skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another rent-a-cliche is the inevitable Moleskine notebook. You sometimes even get to find out what make of bag they use too, like it could possibly matter. It's egotism and childishness combined, IMHO. For "minimalists" they really seem to care about brands :)
It's really depressing how people on HN keep on bringing up "secret 'court'" in cases where it is 100% irrelevant.

It's like the facts don't matter, only feelings.
http://neuron.eng.wayne.edu/tarek/MITbook/chap2/2_3.html#2.3...
http://dribbble.com/shots/1020838-Save-Icon-Concept is my favourite of the ones I've seen.
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There has been a lot of talk about searal recently.

Isn't it just a combination of 3 search engines.

Would you like to share your experience more ? How you think it is heaven :) ?
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Sadly I get the feeling the memo won't help reduce the misinformation effect of the film. Unlikely the mainstream press outlets will even pick this up. Perhaps negative IMDB reviews is the best that can be hoped for
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That's exactly why icons are useful.

You speak and read english because you're brought up with it around you. You don't need to know the latin roots for a word to understand it's meaning. The root meaning of an icon is not important, just the fact that it's a 'random squiggle' that is universally recognised regardless of context is it's strength.

You can remove all icons and just replace them with words such as 'save', but now you must translate them for all languages, and scanning for the word is slower.

However, interfaces packed with random icons which have no recognisable meaning - that is a terrible anti-pattern.
Editors on the NSA files: 'What the Guardian is doing is important'
Those statistics are for the entire University. The statistic they gave was 48 percent female in the junior CS class. Most Universities seem to have problems with females transferring out in the first two years. So it does not seem the initial acceptance criterion should weigh agains the accomplishment.
It looks promising. at least 5 queries which has been mentioned in the article.
You mean the payment system that revolutionized online transactions between individuals and small companies?

Remember how hard it was to pay a freelancer/individual/small company for a service or product online before Paypal?
It was very hard since banks would not approve merchant accounts for every bum that walked into their office :-), and don't even start on international transactions.

The fact that people started abusing them in unimaginable ways (prompting the draconian security measures) is not exactly Musk's fault, and the frozen account issues of the past years might be over once the competition finally gets its shit together (or at least there's other options now)...
It's satirizing the likes of Ev Bogue who actually used to post nonsense like that. I believe Bogue has changed from minimalist snobbery to "pretend to be a techie" snobbery now though. And I think he changed his name too.
The bit about sending e-waste to Mars was a bit odd. I guess they didn't consider transport costs.

On the other hand, 10 years after we start having considerable numbers of people in space, we'll have a huge amount of obsolete hardware in space too.

It would actually be pretty interesting to see what a Martian colony does with their own old computers. They're probably going to take re-purposing to an entirely new level.
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Most cutting edge computer science folks like to make money selling ads not selling cheap insurance.
To avoid that, I check origin script url, as all my scripts are within the "/assets" path :

window.onerror = function( error, url, lineno ){
if ( url && url.match( //https?:\/\/.*?assets/ ) ){
# error management
}
}

This ensure only relevant errors are included, discarding errors from extensions, trackers, gmaps, etc.

Of course if you inline js for performance on production code, that's a problem.

EDIT : an other important thing to avoid flooding is to handle amount of error. Javascript errors rarely come alone. An error within an event callback may be triggered several times before user surrenders. And let not even start with error within setInterval. To avoid this, I usually use a `error_got` counter and simply silence error reporting for the current page / context when I've got more than 5 errors.

And about user surrendering. Reporting errors is nice. Preventing user to get stuck is better. I always automatically disable all callbacks in onerror and let default html actions on links and form being process. This ensure user intent will be fulfilled and page context will be reloaded as a bonus. I've written more extensively on this here : https://gist.github.com/oelmekki/6420982
The justice system is a system, in the engineering sense of the word. Like any system in real life, its design involves balancing. The negative impact of false convictions is weighed against the cost and practicality of measures to avoid false convictions. Prosecutors have broad immunity from suit because otherwise the system would be unworkable. Every aggrieved convict would sue his prosecutor for anything he could think of.

The context of this case is a suit for money damages against prosecutors for "concealing" exculpatory evidence. You can't take the word "concealing" at face value. Prosecutors make judgment calls every day about whether evidence is important or not. This case took place long before DNA testing was either effective or common. Prosecutors could have legitimately known about it and considered it "not potentially exculpatory." Scalia's quote from Youngblood simply says that prosecutors can't be sued for such judgment calls unless it can be shown they were not acting in good faith.

