skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting the similarities to the Common Core. David Coleman was one of the main authors of the Common Core and is now president of the College Board.

This article:
"Sometimes, students will be asked not just to select the right answer, but to justify it by choosing the quote from a text that provides the best supporting evidence for their answer."
"Going forward, though, students will get a source document and be asked to analyze it for its use of evidence, reasoning and persuasive or stylistic technique."

CCSS
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Here's my perspective - I moved here in 2010 from Missouri, so my newbie info is a little out-of-date.

As far as working at a startup, don't worry. If you're halfway decent, people will be falling over themselves to hire you. Of course some skills will stand you in better stead than others; a GitHub full of Ruby/Python/Javascript is a lot more attractive in SF than a resume full of C# jobs.

The real worry right now is housing. You state that you'd like a convenient place to live. Given that a great many startups these days are in San Francisco, that means paying SF rents, or sacrificing convenience. You can afford SF rents by taking a roommate and living cheaply for surprisingly little - I know people doing it on $50-60K, but they have partners who earn significantly more.

If you want to do it solo, shoot for at least $130K or above. You're in a fiercely competitive rental market, and as someone without friends or connections should expect to pay $2-5k/mo just on rent, depending on your area. If that sounds extravagant, consider the numbers. At the high end of the range (and that's something like a good-sized one-bedroom apartment in SOMA), you're potentially spending $60K per year just on housing, in one of the highest-tax areas of the country.

The good news is that, if you're halfway decent, that's a very achievable salary. If you're good, you can earn far more, but generally that requires moving south.

As far as finding friends and jobs, I had good luck hanging out at hacker spaces like Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Noisebridge in SF, Sudo Room in Oakland, and a host of others. You'll find like-minded friends, housing connections, and jobs there. Programming meetups are a great way to connect professionally. Dolores Park in the Mission is a glorious place to spend the spring and summer, and it's always full of people on nice days.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that my company is hiring for Android, iOS, and JVM/Python backend roles - if that's up your alley, we'd love to talk to you, my username at Google's fine webmail service.
The version thing is interesting. How do you maintain various current versions of an API? If a URI cannot contain a version number (as the purists would claim) then versioning happens in the underlying code base? If so, a client still would have to specify a version, either in a query parameters, request header or somewhere else.

In reality, if an API doesn't contain a version number in it's URI will almost be impossible to maintain. To give a simple example, what if you decide to switch technologies between API v1 and v2? How would you deal with that? Some sort of abstraction layer I'd guess...

As far as I'm concerned, a version number in the URI makes the most sense. They way I look at is is that /v1/resources/123 is a different resource than /v2/resources/123.

So far, using a version number in the URI has worked out quite well for me over time since I can isolate various code bases containing different versions. Something that would not have been possible otherwise.
Treat Failure Like a Scientist
Why are the FEES we pay for tickets so inflated? Is there actually justified reasons as to why it takes so much to have this process happen (that isn't made visible) or is it pure profits for the man up top?
Is there a Stripe plugin for this for Woocommerce themes?
It doesn't have anything to do with the NSA. He was just saying that "for security reasons" is a stupid excuse that, he says, seems to be frequently used to excuse any nefarious behaviour.
The mobile number is entered by the user on his first purchase, not retrieved from the device itself. I don't think any device exposes phone numbers to browser APIs at all.
Ideally your data model is identified by the media type, which would look something like 'application/vnd.yourco.foo.v2+json', but in reality that will get you a lot of blank stares.
As someone who was perhaps the poorest member of my graduating class at an elite, private college, I can say with some degree of certainty that the SAT was an important, if not the most important, factor in helping me gain access to opportunities that no one from my rural community had ever had before. So in that sense, the SAT can be a tremendous equalizer, even if it is often the opposite.
Ratio of "acquihire haters" to "haters who would turn down a well-priced acquisition offer on that basis" = ERROR DIV0

Funnily enough, I've actually walked from an acquisition before. But for a very different reason: BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T OFFER ENOUGH MONEY. That's it. Full stop. I am running a business, after all.
honestly, they should opensource the checkout.js code, not just the demo
Good point - I agree that we can learn a lot from the way realistic lighting works in order to produce stylistic results. For example, I do a bit of radiosity which is sort of physically correct but not nearly enough samples to be accurate, and it is done in screen space. Even though it is a far cry from "realistic", it does add a lot visually IMHO.
Chrome can easily fix this, but it wouldn't actually be a bad idea for them to show a message to the user warning them of social-engineering based self-XSS attacks when devtools are first brought up.

