skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have a link scanner which I've actually used before which is good, but I doubt I'm the target audience in terms of paying someone for a cleanup. Perhaps different parts of the company are at a different level.
I think universities have always been this way. It's ironic because they are places of learning and exploring. But only when the topics do not concern the running of the institution itself.
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You do realise that drawing the characters to the screen is an order of magnitude (at least) slower than grabbing some heap memory, doing a string conversion and freeing the memory, right? You don't even need to allocate memory - you can have a constant small thread-local buffer of, say, 1kb that you reuse for these conversions.
On the subject of "Pixel-perfect PSD to HTML/CSS"
Some dreaming on my part...

I'm rooting for this to work out. If you can do it alongside a job they could very well "compete with nonconsumption" of sorts. This already exists on somewhat large scale in some countries. The biggest (by enrolment) university in Germany is a "Fernuniversität"

Ultimately I hope these take off, prices go down (they become essentially free with payments for taking tests i.e. universities become more certification agencies). Hope the brand name of universities will be measured by the quality of the free education they provide in the future. 7k$ is not a price point that excites me.

And of course I hope this leads to the non-online classes getting better and better as they have to provide truely great value.

[especially for CS I could also see companies tapping in and offering some sort of mentoring/intern programs]
Here's a demonstration of how the "simple" proof breaks down: http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/Theoretically-speaking-how-... (via http://kottke.org/14/01/the-sum-of-all-positive-integers)
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I'm a little skeptical of it; it seems very complex. In contrast, I'm leveraging the Ruby+RSpec infrastructure which I've already learned. And I interact with it via programming, instead of via configuration.

Also, by using just one language, Ruby, I can easily have full test coverage of the framework code itself. There are a lot of nagios plugins and scripts out there, but they don't seem to usually include tests of themselves.

But nagios is very intriguing - I'll check out what a "simple" install would be like.
Even a law in a corrupt, totalitarian country?
Like the US?
This seems pretty cool, but doesn't it make more sense to use github pages for this? What is the benefit of using dropbox?
Is the site only available from site-name.sitebox.io? Don't dropbox public folders have their own urls?
I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ? (besides the fact you might "stumble" upon documents you're not supposed to read)
Will broadcast TV ever die?
A history of Linux through project website screenshots
I think many MOOC studies show that while "the poor girl in Afghanistan" is theoretically possible and a nice heart-warming story, the reality is that it's mostly used by already fairly well educated Caucasian males from well developed countries.
[classes are also mostly not completed etc.]

I'm really wondering why that is the case and feel like they should focus a lot on fixing this because bringing great education to people that otherwise can't get it would be the real breakthrough (insert solar powered mini-TV story by Christensen for the old compete with nonconsumption here)

Either way I hope this prototype succeeds and which them luck.
Actually the frameworks don't help in that regard. They are meant for organizing your code, they don't offer any special compatibility.

jQuery does that.
Ego. In my experience, most problems come down to ego.
What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café
let's not go overboard here. it's one institution, not the whole country. see other counter-examples posted here.
I didn't let the NSA off the hook, I was just commenting on the absurdity of congress acting like this wasn't the obvious outcome of decades of bad leadership and bad legislation.
"Content derived metadata"

Nice.
Interesting perspective, and it also taught me that xfce is about ten years older than I thought it was. I am genuinely surprised.
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For smaller apps is worth looking at Monit, really simple to setup and covers most of what needs testing if configured correctly.
Or the UK?
Man has sex with fish
What’s in Store for The Future of AngularJS
US uses mg/dl while most [but not all] other places use mmol/l.

Conversion is mg/dl -> mmol/l divide by 18 approx.

See http://www.soc-bdr.org/rds/authors/unit_tables_conversions_a...

Note, this is only for glucose; there are different factors depending on what is measured, e.g. cholesterol is different.
Huge +1 to the quality of OBSD man pages being awesome
I think the benefits are:

- Dropbox enjoys widespread adoption

- You can observe changes to your (preview) site right after you save a file

- It also allows us to upload an example site to your Dropbox after you sign in

- There are text editors for mobile devices that have Dropbox integration

We are looking to support additional file systems like Google Drive and GitHub repositories. Advantages would be push support for file updates and the ability to share source files.
> where we could be abrasive as we want and still get paid

If your code is wrong, I'll say it's wrong. I won't say you are an idiot, I won't make comments on your background and I won't judge you when I should be judging your arguments. I'll point what's wrong and why I think it's so and I'll welcome you if you prove me wrong and adjust my views accordingly.

