skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, anything popular can be gamed. And countermeasures will in-turn be applied (checking for plagiarism, etc).

The point to note is that there is (usually) a job on the line, and a programming challenge is not the only part of the screening process -- it will usually be followed by a live coding session/interview. So the question is would someone risk gaming the process, when the chance of getting caught is high. We think not.
This technology must die out if we value privacy. Why isn't there an opt-out option?
I would be floored, completely bewildered, and stupefied beyond belief if any Congress other than the 113th thought they had the ability to legislate what the Supreme Court can write in its decisions.

Having said that, I expect such stupidity to be debated in committee by the end of next week.
the spoils to everyone who innovated on the transistor.
The Pessimistic Technologist
I don't suppose there's a video of this available? Longer + decent Q&A sounds appealing.
It's because the slip opinion (the one posted on the court's website) is not canonical. The canonical version is what's published in the U.S. Reports.

The Supreme Court has a whole protocol for this: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinions.aspx ("Caution: These electronic opinions may contain computer-generated errors or other deviations from the official printed slip opinion pamphlets. Moreover, a slip opinion is replaced within a few months by a paginated version of the case in the preliminary print, and--one year after the issuance of that print--by the final version of the case in a U. S. Reports bound volume. In case of discrepancies between the print and electronic versions of a slip opinion, the print version controls. In case of discrepancies between the slip opinion and any later official version of the opinion, the later version controls.")

The GigaOm article is garbage: "Supreme Court opinions are the law of the land, and so it’s a problem when the Justices change the words of the decisions without telling anyone." They're trying to generate page-views by making it sound like the Justices are going back and changing the official record, and are being thwarted by a coder who swoops in to save the day.

In reality, what you have is a tool to see what changes between the "release candidate" and the "Gold Master." Still interesting, even without the manufactured drama.
It's hard to say this without being so negative, but I really have to wonder if any of these apps have even been tested on an Android device. Because to be quite frank, they are absolutely terrible. Here's what I tested:

- Calculator. Whenever I press a number, it takes a second to be actually reflected in the user interface. If I try to press anything in rapid succession, the entire view zooms in. After this the entire size and scale of the user interface keeps shifting randomly. Completely broken.

- Wikihow. This is just a wrapper on their mobile site with an ugly search bar on top. Long pressing a link shows a context menu that lets me "open in a new tab" but there's no tab switcher to be found. I can select text by tapping and holding but can't figure out how to copy.

- Wikipedia. Pretty much the same. Scrolling performance is strangely atrocious considering that it works fine in Firefox for Android. Pressing the back button on the device boots me out of the app instantly instead of, you know, going back.

And all in all, they are all just slow and clunky. It feels like browsing a web page or using a web app in a mobile browser that just isn't up to the task.

In between this aim on building a more open platform for apps, there doesn't seem to be any focus in building apps or user interfaces that people would actually want to use.
Glad you seem to be figuring it out while still young. Lots of good life ahead. I'm like you but it took years on Adderall before I started to figure it out, and recovery (from depression, or not taking care of oneself properly, or addictions, I don't care to slap a label on it) -- recovery comes from within, no pill magically cures those problems with the 'self'.

I do agree with medicating ADHD, though. When I first started treatment (~7 years ago), I felt like I was finally on an equal playing field with my peers -- I could use my brain normally/efficiently.
Stingray Tracking Devices: Who's Got Them?
A good example of how privacy and luxury meet.

On one hand, you have a device that can learn your habits, schedule, etc. This means you can have it handle controlling home conditions without having to admin it.

On the other hand, this is connected to the Internet. It has a webcam, a microphone, and intimate details about your personal life (when you come home, when you typically check your webcam, etc). This can be a huge privacy issue.

Is it possible for a device to provide all these services and yet assure you that your information is 100% safe?
This is dumb. If a single human survived a punch that otherwise would have killed them before breeding age than Yes, we did "evolve" to handle punches.

Evolution is not driven, it is all the little things that worked over a long period of time. The sum of all factors.

There will be no smoking gun that says we did this or that for this or that, only our modern form that says "this worked".
either way, he deserves either's success
" 1) We don't cater to IE9, which is at 5.11% according to stat counter. IE9 is a bad choice point for this - it's the first IE that had auto-update. Everyone left. We're catering to IE8+; 8 is currently at 6.5%."

Why bother? in a few months it will be 5.5%. Next year it will be 1%. Why invest any time or attention to a browser whose market share is low and continue downwards into nothingness?

Do nothing. The IE8 problem will work itself out naturally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9810Y7ZRw

"2) You don't count the version; you count the version and all its successors. That is, we're not catering to 8, we're catering to 8+. 8+ is at almost 35% and is still the dominant aggregate browser."