One of my big beefs with articles like this one is that they paint everything in hindsight. But if you create a duty on the part of prosecutors to not be negligent, you can't just hear the cases that are neatly wrapped in a package by some wrongful convictions organization. Negligence is a factual determination, and in criminal cases the defendant is entitled to have such facts tried in front of a jury. Convicts will sue saying the police should have swabbed beneath the carpet or whatever, and you have to give them full process.

As an aside, I came across a case yesterday. It's only salience is that it it's close to home and quite recent. It involves a couple who goes on vacation, leaving their three youngest children with a neighbor (husband and wife). When they return, two of the children, girls, tell them that they were sexually assaulted by the husband, Joe. The police work with the father, Michael, and talk Joe into coming over to Michael's house on the premise that he just wants to talk. Joe makes incriminating statements about the sexual assault to Michael, in the presence of the Chief of Police. When Michael decides to press charges, Joe goes ballistic. He stalks the police chief, and the day before his trial goes to Michael's place of work and shoots him in the head. See: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1915239094303815....

Nobody is going to write an LA Times Article about Joe Stacey and Michael Walter, about the wife left without a husband, the ten children left without a father, or the two girls who will carry the scars of sexual assault at the hands of someone they trusted.
This. I am absolutely not interested in a touch screen on a laptop.
I think the talk Bruce Schneier gave at TEDxCambridge a month ago is what you're looking for: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h0d_QDgl3gI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
We see the movement in the geopolitical annexation of the Internet, as well. Brasil looking to bypass US network infrastructure, Germany's continuing struggle with loosening GEMA's grip on content, are just more stories in the slow march toward governments learning how to make the net "theirs" instead of leaving it free.

Though, obviously, the whole "Let the NGOs in the US guide and manage the world's Internet, we'll be cool and keep our hands off, honest!" argument has been blown to bits as the Internet hasn't really ever been free-and-in-the-open.
The problem is compounded by the fact that with the small data sets people tend to use to test during development, things are usually returned in insertion order.
You can read it a couple of ways, you can take it as Gates showing off that he did something hard quickly, which is certainly valid, or you can take it as Gates saying 'stop fiddling whilst Rome burns and get it done'. You can hammer out complex ideas quickly and lose your life twiddling the details, or just do it and move on.

Or more likely he was being a bit of a jerk.
I was also looking for some other search engine.

It is great we have some competition now. It will be good to see how google will see these failing queries.
In my lay observations most universities have a problem with females transferring out in the first two years. So it can across as impressive to me that they had such an even split in the 3rd year of classes. The program has only been going on for 6 years so I would be surprised if all of the upper level curriculum has even been transferred over flexible homework/project structure described so their is probably still room for improvement by continuing to apply the same strategy to the high level classes.
It is very irritating that this article doesn't tell us the actual country this guy is from. "west Africa" is as far as they go.
Not the parent, but "I worked..." -> past tense.
Having seen the movie, I don't remember it actually making the claim that 2000 informants were harmed.
But it's not that simple. Not that simple to drop something when it's 70% complete, not easy to find something new that won't also become boring at 70%, and not easy to start from scratch.

Plus, with every failure, you lose a little bit of trust in yourself and belief that you can get things done.

There's always a point where the motivation is just gone and you have to push through somehow, and if you can't get this thing done, chances are that you won't be able to do it the second or third time, either ...
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There are a lot of smart & under-utilized people in Lagos. People who earned top marks in school but unable to find a job. I'm always happy to hear about any success stories from them. These little steps will hopefully eventually bring change to Nigeria.

SIDENOTE: Tiny correction to that video(Audio @2:09) Lagos is no longer the official capital of Nigeria, the government reassigned that title to Abuja. I think it was because Lagos became overcrowded and Abuja looks a little cleaner. That said, a lot of locals(and my parents) still consider Lagos to be the capital and "happening place". That iPad app teaching local languages. It'd be cool to have a yoruba-teaching iPad app for my daughter. Also, that guy talking about the kids of Lagos Nigeria not knowing their culture. I'm not sure what that's about. I've been there more than 5 times. The most recent time was 5 years ago. Unless a whole lot has changed since 2008, they seemed pretty well soaked in Nigerian culture. Granted there's quite a bit of western-culture(read "hiphop") flowing in, but those kids are very Nigerian compared to African-american kids raised in USA. I'm even considering my daughter to spend her high-school years with my(and my wife's) relatives in Nigeria to pick up the culture & language.
Ask HN: What do you think of my MVP for a simple expense tracking web app?
He is from Togo. The narrator mentioned Lome, which is the capital of Togo.
No, they're implying a slice of life is not fully enjoyed if you worry that they will.
Is there solid evidence of an IQ difference between the genders or a general subject, with a biological understanding of why such a difference exists? I currently have not come across any such solid evidence and biological understanding.
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But they will care when they can not play because they do not have ipv6 connection. Which will happen in the coming years, so MS is trying to stay ahead of the curve here. In addition to trying to fix an existing problem they have, which is NAT.
Frozen interface? Nothing worked?
We'll always need people to fight for freedom. It would be so much better if the masses were half as impressed with him as we are. They don't even care enough to opt-out of airport scanners, though.
This is in the middle of LinuxCon Edinburgh, a huge Linux conference being held in the UK for the first time in a long time.
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Nationalism is an ideology that a person or group's loyalty to a nation surpasses other needs, goals, etc.

