skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bothers me is that we have a very nebulous idea here in the U.S. of what it is that we hope to gain from educating people in colleges. I met someone a number of years ago (mid 2000's, before the recession), who had done his degree in aerospace engineering from a regional state school (not bottom of the barrel, but not an MRU). He was working as an HVAC technician. Not a bad living, of course, but I couldn't help but think it was overkill considering that a 2-year degree is an entirely adequate preparation for such a job.

In my opinion, Americans are overeducated. We shuffle people through colleges, but the jobs waiting for them at the other end hardly merit all that preparation. We're drowning in college debt because we're spending vastly more to educate people than is warranted by the sorts of jobs available in the economy.
25$ via btc on coinbase. no brainer. should be required gaming for all public school kids.
In my mind, Google is $X and SpaceX would be $.76X. Why is passion a trade-off for compensation? Why did you allow yourself to be taken advantage of, and thus drive down the cost of labor? People like you are the reason wages have flatlined over the past 2 decades.
Regardless of their plans, they still need to handle the leaking groundwater, which AFAIK wasn't a big problem at Chernobyl.
There are already too many cops, and they have to keep going back to the same trough to feed themselves. Solving murders, rapes, and robberies doesn't pay. Ticketing people for jaywalking, curfew, and traffic violations does. Also, to further the problem, the police have cash bonuses paid to them for exceeding their quotas with these tickets.

The police are there to preserve disorder, but they have lost sight of this. Now, there are two types of cops; the protect and serve kind, and the us against them kind. Sadly, the latter seems to be taking over. I'm afraid this doesn't end well. The nightmare scenario is some kid walking up to a cop on the 4th of July and asking for baseball cards with a toy in his hand that is mistaken for a gun.

The real question here is what are we going to do about it?
It must be possible to do this, or else how would we have stream ciphers?
Good news: you can.

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Constructio...

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Car
You'll hear similar things from vim users. And for those of us who use neither, we also like what is familiar, and it may keep some of us away from both emacs and vim.
At the lowest level, the Snap Framework is not at all opinionated. The base level of the framework is comprised of snap-core and snap-server. snap-core is a web server API roughly on the level of Yesod's wai with maybe a little more slightly higher-level functionality. snap-server is Snap's web server that implements the snap-core API--roughly equivalent to Yesod's warp.

I personally don't understand the draw of scotty because as soon as you want to start doing more substantial web development, you're going to want higher level abstractions. The Snap Framework adds to this in a pretty flexible and not-too-opinionated way with snaplets which are implemented in the snap package. The snap package also contains a few core snaplets that almost every application will want out of the box like sessions, auth, and a snaplet for Heist templating. The Heist part is the only place where the snap package gets opinionated. But you are definitely not locked into using Heist. You could very easily use Yesod's Hamlet, HStringTemplate, hastache, or anything else. Heist just happens to be the direction that the core Snap developers seem to prefer.
The linked article is a thinly disguised advertisement for a worthless miracle "secrets of the winners" scam, one that correctly predicts anything the stock market has ever done -- but only after it has happened.
$20000 out of $40000 and 8 days left... hopefully he'll manage to raise it all. I played it soon after the demo was released and it got me super excited. Feels like Portal - when in some vlog entry the author admited to be a big fan of Portal series I wasn't surprised ;)
Does anyone know what he used to generate the equations in HTML? Most of the tools I've used simply convert LaTeX equations to an image.
No, not easily.

You can see that this is already the case in Firefox for Android, for instance, where you can't supply a user style sheet (the firefox profile is inaccessible to a user without root anyways). If you do want to provide user styles, Stylish is the featured (and almost universally recommended) extension for adding them. As you can see in the docs[1], though, anytime your !important rule comes up against an author's !important rule and you lose, the only workaround is to get more specific.

(it should be noted, though, that while CSS 2.1 does specify the cascade order with a "must", the user being able to specify styles in the first place is a "may", so Firefox for Android and Chrome for Android (which still doesn't support extensions) are spec compliant, they just make overriding styles more work and more fragile in the face of author changes)

[1] https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/stylish/wiki/Overwriting-pag...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant...

The accident itself was worse and spread more radioactive material (the core exploded, the graphite ignited and spread a huge plume of smoke). But the cleanup effort if Fukushima will probably be worse because they are dealing with three reactors that still need cooling, leaking water etc.
China speeds past Europe on 4G mobile rollout
Decision compounding
Empirical research disputes your assertion that there are too many cops:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/12/pol...
I was sharing my opinion based on observations about how various disadvantaged groups have made social progress in the United States.

I agree with your ideas about the way "treated differently" should be defined and how preferential treatment is counterproductive. Hopefully we'll see more news stories in the future that focus on women's successes and failures but don't concentrate so much on gender.
You might want to send your letter to a friend to read. Maybe that friend will send back some suggestions. On an iPad, you can’t see the email with the suggestions and your letter at the same time.

