skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could have hacked it together with bgsound before HTML5, but it would be less reliable.
These types of sounds are absolutely wonderful for soothing angry babies!
Similarly I started programming very young. You do need to pursue other interests to be well rounded, though. But hey, not everyone is well rounded. However, I will say I think there is a difference if you are doing it because it is fun or you are feeding a thirst for knowledge vs you are trying to become the next Zuckerberg. There's a place for that, sure, but 13? I'm not saying this person is doing this, just remarking generally.
Yaaaaaaayyyyy!!
I think you're unfairly dismissing magnetic confinment, the limited supply of fissionable material, and the unprecedented issues that accompany the management of dangerous material (or anything for that matter) for 10,000 years.

Fusion research is worthwhile. Of course it's not the only path to sustainable energy, but it's one of the most promising.
Rubymonk.com is really great.
Long back, my very first project in a big Indian IT firm involved an Australian client. He was here, and we went for lunch together.

In a casual chat we asked him how difficult it was to hire in Australia. He didn't even hesitate for a second to reply, they had done everything thing they wanted to in Australia, and the projects failed. They are doing the same in India with nearly the same failure rates- at the end he said, he rather preferred doing that at a lower price.
I don't disagree with you - I was talking about very low rates at comparable experience :)
Seems the mirror was also more effective at curbing cheating behaviors than the thoughts of time (as was the suggestion that the test was a personality test).

I wonder if knowing that someone is watching you (even if it's yourself doing the watching) makes you temporarily more motivated to do the effort?

I wonder how this correlates with the study that a picture of eyes watching prevents theft (same with non functioning security camera) - I can't for the life of me find it on google.
I used to work as a transcriptionist; and one of the most common mistakes made in the office was mistaking a B for an F or a V. After a while you got used to it and learned to figure it out.
Unfortunately, concatenation can still be a mess if you don't know how it works. And sometimes in spite of knowing how it works.
Much the same, here. For some reason the font rendering on my Ubuntu machine seems sub-par (only in the editor, the preview pane looks good). The Windows and Mac versions don't have that problem.
Cry me a river. And then show me the surreptitiously-recorded footage of it.
> Interning is a way for me to use my skills in the outside world versus just working at home.

> working at home.

> working
What milestone? Be specific.
can it be integrated with vim?
Not on topic as far as the article is concerned, but in regards to G.K. Chesterton, my favorite quote of his is:

"Never take down a fence until you understand why it was put up."

I used to use that one a lot with developers trying to improve on a predecessor's code...
Is anyone still convinced that prohibition is the best way to reduce drug abuse?
Old always becomes new again. 10-15 years ago this was called Newspro/Coranto by early bloggers.
Hacker News Watch this [video] : Interesting
Wait, does google really get a $100 CPM? I know their revenue on search is immense, but is it really that high?
I wonder if Chesterton ever read Dale Carnegie :)
CTR mode doesn't have IVs. It has a counter: Start at zero and count upwards.
Have spent several years running services that do a large volume of social share tracking, and the biggest problem I've run into is for eg: Twitter that doesn't have an official API method for the share counts and has a low ceiling on the rate limiting. The url consistency is definitely another big monster in the room.
Plus a reasonably comfortable work environment. Where 'reasonable' is defined completely by the individual.
Leeflets - A free, minimal content management system
"Allow us to collect your data to convince government to stop collecting your data!" - page
I'm looking to go to Stanford upon graduating high school (like you also expressed an interest to do), and from what I have heard, they definitely value SAT scores very high, but if there isn't anything besides that (like your development/internship experience), they honestly don't care much about your scores. And also, I'm pretty sure the SAT takes place senior year, unless of course you are going to be using your genius capacities to do it earlier :)
Good Blogging Advice vs. Bad Blogging Advice
This is a trite and meaingless comment.

Spiderman? Really?
>>Working at a small firm is very low prestige

Just wanted to point out, this trend is changing pretty rapidly.

