skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great teachers inspire their students to learn independently. That's pretty much the most important part of the job description.

I think it's debatable whether great teaching or access to great minds is more important, and probably varies depending on the student and what stage of their education they're in. But either way, for the access to work at all, it has to really be access; receiving a dry lecture on introductory material from a great mind doesn't really give you access to that mind. But sure, the best students will seek out projects that give them real access, and those experiences will probably be incredibly valuable.

There is definitely a huge value in the university system just putting you in the right place to learn surrounded by the right people to learn from, but I hate the disrespect for actual teaching that I sometimes see when people talk about universities.
What can 1000 homescreens tell us about the way people use their phones.
Samsung Is Like A Race Car Driver In The Dark On A Winding Mountain
There's actually precedent for that. [1] Uses there include epilepsy, Parkinson's and depression treatment. But extending beyond that, my search also found this [2], for Alzheimer's treatment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_pacemaker

[2] http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/Ohio-S...
Great read, thanks for this. I haven't had a chance to play with Atom yet, and this kind of article keeps me in the loop.
1. It is certain that NSA has some very smart people playing with the sources of the Apple crypto-modules.

2. If you're a NSA boss, and some of your experts told you that you can break SSL in Apple products with adding one line that could be almost certainly attributed to inconspicuous human error, would you try to make a deal with Apple?

3. If you're an Apple boss, and NSA offers you cache (or other benefits, like competitor intelligence) for adding plausibly deniable bug in your code, would you turn it down?

There is no direct evidence for this case, sure. There is however ample evidence in the Snowden docs that this scenario happens too often for this to be called bullshit conspiracy theory.
Wow, tough crowd. No credit to Greenwald for actually breaking this story?

I understand your impatience with Greenwald's prose style and all, but aren't you moving yourself another layer of filtering away from the real story if you won't read Greenwald at all?

Don't know about you, but I'm trusting that filtering quality less and less, so even if I think Greenwald is being hyperbolic sometimes, I'm still going to read him on anything relevant to Snowden.
Ask HN: my cofounders are inactive and I don't know what to do
We are a team of three people, and 2 of them are completely inactive, I suspect that they are already working on something else or looking for another job.

After almost 2 years there isn't any revenue yet, and it doesn't even have many active users, but I still think that it could be huge.

At this point I really don't know what to do, continue alone? Close everything and do something else?

What would you do? Or what did you do when you had a similar situation?
Would you mind discussing your idea a bit more? Curious...
I'm fairly certain this was satire. Rather good satire at that.
90%+ of "news" is regurgitated PR. Original reporting, including investigative reporting, may seem out of place in that context, but it is much more accurately called news than what is usually fed to the public.
Except for silly edge cases?

Okay then eat your recommended calories worth of cocopuffs for breakfast, since it's all about energy. Calorie counting oversimplifies the problem. Sure it might describe what is going on, but it can be a poor guide for a dieter trying to decide what to eat next.
Dude thats awesome. Ya both are totally flappy bird inspired. Theres something addictive about playing a game that is quick and hard.
Moov Fitness Tracker Passes Its $40K Crowdfunding Goal In 90 Minutes
Yes, because only Google can earn advertising money by scrapping sites.
It took me a couple seconds to reach this page:

http://ubuntuone.com/2MqJu4Oa0rh0RHKLoZkkQY

From there, it seems like I could have changed the phone number rather easily. I don't know what kind of verifications Microsoft does, but I have no reason to assume they'd be much more thorough than Google. Except that from now on, I am sure they will be very thorough.
Thanks for the detailed response. I'll definitely give you guys a try.
"[...] not old enough to actually hire yet because they're still finishing up the traditional college experience"

Isn't that exactly the definition of what an intern is?
For that matter, I've done internships at two of the companies on that list, and currently work for a third.

The full-year-equivalent for my intern salary was ~$80k, at both. (Counting housing stipend.)

However, at least in my field (geoscience), an "intern" means someone who has already completed at least a B.S. and is currently enrolled in a graduate program. You _can't_ do an internship as an undergraduate.

It's not uncommon to have interns in their 30's who have >10 years experience with very similar work to job they're doing as an intern. (To be fair, it's also common to have people who are doing very unrelated graduate work and have no experience with what they're doing as interns.)

At least in my case, I had already completed a B.S., M.S., and was a few years into my PhD at the time.

At any rate, keep in mind that a lot of these internship programs don't allow undergraduates. I'm not saying they're not cushy (they are!), but they're basically 3-month paid interviews.
None of this is evidence. This is all innuendo. I could apply the exact same set of arguments to the Rails YAML bug, or to whatever the last Chrome bug Pinkie Pie got working was.

