skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of bad test prep out there, especially any test prep taught by high school teachers. I have done test prep privately for six years and I can guarantee you coaching can have substantial effects. These studies group all test prep under a giant umbrella, but take elite 1 to 1 test prep and the premium price it costs that parents actually pay and you'll see substantial gains. I have spend $0.00 on advertising in the last six years and I am routinely overbooked because of word of mouth. There's just so many awful teachers and courses out there.
"Membranous" definitely isn't arcane (membrane is a contemporary word relevant in scientific contexts), but much of the actual SAT-tested vocabulary like "maudlin" definitely are anachronisms (whose etymology root from obscure cultural allusions).

How could one possibly make the mental reasoning leap over multiple levels of indirection from "maudlin" to "Old French Madeleine", and then to "Mary Magdalene" in archaic Latin, and THEN to the word's actual meaning of "overly sentimental"? I might have invoked my Roman Catholic upbringing to figure that one out on-the-fly during my exam? Please.

In case you think I'm joking, I'm literally not making this convoluted chain of indirections up:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maudlin#Etymology

As further reinforcement, surely, the word's frequency of occurrence in corpora over time peaked in 1900, and then its usage dropped off a cliff. Meanwhile, "membrane" still remains widely used and very pertinent. Corroborating Google n-gram viewer statistics (shortened Google Books URLs):

maudlin: http://goo.gl/cfGSZP
membrane: http://goo.gl/aFK9La

Yet, "maudlin" was among the list of commonly-tested vocabulary words in my SAT prep book, and it was even included in the bundled stack of veritable flash cards for practice drills.

However, I can't remember seeing "membranous" in the same stack, probably because the knowledge of hard sciences is underrepresented in the test content (instead, you had to take the completely separate SAT subject tests to demonstrate your command of the more-than-relevant scientific disciplines).

Better keep opening Old Nassau's gates to the upper echelons of society for anybody who can ace this sort of trivia.
On a side note, the new (not elected so illegal) government wants to ban the use of russian language, that sounds insane to me, they want to be closer to democratic Europe, but isn't banning a freedom of language is one of the worst things you can do if you want to be democratic? Correct me if I am wrong.
http://141.89.114.58/cgi-bin/video320x240.mjpg?dummy=garb

Nothing in Chrome, but an animated (slowly) image in Firefox
I'd expect 100%.

Why involve the boss? Why not just release it on your own? If your boss has good leads to send you, you can have him sign up to your affiliate program.
That's what I thought too, but Ashton confirmed the dialog and the voice record was authenticated.
Intuitively, I would expect that to FUBAR the console completely but it's actually deleting the overridden version so it restores the real console's properties (which thankfully cannot be deleted.) Cute way of fixing it.
> we'll remove it if we find data that suggests it's bad

So how about instead of saying "let's have coffee" you look at the accounts of some of these people complaining to verify for yourself the things they are saying (such as "lower conversion")? If you feel Stripe doesn't have the data requires themselves to determine this, maybe asking a few of these merchants to send you a report documenting the sales penalty they experienced? This doesn't seem like a very difficult situation to verify, and it sounds like you will be able to learn something really valuable in a really short amount of time that could affect not just this feature but your entire product roadmap.

The "let's have coffee" line (which you tried to use on me as well back when I was demonstrating API flaws and limitations in Stripe a couple years ago ;P) is really difficult to interpret as a "data-oriented" approach to helping merchants: "let's talk about this in person" almost always translates to "I'm a people person who is good at convincing people of things in real time, so how about we move this conversation from a medium that involves long, thought-through arguments that can be backed up by data to one where we are both forced to think on our feet and operate out if memory" ;P.

> If it's bad, we won't just add an option to remove it -- we'll remove it for everyone.

What everyone here is trying to tell you is that this feature probably works well for some merchants (I mean, you even claim to have tested this yourself, so clearly it must) but horribly for others. Is this really an impossible idea to you? :( The people complaining also spent a bunch of time not "just complaining", but providing reasons why their situation caused the flow to be awkward, and those reasons clearly don't apply to all merchants: in some cases people have even tried to determine "the core difference" (one-shot vs. repeat sales). This would be a great opportunity to not pull a "let's have coffee", but instead dive into the data and specifics of the complaints with the people who are trying to help you.
Another good read (it probably does not reflect how you want to write C code, the rule about dynammic allocation is probably extreme if you are not writing code to fly spaceships, but I think it is good to read regardless): http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Completely agree here. I had the option to join a startup or go with an established web company this past year when I graduated and I chose the more established company. The reason I did this was because I wanted to learn what was tools and technologies were being used and how they were being implemented by established web companies today and build upon that knowledge. Obviously the larger company has done something right in order to get to where they are. Plus, there is a level of stability. Bigger companies also tend to be able to help international students better and provide a little more financial security to someone who may have college loans. I have learned so much this past year at my job and will carry that knowledge when I do start or join a startup.

