skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is important, because anyone with any degree of genuine curiosity will have at least seen a tar file in the context of compression. if you use winrar, tar files are included in the open file list. with any sense of curiosity and intuition one would guess a tar file has to do with compression.

i may not expect someone to know how to use a tar, but i would expect them to know what one is.
I assume that tuition is still a continuous function of income. I doubt you suddenly pay full boat if you're a dollar over $75k.
What are the implications of people submitting other people's contact information to any other service, like, say porn or spammy sites?

I don't think it's Chatterous's problem, as long as they provide a confirmation email and opt-out procedure.
near as I can tell from the site, each block is made from exactly one piece of cardboard.
I would never require any hacker I hire to be proficient at keeping an XP installation running smoothly. I'd much rather have them know how to use standard Unix tools (awk, sed, grep, etc)
I'm a bit ashamed to say it, as I'm sure the people involved are all very nice, and I don't wish them any ill, but I'm smiling to learn that the company behind Veggie Tales is dead. I was pretty much disgusted when I watched a few episodes with my nephew. It's rather obnoxious Christian propaganda, and I really don't think kids should be exposed to that kind of thing in the guise of cute cartoons.
I work with a guy you should talk to. Contact info...?
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OT: I'm in a similar situation: I've 11 years' experience and want to take some CS classes now that I live near Berkeley. Any tips?
The question is how can he have studied a wide enough variety of source code in a wide enough variety of languages to be competent without having seen tarballs? The best source code on the planet is generally available in tarball form (and occasionally also a zip as an afterthought). Not having seen a tarball means, "I have no interest in seeing other peoples code", which means they will never write good code. It takes years of reading and learning from other peoples good code to write good code of your own.
I'm in my final year of school. (Career Changing). And, I've been trying to explain the benefits of a decent text editor to a couple of my fellow students. They're still using Notepad to edit SQL for their Advanced databases class.

We're a Java/ .net school, but still... I'm pretty upset that they don't know what a text editor is.
I have the same question, I am planning to incorporate with an american resident, while I'm a student on F1 status...I wonder if I am legally allowed to be a partner and make profit off something like this.
Really? I've only seen a couple a while back, but I thought the preaching was really tame; it was mostly be kind, don't lie, etc. kinds of messages with a isn't God wonderful tacked on the end.
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders of Chatterous. I've created a Hacker News Chatterous group that can serve as a real-time backchannel for fellow Hacker News readers. Simply send your gtalk, email, sms or Chatterous username to questions@chatterous.com and we'll invite you to the group!

Also, an interesting story:
While practicing our pitches we setup a Chatterous group for our fellow YC founders to provide real-time feedback for our presentations. It actually got to a point where people weren't paying attention to the presentations anymore and became immersed in Chatterous! We feel that Chatterous is super easy to use because of the fact that you don't need to navigate to our website, even as a Chatterous user - it's one of your IM buddies on gtalk, or an e-mail address, or an SMS short code. Think of it as IRC meets Twitter for the Hacker News community :)
Since when are growing up smart and growing up poor mutually exclusive?
You think? Who serves whom?
Hacker News IRC/Chatroom available! Use gtalk, email, sms or the web to chat.
If you ever meet investors, potential employees, or customers make sure you never ever speak or write like this.

I understand you are trying to create some kind of intellectual filter here but like any other kind of bullshit, this is totally unnecessary.

You'll find as an entrepreneur simple ideas are best, crisp articulation is key and being honest is going to win you more friends than you will with this approach.
Arc / about a year and a half.
So perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but in the couple of episodes I saw, it seemed pretty overtly superstitious, to me. My sister (the mother of the nephew in question), who isn't religious, also defended them as being "ethical rather than religious lessons"...and she saw a lot more of them than I did. So, perhaps I judge too harshly. But when/if I have kids, I expect I'll avoid the religious stuff when looking for ways to entertain them.
If you mean to say that "you were just born a freedom-lover", I don't agree. You assimilate ideas and concepts from all around you, and parents are having less and less to do with it.
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If this isn't incredible satire, it's just incredibly sad.
To think more objectively, become less allied.
ad hominem

This would be if I was attacking pretty-boy DHH himself, which I'm not.
Ask YC: for X number of page views how much adsense can you expect to make?
Is there some general formula that I can use to figure out how much adsense a site makes compared to how many page views they get and the CPM?

I'm looking for something like: at X number of page views with a CPM of Y, the site will make Z dollars.

Any links to information that I should read to learn more about this stuff?
On the other hand, the CS program has a pretty glaring hole if it doesn't at least have an intro seminar into Unix-like operating systems, where things like tar files would surely be on the syllabus. I know I was offered a free week long seminar (about an hour a night) on Linux and gnu tools as a freshman at KU. Unix-like OS's make up a sizeable chunk of the programming landscape, so it would be strange to never mention them.

Maybe his CS program is super-theoretical and doesn't concern itself with implementation. Of course, it's far more likely that it's a lightweight shop turning out blub programmers.
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Woah! Before bashing and mindlessly reinforcing each other's libertarian ideals, let's all back up and Google the background one second. (don't get me wrong: I'm a big proponent of home schooling, I'll probably be home schooling my kids (probably while teaching in public schools at the time (go figure)))

Original ruling: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B192878.PDF

Alternate explanation of original ruling: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/257230.php#257230

The "money quote", as someone called it, is cited, and that's how law works - it repeats precedent. If you follow the precedent, it doesn't end in '61. The '61 case cites a 1938 case, which says:

"The legislature has conferred upon school boards broad plenary powers to make all reasonable regulations that will in the reasonable exercise of judgment promote the efficiency of the school system in performing public welfare duties, which are limited not merely to the development of the mind in academic fields, but the sphere of which is much broader and extends to those subjects which will tend to [12 Cal.2d 92] develop and quicken the civic conscience in ways of attachment for home and country."