Either that or "hide" the developer tools a bit like they do in modern Android so that it is really obvious to the user if they are directed to mess with things that they shouldn't be messing with without understanding them.
I think there is a lot of whimsy in what Don Knuth chose to do to version TeX -- using pi (3.14) and moving the precision to the right upon every (though, not often) version bump. Probably a little impractical for the rest of us, but it's my favorite! `So creative!
When you look at places like Fox News objectively there are the same problems. It is always a challenge for a media outlet to maintain high editorial standards, when those standards put it in conflict with the very people who provide the money to operate.

I give major props to folks resigning over having their integrity compromised.
Umkhonto we Sizwe did go to hell after he was imprisoned and become a terrorist organization, but it's hard to blame someone locked up in prison for that. I don't see any standard by which you could claim Mandela was a terrorist, which wouldn't also sweep up some of America's founders.

Mandela was no Gandhi, no saint. He resorted to discriminate violence when otherwise thwarted in fighting against injustice. But given them sum of his life I would aspire to be as humane a person as he was.
You've responded to one of the problems that was described and conveniently ignored the rest.
It's certainly not a criticism of markets per se - it's a criticism of those who think markets are an appropriate replacement for reason.
Um, 'cause they're dicks? :)
I don't agree with the top response's recomendation of using redirects to represent sunsetting of versions. That behaviour breaks POSTing. [1]

> Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after
receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 user agents
will erroneously change it into a GET request.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
No, I don't expect F2P+IAP games to dominate the PC industry. They are a completely separate market segment from so-called "hardcore" or "AAA" gamers. It's like asking if Youtube would kill the market for Hollywood movies and TV shows.
Can you share more on the "clever" part?
Not quite. If you tweet and brag about SSL or crypto support, then you must credit OpenSSL. If you brag about something that is not a feature derived from/dependent on OpenSSL, then the clause is irrelevant.
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach
I agree. To me Barbie looks obviously unrealistic which reinforces to me that it's a toy. However, I don't feel I have a good perspective on this because I never played with Barbies as a child. OTOH the toys I did play with were also not "realistic" in any sense.

Perhaps if kids grow up playing with realistic toys they won't think they are uncanny.
Are you referring to this?
"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too." (It's a lot funnier when delivered with good timing than when you read it.)

His comedy was very hit-and-miss, but some of it was spectacularly funny.
One might buy the computer as a present and want to surprise the gifted with Firefox already installed. Presents don't look that good unwrapped, so as they cannot install it themselves the only option left is to pay Dell to do it.
The more realistically proportioned dolls might only seem creepy because we're so accustomed to seeing dolls with exaggerated figures or proportions.
^what ben said, though I would tweak the "GitHub full of Ruby/Python/Javascript".

This is certainly great advice, but I think the most "to the point" way of communicating your skills is showing projects you've completed. Ideally mobile apps, which means you should add some Objective-C/Java to that list. These days good mobile devs are fewer than those who know the common web/javascript stacks (which are still important).

Overall — just make sure to show your future employer that you can "take it to the hole" and actually ship/create/finish a project. thats where the money is. Can you deliver? Or are you just another guy chasing APIs and buzzwords hoping to wear a hoodie and flip flops and be a snarky programmer?

(haha I'm sure that's not you!)
"If you have software which uses OpenSSL, and to promote it you send out a tweet, then the license requires you to include the above two lines in the tweet.
"

No.
If you have software that uses OpenSSL, and to promote it you send out a tweet that says "Use our product instead of our competitors, We use SSL to make things secure", then you must include the above two lines

For the clause to apply
1. It has to be an advertisement
2. It has to advertise the features that use openssl
Sorry, point of confusion here: what do you want to happen without the line? It's not clear from your comment.

Let Stripe remember the customer without asking (because repeated payments are an obvious thing, and you have to keep the details in your books anyway, so for them, it's a no brainer) or on the contrary don't even consider the possibility (because you don't expect any repeated sales)? In the first case, the problem is that you point it out to customer and make them scare of something innocuous, that they would find obvious if they had to go through it; in the second, you force them to click out an unnecessary option.

Comments seem to point at both options, without realising the confusion.
My understanding is that request header is the most standards compliant way. In principle, you could certainly determine how you interpret the URL based on that.

In practice, both clients and servers aren't really designed for that, though. Particularly browsers, if you expect people to want to access/explore your API that way.
Yes, Softcover has integrated support for making downloadable previews. In addition, currently the HTML version has to be either 100% free or 100% behind a paywall, but we plan to add the capability to make select HTML preview chapters available as well.
Stripe checkout is great, but I really miss the ability to add custom fields to the form, such as VAT number and Company name.

I realise that allowing to add a whole bunch of fields can hamper usability, but I have to collect the VAT number in order to figure out how much to charge the customer.

