skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>assumes that there is internal accountability within that field

Yeah, that is a huge, and completely wrong assumption about the sciences.

I could rattle off a list of names just in my field (you should google them to find out exactly what they did): Dalibor Sames/Bengu Sezen. Leo Paquette. Homme Hellinga. Peter Schultz/Jonathan Zhang. Geoffrey Chang. Armando Cordova. To varying degrees of fraud, or negligence (e.g. Chang wasn't fraudulent, just almost criminally[0] negligent) And those are the people who got caught, and the ones I know about. Guess how many of them still have faculty positions?

[0]I feel safe saying this (with the "almost" qualification) because misappropriation of federal funds is a crime.

Irrespective of your assumption, you still need some sort of justfication for giving taxpayer money to science. Presumably, because it's good for society. Well fine. If it's so good for society, why can't you find people to give money to science as a free-will donation?
IPython 1.1.0 released
> If we were a licensed profession like medicine...

You've never hung around with doctors outside of the hospital, clearly. Their egos, in general, dwarf any I've encountered in software or hardware.
When there's a decrease in the loans going out, there's a decrease on the payments coming in at a future date.

When there's a decrease in the loans going out, there's a decrease in the demand for education services causing a reduction in the quantity available.

Repossession isn't a necessary condition for something to be in a bubble. Pulling demand forward and using laws/regulations/programs to funnel money into certain parts of the economy is what causes bubbles.
My girlfriend attends a for profit school (because her employer covers it 100%), it's absolutely alarming how stunningly expensive these for profit schools are. As a comparison, the state school that I attend, even with over-priced books, sets me back about $1200/semester, and that's for 3 classes. A single class for her is billed at that same amount. Before books.

I don't know how anyone would look at the cost and their future earning potential and decide that paying for a for-profit is a good idea. I know people who have gone the that Full Sail program and ended up 100+k in debt, and with nothing useful to show for it.

Education in this country is in a terrible, terrible state.
If you live way out in the middle of nowhere the property taxes are TINY. $25/year for 2 acres. No building codes, tons of freedom.

My only issue with this awesome dome is that because of its shapes it wastes a lot of material. I'd like to see some kind of cube or cylinder shaped home built from square pieces that maximizes the material's use.
The underlying problem is that nobody checks security indicators anyway.
This is not what happens if you are a top security firm such as Symantec and Trend Micro and your business is securing the latest operating system released.
Hey, if you are around soma you can swing by:)
Private funding, industrial innovation, etc.

Subsidized infrastructure does not practically promote risky endeavors. It's created the side effects mentioned in the original article.
Depends where you live - if you're capable of working remotely, land can be incredibly cheap. AUD$49,000 gets you this:

http://www.realestate.com.au/200677503

"2.5 acres [10,117 m2 or 108,900 ft2] with a large flat area at the front of the block and some scattered timber at the back. Electricity at the front of the block and rural/town water available."
G+ will elevate writers in searches with updates
> Storage space is cheap

True, but

1. time is precious. For example, you waste 50% more time for a fulltext indexing scan because utf8 is longer.

2. Memory. If you can't hold text in a single machine, you have bigger issues (e.g. clustering algorithms, persistency, redundancy, etc.)

3. Network transfer. If you can save 50% in a db connection rtt, you save a lot.

It makes no sense to save BMP in 3 bytes anyway.
I'm not sure why, but you seem unaware of the massive community effort that has already been plowed into Wayland and the massive loss of credibility the community suffers when it's wishy-washy about display infrastructure without Very Good Reasons. Qt and GTK have already been mostly ported, driver code has been contributed in various projects over the last 2-3 years, and other major efforts have been invested into Wayland to break the iron hand of X11, and then Canonical ignorantly struts along with Mir and jeopardizes the whole thing.

If we want big hardware players like nvidia and intel to take us seriously, we must behave in a professional manner, and one of the biggest players in the space creating an incompatible fork on such a fundamental piece of architecture five years after a similar project began making inroads, basically because "We don't have anyone smart enough to understand Wayland", is _not_ professional.

Maybe this would've been justified after Wayland support went mainstream, but all Canonical has accomplished by the release and announcement of Mir is the further entrenchment of X11 by accentuating what a horrendous wreck it is to attempt to remove it.
As of this month, the cabin has become my permanent residence while I build the house throughout the rest of the fall/winter/spring.

I actually have neighbors...sort of. There is a permanent resident of _extremely_ poor individuals 1.5 miles from me (they're quite nice when I've run into them), and next to them is a vacation residence put up years ago inhabited by a retiree on occasion.

This land is "open range", and there is a large cattle farm I can see about ~5 miles away whose cows occasionally wander out this way and graze.
Yes! Because the biggest problem with Haskell adoption was not having a place to give $75/month to.

