jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here is an MIT Course: Introduction To CS and Programming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM&feature=relat...

Professor keeps everything simple and direct because this class is designed for beginners with no or little programming experience.
http://teuxdeux.com/ is quite handy for simple short term tasks
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For me OS X screenshots are the toughest — lots of shades in transparent shadow, smooth gray gradients (can't use posterization) AND three small gradients in close/minimize/zoom and couple of odd pixels for anti-alias of corners (can't use pick-most-popular algorithm).
One thing I've found particularly for German speakers is the use of phrases like "since 2 years". A native speaker would say "since 2 years ago", fixing the reference to a definite point in time rather than a duration alone.
Yes, Zoho Creator is the best alternative. You can try out http://creator.zoho.com . New offers have been introduced for Dabble customers.
If you think journalists in the U.S. never write anything worth killing for then you're reading the wrong sources. You're also confusing commentary and journalism -- opinion is not the same as uncovering the truth in situations where people are trying to hide it from the public. What's more, you blame "provincial lords" for the killings, but the police and government there are not doing anything to stop them either.
If you are planning to look for a job rather than start a company, you really should get your degree.

If your classes are not stimulating you enough, perhaps you could try training for programming competitions (TopCoder, Google Code Jam, ACM ICPC). Doing well on those could be a good differentiator on a resume.
get your degree. university offers more than just learning. enjoy being young....go hang out with art students and talk late into the night with people who are striving to become the next generation of "responsible" adults....better yet take some credits in "arty" subjects - literature, music, fine art, basket weaving - whatever...it will broaden your horizons. if you are bored, bootstrap something in your spare time. heck - ask the students what things they would love to have on the internet and build it for them! universities are such rich environments full of interesting people.
Try out the molokai theme for Vim. ;-)
I'd be interested in knowing what programs you've had trouble with? In Awesome, you can switch your layout to a floating-based one (oddly default without some rc tweaking) and get around most issues these programs face. Or just switch it to a full screen-based layout :)

Anywho, figured some examples might give others' a heads up before devoting hours and mind share to trying it out.
I haven't tried it myself, but it's possible to use XMonad as your Gnome WM: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_Gn...
AwesomeWM has a similar guide for working inside Ubuntu, which gets around the issue you speak of: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Quickly_Setting_up_Awesome_...
Enjoy Norway as much as you can to get a good degree paid by your oil. Really, you should definitely get a degree because it is opening way more doors than what you can imagine. If you are so good, it means you also have time on the side to develop your ideas/projects. Enjoy it. Also, the best companies can hire the best people, if you have to compete against someone as good as you but he/she has a PhD, sorry to tell you, they will not pick you. Google is mainly hiring PhDs for example.

You are lucky to be able to get an education, lucky to be able to get it while having time and money to develop things on the side, lucky to build yourself a good network at the same time, lucky to do have all the doors open in front of you. Enjoy it now.

I created a company while getting my Master degree, then got a PhD and created a company afterwards. The network I was able to build within an insane number of companies while getting my PhD is so good that I can work for a lot of money 2 months in a year and develop my products the next 10 months without the need to worry about being ramen profitable too fast. I can do the right thing and companies are now ready to pay even more.

A degree is way more than a piece of paper or a line in your CV if you use all what is given to you. It will be an asset worth way more than money when you will try to get a job or creating your company.

Note for US citizens, in Norway education is not only free but you are paid to study.
Tolkien was, by profession, a scholar of languages. He actually invented the elvish languages, before he invented the stories in which they were used. So, it would make sense if his alphabet made sense.
I'd assume all founders would know about 83b election (us founders anyway.) to cap the tax rate at 15% (long term capital gain)
Why is NUTS not so crazy? Because you don't make U-turns?
1. Student loans and such—all the machinery students today use to get their tuitions—would still exist; they'd just be given directly to the student.
2. It would be a workers' cooperative, with the labor being learning.
3. Joining and participating would be different steps. The network would be free to join, but each class would still cost money, raised and pooled to create the class (in the fashion of groupon.com)
Wouldn't putting all that forced effort into reading make psychological time dilate to match the gains in real time?
Thanks for sharing. I am trying the Kindle sample, now.
Heh, Skolkovo is on Hacker News now. The author paints quite a grim picture there; the reality is probably even worse, though.

