skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like anecdotes like this because they back the assertion Stop and Frisk does societal good.

It implies that police are able to discern the difference between "good people" and "bad people", and that "stopping the bad ones" doesn't harm society at large because "the good ones" don't get stopped.

This is hurtful to those who have experienced it first hand, and to those who are seeking equality of all people under the law.
> Given that we're tying Eich to a stake here

Except that no one is doing that. There's a pretty vast gulf between boycott and witch-burning.
Federal law doesn't recognize civil unions. Separate but equal is never equal.
"> You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country ...."

"Do we? I'm not sure."

Actually I find the parent comment such a wide generalization that's it's almost laughable.
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Bookmarklet. Play 2048 on any website, because.
What problem is created by OkCupid dissuading users from Firefox, exactly?
What is unlikely? It appears VS caches the MSBuild projects [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/6217800/242520
No accountants are very important also in Denmark. Danish company tax system is very very complicated. So you are correct.
You should take any results anywhere with a pinch of salt.

However, it's not that benchmarks are meaningless -- review their methods. If you can think of a way to test that they're not following, or find some flaw in their testing methodology, then tell them about it, and have them fix it (or post what's wrong somewhere), but they are pretty up front about HOW they test, so results should not surprise you, given enough knowledge of the frameworks involved (if they test something that flask is great at and tornado is not, that will be obvious given knowledge of how the test was conducted)
I have used yEd for a few years to do simple mind mapping with graphs. Not the best solution, but it works.
I'm not the one that downvoted you, but here's why:

It's as groan-inducingly absurd as "how about you mail me a full stack of strawberry pancakes flaked with gold, just because I asked nicely?"

It adds nothing to the conversation but a silly, burdensome request thinly veiled as a lame joke.
Or adopted.
Nope. Error bars are precise.
Unit tests? You mean functional api level load testing?
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It seems like he (or someone) could quickly code up a javascript demo of what he wants using D3.js. Maybe this is my excuse to learn D3.
I don't understand how same-sex marriage threatens childbirth if same-sex couples couldn't birth them anyway.
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Yes! Amazing for managing trees!
Looking through some of the data shows that blacks are overrepresented in crime[1] compared to their proportion of the population[2].

What would be the right thing to do? I think that everyone should be treated equally and all have the same rights as anyone else. Given the data I sympathize with a police force that resorts to profiling. There are likely larger social issues at play here, we are seeing symptoms of other problems.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_plan...

[2] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36000.html
For the record, you can still use OKC with Firefox; you just get a lecture when you do it.

Is it okay to discriminate against Nazis, or is that hypocritical?
MIT definitely has the most penetration of the 'hacker' culture. If it came down to MIT vs Harvard, I would personally choose MIT. Out of all three, MIT tends to be less elitist, from my personal experience.
If you ever get lost or stuck with a mouse&keyboard. . .

This is all true. But the fact that it's even possible to get so lost, and the fact that we don't feel feckless and asinine in sharing hints for how to get out of that situation on a forum for hackers. . . it still betrays a serious, disastrous user experience failure.

Having the user get stuck in situations where they don't know how to accomplish some specific task is probably always going to be an unavoidable risk. But to take the "I have no idea where I am and I have no idea how to get out" level of lost-ness experience that was previously only possible in command-line interfaces, and figure out how to re-create it in a windowed GUI. . . It's really a pretty impressive feat, when you think about it.
> but because it was stated that anyone who supports basic income "borders on innumeracy"

This is a blatant misrepresentation of what he said. The exact quote is:
"Like most political arguments, the discussion of a Basic Income borders on innumeracy."

First of all, it says nothing about the supporters of a basic income being innumerate, but that the discussion itself (on both sides) is. If you bother to actually _read_ that paragraph, his point is that discussions about basic income don't include an attempt to make things concrete with hard numbers. It's a fair complaint that his analysis is only a baby-step in that direction, but he also explicitly addresses that, saying that he was just giving an example of _how_ one would go about bringing more numbers into the debate (i.e. the missed potential effects that you noticed).
Maybe he didn't see it? No one else responded to the comment either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727029

It's hard to take many interesting ideas out of this implication of bad faith on Chris's part. Wouldn't it be better to talk about the topic of the post?
Yep, same here. I expect a massive surge in Win7 adoption over the next few months. Remember that Win7 (and Win7 only) ships with XP Mode - the perfect last ditch solution for people with legacy apps or hardware that won't run any other way. So it's an incredibly attractive solution for anyone stuck with a gazillion WinXP boxes to upgrade.
MIT or Stanford. If you want to be well rounded, read books.
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I can't really vouch for Stanford either way though, as I've never been there or really worked with Stanford grads/students close enough to have an opinion.
Sure, but you can make some reasonable guesses from other available sources, including his own statements. But his motivation is not really the issue we were discussing - it was whether the government just up and destroyed Lavabit on a whim. You said "it doesn't change the fact that US killed it since the government wanted to have access to all users' data without any restrictions and warrants." It doesn't change the fact because the fact is not a fact.