On the serious side. I've often wanted to learn Haskell, but not coming from a functional background makes it hard. Also I think idiomatic Haskell might be great for Haskell coders, but it's hard for anyone who comes new to functional and wants to learn by reading code.
Wait... there are people who still think the ACM has relevance?
The Data Factory – How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow The Wealth Gap
I agree wholeheartedly that unconscious desires find ways to express themselves, but it's novel for me to correlate those who are disconnected from their emotions (i.e. push them into their unconscious) with those who are more likely to fall victim to cognitive biases, dissonance, etc. It makes a ton of sense; for example, it takes all of my mindfulness to stop myself during a discussion/argument and ask myself honestly whether I'm open to hearing someone's argument or if I'm just feigning openness while trying to get a point across that I've tied my ego to. Oh, the inertia of preconceived thoughts and biases.

This is very useful to know, so thanks for the light-bulb moment. It'll be easier to step away from discussions when I can recognize that someone will live and die with their agenda because A) they lack the mindfulness to divorce their emotions from their stance, B) their identity and ego is built upon this stance, and C) no one will let you come by and sweep away their identity/ego without a fight, especially when their emotions, repressed or not, are swarming.

I guess it's easier to trust the judgment someone who's aware of their emotions than someone who's got a glaring blind spot.
Your position is not unreasonable, nor inexplicable, just unusual. For the majority of people, income tax seems to be an annoyance rather than an active disincentive to work.
1. Yes form a limited liability company (I think a C-corp in Delaware. You should probably pay no more than 150-250 bucks but never done this outside UK)

2. Be tax efficient / aware. In the UK certainly you are best off drawing the majority of income as dividend. Of salary. If you have a wife strongly consider having her own half the business and draw salary too - this however more applicable of you are a contractor

3. Sensibly estimate a portion of your revenue as chafgebacks and related support costs - start at 10% and work down as you get enough real customers.

4. If this is B2C ask is it a good idea? It's a tough market

5. If it is B2B I strongly suggest not doing a free plan - in fact start at something like 49.99/ mth and discount at rly and yearly. Basically you want people who have both money a d are serious enough that they will not email you to fix things the very second they cannot get it working

6. A stripe self publish book has just come out - may be worth while

7. Build a mailing list. Do this by creating a landing page that just has your main selling point on it and a "sign up for a Pre launch discount code". Mail these people something interesting you have written each week / fortnight that's related to you.

Publicise this - HN, Reddit, forums related to your product. Just get google used to you as eay as possible

If you really cannot stop yourself from giving free access try giving away a private beta access. This is easier to shutdown and lets you test the waters as it were. Use landing page for that.

A lot of this is stashed in different parts of HN

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/08/24/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-...
I truly honestly envy you. To be out there free from all the drama and crime of the cities. I dream of escaping to the country side myself one day.
Wikipedia page for each emoji
Also, what exactly do you mean by "homoiconic"?

Yeah, the word is admittedly a bit problematic. If one wanted to be overly pedantic, any language with strings might be called homoiconic. The better answer is to ask how commonly-used are the data structures for storing the expressions. What makes Lisp so powerful is that these data structures are lists and lists are used all the time; this enables a large amount of code sharing between macros and regular functions.

Now this makes it very straightforward to evaluate the usefulness of Julia's claim of homoiconicity: how often would you expect to use the data structures Julia uses to represent its expression trees? If the answer is not very often, then the language suffers for it because you're going to have to write special-purpose code for macros instead of reusing the libraries you'd use anyway.
And ROP = Return-oriented programming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
> And he's had trouble getting more work, as well, because so many workplaces now only accept job applications online.

There is an intelligent limiting of technology for a purpose, and there is brainless dogma.

They started with the first, and ended with the second.
This is a lot more of a problem for teams that are not used to working remotely. Our entire team of 38 people are remote in 9 different countries and we have voice meetings on Skype every day. It's not an issue.

However I do notice exactly what you are talking about every time we conduct a meeting with a new person who is not in the practice of constant remote communication.
phpmyadmin is not the best mysql frontend one can have but it is simple to install, easy to use and makes many things incredibly simple.

For example for my mobile backends, I use only phpmyadmin to populate the data and use rails scaffolds to provide json outout to the mobile clients.
Ugh...I saw the title and had positive expectations because usually, it seems, letters to high school teachers are positive, as in: "My teenage child was depressed but your class made her love school again, etc. etc."

A couple of takeaways:

1. The fact that the OP's daughter signed up for programming class because she wanted to impress her parent is truly a parenting win. Not just for programming, but anything, at that age.