Nobody doubts your ability to spin some coherent-sounding story about the TLS bug. It's not a hard game to play. People have been playing it for centuries. How about you try a more fun topic, like alien landings?
Having obsessively read the news 1+ hours a day since the financial crisis, I'm no longer under the illusion that there is much unbiased news in the first place. Even a non-analysis piece listing just the facts can still be biased by virtue of the facts that are left out.

I always assume that news pieces are sketches of the truth and that it takes discipline and effort to educate oneself about what's really going on -- and often times it's simply not possible. You can't rely on a single source, you have to be willing to take the analysis along with the fact lists if your goal is to try and piece together a big picture. Perfect example is the news from Syria. I can't tell you how many articles and longform pieces I've read on the situation and still can't even pretend that I've achieved some true awareness of what's really going on, though I can recite facts and figures that make me look more well read than the average person.
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'Write the Docs' is a Conference for People Who Write Software Docs (Video)
What if Satoshi Nakamoto stole them?
I love the UI. It's clean and pretty fast.
Here's the thing.

You like it when there's wide, sweeping cirriculum on the Federal level... when you agree with it.

But what happens if there's enough political pressure (it is a midterm election cycle) to add ID into the cirriculum? Or maybe they look at feel-good math that is just teaching to the test [1]?

And that's the issue. Centralized power is great when you agree with it, but terrible in the wrong hands.

[1] http://www.momdot.com/common-core-is-making-me-stupider/
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the ideal of unbiased journalism is a myth. It does not exist. Whenever it's claimed to be a goal it's either made from ignorance or as a way to mislead.
"content is simply too controlled to be useful."

Really? I believe the opposite is true. I think reddit needs more moderation. I wish mods wouldn't be as afraid to lay down the ban-hammer. I think the mods of /r/News were justified in their approach, and that these censorship stories coming out about reddit are due to an ignorance of how reddit works.

The mods are fighting a battle against the lowest common denominator and losing. The beauty of reddit is that anyone can create their own subreddit and mod it however they see fit. If you want an easy going subreddit with mods that are hands-off, you're free to create one or subscribe to one. If a mod wants to rule their domain with an iron fist, their free to do that too.

More importantly, the users are free to subscribe to any subreddit they wish. Users can literally vote with their feet and have done so on more than one occasion. Your proposed overhaul would change that dynamic. It's a dynamic which has helped reddit get to the level it's at now. People like to believe the collapse of digg contributed to reddit's success, but the fact is, (according to google trends), reddit had already surpassed Digg long before the big collapse.
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IF consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. :)
You should name a classmethod first variable "cls", not "class_".
"Holy crap, it's a good guy with a gun! Run away!"
Of course there is censorship going on - it is clear that not everything that someone thinks is news can be posted. That is not necessarily a bad thing in principle. In reality it is a very slippery slope and has to be closely monitored, especially in the case of articles commenting on manipulation of the news!
> Banning the article _was_ censorship.

The entire idea of "subreddits" is community-specific curation. If you post a leftist screed to /r/libertarian, they might choose to leave it, they might delete it, who knows. It's up to each subreddit to decide what kind of content they want to see, through a mixture of up/downvoting and moderator action. Some communities want the Greenwald article, some don't. Some have very little moderator action, others have a lot, and those differences are part of what defines them (e.g. /r/AskHistorians is known for its aggressive moderation). That's not censorship, any more than HN deleting some stuff is censorship.
The original Columbia presentation is actually pretty cool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274288 )
I thought I'd mention it as it only got a couple of votes and sarky comments at the time but having just watched it all I think it really look like a major breakthrough, maybe the biggest one of the year and could be giving us 4k video all over the place before long. One of the interesting things is it will work with existing unlicensed spectrum, existing handsets and the backhaul can be done with line of site links on rooftops so it can be rolled out pretty much straight off - well they are talking a year or so.
Yes, per my comment above. They will go places where they won't face interference with their plans - they will choose a restaurant with a "No Guns" sign rather than a police station.

You assume there is no rationality behind the suicidal, but there is. Consider the Kamikaze.
Yep. Controlling the gatekeepers of public conversation is a measure that is squarely in the court of totalitarianism-- this leak was the evidence needed to begin calling the USA a right wing authoritarian/totalitarian state. I really wish the mainstream media had picked up this story, because it'd be an easy way to convince the public that the government is targeting them as an enemy. It's blatant evidence that the government is interested in controlling thought regardless of involvement with terrorism or national security.

It's foolish to think that they wouldn't try to gain positions of power in bastions of alternative thought and activism. Admittedly, reddit is extremely mainstream-- but it's still a place for citizens to communicate with each other and discuss happenings. It'd be invaluable control-wise to be able to influence conversations there.
People who are pro ccw have a very cartoonish understanding of the world.
If the code is supposed to be dead, DELETE it. Do not comment it out.

