skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when you just compiled the sources when you wanted to port a system to a new platform.
Who uses git any more, anyway?
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The article fails to address the field in which the degree is issued -- some PhD degrees do much better than others. Here's an article that lists the ten best, and ten worst, degrees to acquire in terms of career success and income:

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/...

The top of the best degree list? "Mining and Mineral Engineering"

The bottom of the worst degree list? "Counseling and Psychology"
Well, how do you define a course? For me, it's a series of individual lectures / modules that each teach you a given concept belonging to the same topic (that of the course). Concepts will often be dependent on each other, i.e. you will need to first understand concept A in order to be able to understand concept B.

So, taking apart a course and splitting it into modules might make a lot of sense, since it allows students to only learn what is most relevant to them at the time and be rewarded for their learning successes more easily and more often. Considering the horrendous dropout rates of most MOOC platforms this might be a very good way to incentivize students to "keep at it". However, this makes only sense if the individual modules are independent enough, so that students can learn about them individually (which, for many courses might not be the case).

For me, the concept of a "course" is mostly obsolete when delivering educational content online, and is probably mainly still in use because everyone understands what it means. It might even be a good example of skeuomorphism in this sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

I currently work on a (real-world) course platform that allows people to take "micro-courses" which can be completed in one single evening session and which (mostly) build upon each other. Like this, students can decide more easily which skills they want to learn, get results faster and spend less money on the course.

A concept which is similarly outdated (in my opiniion) is that of a scientific journal: These were created to (physically) group articles from a given field together so that they could be distributed to people working in that field. Digital distribution through the Internet makes this obsolete, since articles can be simply grouped using tags (or other meta-information). Like this, the concept of a "journal" gets replaced by that of a "view" on a group of articles that are similar in a given way, such as "all articles in the field of biophysics published last year", or "all articles [across all domains] that investigate sleep patterns". Using views instead of a journals is vastly superior (again, in my opinion) since it allows you to search for knowledge spanning different disciplines and fields of research.
Although it's a new technology, I'd eventually like to see VPS hosting built around Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), if at all possible. As it stands now, we have to completely trust that the VPS host isn't going to do something nefarious with our data; this should go some way towards mitigating that.
Sure, but "salty greasy foods" after a drinking session != "salty greasy foods" all day long...
Great work. I love the fact that this encourages writing tests that are readable/documenting.

Definitely gonna give this a try.

Any recommended test runner to go with it?
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Forget git, learn a usable SCM.
I agree that an airplane crash is more newsworthy than an attack on a bus.

I'm not so sure about a campaign that takes out five buses. I'd expect that to get heavy coverage.
He really doesn't have even a point. Stop thinking about? Move on? To where?

It may not be reality yet, but Linux on the desktop is happening. I see people trying it out, deploying it. There are actual (nontechnical) human beings trying out distributions. And if it's not reality yet, there's thousands of enthusiastic hackers trying to change the reality.

There's no strategy, it cannot be set, and it's not even needed. Besides, Android isn't in any way ideal development direction. It's crippled open source system. Also it's handicapped. It has a java syndrome.
How do you know that we "need"? Maybe we just want, but don't need?
Did you ask the girls first? Or did you assume, that we need to get them to 50%?
Are you sure you are not fighting bullshit case with bullshit means?
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Could you upload a svg example?
It's the fear that's been marketed towards us. I don't understand what interest one would imagine that the Iranian government would have in anyone's location who is not Iranian or a threat to Iranian interests. I think the same about the US, but I am a citizen of the US, and the US has interests that are significantly wider ranging than Iran.
Actually I do assume parity is the ideal, unless a strong argument is presented otherwise. Do you have one?
I was playing with nexe[1] a couple of months ago. I didn't know about JXCore. Now I see they support multithreading and other performance benefits. Amazing!

[1] https://github.com/crcn/nexe
Poll: How to display a comment timeline
A timeline of comments can be rendered with minimal chrome or with text-balloons. What is best?
Minimal Chrome http://i.imgur.com/EWicL11.png
Text-balloons http://i.imgur.com/TtehVD6.png
Wireless Networking in the Developing World was a good read: http://www.wndw.net/

The Free Network Foundation has aggregated a lot of practical info: https://commons.thefnf.org/index.php/Portal:Education

A link from the FNF on multi-hop optimization:
http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/3982/1/Comparison_o...)

