skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised they recognize GRE scores from that long ago. Anyways, good luck and if you don't get accepted try taking a couple of graduate-level courses somewhere else, or maybe there as a non-degree student if they allow it. Doing well would show your current academic capability, which is probably more meaningful to admissions.
No, two PCs is much smarter. Use /etc/hosts to block access to the sites that you shouldn't be seeing on one machine to the other.

One PC, two accounts, breaks for some things, like Flash cookies, etc.

The other alternative is running a "clean" VM inside the "dirty" machine. But that's again likely to cause issues.
Apple's median age is pretty old...40s, probably, with plenty of people in 30s and 50s. Probably way more 20s than 60s, but certainly older than a lot of companies.
I have been using the Scrapbook add-on (see screenshots and manual here : [1]) in Firefox [2] for many years for this; it saves the web page to your local hard disk, and there are several types of annotations that you can perform on the saved page. One trick I use is to first run Readability on the page to get a clean version, and then save that to Scrapbook. With full-text and comments-only-search, this add-on, all by itself, kept me with Firefox even during the dark period when Chrome came in and thrashed Firefox on performance :-)

I used to use diigo.com, which does the job quite well, too, before I discovered Scrapbook.

[1] http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/scrapbook/
FastMail's servers on on the internet, and so you're fucked.

Just sayin'.
3D Printing Week: Viral Toothbrush, Crowdfunding, Staples Challenge
Court proceedings that would be sealed for 100 years. Secret material, say military records, that need to be secure in the present, but are important historically at some point. You could provide a declassification schedule this way.

You could do a delayed form of historical whistleblowing or confession, so that it doesn't cause you problems today, but history can know what really happened.

Perhaps providing the equivalent of a 'sealed envelope' to prove that something was known or happened on a given date, without having to be present or active to prove it.

It's fun to think of a puzzle, but presuming it was truly delivering on the safety promise, I can see quite a few uses. The real schemes though depend on a lot of varying factors, so in cases where the secrecy was critical, you can see why people wouldn't use it.
I think that typing is useful, but I say that as someone who wrote a bunch of type checking code on top of Ruby to make my boundaries cleaner and more sane. It made my code a lot nicer to work with, but I quickly realized that what I really would prefer is strong interfaces and typing at the boundaries.

Thus, scala, go, java, c++, etc. make a lot of sense to me because you gain performance and stronger boundaries are baked into the language.

I want strong typing because it makes my code better. I want it built into the language because it makes my code cleaner.
I'd be very surprised if the work is equal. I know in theory it should be, but I think reality is that it will have to be much more programatically grade-able and won't be.
> Unlike Erlang's built-in notion of actors, in scala Akka is "just" a library.

So what? In Erlang it's part of the language because Joe Armstrong et al. thought that this is how modern software should be written. They figured they'd need immutability, process isolation, and message passing. In Scala you can do that in a library minus (guaranteed) immutability and isolation, which were the whole point to begin with.

Same for Haskell. They've figured that an unbreakable type-system with functional purity will make it easier to write bug free code. So Scala takes the rich type system (that has its own mental cost), but removes the purity and the safety which are the the whole purpose of the exercise (or much of it, at least).

I could go on and on (with macros, implicits and more), but Scala never fails to miss the mark. It adopts a feature without adopting the philosophy that makes the feature powerful.

> Mutability and inheritance are good solutions to certain classes of problems, and it's valuable to have them in your toolbelt.

Sure, but not if I have to pay the price of such a complex type system, that was designed for languages without mutability and inheritance! Each of these features is good in isolation, but combine them, and you get a mess. Scala is a the pizza-ice-cream-soup-steak-salad. Each has its place, but not as part of the same fucking dish! What is wrong with using one coherent language for one problem, and another for a different one? That's what Scala's designers don't seem to get. They simply have no taste. They're gluttons.

I certainly wouldn't mind the generality if only the mental price I had to pay for it wasn't so high. A lack of guidance is not bad in and of itself - C offers no guidance and no guarantees, and is fit for many tasks - but combined with so many haphazard features and mind-boggling complexity, it becomes a liability rather than an asset. You end up paying the price for each of the features, but reaping few of the rewards. I think programmers are the last people this language is for. In fact, I think Scala is mostly made to amuse its compiler writers.
There's a lot of this in play, there are truly terrible programmers all over the world, but most of those in the US aren't doing freelance contract work, they're buried in some giant organization turning out awful code nobody will ever see.