That's just a sleight-of-hand obfuscation. If 9+ is 30%, why quibble over the extra 5% (and only dropping over time) that IE8 will offer. It's a diminishing return adding an older browser to the browser support list.

"5) The web solution for this is WAI-Aria, which began in mid-2012, and became a candidate recommendation three months ago."

No, WAI-ARIA became a Recommendation in March, not a Candidate Recommendation. The distinction between the two is two independent implementations.

"8) As far as I know, no single group of disabled users reaches 1% of the user base."

* Colourblindness (8% of Caucasian Men)
* Dyslexia

"9) ... Your site has no aria markup at all"

The non-presence of ARIA does not make a site inaccessible.

"12) In short, because like you, most small web authors are more comfortable writing about the problem than being part of the solution."

Unfortunately, you are presenting the opposite side of the problem. So you have a little more knowledge about accessibility issues than the OP - but not enough to pass a quick scrutiny.

Perhaps, what is needed is for you and I to stop being part of the problem of disseminating half-truths, and spend that time quietly doing our jobs properly, and showing the results of these. Invest the time to teach someone else how to build accessible websites, and encourage them to also share what they know.

In all fairness, the poster of the blogpost has a fighting chance of improving her skills. She is worth teaching, for the scales of dogma have fallen from her eyes, and she is enlightened.
Or, that's why to use it instead of the GPL.
I was into HackerRank for a while (in a previous life I did a lot of TopCoder/CodeJam/ICPC/USACO/etc) but it just wasn't the same. Programming competitions have a long history and high standards, and there were just too many repeated failures on both the side of execution and problem selection. An objective function that immediately allows a trivial solution for record points. Lack of compiling with optimizations. Changing what libraries are allowed partway through (more accurately, some server instances allowed the library, but they all went away by the end). Too basic algorithms. That said, I did have a lot of fun, especially having free reign to use ML and NLP and math libraries. But even that just made me realize that ML competitions tend by nature to be less about the "Aha" moment then they are about getting all your ducks in a row and doing the appropriate due diligence, and I might as well spend that time consulting for hedge funds.
How about the obvious solution: photo interrupter.
My eccentric self-hosting no-server-needed homebrew open-source solution since google reader died: http://github.com/akkartik/spew. Since I suck at UI, it has none. Instead it just leverages firefox UI for everything.
My cofounder and I were rejected by YC last year. YC provided great feedback, and we took it into consideration, but decided we still thought the idea was solid. We kept looking for funding and eventually found an accelerator that specialized in education startups (co.lab), and it turned out to be better for us in every way -- better terms, better ongoing support, so on and so forth. So, it's actually good that we were rejected.

I would definitely apply to YC again, though. Even if you're rejected it's still 10 minutes of concentrated feedback from smart, experienced people, which is always worth something.
We're figuring out exactly how this could work -- but given the disparate audience of the two applications, they are separated for now. Like Github normal, and Github Enterprise.
Remedio Natural Para Diabetes y La Disfunción Erectil
La disfunción eréctil o impotencia masculina es un trastorno encontrado entre los pacientes diabéticos. Los estudios dicen que más del cincuenta por ciento de los pacientes diabéticos sufren de este trastorno y pueden volver a la normalidad con remedios naturales para diabetes. ►http://remedioparadiabetes.blogspot.com/2013/08/remedio-natural-para-diabetes-y-la.html
Glad you posted this, had tried to do the same earlier this year. Also related, this POPL paper shows how Noether's Theorem (the idea that every symmetry yields a conservation law e.g. rotational symmetry => angular momentum conservation) can be derived from applying parametric polymorphism to Lagrangian mechanics:
http://bentnib.org/conservation-laws.html

This summary of the above paper is much more comprehensible: http://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/74405137526/robert-atkey-from-...
There is a cultural component here as well. How do you create an icon that represents sharing across many cultures and many countries? I am thinking of things like Facebook and mobile devices.

For instance, while the milkshake icon is an interesting new approach, I wonder how much sense it makes in many cultures and countries.
...if you don't know which way, it's not a boundary at all.
If I call a function that is running unsafe { } inside of it, do I know? Because I really want to know. And I want my function to be marked as unsafe as well (because it is) as well as any function calling my function, etc.
Well, they're building a browser engine...
Someone Used A Drone To Spy On France's World Cup Team
And the third production deployment of Rust is at Tilde for skylight, which uses a Ruby extension written as a Rust library with a thin C wrapper, due to Ruby's extensive C macros which would be annoying and bug-prone to port.
I'm not talking about transitioning from 'old' Ember Data to 'new' Ember Data. I'm talking about someone completely new to Ember looking through the examples and documentation. Even if they were looking through the repository, it would be easy to overload a file called "TRANSITION.md" if you don't need to transition from an older Ember Data version.
The OSX spin-off is called ClamXav[1]. It's really good, I'm very happy with it.