However you want to interpret his actions, there's little doubt that Lavabit's grief was entirely self-inflicted.
I also think this whole thing is overblown but I hope it will help to further humble Coinbase in realizing that they really need to focus more efforts on squashing things like this before they become a problem. Coinbase has a large responsibility in whether or not Bitcoin is to become "accepted" in the USA and several small events like these left unsettled or left to fester could prove catastrophic(IMO).

I don't believe Coinbase should consider this a real "security threat". I believe that this is a negative side-effect of what may be a feature. It is certainly something that needs improvement, as I'm sure all of the people whose email has been leaked will tell you...

I'm not sure if Coinbase has an engineering blog or a similar outlet where they can speak to more developers directly but if they do not have one already, this may be the time to start. This could've been squashed entirely within a small development community but when left unsettled for so long, it is things like this that the news will latch onto and run with
We all know how blown out of proportion things get when that happens.

Anyway, long story short... I hope Coinbase improves. As much as I hate to say that a tech company needs more representatie
I think the point was that while the police are biased by race, other biases sometimes override the race bias. I wouldn't read that as backing Stop & Frisk.
I'm always looking for Dart programmers to contribute to the Dart port of chess.js, chess.dart. https://github.com/davecom/chess.dart
I believe the example Obama gave was: would a cab driver stop for him?
What legal rights has Linus Torvalds tried to take away from minorities?
If you're really interested in entrepreneurial pursuits, Stanford is the way to go. They've got better infrastructure and guidance around it than anyone else.

Also, Boston is horrible weatherwise. You'll really regret it your first winter out there.
> If yes, you don't want to be standing on the wrong side of history by publicly expressing your disagreement.

Lincoln was very much on the wrong side of history, and even in his time many abolitionists argued that it was horribly immoral to allow slavery where it existed, or to end slavery only in military-occupied areas of the Confederacy. Should we have shunned him then?

This is exactly why I don't like black/white mob rule, FWIW. Life's too complex to be reduced to a set of tripwires that define our behavior. Evolution has provided us all with the most advanced processing devices on this planet, we should all feel free to use them to examine a given case on its own merits.
If you go to MIT you can cross-register for courses at Harvard as well. That would get you out of the area where you grew up, give you a great engineering degree, and allow you to better round out your liberal arts. I don't know how well that would fit into your specific degree requirements, but it might be something worth exploring while you're making your decision.
Windows 8/8.1 has additional security against viruses and malware compared with Windows 7 and for this reason alone I would suggest the update to 8.1

It use it in a Parallels VM but it takes little time to become adjusted to using 8.1
"Less elitist" may not appeal to someone who announces on HN that he or she got into these three colleges. Harvard it is!
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— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
http://scripting.com/98/01/stories/frontier5IsAnOutliner.htm...
Just to note, almost nobody does this in practice. It's inconvenient and there's more than enough to take at MIT. Friends I had who cross-enrolled only did it for special subjects, like advanced Arabic or Russian.
IMO, the best April 1st jokes are both good satire and well thought out enough to actually be implemented. Consider that RFC 1149 was intended as a joke, only to actually be successfully implemented years later.
Honestly, I didn't want to rag on anybody, but I'm kind of surprised a forum full of hackers managed to get so stuck. Alt+Tab is something I would expect everyone here to know, and it was literally the first shortcut I tried when I got confused on my first foray with Win8. But I suppose use of the keyboard to navigate anything may be a dying art.
MIT and Stanford will be more helpful if you are planning to be engineer in the long run. And by long run I don't mean just employment, I am talking more along the terms of your identity. Having said that I don't think you could go wrong with either one. But the question to ask given your situation is do you think your school is going to play a very large part in what you achieve. It might play a small part but your actions are going to determine most of the outcomes. How much do you think Elon Musk is what he is for which schools he went to? I contend there might be a very small part. Congratulations and good luck.
Amazon won't tell you my name until I make a transaction with you. If I add your item to my cart and never check out, they won't tell you anything about me.

