skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your promissory note, you agree to only use the money for "qualified" educational expenses (books, rent, etc.). They really have no way of checking what you use the money for. But, if they find out one day ... you would be in violation of the contract. In which case, the lender may want to end the agreement, take legal action against you (assuming they can prove you violated the contract), and take their money back.
No, Groklaw is a freak show which used a flimsy excuse to shut down for reasons unknown.
> Comparing performance on entrance exams is more consistent with how private sector employers evaluate non-STEM college graduates.

"Everyone does it" doesn't mean its a meaningful measure, even if its true (and, AFAICT, its not.)

The number of potential employers that have ever cared -- or even asked -- about my college entrance exams is...0. Several have asked for college grade transcripts, though, though most have just asked about degrees and institutions.

I mean, I'd love it if the fact that my entrance exam scores were in the top 0.1% mattered...but generally they don't seem to.
I think that's a false dichotomy. You're not going to get mainstream technical fixes, or keep them legal and secure, without engaging in a fair amount of politics. There are plenty of misfires and misguided efforts in both the political and technical spheres, but that doesn't mean either sphere should be dismissed in its entirety.
"Deserve" seems to be a highly-loaded word here. If you can't remember anything taught in a class a year after taking it, do you really "deserve" credit for learning it? How would such a thing even be measured, let alone enforced?
Shorter WSJ: "We've been saying for years that those commies in the universities should 'run their schools like a business', but now that they're doing it OMG IT'S BAD!"
Science missions use 2mp CCDs mostly because of the sensitivity. The larger is the individual sensor ("pixel") the more photons it can absorb thus more electrical potential it can generate compared to the noise level.

There's also technological barriers for creating large megapixel CCDs as opposed to CMOS. Large CCDs are usually created by "stitching" multiple sensors together, which increase their price as a square of the size.

You can shoot fullframe (35mm) camera at ISO 25600 and get decent results, but if you crank up signal amplification on iPhone to 25600 you'll get nothing but random color dots :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g#t=23314
> This comment makes you sound both arrogant and uninformed. You should rethink your tone.

I see nothing wrong with the tone of the comment you replied to. The comment disagrees with the significance of the linked article and does so with examples explaining why they believe that. They could be wrong but it's hardly arrogant.

Your tone, on the other hand, is inexplicably combative.
If Valve is really invested in Linux, they should be working with the open source drivers' developers to make the game work better on Mesa. For example, I can't play games on Arch Linux because ATI's driver doesn't work with the latest Xorg.
This system is totally broken. The federal government receives funding to do things that the general public despises, in secret, and then, if caught, the courts decide the legality of it ex post facto.

The U.S. federal government makes far too many decisions that are no longer accountable to the public. This is an extremely dangerous situation to be in, and if we don't have some serious reform done then I believe we are in for a very shitty future.
At the risk of reigniting an old flame war, it seems to me that a microkernel in which core OS functions such as process management and the virtual file system are in separate servers would be more complicated than a monolithic kernel. Having device drivers and specific file systems in user space may be useful, though.
I think this ruling, and others it foreshadows, points to a need to amend the Constitution to ensure protections for personal property held by third parties on behalf of private citizens. At the time the 4th amendment was created, it was reasonable to assume that anything a person wanted to keep private would be safely secured by them in their own home. Times have changed. Now I keep my private financial "papers" in a system administered by a third party bank, my private medical "papers" in a system administered by a third party insurance company, and a lot of my other private effects in databases administered by third parties google, dropbox, etc.

Luckily the Framers foresaw that future changes would necessitate changes to our fundamental law so there is a process for the People to make such issues much less open to broad interpretation by the judicial branch.
Stream dumps from 30C3 already available: ftp://30c3.ex23.de/
“It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question.” — Seymour Cray

[citation needed]
HTTP POST analyzer in Python
Thanks for the link [edited]
> Partially or wholly publicly funded, yes. Publicly operated or administered, no.

In many cases, charter schools are both publicly funded and administer. The charter is a governing document providing exceptions and alternatives to the governing rules otherwise applicable to public schools.

Charter schools may be privately operated/administered, but that's not universally the case.
do they have a Linux client?
Original reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1tswai/t_sin_t_...
New Parking Program Will Allow NYC Drivers To Pay For Spots With Smartphone
>1 (note: it's still encrypted prior to gzipping).

why
Chess champion feels chess will outlast League of Legends, eSports
It's not the paginated output but it's close, especially compared to LaTeX code. And I believe many people understand WYSIWYG broadly as a point and click interface with visual feedback, in contrast to writing some code.
I would pay a lot for a Rails-like framework written in Erlang. Erlang really hits a sweet spot between performance and developer-friendliness.
No Supreme Court justices have ruled on this. There have been two federal judges to issue a ruling so far, and if you'll recall the last ruling was the exact opposite. This debate is very much not decided.

