skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i used to have a lot of problems with intellij/pycharm when i first upgraded to a macbook pro retina. turns out the major performance problems i experienced on 12.0 were from the block cursor mode. disabled that and its pretty lightning quick now. the newer 13.0 EAP releases are even faster.
That site looks clean! Do you know who developed it?
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New browser extensions let you hit the NSA where it hurts: in the data
Welcome to the internet! You must be new here :)

Jokes aside, using any proprietary web service has the exact same downside. And yet here we all are using Google Apps, Dropbox, GitHub, HipChat, Intercom, and dozens of others. As a team, we found additional web services add exponentially increasing complexity; we eventually needed a platform to keep track of all the platforms we were using. So we back-tracked and went the same route as the Wiredcraft guys, centralizing everything into GitHub.

As a community, instead of advocating turning the clock back (which will never happen: the toothpaste has exited the tube), we should explore ways to satisfy security & reliability concerns while maintaining convenience. Also, you can self-host GitHub.
Er, not sure about 'over-the-top', but I noticed the same thing regarding third edition Dungeons and Dragons. When they were trying to broaden the appeal to more than just, well, the traditional AD&D player, all the pronouns in the new books became female when talking about the player or player character.
^^^ BINGO
I don't mean to pick on you, but this is the problem traditional learners have with internet-generation learners: You were successfully "intrigued." Hurray. Much dopamine was produced. Emotional energy is valuable in learning. However, since there's no back button you can't go back and analyze the data your own way to create your own meanings or find errors and nuances. It's a sugar hit with an opinion tied to it.

An employee or friend who is able to intrigue me but not show me deeper information such as nuances and contradictions is not useful to me. I don't want to be merely intrigued all day and I don't want to facilitate experiences of "intrigue" in others all day. There's got be some protein along with those carbs.
NOTE: I am not the OP

>Now I know you're trolling me.

Come on, seriously? There's no need for that.

>Anyway, Obama signed that law in 2011.

... and in 2010, 2012, and 2013. It's been part of the National Defense Authorization Act every year Mr. Obama has been in office. The last two years he's stumped around the time the bill was moving through the house, trying to use the Bully Pulpit to remove the prohibition of funds being used to relocate the prisoners. So far, he has been unsuccessful.
For me, the homepage refreshes twice and lists 3 links in the back history.

Chrome 29.0.1547.65 OSX 10.8
Am really confused. Why is a service like this needed? For example, I can use git-ftp to sync between Git and FTP. I can use Amazon's SDK to sync between Git and their services. I've been actively using both and they work brilliantly. Am sure the same can be done for other services as well. So why would I want something like this for $29/mo?
$0.01/mi redemption is pretty bad. Save your miles for international flights where the redemption value is higher, especially for business and first class.
Fascinating how so many screenshots resemble the appearance of Windows Phone. Any case a welcome change as the old UI looked very toyish and dated.
I've worn an OR, and without physical feedback even games where you are strapped into a cockpit or driver's seat are lacking. Seems like this kind of thing will be made more popular by the OR.
American Airlines gold status (the lowest frequent flyer status level) is not actually that generous. It's basically priority boarding, a little bit of priority on the upgrade queue (if you want to pay for the upgrade with upgrade vouchers or cash), and that's about it. Lounge access doesn't even come until platinum, one level above gold, and then only on international flights.

I'm sure he makes lots of good things happen by paying for them with his copious of miles, but it's not from the gold status :)

https://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/eliteStatus/elite-benefit...
I think the point is most college students don't know that most jobs are not filled through the 'traditional process'. This article helps explain that.
Blizzard monetized the game by selling it for $60 a copy.

That image you linked shows that the drop rates for items take into account the existence of the auction house. That sounds like a purely game balance decision. I.e., it would still be true even if only the gold auction house existed.

I never got all the outrage over the existence of the auction houses. In Diablo 2 you'd grind for hours looking for good drops and then have to spam chat rooms and trade with people. In Diablo 3 you'd do the same grinding but just for gold, and then you buy what you need on the auction house with that gold. What's the difference? (Other than in Diablo 3, once you're done grinding its much easier to get what you want.)
HSA Foundation Targeting Heterogeneous GPU-CPU Execution for Java by 2015
It is irresponsible to send more than one email to a user-submitted address without verifying it. Otherwise abusers can use you to get emails sent to someone they are targeting.

Since you can only send one email, it has to be the verification email.

You need to send the verification email at registration time, since users are likely to mistake it for spam if you send it at some arbitrary point later.