Just to give you some idea about it: one of the main selling points for Skolkovo, for potential russian players, is the official statement that Skolkovo will have "its own legal and tax regime, and even its own police". Why? Because the situation with legal and tax regime here in Russia is obviously too bad for whatever they want to do in Skolkovo, and because the police [and other law and regulations enforcement institutes] are way too corrupted to provide the necessary business climate.

Basically, it's now officially acknowledged that the general situation with these things in Russia is broken beyond repair, there is neither hope nor effort to fix it, and now they are going to try to build something less ugly specifically for Skolkovo.

Needless to say, I can't imagine it working out as planned.
Seal-a-meal. Paper, water, and hours: not a good recipe.

I'm not using "Cook" or "Warm". I'm using a small box with a PID controller, into which is plugged my rice cooker, and which is itself plugged into the wall. A small digital thermometer checks the temperature of the water that fills the rice cooker and modulates the power to keep it within a degree or two of the set temperature I want.

Right now, a pair of rib eyes and some tilapia filets are being held in there at 129f. In a couple minutes, I'll pull the fish and stick it in a smoker for a couple minutes, then sear both sides of the steak for 10 seconds or so, then plate and serve.
I am so surprised.
No idea why your previous post was killed, but the moderators do seem to be kill-happy today.
This doesn't work if you're required to wake before sunrise, especially true for those living in AK in the winter ;-)
never generate a puzzle with two solutions, or accept both solutions.

in this case that puzzle had more solutions because it rejected keeps and bully as well
Shopify is a terrible experience overall, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone looking to start a quick ecom business online, especially if you don't have technical experience _or_ you don't plan exactly what you'll do if you grow over it. I had to work with some clients that wanted to move away from Shopify and I was surprised at how certain types of paccounts are required to access certain parts of the API for their store. For example, you could retrieve orders but not promocodes, or not users, I can't remember exactly now, but they either had to pay more or put up with CSV parsing with limited amount of information and details. These services would probably not have had the "success" they're seeing if it wasn't for these dark patterns they implement to ex(tract|tort) money from their most likely non-technical clientele.

With that being said, I don't see a problem in requiring their users to use a specific PSP that makes more business sense for them. But yes, like other have pointed out, it's way up there on the hypocrisy chart to do this while complaining about Apple. Apple's 30% cut is not unfair, neither is theirs.
Perhaps you can both be right. I don’t see why these goals need to be mutually exclusive: Find the pleasure in life first, but then also make the effort to refine your worldview and gain control over how thoughts enter your head and which thoughts.

Whether or not DFW had a fatal tendency to over-intellectualize he can still be correct in his assessment and aims as described in his speech. Failing to meet your first criteria (find the pleasure and don’t lose sight of it) doesn’t make his goal any less worthwhile if you can maintain a balance in all things.
Everything started to fall apart when the horses seized power
Thank you Anne!!
Absolutely. I severely dislike the "bug scrub" attitude that's prevalent in some places that amounts to just closing anything that is not P1 and older than some short time window.

The idea of a bug tracker is to track bugs in the product. If the bug still exists in the code, the bug in the tracker should still be open.
> I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.

Sometimes the tech community just lives in another world. In reality: work, bills, screaming kids and life get in the way of thinking about anything but yourself. When I was 21 I was the same (vegan, vegetarian, telling people about BPA, not touching receipts with my hands yadda yadda yadda).

Now I'm 30 and as far as I can tell, nothing changed, I didn't die from too much exposure to plastics, the world still is spinning but I have a lot more on my plate to think about than watching documentaries and fear mongering myself into depression.
For the same reason that a photocopy of a dollar bill isn't worth anything. As long as you can distinguish between two things there's enough room for a value difference, even if they are functionally the same.

The value in bitcoin comes from the boatloads of people trusting it enough to use in one form or another. If you spin up a bitcoin fork you'll need a lot of work to get people to believe in your fork.
If those projects are looking for a new home, we'd be happy to welcome them at GitHub.
Tibet was within Chinese borders... remember it was called “the Tibetan independence movement”?

Invasion of Vietnam was in response to Vietnamese aggression. But you are correct it was outside their (disputed) borders.

Looking forward to the part you convince me that event was morally equivalent to the nazis.
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> our devices were roaming on to AT&T, where we only had 10MB of data to use.

