skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does programming have to do with PCs? Computers and programming existed long before that :)

Older people I've known continued to work with what they call "real" computers in the 80's and 90's, not PCs. Mainstream PCs didn't even have multiple processes until the 90's (386).
there is also https://github.com/khamidou/kite in early development...
Some might argue that buttons should remain buttons and loaders should remain loaders.
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> I just don't believe it. I can't believe it.

Well, I like having the option to say "no", even if most users don't know to do so.

> For one thing, we know they're helping the government spy on people.

The NSA used windows error reporting, which works by sending stack dumps to Microsoft.

The use of Windows Error Reporting is opt-in.

> ...the corporations should have to follow a TOS written by some consortium of smart tech-minded people and not bought and sold congressmen and lawyers ...

We should have better privacy laws that treat personal information as a valuable user-owned commodity that can't be aggregated and sold; the dangers inherent in a self-sufficient private surveillance apparatus are just too staggering:

- It is far too easily co-opted by the state, as evidenced by NSA revelations.

- The power and information asymmetry between individuals and corporations can easily grow to the point where fair trade is simply not viable. A hypothetical:

- Google knows the contents of your e-mails
- Google has cookies in your browser
- Google knows where you log in from
- Google notices that you (or your business) is planning
a trip.
- Google sells this information to the airlines
- The airlines adjust their rates based on the perceived likelihood
of your paying the higher or lower rate, based on insider knowledge
of your income and need.

This is hardly science fiction in a world where Target knows its customers are pregnant before their immediate family does.

Google (and others) are already tracking you around the web, reading your communications, hosting your corporate e-mail. Google Analytics is in everything.

The end-game just doesn't seem ideal here.
Yeah, and a lot of that is based on baby boomer (and older) nostalgia that sees college as a place to acquire a broad education and to 'find yourself.' In other words, its completely unsuitable to a world of student loan debt that is spiraling out of control.
The biggest hurdle for improving the law school tuition is the ABA accreditation standards. Namely:

Standard 304. COURSE OF STUDY AND ACADEMIC CALENDAR

(a) A law school shall have an academic year of not fewer than 130 days
on which classes are regularly scheduled in the law school,
extending into not fewer than eight calendar months. The law school
shall provide adequate time for reading periods, examinations, and
breaks, but such time does not count toward the 130-day academic
year requirement.

(b) A law school shall require, as a condition for graduation,
successful completion of a course of study in residence of not fewer
than 58,000 minutes of instruction time, except as otherwise
provided. At least 45,000 of these minutes shall be by attendance in
regularly scheduled class sessions at the law school.

(c) A law school shall require that the course of study for the J.D.
degree be completed no earlier than 24 months and no later than 84
months after a student has commenced law study at the law school or
a law school from which the school has accepted transfer credit.

(d) A law school shall require regular and punctual class attendance.

(e) A law school shall not permit a student to be enrolled at any time
in coursework that, if successfully completed, would exceed 20
percent of the total coursework required by that school for
graduation (or a proportionate number for schools on other academic
schedules, such as a quarter system).

(f) A student may not be employed more than 20 hours per week in any
week in which the student is enrolled in more than twelve class
hours.
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I haven't used Microsoft Cortana, so I'm not sure if it's any good, but they reportedly get one thing Google completely misses: people want a personal assistant, not a creepy stalker. A personal assistant takes care of the kinds of tasks you tell him or her to handle; a stalker does things he or she thinks you want. Big difference. My personal assistant would schedule meetings at work. My stalker would send my mistress flowers for her birthday.
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No. It's a one-time prompt when you first configure Android.
Answering my own question, here is a great one from an artist that I love: http://www.bathsheba.com/math/gyroid/
There's nothing about that article that was "out for vengeance". It was a pretty even-handed look at what is a very present issue in tech culture today.

By the way, while I realize those admonishments were tongue-in-cheek, they were, in fact, largely correct. The problem isn't so much that we shouldn't be telling sex jokes in a public, professional forum. It's that you seem to think you have a right to do so free of the consequences of violating social norms. When women and minorities speak about privilege—that's part of what they're pointing at.
The shoe incident really confused me... maybe because I skim-read, but will read again when I'm off this flight and on a bigger screen than my blackberry.

I understand that memory of things will practically dead might be possible, and while the science goes over my head, I'm fine with that. Even "looking down on yourself" can be achieved with a.) science of still remembering something and b.) imagination

But figuring out something no-where near your body, like the shoe outside... short of a non-scientific explanation (e.g. religious), I really can't see how that could ever be possible.
I went to SUNY Stony Brook and graduated with a BS double majoring in Computer Science and Applied Math in 3 years. My wife and her roommate also graduated with CS degrees in 3 years. All it takes is focus, and scheduling things properly so that the long prerequisite chains are taken care of.