The motherboard documentary about the FNF is a must watch for any mesh network enthusiast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx93WJPCCGs
The text-balloons look better but also less clean, I'm not sure.
I'm guessing you're thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law

(See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law#Similar_rules)
I'm not talking about ideal world of counterfactuals and what-could-bes. I'm talking about the world we live in, where cars kills millions of people a year, while axes don't. So in real world, relaxing those "unfair" rules will cause death of many people. I'm all in favor of "clean, well defined and fair rules" - as long as they go in the direction of reducing traffic-related deaths, not the other way.

I believe the sentence you quoted actually has a lot of semantic meaning. Let's go counterfactual and imagine a world in which humanity stuck to trains and mass transit. If you went and told people of that world you want to give a car to everyone, they'd say you're nuts - general population can't be trusted with such a dangerous machine! But we don't live in this world, because cars were introduced gradually and we didn't notice the problems of "democratized transportation" until it was too late.

People have proven time and again that they are responsible enough to use axes. They have also proven time and again that they are not responsible enough to use cars.
The colors look really nice, but I suspect my vim(1) can do it cheaper. What's it with the obsession to use the slow and heavyweight Browser+JS when you can do it lightweight & efficiently?
1. Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config instead of adding a bash alias: it works with scp/sftp as well as ssh.

e.g.

Host dev
Port 22222
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/icantreadwhatyourprivatekeyfilescalled
User dev
HostName dev.web3box.com

--- then ssh dev logs you into your dev box.

Read man ssh_config.

2. Why in the world are you running sudo? Even if you are logging in as root on the remote server, sudo only has an affect on the local machine.
IMO the text balloons is more user friendly :) .
It's not a prediction if the earthquake has already begun. The linked article explains that they were able to give ten seconds' warning only because a sensor near the epicenter was able to send an alert at the speed of light, thus beating the seismic waves, which travel at a much slower speed.

About prediction research, so far there are too few ways to gather relevant data for processes deep within the earth, and too little theoretical knowledge. This should be an attractive field for someone with enough physical and scientific training and a willingness to do difficult research.
Show HN: Scottish Independence Referendum Heatmap
Well it adds another piece to the puzzle, a puzzle we are far from solving nor do we know all the pieces. I am not sure which models information like this can plug into but I expect it to lead a few to more accurate forecasts.
The (Scottish) startup I'm working for builds a contextual publishing platform called Bubbal ("context" based on a user's location and interests, as well as time of day).

We're using it to collect and heatmap yes/no opinions, worldwide, for the Scottish Independence Referendum next month. We'd love to know how you feel, and I'm particularly interested in any feedback you can give me on performance or UX.
I've done plenty of flying out of China, where you can get the death penalty for improper fundraising. The most onerous part of security is that you have to take your laptop(s) out of your carryon to go through. Out of US-instilled habit, I show up hours early for flights and end up spending those hours at the gate waiting to board. It's enough to make you ashamed of your US passport.
I used to think so. Then I read the spec: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2

The field value MAY be preceded by any amount of LWS, though a single SP is preferred.

For the definition of SP and LWS, see: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec2.html#sec2.2

For the definition of MAY, see: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
Probably, but how do you want Larry Ellison to pay for his next yachts?
No. This would almost assuredly be sent as a level 2 extreme alert. The only alert that can bypass the settings is an alert directly from the president.
Haiku debates kernel switch (but it's not happening)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211747 (135 points, 2 days ago, 93 comments)
I guess you're right there. Will fix that.

Thanks for spotting this!
well the article indicates that many of the observed locations date to over a thousand years old. The take away questions for me, since I am not buying the paper are.

What are the changes in sea temperature in the shallow areas the seeps were found? Do we have good measurements across a great many years? How much of a temperature increase is needed to start seepage and how much is needed to stop it once started?

It is likely we simply stumbled on something that has been but simply not observed. Not all of the surface is under constant observation and obviously far less of the ocean is
Text balloons have a nice separation from the rest of the timeline http://605.wikispaces.com/Closure
Would have been nice if this tech applied to Malaysian flights.
In this example text balloons are more clear for me.
The background of the balloon seems to 'tie' the comment to the user, and it's easier to spot the end of a comment.
In the minimal chrome example you need a line to separate comments which is less distinctive, i guess this makes it harder for me to notice
Do you know they were stolen from by the TSA, or by baggage handlers? Getting rid of the TSA wouldn't solve the latter problem.
I think they look cleaner, the other may have less elements but they are more scrambled.
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Surprisingly, the US military embraced online learning a little more than a decade ago. This was a boom for annual sustainment courses and the ability of highly active units to maintain OSHA, EPA, and other more job specific annual training requirements was greatly increased.

