skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a notable accomplishment for a cool project, but regarding the headline, HN moderators have a history of scrubbing headlines to match the content of the link target, cf.:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.
This has been around for a while under the guise of "data sovereignty".

If you look back at search results for that term, there are now laughable comments particularly by Microsoft that your data is safe in the US because even the Patriot Act requires warrants right? Little did they know...
Check out http://frompythonimportpodcast.com/2013/12/24/episode-016-ka... which features the "Young Coders tutorial at PyCon" . Geared towards kids at least 14 years old, it was pretty fascinating. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2163338
Unless science funding is different in the US, and as far as I know it is not, he cannot spend it on personal things. The worst he could do is buy himself some computers "for research" then use them for only for personal use, or give them to family. Purchases still need to go through the university. Sometimes grant money even has restrictions on this, e.g. it can be used only for students.

He most likely did this to get more resources for research work. E.g. it was motivated by a desire for fame and status.
eh comeon tech workers are just people doing a job. the same issues/judgments apply to any profession (law, finance, journalism) but these guys are clearly just demonizing tech workers as a group when... they don't really cause anything en masse, are we blaming them for accepting salaries and being a little eccentric at times? they are just people with jobs.

this is real misdirected anger as the author points out, simply because tech workers are doing a little better than most. maybe there is resentment because people don't respect the work that they do ("they just press buttons and are overpaid") or there is jealousy because it is a profession where there is a huge amateur rank (people without degrees who are trying to bootstrap themselves into the tech world & making less than most of their college/masters-educated peers). I really think its something along the lines of this kind of phenomenon. Otherwise why not just complain about predatory lawyers/financiers etc.

Tech workers are not notoriously predatory so why should they be demonized as a group...? They are labor for hire, non-unionized at that. if you think they are harming the world in some other way, it may be better to blame the businessmen designing the requirement specs, or the users whose interest keeps the projects funded
As much as I also hate Gawker, I don't see the point of masking clicks to them. If you truly don't give a shit about them: don't consume their content, nor promote them to others.
Remapping my capslock key to escape was the only way that I could finally switch to Vim. Highly Recommended.
Thanks for the link and reference. Just today I picked it up for CA$499 from a TigerDirect.ca store just outside of Toronto. Very, very happy, though the only device I have at home that can run it at full 4K is a new US$299 Acer c720p Chromebook! Photo: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LouisStAmour/posts/Fejys3in1S3
...Google is obviously well versed in this economics stuff, that incentives matter....If you change the incentives then you will change peoples’ behavior.

Google has a $50 billion annual revenue inventive from advertisers to not give a shit about our privacy. There's very little incentive to protect user privacy because people are easily tricked into believing that trading their privacy gets them something free in return when in fact it is not free at all, and in fact even more expensive than it would have been [1].

What is needed is a non-profit, open-source search engine. And the same for social networking. Perhaps Wikipedia style. Let's ditch the bad incentives.

[1] No free lunch, no free web, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624666
My email is easily found in my comment history, in an attachment. My actual username is on permavacation; I thought the field was in seconds and it's in minutes. Whoops.

I prefer that my identity remain a little difficult to find because there are people on the Internet that stalk me and are regular readers here.
Hmm... do you lose miles for refunds that are not linked with the original transaction?
I teach CS in the UK to 11-18 year olds.
CS has recently become core in the UK for all students up to the age of 16.
I start the kids off with a Scratch at first, then move on to a little HTML/CSS/JS. After a year or so we start teaching them Python.
Wikipedia is a wiki. You can do the update yourself.
Can someone explain the setup of the 0=1 exercise? It's poorly worded. Is it saying find: (Y,1,+,1,×) or is it saying find what "1" has to be to make it a valid field?
Slap that on a Truly Ergonomic keyboard (https://www.trulyergonomic.com) and you're living my life. Do it all at once and type 4 wpm for a month.

(I have the older "international" version with a number of blank keys. I remapped the left space bar to command and the lower left dead key to hyper. Tapping either shift of course generates a paren.)
It is 500 (exclusive), so the downvote button appears once you have 501 or more points.
Sure - I wasn't taking it up with you, just voicing my thoughts :)

On the topic at hand - again, while it's a matter of personal choice - I think that growing up in a two parent household with caring parents who provide for their children is normal.

Just like it's normal to be able-bodied as opposed to having some kind of physical or mental deficiency. We don't label healthy people 'privileged' - even though they probably constitute a minority of the population.

