skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not at all familiar with Stanford's admissions system, but lumping in MIT's with the official Ivies is bogus.

MIT does no legacy admits, because the core curriculum required of all students is so much harder, e.g. lots of calculus and physics, vs. Harvard in the '80s requiring you to prove you can do algebra. So MIT doesn't admit anyone they don't think can "do the work". although if you make that cut I'm sure it doesn't hurt to be the child of an alum, but it didn't come up all that often in the '80s at least.

MIT specifically looks for evidence that applicants can do projects. Beyond that, as far as I can remember they're pretty generic in trying to construct a class (trying since yield, acceptances of admission offers, is very hard to predict), favoring the things every high end college looks for such as geographic diversity (both of those helped me a lot).

So the very first thing strongly aligns with the school's goal of overall being an "egalitarian meritocracy"; what you do and can do is where it's at. MIT students do not as a rule aspire to be lower tier corporate yes-men.
I think you mean Sergey Brin's ex-wife's* sister.

* Technically separated, not yet divorced
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Elon Musk talks about Tesla's future at Amsterdam town hall meeting
Natural language processing in JavaScript
It only worked once I went through the few questions on the homepage, and then it was a single click to connect my GitHub account. Finally, logged in now.
George Clooney: Read my lips, I will never, ever be on Twitter
Seconded. My biggest stumbling block with Docker at the moment is “best practices”, as I work on coming up with a Docker Dev Ecosystem (for myself and for a team).
Wow, I didn't know about this. I just signed up with my Amex card.
Google says this article about it is December 2006.
http://defense-update.com/products/t/taranis-ucav.htm
If it's possible to replace advertising with your CPU cycles, how, exactly, could this hurt the consumer? Sounds like it could benefit the consumer immensely. This could be another form of micropayments for people who might not be able to afford the cash upfront.

What the developer has created actually sounds rather ingenious.
I think they're in their right to evolve and explore. But I think Bootstrap is not an style, it is just a foundation, so, it doesn't matter what foundation they use, what it matters it is the result of the design, wich, imho, lacks in design taste.
I wonder who in the New Jersey legal team/government thought this was a good idea...
Honestly the pricing is the real unnerving part here and it's definitely going to be a deal breaker for much of your audience.

Personally I'd prefer something like this: I enter my current flight details and the price I was going to pay (your experts should be able to verify this price as correct pretty quickly?), and then your experts would give me a better flight plan and I'd pay you 10% of the difference or something, and nothing if your experts don't find a better plan. This way I'd always feel like I'm 'winning' by using your service and not taking an expensive shot in the dark.
there is no way in which you can eat food and not have some negative impact.

Actually, no, there are, collectively.

Humans have existed, give or take, for a couple million years. In modern form for about 80,000, and with present levels of cognition, for around 10,000.

For most of that time, humans most certainly did affect local ecosystems (and sometimes in significant fashion), but had relatively little impact on the global environment as a whole.

That ended with the Industrial Revolution, and it's only been picking up pace since, with global impacts becoming more evident since the 20th century. Global warming was first postulated in 1932 (by the US Naval Research Lab: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1woc0v/carbon_d...)

The simple truth is that we've got too many people, consuming too many resources, to be sustainable. As with software (fast, cheap, good, pick two), you've got three options from which you can choose two alternatives: big (populations), rich (in resource consumption), or long (in sustainability). Pick two.

Humans can support a large population with high per-capita resource consumption ... for a brief time. Or a high population for a long time ... at very low per-capita resource consumption (and there's no guarantee that present rates are in fact sustainable at low p-c rates). Or a high per-capita resource consumption (high personal wealth) for a long time ... with a low population.

Technology skews this a bit, but in the long term, I suspect, acts largely as an accelerator of resource depletion.

So, yes, your "lots of people doing little" is one option, but what's desperately required is to reduce total population levels. By a lot. The historical record shows that ~500 million - 2 billion might be a sustainable range. I tend to suspect the lower bound of that range.
This prompted me to do some googling and I found this:

http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/

Does anybody here have knowledge about this organization?
Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden's Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen
Caching. We request the same objects quite frequently and bandwidth is killing us.
The challenge for UAV going forward is to operate autonomously. Stealth is useless if its communications with a satellite are obvious, and almost all drones are useless if GPS is jammed. I haven't found any information indicating that the Taranis solves these problems.
I guess s/he owns a second machine and boots boot2docker over the network (PXE = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment ) without installing anything on the second machine.
We'll make that more clear - right now the Github Sign In is for current members, the signup is after the two challenges on the homepage
There's one part of the subpoena that I don't understand. Why not turn over the source code? Since this is partially cryptographic software and also software that can be used to control a user's machine, it seems to me imperative for anyone who wants to give up control of their CPU cycles to know precisely how they're being used, or to trust the pool of smart cows who can study it for us.
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Your comment is the exact same as PG's - because you don't see it with your own two eyes it must not exist.