Nationalism is not simply building a product within a certain geographic region. Market differentiation, labor laws, environmental concerns, brand tradition, job stimulus (not as national loyalism but as local benevolence / civility), are all rational reasons to build a product in a certain area that have nothing to do with ideological loyalty.
You could also get away with a search for created:>2007
Not really sure what the "@" is doing.
Even if it's not :)
This movie seems a lot more like character assassination than either fictionalized storytelling or documentary. It's not as though the Wikileaks story lacks drama, moral ambiguity, or a couple of clear villains when told accurately. This begs the question - why give a wildly inaccurate version of events if it isn't significantly enriching the film?
I personally enjoy looking back on old photos every now and then. It's not really so I can look at them the next day. I know for sure I would miss that every now and then.I guess the solution is just for me to take more pictures instead of relying on other people.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/178/1/39.full.pdf rates their muscles at 100-120 W/kg, and ~25% of body weight as flight muscles.

So, 3.5 grams of hummingbird would be ~0.1 Watt, or, for a 20 hour trip, 2Wh of capacity. On the other hand, a kg of hummingbirds could give you 600 Wh, or 2-4 times what LiOn gives you.

I would go for hornets or other nasty insects, though. That gives less hassle with the law and animal rights activists.
The 48 percent statistic is for the junior year, the third year. It seems like your argument would require Mudd to grade females more lightly for the at least the first three years. This seems unlikely since it would require some form of collusion between all/most CS professors(maybe TAs too).
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Not really, you do run into limits imposed by your brain and no amount of ignoring the problem will help you.

The brain is an organ, so it's really kind of like you can't run forever because your muscles tire out or you can't lift a car to save your own life (even though technically both are possible)...
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Well, they shouldn't have scheduled their Con up against HNLondon!
On the opposite site of the coin, I was a professional developer 25 years ago (and still keep my hand in as a hobby), and do regularly struggle to understand why things take as long as they do these days. We were quoted a day for something that I said could be written in about half an hour - their quote included nothing more than coding and unit testing it.

So I was challenged to prove it. Which I did (or rather I did it in 10 minutes). When their code came back, a day later, it didn't actually work. When we pointed that out to them, they came back another day later with code that looked almost identical to the one I'd written in 10 minutes.

tl;dr. Sometimes managers don't realise the complexity of modern software, but sometimes modern developers are actually just plain slow.
Really nice to recognize a name here. Such a shame I won't be able to attend this, I have to return to Portugal on the 17th.

I heard some tales of you in Fullsix when I worked there and would love to get to know how it's going on SO. Best of the luck for the presentation.
Does it sync with online accounting software like Freeagent?
Nope, I guess the idea at this point was to keep it simple as possible. Is that a feature that you would be interested in using?
If you haven't spoken to spotify about this you might want to double check that, any usage of libspotify requires premium, these terms still apply.
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In my opinion it's easier to put Opera (12) on Windows than wget; also, it doubles as a torrent client. Older Opera versions (that still have this feature) had versions for a large number of OS-es.
Let's be clear here that the majority opinion was far more nuanced than this article gives credit. The argument made in the original lawsuit against the DA's office was that the DA's office was failing to train its attorneys on the requirement to report exculpatory evidence (established by Brady v Maryland). However, they did not show that there was a pattern of failing to report such evidence at the DA's office, they just used the one instance and claimed, more or less, that it was obvious that the training was necessary. The Supreme Court case in question specifically addressed whether or not that was true—whether or not it was obvious that the training was necessary, and therefore whether it was a systemic problem that it was being left out.

Scalia's opinion, which gets flak for citing Arizona v Youngblood, makes quite a few arguments, of which that is only one. It also brings it up solely to indicate that you can't train people in something that isn't actually true, something that was made untrue by that decision. The main thrust of his argument is that even if you could establish a pattern with a single violation in this case, there wasn't actually a violation at all, because the withholding of evidence was willful. Scalia also points out that the failure to train argument has to be applied carefully, lest it become something that every prosecuted individual can use to attack the municipality.

