skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely get your attacking the superfluity of the Atlantic article. It's expected from outlets like them. It's the end of the year. But you don't exactly give any reasons why this year was special, or whose work right now is going to come to fruition in 2030, or any other concrete reasons as to why 2013 wasn't, on the whole, an embarrassing year.
I knew that graph was misleading, but I still missed that it was total student debt vs per capita median income.

I nominate it for worst graph of the year: if you set out to make a biased graph, you couldn't do much better.

Drawing such an obviously bad graph undermines the point being made, in my view.
ARIES Dec 16 - 22, 2013
It's really annoying that any non-LGPL haskell project you release needs to be dynamically linked to libgmp instead of statically linked because of the LGPL restrictionss.

We have a similar discussion about it going on here: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1twtvm/the_problem_...

Might make a haskell FFI libray to this library.
Don't become this guy: http://www.zdnet.com/student-richard-odwyer-spared-us-extrad...

Sadly, the Internet isn't our playground anymore. You have to watch what you do even if it's just curating links to things you can download for free.
Since I'm lucky enough to be on the front page of HN (thanks a lot!) I'd just like to shamelessly self promote and say
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Let me know if you have any questions for me- hope the blog doesn't crash!
If you were Valve, what would you do? Without the servers, the game is completely useless, and they probably recognized that fact. Being that this is the first time in 9+ years that they have done this, and only in this particular circumstance where--beyond their control--a game is rendered disabled, I believe there is not much reason to fear them removing your games at random.
there's a great book about this expedition - a must read!

http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfre...
Similarly, a cycling app would also be great; also, a heads-up display for ordinary car navigation.

Perhaps the best way to market it is as purpose-specific equipment: you ride a bike, you wear a helmet. It's not weird to wear special cycling glasses, but cool. It's not necessary to hit the universal mass-market first off (and not how new technology is usually adopted anyway).
For reference, the new way of installing newer language versions is software collections.

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/
He quoted part of your post directly and responded to it. It was this part: "Talking of bankruptcy in that context is a nonsense introduced by politicians intent on doing away with it for ideological reasons."

I'm just explaining to you that he quoted you since you were unsure.
I replied the same thing above: tech business are usually not about tech, they are empowered by tech. A company that uses phones to sell their products is not about "phones", they are about the product and the phone is just a tool. For me, the web was just a tool.

A lot of non-tech co-founders exist and they succeed, so certainly not absurd.
Do you have any scientific studies to back up any of the claims you have made here? For someone lamenting the appeals to emotion of strict gun control advocates, there is a striking lack of evidence supporting your position.
originally i was going to skip from 0.8 just to 1.0, but then a lot more new features and behaviors came into 0.9, so i figured lets just do the one more non-1.0 number. There's not going to be an "0.10", it'll be 1.0.
I'm not sure what the alternative would be. Yes, given sufficiently heroic power and cooling measures, Intel's Netburst architecture (P4) could probably have been ramped up to 10GHz or so--I think they demoed prototypes running somewhere in that range at one point. But even if you take water cooling as a given, you still have to start really focusing on power/heat at some point.
Surely any new project these days is using virtualenv (with a specified version of the python interpreter) + pip.
Is there some story behind it? It looks like the smallest issue out of the whole migration. (especially with from __future__ import print_function)
It was a closed network for only college students and was gaining traction.
The brilliant fact of magnet links is even when TPB goes down, you can ask Google for a cache of a TPB page. The cache of the page still has functional magnet links.
My vision was to get rid of lame managers. Certainly a useful vision.
For what it's worth, I wrote the code that did this in SpamAssassin just slightly before Pg published "A plan for spam". Although he had some very useful improvements to the algorithm which I rolled in.
None of this is surprising to an extremely small subset of the global population, those who have had the means to study computer science and cryptography, and the history(ies) of government sanctioned spy agencies for a long enough period to be able to glean insights into the future behaviour of said agencies.

Since not everyone who reads this site meets those criteria, I suspect that it is even a not-insignificant subset on hacker news as well.
Fukushima plant expected to effect the entire northern hemisphere
I love The Beatles.
Better living through #HypeReduce - Lesser known tools for your BigData strategy
Yes. Our governments may act like asses, but we don't have to. Happy New Year.
I said much the same thing. I fail to see how it's a problem in any discussion about gun control and/or confiscations.

Some people would claim is on its way to totalitarianism considering the rise in government intrusion and control in people's lives. But that's a different debate.
In other words, the security is poorly defined and based on the honest parties devoting at least as much energy to defending the system as the attacker devotes to attacking it.