If the code doesn't belong there, get rid of it. If, for whatever reason, you want to show the reader that code used to be there, delete it and leave an explanatory comment. If you're commenting it out because you're not confident in taking it out or you plan to re-enable it in the future, well, that's what you have source control for.
This is a great argument against "pulling the plug" on folks in vegetative states.
For the last 4 months, my daily goal has been 'no client work before lunch' [1]. I'm happier, healthier, and more focused on the important things than I have been my entire professional life.

1. https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/no-client-work-before-lu...
And again:

Ray ID: 103ebd0cdc7c089f
I'm sorry if this wasn't clear. The purpose of building this library was to have something which could be distributable to any mobile developer, not just the ones using Xamarin. If you did it through Xamarin, you could only give it to Xamarin developers, which is very limiting. We need something that could be importable by most developers, especially native SDK ones.
> It would not surprise me to learn that BipolarBear0 is a plant.

If he is, I hope he's fired. Removing an article like that to cover your ass seems like an inordinately stupid thing to do.

> It would also not surprise me to learn that he's a pedantic basement-dweller

This characterization bothers me. "Basement dweller" and "neckbeard" seem to have become the way that fellow nerds can insultingly call each other nerds.
Yeah, notice how I said "software developers" though. That makes this a lot different than people in other professions...
> So if the bitcoins are seized by some government entity....wouldn't that make the total value of bitcoin go up? Supply and demand and all that...

You are only considering the supply side and assuming that the government seizing bitcoins from one of the major exchanges (and, subsequently, collapsing the exchange) doesn't impact the perceived viability of the bitcoin ecosystem (since, presumably, the same thing could happen elsewhere) and reduce the demand for bitcoins as well as the supply.

Also, it further assumes, on the supply side, that the government simply throws the coins in, effectively, a digital landfill -- otherwise, the fact that they were forcibly transferred from the exchange to the government doesn't actually have any effect on supply.
Email me at me@christianbundy.com. :)
Anyone using the Eclipse plugin? https://github.com/palantir/eclipse-typescript
Thanks! Do you have an Android version of your game? I don't own an iDevice...
Video games were my gateway into computers. I contribute my path as a developer to when I started playing the Quake 1 demo in 96. I remember getting the demo from a pc mag cd, and spending all day playing. One day I wanted to start learning to make my own mods. So that started me on my development path.

But I totally agree, I hope I don't let me kids play as much games as I did. I got lucky, but everyone is different.
Interesting. I wonder what people typically describe after suddenly becoming communicative after months or years of vegetative state.
Samsung will have an innovative blockbuster Gear 3 later this year...they just need Apple to release the iWatch for reference.
Any journalist that claims to be unbiased (I'm looking at you, Bill O'Reilly) is someone who you should never be listening to.

It's all about accepting your biases and making them very clear, allowing the reader to come to their own conclusions.

Disclaimer: this requires critical thought, which seems to have fallen out of favor these days.
My comment was for the people that tried both, not bait for the people that know one and not the other.
I'm skeptical about the last one return None
You are being too generous. "Unbiased" means you didn't ask questions outside of the talking points predigested by the press secretary's office or PR agency that prompted something to be in the news in the first place.

Everything else is obviously driven by potentially dangerous and unfair opinion, since it hasn't been vetted for safety.
It's just as bad as "seriousness" in terms of moving the window of debate away from unwanted opinions.

Before this latest leak, there was no way that you could suggest that the government was trying to influence conversations online or spying on activist groups-- you'd be decried as a conspiracy theorist aka "not serious" aka "don't listen to this crazy person".

It's disturbing that people don't understand that the frame of discussion dictates the terms of the discussion.
Do they have:
1) strong IDE support
2) rich control libraries
?
RE: Sending info to google.

When I got my invite to Atom it definitely mentioned that during the beta period it was automatically sending feedback and that it was a feature that could be disabled.

So far Atom is not life changing for me but I do find it very useful and extensible, possibly the most interesting part is that I can already use it switching from Sublime Text 3 with almost zero issues because its so similar in feel.

I think its got a great chance to be a wonderful editor and I'm rooting for Atom (and Github) on this one, but there is still a long way to go before giving everyone a compelling reason to switch (especially those coming from vim, etc.
You know you are blocked by some web filtering companies?

Web Page Blocked!

You have tried to access a web page which is in violation
of your internet usage policy.

URL: www.starrhorne.com/2014/02/28/growth-hacking-companies-cant-win-marketplace.html
Category: Malicious Websites

FortiGuard web filtering.
Sublime + SublimeLinter-JSHint + Chrome DevTools
The service is meant to help both sides- the creditors and the people in debt, but the collection agencies are just guns for hire and VERY abusive.