Still, there is a certain change in flavor on places like Stack Overflow when India wakes up and starts asking questions. Maybe this isn't a sign of "bad programmers" so much as it's a sign that there's a lot of people in India that speak English and are trying to learn how to program better. There could be just as many in China or even Brazil but there they prefer to ask questions in their native language instead.
Loved the suggestion. Travel is something that's close to my heart too. I still think I'll need to read up a bit just to know which places have a historical significance. Don't want to accidentally miss them out of the itinerary when I travel.
Correct me if I'm wrong - but there was commercial and GPL licences, are the GPL licences gone?
Jughandles..engineering gone wrong
They seized a copy of his wallet that they don't have the key for.

If he has a copy and they can't get the keys, this seizure is meaningless. If he doesn't have a copy, or they can get the keys, the story changes.
> Most notorious example would be Microsoft Office which afaik never has used native widgets, being always one step ahead of Windows UI design.

And yet when Office switched to the ribbons interface, all hell broke loose. The moral being, people hate having to learn a new UI. Consistency matters.
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Actually I think it's mainly due to differences in font rendering across platforms. The site is fine in OS X, but the same font is rendered lighter in Windows, and with a lightly stroked sans font, that makes a big difference in legibility.
Check out http://www.saylor.org/ , they have a full curriculum in CS and the course work would be comparable to a brick and mortar university. If you need a piece of paper that claims you are a "real" CS however, they aren't going to get you there.
You don't need an invisible bogeyman to be able to see that some people profit from a government that does not work.
Well yes, it also works the other way - if the FBI manages to spend anything from the wallet they have, it will render all other backups of it invalid.

They would need to break the encryption first though.
Yes, indeed. It's seen some spectacular moves, but it's not a very solid narrative that the SilkRoad shutdown has harmed BTC substantially.
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Talking about “true” feminism is almost meaningless (or at least very imprecise). There are several strands of feminism. Radical feminism in particular tend to have a complete disregard for men’s issues, but my experience is that there are many moderate feminist who do care about gender issues on all sides.
The cause is much more likely changes in the microflora of your gut than your genes. (The human-lactase persistence allele is only one tiny part of the total picture.)

Lactose sometimes feeds bad microbes (because the microbes can use the di-saccharide bond for energy or because the the di-saccharide bond delays the absorption of the sugar, allowing it to feed bacteria residing in parts of the gut where starches and simple sugars are absent because they've already been absorbed upstream.)

In addition, microbes can produce toxins that interfere with the production or the effectiveness of the enzymes that cleave the di-saccharide bond.

The practical application of what I just said is that you might be able to regain your lactose tolerance by scrupulously avoiding lactose for a few months or a few years (i.e., long enough to starve out the offending microbial species). A good pro-biotic supplement might help.
You can read about the Holocaust taboo from Holocaust Handbooks, there's twenty four books in the series. Volume 28 was just released the other week. For this subject one must almost have a pre-existing interest, it is a incredibly tedious subject to keep up with, as it is so ever changing and so much material.
The books can either be bought or downloaded as PDF, for free, at http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?main_page=1&sort=voa...
How much does it cost in total?
The recursive decompression reminds me of the zip quine.

www.steike.com/code/useless/zip-file-quine/
CADD Stat - Statistic tests for your daily tasks
I think fairness and equality are common enough goals that you shouldn't have to ask me why they would be relevant. You should just know. That doesn't mean you have to agree that they override other considerations, but it's unnecessary to pretend that you don't understand they are important to other people.
This paper is actually the start of a very interesting academic brawl. I've reviewed that paper by Howarth and found it lacking in many ways. Howarth is included in a trio of academics from Cornell University that have become popular in the media for denouncing the increasing use of natural gas, and even suggest that coal is cleaner on a short time scale. Since this initial paper was published there has been a flurry of responses from another academic at Cornell, named Lawrence Cathles. Cathles is also the only geologist in the group, Howarth is a prof of ecology and Ingraffea is a structural engineer. This article sums up the history between Cathles and Howarth. [2]
So far Cathles has written at this point two or three papers in response to Howarth's original paper, and one of the later ones is a bit of a scientific smackdown.[1] It concludes that the estimates of fugitive gas emissions are very high and other assumptions are made that badly shift the conclusions against natural gas. The response papers by Cathles are very fun to read and I think they provide a great introduction to the current climate science on natural gas.

[1] http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/cathles/...