What I want to know is this: What does Bitcoin have to do with this? You can have peer to peer, anonymous, encrypted messaging without any of the nonsense that Bitcoin entails.
What would the point be of intercepting shipments if the job is already done? Are you saying they are doing this work redundantly?

Also we don't know what percentage of shipments are intercepted. If this is the primary means of attack it seems a bit shy of "you can rest assured" that your hardware in particular is affected. (Or at this rate perhaps we can wait for the next revelation to show us. :P)
Be Ambitious
First picture with a hand on it got me mouth-agape. It's a big soda can. Impressive indeed. I wish they chose a more angular form factor, circular feels odd, and oddly not Apple-ish enough.

psedit: I didn't see the can / macpro picture the first time (slow DSL today)
psedit2: this level of custom hardware reminds me of the ~70s era, on IBM machines, every piece was as specific as it could get. Beautiful to see, maybe less fun when in need for parts.
So make something better that people will actually use--then the question of what to use will become a no-brainer. "Just use Foo." The "best" alternative to something like Cryptocat is Pidgin/Adium+OTR plugins, and you can't seriously claim they're as usable (nor are their implementations actually perfect.) If not that, then help to fix whatever issues the popular tools have. (They're open source, after all.)

Make formal security proofs, implement them, open source your prototypes, and have them vetted by as many cryptographers as possible (so one or two if you're lucky.) Then figure out how to market your product.

By far the hardest aspect of cryptography engineering is getting people to use your software in the first place. It doesn't matter how good you are at crypto if your software is never used.

It's very easy to criticize. Much harder to actually make more secure, more usable alternatives. (And, ironically, the people who ought to be doing this the most are much more hesitant to do so since they know of many more subtle ways to make mistakes.)
>> The thing is, there's a lot more that goes into a viable product than just the core features.

This! I agree wholeheartedly, a useful tool/hack must travel a long road before it can become a product. Even if it's essentially solving the same problem.
I want to point out slide 21: No “rest of this paper is...”

This practice drives me crazy, because it's essentially just an outline, which is useless. It's a computer science research paper, I already know the outline! His advice to not have that paragraph, but instead put in forward references to the relevant sections in the introduction is spot-on.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to reviewing papers which did not take this advice...
Why is this being downvoted? How do curly braces around the function call help with ambiguous else branches?
"58.0% of all first-time bachelor's degree recipients still had outstanding student loans 1 year after graduation in 2009. The average amount owed by graduates with outstanding loans 1 year after graduation was $20,100, compared with $10,100 (2009 dollars) in 1994." Source: Trends in Debt for Bachelor's Degree Recipients a Year After Graduation: 1994, 2001, and 2009 (Tables 3, 4)

So 1 year after graduation, of students with remaining loans, the average amount owed was 20.1k, and the median monthly payment was 8.0% of salary at the same point in time. But after a year or two salary should increase substantially, so loan payments should be a much smaller percentage. And a total average remaining debt of 20.1k after one year certainly isn't ideal, but it isn't really that unreasonable either, nor should it be especially burdensome. Obviously some people are dramatically worse off than this, but for most people the system doesn't seem especially broken. But to answer your question, I think that you need to look wholistically at total net cost increases, along with total debt, along with monthly loan payments and employment statistics. Looking at any one on its own will be highly misleading. Also keep in mind that different types of institutions and degrees lead to dramatically different outcomes in all of the above. I'm really only concerned with 4-year degrees from public or private non-profit institutions, because 2-year degrees and for-profit colleges are largely scams.
Official announcement of Cloudera's focus shift from MapReduce to Spark
I think people would prefer "from __past__ import print_statement" in 3.x.
The NSA is planting exploits. It is not only exploiting existing security holes: it is creating new security holes, by manipulating the hardware. Is is effectively working together with Cisco / any other company (maybe not willingly, but who cares) to manufacture a Cisco/NSA router, with a backdoor easily accessible to the NSA.

According to his comment he is not aware of this, otherwise he would not differentiate between Cisco/NSA and Huawei.

And according to your comment, you do not even understand what I am saying.
well, you can look up Schön scandal[1]. It would be a better example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
And 17 years ago an indie emo record label in NY (that should be enough to identify them/him) forced me to shut down a website I built.

That was when I left emo and went to mathrock.
Google actively removes links to infringing content once notified.

E.g. look at the bottom of https://www.google.com/search?q=rihanna+diamond+mp3
It's a shame you shut it down. You could have easily gotten a sizeable sum of money for something like that on Flippa.
Many NP-hard or NP-complete problems have (infinitely many) instances that are "easy" to solve. It is quite straight forward to write up a procedure that produces infinitely many instances of 3-SAT that can be solved in polynomial time by the DPLL algorithm. But it is important to note that a problem is actually a set of instances.