In fact there is a growing theme of equating big corporations with government bureaucracies. The perception is like imagining a mega corp as a large inefficient bureaucracy, full of inefficient politics, hardly valuable work done, growth and progress a metric of your political ability to fight battles with the company.
Somehow I'm tempted to click the "report abuse" button.
What is the benefit of going up to Masters/PhD and what did you personally gain from the expereince?
units??
You could patch those functions if you were Microsoft and overload them so they had a form which worked explicitly with long paths, though I suppose that's getting beside the point since Windows already has the necessary APIs - the problem is MS for some reason insists on not transitioning to them.
> What? Your theorem doesn't even match with the basic prisoner's dilemma.

Yes it does.

> True, in the classic version of this game there's no communication

That's why. The infinitely iterated prisoner's dillema the theorem works with just fine because there's perfect communication (or rather, the imperfection in communication drops to 1/∞), any finite prisoner's dilemma, on the other hand, relies on both parties making their decisions in secret.

> I don't know what kind of economics you're talking about.

I would recommend anything by Ronald Coase or David Friedman.

> And just because information is cheaper doesn't mean it's free.

Correct. We will never have a perfect economy of any sort. We can only get better. But that doesn't change the fact that the internet is vastly better than anything we've had before in a number of very significant ways.
Alone in a Google Hangout
You got me excited there for a moment. Even the new features only talk about generators, not true closures. I see what they're doing with it in Co, but ... well, it's still ugly, and limited. Generators only let you go one function deep, after all; coroutines let you go as deep as you need.

But it does improve the situation, you're right. What I'd love to see happen, though, is for the browsers to all adopt asm.js so I can just run Lua in the browser, so I can be symmetrical with the server... ;)

>there's several big corporation supported JS engines

There's one awesome LuaJIT that's faster than any of the JavaScript engines, not to mention much smaller, easier to build cross-platform or embed, and easier to bind to C code. I only need one, after all. :)
A little more concise:

.triangle-down {
border: 1em solid transparent;
border-top-color: #444;
}
I wrote an Android app based on a similar concept, although it uses a PRNG and Fourier transform, with no recorded samples:

https://chromadoze.googlecode.com/
It's all classified. It may be useful as an economical neutron source, or as a way to keep a contractor in business, but there's been nothing published about its efficacy as a reactor for sustained fusion power.

If there's one thing we've learned over the past few years, it's that "classified" knowledge, with no critical eyes to keep it honest, is often wrong. Science works, not because it's done in secret.
Actually, I take it back. I do have something you can look at.

Here's a video I sent out last week going over the signature process: http://vimeo.com/75510644 (a bit out of date, though, as it's missing the audit trail and permanent agreement features).
Really ? From the article :

In the U.S., debt per adult soared 54 percent in the five years before the crisis. Then it plunged, down 12 percent in 4 1/2 years, although most of that resulted from people defaulting on loans. In the U.K., debt per adult fell a modest 2 percent, but it had jumped 59 percent before the crisis.

- SHUNNING DEBT: In the five years before the crisis, household debt in the 10 countries jumped 34 percent, according to Credit Suisse. Then the financial crisis hit, and people slammed the brakes on borrowing. Debt per adult in the 10 countries fell 1 percent in the 4 1/2 years after 2007. Economists say debt hasn't fallen in sync like that since the end of World War II.

The article calls this "plunged" "shunning", but it looks a lot more like a tiny hiccup to me.
The Loneliest Whale in the World?
jsPlumb may be more suitable for what you want.
At YOW Australia 2012, Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer gave an entertaining presentation about 'The Story of the Teapot in HTML'. I thought it was going to culminate in a 3d animation of a teapot in a browser using Javascript and CSS triangles, but they didn't get that far.

Anyway, here's a link to the video: http://yow.eventer.com/yow-2012-1012/the-story-of-the-teapot...
I would tell you if I knew. I kid you not that the work finds me.