That doesn't seem to be the case with Coinbase, they seem to give you the information when you propose a transaction.
Why not have a hierarchical menu and a search box? Sometimes I can't remember the name of a program I haven't used in a while, so I click around until I find it.

I really like the way KDE does things: favourites list with search box above, with an applications list a click away.
These guys stuck the knife into MtGox... when they themselves are no better.

Check the forums over at BitcoinTalk, for months now, people using Kraken have been unable to withdraw their money, and deposits have been going 'missing'. The fact that support is conducted over a public forum, out of sheer desperation on the customers part, tells you something.

If CoinBase did go down, would you bet against the other providers crafting a public relations message to drum up business for themselves? It's dog eat dog out there - the idea that there is a community of Bitcoin businesses looking out for each other is a joke.
Heyy congrats on getting into all three schools!

I'm a CS concentrator here at Harvard and could give you some real advice when you come to visit; both the good and bad about coming here. Lucianoarango-at-college-dot-harvard-dot-edu
More precisely, because eyes (plural, operating as a single input) aren't square.

16x[9/10] sort-of matches the field of view we have.
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The author has just renamed MVC to match the terminology that Angular uses. It's still the same thing.

Model is used to manage data from a web service, Angular calls it a Service (or Factory).

Views output the markup injected into the DOM, same as a Directive.

Controllers bind the Models and Views, and just so happen to have the same name in Angular.
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Well, if you're okay with XML there's Microsoft's XML Notepad. It's xsd-aware so you get type-safe constrained tree editing. But it's ms, XML, and xsd...that's like 3 strikes.
If you want to be a Senator, go to Harvard. You'll be playing beer pong with future big wigs.

Stanford and MIT are both great engineering schools. Stanford has a unique startup culture and great weather. MIT kids seem to dive deeper into the fundamentals, due to fewer distractions from class work.
I've been using Windows 8 and I'm pretty happy with it, but the first thing I did when I installed it was install Start 8 and configured the system to login directly to the desktop, and hide all the "metro" apps from the start menu and disabled all the stupid charm stuff. (Which is pretty simple, it took about 15 minutes, although granted it took some third party software). I haven't even seen metro in months. Once you do that, it's basically a faster version of windows 7.

I think the improvements to the core os and the desktop are worth the upgrade, but jesus, metro is stupid on anything but a tablet.
I'd vote for MIT because your peers will have more of a engineering / programming mindset.

Do you want to do business and build startups or be in a workshop building cool toys?

If you want to build businesses then Stanford would be a great place to go.

Stay focused! Good luck!
My background: undergrad at UCSD, phd at MIT. Also taken courses at community college, san francisco state, private SF-based k-8, public high school (in marin county). I feel like I've sampled a wide range of US-types of education.

I'd consider if you have any idea whatsoever if you want to go to grad school or not. You'd be a fool to think you'd know now, but if you can project out a bit it helps.

If you want to go to grad school, that will end up mattering more because it's where you'll specialize. Undergrad is more for opening up your mind and creating early-stage networks. You'll get amazing networks at all 3 of those and ultimately can't fail. But the cultures are very different at each place, and I say that knowing 2/3 of those cultures very well.

Go to Harvard if you want to be a non-technical CEO. It won't be super rigorous (redonk grade inflation) but the surrounding egos will elevate yours and give you the confidence to do whatever you want (justified or not). That's something I saw in the transition from UCSD to MIT -- your peers will push you. There's also lots of good people running around, and your network will be super strong.

Go to Stanford if you want to be a technical CEO. You should probably leave the bay area for a bit, but you can also do that after college. It's not like Cambridge, MA is that crazy different in the same way that living outside the US would be, so don't think that level of geographic movement is so significant from years 18-22. Go study abroad your junior year for that (which I _highly_ recommend).

Go to MIT if you're more interested in being technical than CEO, but it's still possible. MIT culture values raw technical talent more than the other three (IMHO), and is very 'purist' in that respect. But people will be the most autistic compared to the other two, so if you want to learn to be a "normal" person go elsewhere. That said I loved MIT, and it was an amazing place to do a phd. It's full of super super smart people, and then normal smart people. Not many actually dumb people (all 3 will have that in different proportions), just many non-creative people.
Go wherever you get the most amount of free money. In fact, your position is so advantageous that it might be worthwhile to see if you can leverage them against one another to get some perks. I have no clue whether or not this kind of negotiation would work, given how competitive each of these schools is, but it might be worth a shot.
They're better at humanities if that's a strong interest. But I agree otherwise :)
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Have you seen Tom Sawyer software? components such as https://www.tomsawyer.com/products/layout/index.php (commercial).
Why would you switch from something at the very bottom of the list to something in the middle of the list?