Multitasking gestures on iPad and Macs let you slide back and forth between adjacent full screen apps.

Your CV probably includes a picture. Maybe you went to a photographer who gave you a CD with copies of the pictures she took. You can’t easily copy them to your iPad.

Can't easily copy CD to my current computer either. But I have both a USB adapter and card reader adapter for the iPad.

Once there, you probably want to touch them up a bit, and crop them. It might be inconvenient to move the image file between all of the apps you’ll use to work on it.

You're unlikely to need more than the pretty amazing version of iPhoto on an iPad. If you prefer, there are multiple alternatives from the free SnapSeed to relatively expensive pro options.

Finally, you might want to export your letter and CV as PDFs, maybe combine them into a single PDF, or maybe ZIP them. You want to attach the resulting file to an email. It’s reasonably simple on a Mac or PC, but I’m not sure if some of these things are even possible on an iPad.

Check out Documents 5 from Readdle, along with PDF Expert, and you don't have to leave the apps.

I use iPad for contract work (round trip MS Word with track changes) all the time, and when not doing Word, PowerPoint, or Excel using iWork apps, I'm importing and editing and posting pro-size photos from a Nikon D3.

From your article, I'm guessing you're missing the excellent Logitech ultraslim keyboard case, have multitasking gestures turned off, and aren't that familiar with the productivity applications available.
It sounds like you were kind of against it from the start in which case you would never end up liking it. There is a huge learning curve and, to make the most of it, you really do need to learn Emacs Lisp. As for keybindings, you are free to remap them to whatever you want. Sublime's keybindings aren't exactly normal either and go against a lot of the standard keys for operating systems (I'm basing that off of Mac since that's what I use). I don't find them bad ergonomically, especially after setting the option key to be "meta". I actually prefer the Emac's keys in other applications like IntelliJ and AppCode.

I'd have a hard time using Emacs for a large project, especially one that is contributed to by many different people. IDE's just make life so much easier. The people who disagree with that statement are typically the Emacs (or VIM) gurus who have customized it so much that they would probably die if they had to use a stock installation.

Modes definitely add complication, but again, that's why Emacs is so customizable. It takes time, but you can set things up to where it's the best experience possible.
Universal demand and lack of accountability for supply create cancerous markets and bubbles. This is true for any market, including education, health, housing or internet portals.
MathJax:

http://www.mathjax.org/
Then we definitely need a bigger universe. ^^
Sorry, what? Android isn't a productivity solution yet. Not even close. No manufacturer is trying with Android to build what Microsoft is building with 8.1+ - a coherent, unified, cross-device productivity and computing ecosystem.
will try it out to see if there's anything in store for a beginner in Machine Learning !
We too ;)
On a 40+ year time scale for clean up, there's only so much that can be planned and executed - I'm impressed that they have produced some kind of public update like this. Japan itself may undergo political, technological and ecological/geological changes in the timeframe that will impact this work. The fact that the technology they propose to use needs to be invented, researched, built and tested in the first place gives me enormous concern that this situation is still very much out of control and responses will be largely reactive to changes in the situation of the current site.

The timeline also can't foresee issues of mistakes in the remediation process, which seem to be likely given that no country has fixed a problem like this and the material inside a melted core is a big unknown and probably can't be worked on directly by human beings. Step 5 in that illustration on how to take apart a melted reactor states "drill down to break the melted fuel into chunks, pack it into casks, cart it away and you're done!" I mean that almost feels tongue in cheek. The chances for serious casualties and tremendous radiation releases exist in each attempt to drill into a reactor containment and there's 4 damaged reactors at this time. The project risk, unknown variables and the scope of proposed solutions leaves me wondering can they truly put a price tag on the work at such an early stage. It's absurd to think that I may not see Chernobyl or Fukushima's remediation happen in my lifetime.
Robert Gates, Sly Ironist
Lucky13: Breaking the TLS and DTLS Record Protocols (2013)
You seem to be assuming that, to calculate the partitions of a number, it is necessary to actually enumerate every one of those partitions. This is not true.
NYPD is 10x too big. NYC is really a special case of infinite budget, powerful union, and external events (1970s/1980s crime wave, followed by 9/11) to justify it.

Other places have too few (Oakland PD should be at least 2x and really 5x what it has). The fundamental problem is poor places have less budget and also higher need for policing.

Various transit agencies, universities, etc. should probably not operate their own substandard police forces, but use non-sworn security and have a decent working relationship with the local PD.
> As the commit message stated, the current method (of dropping just the right file in a usually hidden part of the filesystem) is fairly user hostile as it is.

Right, there should be a basic UI setting to do load an specified stylesheet as the default.