I've been in the industry for 20+ years. I've made lots of friends who like working with me. I ping them from time to time because I enjoy their conversation. And sometimes they think of me when they have a problem they need to solve.

I also found a local company on Craigslist during one lull about a year ago that does embedded software and is consulting-friendly; they now call me from time to time with contract offers as well.

Hit up your network; let people know you're looking. And don't be afraid of Craigslist. :)
Could no glass also mean potentially less reflective screens? I sure hope so.
My friend absence or presence of a degree from IIT or NIT makes no difference. I have enough experience in this industry to tell you the IIT guy has only one advantage, the IIT brand. The brand is extremely powerful, and the alumni network is large enough to secure you a life time of jobs no matter how bad you are in your work.

I've seen practically a little to no difference between IIT folks and folks from other colleges. They just happen to know how to stuff books in their brains to clear competitive exams and interviews. Besides that, when it comes to the ability to get things done they and every one else are just the same.

You will see nothing changes in the industry when you pass out. Chances are there you will see IIT folks get big ticket salaries, though they don't do 1/100th the work you do. Or easily shift jobs, because their seniors are well placed there.

True meritocracy is a far fetched dream in India.
Knowing someone in Oakland that is part of a community considering private patrols, they'd rather not be paying for their own security. That said, Oakland like many municipalities granted the moon for pensions during the boom times without considering the busts. This, coupled with the pensions of higher ups, is putting a serious hurt on dollars available to boots on the ground.

Yes, people at some point might have griped about "an extra $82" in taxes, but they are way beyond that point now. OPD isn't patrolling the hills, property crimes are rarely followed up on, etc.

Snark all you want, but there are people with families living there that are at their wits end.
Thats the thing about taxes though. You don't know where your moneys going to end up for sure. Oakland's government is notorious for squandering funds on private consultants and good will projects. A Tax raise is more like an uncontrolled penalty scenario for your money. People are a lot more willing to put funds in when they feel they control outcome.
Flagged.. this is not Stack Overflow..

A basic permissions issue most likely..
Very well done!

Would love to see it integrated with Etherpad somehow so that several people could colaborate on the same document.

We're often using Etherpad to collect notes during meetings. Converting them to a nice formatting in real time would be nice for those who are only following the document.

Synchronization with ownclowd would be nice as well.
your point is moot.

The ad library, who runs the code and expose the JS apis so that html ads can call it, proably advertise to its clients that they can do that.

So which actor exactly is being left out if they do not disclose? only the victims.
Sleeping your rotating disks
http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/tip-letting-your-zfs-pool-sleep
Laravel is slim. :-)
...maybe some idiot took a photo for the next slide deck and the flash made an arc.
Seems like a cool idea.
More secure in a sense, but why should anyone need to give the keys to their instant messaging castle to Google?

I'm shocked that a startup with a similar approach to WhatsApp hasn't made a reasonable rigorous application yet.
> What I am saying, is that relative to other potential investments, fusion does not seem to be a worthwhile investment, as the risk/payoff ratio is worse.

I disagree. There exists MILLIONS of years worth of fuel on earth, compared to a few decades of oil and gas, and a few hundred years worth old coal or fissionable uranium. That's quite a huge payoff for relatively little risk (compare fusion research funding with other energy subsidies).
I am waiting for the hack of cold fusion;

Now wikipedia says that imploding bubbles create some high energies;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_sonoluminescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion

Maybe if you shoot up Deuterium bubbles in compressed water and push in some ultrasound waves ....
Windows 8 already runs on ARM.
I guess that means they found several packages from this one guy, which means the intercept rate is above 0.1% (I guess not too hard to sniff drugs in the mail) - that shows that buying is not a very safe activity (especially regularly!). I find the whole thing fascinating, learning lots about security and police etc. Where's the link to the complaint PDF?
Touche. The sooner people realize the web is a presentation thing the sooner we can get our sanity back.

sadly, we will see some dozen iterations of 'flash' until that day finally comes. and html5 js shenanigans are only the third...
Agreed.