2. I consider myself pretty open minded about gender diversity...but as I was reading the OP's post, I completely assumed it was written by a programmer-father, until I got to the part where the OP describes being harassed. Still, the mental stereotype was so strong that when writing this comment, I kept having to not refer to the OP as the father of the daughter. The trolling that the OP describes is troubling. But it's easy to be angry at the trolling, and raise awareness about it. Unfortunately, I think women in tech still have the much more difficult task of fighting pervasive, subconscious stereotyping and assumptions in the industry.

edit: 3. The OP treats the use of Visual Basic as an ancillary problem...and it is, compared to what her daughter had to put up. But yeah, VB, seriously? I respect people who do VB -- and do it well, because they have to maintain legacy software at a big company...but if you're a programming teacher, you should have a passion to make your subject as relevant to your students and their contemporary lives when possible...nevermind that using VB, in this day and age, has some considerable barriers to just "dive into" compared to, say, Javascript. It'd be like a physics teacher who didn't make a single reference to CERN, Elon Musk, or physics as it applies to modern athletic competitions.
If universities have simply become huge, bureaucratic, grant-obsessed sweatshops exploiting grad students whose churned-out PhDs don't promise them decent careers... why don't people hire some of those poor excess PhDs/PhD-dropouts and put together a grant-obsessed research startup?

Beat research universities at their own game, and perhaps they'll go back to being true universities.
You know what would be awesome.

If everyone on Hacker News pitched into a fund, bought some land out in the middle a beautiful but isolated place in the rockies and created a weekend getaway for coders using something similar to these little Geodesic Dome houses.
I would argue that they aren't any more useless than they have been, but that they've been showed up by everything that's come since, and since everyone else is connected, it's more worthwhile to ask someone than to buy a daily rag.
Except that you can't declare bankruptcy and walk away from a student loan, like you can with a house. The idea of a bubble bursting is the idea that all of the money will disappear at once, but instead what will happen is people will be plagued with debt that they can't repay quickly causing long term growth problems because the college graduates will have less spending money.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsort_(Unix)

* http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Topological_sort#Python

* http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Topological_sort#VBScript
Viewpoint: Leave Junior Alone About His E-Cigs
> I grant that this is not a very practical attack, but it can be made arbitrarily hard to detect, based on the threat model the original attacker (who compromised the C compiler) uses.

Not really. The more binaries you have to be able to subvert for it to work, the harder the attack becomes. There are lots of binary diff tools out there, lots of compilers, lots of assemblers, etc. Writing an attack that could detect them all and defeat them all would be so hard as to be impractical; being able to generically recognize something like "this is a compiler" or "this is an implementation of AES" would probably involve solving the halting problem. And if you can't solve it generically, you have to start adding bigger and bigger suspicious binary blobs in which encode all of the patterns for all of the programs you're looking to subvert.

Remember, the NSA does not have infinite resources, nor can they solve unsolveable problems. There is a practical limit to how paranoid you need to be.

Practically, subverting general purpose computation, like subverting a compiler or subverting general purpose instructions on a CPU, is likely to be too easy to detect and too hard to implement to be worth it.

Much easier is subverting a random number generator. That's incredibly hard to detect, and easy to implement. AES encrypting an incrementing counter with a key known only to the NSA looks an awful lot like a random stream, but with that key they can trivially figure out where it is in the stream and what will come next.

That's why Intel's insistence on getting the Linux kernel to blindly trust the RdRand instruction was quite worrying[1], while applying only a bit of paranoia and using David A Wheeler's approach to defeat the trusting trust attack[2] is likely sufficient to have faith in things like your compiler.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand
2: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Interesting, I was thinking about getting one for browsing/webapp use and remote development over ssh. In addition to the screen, I also like that ChromeOS sounds like it handles OS updates much better than anything else - free, seamless, automatic OS updates for life apparently. Better than Windows 8 trying to turn the computer into a giant tablet or OS X creeping further towards being a giant iOS device. Or linux distro updates breaking things (at least that's been my experience with linux). And all have a lot of overhead as far as installation time.
Private student loans are generally non-dischargeable in bankruptcy also, as they typically meet Section 221(d)(1) requirements.
> 50% is just the absolute worst case. Many kinds of textual data include large amounts of code units that fit in one byte in utf-8

For latin alphabets, yes. For CJK, it's really bad. Things get worse if you dealt with non-BMP before, like iOS emoji, which force you to upgrade MySQL to support utf8mb4, which is totally bullshit. (why the hell do people even presume utf8 is max 3 bytes?)
And the land is pretty cheap! But, costs anywhere in the mountains _do_ increase even the shittiest of goods, including labor, which is why it's as much DIY as I can.

Living out here means monthly trips to larger cities to visit friends, check in with work HQ in Denver, and pickup all the decent food I can (I can't stand the markup at Whole Foods, but they have the best bulk foods of anywhere I've been).
silly. Only has a shadow of being useful because the appstore does not have videos like the gmarket. And the gmarket nobody cares because theres no money there.
I may be ignorant as I haven't been 5 years old in quite some time nor am I a parent yet, but what would you say this 5 year old child is going to lack developmentally after spending one year as if it's 1986 at his home? There was no mention as to whether the children were home schooled or not so we can assume the child is most likely in the public school system.