Regardless of the 4th amendment, we have separate laws that protect our communications, much in the same way we protect our medical records. The only imaginable argument in favor of these transgressions are that "it's not illegal when the government does it"
Is this from The Onion?
Once I set up an alias for `this` I try to only use that from then on to be consistent. The reason I do that in the first place is in case I need to pass it to a callback, I can just use the alias and don't have to worry about when `this` will be the global object
Target Confirms Encrypted PIN Numbers Stolen In Data Breach
It wasn't a waste on the San Quentin immates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953465

There was a much earlier article... I forgot where. A long article about the power of the humanities for those living in the poverty line. Granted, the participants were self-selected, were open to this, but they were also hungry for this kind of knowledge and wisdom.

Engineering colleges and the modern form of Universities, I think, will split off on its own as what is essential vocational school. And the "good stuff" will be reserved for the elite and the folks who dare step outside the box.
> What, and why would you want to upgrade during a loop?

See Erlang for a trivial example.
I don't anyone who is happy, whether they are in tech or not. I've met a few people who appeared happy because they were able to project a false front, or hide behind alcohol or Prozac, but once you get to know them and scratch beneath the surface you find they are as miserable as everyone else. The only exception was a rich girl I once met. I think her low IQ basically made her completely unaware of what was going on around her, and with her wealth as a further shield from the real world she perhaps knew authentic happiness.
I'll bet J.J. Abrams already has a patent drafted for lens flares.
Rails makes it easier to do migrations and roll them back if necessary but you can dump the SQL from Postgres easily and you can choose whether Rails stores the schema in SQL or in its own format. I use SQL as at least in 3.2 Rails' own format didn't support all the features of Postgres (partial indexes etc.)

When doing a new deploy you shouldn't usually go through the migrations but just load the schema.
I understand that you're angry and frustrated but don't make arguments like this. Do you think you're convincing anybody with these preposterous statements? Do you think someone who is unconvinced that the PATRIOT Act is bad would read what you are saying and be astonished at the idea that it makes raping and torturing infants legal, then be spurred to change their mind and take action to oppose it?

There's no need to make up bullshit about the PATRIOT Act, to exaggerate its effects, or to engage in histrionics. Those things weaken your case in the eyes of the people who you most want to convince. Don't exaggerate, don't use hyperbole, don't lie, don't be immature, make the strongest case possible and back it with facts.
Since this is relevant to the tech community let me paint a picture before people start sharpening the pitchforks...

I've been meeting with investors recently and one of the most common questions/comments has been - "Why can't someone else just do the same thing? Can a group of Stanford grads build this in a weekend?" This line of questioning is relevant to pretty much all startups today.

The reality is, from what I can tell, to build YogaGlo, you could build this in a month with a fairly decent tech team and a little bit of hustle. Now imagine you're the CEO of YogaGlo today and an investor asks you these questions. Easy answer - "they can't, we have a patent". Think of this in another light. What happens if the company goes bust and there are no physical assets to liquidate? A patent (or IP) is an asset that can be sold. (think Nortel[1])

We've significantly lowered the barrier to pretty much every industry in the world. The production cost of one of these yoga classes can't be more than $100 per video and yet can reach a million in a click of a button. Since it's so "easy", we come full circle back to how important ownership, rights, IP and patents are. Otherwise your business is simply another replaceable middle man.

However here is where I believe YogaGlo has just screwed up in playing this game. Because it's so easy to reproduce their IP, companies like YogaGlo should be focusing on mindshare, and less about patentability and competition. Create such good relationships with yoga instructors and the people watching the videos that they wouldn't dare go to the competition. This sentence stuck out more than anything:
"Several companies offered to buy us, invest, license our technology, or hire YogaGlo to film their classes. When we declined, a few grew unhappy with us." You declined?! Are you out of your mind? Why not become the de facto company for licensing your technology, filming other Yoga classes, etc? That's how you build mindshare - and mindshare is IMHO the "new IP".