If, on the other hand, you have no need to send email at all, then there's no need to collect the address and thus no reason to verify it.
46 is also the average age for a first-time Porsche buyer.
Getting wealthy from value investing
I was in the same boat as you, and I swore I was going to learn Rails - and just 'go w/ it' -so I built an app in Rails..but when it came time to deploy -- my host only supported a specific version of Ruby -- and I wasn't about to pay $50 a month to host a hobby so to speak...

Then I decided I was going to try and duplicate it in php --which php is extremely ugly--UNLESS you're laravel. I found laravel which I am getting pretty darn good at, and I absolutely love it! It's Rails for php and has taught me GOOD design principles for php(instead of spaghetti code, like how to use namespacing and build my own packages, and their's a strong community for it -- I highly recommend going to #laravel on freenode(irc) -- for help when you need it.
This thread reminds me of this episode[1] more and more..

[1] http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120914205337/seinfel...
In the USA airline miles are not considered income and are untaxed. Purchase a product, get the miles, donate the product to charity.
Because you already have a phone in your pocket and a finger on your hand?
Amen. To me that article should be littered with [citation required] -- it is just full of wild assertions with no hint of reference to research. As in "Maybe a lot of the neurons in our brains are not just capable but ... motivated to be more adventurous, more exploratory or risky in the way they comport themselves... They're struggling amongst themselves with each other for influence... there's competition going on between individual neurons." Such anthropomorphizing of individual damn cells is completely unjustified without some kind of support.
I have my SCAD files on github. It seems wrong to me to have a build result (the .STL file) under version control though.
I really am amazed to see this comment on Hacker News. I don't know what else to say.
At a risk of stating the obvious... StackOverflow/StackExchange. Not a forum per se, but definitely a community. :-)
High speed interconnects are not worth the extra cost. They just compensate for poor programming.

With regards to protein MD, no, I'm not saying protein MD is a waste of time. In fact, I run the Exacycle program at Google which has run the largest MD simulations (many milliseconds) ever done, and the results are quite good. You would never have gotten results as good as ours on a supercomputer- even the world's largest, with the most highly scaling MD codes.

I speak from experience- I used to code for supercomputers, in fact working on protein (and DNA/RNA, my interest) structural dynamics, with some of the leading MD codes.

I helped port a better approach to Google's infrastructure some time ago. It's not a clever hack or gross approximation:
https://simtk.org/home/msmbuilder
it's a distinctly better way of modelling protein dynamics than running long single trajectories on supercomputers.
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While that may be true for the short term, what about the power, maintenance, storage etc costs that recur? I'm not sure a C dev's pay is equal to the running costs of a server farm...
Stop bitching about it and get off Verizon's network, enough of you leave and they'll start to open up. Right now they have no incentive, idiots like this guy will keep buying shit that locks them in for another 2 years and all he can do about it is bitch on a blog.
The feedly API
I think when facing a choice of 'doing nothing' vs. working on an open source project or unpaid internship, a college student should choose the free exposure and experience. Sure, if you can get a paid internship or work in your field, do that. But if you haven't yet, free exposure and experience is a great way to do something positive.
I've been using all the betas on a 4S - aside from early-betas, it's been no more demanding on my battery than iOS6 had been. It hasn't been a factor for me.
Good questions. Booting from Linux ZFS is a bit more of an advanced project. Here is the guide for Ubuntu: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubu...

The ZFS packages are not fully pre-compiled. The ZFS packages use the dkms system where the kernel specific parts are recompiled when the kernel changes. This greatly reduces the maintenance work and is a system that has been in use by other out of tree kernel modules for a decade. Its not perfect, but it does largely reduce the distribution specific maintenance burden.

Of course, when a new kernel version comes out, ZFS may have to make adjustments to support it and ZFS may lag a little bit. However, currently there are significant resources being dedicated to ZFS on Linux development and packaging and for the last 18 months they've kept up pretty well.

It isn't perfect. I wish that ZFS could be in the linux source tree. While I saw ZFS on linux being available, I wasn't ready to try it until last year. However, third party file systems do have a long tradition, such as AFS, vxfs, and numerous SAN file systems. ZFS on Linux seems to be doing very well.
It's still a phone, even if it does all of those other things.
JetBrains is one of the most interesting developer-minded companies out there right now and have been for a number of years. Between IntelliJ IDEA (Java and all things JVM, and then some), Resharper (must-have extension for Visual Studio), all their other IDEs built on the IntelliJ IDEA core (Webstorm, Phpstorm, RubyMine, PyCharm, ..?) and all the other great tools they offer (TeamCity for one), I don't know what this developer's life would look like without them.