Is this really that much of a problem? Coming from an Aussie who is used to having no mobile access at all (not even emergency) driving between major cities.
San Francisco is often described as the most cosmopolitan of American cities (excepting NYC). You may find it similar to European cities in terms of nightlife, cinema, cultural activities, and people's eclectic interests. Relative to Europe or Canada, there is little government support of arts or culture but that doesn't stop youth from innovating culture. So you'll find interesting people and interesting activities for entertainment.

San Francisco (and Berkeley/Oakland, across the Bay) are centers for culture and youth with adequate public transit and neighborhoods where rents are relatively cheap. The Peninsula and South Bay (the location of Silicon Valley companies) are suburban (wide expressways, shopping malls and office parks) and compare poorly to SF in terms of cultural activities but offer many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Californians tend to choose outdoor activities for recreation (running, biking, hiking, motorcycles) and late-night partying or club hopping often ends early for those who get up early for outdoor recreation.

Not many people surf (not as many as Southern California or our neighbor Santa Cruz but of course more than Europe!). It's an option if it's your dream. Surfing for some is an activity on a free weekend or an early morning before work (if the waves are good). For others, it is a lifestyle that leaves little time for career pursuits.

It's often said that Americans work longer hours and spend less time enjoying life than most Europeans (if enjoying life is defined as time spent with friends, eating food, drinking, or cultural pursuits). If you work in a startup company, that may be doubly true, as your peers will expect you to be focused on the tasks that will lead to success. You may find that a day at work in the Bay Area moving bits is not much different from the same in a European city. After work hours, you'll be tired but you'll likely find time to try a new restaurant or grab a beer with workmates or a roommate a few times a week. Among entrepreneurs, you will probably not have much free time on weekends and you should not expect holidays.

These are broad generalizations, of course, based on my own personal experience, so suitable only for stimulating thought and discussion. Your mileage may vary.
Only if you've protected your profile/using private messages. I regularly get @replied by people who I don't follow, and I don't particularly want to lose those messages, so it's probably not a realistic way of stopping spam (although it would certainly be effective).
Erm go after the heavily armed drug dealers or the nerdy chess players ?

Give me a minute to do the tactical analysis scenario....
that's what leapt to mind for me also. is it available in this country?
It sounds so obvious, until your dog gets his head stuck in the ficus tree planter and you can hear him running around, destroying your entire living room. You have to resist that initial urge to go help him until you've cleaned up the 16 blueberry puffs you've been coaxing your child to eat.
That's a shame. No epub version was the very first thing I noticed, and searched this HN page on before even reading the comments.
If you truly need cloud hosting then that is $130k of free money no? That's more than many pre-seed rounds. If you use that for a bunch of Linux machines running some kinda containers and a non-proprietary database then I don't see any downsides.
Dobsonian 10”. Best bang for your buck for deep space casual viewing. 10” is a reasonable size, weight, and price combo.
An app on your phone? Why would that need to be IoT like the person I responded to said?
The interview process is being gamed. Just read the article. I am not trying to single out her. It is an industry wide practice. You mostly get people who are good at passing the interview versus who know how to program. But that is ok, because the promotion process is being gamed too. You have people who know how to get promoted vs who know how to provide value. Don’t worry, our educational system is being gamed as well.
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It's even worse in Europe, where a "mandatory tip" is already included in your bill by the time you get it.

There is no "mandatory tip" in Europe. It's actually very simple: you pay for a service, the business pays it's employees. How much the employees get payed is not your concern as a customer. You can tip if you received excellent service, but that is totally optional as it should be.

In general, the US is a consumer paradise compared to Europe.

That is not true. US is business friendly. Europe is consumer and employee friendly. Just some examples: VAT is included in the price, all electronics include 2 year warranty, if you pay CRV you can return the bottle at the shop, shops must except returns, ...
I went to 5 in my youth (moving cities/countries) and they didn't vary much - however, they were all situated in Africa and in many ways we are very backward here. Maybe that's why I have that perception.

What you say does make sense.
I think evernote is becoming a bloated application. It's hard to balance between UX and features.
I have completely destroyed the Oracle installation on my windows machine.. just cannot get it to run anymore. So I quickly downloaded boot2docker and from there pulled in a prebuilt Docker oracle instance. In very little time I have a working oracle server on my machine again. Now if I manage to destroy that install, it won't matter - I can very quickly rebuild it again.