Why are you even using Python if you are worried about performance?
Stanford!
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Boston weather isn't a reason to not go to MIT or Harvard.
I've been broken into before too, it sucks. What was the method of entry? Can you prevent the same thing from happening again by improving something? That's better than the alarm IMHO.
Having gone through a similar process, and coming out on the other end, my impression is that it really doesn't matter which school you go to.

All that matters is how you spend your time. If you are serious about entrepreneurship, and serious about going off the beaten path (this takes some introspection, with data that may take some time to collect), then the time you spend in school is really just a minor asset.

You need to ask the question - who am I and what kind of role can/do I want to play in creating a business. And your time should be oriented to that, as opposed to spending an excessive time acing classes.
With the 2048-as-a-service thing earlier, I thought at first that this was just a misspelled attempt to try to one-up them.
I read the site but I didn't drink the kool-aid!
I'm STILL not convinced that this is a real story, and not an ongoing April Fool's prank. We'll see later in the week.

However, even if it DOES turn out to be legit... how dumb would you have to be to make any major announcement over the Internet on 4/1? Much less raise a question, conduct only a few hours of discussion and polling, and then make your final decision within a few hours... all on a day where most of the people commenting on that Jira ticket probably thought they were participating in a joke.

This is either the most well-played April Fool's joke since "OMG Ponies!!!", or else the absolute dumbest thing I have ever seen Apache do.
Well you chose a rather appropriate username. Congratulations on getting into so many good schools!
Frontier has been reborn. Dave Winer's outline editor is now GPLed and runs in a browser: http://scripting.com/2013/09/16/concordOurGplOutliner

There's a forked version that can save to the local filesystem here: https://github.com/interstar/OWL
Yes, I believe git-crypt is secure for that use case (as long as you keep your git-crypt key secure, of course). Although I'm not a professional cryptographer, I've taken Coursera's crypto course, have read Cryptography Engineering, and keep myself informed of the various pitfalls and attacks on crypto.

On the theory side, git-crypt uses AES in CTR mode with a nonce derived from the HMAC of the file. This is provably secure against an attack model called deterministic chosen-plaintext attack. In this regard, git-crypt is more secure than many similar projects (such as git-encrypt), which use AES in ECB mode or CBC mode with a fixed IV. These systems leak information and are not secure against deterministic chosen-plaintext attacks.

On the implementation side, git-crypt uses OpenSSL's crypto functions and the crypto code is extremely simple - pretty much a textbook example of how to properly do AES in CTR mode.

If anyone's curious, here's the code where AES-CTR is implemented: https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt/blob/master/crypto.cpp#L76

And here is where it calculates the nonce (and also checks to make sure the counter value won't be overflowed): https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt/blob/master/commands.cpp#L...
If you are not sure about MIT, don't go to MIT. Thats one thought I heard around campus at MIT.

It will be a good journey. Try to get laid.
The lower classes get the benefit of extra law enforcement in most places in the world. I suspect that that is mostly by default; the upper class people are much more difficult to enforce laws against. In many places the classes are colour coded for convenient identification. As a result it is pretty much impossible to separate race and class. People will assume either prejudice as required to support their opinion of random shakedowns.
Sorry, I'll adjust my comments to be even wordier so that my obvious hyperbole to make a point will be either more obvious or less hyperbolic.
If I had to do it all over again. I'd pick a place where there's a good state school with attractive girls and good pick-up basketball/soccer games and a good academic school with relatively open campus.

I'd then find a PT job doing programming and go to lectures at good academic school and then on weekends and in afternoon go to state school for parties and sports for well rounded education in theoretical CS, professional programming and personal liberal arts (not talking about the Hegelian dialectics, but how to hold you liquor, how talk to girls, how to drive and finish at the hoop, and budgeting and saving on your personal retirement plan/nest egg early).

But since youth is wasted on the young, I say Stanford. Since the youth craves some kind of redemption of respect but nowadays it seems like old East Coast prestige is out of style, there's still plenty of prestige at Stanford but you also get to play the 'SV rebel card' by going to Stanford, so you'll feel very secure and not have any "buyer's remorse".
Are any of them scriptable to the point where we could add our own desired functionality? Python preferred for me, but I'd learn another language if the app was compelling.
There's one for JQueryUi I've used and been pleased with, but damned if I can remember it now