[1]-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel
Fabricated Story About Iron Maiden’s Love Of Music Pirates Became Internet Truth
For the lazy, here's the full text of the opinion on Casetext: https://casetext.com/case/aclu-v-clapper/
I tried a number of things over the years, and the technique that finally worked for me was counting in my head as I read.
By occupying the verbalising part of my mind I found I was able to train myself to read without it, and with a little practice I started to be able to read tat way without counting.
To get such less noise you not only need to utilize advanced materials, but also cool down the sensor considerably. To register single photon impacts you'll need to cool down to 0K I guess :-)
Dyeing the cheese orange – Beware of benchmarks
It's interesting that there's a room of thousands of people watching him on Skype, and a second room of people watching video of the screen.
Right, so the way I see it, the money from the loans goes into my account for educational expenses. The money from my funding (grants/advisor/etc) that is used to pay for my tuition/fees is returned to me. Once it's in my account and it's refunded, the lending institution would have no way of proving if it was their money or another money source that was refunded to the student. All of the money is technically still being used for "qualified" educational expenses, right?

I guess if they did find out one day I'd still be paying the money back, and by that time I'd be hopefully successful in this so I wouldn't mind returning it.
I basically read "this is an incredibly strict patent. We didn't blatantly patent filming from the back of the class. Our patent only applies when the camera can see the teacher."

I've followed online yoga sites for years and this is by far the most common and obvious way of filming a class.
Back in 1998 I was making $70k and had everything I needed. I was bumped to $80k in 1999 and now had more than I could spend. The extra $10k did not alter my spending habits any, other than I did not have to space out buying big ticket items (say a new laptop or other expensive purchases) as much. Of course I was saving as well.

Of course people have children, need retirement money etc. and money needs can increase. But as some studies have shown, once you hit an income that puts you in the top 10% or so of income earners, there is diminishing utility to each extra dollar you get. At some point a well paying job you enjoy is worth more then one you do not enjoy paying double.

A lifestyle business is the business you want to create. You usually don't have to deal with investors or all that that entails including the type of business it will be and its goals.

And as someone else here said, it often winds up the case that the lifestyle business is the one that gets the big exit offers, as opposed to the ones designed from the get-go as a vehicle for getting investments and an exit.
"all the necessary knowledge was explained from the ground up. All you needed to know was supplied, clearly laid out, not just hints for efficient programming. Basicly, you could rebuild your own computer by reading these books."

This is what I'm trying to recapture with my ARM project. Basically an ARM Cortex M4 is of the same order of complexity as large mini-computer "back in the day" where you could (and often did) learn all the basics of computers from architecture to compiler construction. I realized that I had a tremendous advantage learning about computers because you could put an entire PDP 11 architecture in your head while you were writing code, but you can't so easily do that we even an ATOM version of the Pentium. Combined with a straight forward I/O system that kept to a small number of principles, used repeatedly, and you did not have "needless"[1] complexity getting in the way of learning.

Another good reference for seeing how things were build is "Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Design" [2] which discusses all sorts of trade offs in computer that once you understand them, things like superscalar execution units make much more sense to you.

[1] It is all useful complexity but before you know what you don't know it is just a wall of confusing concepts and jargon.

[2]http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Engineering-Hardware-Systems-...
Would love to see such a cooperative society in this universe. I guess ants and bees have that?
Great list! My two favourites were "Internal Reprogrammability" which reminded me of Steve Yegge's "Pinocchio Problem" [1] article and "Ruins of Forgotten Empires" which made me want to learn more about APL languages.

[1]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.htm...
The title seems to imply that Kasparov said chess would outlast ‘eSports’ as a whole, when he only appears to have said that it will outlast every individual video game – and judging from history, that appears to be trivially true.
For what it's worth, even if there were no circuit split (i.e., even if the courts of appeals in both cases agree), the Court does often take cases that are of great national importance. This would certainly qualify.
For me, the problem wasn't only this, but also that RDP is already a well-known acronym for "Remote Desktop Protocol".

One of my personal policies is to not introduce any new acronyms in the work I do, and especially don't redefine ones that are already familiar in the programming field. Just come up with a proper descriptive name, even if it's slightly longer. Let the acronym follow once the name is already known.
Indeed. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science, you can leverage that. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science within a tech stack that aligns with the [EDIT: company in question], all the more power to you and the likelihood that they will want to hear what you have to say as an expert on the subject.
> Regardless of the 4th amendment, we have separate laws that protect our communications, much in the same way we protect our medical records.

The ACLU raised some of those separate laws in this case, but those claims were dismissed for procedural reasons, including that Congress had only waived soveriegn immunity with regard to Section 215 orders to allow the recipients of the orders to challenge them, not the subjects of the orders.

There's no need to defend the transgression when no one with the interest in challenging them is permitted to challenge them.