Somehow at the same time I also messed up the Oracle .net drivers.. I am forced to use a specific version that the rest of my team doesn't use.. God knows how, but I have spent days trying to work out what has gone wrong. I am really looking forward to Microsoft implementing Docker for Windows. Then I will be able to develop each project in isolation and if something messes up like this again - it won't matter.
The ICO is pretty well known in the UK though. I'm not from the UK and I know about them. (Mostly because of their role in the whole eu-cookie-law farce)
Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, and Newport are pretty crime-ridden.

I believe that much like the crime stories about NYC, the crime situation is overstated and/or outdated.

Personally I'd suggest around Hoboken or Grove St (in Jersey City).
Read the book Hackers by Levy for a partial answer to this question.
The USA is a major producer and exporter of food, most of which doesn't get subsidies. Reducing or eliminating the subsidies on corn, sugar, peanuts, and milk wouldn't make that change. We are the most successful agricultural producer on Earth.
I think a good business model would be sell this either as a SaaS service or sell the server outright as software to enterprises.

This model of running groups has minimal friction in maintaining records of team discussions (as opposed to setting up internal mailing lists) that will get archived in a central place instead of valuable discussion info hidden away in individual end-user inboxes.
Of course people hire foreign students as interns. As long as you are on your F1 status,you can easily find jobs.
..where the faculty make the effort to produce unique homework and exam questions each course.

My viewpoint is: If I'm expected to spend my time studying hard for the class, the professor better spend theirs making the class worth studying for. Which includes making the exam relevant to what we covered, rather than what was covered three years ago when the exam was made up.
I have recently discovered http://www.leangains.com/ and it has some really good information (in my opinion).
It’s a pity the language is ugly and the price is sky high. It’s otherwise a fantastic way of rapidly building native Windows apps. It would be amazing with a language something like Swift.
haha, funny, and thanks for the correction!
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190508
1) Famous people are famous because they do things. There's nothing more to it,
and nothing less.
3) When you decide to do things, opportunities come.

These two always bear some reitaration.
Github also takes advantage of this; if you make an empty branch called "gh-pages", and put static html (and css, js) in it, Github will host them for you.

I've also used it to greenfield some ideas in the same project. Its a bit of a hack to create one, though:

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
<do work>
git add your files
git commit -m 'Initial commit'

(From http://book.git-scm.com/5_creating_new_empty_branches.html)
good points. yet apple has options. the iPad was priced very aggressively out of the gate, to the point of having no real competitor even now.

the iPhone pricing is muddled by the carrier subscription costs. which incidentally are the best/most profitable large business in the world right now.

the iPod touch has no competition even after years in the market.

my money for 2011 is that apple continues to be the money/profit leader. not android
Browser stylesheets are well-known, default styles testable, and yet most resets still nuke everything "just in case".

http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul...

There are only few differences that could break layout.

Hard problems are caused by different interpretation of applied styles, not because of defaults.

In case of form elements (which are underspecified in CSS), touching their style can make inconsistencies worse (different browsers use different box model for form elements, and achieve similar size with browser-specific defaults).
It's been that way for many years -- the term "export," in respect of technical data, includes disclosure to a foreign national even in the U.S. See the last sentence in this excerpt from the Commerce Department’s "Introduction to Commerce Department Export Controls" (which has links to information about State Department export controls as well):

"How an item is transported outside of the United States does not matter in determining export license requirements. For example, an item can be sent by regular mail or hand-carried on an airplane. A set of schematics can be sent via facsimile to a foreign destination, software can be uploaded to or downloaded from an Internet site, or technology can be transmitted via e-mail or during a telephone conversation. Regardless of the method used for the transfer, the transaction is considered an export.

"An item is also considered an export even if it is leaving the United States temporarily, if it is leaving the United States but is not for sale (e.g., a gift), or if it is going to a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary in a foreign country.

"Even a foreign-origin item exported from the United States, transmitted or transshipped through the United States, or being returned from the United States to its foreign country of origin is considered an export.

"Finally, release of technology or source code subject to the EAR to a foreign national in the United States is “deemed” to be an export to the home country of the foreign national under the EAR."

http://www.bis.doc.gov/licensing/exportingbasics.htm (extra paragraphing added)
Not to dismiss your experiences with academic anthropology, but this paper isn't actually about any transoceanic seafaring cultures. It's about the population structure of some of the first peoples of the Americas and their ancestors, which predate polynesians by something like ten to twenty thousand years. I made the same mistake on my initial reading too.
> what sort of wrongheadedness

Unions.