Your observation basically boils down to "how rare is the worst case?". There are actually algorithms with exponential worst case complexity that are used all over the place because - on average - they perform really well. The simplex algorithm for linear programming is an example for such. Every version of this algorithm comes with a worst case problem such that the algorithm has exponential runtime. However, on average it is quite a fast algorithm that can handle millions of variables and corresponding constraints on modern hardware. Still, that doesn't change the fact that linear programming is - from a theoretical point of view - still hard enough that we cannot generally solve it faster than in exponential time. As is the case with DPLL, good heuristics can speed up an algorithm a lot without changing worst case complexity. Other examples are all over the place in AI. It's also in AI where the concept of pruning is probably encountered most often. This the practice of discarding whole subtrees of the search tree by some sort of heuristic or deductive reasoning.

Those things aside, I think what we should be looking at from a theoretical point of view is when it makes sense to consider the average case complexity over the worst case complexity. This brings us back to "how rare is the worst case". Quicksort for instance is said to be an O(n log n) algorithm but it has O(n^2 ) worst case complexity (trivially so). However, it can be decided in O(n) whether this case actually occurs and hence a good sorting implementation could switch to a different algorithm once this has been detected (something similar happens in the std::sort function that's been implemented in the STL). This is definitely a case where it makes sense to "forget" worst case complexity.

For SAT, researchers have actually worked up statistics on how hard certain instances are in terms of the number of clauses and the number of symbols. It turns out that there is a range of ratio between the two where problems are the hardest (roughly between clauses/symbols is between 4 and 6). I don't have a source right now but googling "satisfiability threshold conjecture" might turn up some results.

As such, yes, not all instances of NP-hard problems are actually hard to solve, but there are infinitely many that are. Encountering such problems in practice one can usually make use of the special problems of the instance (or class of instances) one actually encounters and devise an algorithm that performs rather well on average.
Exhibit A. Everything wrong about this perspective. Disassociation and genericness down to a "T". How's that formula working for you?!
I'm a non-technical founder (I have an engineering degree on paper, but have never been a practicing developer) who's starting out on his own. I disagree (or maybe, have an alternate viewpoint) with your first observation.

I don't think sales skills are completely fungible across domains. A great business seller may not actually be a great motivational/aspirational seller, and vice versa. So it's wrong, IMHO, to assume that just because you may be incapable of convincing a developer to join you, you will also be incapable of convincing a customer to buy your product.

That said, I'm facing somewhat the same issue myself - so they way I'm solving it is by (a) rolling up my sleeves and trying to build a bare-bones MVP/mockups using relatively accessible tech like Bootstrap, HTML, JS etc. (b) overcompensating for my tech shortfall by giving 2x of what I can in areas like marketing, customer interviews, alpha partnerships, fundraising etc., and (c) using (precious) capital to outsource the first version of my app instead of waiting for tech co-founders.

As I see it, it's Carpe Diem. There's no way I can earn serious developer cred in weeks or even months, so I might as well look for alternative approaches instead of moping around, wishing I'd followed the software developer road 15 years ago instead of the MBA one :)
"There is no infringement in providing access in a good-faith belief that the content is legit."

I don't believe that is true. Content distribution is a complicated affair. Redistribution of content is not as easy as saying "well if site xyz has the right to distribute it, so do I"
I didn't cherry pick any example. I just used the example that the article was written about.
I wrote The Kubic Kat as a standalone SciFi novella, and decide that it would be best to give this way free, in the hope that it would garner traffic to my start-up website, and interest in escaping surveillance. (http://www.tribalcontact.com)

I put it on Hacker news, but it sank without a trace, and yielded 0 comments, and very few downloads. Facebook, twitter, and Google+ have made up 30% of downloads, and Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/392425) most of the remainder. As long as you are on the front page you get good traction, but discoverability is poor.

Indeed, this is the biggest issue I know of. If you can put the book in front of people you can get good metrics (30% of all views led to downloads). But finding a way to get those views is very hard.
I hate that, I wish there would be a great open source project for car infotainment, something android or similar
catchyurl.co/EskimoHill returns a 404. I would suggest making your example link back to your page.