That doesn't excuse removing basic functionality expected of a user agent out of the core and requiring an extensionto provide it at all, especially since that requires reducing security (by extending the number of trusted parties) to use that basic function.

"We didn't expose this basic function well enough by default" is a good reason to improve the UX related to the function, its not a good excuse to make the situation even worse.
The article's title is misleading; Intel has answered this question. They deny collaborating with NSA.

To that, add that there's no evidence anywhere of any such collusion, and that Intel retained Cryptography Research to assess their CSPRNG design.

By pluralizing the word "question", the article injects further misinformation. There's one question people are asking about Intel: "why should we trust the RDRAND instruction?". The question is asked not because there's any evidence that RDRAND is compromised, but because CSPRNGs are a uniquely powerful point in a cryptosystem to insert a backdoor. Backdooring the AES instructions is harder; AES is deterministic, so there's not much you can do with an "evil" AES. Not so with an RNG.

But RDRAND is a stupid backdoor. On every mainstream OS, including the two mainstream mobile OSs, RDRAND is (at best) one of several sources of entropy. In the Linux kernel CSPRNG, in FreeBSD's Yarrow, and in WinAPI's CryptGenRandom, controlling one entropy input (or even all but one of them) doesn't make the CSPRNG's output predictable. So even if it is backdoored --- which would be silly --- that backdoor probably doesn't impact you in any meaningful way.

Cryptographers are wary of RDRAND. It's a closed, proprietary design. Cryptographers would rather you use urandom to get your randomness, and if the OS wants to use RDRAND as one of its entropy sources, whatever. Cryptographers would say this whether it was Intel's hardware RNG, Apple's, Samsung's, or Broadcom's.
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Two links away that led me to http://mph.puddingbowl.org/2010/02/org-mode-in-your-pocket-i... which is hilarious and very true. Source committed emacs user, I've contributed to org-mode, and it is great. But still, true.
Recruiter here.

We do not tell you the company name for a few reasons:

1. If we tell you the name of the company straight off the bat, the next recruiter will ask you some sneaky questions and get the details of the role under the guise of trying to find out where you are in the process of looking for a job. This works more times than you can believe.

2. Candidates will apply for the role directly because they hate recruiters or they think they can get a better rate.

3. Company has specifically mentioned not to disclose the name of the company until we are sure we have found the right candidate because of reason one, imagine getting calls from 10 recruiters in a day, not just that IT recruiters the worst kind of all!

Please note as well that most of these emails are not about this specific opportunity or getting to interested or compelled to apply its about finding out if you are looking for new work or open to new roles.

It works and its easy, its not right and it can be annoying but just email back the recruiter and mention you would like to see all the information you have on them as per the privacy laws in your country and they'll stop dealing with you pretty quickly.
>it's hard to classify their actions from a moral standpoint as something other than stealing.

It is easy. In those cases the owner hasn't been deprived of anything but potential profit. If there was a competing game some of the potential pirates might buy that instead, they might watch TV or read a book instead of playing a game. It is just competition.

I find it ridiculous that under current law it is illegal to make unauthorised copies of games, but perfectly legal to make a clone/reimplementation. Both can deprive the original author of potential profit.

Of course this is why some of the big players in the IP industry have been muttering about "patents" on creative works.
Where are all the jobs going?
The core in Chernobyl melted down into the basement as well, fortunately it stopped there.
This is computing the cardinality (size) of the set of partitions, not enumerating all of its members.
As a drummer I really like odd time signatures, for example the Pat Metheny Group song entitled "First Circle" is in 22/8... For fun, try memorizing and clapping the pattern at the opening of the piece.

http://www.halfstepup.com/articles/odd-time-signatures-in-co...

http://youtu.be/4YeoIn5-mSs
Java guy here. I've never understood how retro types can criticize IDE's, relative to the "clean, simple elegance" of a text editor... and then reveal that their text editor is Emacs. In terms of learning curve and simplicity, IntelliJ might as well be "ed" in comparison to Emacs... or even Vim to a lesser extent.

I spent years using Eclipse, and even though I now concede that IntelliJ is superior, it still took quite awhile to get up the learning curve and let go of my Eclipse bias. If you write a lot of code in any language, then you invest a significant amount of time and energy into learning how to maximize productivity in your tool of choice. That tool is then the best tool, because you are invested and most productive with it.
New York actually has some of the best public schools of a major U.S. city.

Also, your proposal would cause a collapse of U.S. cities, as all the middle class and wealthy families moved out. Schools are a key battleground for race and class warfare in the U.S. Even in wealthy Manhattan, 70% of students in public school are on free or reduced price lunch. Wealthy and middle class families would simply leave cities rather than send their kids to schools with students who skew poor and skew minority.[1] Even liberal San Francisco had to give up on its progressive policy of randomizing public school assignments (to prevent wealthy people taking advantage of neighborhood-based assignment to create enclaves within the public system).

