, build your own computer, write your own compiler, write your own operating system... Yeah, this'll be good.
Extend RabbitMQ to Mobile/Web using PubNub
http://www.pubnub.com/blog/extend-rabbitmq-into-mobile-and-web-using-pubnub/

RabbitMQ is great for connecting critical systems to AMQP clients. But how do you connect to mobile and web clients for bi-directional messaging in a way that's secure, reliable, flexible, and scaleable?

What if you didn't want to open up your back-end servers to the net, but just wanted to continue communicating with RabbitMQ? What if you did not want to require clients to support any installables or require the latest web browsers or websockets technology?

I think we have the answer... use PubNub's open-source RabbitMQ adapter (https://github.com/pubnub/rabbitmq).

Your entire RabbitMQ deployment continues humming along just as it always did, with no changes. The PubNub RabbitMQ adapter will work as another AMQP client, and will connect to PubNub over standard http ports 80- and 443 (no special ports or firewall shenanigans required). The adapter will then publish/subscribe to PubNub as needed, while pushing/consuming to RabbitMQ.

You've now connected RabbitMQ to the web, without opening up your backend. The adapter can implement business logic to scrub data before publishing/subscribing, keeping the inbound and outbound data safe. You now support all web clients through PubNub, from the mobile clients to old, crusty web browsers.

The blog post url has code examples as well as video tutorials so you can see it in action. Follow the tutorial to get set up with your own web-connected RabbitMQ deployment, in as little as 10 minutes.
Thanks! Everyone has to start somewhere (if you saw my earliest work, you'd probably laugh). :) Good polygon rasterization can be a project in itself.
I'm pretty sure that time the Jane Austen Society called for a month of local chapter bingo games made me more sales than being on TechCrunch ten times.

That said, with a view to giving people the best possible advice, I've been told by people who are deeply in the Valley ecosystem that the fact that TC and whatnot are for better or worse the paper(s) of record for the Valley ecosystem means that you probably do want to be in them when you are hiring/seeking funding/etc, both for visibility and for social proof. Be that as it may, there are many, many, many companies which will succeed in selling millions, raising funding, and hiring employees without ever having a single visitor from TC et al darken their doorstep.
Does that mean it should be possible to just have the link be "subscription"?
iOS 7 will launch on September 18th
IOS 7 will be available publicly on Sept 18th 2013
Speech and consequences
Hardware is the new black
It is less flexible, but it is more secure than using public key authentication by itself (public key auth can be used in conjunction with an IP whitelist).
yes - but all machines are actually cheaper in the US - and Ruski keyboard is not necessary for me particularly... also- my machine is plenty powered for what we do... iOS dev and cloud application back ends - do not normally need massive processors... also its getting cold here already -so my fan is not as necessary now either... I'll get thru with a clunky machine till then. :)
Roy Fielding on push vs poll
Hyperactivity Linked to Inner Ear Defect
> The teacher has a responsibility to provide a safe environment THAT ENDS AT THE DOOR TO THEIR CLASS. If the harassment happened out of view, is the teacher still responsible? Are you responsible for harassment that takes place at your workplace outside your cubicle?

The teacher may be responsible, sure. The harassment happened; knowing that, it is an absolutely fair question to wonder if more could have been done by the teacher.

> Students have remedies, they all know what they are. I knew. If the child spoke up to a teacher, principal, janitor, or anyone and the school did nothing then I'd side with the OP in a heartbeat.

I feel it must be pointed out, and repeated if necessary, that someone does not need to report a wrong action for that action to be wrong. I know that's not exactly what you said. The author's daughter was harassed, and that is wrong. Full stop.

> Absent any real facts about what happened I'd have to guess (and it's only a guess) that the teacher wasn't the problem here.

If you are absent any real facts, why hazard a guess at all?
Face-to-face is the only way.

All emails or SMS or phone calls have to be just stuff like "Hey, how are you are doing? Do you wanna meet up and have a beer."
"The purpose of government is to marshal these selfish urges such that we benefit as a whole."

I think a lot of people think that's what government should do, but you should really think hard about why that's a bad idea. Who is "we"? Who gets to really decide what is "benefit"? Who gets to decide what is "selfish"? And how can I be that person so that I can screw over gradstudent, and bring about benefits, which, oh by the way, also REALLY benefit my friends and family? Some animals are just.... More equal than others.
Hi - I am going to avoid releases until I am in beta. The reasons being: I don't want to preemptively disappoint people with bugs/issues, and as a one man team I simply can't keep up with the support work (its hard enough doing a public release and trying to respond to many comments/emails). I would like to open source the engine in the future if it is possible (the decision is not entirely up to me).
It means that the spec shouldn't specify URIs, and instead publish link relations.

(I'm not saying that I think it should be that way, just elaborating.)
Mac OS: pbpaste & pbcopy

For instance:

pbpaste | fgrep -i "`pbpaste -pboard find`"

To search the copy clipboard with the find clipboard.
The Next Phone is a Beauty
EFF guide to defending your privacy at border crossings:

https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...
Thus if it is possible, and they are motivated, then you should never assume that they wouldn't do that. Because push comes to shove, why wouldn't they?

That's sort of my point. "Push comes to shove" -> they'll do the easy thing first.