To do the double major, I did need to apply for overload (more than 19 credits, up to 24) for 3 of the semesters that I was there; but I could still have probably done 2.5 years if I did not want to do a CS honors project.

A public university has no incentive to keep you there longer than necessary; and once you were a full time student, it was the same cost to take 24 credits as to take 12.
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> He wouldn't be giving away any value, somebody else would be starting a company that happened to pay him for service.

If he wouldn't be giving away value, then how could there be enough margin for said company to survive? The point of white-labeling is to let other people build solutions outside of your core competency, using your system effectively as a commodity.

For someone like cperciva, that would be giving away an awful lot of value to people whose sole contribution would be marketing and extremely high-level software development.

He should hire to fill this gap, not give away his margins to marketing suits.
I wonder what it would take to compile a directory of companies and the way each one classifies each piece of their users' data.

For example, at the company I work for, we have a master list, with several levels. Things like password and SSN are the most sensitive, and have much more stringent requirements for how we handle them than a user name.

I think it'd be useful as a user to know what each company's policies are. Ex: Yahoo doesn't mind linking name/email publicly, so maybe I give them a false name. It'd also be useful for companies to compare themselves to their peers, and make corrections if/where they diverge.
Just because you do it in 3 years doesn't mean you take any less gen ed, the degree requirements are exactly the same; you just have to work at a higher intensity for 3 years instead of 4.
If I'm not mistaken, this represents a reversal of Ebay policy: in the past, they used to terminate your account, freeze your assets, etc at the first hint that you were selling Bitcoins. They didn't do this to everybody, but it happened often enough.

Unfortunately, the same old problem occurs here: how do you trade an irreversible currency for a reversible one?
Intermittent bitter winters result in negative real interest rates - you'd gladly give up a loaf of bread plus something else now (in summer) for a guaranteed loaf of bread later (in winter).

With periodic long-term negative real interest rates, hoarding or investing in hoard-protecting projects (fortresses, larders, giant walls) makes more sense than investing in capital that will become idle in a long-term bitter winter - especially when that source of capital makes you a target.
I run ops at my current ship, and my counterpart is our lead developer.

I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, but together we have a very strict "We DO NOT deploy production changes on Friday". New chef script? Monday. Change to how we're sending writes or reads to different DB clusters? Monday.

I do not know why this isn't the norm in more places.
...or how much the energy bill is for the Airbus sized autoclave needed to make them.
No that is the common mistake of employing mercenarys and finding out to late that have taken over as the Indian Princes found to their cost when they got to British and french to fight for them.

Then problems the Roman empire had with the Praetorians deciding who was to be emperor is a related problem
I saw a similar issue with a company that sold tickets to events several years ago. They sent me an email with a link to my e-ticket. The URL had a sequential id, and there was no auth/verification that I was the one who purchased it.

So, I took a look at the person who ordered before me, and was able to view their name/address, and could have printed their tickets to the event!
After thinking about it for a minute, I don't have an opinion on your comment either way, but I think it's a good question to ask.

This control is more concise than two controls, which is nice especially on mobile. But, we could easily hide the button with animation, and replace it with a classic loader. Can we say anything about which approach is better, without empirical data?

I excitedly up-voted the post after clicking a few buttons, and I think the author is a creative and clever person either way!
4% if it's successful or 9% if it's not, so about $40k currently. I'm guessing this is a huge reason that they haven't pulled it.
(f) seems particularly troubling to me. How can one expect to work their way through school, if they are not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. This seems like a really bogus restriction for a school to place on you.
Why hasn't Westeros had an industrial revolution?

Because no one has ever had one[1].

There was no industrial revolution in China or India or the Muslim world who arguably were more advanced than medieval Europe.

There was no industrial revolution in Rome or the Hellenistic era who had vastly more potential in the creation and exchange of ideas than the medieval period.

There were no industrial revolutions among the new world civilizations who had larger populations than any medieval nation. There were no industrial revolutions in sub Sarahan African even though there was iron working and abundant resources.

Quite possibly the industrial revolution was actually an improbable set of circumstance and people for which ad hoc but inadequate explanations abound.

(and so there hasn't been an industrial revolution on that tv show because it is unrealistically unlikely.)