Excessive abrasiveness is not a good trait for a community leader.
Yes, where I reside unfortunately.
This is why I still love Google. Between this, self-driving cars and other world-changing projects, I say take my data if you need it. You're one of the few companies in this world that seems to bring a big, direct net benefit to humanity.
"it seems they found a solution to some of the problems faced by MOOCs ... "

So its exactly the same as a traditional distance course then?

In what way does this solve any of the problems of MOOCs? (And I question whether MOOCs should even look at drop-out rates as a failure, but thats another rant)

Its not "massive" by any stretches of the imagination. It just happens to be an online course. I welcome the age of online degrees and I hope the trend continues and that they can scale it to become 'massive' in the future without damaging the prestige of the degree. But they have a way to go yet.
I think moving the scribd link to the right of the source domain might help. Something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/PAElgoK.png

http://i.imgur.com/GPa0DS8.png (Standard browser zoom level)

That makes it a bit more clear that it's a different source for the same document.
So do Ethernet cables have their own sound?
India Witnessed The Rise of the Machines
I have to admit I don't see the difference between what Udacity are doing in this particular course and what Open University has been doing for years.
Sorry for bringing the topic up again, but this might be the 'ultimate' article.

"So do Ethernet cables have their own sound? This is no longer a question but a statement. The cable between switches is less important than the ones connected to the end points (NAS and/or streaming device), but a decent type like the AudioQuest Carbon is certainly worth the price in high end systems."
Isn't this done automatically with all submitted PDFs? At least I seem to recall that there is some integration between HN and Scribd (YC '06 incidentally, which might explain it), but there's nothing in the FAQ or anything.
Very cool paper, thanks!
There are actually more competitors [1] but none of them was the reason of our failure. As PG once said, startups don't die until founders quit.

And yes post-mortem is coming.

[1]
Apps: http://blog.hipmob.com/post/72458567103/6-mobile-sdks-for-in...
Games: http://kamcord.com and http://everyplay.com
Being diabetic, I would be quite happy to receive an image saying, hey your blood sugar is low, why not get some sugary snacks right across the road at Acme Candy Store - get 10% off during the next 10 minutes.
The reason this happens is because of how ISP business models work and specifically over-subscription. I'm not defending comcast, quite the contrary, but you're going to hit this problem with every ISP, because of over-subscription.

Consider the following:

1) you have to build out a certain type of network to provide a good experience, and this includes a minimum bandwidth allotment that is quite high.

2) because "normal" bandwidth usage is extremely bursty there is no reason (almost) to ever upgrade the bandwidth to the edge nodes.

3) bandwidth to edge nodes is constrained, even for incumbents. There's 2 cases, non-incumbents have to buy it from a monopoly, which is expensive. The other case is incumbents. They can get it cheap, until they hit a specific point (the bandwidth initial buildout that was done decades ago). When they hit that point it takes a massive investment to increase it.

4) the reason people go over bandwidth limits is peer to peer traffic. This unfortunately has two properties. Firstly, it's a consistent download, not bursty. Second it doesn't go out of their network (if it's a large network that is), meaning anyone that does this creates a constant traffic flow in TWO points of their network, and every component in between. This means that the bandwidth needed to support p2p is a factor more than the bandwidth your client actually reports to you, and exponentially more than needed to support browsing (even youtube).

5) If some ISP decides against this (they're small for example, in which case it all goes over cheap transit or even peering) that brings them extra costs, but not extra customers (because only the expensive customers like you, which can't be supported by the infrastructure, will switch over)

6) Most customers refuse to pay more. (e.g. switch to the business account)

7) Nobody is ever going to pay for a network that can support exponentially increasing bandwidth. It's not possible, for obvious reasons. When you're as big as comcast is, the investment for a 5% upgrade would require ridiculous amounts of capital, so they don't want to.

(replacing the current infrastructure with fiber MAY fix this, however the people who control the current infrastructure like Comcast have an interest in blocking that for obvious reasons. However there are problems with fiber too, the root of the problem is the constant light -> electrical -> light conversions that are necessary at lots and lots of points and make the capital investments quite high)
Interestingly, 8k€ is what it would cost an American for a year's tuition in Belgium (where I'm from). For Belgians, it's less than 1k€.

I don't understand why studying in Europe is not a more popular choice amongst young Americans.
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Thanks for sharing! That site is brilliant.
Hey, I am too quite depressed over my zero output since 3 months. Almost all my day is wasted over reddit, and hacker news. I despise over how even with my skills I am able to achieve nothing at all.