Same for the late and uncertain schedule for Windows and Linux releases.

Hoping Kosada will adapt their strategy and roadmap.
Well, fusion could radically decrease the cost of power, which would in turn increase the quantity demanded massively. So 1000MW might be reasonable.
I have heard hints of this, but I have a number of other...quirks...that prevent me from seeking this out. I like to be running my own business, for instance; my next product is being funded by my current gigs. Take a job as an employee and they expect you to stick around for a couple of years. I want my next three projects to be released in that time frame.
I honestly cannot imagine a better music service than spotify. For $5 I have virtually all the music there is at my finger tips. Maybe it's Thome Yorke who's becoming irrelevant.
On the other hand, discretionary income is growing fast in many parts of the rest of the world.
Who would have guessed that sending eachother drug through the mail would get you caught by law enforcement.

Great way to get people back on the street, selling face to face, maybe get stabbed a litte. Much safer.
This trick is as old as the dHTML. Adding some triangulation algorithms you have a fun 3D ending engine.
I've added that as an experimental feature
They did not mention Q at all in the article and their claims cannot be compared to any intellectually honest definition of "break even" in good faith without more information
I envy you, then, 'cause I freaking hate it.

SASS and LESS provide really nice language improvements, but they don't fix all the crap about box models and positioning and polyfills and byzantine precedence rules and the necessity for silly hacks like this. It's just too complicated and painful to make things look the way you want them to look, which is the point of CSS. I've gotten pretty good at it and I've come to care a lot about how it works (e.g. this little visualization is a really nice demonstration), but this state of affairs saddens me; I wish I could concentrate on other stuff, and not how to make a goddamn triangle.

(At some level of technical hair-splitting, this isn't per-se CSS's fault and is more general DOM crapiness, but that distinction is largely irrelevant. They're still problems I'm expected to solve with CSS.)
yet we have no alternatives for CSS.
> I wouldn't have given up that carefree experience for the world.

How do people get that feeling? I don't remember being carefree ever in my life. I can imagine being carefree but I also can imagine taking a walk on the surface of Mercury. Childhood is such a crappy time filled with school, illness taking forever, boredom taking forever, being tired, hurt and in pain. Each time I finished some school I felt awesome because I knew I won't have to deal with that crap and those teachers anymore. Best thing about school is that when holidays come you can forget all you learned last year. No-one will ever examine you on that. I remember growing up as progressing freedom to not do the stuff I don't want to do. Life was definitely easier as it went.

The joy I remember from childhood was reading books about physics and chemistry and running experiments in my head. I'd be delighted if someone gave me internship in some lab where I could help with actually performing them.
Haha well put, I've read both and Chesterton is good for having a deep understanding of how humans behave and I come away feeling smarter and more interested in the world. I enjoy Carnegie at the same time and get a rush of optimism after reading, but they are more general tactics.

What's even more amazing is that writing from these authors from the early 1900s and 1930s is clearer and stronger writing than a lot of stuff today - well at least compared to blogs.
Where do you expect to find humans at significantly high elevations like say, the peak of Mt Logan, BC, Canada (which is ~6km or 19k ft above sea level, where water does indeed boil at 80 deg C)?

I certainly wouldn't call that normal. Noone lives at those altitudes.
If they were monopolists, then this could be a problem for them. But in a competitive market, being able to differentiate yourself is much more important than repeat sales due to shorter MTBF.
Depending on if the key may be reused having a non-zero nonce may be a good idea too...

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And I just realised who I am replying too, off course you know this.
>....with the aim of compensating for an understaffed police department...

When I left Oakland in 2009, I was throwing away one of the free, local papers when something caught my eye. It was a short article stating that the Oakland PD truancy rate was, I believe, 37%. So, a significant portion of Oakland PD don't show up for their shifts. Perhaps there is a legitimate reason for this. Unfortunately, every time I try to dig up this statistic, I just get results regarding student truancy efforts by Oakland PD.