This great success in high level reporting percentages for training ended up driving even more training online.

This concept is a very slippery slope. The amazing statistics that accompany online training will provide very direct motivation to administrator(generals). Those administrators will easily come to the conclusion that training should be greatly standardized and moved online, due to the high level of efficiency.

In reality the DOD has moved some entire training programs to online. The navy has moved entire A and C schools(basic job fields) online. These are resident schools, and they are primarily schools based on hardware, that may also have strong software/theory based systems. The result is highly drilled students with almost no real world or problem solving skills in the field that they have been schooled on. I know this is anecdotal, but I have seen the change in the students first hand and the ability to teach critical analysis on a specific subject with out labs and 2 way live debate can not be underestimated.
I like how with the balloons the different messages are really separated, and you don't risk not seeing the boundary if someone has an avatar that happens to blend in.
But I like that the minimal chrome fits a bit more messages on the screen.

Overall I don't feel strongly towards either, but I'd maybe pick the balloons if I had to pick something.
This is a good group of people for questions like this: http://ux.stackexchange.com/ for future reference.

(BTW, not saying this is off-topic or anything, just that that stack exchange is a really good resource, IMO)
Maybe I have missed soemthing heer, but why is this story reported as news?
I had also written something similar 5 years ago when I had jumped from heavy GUI usage to Linux for some linux commands, byusing their man pages, semi-automatically. Interesting enough, now I value the reverse more and I would love to see the Yeeog.

Yeoog; Turn GUI programs into command-line
Also uses template to overload operator ->*

https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/blob/785db43bb2cd64bfe7...
How useful do you find the sleep tracking to be? I've been using it for a couple of days now and I'm on the fence whether a simple movement tracker can really tell whether I'm in a deep or light sleep phase...
I think the text balloons have too much going on, and don't provide much benefit since the avatars already demarcate the posts.
Given that Google still uses text-based captchas in 2014, I think we can safely conclude that they are still state-of-the art. Of course Google's captchas are a little harder to defeat than these ones :)
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Neither, sorry. I can't see why the avatar icons are left out of the balloons. Also the balloons would be unnecessary if there was a little more space between comments.

I like balloons or some other kind of containers for threaded forums. For flat forums it seems they're useless.
Those girls are going to be fairly disappointed years later when they start studying their engineering degree. By then, they will quickly discover how little engineering has to do with assembling stuff. And, instead, how it is mostly about developing (often novel) technology through the formal application of basic sciences, particularly physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
I like minimal way. It`s more clear (IMO). I like to see a conversation with replies to see how to solve indentations.
You can fix catch these errors with a suitably advance type system

Not that it matters in most cases though. A programmer picking a language for a project does not realistically have access to the full design space of type systems. If the only implementation of a language with some type system feature is an interpreter for a core calculus written in Agda and not touched for the past several years, that feature is effectively unavailable. Most programmers are not in the business of designing and implementing custom type systems (and associated languages) and probably wouldn't gain enough from it for it to be worth the work of learning how anyway.
There's a test runner included as a macro that defines main
Are we to assume through the context provided, that this poll is for the specifically linked designs, or if the poll is meant to inform a general design aesthetic?

If the former, I'd say balloons, as there's very little other grouping indicators present in the individual comments (and the page design looks pretty flat in general).

If it's the later, we'd need to consider the design of the elements of the page and the relationship between various headers and text elements before a good decision could be reached. As well, more color/size/contrast elements in a potential design may force the balloon elements to be of a much higher contrast themselves, which could ultimately overload the page.
Analyzing the “ecological footprint” of java algorithms
why should it be top down? that's quite unamerican, in my opinion! one of the numerous cities, counties, and towns of various sizes and locales can develop solutions that may apply outside of their specific jurisdiction.

the very "best" (scalable/widely applicable) solutions are supposed to bubble up. that's the idea behind american federalism!
10 seconds might be enough time to trigger a custom alert on iPhones and Droids with a specific alarm that an earthquake is imminent. Enough time to get under a table.
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I set the hand wipe and scan machine off once. Had to go to additional screening, it was my hair product.
Library for download and handle a countries ips list from a CSV file
The line between the avatars in the second one is pointless.
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I've been using a homemade one for the last half year and just released it after seeing this :) http://blanket.io

