skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that black or white.

I was a cynical student myself. I flunked a few of my classes simply because I looked at them and decided they weren't useful or interesting to me. This was at a particularly anti-authoritarian point in my life (and I also wasn't that happy) so consisted of me just skipping the coursework and focusing on other intellectual domains that felt right to me.

Although I am sure this made me more creative (and doing things because I wanted to know more about the world has made me love learning), I was ignorant to not acknowledge the inherent risk in following your passions in learning. The world is stratified by easily measured educational standards - my string of As and Fs did not help me here, and when you are tested by somebody that is canon (and you will be) you will be at a strong disadvantage.

I had to fill in a few holes over the last few years. You can't always be sure that you won't need something, and even if you don't need it what if you are graded on it? It's crazy luck that my industry is fast-growing and was new and unregulated enough to accept me. If I wasn't in technology I almost certainly wouldn't have managed to come out of this unscathed.

Incomplete access to the mainstream educational signalling mechanism is a very dangerous situation. The other methods of signalling intelligence are a lot more difficult and have a much smaller market. (My achilles heel is institutional leverage, but my saving grace is being obsessed with learning.)

I couldn't have stopped myself from being who I was when I was younger. I hated being told what to do. I was too depressed to make myself do something that I wasn't enjoying (the first year of University was unfortunately an emotional ground zero for me and I rebuilt myself brick by painful brick.) But it's not right to say that specialisation and conforming is only important in academia. 80/20 rule is probably best for most people, maybe 60/40 if you're extremely secure...
One valid point the intro makes is that PHP's "slap a script on a server and have it run" has made it the go-to web scripting language for a lot of folks whose goal is to just get something small, maybe a single page, up and running quickly. For larger projects, you will likely be better served by other languages, but I still find myself going back to PHP when I need to do something small, quick, and without much regard for performance or elegance.
I wish statically-typed multi-tier/stratified languages for the web like Opa (http://opalang.org/) and Ur/Web (http://www.impredicative.com/ur/) got more attention; they actually bring something new to the table.
Spaghetti Tree Hoax
That isn't true. PHP is a general purpose programming language. Binary manipulation is done about as often with PHP as it is with ruby. PHP has pack and unpack functions. Binary data can be stored in a PHP string with little overhead.

Also in practice PHP has been weak at certain types of string manipulation, because the template language doesn't lend itself to capturing the output in order to filter it. Intermediate PHP developers know how to save buffered data, but it isn't as straightforward as manipulating output data with rack or wsgi middleware.
I don't see how this "language" would make it a better language, there is frameworks in every type of language - a quick look at frameworks like Yii makes this look similar and more powerful even as an abstraction layer, to this language described.

Also, a new language would not be compatible with current PHP modules... I think this is just not thought through.
Thought about letting you know a good book which should just clear things up a bit.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Insecurity-Message-Anxiety/...
If anyone is still not seeing them, do a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5).
al@, Oct, 26, 2013 09:54
This bug still exists in the 4.3 S4 firmware.
Samsung; Your customers would like an update as to why you've not included a publicly available bug fix in your closed source firmware you're distributing to them.

It's especially disgraceful given that "publicly available bug fix[es]" just merge themselves into your repository automatically, no effort required on Samsung's behalf!!!
I think it's pretty clear why this is. I used to contribute a lot and then my content was repeatedly cut because of streamlining and simplification or the whole page got scrapped because it's not notable. When I read a wikipedia article I often check the history to see if there wasn't a time when the page was actually more complete before the article has been streamlined to the lowest common denominator.

Fuck that.
I agree, the one issue i have with node.js is handling security. PHP has had many years to become exploited and matured because of that. node.js don't have broad adoption yet and thus haven't attracted the same amount of hackers.
Off topic: that has got to be the most annoying forum quote/threading I've ever come across.
Sources for previous experience?
In very bad at publicizing the things I do.... This year I have been working on a bunch of new things:

I have written a SDL/GLUT replacement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJP6vlsmbE

And a new library to create widgets and UIs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDulGQnjsDQ

I have used all this to build a VFX editor for realtime applications: (Ill try to post a video of it soon-ish)
http://www.quelsolaar.com/Confuse_particle_system.jpg

That in turn used to make an installation using head tracking last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYSVEhSC2DU

My big project this year has been to work on my new RTS game. Its not a huge secret, but hasn't been properly announced yet.
Basically, he's saying that our professors suck because they are hired for their abilities to do research.

Being a good researcher doesn't imply being a good teacher, but neither does it imply being a bad teacher! I agree more emphasis should be put on pedagogical skills when hiring professors, but overall plenty of researchers are good at teaching.