But awesome website and good luck!
This seems like the best solution (why the hell didn't GitHub suggest it?!). Being able to contact a dev about their code through their GitHub account is much better than fake addresses that leave you incommunicado.
Young people are sexting – but that doesn't mean they necessarily want to be
Time to leave apple for android
They don't seem to care if they do.
Informit.com (Pearson, Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall etc.) has a similar 40% to 50% off deal until January 31st:

http://www.informit.com/promotions/best-of-2013-ebook-sale-1...

This includes the ebook versions of The C++ Programming Language 4th Edition, Programming in Objective-C 6th Edition, Peopleware and several other titles.
I have co-authored three books:

Practical Clojure (http://www.apress.com/9781430272311)

ClojureScript: Up and Running (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025139.do)

Clojure Cookbook (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029786.do)

Practical Clojure and Clojure Cookbook were/will be available in B&M stores though those are a relatively small fraction of sales. ClojureScript U&R is print-on-demand/ebook only.

In each case I wrote the books because I felt I had something to say, and was qualified enough to say it. Getting published was mostly a matter of being in the right place at the right time, when the publishers were interested in these books, and being introduced to a couple editors via coworkers and open-source acquaintances.

Niche tech books like this are not a good deal from a purely financial perspective. I make some money, but somewhat less than I would contracting for the time I put in to them.

They were very valuable or forcing me to gain mastery of a topic, and they are quite possibly the best thing I've done with respect to my career.
yes, and one should be outraged by that. I would not have posted my comment if that was the parallel made in the OP, but by my reading that is not what the article stated.
There's a new Stack Exchange Q&A site for ebook publishers and readers. http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/ Once you decide what you want to do, there might be some related information there.
What does YC being a "frat house" have to do with applying though? I can understand why that perception may discourage someone from participating in YC, but the acceptance rate is so low that it seems like premature optimization to think beyond the application.
I'll give a "failure" story.

I was lead author for ebook/print book through Apress - _Hacking the Kinect_ - http://amzn.to/1aljFwQ

It was distributed in stores and online, as well as in ebook form. It has text, graphics, and code.

It generated not much past the initial upfront payment of ~$8000, spread across myself and 3 coauthors.

Reasons?

1) Niche topic, badly addressed. It was pretty hot at the time, but the number of people looking for a intermediate - advanced level text on 3D sensing was not as high as the number of people looking for "cool demo I can type in and make my SparkFun robot drive around a Coke can".

2) Published through agency. I appreciated Apress' work on marketing my book. Everything else I could have handled myself (and probably the marketing too). They also have tough terms - you have to be a knockout (4k+ units[1]) success in the technical book industry to really make money through publishers.

3) Bad print copy. The grayscale used for my book was too dark, blowing away some images. Apress did not want to fix this. I recommend the Kindle version to everyone I can.

Worth it? Yes. It is a great means to open doors and market yourself. Financially worth it? Not through a publisher.

[1] I can't cite this off the top of my head, but that's the number I recall from a few years ago.
I think the BtC protocol was used to ensure that peoples usernames were guaranteed unique, and linkable to a private key, i.e. verifiable. I think the whitepaper has more info, reading it now:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7152
I'm aware of that. That still implies that at some point Google linked to illegal material yet when requested, they removed it. Presumably HypedMusic could have had a similar deal.
Repeating a lie doesn't make it any more true.
I wonder how many people will just run this with the case off. It looks so much better to my eyes.

Maybe an aftermarket clear case will show up?

I really hope a similar form factor takes off for custom computer builders.
I am using Uberwriter and I love it. I wish Libreoffice would add support for it.
He won his case and is suing the US now I believe.
I looked at Go a little bit as maybe a place to write a kind of "uber-Core" system, e.g. a high performance database abstraction layer that could power libs in other languages. But apparently Go is not at all designed to be embedded in other runtimes, it isn't even possible. Also it seems to lack a standard database API and the connectors that were there seemed a little all over the place.
The goal of the stateless elite is to manipulate the masses into following them.

If all it takes is a graph to convince someone "hey, this rich person is right, I should do everything they say" they see that as a very small price to pay for brainwashing.
Work culture and productivity: 2013 review
Its on life support, and pivoting to newer technologies. The turning point is towards integrated optical and quantum effects. Even switching from Silicon to Gallium Arsenide. Manufacturing processes are changing and there is no need to create anything smaller than the 10nm.
Where are the real-time results? :)
There will not be enough industrialists for there to be many of these jobs. The wages will be driven down, the expected duties will increase, they'll be fought over by the large numbers of unemployed. They'll probably end up being given away as prizes on reality TV shows.
You're right of course. And even the label 'terrorist' can vary. I think if we ask the people living under the threat of predator-strikes they'd say it's the US thats causing a lot of the terror there.