There are millions of people that are working off of microsoft exchange servers, using websites hosted by microsoft IIS, involved in environments managed using active directory, work collaboratively with others using sharepoint (there's lots of job opportunities as a shairpoint dev, by the way), .NET developers, people working with Azure and Office 365, use SQL server databases, using microsoft office products, having their traffic pass through UAG systems, and so and so on. In addition they're one of the leading tech companies when it comes to helping fight spam and cyber crime activity (when I say one of the leading tech companies I mean one of the leading tech companies that's mission statement isn't to mainly fight spam and cyber crime.)

Hyper-v, file shares, remote desktop gateway and services, the list of services microsoft has its hands in is very, very long. Microsoft does a whole hell of a lot more than just produce an office suite and an operating system.

Just because you're personally surrounded by linux and mac users doesn't mean microsoft is irrelevant. It just means your scope on the world is narrow enough that it's out of your personal bubble.

There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you recognize it for what it is - your own little world that is not a perfect representation of the real world.

If the premise is that Microsoft no longer has a death grip on the technology sector, with the ability to throw its weight in whatever direction it pleases whenever it pleases, then I would agree with that.

Dead? Not even close.

(But they may be dead in the not too distant future. i do not have a crystal ball. but right now they're hardly dead, 7 years after PG's essay.)
This is something I've been working on for a while. A friend suggested I post it here. The basic idea is that while there have been developments in improving the product (UX) and improving the development process (Agile), I haven't seen much talk or action about attacking the rigid nature of the (commercial, legal) deals struck to achieve them.

About two years ago I began working on the technical infrastructure that makes it possible to even consider incremental contracting for incremental development; now I'm working on project controls, and later this year I expect to do the legal stuff.

Anyway, have at 'er.
Right, when did coding something at a hackathon as a proof of concept become a crime?

Why does NJ think they have any jurisdiction here? Frankly, this is just as absurd as another country issuing demands for legal docs from someone in the US for them doing something that's perfectly legal in the US, but illegal in that country.
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Any recommendations on other services like this?
What would be a good way to benchmark these?
I used this tutorial as a starting point.

http://www.startersquad.com/blog/angularjs-requirejs/
A similar scenario is likely with fossil fuels re: declining EROEI. There is always more oil, but as we use up the easy oil the harder oil takes more and more energy to get. This is hidden though, as the process will just scale and scale and use more and more energy to get the same amount of oil.

... until it can't do that anymore and production collapses. This will happen when overall system EROEI drops below some unknown threshold, probably 5-10X.

In any iterated debate between an economist and a physicist the economist will be right N-1 times and the physicist will be right once.
cool, good luck!
Microsoft won't be able to charge much for Windows anymore. They are already squeezing the price, and losing market share at the same time.

Maybe open sourcing Windows will keep their other products at the positive for longer.
1-4 cigarettes does not equal 1 cigarette per day.
Thanks for the feedback winslow - we didn't mean to dampen your vibe. The idea is as the challenges get harder we want to make sure you get ones you care about (interest area, difficulty) - that's a good idea on rephrasing it, we could make that more apparent and give more challenges before requiring signup.

Critique really helps us improve, we love hearing it, everyone should feel free to reach out: nathan@codewars.com
Eventually, everything stays on family
I prefer to think of it as: M is obvious, V is views and templates, C is handled by django and if you need to to custom "C" stuff (which is fairly rare) you intercept the request/response flow with middleware.

