skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, I actually read it as someone trying to get cheap points (or popularity) by being the first one to post it.

That's not at all what you initially commented on. Even if that was your intent, you simply said something completely different and unrelated. You were judged by what you actually said and when people challenged you about it you got aggressive. I'm really sorry to go on about this, but that's honestly what it looks like from here.

One of the reasons why I chose to comment on this is that it's a mistake I made as well once or twice (getting motivations of fellow users wrong and snapping at them), and I had the good fortune of people pointing that out to me.
Great, thanks! I've been looking at David Malan's CS50 web programming lectures at Harvard and found them useful as well.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/lectures/9/m
I was hoping for some kind of better, open interface for engine data & other car systems :(
Ctrl-alt-del? No, this runs windows.
The comments lost during the outage are still on hnsearch:
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=openstreetmap&...
Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card
> Perhaps you could set up teams that could compete with each other through a series of programming challenges? You could find a local business who would sponsor a prize, or a restaurant that would offer a dinner for the winning team.

I like this idea. Through my experience in several student orgs, it seems that the best way to get people to stay involved is competition and prizes. Personally, I would much rather see students be self driven, but there's a hump of "oh I'm too busy to do this" (or something of the sort) that most students need to get over before taking a huge interest in it.
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel And The Antics Of A 23-Year-Old Novice
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Its no longer on the front page anymore..
@HNStatus helped keep me updated but it wasn't posted on the maintenance page until the end of the day for everyone.
I don't think web development is the hard thing to teach as much as problem solving well.

I would have them build anything and everything with the caveat that no matter how good they were (or weren't) the quality of their code would suck looking back in 5 years and to start with bad code, and incrementally add concepts like switches, functions, etc., much like very young coders did at age 10-15 when building anything, in any way was cool beyond belief. Solving problems better and better is the fuel of continuing to learn to develop better for me, but we all have to start somewhere.

Therefore start solving interesting problems. And keep solving them until you get better at it.
> Whip out your phone.

Well that scenario is more like this:

Fish your phone out of your pocket or bag, unlock the screen, pull down the notification bar, navigate to the app...

vs

Look at your wrist.

Pebble is quite convenient especially when you're on the go. Walking while staring at your phone is quite hazardous. Also, when my phone is in my pocket, I usually don't hear it ring but I definitely feel when something strapped to my wrist vibrates.
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
I have Programming Pearls and it's one of the books that made me realise I know nothing.

I pick it up every now and then to see if I can get further than before.
Front page indicates the redesign is coming Jan 8th.
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I don't think this uses GPS. A high-end CNC machine would have about 0% chance of seeing any GPS satellites.

Even the linked thread said it uses gyros without mentioning GPS.
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It's great to see newspapers trying to improve the reading experience itself (single page stories that aren't broken up into a dozen pages for pageviews, removing distractions etc), since many of the other news websites smother the user in advertisements, popovers and social media buttons to the point where it feels like you have to battle the site just to read the story itself. It remains to be seen how this redesign will feel in practice, but it seems to have all the right intentions.

When it comes to news websites, my current favorite is the design for The Daily Beast.
YC’s Paul Graham says Hacker News may be back online in an hour
Snapchat hires lobbyist
"But this time the problem is much worse, because the world is different: All of these devices are connected to the Internet. The computers in our routers and modems are much more powerful than the PCs of the mid-1990s, and the Internet of Things will put computers into all sorts of consumer devices. The industries producing these devices are even less capable of fixing the problem than the PC and software industries were."
I hope it comes back online soon.
Thanks. So---do not worry about your performance at the company at all. Work the lowest amount of hours you can get away with for a few months, and spend all your time upgrading your skills and hunting for better jobs.
That is a rather misleading headline. A better one might be:

"US arms export regulations force CNC manufacturers to implement anti-relocation lockout mechanisms"

Of course it's not just the manufacturers being dicks; they implement that or they can't import to the USA.
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Here's a piece from Inkling's CTO and co-founder about what he realized he needed to focus on as the company grew. Recruiting and culture building turned out to be most important.
This masterclass in clickbait titling pulled in 735 comments and counting on /r/programming. Watch and learn, bloggers!
If this were reddit, you'd be getting tipped in Dogecoin as well.
Thanks!

My main concern is that 2/3 of the people signed up don't have any programming experience, so it will be hard to keep it interesting for CS majors and slow enough for everyone else.

We were thinking of starting off with HTML/CSS since it's not taught in classes then progressing to a server-side language + framework.