Does anyone have a recommendation about what to do here? Roll our own form and lose all the nice stuff from Stripe Checkout?
Display a new form for VAT after displaying checkout, and charge after that?
Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning at Twitter
More people are starting to handle their own crowdfunding. Lockitron got rejected by Kickstarter so they created an open-source app for it: http://selfstarter.us
I think that most American non-local new organizations have the same issue.
>> "Ratio of "acquihire haters" to "haters who would turn down a well-priced acquisition offer on that basis" = ERROR DIV0"

You sir/ma'am, are hilarious.
What are the statistics on the number of canceled or delayed flights that the average flier has in a year that would qualify for reimbursement?

I used to have 40 round trip flights a year not so long ago, and I'd say that there was probably only one or two flights that were canceled during that duration of time. Occasionally I'd volunteer to get off a flight to grab a voucher for reimbursement, but most of the time I only got a hotel or other small voucher for a flight cancellation.

I understand that Europe provides more compensation for technical problems, but are flight cancellations really that common of an occurrence for non-frequent fliers?
HOW "FROZEN" DIRECTOR JENNIFER LEE REINVENTED THE STORY OF THE SNow QUEEN
Surprisingly RT has not yet fired her.

Phil Donahue was fired from NBC for his anti Iraq war opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
Business card plays Tetris
Target CIO resigns amid breach investigations
While I personally think the above post is morally repugnant, I was very disappointed to see that it had been downvoted significantly and I upvoted it to try to balance it out. The poster might be wrong but he did so with a civil tone and an actual attempt to include citations. I question his basic premises but this is exactly the sort of thing that free speech should protect. He may be wrong and you can ignore it but you shouldn't be allowed to shut him up.
I take the SAT this saturday. To be blunt: They owe everyone a fucking apology over this.
A good place to start:

http://www.amazon.com/The-CERT-Secure-Coding-Standard/dp/032...

Online:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...

Others:

http://www.amazon.com/Secure-Coding-Edition-Software-Enginee...

http://www.amazon.com/Style-Guidelines-Programming-Professio...

http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...
And I trust the reinstall program that lives on the same system with this crapware why? I want a fresh install from Microsoft-signed media, not the crapware re-installing itself while it wipes all user-data.

In the immortal words of Ellen Ripley: Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Rain makes everything better (sound)
I'm running into error with "softcover server" not sure if it's my set up or if it's something in softcover.

I'm on os x, using ruby 193
Yes. They have patents pending for prequel injection too.
You might say they bother me at different levels. Having owned guns in an repressive state (but much less so than D.C., although that is and was true of every state to my knowledge), I can empathize with the "commoner".

Whereas the establishment of a shameless nomenklatura in the US is an existential threat to the Republic. Which could, I might add, have even nastier personal consequences.

Invidious gun grabber laws are as old as Reconstruction, but we've been fantastically successful at beating them back starting in 1986. Our fight with our ruling class ... not so much.
I secretly hope there's more adoption of client certs for browsers, bonus if could share the same cert or openssh and browser.
Heads up that it doesn't seem to work in IE11. Typed in "Chrome" and hit the button. Page refreshed, but nothing about the page changed except the text box was cleared.
Hey Patrick,

Any chance this is possible for us as well? This is the only reason we're using PayPal for the majority of transactions at the moment.

Thanks,
Ritesh
Autumn Ratke, CEO of Bitcoin Firm First Meta Found Dead
How Real Is “Her?” Five Myths About Intelligent Assistants
No. The original article claimed that too, but there’s absolutely no way that interpretation would hold up in court.

Lawyer goes to mozilla.com, clicks Download. “By the plaintiff’s interpretation, as they have distributed the product to me, I now have an installed Firefox. Let’s go to the Start Menu and attempt to run it. Wait, hmm, I see no menu icons. Let’s look on the filesystem. Hmm, no folder. Oh, I see, there’s this additional step beyond distribution that I have to take to be able to use the product. What’s that additional step called? Installation. What do we call it when someone does something for us so that we don’t have to do it? A Service. Thank you, Your Hono(u)r (this is the UK after all, though it’d be M’Lord).”

Might be dick-ish (subjectively). But the Mozilla claims that it’s clearly not allowed by their license or trademark (which implies no association), and the repetition of same by the article (and by numerous in the peanut gallery online) does not make it so - Dell’s response is correct.
I think that executing JS in the URL bar is disabled in all browsers now.
> Democracy 3 - $25 for an indie game and I think has only had one 50% sale

GOG.com have that on sale, right now, with a 50% cut. I also seem to recall it being in at least one of their wider sales.
Why 100? Why not just 5? Some people would 'get' it at five, some people at 100, and some people at a million. If you have to choose out of a million doors, and no matter what the host opens all but one of them, so that your prize is either behind the door you picked, or behind the other one -- then should you switch your choice?

Well, obviously, you should - with a million doors, it becomes obvious that you have just a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of having picked it.