So my goal is to try and take them out, but it is ultimately to everyone's benefit.
I know this isn't on-topic, but am I the only person who tried to read this who didn't already have an account with the economist? Apparently, I have "reached my article limit".
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It wouldn't even have to be a judicial order. The FBI or Treasury Department agent could just tell him something like "keep quiet about this or you're looking at 10 years in a federal prison". This is how prosecutors work here in the U.S., and Mark is under investigation by the U.S. government.

I don't believe this is right, but this is the reality.

I can't believe people think this is some kind of conspiracy theory. Mt. Gox has already had 5 million confiscated by the U.S., last year:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/feds-seize-another-2-1-mill...

Why is it so unlikely that they seized more money, probably in the form of paper wallets from a safety deposit box? Japan law enforcement works closely with the U.S.

But here's what they really wanted from Mark, and I wonder if they got them: all the Mt. Gox account records, including IP logs and bank account numbers.
> Wouldn't the sheer number of coins involved make tumbling services almost useless.

Sure, if they were all stolen and tumbled at once. The descriptions of a cold storage "leak" suggest that if the loss was due to theft, it was a gradual over an extended period.
I personally don't believe it is censorship either.

The biggest problem Reddit has is how the moderator structure works. I can go and create a new sub-Reddit, automatically becoming the main moderator as a result. You can then assign moderators below you who then in turn can add moderators who are below themselves and so on. The problem is if one of the moderators disappears and then reappears later on and then removes any other mods they can, it stirs up drama. /r/atheism for as bad as it is, had this happen when someone attempted to "clean" it up. I stopped posting in one sub-Reddit local to where I live because of the same idiocy.

Personally I'd like to see moderation in the way they have it now removed in favour of the Slashdot method where a post with a large number of downvotes is reviewed by those with good-standing in that sub-Reddit but with the username and other details removed. This will allow for some level of sanity within the imperfections that Reddit provides.
I'm not severely colorblind, but I'm red/green colorblind, and I hope I can help you out.

I don't use software to change color on my computer--there's nothing that I can change it to that will look more like whatever y'all see it as--I just simply can't see that color. I've lived with my colorblindness for three decades, so it's not like I'm trying to get used to it still. Sometimes the contrast is off on things, and I'll try to correct it manually, but there's nothing that I can do to make me see a color that's physically impossible for me to discern.

I rely on hex codes a lot, and I do my best to develop UIs that I can navigate with ease, and won't hurt others that are colorblind. For example, whenever I see red (255,0,0) text on blue (0,0,255), or vice versa, it physically hurts my eyes.

Really the only thing that reminds me I'm colorblindness day-to-day is folding laundry. My wife color-coordinates her clothes in her closet, so when I hang them up, it's a crap shoot. She often comes to me with a new article of clothing and says, "So I can find this later, what color do you think this is?" I'm usually wrong. C'est la vie.
This was more about having wireless power too (part of the parent comment). You don't need a 10 hour battery on something if you can power it wirelessly.
It would not surprise me to learn that BipolarBear0 is a plant.

Sounds more like some form of mammal.
Apportable doesn't let you build libraries. You can only translate whole iOS apps to Android.
Online food delivery service GrubHub files for $100 million IPO
I got the same message. Deleting the economist.com cookies solved the problem.
Why is /r/subredditdrama spilling over onto HN? Flagged.
Exactly. When you're a professor, your students are nearly always adults. Treat them the same way you would treat any other adult customer (or protege, perhaps).
I can't help but wonder if this is a devastating headline for anyone who has had to take a loved one off of life support.
>it's hard to imagine a situation where such an action would be worthwhile, given the resources at the disposal of any such actor.

This needs a defense.

>There is no evidence to back up the idea that the bug was malicious.

This is completely unrelated to what I said needs a defense. It's like you weren't even responding to me.

edit: I don't know Rails.
I love stories of this kind of successful anonymous collaboration. I can't help but think that they will only become more common/cross-border. Keep it up!
You should make a difference between plausible conspiracy theory and bullshit conspiracy theory. Conspiracies happen quite often, having no evidence just makes them higher quality.
News flash: If you get all your news from a single source, you might not get a complete and unbiased picture of the news.
It's still happening today. Massive stink when one of the UK's undercover police broke down and admitted his guilt to the media in 2010:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kennedy_(police_officer)

How many more of them are there? Who knows.

Note that it claims 22 different countries used him. And he was explicitly called out as being an agent provocateur.
Also encephalitis lethargica, the treatment of which even got turned into a movie (and book and play): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings.

(Spoiler: The patients, unfortunately, developed a tolerance for the treatment within a few months.)
> Now whether or not this is censorship is subjective.

No, its absolutely censorship. Whether or not this is the kind of censorship that is undesirable is subjective, as is any other evaluation of desirability.