I guess the difference is whether something can be reasonably expected (desired) for most of the population within one generation - assuming one puts in the work. So while someone from the bottom of society (heck, any part of society) can't expect to become a billionaire - they can attain middle-class status.
This article confuses teaching Unix with teaching programming. They are separate subjects. It used to be a prerequisite to teach Unix first because most programming tools were command line, but I'm not sure whether this is still true. I spend far less time in the shell than I did 15 years ago because the GUI tools are now so good. To use the example from the article, back then I would have used the find command because it was the best way, but now like his users I would just use Spotlight. I think memorising command parameters and key sequences has become a badge of honor because it is difficult but the command line is no longer the most efficient way of doing everything.
Unfortunately I don't know what you actually get by purchasing it, but I find the idea to be intriguing and inspirational.

Paying a small amount of money for a series of daily questions seems worthwhile, especially if you've seen the life of someone else cut short and wondered what their life was about.

I discovered this project through a blog post that I thought was absurdly shallow and self-important, which perhaps shows that insight and inspiration is often found in unexpected places.
Well, basically, I was reading http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de... and found myself wanting to know the context of several of his claims. There must be 10 or 20 links to valleywag in there. I felt conflicted between my desire to know what he was talking about, and my desire not to give gawker my clicks. So I did what any good techie would do: I solved the problem.

Also, I mean, I learned how to make chrome extensions.
I just paid for this, it just gives you a link to a page with 365 questions, 1 for every day of the year. You take a molesine, notebook, or whatever you want, and you answer the questions as thoroughly as you can.

If you stick to it, you have quite a bit about yourself written down.

Though, i don't feel like this is worth 35$, more like $10 or $15. Its just a text file, to a link, to a single page (not protected by anything) with all the questions. Nothing more nothing less. Though the questions are really good, so maybe.

[Edit] Theoretically you can answer all this in a day if you wanted to. Or a week. This can also be a good way to record how you change overtime. Do one at 20 yrs old, 30 yrs old, and so on, every 10 years. and see how your outlook and views change as you grow as a person.
This won't work in everything, will it? What about if your cursor is at the beginning of a word? Not to mention that different editors stop in different places with ctrl+arrows. Many editors have a key combo for select word already. In Visual Studio it's ctrl-w.
South Korea's Democratic Party and presidents Kim Dae Jung & Roh are/were about as "left wing" as Barack Obama is.

In other words, there are a bunch of clueless South Koreans who sincerely believe that they are the pawn of North Koreans, the devil incarnate, the antithesis of freedom and all they are doing is to pave way for North Korean invasion. Or something like that.

* For some inexplicable reason, those "leftist" presidents thought it was very important for South Korea to have modernized military. The result was "Military Reform Plan 2020" (국방개혁 2020), drafted in 2005, which planned to purchase and/or develop billion dollars worth of modern weapons, including submarines, helicopters, aegis destroyers, and what not.

The conservative pro-American president Lee Myung Bak largely put a hold on this plan. Who need modern weapons when you have your "blood-ally" America who will always stand by you and think of you first? They even practically begged the Americans to keep wartime military command of the whole Korean military. (It's a little dirty secret of South Korea: when any war breaks out here, the US generals automatically assumes control of all our military power. What kind of "conservatives" advocate handing the whole military chain of command to another nation?)

By the way, about those "Revolutionary Organization" (yeah, they are a bunch of clueless pro-NK idiots), so far the court decided to reject many of the evidences brought by prosecutors, saying they don't constitute legal evidence. It was clear from the onset that the whole scandal was politically motivated at a very convenient timing (or, rather, a very inconvenient timing, as South Korea's NIS has been under heavy fire for having generated 22 million(!!) tweets during the last presidential election, to sway public opinion and disparage "leftist" candidate Moon. The finest display of patriotism from our "conservatives".)
>>Could you have raised the funds with a 100% surety without him if you were a single founder?

I see this problem clear in many situations these days. A lot of angel investors/fund raisers tend to think themselves as founders.

The problem with such a though is that, your job ends once you give the money. Though arranging for money is important once sales get going you tend to be looked up as some one who did an initial favor but is by and large not contributing anything to the company for months/years.

Mean while other people, even non founders who throw in insane efforts to keep the company going look at such people as dead baggage to carry whose only role was raising that initial investment and riding that accomplishment wave since then.