But thing is - that "obvious" thing 'should' be just as obvious with 1000 doors, 100, 20, 5, or...3....

It's a matter of degree - not kind.

So appealing to a way of intuiting it that is a lot more 'obvious' - while in fact having the exact same format of question, just goes to underscore how fickle intuition can be.

That said, taking individual variables to ridiculous extremes is a great way to thought experiment and an awesome way to get intuition to work better.
Google Invests $50 Million in Property Broker Auction.com
I never understood this assertion. Most people I explain it to in this way still think it's 50:50 because you only have two doors left.
My Twitter timeline is boiling over with a review of her "old" articles which are just big piles of anti-US sentiment. Wonder when she got an integrity transplant?
Sorry for the inconvenience. If you join the [Softcover Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/softcover-publishing) and post the error message there, I'll take a look and see if we can figure it out.
> people have voted with their wallets and have said that Legos are worth greater than the sum of their parts

That's half a quote. The point you misquoted was very specific, regarding Legos being priced higher than their material costs works, because people value Legos for more than the plastic they're made with. That's not a tautology, that's a simple observation. This is without a doubt the worst conversation I've ever had about Legos.
There are several Santo Daime churches operating legally in the US (as well as in the Netherlands and its native Brazil), whose service includes court-sanctioned ayahuasca ceremonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Daime#United_States

http://www.bialabate.net/texts/oregon-daime-case-documents
Stanford Takes Away A Grad's MBA Degree
Propaganda is being spread by all the parts. Fox News and CNN are not any better. We should read it all, filter the propaganda out, and try to understand what's happening in this world. It's geopolitics, the big game of the big players. You think you exactly know what's happening in Ukraine and who's to blame? I wouldn't be that sure.
I've noticed a rather disturbing trend of thought in technology that's been showing up more and more recently with things like this: "Make it harder for users to know how things really work. Make it harder for users to explore, make mistakes, and learn. Make it harder for users to become developers. The less the users know, the easier it'll seem to them, and the easier it'll be for us to stay in control. Keep them ignorant and consuming. Lock them in a walled garden and tell them it's all 'for your security/safety'. Because knowledge is power, and we don't want that in the hands of the users."

Netflix doing this is one of the more obvious manifestations, but they are not alone - many other companies and even open-source, free-software projects are taking this approach, Google included.
As mark-r says, it's about bandwidth. The movies are not hand-carried to each theater.

JP2K is still the leader in visual quality per byte. All DCT-based compression systems (jpeg, mpeg, dv, etc) are prone to "mosquito noise" artifacts which are extremely annoying in moving pictures since the noise moves around and looks like mosquitos flying about. The usual workaround for mosquitos is to blur the picture a bit to make it easier to compress; but that softens the edges of object onscreen. Wavelet systems like jp2 suffer from different, less annoying, artifacts.

gzip'ing 4:2:2 is a terrible idea :-). Keep in mind that Jp2K does have a lossless mode which you can use if you really don't want to lose any quality.
>tricking people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do

Look at all of these people getting tricked into playing stupid match three games! Stupid sheep liking trash - that's a bug! They should like what I like! I have actual taste and plays real games and not this shit no one would play. They would pay for power? Bah! No one pays to have advantages. Sports competitors don't spend thousands of dollars to give themselves slight advantages in physical events. Why would anyone do that. Speaking of which, why would anyone support Duck Dynasty??? It must be a glitch in those human brains again.. so easily manipulated! They are obviously being tricked into liking that stupid show.

I'm not so arrogant that I think I'm smarter than everyone else. I think it's the simple case of me liking what I like and them liking what they like. If they like to spend their money on things I see as wasteful that's their choice. They probably feel the same way with how I spend my money.
Still works on Chrome 32/Win as of a minute ago.
Why not use a custom type instead of the 'Content-Type' header?

Edit: Looks like this may not be possible on a HTML 5 form.
First Crypto Currency/Altcoin Convention New York
Abled in chrome 33.
Pretty cool, but why reed switches on the door instead of a passive IR detector with a timeout? Neither is perfect, but the PIR doesn't rely on people to remember not to close the door when leaving (which I assume is how they determine actual occupancy?).

You could wire the same PIR to also control the light on/off state, so if someone is having an epic poop but not moving too much you can be pretty sure they'll move to make the light go on if they hit the timeout.
Disabled in Safari and Firefox, still works in Chrome Canary.
The poster did not "tie this bit of javascript to the NSA". She/he argues that blindly acquiescing to removal of rights in the name of security is a bad idea, using the NSA phone tapping deal as a point of comparison.
Unapologetic about my own happiness
>compulsive gamblers

Very small percentage of the population. Please don't try to take away my liberties when you think you are smarter than everyone else.

>think of the children

>but there needs to be more effort to reduce the harm to children

It's called parenting.