TL;DR: efdee <3 JetBrains.
Let's not get carried away. Apple makes the best hardware. They always have, and probably always will. But there's a lot more to a phone than the hardware. Lots of people genuinely prefer the way Android does things and I don't think Apple will ever figure out how to do cloud services properly.
I really doubt that will ever happen. If anything I think it will end up being the other way around with x86 CPUs in phones.
How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free
As a general supporter of Obama, I still don't understand him being awarded that prize...
YouTube enables offline viewing for mobile
I say keep going, simply because win or fail - experience counts, and if you fail, then you end up moving on to something else - at least you can say you're not a quitter.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/19705/ios-7-download-release-d...
Probably.

There's a non trivial number of these around. Politicians, students, parents, etc. are keen to build relevant skills is high demand areas. On paper that's great. In reality creating programs overnight and admitting students without the vocation because the funding and students are available is a recipe for problems. There are a lot of "IT Specialists," graphic designers and other (genuinely needed) "professionals" around that can't do anything useful.

Some didn't like it, so never got good. Some are just unsuitable talent-wise (I don't think I could have ever been more than a barely competent designer). For some it's a combination of things. Below average suitability. No motivation. Bottom rung course.

Thinking of Tertiary Schools as factories for turning people into professionals at something is problematic analogy. Often its a case of we need to do something, lets do this. The result is weird numbers. High unemployment in high vacancy professions.
I get the impression America is not the target market for 5C.
Are Apple Mail plugin bundles sandboxed?
I agree, but I think that means the comparison should be about the things that really are different. Like having to pester people to pay for work that you completed honestly and on-time.
>Free for open source.

Great! Where's the source?

I'm not going to complain about the price, because if there's a market that pays that price then they should charge it.

I'm not going to snub their project because I could write it myself.

Instead, I want to look at their source code and compare their techniques to what I would do and what others have done, and congratulate them for their work. So congrats!

Source, please!
Nima Arkani-Hamed is a nortorious loudmouth.

I went to his lecture from 1-3 and we got an encore from 3-5 and another from 5-6. It is no surprise his paper is verbose clocking at 154 pages.

Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605

Alejandro Morales has some lecture notes on a course on the Positive Grassmanian The professor was Alexander Postnikov at MIT.

http://www.thales.math.uqam.ca/~ahmorales/18.318lecs/lecture...

Feynman famously said "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." That was in 1965 but it's still true.

The scattering amplitudes in a certain case of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory are more symmetric than people first expected. This has applications to "total positivity" and "integrable systems".

This will not help you build an app, but it's beautiful and represents an important shift in mathematics.
Most consulting projects in Fortune 500 companies end up with outsourcing the whole project department to the consulting company, in the cases where IT is not the main business.
>"in my infinite spare time"

Can we please make this a thing? I'll even share one:

Rig up some arduino's to some sort of Sonar device, and use it to detect boundaries when my eyes are closed. That way I can walk around buildings blindfolded with no cane and freak people out. (And possibly actually use if I ever become blind.)
It's interesting but how does it handle the case where the user navigates away before the counter hits 0?
Ayn Rand shares shelves with Tintin, Eli Weisel and Twilight.... Banned are books with... anti-establishment ideas.

Poor Ayn Rand.

Actually, I wonder if they have The Fifth Head of Cerberus? That's just as much a trip as The Trial, and the last novella, "V.R.T.", would really speak to the abductees at Guantanamo. I'm not sure how much Wolfe has been translated to Pashto, however.
This is pretty tech-specific. In many other fields, unpaid internships are seen as a good deal, mostly because their are so few of them and so many applicants. A friend of mine who recently converted an (unpaid) internship to a job in DC worked really hard just to land the internship. At the same time, he was learning the job but in no way provided the same benefit to his employer as a tech intern does.
When its an "employer" approaching the student/employee that wants something done for free, its a bad idea.

When its the student being deliberate about making himself employable, its a good idea.
Funny how Orbital seems less known than SpaceX, even though they appear to be significantly larger and more experienced company. I didn't even know that they were doing a launch, and now I missed it.
There are still good deals available by using credit cards. My wife and I took several trips (and sent other people on trips) by using a British Airways Chase card and a Southwest card. We only had to fill out an application (no pudding cup peeling required). Nothing in comparison to this guy, but very doable.
No, I signed up for the xe.com daily currency exchange rates email and it occurred to me I could build a database around it. So now I have daily exchange rate data going back a couple years. Thankfully they haven't changed their format. They have a service you can pay for if you want to download this data in bulk but I was being cheap and didn't really have any particular use for the data.

Source code: https://bitbucket.org/fusiongyro/exchange_rates/src
Don't forget that PostgreSQL has a comprehensive online manual that includes, among other things, a complete SQL reference: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html
I think you should first explore Computer Science in general. You should start with a good programming language, a high-level, beginner-friendly, very web-favored one. Pick Ruby or Python. Then grab courses on Algorithms, Databases, Computer Networks and an other area you wanna explore. You don't need to complete them, but just get a feel of what they have in store for you. Make sure you write some code as part of the Algorithms course.

