skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Eve compare and relate to similar, older attempts to use spreadsheets as a visual programming metaphor, like Forms/3? ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/burnett/ForJFP/JFP.fordistrib.pdf

It seems like the interaction between spreadsheets and programming is an oft-explored area - it will be interesting to see what this evolution brings.
Just to be clear: this is not Kickstarter funds being redirected. We worked on LT for 2.5 years, we were given 280K (after KS's cut), around 20k went to shirts/fullfillment. That's 260k for 3 guys in SF over 2.5 years... that money ran out long ago.
From the paper: "While life can take numerous other forms and could be much more resilient to radiation than on earth, we make here the conservative assumption that life is rather similar to the one on Earth. This common assumption is the basis for searches of Earth like exoplanets as places that harbour life. "
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People are often worried about plain text being intercepted by "hackers" in flight, in email for example.

Other than WiFi and government agencies, is this really a realistic worry?
You need to read the article, he started showing symptoms on the 24th, he was put into the isolation ward on the 28th
I was one of the hackers on the project, if anyone has any questions, shout out!
I would like to know that :P
Yes, the placeholder is misleading in that it looks like it's been entered into the textbox already and I only need to click "Try me!", but actually I need to type it out first.

It could at least detect that the input is empty instead of saying it failed to parse the input!
The task board and sprint planing looks really good (even if it seems that they mix up two different methods with Kanban & SCRUM). I wish github would provide similar functionality out of the box.
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Was http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-15/the-msrs-of-ec2.... the reason they were looking?
Even worse, it could be a firm alarm that has the ability to start fires on its own. And you don't know if there are any arsonists working for the company that might remotely trigger a fire for their own pleasure.
Hi, is open source, is really easy to change the font (on your own instance).

The project have an API and the web (AngularJS) application, but anybody can build an application using the api like the web application, maybe an OSX native application. A native OSX client isn't in our road-map.

An example of this is the taiga-ncurses application for terminal lovers :)
Generation stupid
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"the day before tomorrow" works though
Poor relative to whom? India's nominal GDP per capita is GDP $1570 per annum.
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Don't even get me started on the sports, it's an outrage how US schools have become sports franchises.

This pisses me off too. It's why I don't give money to my Sports Franchise undergrad.
As an example, I saved about 20% on my house by buying in the zone for a lower-quality school.
All "PAAS" are expensive.You pay for the ease of deployment I guess.Renting a VPS or a micro instance on Amazon is cheap but you need to set up all the infrastructure which can be tricky.

Fortunatly with tools like vagrant you can now get production ready images for all projects easily,which makes the deployment process easier.
> I mean: If you're talented enough to get into Harvard, maybe you don't need a Harvard education to succeed in life (for various definitions of "succeed").

Exactly what I think.

Of course, there's the contacts, but that's overrated (and you can get them in a couple of other ways)

You just need to consider how many Harvard successful alumni are actually Harvard dropouts.

There's an important value in education, but I think the value of formal education (especially in traditional ways) is diminishing.
Are you getting all of the posts as a single JSON object? It might also speed things up to make multiple small requests to the API (one per post) and handle it asynchronously. That wouldn't be something you could do quickly, though.

Also maybe don't even call linkify.js until an item loads (you can set custom event handlers for dynamically generated elements in jQuery[0]) - I don't know if you're already doing this or not.

Fewer posts per page would probably help too.

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-e...
In Germany (where I live, I am not sure how it works in other countries), that is how it works.

There are some private universities, but not many (and they tend to focus on "cheap" subjects in the sense of "cheap to provide training" - training a medical doctor or a chemist apparently is far more expensive than training an MBA) - Professors teaching at private universities, are, of course, employed by those universities.

If you want to work in academia, you will have to jump through lots of hoops, usually going from one temporary contract to another until you get tenure. But all along the way, you are technically employed by the government (more strictly, Professors are employed by the state government, not by the federal government, because education is the domain of the federal states.

(Even more strictly speaking there are a few universities that are run by the military for educating their officers - those belong to the federal department of "defense", and the professors teaching there are employees of the federal government.)
You would be done with the program now if you worked on it rather than these lengthy explanations.
You're right, fixing it now.
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A popular and infamous presentation by Montalvo Machado on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
Actually, for me, doing simple things with Python is more intuitive than doing simple things with Excel.
The Strange but True Reason the US Isn’t Destroying Its Old Nukes
First you use the argument that the entire United States is not as densely populated as Germany, which I pointed out is flawed. Now, you're trying some political tangent. First, we should agree that it is worth, or not worth, being built on technical merits then we can discuss the politics that follow. Jumping around in a scattershot discussion is not effective, unless your goal is to derail the conversation. Pun intended...
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This [1] happened last week, although I don't see VMs on it.