[2] http://energyindepth.org/national/cornell-response-to-cornel...
There are plenty of necessary sites that just don't let you have multiple accounts for management. I can think of a few but there are tons more - ebay and PayPal are the first two that come to mind. You also get into "concurrent licensing" issues - lots of companies make you pay for each "person" you have tied to the account (like an infrequently used fax number). Account sharing is a necessary evil - but the other comments you mentioned are dead on.
Alexander Bumstead learns the lambda calculus
>... women have one heck of a lot more catching up to do than men

May I ask what criteria you used to come to that conclusion? What do you use to measure equality? You seem to have analyzed both sides and I'm curious to hear how you arrived at your conclusion.
Are funds across all users still co-mingled in one "real" account at a credit union that isn't FDIC insured?
Your "given a sequence of N hashes" is a bit of a deus ex machina here :)
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You Have to Invent Your Job, And Other Trends in The World of Work
> Yeah, yeah, I know, why don't I move to Somalia, etc.

Seriously: Large bodies of law evolved because there's always some idiot that tries to take advantage of a loophole in law. Because we as a society needed to codify property rules, no-murder and rule of law, all those pesky little amenities you'd be lacking in Somalia.

If we could all agree on "don't do things you don't want to be done onto you" and "be reasonable" then we wouldn't need like 90% of todays laws. But zoning regulations were at some point created because people just didn't want to have a party crowd of tourist on their pavement. I know, I've been living on one of the to-go places in Berlin for two years. It's just annoying that people can't be at least a little decent - I've had my share of loud spanish, english, german discussions on the pavement, drunk people en masse in the supermarket and alcohol induced puke on the porch, enough of having to keep my dog from chewing on the tenth used condom.

So I'm quite happy that there's no hotel where I live now and that none of my neighbors is trying to run a hotel-like establishment on AirBnB. And I'd prefer it to stay this way. (no, moving away is not an option - I already moved away once). And basically this all falls back to "if people would just behave at least a little, there'd be no problem."
The Healthcare.gov Fiasco
"Real" probably means "an official degree from an accredited institution". Is EdX going to offer diplomas in accredited programs?
Looks like the degree will not contain the word "online". From the FAQ:

> How will this degree appear on my diploma and/or transcript?
The name "Online Master of Science" is an informal designation to help both Georgia Tech and prospective students distinguish the delivery method of the OMS program from our on-campus degree. The degree name in both cases is Master of Science in Computer Science.

http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/
I actually don't think that SR is a good model for legal drug sales, either. SR is/was designed around the fact that these transactions are illegal. In a situation where drugs are legal, whatever the level of regulation, you'd have very different kinds of websites. For example, anonymity might still be a selling point, but for social reasons, rather than legal ones.
(note this old news dating back to May 25 2013 or earlier. Not sure why it was reposted as a copy on 'dannypovolotski', when it was originally written else where [months ago]).

Does anybody have a link to the student's poster? I'd like to see what controls they did. Everything about the original news article "http://www.trueactivist.com/9th-grade-science-project-finds-... is filled with pseudoscience, or claims which cannot be evaluated.

A short list of grievances against the article:
Claim: "Many health experts consider Wi-Fi radiation to be extremely dangerous to long-term health.". Citation? Most health experts say there is insufficient evidence of this, given the lack of actual data supporting this claim (and it's not for want of trying; many poor quality articles have since been debunked). it's quite hard to make a strong, actionable statement about wi-fi health. I encourage people who think there is a problem to come up with good experiments, because until you show some unequivocable evidence, skeptics are going to (rightly) doubt you.

"Based on the existing science, many public health experts believe it is possible we will face an epidemic of cancers in the future resulting from uncontrolled use of cell phones and increased population exposure to WiFi and other wireless devices". Really. An epidemic of cancers? Cancer incidence is increasing in the modern world, but that's because we've cured the things that used to kill people at younger ages. Note that over 1 billion people already use cell phones world wide. Can you point to increases in cancer can be solely attributed to the use of wifi or other EMF?

"It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day." Really? you are seriously claiming you can tell if you slept with your phone near your head? OK, no problem, cell phones get hot, maybe there is a thermal effect? But, what is the distance of phone to head? More than an inch? No effect. Seriously, this is a very weak observation. Many things can make you feel tired at school- simply staying up late and not getting enough hours is sufficient to explain this,.

"Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. Although by the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived." Was an adequate control used? Both positive and negative controls? Are you sure? Did you swap the locations of the router and test again? Look for hidden biases.