I also feel the same in regards to working for a startup when you're not a founder or a very early employee. It is completely true you likely will be making your bosses rich and not as much yourself, unless you're like an absolute rockstar their equity is still going to be at least 20-50x more than you (this is just a rough guess). If you think you can do it on your own, might as well.
People have no sense of history. When Notch announced he was doing an increasing pricing model, Minecraft wasn't Minecraft. He had only been working on the game for a few weeks, it wasn't popular, and it had almost no features (e.g. no crafting). Now when someone suggests the same kind of model, like Rohrer is doing with The Castle Doctrine, gamers are outraged.
Yeah I'm not sure about Netflix's motivation, but Facebook's was purely to prevent self-XSS, and you can easily opt out of it.
People demand sensationalist validation of their preferred viewpoints. Most news is dependent on advertising, which means it must maximize viewership to remain competitive. News outlets that use this model have an existential incentive to utilize cheap tricks and sensationalize to drive up viewership and emotional investment in their properties. They will never be able to overcome that as long as that business model is in place.

NPR and BBC are good because their viewership numbers don't matter nearly as much.
That part of the article didn't resonate with me, either.

I go to the University of Waterloo in Canada and as a second-year (sophomore) have already worked at a startup for an internship. I got that internship because of the co-op program at my school --- startups often hire from it. I'm not alone, either: several of my friends at UW are or have been startup interns. One friend is interning right now at a YC startup.

That's not even to mention the huge hackathon movement that has swept technical schools across North America. Startups have a huge presence in hackathons at UMich, Yale, MIT, UPenn, UW, University of Toronto, McGill University, and many others.
Just as people who critiqued the gulags declined opportunities to see it first hand.

In a war zone is pretty easy to mistake a camera for a bazooka, those that cover war from the 'wrong angle' often end up dead, like the reuters reporters deaths exposed by Bradley Manning.

That said RT is great for getting PoVs not shared by the us government
That and Facebook's one shows a huge message saying why they do it.
Zello App Gains Popularity With World's Protesters
She said on twitter that if she was going, she was going to build her own network up first and not rely on RT contacts.
> I didn't read the whole thing

May I suggest you read the whole thing next time? You can certainly disagree with the author's assertion that companies and governments abuse "for your security" to do awful things (or that it's what happened here), but it's far from ridiculous. I think you just misunderstood the point about the NSA--not reading will do that to you--and it makes you look silly.
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This isn't to suggest that using the WDT in interval mode is the wrong approach, and I know there's a certain amount of elegance to doing everything with one chip, but you could still use the level interrupt by adding a 7486 (standard quad XOR gate). For the gate's inputs, you would use the reed switch and a output pin from the AVR, and the gate's output would go to the external interrupt line. If the ISR toggles the state of the output pin each time it runs, the gate's output is only in the IRQ-asserted state for as long as it takes the ISR to fire up--so you don't get constant interrupts while the switch is closed, only a single one on the opening and closing transitions.

The 74LVC86 variant only draws a dozen, or so, microamps, which is dwarfed by the current in the 10k pull-down resistor when the reed is closed, and comparable to the standby current of the radio in the new radio.
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Show HN: My friend and I built an LDS dating site that we think is pretty great
Does your boss have the authority to even sign a contract? The problem is you've intertwined your work. They can just say you were doing as part of your salary and they didn't OK you working on it in your free time so you don't get paid for it. My guess is you'll probably just get a couple grand bonus that won't even add up to minimum wage for the extra time you put in and that's only if it works out.
All you kalman filter fans out there will be happy to hear that you can grab a ride from SideCar and some Giants tickets from SeatGeek[1] for a truly algorithmic afternoon.

1. http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/using-a-kalman-filter-to-predi...
"wants to ban the use of russian language" - where did you hear that propaganda? How do you ban the use of any language?
If you're getting a user to download and execute a piece of software, why bother going beyond that?
As long as you don't use it commercially you're able to [personally] exploit the teachings of a patent document. It's part of the patent deal.