Your mapping, Djano's MTV ~= MVC (in that order), is not a bad way to build your conceptual model.
You might wanna try Opera 12. It's going the way of the dodo, but it has always had the best zoom of all browsers. In my experience there are only some few video applets that don't zoom properly because they render in exact pixels.
Russia not ready for Sochi Olympic games --underconstruction
Thought crimes are not far behind.
Unknown Assailants Fire On, Destroy Transformers at California Power Substation
Edits are stored localy on your phone/tablet, and sent to osm (along with GPS traces you could have recorded) when you manually hit "send data" while a connection is available
Switchcam Pivots To Provide Analytics And Gallery Curation Tools For Musicians
Technically they're just living apart - not even legally separated [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
Author seems to be very confused about what democracy is. Misguided as the sanctions are, they weren't established arbitrarily. To wit, if you insist on framing this as America bringing democracy to Iran, then consider it our thank you for the embassy takeover.
Awesome, love NewEgg and this is handy. I had already moved my electronics ordering over to them from Amazon.
Even the inventor has come out as saying that they're a bad idea and that he wouldn't do it now; he designed it as a boutique/niche product, never anticipating the problem of waste at scale. I've had several people offer them to me as gifts in the last few years and although they do make a delicious cup of coffee and I love coffee, I just can't stomach the waste involved. Not just the cups and so on - reusable containers are becoming available - but all the hardware and energy devoted to producing single small servings. Just maddening. There was an excellent article on the subject published last year: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/waste-the-dark-side-of...
Exactly. But it doesn't degeneralize to "Everything is so different that rules of thumb are not useful guidelines," but rather that within a particular "genre" or "world," there are sensible defaults that don't work in other genres or worlds.
FYI none of the buttons seem to be working on the homepage in Firefox OS X. On Safari the formatting on the homepage is all off. Pretty cool nonetheless, I plan on trying this out more later today!
That would be freaking awesome.

I would totally pay 1mBTC or something to have a letter sent for me.
Totally depends what you're trying to accomplish. Basecamp can be great for managing a whole project in all its complexity. But often times that's overkill, and too many features get in the way.

We[0] differentiate by keeping it as simple as possible: have discussions and make decisions together, that's it.

Other tools are great for other types of projects, such as Trello[1] for a sort of collaborative to-do list.

[0] http://www.loomio.org
[1] http://www.trello.com
The purpose of this program (the Defence Industrial Strategy) was for the UK to be able to develop these drones independently, but there may have been some technology transfer. The French and German governments did the same with the nEUROn.
This reminds of something I've seen earlier: what if the Earth had rings like Saturn? I'm more curious as to how this would affect us culturally; the effect a toroidal earth would have on our collective consciousness, how we treat each other, and our evolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2sQ7KIQ-E
I'm not sure I understand what your argument is. All I can do is change my behavior. I can't change the behavior of hundreds of other people as much as I would want to. If your argument is that individual effort isn't worth the benefit, I'm not sure what to tell you other than this again seems nothing more than an apologist rationalization to defend existing destructive behavior.

It's easier to rationalize your existing behavior than it is to change it. But instead of changing it, maybe just make the cognitive effort to recognize the wrongness. This requires no behavioral change, just an attitude change. If you do this, after enough time behavioral change comes easier. In other words detach reasoning about the ethics of the behavior from the work involved in optimizing your life.
Perhaps the concept of Technical Bankruptcy should be introduced.
So your parents sent your middle brother to private school from first grade on and simultaneously kept your oldest brother in a stink hole situation?

That sounds pretty rough. Why didn't they put the oldest in private school instead? Surely by 7th grade you can see that there are problems there. Perhaps by 12 grade in the private school, he could have turned things around.

Perhaps it was the mere fact that the younger brother was given such preferential treatment that the older never became successful.

Perhaps it was the fact that your parents became better parents with more experience, or because they were less stressed out since they did not have the financial hardship that they had before.

I am not trying to discount your story, but the problem lies in the fact that it can be compared with plenty of other similar situations as yours but having completely different results (the kids in public school fared better in life).

Quality of school definitely CAN have a profound effect on a child's life. But in my experience and personal observation, this is only because of a failure on the parenting side. If a child is reared with enough love and enough wisdom, discipline and vision is imparted into them before, and during the school years - they will do fine if they are in a run down inner city school, or a middle class private school.

So maybe you say that this is unfair that some parents have to raise their kids with such diligence to have them succeed, while some others don't (because of economic factors).

Trust me, the kid and parents in the situation where extra attention is needed to enhance the likelihood of success in the child's life are better off and happier people than a wealthy parent that hires a nanny to raise their kids and sends them to private school. Which situation is true parenting after all? Which kid will carry on a true legacy of their parents and hold their ideals and values continuing their legacy?
My kids are learning to be better people by learning how to code games
I'd also like to see Clojure or ClojureScript support. It would bring me back a lot more often.
If you use a browser privacy tool like Ghostery[0] to block Adobe's Omniture tracker, it'll have to be unblocked in order to download the new version of flash.

[0]https://www.ghostery.com/
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> Until we can put an address, like we can in GMaps, and get a pin in the right location

You can already do that.

Routing is in the works (see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issue...). For now you can use http://map.project-osrm.org/ but having it in plain sight on osm.org will definitely be better
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I imagine the discussion at these big companies goes thusly:

Programmer: "I'd like to use Ember.js to build our new tablet app."