I've recommended all of the non-CS majors to go through the JavaScript Codecademy lessons over break to learn the programming fundamentals so they can keep up when we dive into Ruby and RoR (or some other language/framework).
Have you considered that selling BCC would give you more time for Appointment Reminder?
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Shutting down a competitor's machine shop, for one.
I'm saying, though, that asking this alone doesn't make them a point sniffer. Somebody was bound to ask it within minutes of service being restored because I'm sure everyone was curious of this after seeing HN go down for several hours.

I know it was on my mind, just out of curiosity, and was one of the first topics I looked for when I found service had been restored.
FTA: "It's powered by a dual-core Quark SOC, runs Linux, and has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity"...

If it runs Linux, there's a good chance it's open (or could be made open).
Scientists Successfully Model a Living Cell with Software
To clarify, my interest in whether the IMEI is zeroed and/or programmable is about how the various mobile networks use IMEI, particularly: - China Unicom uses them to detect continued use of subsidized handsets on their network (and will send the customer a text if they're not using it (eg if they've sold their subsidized phone) - I believe T-mobile USA use IMEI to limit access to their 'free data for life' promotion to specific tablet models - Several UK mobile networks have different data tariffs for phones vs. tablets vs. dongles vs. mi-fi devices
I'm wondering whether there is any/widespread use of these android devices to bypass restrictions and, eg use a cheaper tablet data plan on a mobile phone with tethering to multiple devices.
They don't connect to the company server. They just shut down and display a message to the operator. It's up to the operator to receive an unlock code from the manufacturer. So, there's no server involved. It's all human-to-human interaction.

But again, in 15 years all these codes will be lost by the manufacturer itself, so your main point is valid.
I'm surprised HN is using twitter instead of one one of their investments, Statuspage.io.
Mental conversion between binary, octal, decimal, and hex is a minefield.
That's not a bad point. I can see the desire to keep these away from certain places, but if that's the case, why geo-lock them so much? Why couldn't you allow a large region of GPS coordinates and add a mandatory blacklist of locations? Instead of solving the "problem" (stop the machines from working in Iran), the manufacturer turned this into a profit center. Blocking a company from rearranging their work floor seems a bit much.
> If I don’t find Black Swan interesting I should probably just donate it instead of suffering through it, for example.

I'm not only willing, I'm eager to give up on a book I don't either enjoy or find interesting. But I know a surprising number of people who force themselves to finish any book that they start.
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Watches >$20 will always be jewelry first and functionality second. This is a step in the right direction but I think they can do better.

I think we need a round face. Years of watch making tells us its clearly more attractive and what most consumers prefer, and a round display will be more 'revolutionary' then just a tiny smart phone on your wrist.
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It did something similar here before the outage.
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This is a Gibberish with a lot of tongue twisters in it. It is a challenge to any singer and also fit for an impromptu jig!! This one is sure to bring a smile on your face
I thanked you because you accurately and fairly assessed my actions. A large reason I post or comment on HN is to receive constructive criticism (which is why I admitted to existence of self-interest). You provided it, and that’s why I’m thanking you.

nhangen falsely critiqued my actions as complaining and then turned my own admission against me; you fairly accessed that (IMO). You also added to the conversation with your own assessment of the broad trend, i.e., posts are worth points.

I think all of those actions are worthy of thanking.
Speaking of what I would love to do as a college student, I think it would be awesome if a professor was doing something as a challenge against me.

Meaning, I think a lot of time students are told to learn by the professor explaining some of the most basal subjects that we all take for granted anyways (like server architecture, HTTP, etc) and not getting to the juicy cool stuff that we can all do with the web.

What my thought would be is that at the beginning of the semester, the professor took a few days and built a website she thought that the website should exist (it doesn't matter what the website was, just that it was created by them in a matter of days).

Then the entire course was the professor taking the students through all of the design decisions that she made and along the way taught the students how to be a hacker and how to build things on the web.

The challenge would come in the fact that the professor would have a running track of how many users/views the site had and as it grew, the professor could talk about the design optimizations and server architecture in a way that the students would normally experience it.
You obviously haven't clicked on the link. P2Pool requires too many resources (a full-node). Whereas most of current mining, ran by trusted third-party pools, can even be done off of a raspberry pi, which requires much less resources.
My pile of unread books is kinda terrifying.

On the upside, I do manage to get through all of the books related to my field, so the stack mostly contains the remaining works of Kierkegaard that I've missed, the complete works of William Blake, Russian literature (translated), mathematics texts, and small stack of untranslated Japanese novels.

Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.
This. Sometime last century I had to restore an old codebase from a tape backup. Step one find the correct drive...