The big problem here is that the entire idea of sovereign immunity -- the embodiment of the idea that the King is above the law, adapted to circumstances where there is no King -- is directly contrary to the concept of government bound by the rule of law.
thanks! just to be clear, you do mean host standby with streaming replication right ? And why did you specifically recommend 9.3 - I cant google for anything specific to standby fixes.

The authentication defaults for postgres and mysql are vastly different - I am always tempted to move all authentication to md5 (pretty much the same as mysql). Am I doing it wrong ?
My MotoX has never crashed/rebooted on me.
I use the same trick to remap caps lock to "shift+cmd+alt+ctrl" or "hyper". My configuration is highly centered around using slate with the standard h,j,k,l and also u,o,n to manage my windows. On top of that I also use the left side of my keyboard for focus binds, for example hyper+q is Chrome and hyper+e is iTerm2.

Here is my slate configuration for anyone interested: https://gist.github.com/k0nserv/8151008
I got the login as well. I launched chrome in Incognito mode and the link from the google search worked. I'm guessing they set a cookie or something to get people who clicked the link directly then tried to work around it via Google.
Youtube handles traffic better than ccc's site, maybe?
they cannot afford to throw people out.

Not always true. I flunked out of my last school due largely to depression issues and extreme isolation which led to heavy drinking and low grades. My advisor, who I'd only talked to once before when switching into that major, was so happy to see me go he wouldn't even speak to me when I needed him to sign a form so I could drop out, instead of failing out. Instead just told me he was busy and left me sitting outside his office for an hour and a half before I finally got the point (I waited so long because I at first assumed he was actually busy, and not just blowing me off). Needless to say it's hard to do well at a school in spite of isolation and depression when your professors automatically assume you're just a lazy shit who isn't trying and your advisor won't even let you into their office. I know in his head he was probably "upholding the quality of the degree for the alumni" or some shit, but it's hard to justify that when they're doing so based on snap judgments about students who depend on them and who they've never even really spoken to, and furthermore refuse to. Also, to justify that I'm not actually as much of a loser as this guy thought I was, I should say that part of the depression was due to failing to maintain a 4.0 GPA in my classes (I wanted to go to grad school for physics and felt this was required). I found out later I'd actually been one of only three students to even pass the hardest class, and somehow ended up with a B in it despite thinking I was failing the entire time.

Trust me, they do not give a fuck about you. Unless you can get their name on a paper you're publishing, you're just an ID number and a tuition payment to them.
I tutor math at a local high school. The core problem, at least as far as I can understand it, is the students' lack of motivation - learning math is way down their priority list. (The material is basic, and the students appear to be of normal intelligence. There's no reason they couldn't grok this stuff.)

The great thing about CS, at least if it's well taught, is that you can see results. You can think hard, figure something out, and see visible results from your effort. I think/hope that this can be a powerful motivator for a 14-year-old to think analytically - in a way that solving algebra problems isn't.
It helps when you can use the type system to restrain what can touch what. I've been doing this in some of my high performance C, where some global mutable state is unavoidable - passing around empty structs to indicate context. It doesn't guarantee I don't violate my rules, but it more likely I notice when I do.
That is the point of the patent, isn't it? They have the patent so that no one else can use the same filming style. They don't intend to sue anyone, but if someone is filming in ways that are too similar to theirs, they will try to get them to stop. That can range from polite emails to cease-and-desists.
Running your JS code in Python
You're setting up and knocking down a strawman. Its not a matter of electronic documents versus paper. A USB key in your desk drawer is protected as much as a stack of paper documents. This was not a controversial issue. Courts have treated electronic documents uniformly with paper ones for a long time with little fanfare.

The relevant issue is where these documents are located, and whether it's reasonable to have a privacy interest in documents transmitted in plain text over the internet. As an analogy: if you leave your physical papers in someone's garage, you cannot invoke the 4th amendment if the police find those documents otherwise lawfully. It's not reasonable for you to claim a privacy interest in documents over which someone else has unrestricted control.

That's the nature of an electronic document "in the cloud." Countless people have access to that document, at the service provider and also at intermediate routing nodes. If you use Google or Facebook, that information is even routinely scanned for advertising purposes. That's the nature of the internet. It's built on routing plain text information between unrelated nodes. Treating this information that is physically not private as "logically private" is a social fiction based on trusting service providers.

That's the question courts are faced with. Not whether electronic documents enjoy 4th amendment protection (they clearly do), but whether to indulge the fiction that documents which are as a factual matter not private should nonetheless be treated as private for 4th amendment purposes. There might be good reason to do that. There might also be good reason to stop short of fully endorsing the current status quo, and requiring service providers to make certain privacy guarantees in order for documents on their systems to enjoy 4th amendment protections.