After some time it makes more sense to honorably give back the investment + profits to that initial investor than have them control you, while not contributing anything meaningful to the company.
I agree with your premise that the spirit of a law shouldn't be violated to send a message but I don't see that it applies here.

For me this doesn't pass the sense test: should a person be able to knowingly, intentionally fake the results of a scientific experiment in order to secure a grant of taxpayer money? No. No more than you should be able to fake the 'results' of your yearly income, say, for the purpose of receiving welfare.
Why would a text article webpage care about tap delay?
Having worked at a university research lab in the US, let me tell you that the situation isn't as clean as most people believe.

When you apply for a grant, you add an "overhead" amount, which is specified as a percentage of the grant. A typical number is 50%: if you want $X for your lab, you apply for $X * 1.5, with the reasoning that the extra 50% is for the university to provide you with facilities, tuition wavers for your students, computer support, etc. So far, so good.

What many people don't know is that of that 50% that the university collects, about 20% (actual figure can vary a lot) comes to the Dean's slush fund (so, about 10% of the grant itself using above figures). The Dean can use this money to give young faculty starter research grants; but more often, the Dean can use this money to dole out discretionary bonuses (which can be very large) to the top research faculty. So if the grantee gets a $19MM grant, you can bet that he's making 100s of 1000s of dollars in bonuses from the Dean.

Anyways, the system is quite messy if you take a closer look...
My biggest gripe with mobile sites is what I call "layout jumping". It happens when CSS and JavaScript resources arrive slowly (as of course they do over many mobile connections).

It stems from:

- Developers viewing their sites only from fast WiFi connections

- Poor 3rd party ad & tracking service integrations

It goes like this:

1. Tap link for article. Text loads, user begins reading.

2. [CSS file loads with typography styles --> TEXT JUMPS TO NEW POSITION]

3. User adjusts position of eyes, or possibly scrolls to find location in text to resume reading

4. [CSS file loads with some layout styles -- TEXT JUMPS TO NEW POSITION]

5. ... possibly 2-4 repeated several times for various stylesheets (no compilation)

6. User scrolls to resume reading after being interrupted again.

7. [JS resource loads for ad. Creates banner box -- TEXT JUMPS TO NEW POSITION].

8. Again user finds reading position to resume

9. [3p CSS arrives to style the ad -- TEXT JUMPS TO NEW POSITION]

10. User begrudgingly finds position, wondering if this article is worth the trouble.

11. (steps 7-10 repeated for a few more add boxes / other nuisances)

...
Looking at his publications, he seems to be Korean. You can breathe easy. ;-)
Great post but it's over a year old. Shouldn't it be labeled as such?
I doubt somebody that gets upset about a small company protecting their idea with a patent (that he hasn't even seen) would actually buy software from them anyway.

His example ("prior art") wasn't remotely relevant.

So many upset about something you have no information on. But go ahead, grab your pitchforks and go hurt another small developer.
Where is the Internet headed? (2014 & Beyond)
Is the number of internet users still growing? Or shrinking? With alternative's like mobile apps, what does the future of the internet look like?

I'd like to hear thoughts on the world-wide-web and where it's headed in the year 2014 and beyond.

Let's discuss..
Risk management. A three-time embezzlement convict applying for work at Stripe is an example of something a criminal background check should catch. The downside is (a) how easy it is to pick up a felony and (b) the number of hiring managers that immediately dismiss any felony.
Hopefully the latter. There's no practical reason for a biologist to understand Djikstra's algorithm, but a lot of professions will benefit from being able to code up helper scripts.
That makes no sense. You only have to remember one sandwich at a time to decide on the best sandwich, but you have to remember at least three numbers to recall the mean and standard deviation.
Well, carry on, then!
And conversely, it is possible to go through an entire Computer Science course without touching any code. It's a distinction with a difference.
> It seems that Haskell attracts logicians, which are their own particular subspecies of mathematicians

Or perhaps people who care about foundations in general.
Technically, you would have to remember all sandwiches you've eaten up to the point you decide to start keeping track of your favorite.
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Students are taught that "math" is doing arithmetic by hand, simplifying and factoring expressions, memorization, plugging-and-chugging formulas, and in general performing rote computations with pencil and paper. These things are simply not pleasant for a lot of people. Nothing anti-authoritarian about it, they're just unpleasant and repetitive tasks that any good hacker would be aching to automate.

I had great science teachers who taught me about fundamental soundness, reasoning from first principles, developing/testing/revising quantative models, and describing the state and behavior of the universe (i.e. what calculus was created for in the first place). That was fun. But nobody was doing that thinking "so this is math" because it wasn't called that, it was called physics or chemistry.