We'll never need that old repo again.
OpenStreetMap is pretty amazing. Leafletjs is a great way to display that data on the web. Tiles from cloudmade or mapquest compliment it nicely.

Really nice replacement for gmaps should you ever need it.
It's a great book to pick up "every now and then". Most of the chapters can be read as independent essays, and even the ones that continue ideas from before stand on their own pretty well. It's also a good book to bring along on a flight.
I love OpenStreetMap, see it as sort of like Wikipedia for cartographic data, and regularly use it as both a repository and source for data I collect about mountain bike and hiking trails. I then use this to make print maps; part of my work with a local mountain biking advocacy non-profit. In fact, just yesterday while watching a storm blow outside my window I put this one together:

http://mmba.org/library/maps/baldmountainnorth/latest.pdf

I don't really contribute the data I collect to Google Maps because it's much more one-way... Sure, I get to use their mapping site, but I can't get the data back for making print maps.

If anyone is interested in the general process I follow for it, that can be found here:

https://nuxx.net/blog/2012/06/05/mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-...
a situation that the manufacturers have turned into a business-opportunity by using the technology to assist in repossessing machines from delinquent lease-payers -- and requiring permission for privilege of deciding where to place their key capital assets.

Yikes. Classic Holdup Problem. There are certainly ways to force inventory checks without GPS software locks; this must have been implemented because of the desire to have actual remote 'kill' capability. What I don't understand is the line of sight issues with (actual) GPS sensors. If the machine is blocked from the birds...like it would typically be indoors...something seems odd.
The NSA intercepts its targets' electronics purchases shipped by FedEx / UPS
This was the video that I watched 6 years ago that got me into web dev and eventually actual programming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQMnpUsj8I
Bruce Schneier Joins Co3 Systems as CTO
> Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.

Do they still have tramp steamers?
Modern, fancy nuclear devices, perhaps.

But I suspect that the machining to make something that goes boom is probably well within the means of a traditional machine shop.
Ah, yes... my pile of bought and unread books. Still much less scary than my reading list, which threatens to collapse into a black hole if I continue adding to it.

That being said, and more related to the source post, it looks doable. SICP really isn't all that scary. I finally read it last year, and both enjoyed it massively and got through it relatively quickly. Expecting yourself to do _all_ of the exercises would change this perspective, of course. Then it would be fairly scary, I guess.

I got a chuckle seeing volumes from The Art of Computer Programming in a pile before I realized they were in his pile to "skim through so I know what is in them so I can use them more effectively." Reading through those in detail in a year would be surprising, not to mention the other books in the post.

Good luck! Hope I see your follow up post at years end with how many you actually read. Let me add a vote for "Ruby Under a Microscope," I read it shortly after it came out and enjoyed it very much.
> I would have them build anything and everything with the caveat that no matter how good they were (or weren't) the quality of their code would suck looking back in 5 years

Great point!

I had a similar experience growing up, but I think a lot of people that want to learn quickly give up.

What do you think we can do to keep people excited about it? I was talking to a few friends at UMich and they suggested we have them build their own personal websites so they have something tangible they can show their friends.
This is clearly a step in the wrong direction. I can't help but think that the 700MHz spectrum will soon be so valuable that public/government control will be inevitable. Unless some new wireless tech is discovered.
Great, thanks! I'll take a look.
At some point, most people actually worry about buying a home, getting married, things that require resposibility and consideration of someone besides themselves.

Don't worry! You'll be in the same situation someday, and then you will realize how ridiculous your statement is.
If AT&T is successful, it is the beginning of the end of an equal internet, where the little guys have little chance to disrupt the establishment. If AT&T fails, it will dissuade other ISPs from attempting the same.

Companies, _especially_ startups, who sign on to this scheme harm the very ecosystem which granted them the opportunity to succeed in the first place, and make it more difficult for others. Those who do so should be shunned.
I completely misunderstood the headline: I thought this had something to do with conflict misses.
I would guess that part of the problem is that relying entire on GPS would not be practical, considering the likelihood that many machines would be located within large warehouses or industrial buildings that block a GPS signal.

The article mentions that gyros are also used, so I suspect that the company prefers to have a defensible list of purchasers, with the confidence that this would not change without their knowledge.

Similar in results to a blacklist, but somewhat more reliable from the manufacturer's perspective.
> Instead of facing implicit bias or stereotype threat, I had the privilege of implicit endorsement.