[1] http://www.clamxav.com/
Interesting.. I briefly attended HSG for a Master's program but left shortly because I was treated during undergrad for ADHD in the USA, and not having the same treatment options in Switzerland, I couldn't begin to learn how to focus again and hope to pass the courses. One day while walking the streets of Zürich, I saw a protest with many people against ADHD medication and signs advocating banning Ritalin.
Note that between these two events we, oh, learned the germ theory of disease, and hypothesized the rat -> flea -> human path of plague transmission; 1918 was pre-antibiotics but we'd still learned a whole bunch of things that radically improved medicine, public health, etc.

Modern, or circa 1918 (after Typhoid Mary was permanently quarantined) public health measures alone could likely keep a plague epidemic from taking such a huge percentage of people.

Note researchers are doing vaguely similar sorts of things WRT to the Black Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#DNA_evidence
they would do better to start asking who uses what feature, and removing unused ones.
How we built our (Saas) pricing by calling our users
You don't know, but you can use a compiler flag that will tell you if you are.

> I want my function to be marked as unsafe as well (because it is)

This misunderstands the nature of `unsafe`. `unsafe` means "I promise that this is actually safe, even thought it can't be inferred." Take, for example, a type which has mutable, shared state, but enforces all access through a mutex[1]. This type presents a safe interface, but the compiler can't know that it's safe, so you have to use `unsafe` internally.

1: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/cell/struct.RefCe...
Do you have any screenshots of it in action? Does it work cross-platform?
The poor kids are the ones getting shafted by the status quo! They get "assigned" to schools that are terrible and don't even have the option to go somewhere better, even if it's just as convenient to get the kids there. School choice is a safety net for poor children.

Having more but smaller schools with more choice means shorter commutes and a better school experience for everyone, but most of all for the poor. (The rich can afford to either move to a better public school district or pay twice, once for a public school option they're not using and a second time for a private school option they are, so they're fine either way.)

So from my perspective you're the one throwing the poor kids under the bus. You're saying the poor kids assigned to terrible, unsafe schools should just suck it up and tolerate it (and hope that maybe the political system fixes it sometime far in the distant future) rather than just pick (or create!) a better option right now.

I agree that we're probably not going to agree. But to tie up one last loose end:

> Did you do this [travel alone] when you were 5 and the nearest good school is 5+ miles away? No?

When I was 5 I walked to a public grade school that was less than a mile away - one of 2 or 3 in the area that met that criteria. In middle school (grades 7-8) my morning bike commute was 4.5 miles - though another option was to walk or bike 1.5 miles a different direction and take a public bus the rest of the way.
Just like everyone remembers when the US bought up and public-domained all the aeronautic patents.

EDIT I should explicitly say that I am being sarcastic. Mr Tabarrok is believing what he wants to be true.
Just saw this.

One thing I have seen people do is sell items on ebay that they also sell from their store, but the ebay price is either fixed at somewhat lower than the store price, or is an auction so it will likely end up lower. The store is linked from the ebay item description. This makes the the ebay item seem like a special deal. It can also bring visitors to your store of course.
Pope or Rapper?
1st single of MC POPE FRANCIS
I love these, but I always have this compulsion to dig into the source and try to find the giant asset itself, if it's accessible and not just tiled and streamed in like a map. Some museums and collection sites have their source images better obfuscated than others.

Anyone else have any luck, for example on getting the full-size pic from this piece?

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/the-col...
50 or so. Many of those are old that I could get rid of.
Ask HN: Advice for my brother's career
Long time HNer here on a throwaway account. I could really use your advice regarding career options for my brother.

My brother has struggled finding a career given his unique skill set. He has an incredible memory, which he mainly uses to store political, geographical, and historical facts and events from around the world. For instance, he can immediately tell you the current and historical political climate of almost any country in the world along with current and past key figures in that country's history. For leisure he reads books on global history and culture. He watches different news sources (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc) and greatly enjoys political commentary.

Despite all this, his writing and analytical skills are sub-par. He's also academically weak (traditionally bad grades in his classes).

He graduated from a good college, majoring in journalism, but he hasn't been able to find or hold a position within that industry. He speaks clearly and well, but suffers from slight social awkwardness. He's quick to make friends and acquaintances, but doesn't maintain long-term relationships well.

He is kind and thoughtful, yet prone to getting frustrated easily as well exhibiting tendencies of self-deprecation.

He briefly held a position as a news producer in a tiny news market, but was let go because of "lack of fit." He volunteered as a music critic for an online publication, but was let go due to a "stilted" writing style. Even as a teenager, he was let go from a few restaurants he worked at because he couldn't cope in that environment.