I may be wrong, but it seems the author of this article is frustrated by a lack of research accomplishment so he bitches on his colleagues that supposedly suck at teaching. And in the process, he tries to get the students on this side!
An arm and a leg. I did it together with a daily (on workdays) personal training routine for €100 per day.

It was amazingly effective and I'm glad I did it but, unsurprisingly, it was just too expensive to maintain in the long run.
"Knew" is a big stretch there.
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If you have a problem with experts disagreeing about facts, arguing over them, reaching a consensus, and then other "experts" starting up the argument again - it really sounds like you're doing a poor job of communicating the researched consensus in the relevant article.

When that sort of stuff happens, I think you should make sure the incorrect information is referenced in the article as a misconception, or just have the correct information associated with citations. False information should only be erased if it is not "in the wild", so to speak.
How To Use .call(), .apply() and .bind() In Javascript
Maybe an update across css js htlm not synced up due to caching issues?
Evidence: enforcing a full reload (ctrl-r in chrome) reloads the page and the arrows reappear.
Also in the last few days the word "upvote" used to flash on the page before being replaced by the arrow indicating some css/js sorcery at work ;)
Did the author plagiarize Noam Chomsky?

---

In this way, faculty are like columnists for major newspapers. Columnists for, say, the New York Times are perfectly free to write whatever they like (within appropriate professional guidelines, of course). But the range of opinion expressed in those columns is terribly narrow. The problem is not that the Times is exerting pressure on its columnists. The problem is that in order to be a columnist for the New York Times to begin with, you have to be the kind of person whose opinions already fall within a specific range. The same goes for faculty. Universities are generally pretty good about not exerting overt pressure on faculty and their research. Intellectual freedom is generally respected. But the university doesn't need to exert any pressure, because it's already filtered out the people who would need to be pressured. Those who survive are, for the most part, narrow specialists who care little about what's happening outside their own area of specialization.

---

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm

When you critique the media and you say, look, here is what Anthony Lewis or somebody else is writing, they get very angry. They say, quite correctly, "nobody ever tells me what to write. I write anything I like. All this business about pressures and constraints is nonsense because I’m never under any pressure." Which is completely true, but the point is that they wouldn’t be there unless they had already demonstrated that nobody has to tell them what to write because they are going say the right thing. If they had started off at the Metro desk, or something, and had pursued the wrong kind of stories, they never would have made it to the positions where they can now say anything they like. The same is mostly true of university faculty in the more ideological disciplines. They have been through the socialization system.
I haven't made any headway as my main startup takes precedence right now. Feel free to take the idea and run with it ;)
Give us some details on your product / service, as most advertising platforms are dependent on what you're trying to sell. For example, I've had some great results using LinkedIn but it was for a English conversation improvement product targeted towards professionals in a developing country (wouldn't have worked well for game download for example).
Except unless your only target is that one tank you're not going to scan all its ports.
The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science
As surapaneni rightfully commented - they do offer a free plan for personal use, which you'll be able to use.

I'm using them for some commercial projects just as a client side library to allow uploading files to my s3 account (although they do some work on their server side as well). It's a shame they're changing the terms for the existing user. I don't expect things to be free - unless they are offered as such, with no expiration date.
I get the point reg. verifying the Windows-Compiling-Build, but wouldn't the same verification on an open source platform allow for even easier (maybe even automatic) verification?

How about an vmware/vbox image setup explicitly for that purpose? Not feasible for windows due to licencing issues, i guess.

Also, huge kudos for the effort going into this work. Thanks!
In todays development world i dont see any reason why to use python/ruby instead of php (which was different when Rails came out), even for large projects. The frameworks are very mature and the community is huge.

I see a point in using JS on the server instead of PHP though, still the frameworks have some catching up todo.
NASA activates 622 Mbps laser network between the Earth and Moon
Two-factor authentication requires me to give my phone number to the companies whose products I use. That way, my Facebook profile can get associated with the GPS location that my mobile phone may transmit. This does not seem like a good measure for privacy.
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According to some older news from when Ulbricht was arrested he was living a humble student's life, sharing his flat with two others iirc. All the while having Bitcoins worth $29 millions on his PC.

I wonder if this will speak in his favor, implying that Silk Road was just intended as a proof of concept and he never intended to make money with a drug marketplace. But probably the sheer amount of money will be held against him and he'll be treated like some kingpin.