When you are in an a middle or high school classroom called "Math" with a book called "Math" you are doing rote algebraic manipulation, full stop. So that is what math is to you. No wonder people hate it.

Fundamental soundness, proof, etc. has very little to do with numeracy in the sense of mental arithmetic, estimation skills. Those are useful too, but different things. I still can't multiply two-digit numbers in my head but that never posed a problem in calculus, computer science, chemistry, physics, or anything else.
Yup, that's what I needed to do.
Where is the exhaustiveness checking?
Although a silly comparison, $35 is an amount less than I frequently spend on a night out alone, or a night out with a friend, with little or no memories left behind.

While more expensive than a used self-help book on Amazon, having a record of where you are in life at a particular age seems like a worthwhile investment.
Did you have a keyboard that didn't have a tilde?
You'd hear "I'm still working on getting a work visa. Damn, it's tough."
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Google has recently started penalizing sites that redirect to a different page for mobile.
"by Ruth Graham". Is there a relation?
Does anybody have a good explanation of how credit card charge limits actually work? I once had Jet Airways mistakenly charge me $30,000 (in two installments of $15,000) on a card that had a limit of $14,000, and while I was unable to use the card afterwards, the original charge should not have been possible in the first place. When I called the bank to complain, all they could say is that it was an "offline" transaction and thus apparently unlimited.

(And yes, I got it reversed eventually, and then had to pick another fight to get them to credit me the difference in exchange rates in the meantime. All this because Jet's shiny new booking engine apparently didn't multithread too well and replaced my $300 tickets with somebody else's... longer version of story here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other-asian-australian-south-...)
Yeah, this is likely much less about "stuff" as much as keeping an active lab going, securing tenure, bright, big publications etc.
I joined a charter school network in NYC last summer. I am working on a teaching degree simultaneously (there is classwork during the year, but the bulk of the work was/will be during the summers on either side of this school year).

I am teaching some 5th grade math and english in addition to computer science, though if the network is able to continue to grow, there are likely to be teachers teaching only 5th grade computer science in the very near future. Not many NYC middle schools (charter or otherwise), offer computer science to middle school students.

For what it's worth, my undergrad was in economics. I know enough to teach Scratch to 5th graders, though I wouldn't sign up to teach AP Computer Science. Like alistairSH, I also wonder where the computer science teachers are going to come from. Genuinely wanting to work with kids every day is more important than any of this though, in my opinion. Definitely feel free to email me if you want to talk more about any of this.
>>It hasn't done much. Why not?

May be because most of that money is spent on 'management expenses'.
I think you've got it wrong: http://www.nature.com/emm/journal/v32/n1/abs/emm20002a.html

He was previously affiliated with Yonsei University, located in Seoul.
I cut my teeth on Sun keyboards and emacs, so I always remap caps lock to control.
I'm pretty sure we're talking about "violence" in the abstract/legal context here. Or at least, that's how I think about it. I would say that stealing from someone is "violent".
Are you sure it was a tilde? My terminal emulator puts in tildes for various special characters (such as when I press the delete key).
> This article confuses teaching Unix with teaching programming

I don't think thats true, he references programming in python in there, but he uses the tools programmers generally use (on unix based systems) to program to more sharply contrast it with what the user might expect based on software that they use

> but the command line is no longer the most efficient way of doing everything

I agree with you, but the fact that most of the most gifted programmers I know usually gravitate towards some truly esoteric tools because of the complete control it affords them, negatively (sadly) impacts the rest of the programmers that look up to them
> The first problem with your plan is that devs hate recruiting spam more than they hate PHP, and they hate PHP alot.

Unrelated, but this was a good laugh.
GlobalTaunt is a C# client for the official League of Legends API
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Off-topic.

rap, not wrap. Quite an interesting history http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/its-bad-rap-...
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IANAL, but my understanding is that wire fraud is specifically used to give federal prosecutors standing in a case they might not otherwise have jurisdiction to prosecute. That is is a fraud took place entirely within one state, it would be a state affair, and there would be no federal crime -- unless they used either the mail or a national telecommunications network to facilitate the fraud.

However, in this case since the target was a federal agency, presumably it is a federal crime already. More interesting I would think is that even if the US attorney doesn't want to press charges, I'm sure the AG of Iowa (and possibly Maryland) could.