[1]: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-pricing-updat...
Dropbox's strength is the simple and consistent GUI that's available in all platforms (desktop, mobile and web).
I've moved to SpiderOak and it works perfectly for me, but it's not a UI I would recommend to my mother.
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Why can't a plumber be also a free thinker?
"Working for someone..."? Who are you referring to? The startup I work for is not a YC company. Our founder/CEO is not active on HN. One of his main hobbies is participating on an international coed Ultimate Frisbee team.

I don't think it's the part of marginalized people to educate bigots. Sorry if I wrongly assumed that you aren't marginalized.

My view is that the moral non-marginalized should speak out loudly against bigots. I was trying to encourage you to attack the bigots instead of attacking everyone else.

Edit: BTW, Everlaw has a blog. Anyone is welcome to read it and form their own opinions about our culture.
To play devil's advocate, I'm not necessarily saying that the best education stems from these schools but it's certainly other things that you're getting value from. This other HN article seemed relevant:

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/30/23581/
My father was the very first person in my family on either side to graduate college at all. But he ended up in a different field from his major and some bad business decisions put us in the poor house while I was growing up. He's very proud.

Most of the rest of my family, having never gone to university at all don't quite understand what it's all about, but know enough to have some envy/confusion over the economic opportunities it creates. Basically my Mom thinks it's "nice".

One of my siblings ended up with an Associates in a vocational field and has worked steadily in that field, and another ended up with a business undergrad, but now works in a different field. They do get why schooling is important and understand how it benefits them.

I have a cousin who's gotten sick of the low-pay dead end job life and has been asking me for advice on how to get into and through college and turn it into an upwardly mobile career. He's also coming from a poor rural family environment and is pretty desperate to get out. But the new high cost of schooling (especially at his local state schools) is making it very hard for him to get his education moving forward.
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Don't epidemics generally spread exponentially? Is it normal for that growth rate to slow as the size of the epidemic increases? (Honest question, not being sarcastic.)
in 2003. University of alabama.
I started my first year of college this semester at an Ivy. There are flaws, but overall the experience is pretty great, or at least, being around famous professors/thinkers is. I wish it could be extended to more people though. "Egalitarian" opportunities in education seem to go against the idea that some students will work harder and perform better than others though.
This was the case at one point in time. But only the independently wealthy could afford to do this.

As much as I wish your sentiment could be true, it's just not realistic in an economically driven world :/
Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)
MIT is not in the Ivy League!
Doesn;t seem like anything new at all. More like Tweaks to Windows 8.
Well, there is a net benefit of everybody being able to do more things instead of delegating: responsibility.

If I have to do my stuff, I can stop blaming others. This is good for me and for the others. Even if the information artist guy made better visualizations, the people at the lab could blame him for not doing them as they envisioned, and the guy himself could not put the best of his effort on doing things, because they weren't made directly for him, so the blame could would be probably justified.

But, well, it is better to step away from this world of giving responsibility to others and then blaming them, into a world in which everyone do their best and don't blame anyone. Even if the final work is a little worse, it would be acknowledged that it was done by no specialist.

Ok, I don't know exactly what is my argument here, so I'll just stop.
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Marketing tech: $50B in investment, but top tools have only 4.1% penetration
Or they see Network[1] and they just never watch TV anymore.

1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
> the fact that society will always need plumbers, garbage collectors, fast food employees etc.

Is that a fact? I'm sure plenty of people would once have said society will always need human "computers" (now so entirely replaced by machines that the original meaning of the word is a historical factoid). Or that society will always need assembly line workers (now well into the process of being replaced by robots).

When I check out at CVS I use a machine, not a human cashier. I bet there are restaurants in Japan/Korea with no human serving staff - just use the touch screen at the table to place your order and it pops out of a slot in the wall when it's ready. Cab drivers will be replaced by self-driving cars in the next 20 years. Et cetera. So I think that part of your comment is quite short-sighted.

On the other hand, the question of what all those folks will/should do once their economic value plummets (which, arguably, has already started happening) is a tricky one.
Ask HN: How to find a mentor/tutor for independently learning math
I am trying to independently learn mathematics at an upper-level undergraduate and first year grad student level.

Occasionally I feel that I need someone to just bounce an idea off or to ask for some clarification. I submit questions to stackexchange sometimes, but the format of the site discourages the vague and often ill-formed questions that I often have.

Do you have suggestions for how to find someone who could help me? Should I offer to pay a math grad student at the local university? Should I try to find a willing professor? Other suggestions?
>> "And government loans usually don't cover all of the expenses related to university anyway, so private loans become necessary."

Again, not in the UK. Students here are given two loans. One to cover tuition and a separate one for cost of living. It's not much but it's enough for a student to get by.