Drop me a mail, if you would like, hoping there could be a possible solution for our sheer waste of time.
OTOH, the preservation of such historically relevant architectures would benefit enormously from emulation. This is an aspect that should get some attention and which could, possibly, open up another funding avenue to the project as a side effect.
NodeJS is an idea(and a trademark...) but there is no reason why it couldnt be ported to other envirronments like the JVM for instance. Joyent and a few other businesses own NodeJS development that's a fact,i'm curious as to how they will make money out of it.
It's still very slow. They have improved in this regard, but the original performance was so bad that saying that is not a compliment.
There's a pdf viewer built in to firefox now, which in my opinion is superior.
With noscript, the text is not formatted correctly.
With noscript off there's a banner across the screen, "download full view" etc.
This banner is rendered correctly in chromium but not my version of iceweasel, where it is about an inch down from the address bar and obscures the text.
Pages after the first one don't appear until some time after scrolling down.
Finally scribd want me to sign in to download a pdf.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stumble across documents I'm not supposed to read".
Is that supposed to make us feel better? There was a time when Skype actually was secure, before they changed it to allow "legal intercept", but even after they did that they still refused to admit that they allow governments to have access to people's conversations.

I'll never forget reading in the damn New York Times a week before Snowden leaks came out about how secure Skype was for dissidents and journalists, and I only remember that because it pissed me off to much that mainstream media was so clueless about its security. They still thought Skype was P2P even then. But part of that blame goes to Microsoft for continuing the illusion that they have that kind of security, when they didn't. Even Vice was recommending the use of Skype for secure conversations against governments when the whole McAfee thing happened.

At the very least, I hope people know better now. Also, maybe it is just a little different with Skype. I don't know if anyone else considers allowing the interception of their users' private conversations as a "team sport" [1]. The fact that NSA was willing to pay billions [2] for a Skype eavesdrop solution may or may not have something to do with the fact that Microsoft threw $8.5 billion on the table for Skype, even though the second largest bid from Google only went up to $4 billion (remember when everyone was so confused over why Microsoft would pay that much for Skype?). Also very interesting that Microsoft had a "legal intercept" patent for Skype, before even bidding for it [3]. Who does that?

If we look at when Microsoft added Skype to PRISM we also see it happened just a month after they said they would acquire them (announced in May 2011, ready for PRISM in June 2011), but before the transaction was even official [4]. It's all a very "interesting" series of events, to say the least.

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

[2] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...

[3] - http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-patent-...

[4] - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sli...
It's not just Silicon Valley, it is the entire IT industry. There is so much money sloshing about now (plus all the social status of "IT") that I can hardly believe it sometimes, given what I remember it was like before there was a World Wide Web. That money etc, is turning the IT industry into something like the finance industry - attracting the sociopathic SOBs aka "capitalists". I put that in quotes because there is nothing inherently wrong with capitalism (the same goes for Marxism) - they are only models of reality, or ways of "interpreting" reality.

Instead, it is the actions and values of people that matter - and capitalism works by leveraging the worst part of human nature. It says something about fundamental about humanity when capitalism seems to be trouncing socialism so effectively.

I have mentioned elsewhere how I got professionally raped by a full blown sociopath as part of my quest of catching some digital White Whale, so I won't go into that - this was in London. Silicon Valley is only the epicenter of this ...corruption... of the IT industry. I say 'corruption' because as an engineer, I am finding this hype and excessive money and "we'll change the world, we're all John Galts and Promethesus" attitude sickening because for a lot of people, they're really just hypocrites and do not care about the work or the profession. Analogous would be all the people in IT who joined during the first bubble strictly for the money and hype.

Was I a Luddite in a previous life? No, as an engineer, I can see the point of making things more efficient. But there are always social costs. At this point in my life, it is so clear what is wrong with the IT industry, and with humanity in general, but it has always been this way... all I can do is shake my head and resort to Buddhism to keep my sanity

I wish I'd been as wise as I am now 4 years ago. At least you have learned a very valuable lesson without much cost.
Just yesterday morning (oh the timing) I shook my fists in rage after discovering the long awaited Fakes system for mocking static functions is only available in the Ultimate edition. An actual language feature, restricted to the 13k edition. Shrug, I had that in php 5 years ago...

What I don't get is: if people aren't even buying the top line IDE to use all its features, and are just buying the crappy subset IDEs, why use .NET at all? Where's the value proposition over Java/Scala? It runs on fewer architectures, the language is only mildly better than Java and certainly not better than Scala, and the long promoted IDE has less features and is exorbitantly overpriced. I just don't get it. Is it just inertia at this point? The question in my mind isn't: "why are so few startups using it?" It's "why is anyone still picking that as their business's main stack?"

I know my team is currently locked in to agreements with other companies who require it (naturally). So when a new customer wants our stuff, they have to handle it. Is that the main reason? Everyone using it is in a circle of dependence?