These are all important distinctions because the Supreme Court generally decides the matter at hand. The case was about something very specific, and the justifications for awarding damages were also specific. The Court's task was to decide whether those justifications were valid, according to the law, not whether Thompson was morally wronged. If those things do not square with each other, then we have ways of revising the law or the Constitution to deal with it. But keep in mind that the verdict in the original trial was vacated after the evidence was discovered, and that the evidence was originally withheld intentionally by an attorney who died before the case was brought, and that the attorney who knew about it but didn't disclose it after the original attorney's death was sanctioned by the prosecutor's office. So this is all about what, if anything, Thompson deserved in compensation for the DA's office's errors, and there's a line to be tread there between compensation for mistakes and the acknowledgement that mistakes will be made by all human beings, and that burdening a municipality with dealing with all of them (particularly to the tune of several million dollars per case) might be unrealistic.
Edinburgh is on the other side of the country. HNLondon is popular, but we don't quite have that much pull.
> Note that if acceptance rate is a murky statistic, then using underrepresentation to prove discrimination might be even murkier,

If it was an isolated incident then yes. The gender difference in engineering/science and in this case CS is fairly broad and it seems unlikely that it does not point to something significant, cultural momentum and bias being a popular choice.
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Ask HN: Websockets on IIS - Every websocket will occupy one thread?
In case of IIS, if the number of threads is limited, how can I serve persistent websockets connections without maxing out the number of threads quickly?
It'd take you about 48 days :)
When I checked that ID of the most recent user was 5663608. The github API will give you 5000 hits an hour if you authenticate your requests. You'd have a load of "not founds" but working up from 1 to 5663608 would get you every public user (no private accounts or banned / deleted).

5663608 / 5000 = just under 48 days worth of non stop API harrasment... maybe that explains why github keeps going down, someone is already trying this out :P
I do 80% of my programming on my Chromebook... kinda.

I enabled developer mode on my Chromebook and I SSH into another machine I have set up. From there I use tmux and vim.

Essentially, my workflow is as such:

1. SSH into the server

2. Attach to tmux session

3. Code

4. Detach from tmux session

5. Logout from the server

You can set up a machine at home to use or even rent a $5 VPS. You could even SSH into your current machine.
A program erasing the current cultural bias/momentum against females will make a difference to all the females who will not have to face said momentum/bias.
Except that was not in English.
Why is this account still active?
Repositories: 4,237,870

Code: 962,651,473

Issues: 5,954,482

Users: 4,474,320
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That hole you're digging is getting deeper and deeper...
I was in Fullsix in May giving the long version of this. Were you attending?
Essential for me! Understand that complicates things though.
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Aiding and Abetting, maybe. She'd certainly be arrested and interrogated, and then potentially be charged with contempt if she refused under order to disclose other information she may know about Snowden.
Hm, interesting. How would you see a product like mine working with some kind of existing service like Freeagent?
This is great, but not that useful for most - you can't scale and replicate this at a large scale - you need specific parts, and you can't guarantee that you'll find them.

And you can't use it as a blueprint for recreating the printer out of mismatching e-waste, because most people lack that kind of thinking and the engineering ability that this inventor has.

Awesome for one person/village, not awesome for everyone else sadly...
I have been to a few now and I live in NI
As a blogger I agree with this but as a reader I dislike visiting other websites purely because I find it so hard to adjust to all the different font sizes/layouts I'd be exposing myself to each day.

I like a good layout as much as the next person but when it comes to reading I just want white background, black text and a few images.
Yeah, this has puzzled me from the start with this film. Normally unapproved bio pics based on a living person at least change the name (viz: Citizen Hearst, ... um, sorry, Kane, right?) out of fear of libel action, I thought.

I can't think of any other film that blatantly sets out to tell a fictional story injurious to the reputation of a living person without renaming them. (Well, My Name Is Bruce, arguably, I guess. But that starred and was directed and co-produced by the "victim", something of an exception.)

I'd love to see Carter-Ruck take this on in a British libel case!
I can't see anyone saying anything else.

"An engine broke and you are stuck on the moon and will die horribly. What do you do?"

Seems your options are to either accept your fate and die, or try to live.
Can this give us cheaper world wide internet coverage? I have also been thinking of using the moon as a satellite laser relay, latency would be 1.2sec but you would get internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_Moon_Relay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
Already apps that do it, look at Mobile Agent
Yes, I agree, icons are much faster to recognise than words. But I think we're limited to only a handful of icons that are universally (??) recognisable. And now more often than not I find hovering mouse pointer over an icon just to find out what it does. How easy is to guess what these 3 icons do if you never used the tool before http://imgur.com/TclsCh2 ?