Notable difference is that it accepts any rss feed, and also tries to summarize articles.
what about all the copies of windows in use in non-US countries? Those arent considered global?
I think whole cost of capital think is pretty wack. Finance is a lot of funny math.
Ask HN: Why has my post disappeared?
I have just realised my Show HN post: Show HN: Demanjo news preparing to take on Google news has just disappeared from the homepage. Can anyone provide reasons for this? Does the moderator determine which post stays on frontpages? Thanks.
I think both are pretty awful (if conventional for contemporary UIs) -- way too little emphasis on the text (too hard to read as a conversation). That said, if you have to have that much whitespace, and ridiculously long lines, a box helps repair the damage done by the basic layout.

I never understood why the various variants of "phpBB"-style, table-like layouts became so popular. I much prefer something that looks like irssi (perhaps with some support for indenting blocks, with optional syntax colouring).

Or, if the goal is "long form" comments, something that reads more or less like properly quoted, properly re-flowed text emails:

>>> Example line, but too short paragraph to
>>> adequately illustrate superiority
>>
>> With a response that is similarly afflicted
>
> Another line -- you'd probably have to have sender
> somewhere, maybe in the margins, if we're trying to
> move beyond simple text?

I think margins would work.

I'm not saying that one has to use brackets and only text, I'm fine with using fonts, colours and white space -- just make sure you're improving on the UIs from the 70s with the bling-bling.
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I feel like this question could go two ways: it could be asking for the Pros and Cons of these services verses each other (say PhoneGap vs Cordova); or the Pros and Cons of these types of services as a whole verses creating native apps. Perhaps this question could be re-worded and re-asked. I've also some interested related conversations on stack overflow, if you're interested.
I wanted to see what you have so far, but since I'm not Scottish, I didn't want to vote first. I denied access to location data, received a message saying I couldn't vote without location, and then had no way to view the current data on the map.
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I enjoy Michael Pettis' blog: mpettis.com. His focus is on economics and China primarily, but he does write about Europe occasionally.
Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked
When was it posted? What was its ID? Did it make the Front Page? Or are you asking about something else? What have you done to investigate it? Did it have a URL?

With so little information, how do you expect us to help you? Do you want us to do all the work?

Added in edit: It appears that it's an identical URL to the one you posted just under 3 weeks ago, but with a different title. Perhaps the mods detected it as an exact duplicate and killed or penalized it.

Added in further edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221248

It still exists, but I suspect it has dropped down the rankings because it's an exact duplicate and has attracted a "duplicate penalty."
What about farmers with their noisy gigantic tractors? Are they allowed to use them on Sunday? Or do they usually use them also on Sunday?
One's joy, the others pain. I like that ;).
What do you mean by "don't be evil, let it be?"
The unconditional love thing... Times +Inf...

I'm a pretty result-driven person myself, but can't think of anything better to teach my kids than to know they're loved whatever they do.
Can you share what plan you use? From my experience no-contract plans usually have some issues like no off network roaming. Maybe this isn't a deal breaker, but it is a different level of service.
"If you need help with Hacker News, email hn@ycombinator.com."

http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
Thanks for the feedback! You make a good point: We're asking before we're giving anything. Completely understandable to deny location services.

Would your preference be to see the heatmap worldwide before being asked for your location?
I'd vote for a tree-like structure, where you can actually see the discussion structure (what post is the answer for what post).
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Thanks Colin, it was posted about an hour ago. It was on front page and also on Show HN page. Then in a twinkle of an eye, it has just disappeared. I don't have the ID and didnot keep the url.

Added in edit: It is not a duplicate post. They all have Show HN as titles. The first time I posted, there was no news section. The news section was just added this weekend. Does that make it duplicate post?

Added in further edit. I see this post has also been taken of the front page.
There is this loud minority that only find value in software if they can slap some restrictions on it, and then get upset that GPL won't allow it.

That people can be so self-absorbed that they can't enjoy being given software for free is sad. It is also harming the community, and ruining the work of so many people.
It'S a Poll. Not a technial question. So good to be here, we all can learn from opinions that flow in.
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The post speaks about HTML but as far as I can see this does not contain a rendering component similar to what node-webkit does. Am I right?