Edit: a brief check on the current US situation shows it's been eroded dramatically and that, like the copyright contract, the patent contract has become a far weaker deal for the public.
9/10 potential interviews lost due to pop-up blockers. ;)
Start with building stuff. Polishing your skills and becoming a full stack kind of person, tech or not.
No, Fox News doesn't have the same problems. For one, Fox News is not state sponsored and has no obligation to be a media arm of the US government. Fox News, like MSNBC and other US media outlets, markets to a particular segment of the population. In order for them to efficiently do so requires bias. There is a clear distinction between bias and propaganda.
Link? As a fellow chemist turned software engineer I am curious.
Sorry, but why is that at all a problem?
That does not make the accusations true. In addition to all said, snipers were firing for the positions where Berkut was located. Then why would Berkut allow Maidan-hired snipers to fire at people, knowing quite well they are going to be held responsible?
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That's a great piece of feedback. With CrowdtiltOpen (http://open.crowdtilt.com) we're trying to provide powerful, fully white-label crowdfunding - but it could be in creators' best interest to move up our logo by default to inspire more confidence.

Thanks so much, passing this along to the rest of the team.
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Netflix isn't concerned with securing their users' browsers; they're concerned with protecting their DRM.
No, if you're actually checking your work properly, you're going in with the assumption that there are mistakes to be found, and you're looking for reasons why your answer might be wrong - the same as when you're trying to eliminate a candidate answer in a multiple choice test (especially if "none of the above" is one of the choices). The gaming the odds aspect of the SAT only comes into play when you've run out of time or run out of knowledge to use to support or contradict possible answers.
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It's a shame you linked to that video in the same post, because Alan Watt's inspirational message is - I believe - deeply at odds with your final sentiment:

"I wouldn't want to be obligated to anyone because they sacrificed their own happiness for mine."

What a desolate and barren world where we fear connecting with others in case we might incur some sort of obligation.
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If you (are tricked to) paste "javascript:..." it won't work.

You have to manually type "javascript:" for it to work.
Just as a general PSA (without claiming to be complete):

(Generally, none of these apply if the airline can claim extraordinary circumstances such as weather)

- Flights Originating/Transiting/Ending in the EU:

1. You are entitled to cash compensation for sufficiently long delays (2-4 hours depending on flight duration)
2. You are entitled to cash compensation (for the inconvenience) and reroute (whenever you want) for a cancellation or cash compensation (for the inconvenience) and a ticket refund

If delay is long enough, you are entitled to meals and refreshments, if over-night, to accomodation.

- Flights in the US

AFAIK, you pretty much are only entitled to something if you get denied boarding on an overbooked flight.

However, it's always best to just walk up to an airline agent, putting a smile on your face and explaining the situation. They have nothing against you and only help, but you greatly reduce their inclination to do so by making it their personal fault.
Yeah. When I bought a Dell a couple of years back, I checked my options carefully and the only crapware it came was McAfee (which, I mean, I'd rather they ship a crap antivirus program by default than leave most customers with no malware protection at all).
A lower crime rate, but a higher incarceration rate. A lower level of traditional corruption, but many more forms of "legitimized" corruption (campaign finance, pork-barrel quid pro quo). More democratic, but mostly for those who can afford a good lawyer.

It's not a competition: both states have deep systemic problems with regards to human rights, which is "worse" is meaningless. The vast majority of mainstream news in both has about a 10-to-1 ratio of paid propaganda (which includes distractions and noise) to substantive news, whether it's Moscow or advertisers who foot the bill.
Mozilla should spend 1/3 of their Total Resources on making an Overwhelmingly Dominant Browser for Android and iOS. It's life or death.

Talk to me in 4 years.
Yup, that is a completely legitimate argument to raise.
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It would be interesting to present the question in ROT13, have participants work out the question and then answer it.
I know people who get paid by their friends for help setting up computers - often reformatting/reinstalling after malware infections - and I'd guess many of them would be installing Firefox for them too. Does it mean they can't do that according to Mozilla if they charge for the services? Dell gets picked on here, but I bet they're not the only ones who charge to install free software like Firefox.
In case you thought Facebook couldn't get any creepier
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http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

http://www.cablemap.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_layer
This look like a "Vector quantization" with a precalculated table. (I have absolutely no video/compression background, someone correct me please)
I don't think College Board wants to normalize for background differences; that would be a lazy and hugely treacherous to do. Instead, they are tackling the background differences head on by doling out free test prep. I believe education as a whole is heading toward widespread accessibility of top-quality education for everyone. But for now, Khan Academy is taking a small step to democratize test prep, and it should be enough to make a noticeable difference.
No, -foo is confusing and reduces readability.
Still, I would advice not to disregard this study completely and at least be careful about making decisions when using a foreign language. It well might be true that the emotional and other subsystems are somewhat inhibited when thinking in a foreign language and that might have both positive and negative consequences.
The boss is the ceo, so yes and I haven't started the project yet and am trying negotiate. This service is viewed as a separate to my work. I was going to work on it myself but tried to use it as leverage for a pay adjustment which didn't really happen which is why i am now after a percentage.
I always thought API versions in URLs had more to do with efficient URL routing than RESTful semantics.