As my brother nears 30 years old with no career options in sight, he's become increasingly depressed. What can I do to help him?
This is one of the reasons that Ember.js + Rails seems like the preferred setup. Ember.js + Python gets you into converting underscored names to camelcase names.
Folklore.org has the story of the original Apple ][ mouse. It's a really great hack (in the traditional sense of the word)

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Apple_II_Mouse_Ca...
Taxi driver protests in Europe actually increased Uber app downloads
How often does it snow in Seattle? If rarely/never, is there anywhere nearby that gets a decent amount each year?
While some sort of tokens provided to some exceptional teams might be fun I'm sad to see the Hackathon-As-Competition idea promulgated. The origins of the term are about a collaborative event where the marathon-style combined creates a sense of cohesion or at the very least fun that encourages some sort of shared problem solving. Not everyone has to be working towards a single unified goal, but the usefulness of this style of event is for certain classes of collaborative work where the fever pitch allows the combination of innovative ideas with laying down a lot of code.

As soon as you turn it competitive, you lose the benefits of this type of event, beyond those you'd get from just a con with a "best in show". While ostensibly you create what you present at the hackathon, teams with greater pre-made components get a significant advantage. To counter that you then have to lay down rules and that just brings the tone of the event down. My criticism is specifically about the usefulness of competition in hackathons, rather than about competing teams in other kinds of events.

It doesn't seem like the competition aspect is as emphasized here as in many other hackathons, which is great. I hope the prizes remain an ancillary bonus rather than the focus.
Gotcha, that wasn't immediately clear from the language.
Coinbase – Announcing Merchant Discounts: Pass Cost Savings on to Your Customers
Yes, they have different policies depending on what you purchase and whom you purchase it from.

Frequently with physical products Amazon is able to place the majority cost [they only lose out on their commission] of the refund onto the supplier. [e.g. If Amazon's fraud check fails to catch a fraudulent order, they push the cost of the chargeback onto the supplier if it is a FBA or MFN item. They also do this if their system screws up and merges multiple products onto the same ASIN even tho they are different colors or whatever.]

My guess is the vendor in this instance was large enough Amazon had to make a different deal where Amazon was the one eating the refunds if it was Amazon's error. The vendor blamed Amazon. Amazon couldn't even figure out I issued a chargeback and successfully disputed it for my money back.
Lots of people still don't have smart phones, or computers they travel with. And so they do not use email when they travel.

And believe it or not there are still people in this world that may only have an email address with their employer which they don't access regularly outside of work.

And now back to the original article:

We are only getting one of many parts of this story, for all we know the scammer perfectly told a sob story about ordering a gift for their grandson who they haven't seen in several years and will be visiting soon but it didn't arrive in time for their trip and now would like it sent directly to the grandson while they are visiting him so they can still see the joy their gift will bring him.

My point is I don't assume that Amazon isn't trying pretty hard to prevent this fraud, and I don't assume scammers aren't putting in quite a bit of work to commit it.
Does YC actually expect a hack built in a weekend to be on par with some of the startups they take for interviews?
Microsoft: We're updating our terms of use and privacy statement.
Hi, some more:

Waartaa - new, written in Meteor, part of Google Summer of Code - https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa

gnotty - https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty

ircanywhere - https://github.com/ircanywhere/ircanywhere

WebIRC - https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC
Under OSX, following the rules you stated (open source and/or legal software that comes with a license):

* ClamXav - antivirus
* Littlesnitch
* SpamSieve (Mail App spam filter)
* Use local installation on Unbound on foreign WiFi networks

Enable the default firewall is a good call also :-). I'd say enable 'encryption' but, IMHO it's better to have a something like Prey running if you laptop costs more than the data within. Otherwise, sure go with encryption.
> It was up about 4 percent in midday trading Thursday.

It's got to be somewhat depressing to know the market thinks your presence at a company is worth almost negative $1 billion.
It's not functional in the same vein as Haskell, but it is in the same vein as a lisp. Essentially, JS is an application of the lambda calculus.
Sounds like "go ahead, but if you start trying to sue us then we'll sue you"
Why do you lose the benefits as soon as it becomes competitive? Sports are competitive but people still play sports because they love them.

I imagine most attendees will be there for the same reason though the prizes are a great plus.
After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
Thanks for the feedback, you're right!

My site (which is woefully unfinished even for its originally intended purpose) is primarily used as a photo-blog showing photo albums to remote friends and family. This rant was the first text-heavy traditional blog-post I've made to it. I need to put some work into making the UI make sense for posts made in that context.
The Major Labels Are Trying to Sell Spotify for $10 Billion, Sources Say
That sound one was really cool. I certainly wouldn't have thought of it.
The most free license, as in completely unlimited freedom as opposed to this kind of "freedom forced down your throat" approach, is the one used by SQLite.