In my life, this has always felt like an important asset. I started observing it happen to me in high school, and it's sort of continued through life. (Surely it was happening long before that, but I didn't notice when I was much younger.) At this point I can see it happening in realtime... and I still appreciate it.

I shudder to think how life would feel as a child and young adult if people assumed incompetence rather than competence. Getting credit that you didn't earn, at least for me, is one of the most powerful ways to get me to strive to earn it retroactively by giving thoughtful effort.
From my understanding this is essentially a web-browser, but instead of downloading the HTML/CSS/JS of the site from a single HTTP server, it uses the BitTorrent protocol to download the HTML from a variety of different nodes.

So it's like sharing an HTML file using BitTorrent, but it seamlessly downloads and renders the content just like a normal browser. Benefit is that there's no central server. The HTML comes from many different peers.

I don't get it how would one download changes for the site though. Say for example the sites updates with new content. How would peers come to consensus on the latest version?
I don't believe that to be true. BCC is very close to running itself at present. Selling BCC would mean a lot of effort to make a clean break from it -- for example, my bookkeeping system is inextricably entangled it it at present ("It sounded like a great idea in 2008!"), so I'd need to rip that out, set up a new bookkeeping system, teach my VA how to work that, sanitize the DB backups, etc. Also, selling it is likely to be a protracted process -- there would need to be contracts/escrow/technical assistance/etc.

There is, of course, a nuclear option to shut down transactions, EOL the product, and shut down any support other than FAQ/T1/"Here's how to request a refund check." That's probably less work to set up than selling it.
The interlocks aren't permanent - they can be bypassed by the manufacturer.
High-Speed Train in California Is Caught in a Political Storm
The old discussion is still on Google's cache (for now):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PmyjVge...
Not that I've seen anyone offering service on.
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The headline and the article do not propose causality, but coincidence.
The linked thread actually does have a couple, albiet tenuous, mentions of GPS:

- "All of our Citizen swiss lathes have the same GPS feature." (http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/dmg-mori-gildemeister-maho-cnc/mori-ellison-gyroscope-unlocking-273841/#post2141101)
- "Why can't they simply check for "Out of USA" or "in $BannedCountry now"? They do have GPS, right?" (http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/dmg-mori-gildemeister-maho-cnc/mori-ellison-gyroscope-unlocking-273841/#post2141382)
"And dynamic content you tell? Which dynamic content? Does one really care about changes in wiki pages?"

I care about new versions of wiki pages. If you write a page about good French restaurants in Beijing, I would read it. If I want to go back to the same page (= same hash) later, I will get the same page.

However, if there is an updated page, how will I know for sure? In the absence of domain names, a search engine might return some newer pages, but how can it rank them if there are multiple ones with the same title (and claiming the same hash as their predecessor)?

Maybe your server can return something in the HTTP header (like the hash of _your_ updated page)?
Are splash screens back?
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I hope at some point things reverse, and instead of accruing karma we shed it. When we reach zero--
Vintage Casio's are en vogue. In fact, they even brought back a vintage product line since there was so much demand http://www.casio-intl.com/in/en/wat/vintage/

If you've ever paid attention to the wrists of the SF hipster crowd vintage digital/calculator watches are common. American Apparel even sells them in store: http://store.americanapparel.net/category/index.jsp?catId=ca...

Intentional or not, the silver watch is a nice throwback while the matte black is distinctly modern IMHO.
While a cool idea, this places a lot of overhead on a professor who most likely already has a bunch of other stuff they need to get done (even at tiny liberal arts colleges).

Expanding on your idea, collectively, or in small groups, students could build that website. From the idea stage to the production stage.
If the story is not about language emphasis, then the lowercase text is distracting from the real story. :)
The size of my unread book pile is only dwarfed by the recognition of the missed opportunity for knowledge.

I won't call it a resolution, but I will read through as many as I can this year (there are a lot)
I advocate medical treatment for addiction, though of course I am joking here.

I assume we were discussing this yesterday, after the last HN restore point?
Why Most Startups Fail at Acquiring New Customers (and how you can ...
Thanks for taking the time to write this up, Patrick, it was worth the read. Hope your goal for looking after yourself better this year is achieved successfully! :)
Lessons Learned From My Almost Startup
> (there/their/they're will be the death of me!)

I sure hope that isn't literal. I've heard of "grammar nazis" but that would be ridiculous. Stay safe!
cache was too long though. i didn't think to try ctl+f5 until i saw that it was on according to twitter.
I don't know that explaining all of how the web works initially would catch the interest of the 2/3s of the people who aren't CS majors. A lot of people would probably get bored really quickly and stop showing up.