Also, in 2008, Oakland PD blew $15,000 on, I believe, Screamin' Eagle exhausts for their police Harleys. After complaints of hearing loss, they took the pipes back off, then spent $1,200 on a 'study' to test whether they increased safety (they didn't), caused hearing damage (they do), and complied with noise standards (they blatantly violate Federal noise laws, and OPD doesn't care). The article I'm looking at is unclear as to whether or not the $15k was in addition to the initial cost of $500 per bike, from before the hearing complaints, removal, study, and re-installation.

I miss a lot of things about Oakland, but Oakland PD's antics are not among them. I don't blame people one bit for wanting private security.
They ordered drugs from him on Silk Road, that's how they got his packages.
I'm not sure. You can imagine that presentation in some run-of-the-mill crappy company meeting full of 9-5ers, but it's hard to imagine intelligent people with good educations presenting information to each other like that. I know there are all sorts of contractors, but would they really be discussing such weighty issues?
Here are my thoughts:

- http://www.collegeanswerz.com/i-graduated-high-school-now-wh...

- http://www.collegeanswerz.com/the-process-of-exploring-your-...

- http://www.collegeanswerz.com/how-to-choose-a-college
How Benjamin Franklin Would've Learned To Program
I have a netbook that has outlasted two macbooks. 1GB RAM, 1.6 GHz Atom processor, but it has an SSD... and I think the latter has proved to be the most important feature.
Same here, just recently broke my Nexus 4's display. Doesn't seem to be easy to get it repaired either...
Someone posted ambient warp-core sound from Star Trek on Reddit earlier today, maybe you could add this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/1nwzd6/ambient_war...
"commissioned by Greenpeace International" who I'm sure would back the position that nuclear fission plants are safer than coal.

Of course, nuclear power plants are safe short term. Their threat is catastrophe, which given time, is inevitable.
Kudos for the comparison to breaking the lock on a diary. Those are pretty much pointless, as are these.
You're also trusting Google here, as your key must be accessible by google calendar's event in order to send.
Are you really so poorly mannered as to chime in and start throwing nasty names around? That genius you replied to takes one point to make a political statement, not contribute anything to the conversation and then slips into to the gutter. If it's not popular to stand up for yourself being assaulted, then I don't really care.

If you aren't, you're still completely wrong. Russia, America or any nationstate that is made aware of something can seize whatever it wants whenever it wants and wherever it wants. That's why any controversial app must be distributed, fault resilient for both development AND production. Centralized will never work, even with perfect security hygiene. It's a good thing that Git has a full copy, because a single dev server seizure would be annoying but not fatal.

Do you have any other flaws to point out that pertain to my original comment?
Submitted Google News link to bypass paywall.
IIRC from a recent HN discussion, ITER has attained Q of 0.65 and NIF is nowhere close to that.
Bring on the franchises.
sorry but this is not like titstare, not even a little bit. maybe you are just grouping all NSFW hackathon projects superficially into the same category? titstare is an app that makes it easier for men to objectify women in an unwanted way. what we created is a device that makes it easier for couples to enjoy each other consensually, even in long distance relationships.
Interesting that the outer edges basically have less occurrence of failed answers. I guess that means that there is a positive correlation between thinking outside the box and success? ;)
If this is satire, it is a bad satire.

You don't really understand what objectifying is about, check out this article
http://plover.net/~bonds/objectification.html

Oh and before you get defensive, both me and the author of the article are men
Have they ever thought about leaving Oakland? I know it's not easy to just move, especially with family and job commitments, but I wonder if the people you know have ever mentioned what the breaking point would be.
Sadly, not sure that would have helped. Aes ctr is vulnerable to the exact same reused key vuln. Picking the wrong stream cipher isn't the problem.
If one of those ciphers is completely broken, so that can be decrypted as easily as ROT13, correct?
> Companies that offer this service

You can't possibly trust any company with this kind of service. This is something you need to [learn how to] build yourself.

The concept of "deadman's switch" has an implicit component of "trust no one", IMHO.