Web development is not just using frameworks. There is real Computer Science involved for building and maintaining any substantially complex web-app. Apart from this, there will almost certainly be domain-specific knowledge required for a complex web-app.

If you get a hang of programming, and love the CS concepts you are trying to learn, you can then build a career path accordingly (may be college?). If you are dis-inclined, then you can get to learn Rails/Django, and keep free-lancing.

I think at the age you are in, you should not miss out on getting a chance to learn some serious CS.
For example I have just hit 20% at 4:15pm, it will be dead by the time I get home.

Therefore I have to charge at work and then it will last until I go to sleep.
Very risky, he was lucky the air miles program didn't hire a bunch of lawyers and get out of giving him anything.
It was a PITA to get banks to accept large amounts of coins. I had a coworker that was doing this, but he had to keep switching banks -- most would let him do it once for free.
I think the drone attacks will or has create more violent people than Guantanamo ever will.

And one can't blame people for reacting in that manner to the drone attacks.
I wish you the best but Fairmont might wait for a better time to drop the "lifetime" perk.

Looks like you already got your money's worth and then some so enjoy it. Hopefully it lasts for a long long time.
I don't think it's mandatory either, but I think this person would benefit along many axes, not just work-related.
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Came to post the same thing. Don't get too hung up on the actual database, just learn SQL and relational databases. It's something you will use over and over again, even if it's just to peek into the back end to see what your framework, ORM, etc actually did with the data.
> The basic rules of expected value don't apply to startups

If you'd reword that as "the basic rules of expected value are difficult to apply to startups", there'd be some chance it was true :).

And yet, difficult as it may be to apply, expected value is the framework to rationally make a decision about low probability / high payoff investments. Of course, if YCombinator is already invested at an early stage (note: when the valuation is quite low), I can understand why pg wouldn't care too much about the later stage valuations. If you look at what's best for YC, it's first and foremost that companies get the money they need to succeed (an incentive aligned with the founders and any investors) but probably also that the valuations (after their own investment) be as high as possible so that more of the pie remains for later investments. This latter incentive is clearly not aligned with investors and as an investor I'd take the advice to disregard valuation with a big grain of salt.
Next up on Fox News; we'll relabel public healthcare programs as "entitlements" and explain why drug addicts and lazy poors don't deserve them. And is your child in danger of a non-traditional marriage? Find out at 11.
Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2887505
Of course it isn't. But it is partially his fault for not getting some kind of (cheap!) catastrophic insurance that's available.
I think this is huge for CS grads, and I would add to not overlook a blog/SO as it can really showcase your ability to discuss and explain technical topics. I can never write a blog post because every time I try I end up with an outline for a 9-part series explaining everything I've ever learned tangentially related to <topic>, but SO gave me the focus needed to showcase some of my communication abilities. I know that helped me at least get noticed by companies.
Early iOS 7 Review - "A New Beginning, Rooted in the Past"
Hmm... this looks interesting and I totally would do it- but part of me is afraid of being the only person to jump in on this, and end up having NSA knocking on my door lol..

Is it illegal to 'trick' the NSA? If they branded me a terrorist even if I wasn't one - would I have due process? Would anyone even know where I was when they come and get me?
http://simulationcorner.net/X11.png

I am working on it. But it is extremely unstable. In the picture you see the best shot I ever got.
Researchers can slip an undetectable trojan into Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUS
Both give me the wikipedia result for sacramento first.
For substantial discussion, including why this isn't the first bug, isn't the origin of the term, and wasn't actually found by Grace Hopper, here's a place to start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359241

For more information, here's a search:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=bug+hopper

More references here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813900
I am not sure if the version they have been using is the GM seed version of IOS7 or not, but I notice in XCode there are still a lot of tracing going on. Even with that, I find the battery life on my iPhone 5 to be quite decent. I would think it will improve once debug stuff is turned off in release version.
I think he might actually work for our local rag:

COUNCIL CALLS
IN COUNSELLORS
TO COUNSEL
COUNCILLORS

Proof: http://31.media.tumblr.com/16e7faf98531c86485462d3a64f04ff6/...

There are many other amusing examples of their editorial finesse out there for those who care to look.
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Free for open source means you can deploy your open source project for free. dploy.io is not open source. We're open sourcing parts of it though (not all up to date yet):

https://github.com/clj-jgit/clj-jgit
https://github.com/dsabanin/subversion-clj
https://github.com/dsabanin/fastbeans

We're working on the new engine for deployments already, and you will see more pieces of it open sourced.