Either way, I pity this guy. The technology was pretty soundproof and a small slipup he made years ago now ruined his life. Why didn't he leave the country after it became obvious that SR started rolling?
A Realtime Audio React Painting 
It paints in reaction to the music
In Sweden we know exact date for every exam from day 1. old exams are available and new exams are usually random questions from old exams.
Why having this if you have Ruby, Python or even Node.js... and why having PHP at all! all I can think of is dinosaurs and extinction. Move on guys, PHP was cool several years ago, and I enjoyed it a lot, but now it should be buried already and you're trying to create a zombie here.
Try kippo, it's a whole bunch of fun. Redirect the port in iptables to a kippo VM to stay safe as well, but I don't think anyone's broken out of it.
Looks like a failed publicity stunt to me, borderline link farm. There's hardly any posts on this forum -- a mere hundred threads spread over dozen sub-forums, plus a bot-populated "News" section. No telling how much of the threads are just seed posts by forum founders. Moreover, polls -- a popular fixture of forums -- seem deserted.

Any damage dealt to piracy scene will be minimal, and the `NukePiracy LLC' will soon be forgotten.
And now you have another exploitable venue, the log parser of fail2ban ;).

Personally, I trust netfilter/iptables' rate limiting more.
Do both.

Think: what is the easiest option for the person receiving your email?
I think you're taking that conversation the wrong way. When I saw the exchange, I sympathized with the author immediately because I've been in this situation many times. It's very distracting when a professor is giving an in-depth lecture, then suddenly, the "good student" pops their face up from their daily planner and raises their hand in the most conspicuous way possible. "Oh, man," I think, "the professor was on a roll; this question better be good."

"Um, will this be on the midterm, and by the way, when will that be?"

Every time this happens (and it actually happens a lot), you can physically observe the lecturer's train of thought derailing and exploding into a mangled pile of molten wreckage. If the professor manages to answer all of the disruptive student's concerns, they then have the difficult task of re-engaging the other 25-100 students whose concentration has since gone elsewhere.

It's incredibly rude to ask a professor whether or not the material that they are covering will be on an exam. What you're essentially asking is, "do I need to be paying attention to you right now, or can we all just zone out while you talk at us?" That thought process represents a very immature mindset that still thinks you're paying for "an education" and not paying to actually learn.

That said, I don't think that this is something that most people will understand given the rise in tuition costs and the (flawed) notion that students are paying for a 4-year "educational resort and spa" experience. As someone who got an undergrad degree then worked for a few years before going back to grad school part time, it's amazing how much I learned to appreciate the classroom environment. IMO students must not realize how infrequently after graduation they'll have the opportunity to learn new things from someone more knowledgable than themselves.
Understood and fair enough.
There's an intepreter here: https://github.com/slash-lang/slash and you can execute code online here: https://eval.in/1471
How would a data centre on a barge cope with constant motion (hurtful for cheap spinning discs?) and data link latency? Presumably cable doesn't work well if the barge moves?
Do the grants include general state support for in-state students? Since it's a public school the math I laid out would change. Certainly much larger average class size.

To prior points, it is hard to get to the bottom of financials. If like to know where all the money goes if bit to teaching.
You don't need an "identity" etc. You just need a landing page to capture emails of potential clients. Buy a landing page template, or throw one together. Shouldn't take more than a few hours.

Ping me if you need some help :)
There's compilation and installation instructions here: https://github.com/slash-lang/slash
LOL. A friend of mine is a (multiply) published author b7t trying to get anything about his real, actual books on there is almost impossible!
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Nobody is forcing you to switch languages, this is just a hobby project made by someone
Not my project, but I'm using it. One guy working on it. I think it's a wonderful, wonderful concept.
I am PHP developer, but that first "Overview" example looks all sorts of wrong to me.

I know this is just an example, but programming without view/controller separation, view models, writing queries inside views, mixing business logic in views? No no no I saw so much horrbible stuff like this I can't unsee aaaah God help me...

:D

Ok, on serious note: I think this language looks interesting. But I do not like built-in templating, for various reasons. The fact that you have implicit "out" channel for printing stuff means clunky ways to control it, like "ob_start" and friends. In my humble opinion, templating should be turned on only explicitly. Then you could use the same language for views (excelent!), without a risk of outputing strings where you shouldn't.

Also "{" and "}" in templates are not very elegant. I know us programmers got used to them, but a designer would be much better with simple statements like "if", "else", "endif", like Twig templates do, or even like we used to do in php:

<?php if (x): ?>

<?php else: ?>

<?php endif; ?>
That guy, if he even exists and isn't already married, has the resources to date a nice girl in her late-20s.