Oh I forgot to mention, the functionality of Fakes used to be free, but in the new iteration it no longer is, so they can squeeze a few more 13k editions.
Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy is a great place to start, followed by the latests edition of In Depth or Nutshell..
Constraint programming would be a good start, you can also google nurse scheduling problem.

You might want to research Prolog (since the Prologs tend to have good CS libraries), specifically Eclipse (not to be confused with the IDE):
http://eclipseclp.org/
More fights could follow driver's Google Glass win
I would have expected to find React (http://facebook.github.io/react/) among the frameworks.
The last time I've checked, the worst thing was that it demands money once the document is old enough(!) Then, it required from you to have an account just to download the document. Finally, it didn't work without Javascript. For me, instead of adding value, it reduces it, so I decided to avoid it to save my time.

I know Scribd is a Y Combinator's company.
To answer your other questions:

The site is available from the subdomain but you can also use a custom domain.

The site is served from our own server. The Dropbox public folder isn't use by our service. You can use it to serve your images.
Misconceptions About Forward Secrecy
I've been pulled over for a "crack in the windshield" which wasn't visible from where the police officer's patrol car was sitting. I know because I went back and checked from his vantage point.

I get that you're trying to provide some nuance here, but let's not pretend that all police officers are honest and decent individuals just doing everything by the book. It goes both ways.
I agree that that would be way better.
Reminds me of my response when someone on the street with a clipboard says "Can I give you some literature?" I'll sometimes answer "Sure, do you have any Steinbeck?"
Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives.

I am waiting.
I'm amazed at how many people on HN are diabetic !

Could be an interesting study on cause/effect - is all this sitting at screens contributing to an epidemic or are there other factors ? Perhaps respondents are just self-selecting because of the subject matter ?

It's also interesting how anyone who needs to track their blood sugars likes the idea of an easier and more convenient method - typical finger prick readings up to 4 times a day can leave your fingers in a real mess and pretty painful so even sticking something to your eyeballs sounds attractive !
Rick Hickey says this well in his Hammock Driven Development talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Yes, the the picture shows why it's allowed in prisons: it's transparent so the guards can see that there's nothing hidden in it.
Well let's define some terms here then.
In the sense that I was speaking about, I was using "framework" as a synonym for "library". Not an entirely unprecedented usage.

Underscore gives you array extras in every browser, even ones that don't have array extras.

Mustache because let's face it, javascript doesn't have any nice way of doing templating or string formatting or anything. not without resorting to doing things that might not work in every browser.

and backbone because, while some of the newer browsers and newer versions of ecmascript provide facilities for monitoring and reacting to changes, and doing data binding like things natively, not all browsers do.

now I'll admit that backbone is not as new and shiny as say, that om/react/clojure stack making the rounds on hacker news, it's been around for a few years and it's still here. So that's something.
Then I guess it IS a market opportunity. :)
The experiment simply lacks controls - remove the booth babes from the conference all together (from all your competitors booths), and show me increased conversions relative to a typical booth babe presence.

Why do you consider this a conclusive demonstration?

Also, since I'd like to respond to it appropriately, can you expand on what you're trying to make me think about myself by calling me "Slick" - is that an insult?
Inspecting Internet Traffic: Part 1
Google implemented a sharpening filter in Chrome(ium), Apple didn't for Safari. That's it.
> I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ?

For a platform that is supposed to enable the user to read documents online, it fails by not enabling the user to, you know, read documents online. Oh, sure, sometimes I might get lucky and be able to read the first 4 of 37 slides without the application stopping to respond or crashing my tab.
I dont really agree with this, there is always value in mentoring the creators rather than being a creator yourself.
I know there are sprays available for people with dry eyes who are prone to infection. Would those help in this situation or is it more complex than that?
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Why don't you move to a real corrupt & totalitarian country - say Russia - that will make you feel better about living in the UK quickly.
IPhone Killed The Camera Star
Not just Javascript but Javascript from about a dozen different hosts last time I tried it and quite a few of them seemed to be required. I avoid it too.
I'm reading Programming in Scala. The free online, out of date but good enough to help you decide to go further or not first edition. I have the scala repl open alongside. Never programmed in Scala, don't know that I ever will, but it's interesting. http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

I'm also re-reading Niven's Ringworld series, as a bridgehead to the rest of his Known Space material; I've never gone beyond Ringworld before. I'm in the third book at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space
Probably lack of awareness in both directions - apart from Oxford and Cambridge, how many European universities are well known in the US?

And for Europeans - apart from Harvard, Yale (and MIT and Stanford for people in the tech world) how many people know about other US universities? This also probably applies within Europe - I have no idea what the top rated universities are for CS or engineering are in Germany or France... and I'm in the UK (showing my own ignorance - I really should know).
Keep waiting.