I could go on. That was just the article. I'd need to see the kid's poster to know more.
I guess your luck balanced out given you tried heroin a few times without getting hooked, and coke can be tough to give up for lots of people (out of interest, mind if I ask how much you were using daily? just curious). Congratulations on managing to kick the weed use, anyway!
A 301 redirect should pass link juice fine.
There's an interesting type of reasoning I call "11:59-ing" the market. People find themselves in a position where they can profit, as long as the government suspends enforcement of a narrow band of laws. These folks often become very angry when the government interferes with the profitability of their government sponsored monopoly. The set up for this arbitrage opportunity requires government, but it's only profitable if the government stops enforcing it for the last minute of the day, often retroactively.

As it stands, AirBnB is clearly illegal in many lucrative markets. Houses are not hotels, nor are they priced as hotels. You can buy a house, or rent one, for less than it would cost to buy a hotel, precisely because you're not allowed to use it as a hotel. So buy at that low price under one set of regulations and then demand to run a hotel under a different set of regulations, at a huge personal profit and damage to your neighbors.
Quick testimonial:

I went to Georgia Tech and did a CS degree there from 02-06. I taught some of the courses as a teaching assistant and did a year of grad school there before dropping out to go through YC in summer 07.

The CS education was good and rigorous. It's much more formal than you need for web apps (as are all CS degrees I would imagine), but it was a solid program and has served me well.
I would expect such a student to understand data structures and algorithms, language concepts, and other underlying principles for databases and operating systems. Yes, the passionate ones that are learning and participating in projects outside of class will have a better working knowledge and exposure to many languages. It goes without saying that it's not the best use of your time and money to be learning OO PHP at a university like Standford.
That was what my comment was addressing: What will they do if that happens? Suppose a machine goes offline for a minute then comes back. Datacenter says nothing or says "we have no records of a power issue" or something to that effect. Now what? If Fastmail's software didn't wipe the key from RAM, it may be already compromised. Do they shutdown that colo facility? If so, why are they in the US in the first place?
I agree with you on most of the facts, but education system's incapabilities can't be ignored as professors here are not interested in either Research based or Open Source Project Contributions. Donno how much more talent will be wasted.
It depends whether you think it is fair if someone sells a product for what people will pay for it instead of what it costs to produce plus a set margin.
Maybe it would be better to say, "I'm a pretty good programmer. However, I'm not perfect, and I make mistakes. Static typing helps minimize the mistakes."

The one thing I don't like about Scala is type inference. We spend all that time specifying the exact type of parameters and return values, but then we can just lazily declare an immutable value val, set it equal to a return value of a function, whose signature is in different file, and from a quick glance at the code we can not tell what 'val' is. it might be convenient in the short run, and splits the difference between convenience of dynamic typing and the precision of static typing, but it does so at the cost of readability.
The minority shouldn't expect the right to illegally vote, or go to this building, etc...
Haha I actually thought the same thing. It's like the FedEx logo... once you see the boner, you can't not see the boner.
This is why best font for any web page and application is default font.
It's a Backbone site =p
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> While it may have become cultural, the design-pattern mess is directly related to the limitations of Java the language when applied in its typical domains of application.

Totally agreed, I definitely elided some stuff there. They definitely exist to get around limitations in Java's expressiveness, and I cringe every time I end up writing them (day job is Android, and Scala there is iffy at best).
New York Just Subpoenaed Airbnb to Hand Over Its User Data
Good question. I've actually used Raptr before quite a bit. Here's how I see Dpadd differentiating: With Raptr I set up all my gaming accounts and then left and didn't come back. There was no reason to for me to return, it just automatically pulled in all my gaming updates and organized them without me having to be present. I want Dpadd to be more focused on discussion/sharing around gaming updates (hence the Goodreads analogy). So far I've had great feedback from users that this approach is more valuable to them.
The source is up on github (https://github.com/bellendsebastian/steam-backlog), if you want to take a look or use it or whatever, go for it. It's a bit messy as I wrote it on a hurry one night, but you're free to use whatever if it helps.
Algorithm Writes People’s Life Histories Using Twitter Stream
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If only there were a series of mirrors, each N light-years away, you could blast a one-time pad out to the mirror of your choice and then announce the date the reflection is expected to arrive.
Its worth mentioning the http://archiveteam.org/ which does a lot of important web archival work.

They use the Web ARChive format (WARC http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/WARC ) which I hope mummify and other such services will standardize on.
'cause it was hacked together by some young, inexperienced programmer!??! :)