If their 5 year old is getting to spend half the day in the year 2013 with his classmates, & half the day with family in the year 1986 it sounds like the best of both worlds doesn't it?
Show HN: Our data-driven newborn
> If I want to know my chance of getting shot I want the data per-person

In reality though, it isn't as simple as that. Sure, I don't want to be shot. I also don't want other people to be shot a lot in my neighborhood. If I walk to work and see a car parked on the street has been broken into, that bothers, even though my car is in a secure parking garage.

I don't want to be the victim of crime, but I also don't want to live amidst crime. I don't want to see it, I don't want to hear about it, and I don't want to think about it. Crime per km^2 is nearly as important to me as crime per capita.
It says they are only doing it for 1 year I doubt one year w/o an iPad will totally ruin them.

"So why 1986, you ask? Because that was the year Blair and Morgan were born. “We’re parenting our kids the same way we were parented for a year just to see what it’s like," Blair explains."
Thanks for saying this. I've tried the developer version and while it was great fun the resolution, screen door and shimmer issues were really disappointing.

I agree that it needs a couple of generations of improvement before it becomes useful for text. And if you check the specs of the "HD" version it's not going to be sufficiently improved to make the difference.
I'd be interested in your (and Rogaway's) take on the UCD pepper spray incident, then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXcaoEAkq4
I'm not sure "it being a good thing" is sufficient rationale for government to pay for any given thing. For starters, you'll have arguments about what's good and what's not. Why do you decide to fund telescopes pointing at distant galaxies, versus anthropological expeditions to the Andaman islands? Or do we fund it all?

If it's so obviously good, then why aren't people paying out of their own pockets to help out?

I'm going to anticipate your answer: because they're too selfish. But is there any reason to believe that our elected officials are any less selfish? Look at the narcissistic idiots we elect - and ask, are these the people whom you really want holding the purse strings? I often see complaints, "petition congress not to defund science". Well you know what, scientists shouldn't be so darned entitled, it wasn't their money to begin with. Putting their faith in the continued patronage of a capricious bunch of authoritarians beholden to questionable special interests may not have been the smartest way to secure a sustainable (or a moral) stream of funds.

In the end, taxes are backed by "if you don't pay them, you're gonna be taken away by agents who will throw you in jail". That's blood money you're taking. Deficit spending, which is governments do these days, is even worse - at least with taxes there is the pretense of the voter having a say; when you borrow money on the credit of the nation - you are mortgaging the assets of future generations, who cannot go back in time and cast a vote against spending their money on a stupid idea.
my theory is that there are not a lot of women in tech jobs because the men in tech jobs generally don't know how to interact with women. any woman that shows an interest in tech is not disuaded by the material, but rather by the inability of her male coworkers to treat her normally.

I would not want to work or study in an environment surrounded by social akwardness and harassment either.

the problem lies with the men.
This causes frequent but barely-traceable errors in math classrooms, in my experience.
[Edit to add] Yes, you're right. When I compare their map side-by-side the same area in maps.google.com they are clearly different. I should have looked more carefully before asking my question.

So I guess my question should be "If they had the exact same page except using a Google map, would they be in compliance?"

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It's not clear to me in what way the "Crime doesn't climb" page violates the quoted terms of use. Would someone please explain it to me?

The Elevation API may only be used in conjunction with
displaying results on a Google map; using elevation data
without displaying a map for which elevation data was
requested is prohibited.

They used the API to display results on a Google map.

Their site used the elevation data to display a map for which elevation data was requested.

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I'm not being facetious. It seems to me that their use matches the requirements. So what exactly is the problem?
Forward Inbound Emails to your HTTP Server using Postfix
Yea, you're absolutely correct on this one! I do drive to Denver (3 hours there) a couple times a month, though, and I work at my company's HQ while visiting/staying with friends, etc.
That's very bad. It's been a long battle to stomp out ASLR-breaking modules from browsers. Vendors who do this undermine all of that.
It doesn't need to. The attacker can just target the dropbox DLL now, which is more than enough to execute a payload. Having 1 module inject itself without ASLR means you may as well not be running ASLR on the process at all.
The map in question looks like it's actually from Yahoo! Maps: http://maps.yahoo.com/
Ask HN: How to open source game code, not assets
I'd like to make a game I am working on available as open source. However I'd like to prevent people from re-using the game's artwork for other projects. There are also assets I do not control, for instance fonts. How can I host the entire game publicly while licensing things appropriately?
I think we'll keep disagreeing about this.

I think your argument comes from the traditional 'liberal arts' education angle.

I'm coming more from vocational type place. More of a rentacoder/odesk done more comprehensively.

Anyway, adios