If you're Twitter or AWS and handling tens of millions of requests a day it would (seem) far less resource intensive to determine routing based on a pre-defined URL structure than to inspect the headers of each incoming API request. It might also save development time. So you have your block of v1 API servers and your block of v2 servers, without having to re-code the v1 stack to also parse v2 requests.
I find it funny that the same trashy sites that write so superficially (writing for pageviews, and doing very little actual reporting) are going to act all indignant about the "wild west" of anonymous commenting. How about applying more scrutiny towards the quality of content first and then worrying about the commenting?
Isn't the entire point of Barbie dolls to represent a ridiculously unrealistic ideal? In the same way that boys' action figures are impossibly muscular, and superheroes have super-strength/superpowers.

When making a toy, the question to ask should probably be "is it exciting?" rather than "is it beautiful" or "is it realistic". Is average exciting?
Definitely. Many of the largest crowdfunding campaigns of the past year have been self-powered (see Soylent, Tile, Lockitron, Coin, Star Citizen).

Might be helpful to check out Lockitron co-founder Paul Gerhardt's views on self-hosted campaigns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261442

This campaign for Lammily is powered by our open source tool CrowdtiltOpen (formerly Crowdhoster). We've taken Selfstarter's awesome groundwork and turned it into an end-to-end solution.
So you disagree with laws banning children from casinos and other gambling venues? That's all I'm proposing the equivalent of. Not new regulation, but placing certain categories of F2P/IAP games within the existing gambling laws.

PS: Please don't use a thread quote mark for something I didn't say.
"I'd add an important lesson that I have learned: it takes money to make money."

Amen. Although, my approach is to be working full-time making a good salary, but spend my nights/weekends working on my business and investing my savings into it. I'm not going to do it full-time until I start making good $ with it.
Pardon my cynicism, but resignations are good for ratings.
That's a ridiculous argument. If the attacker could do that why would they even bother with XSS attacks based on developer tools?
> As a male I never played with Barbie,

I don't mean you call you out, but you should note that comments like this are essentially exactly why this project exists.
It was so gradual that I didnt notice when this style of webpage disappeared.
By saying one is obligated to someone else, I think it implies that the reciprocal action by the receiver would require compromising one's own happiness in some way. By that token, I think this statement is totally reasonable because ultimately, both parties lose some of their own happiness. That was probably an outcome neither of them wanted.
Released just as I finish our custom checkout process...but hey, I'm glad to see it!
To me, his message was to always be thinking of what you desire. What you desire isn't the same as what others desire. Everyone's definition of happiness varies. I'm trying to say if everyone lived the message that Alan Watts so eloquently articulated, then there would be no "sacrifice". What one person thinks of as a sacrifice wasn't really a sacrifice in the eyes of the person who made it because they did what made them happy so that enables you to do what makes you happy.

Because people don't live according to his message right now, we make ourselves miserable by trying to repay the debts of other people's sacrifices for us. Rather, I would have it so we pay those debts forward to the next generation by enabling them to do what makes them happy, not holding them to some standard of what we think makes people happy just because we raised them or provided them with the means or money to do something they enjoyed.
Actually, you can just type the "j" and then paste the rest.
"In the United Kingdom, talk therapies or counselling in conjunction with medication are considered best practice. These therapies are not readily available through the health system in New Zealand, Dr Cartwright said"

Well, there you have it from the article. New Zealand's health care system doesn't provide best practice (as most health insurers in the United States have for years, and now must do under the Affordable Care Act). The best treatment plan for depression is some medicine that fits a particular patient hand-in-hand with talk therapy. There is a new review article in Annual Reviews of Psychology[1] that summarizes the research on best practices in treatment of depression, and that is the main conclusion: use medicines AND use talk therapy.

[1] http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.1...
I half-disagree with you: the NSA's actions, IMHO, certainly do amount to a violation of the right to privacy. However, calling the ability to run the javascript development console on a page a 'right' is a stretch, I agree.

Please feel free to read the actual article and quote it and find fault with its conclusions. As it is now you're seizing on individual words, not ideas. If this were a Turing test you wouldn't be doing so well.
I've experienced this first hand. Stripe is great, and so (was) checkout, but the silent iteration is terrible as a developer. You wind up with support calls saying "why does this look different" and you have no idea anything changed. It's tiring.
I've just scanned your post, it appears largely correct. However you're generally allowed to use the teaching of a patent for personal - non-commercial - use, for research and such.

Though in US law it seems non-commercial/experimental isn't a complete mitigation as it is elsewhere.