[1]With one exception, the one we happen to live in.
In the kitchen maybe is the perfect place for the thing to use to have replacement food items added to your shopping list. That's where they want you to keep it even.
The video game market basically resets every five years with a new generation of consoles. Totally different from software platforms, where consumers stick to an old choice because they have legacy software written for it.
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No.

This device purports to be able to measure glucose levels non-invasively. That is 100% verifiable, and most likely BS (to an accuracy that a diabetic would need).

Considering that diabetes is a real illness and that glucose monitoring is very important to keeping diabetics alive, this kind of thing doesn't get a pass by being "religious," like a magnetic anti-sea-sickness bracelet might.
I have the same expectations if Apple were to come out with an iWatch. I'm also absolutely sure they won't be achieving that with a couple of piezos and impedance sensors.
I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with that word. Is it derogatory?
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I was an early fan of now on android but I think i'll be disabling this as it provides only useless notifications based on items tangentially related to things i've had a passing interest in and no longer provides up to date package tracking etc. Lately it has been giving me basketball scores because I read a machine learning article on predicting sports results despite having no interest in organized sports.

Additionally since it first came out I've started working from home in a rural area with decent but low density cell coverage that slows cellular assisted gps. This seems to convince it that I work at a cell tower giving totally meaningless travel time results to random hill tops.

I think this is an example of a tool that was only tested by and is really only useful for people in the young, urban, travel a lot demographic that most google employees are in. I know that google considers their culture sacred but they really need to diversify at least their least their test users it if they want to make products that the population as a whole benefits from.
This reminds me of this UX Overflow post about the right way to do "Yes, delete it": http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/49991/should-yes-delet...

I think a more contrasting approach to color is likely better - maybe you start with a green button, which goes Gray on click, and then fills with brighter green. This will avoid issues with color-blindness, or even just myopia, where people won't really see the subtle color filling in.
Neither of your examples are degrees that were pursued in order to get a job in the student's eventual career; so I do not see how they are relevant. If "a large number of people end up heading another direction at some point, if not right after college" it seems that general education would be more important than career specific education.

(I too was a PSC major and ended up doing my 1L year before wandering elsewhere)
I mean, you can pretty much already do that with AWS, and with hourly pricing to boot. It might be nice to have something configured for easy integration into an ldap authentication mechanism, but I imagine you could get a base image built for a company fairly easily.
Call your credit card company and do a chargeback. It's easy, straightforward, and if you tell them you accidentally put money into a scam and that there is $1M invested in this, they might do an investigation on their end.
Casual readers may not realize that Mona Simpson is Steve Jobs' sister.
We've had ways to measure glicose non-invasively since the 90s, but since we're dealing with human lives - glucose monitoring is a matter of life and death for people with diabetes - such a device must be at least as accurate as finger-stick meters. None has come close so far.
You can basically do this with the "building" gem: https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs/building

It uses Heroku buildpacks to build self-contained containers with all your dependencies with one command: building containername
Maths helped to spot voting fraud in Turkey's elections
Expiration helps very little if the valid IDs are still easily enumerable. Access control, not expiration, is what is called for here.

Edit: expiration would limit the scope of data leakage, and should also be looked into, but expiration without access controls still allows patient attackers to collect all of the data being generated and store it for future use.
Very true. It's a shame because IMHO programming can be a mixture of recreation and productive work. After retirement, the recreational aspect may come to the fore.

Also, I've met many programmers who were obliged to program with such persistence and effort that over time they learned to hate it. This is a risk with anything one chooses to do for a living, which is why it's prudent to avoid doing things for a living that you love.
So your problem is with the student loan debt and not the value placed on a broad education?
I'm waiting for physicists to discover that the passage of time fluctuates. It really feels that way.
Also, your website is unreadable on mobile due to that damn sidebar.
Lemons are a good example of something that works poorly for self checkout. They are small and round which is hard to have a barcode label displayed on. They're worried about weight and that you aren't stealing. It's often much easier to scan a barcode when you're holding the scanner and not the object.

Though in this case, you could also just say "lemons" and be done with it.
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From the description on Wikipedia, it doesn't seem to be a pejorative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin
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I can not imagine working more than 20 hours a week during the 1L year. I only did my 1L year so maybe things change in the second and third year. Did you think the first year was easy?
Wesleyan has no hard-and-fast gen ed requirements, which makes this easier to pull off for students.