[1] Peruse the school profiles in Chicago: http://schoolinfo.cps.edu/schoolprofile/SchoolDetails.aspx?S.... Note how prominently racial and economic demographics are featured. D.C. school profiles even have a handy pie chart for racial demographics: http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Anacostia+High+School. This information isn't prominently displayed because parents don't care about it...
Hi Brandon,

I emailed you on Thursday, haven't received a reply back. Is the Monday expect-a-reply-back time frame still good, or are you just buried under all of the replies? :-)

I don't want to spam you with inquiries if you're busy, just wanted to check in on this. Thanks.
> From your article, I'm guessing you're missing the excellent Logitech ultraslim keyboard case, have multitasking gestures turned off, and aren't that familiar with the productivity applications available.

I agree that productivity is possible with an iPad, but perhaps it requires "being familiar" with a lot of stuff before you can be very effective with it.
> “Is that a Muslim or Hipster beard?” by a crew of three NYPD officers in Times Square.

I'm very curious to hear the full story behind this one.

On a separate note - I used to work in Chelsea[0]. Two or three days of the week, as I was leaving the subway, I would see NYPD questioning and/or frisking a young, black man or women. I saw this happen for months, and never once was the person being questioned/frisked white, east Asian, or any other race.

Oh, and by the way:

> The main I didn’t file any kind of report or move forward at all was that I don’t have badge numbers.

NEVER ask a police officer for his/her badge number. Look for it and try to memorize if you want, but don't let them know you're trying to learn it. I know someone who ended up doing ~18 months in prison for doing exactly this. (The official charge was "obstruction of justice" and/or "resisting arrest", but that's basically all he actually did. Once it's clear to the cops that you're looking to report them, they'll do everything in their power[2] to punish and discredit you).

[0] Affluent, primarily white, gentrified (former) gayborhood, for those unfamiliar with NYC.

[1] This is not the same as the NYPD standing by the tables asking people to let them look through their bags (which you can refuse, by the way!)

[2] And possibly even things not in their power
Why does stuff like this get so high on HN all the time? It isn't news, emacs has been around for approx forever and obviously is a good editor slash operating system for all the serious devotees. What do these pieces add? Literally never will the "vim vs. emacs" thing be resolved if it isn't now. Note to self, write a piece about how "I use <editor> because I know how to use <editor> well" if I ever want to be big on hn.
I'm an iOS developer and I generally do what you suggest here. I create a bunch of subclasses of UIView and do my positioning via layoutSubviews, implement sizeThatFits when appropriate, etc.

Despite this I feel like Apple makes it very difficult to keep all UI code out of your view controllers. I'd go as far to say they actively encourage shoving UI code into your UIViewControllers. Take a look at the interface for UIViewController -- it is almost all view/presentation related [0]. Most of Apple's sample code and projects have view code sprinkled all over their UIViewControllers.

I feel like it is a constant fight to keep proper view/controller separation on the iOS platform.

[0] http://doing-it-wrong.mikeweller.com/
or a faster one
It looks to me like ios7 and auto layout is partly about running on many screen sizes. Makes you think about future devices and how your code will fare. Worth thinking about.

You might need to use IB.
I'm assuming nothing of the sort. I said to compute "each one of" the partitions, which is a totally different problem to counting them.
Something is only valuable if you have it and the other guy doesn't. same with computation.
De Blasio unfortuantely hired back Bill Bratton, who defends stop and frisk:

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/02/25/bill-bratton-nypd
(As a vim user) I like to think that the keybindings actually make sense. There are tons of articles out there about the verbage of vim commands. Once you get used to the vocabulary vim makes a lot of sense. (But it could just be Stockholm syndrome for most of us)
It is not known whether the digits of pi are evenly distributed.
It looks like NYC has ~40 police officers per 10k people(1). If you cut that by 90% to ~4 per 10k then NYC would have, by far, the smallest per capita police force for any American city. So really you're asserting that police forces are too large almost everywhere in the US?

EDIT: ~4 officers per 10k would also be lower than essentially any other country in the world(2).

1. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/law-enforce...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
I don't really have much to say about the rest of the article, but just thought it was funny they mentioned my startup and quoted one my cofounders.

I will say though, based on my experience working with the LAPD, that there is significant red tape around everything. For example I know cops have wanted traffic camera footage for a while but are not allowed access.

There are all kinds of horrific things you can do with technology. We just have to make sure nobody builds them. I'll do my part.
> If we tell you the name of the company straight off the bat, the next recruiter will ask you some sneaky questions and get the details of the role under the guise of trying to find out where you are in the process of looking for a job. This works more times than you can believe.

Can you rephrase this? I don't understand what you're trying to say.
> Do you agree with this statement? 'Recruitment is a art'

No, because grammar.