Manager: "Who built Ember.js? Who supports it? Where did it come from?"

Programmer: "Tilde, Inc."

Manager: "No dice."

... one month later ...

Programmer: "Okay, I've been playing with AngularJS and--"

Manager: "Who built it?"

Programmer" "Google is leading development."

Manager: "Perfect, I'd like to see 500 LOC fully tested by next week and a shippable app in two months, though I expect we'll let that slip one or 14 months if we have to."
"Time for some [web] traffic problems at MIT."
The Oil We Eat (2012)
the real problem here is that they should have had two distinct networks, one for their payment system that is wholly separate from all other network activity.

Its boggling to me that any company would permit another company on the same network when their work is wholly unrelated.
Blue Cash Preferred qualifies. Man, I'm still discovering little perks to AMEX like this.
Sochi visitors entering hacking 'minefield' by firing up electronics
Unless they'd like to start allowing their customers to have servers :-)
The answer to the question of what to eat: Soylent.
Really all they would need is a VLAN and a proper set of ACLs.
I wonder if the free shipping includes HI...
You are correct. Amazon only sells books and Newegg only sells electronics, so they totally don't compete and never will.
"This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for "Making Everybody Happy," but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink."

Unfortunately we are down this road and I'm unhappy with software taking away features I use. I can't wait for chrome to be one white screen with no buttons.
Always got "DoesNotExist" error whichever valid address I put in
it still has externalities

Some levels of externalities are sustainable. Some are not. The larger problem with humans is the combination of total population and average per-capita resource consumption (to say nothing of the vastly higher consumption in industrialized nations).

The steel and rubber in a bike are probably the biggest concerns (as well as the paving in roads), but in comparison with an automobile, it's vastly lower, and in comparison with the ranges and cargo capacity of walking, they're hugely higher. I've travelled 200 miles in a day by bike, and commuted over 40 miles daily for over a year at one point. One person on a bike can move a payload of many hundreds of pounds, possibly a ton or more (across level ground).

Food production at present is manifestly unsustainable. Every one calorie of food you eat in the US takes 10 in fossil-fuel energy to produce (in Europe it's about 5). Other inputs, particularly nitrogen (from fossil fuels) and phosphorus (limited global supplies) are crucial limiting factors, as are topsoil and water.

Richard Manning's "The Oil We Eat" is a fascinating exploration of this aspect of human existence: http://www.wesjones.com/oilweeat.htm
Death by feature-creep.

Sorry, but you sound like you'd be a nightmare client.
Sorry for being vague, that wasn't our intention, so much as to focus on laying out the problem that we've experienced personally as algorithm developers. We will be posting more blog posts with much more detail about the system in the near future.

The data question is huge for us. We have built our system on top of Hadoop + Spark in order to handle large amounts of data, and be able to apply computations to it. You're absolutely right that data is very heavy, and often the limiting factor, so we are doing everything we can to both get data into the system (currently with a focus on streaming data, since that gets around the heavy data problem), and getting algorithms to where the data is.

As far as specific algorithms, there are many that could apply. My personal experience is in machine learning algorithms, so I'm personally biased toward those. There are numerous algorithms like Classification, Clustering, Optimization, Anomaly Detection, etc. which are very CPU-intensive. We will be doing a blog post soon with a demo of live algorithms already in our system to give more concrete examples.
Comments like this are unhelpful; instead of answering the GPs argument, you're seeking to invalidating by painting the GP as a hypocrite, without any evidence or indeed relevance. This is particularly inappropriate considering that the OP was not castigating other people.
Contradiction at it's finest: http://i.imgur.com/BwE2jmj.png
Good idea, but remove the god damn login wall.
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea wrote a character into their Illuminatus! trilogy who employed a very similar strategy. He would leave cryptic messages and commands strewn about various businesses and locations (such as "no spitting"), some with The Mgmt. appended to them. They were so blandly authoritative that the rest of the characters blithely obeyed them without question. Social Engineering hacks keep working for a reason, hey?
- Deploy systems with this technology

- Teach others to take advantage of it

Here you go: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

An all-in-one communication solution that is:

- encrypted (public key, as we're supposed to)

- 100% decentralized

- open-source
When i was last using gentoo (which admittidly was a while ago) it was pretty much the bottle neck for most things if you wanted to compile in parallel, largely because intermediate steps are written out to the disk before linking and less so because of reading. That said it is possible to do it all in memory but then you end up memory bound which is also possible to work around by throwing money at your ram (or downloading more off the web).