Some majors do require them for Honors, though.
I'll believe that Microsoft has changed when one can install Windows on a machine without it blowing away a pre-installed Linux partition.
Well, one way of graduating earlier is to do what you did-another tack would be to do what some people are suggesting, and mimic places like Britain (correct me if I'm wrong here) where people mostly take courses in their field of study, with much less gen ed.
This is a boring view! All the same concepts of classes, interfaces, objects still exist when using Lua, you just don't have a canonical implementation. This is also interesting in itself -- the best class system may spread and be improved.
They already have this with their smartphone app. You scan with your camera (which is slower than the laser based method of the Dash), but then see the product and pricing from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=aw_ppricecheck_i...
What Microsoft did was hire Charles Simonyi in order to productize the research into Word
It's not unrelated, there's a hammer animation after the Hammer class, and dust after Dust.
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The violin requires physical adaptations in order to progress past a certain level. You have to start developing those adaptations when you're very young. Otherwise you'll never be quite as fluid with it as someone who has. I suspect that there are no world-class violinists who started as adults.
"To echo some of the other comments, non-invasive glucose testing is a 'holy grail' of diabetes research efforts and would be hailed as a major breakthrough--something covered by major media outlets and aggresively pursued by all of big pharma and biotech."

No, it wouldn't. It is currently extremely difficult to find money for medical devices. We have a working prototype of a non-invasive blood glucose measurement system, including several peer reviewed publications. Yet, it seems impossible to find venture capital for this. The pay off in IT und Web Start-ups is just much better.
Both, but I don't think you can realistically ignore the problems of student loan debt these days. The less time you spend in college, the less debt you'll accumulate.
I had to look that quote up to make sure you weren't kidding. Schmidt is a one-man anti-PR operation.
No, people are judging because they're claiming a huge medical breakthrough out of nowhere.

People would equally skeptical of the kids down the block claiming to have cracked cold fusion.
AFAIK the donation was 8 years ago, not 6.

Other than that I upvoted because of the seemingly honest account, and the datapoint, but I disagree in several points. This was IMO what in modern times we call a witch hunt, at full blast. He was pressured inside the company in several ways, inquired at every opportunity in almost every meeting.

And I also believe that you are not in a position to claim that nobody from the board pressured him to resign in anyway. I think it's likely that they did, even if they didn't spell it out.

IMO firing him just worsened things for Mozilla a lot more than appointing him. This is now an even much more divisive issue and it has reached out to many, many more people.
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Most people would not call only releasing the data to a journalist "publishing", and much less "with malicious intent".

weev didn't put his dump up on the pirate bay, he sent it to Gawker.
For the unaware. SBI is india's largest public sector bank if not the largest bank.
It's obvious you don't know very much about serotonin. Here's why:

SSRIs bind to the serotonin transporter SERT. The 'selective' part means that it has a much higher affinity for SERT than other monoamine transporters (e.g., DAT or NET). Although you're correct that there are various serotonin receptor subtypes, there is only one known SERT (there is only one gene).

SSRIs do exhibit extremely weak affinity to serotonin receptors but it is so low that it doesn't matter which subtype has a higher affinity than another. If you want to latch on to 5HT receptors with interesting ratios and affinities, the correct psychiatric drug would be an antipsychotic.

Please stop defending the chemical imbalance model when you do not understand the science at all. Thank you.
"Non-invasive glucose monitoring is a holy grail of biomedical engineering. "

We could show you a working prototype in our lab anytime. Investors welcome. ;-)
I was in a shop looking for a camera SD card and they were all listed with capacities in "Gb". I thought it was unusual to see these sold by the gigabit. (Turned out they weren't.)
Actually that was the reality fracturing and being put back together (sort of) by the history monks - its why you have Elizabethan theater next to an 18 century opera
I was enthusiastic about this being able to replace Roundcube/Gmail (what I currently use), but it's rather ugly (no offense to the author.)

If nobody else is going to, I may start work on some better styles for it. Also, I'm not really sure why there are two panels and profile pictures; neither gmail nor Roundcube nor Outlook do this. (Gmail and Outlook do put profile pictures to the side of the email itself when opened, however.)
I would presume a bit of verification if it were a YC funded startup, or really any identifiable company with funding. Not a lot, but some. Ties to a reputable institution like a university, or a person known in a field, etc. would also be positive.

If it's relatively anonymous, it has to stand on its own with whatever proof provided; I'd accept a claim from my neighbor-of-N-years that "your house is on fire" a lot more than I'd accept the same claim in email from Nigeria, but if someone had a live photo/video feed of my house on fire, I'd believe even an anonymous source to a reasonable degree (modulo photoshopping, etc.)
> This is hardly science fiction in a world where Target knows its customers are pregnant before their immediate family does.

It's truly not: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/eric-schmidt-on-fut...

"The power of individual targeting — the technology will be so good it will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them," says Eric Schmidt.