Or several.
Having similar ideas is not plagiarism.
I have high cholesterol. So, I take

- Aspirin

- Atorvastatin

- Cod liver oil pills (not prescribed, but recommended by doctor)

- Psyllium seed husks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium_seed_husks (again, not prescribed, but a very well known remedy for digestive problems and cholestrol, and very popular in India. Also called Isabgol)
In my experience most of the time "attackers"/script-kiddies just scan over a range of IPs for port 22, and if it's not open on your computer, they just move on to the next IP. That's why you get thousands of requests for port 22 and very few on say port 21.

Of course, not that it would stop someone willing to spend more than a few seconds on attacking your server, but still makes the camo analogy a quite nice one in my opinion.
Teaching programming sounds very rewarding. How did you get started?
But it's the exact same idea with the exact same example: journalism/university and the New York Times.
You're right. MLM is probably more correct, and I didn't mean to imply any criminality on their part. Just that it's not exactly novel.
That's a real shame - I think I saw a White Tailed Eagle on a back road in Fife and it was huge - it was sitting at the side of the road and took off just before I got to it.
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I have friends who firmly believe that getting high grades is all that matter and that surely university is taking care of making them employable.

Arguing with them on that point proved useless in the past, but now that I get interesting internships while they don't, I believe they are somehow waking up.

At least, focusing on being a 'good student' is not the worst strategy out there. If one day you come to be aware of it, it's not an irrecuperable situation.
No, you can slap a PHP script on a server because of how easy it is. I mean, there's a reason its ubiquitous right?

> sudo apt-get install php5
> *slap script on server*
> ???
> profit
The "superiority" that you're accusing professors of is actually a reaction to the power struggle brought on by students with the mindset of "I'm paying for x, therefore I get to make the rules." I adamantly disagree with this idea. Students should go to a university with a sense of humility -- they should go not because they're told to by the job market, parents, etc., but because they have the self-reflective ability to identify the gaps in their knowledge ("scio me nihil scire") and the drive to fill those gaps through rigorous study.

The problem? Young people are terrible at self-reflection. I know that there were many points in my youth when I said to myself, "I know all there is to know about life now." This leads to a kind of privileged arrogance that really can't be fully appreciated until one sees how lucky we are to be able to have the opportunity to learn in such safe, structured environment.
It's not even necessary for the topics to be politically controversial (by which I mean Democrats and Republicans have opinions on it) for this effect to occur. You can get the same filtering effect purely via internal pressures.

As examples, consider the Copenhagen consensus in foundations of quantum mechanics or the (currently being overturned, thanks to machine learning) Frequentist consensus in statistics.
I agree, the situation you describe sounds very annoying and rude, and indicates someone is just interested in jumping through the hoops to get their qualification.
Open source is hard or how I made one OSS developer’s life a bit easier
Yes... given they use the same connector on the HDD, I'm wondering if they actually need to change the hardware at all!

The sprite breakdown identifies one core as managing the SAS commands, via DMA. Now how hard would it be to actually manage ethernet similarly, via a ARM core? If that's what they've actually done, that's really damn cool.
I couldn't see them for comments too. Did a hard refresh (ctrl+f5), and they came back. Probably some CSS change.
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Hi mmvvaa, thanks for letting me know. That sucks, I'm really sorry. It's fixed now and should be working well again! Shiphawk is one of our competitors but we're focussing on international shipping, meaning that our UPS lies in a database of lots and lots of international shipping providers.
Thanks again for giving it a try. If you happen to know any startup that sends a lot of stuff internationally, please do let me know :)
Could someone please explain what's Callback hell and why Toffee-script is doing to resolve it? The compiled JS code looks harder to read than using callbacks to me.
Quit Facebook. Use an alternative, like Diaspora*.
Interesting, product not released yet and with that I wonder what they will charge for the software given the current student flavour is £96 for other systems. Mention of access to the preview version for free are mooted in the video.
New CSS?

@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
.votearrow { background-size: 10px; background-image: url("grayarrow2x.gif"); }
}

.rotate180 {
-webkit-transform: rotate(180deg); /* Chrome and other webkit browsers */
…

It wasn't like that before, there were only gray{arrow,down}.gif

Forced refresh should help.
You might want to take a look at Javelin. It sounds like that's what you're looking for. The talk InfoQ talk about it is probably the best place to start.
Hi, I'm the author of Slash. I wasn't expecting Slash to show up here so soon - the website's pretty out of date and the language itself still needs a bit more polish before it's ready for use.

Slash is something I'm building out of personal need. I love Ruby, but there isn't much going on in the 'small web scripts' area. It's either frameworks like Rails or Sinatra that require app servers constantly running, or tools like Jekyll that can only do static websites. Slash is somewhere in between. It's not supposed to be a 'PHP successor' as much as it's supposed to be something that Python or Ruby fans can turn to when they just need to chuck a small script up on the web.
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