See here: http://www.claralaw.cpda.org/om_isapi.dll?infobase=cases2.nf...

That was written in 1938. And see that "12 Cal.2d 92"? That's a citation to a yet earlier case. In other words this idea has been around for almost a century, and there is nothing new or newly-frightening about it. It was cited because the incompetent defense had a really backwards argument about what was going on at home. Legal action came around when one of the eight children reported "physical and emotional mistreatment". SFGate only reported the last word.

So here's my take on what happened: libertarian think tank intern scans legal briefs for quotes he can write a story around to rile people up. They find a resolution with a quote that uses scary 60's cold-war language to describe an idea that's been around for at least 80 years. Voila! That's our reality-hook! The rest is already in people's minds, so they won't double check it... now let's just write the story to reinforce the ideas we are promoting. There's always lazy journalists who will publish a paper around this, and controversy will only bring more readers to the paper, so who cares if it's true, as long as it "riles people up"? Lew Rockwell jumps all over it, of course:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut52.html

That's it! They're taking away our guns! To arms! To arms!

Oh no! They're going to ban abortions everywhere!

Oh dear! They're going to take away our children for indoctrination!

Don't get me wrong, I completely support Roe v. Wade, but I think it's despicable how those who support it have no idea why people oppose it.
I can't speak for Berkeley, but my favorite classes in CS were always the ones on Algorithms and novel languages.

Avoid classes that teach syntax, unless the syntax is used to highlight a language feature you have never encountered before, like continuations or currying.
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4 years without a single CS professor using tar to distribute anything to their students sounds like a crummy CS program to me.
You're certainly good at marketing speak...

And I don't mean that in a negative sense. Your enthusiasm shows through the medium.
You didn't say "the content of this is bullshit" you said "more bullshit from 37 signals". you brought up the source to go with your attack.

also, amusingly, you've now called DDH a pretty-boy, which is attacking him personally as well as homophobic (or possibly sexist instead?).
FTFA: "But eventually Xiao Chen claims two of his colleagues -- not the ones with him in the room -- have hacked into the Pentagon and downloaded information, although he wouldn't specify what was gleaned. CNN has no way to confirm if his claim is true."
I meet a lot of kids like this at my school. They don't learn anything on their own or do any work if it's not part of some pre-defined "program" or "track".
Please don't hold all libertarians accountable for Lew Rockwell. Some of us are "classical liberals" in the style of the Enlightenment. The libertarian movement is far from a perfect fit, but it's closer than the other parties.
Pssh... I'm a Mac user and I can confirm we're superior to PC users.
While at college I was upset that they taught some text editor that a prof. at the college wrote. Also, they only taught `vi` in Linux/UNIX classes. As an Emacs user I was offended! :P
big name sites should stop asking for people's username and password from other sites.
Perhaps that should have read "I can confirm we feel superior to PC users"
Reminds me of Hal Abelson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA
You're right, it's definitely not. If you consider yourself a classical liberal, you probably shouldn't call yourself a libertarian at all, at least not when speaking to educated libertarians. While the two schools share a lot in common, their philosophical underpinnings are quite different: self-ownership versus "life, liberty, and property". In today's climate it makes perfect sense that the two groups should be political allies, but they shouldn't be conflated.
FWIW, I don't think calling someone a pretty-boy is homophobic OR sexist.
libertarians are mostly very pro-free-market, and pro-small-government, as am I. I like Rand and Hayek. I can communicate these things better with the word 'libertarian' than with the word 'liberal' which few people understand in the way I'd mean it. I'm closer to right-wing than left-wing, by present day American standards. meh. avoiding labels requires a lot more words.

PS I'd upvote you if I could vote.
It's an insult based on his femininity.
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I've never quite understood people's aversion to being labeled. I'm happy to be labeled as a Rothbardian. My political thinking basically conforms to the framework laid out in The Ethics of Liberty. The fact that I accept the label doesn't mean that I accept every word that Rothbard ever wrote as gospel. I wouldn't expect any reasonable person to infer that I do, and nobody (reasonable or otherwise) has ever confronted me with such an accusation. Labels are just macros, and as such they're useful.
How can I quickly raise $5000 for my half of a patent filing?
Some ground rules: I won't sell either of my macs, my car, or turn tricks in the Tenderloin. The $5000 needs to come from from a source other than my salary and I don't have much spare time to chase down freelance gigs. What are your best creative ideas for raising $5000 in 30 days?
well didn't you basically just tell me to avoid the label libertarian because it's too misleading? i don't entirely agree, but thought you had a point. it is misleading. so are all the others. the only half-decent ones for me are pretty specific like Popperian.
I was just advising you to avoid the wrong label, not to avoid them altogether.
But I don't think libertarian is the wrong label (no worse than others). if "classical liberal" makes you think it is, maybe that is the wrong label?
For adsense, it really depends on the subject. Is it a high or low paying subject? Some categories are "worth" more to advertisers so you'll receive more for each ad. This is what adjusts your CPM.

There is a sub-component of CPM when considering adsense and other forms of advertising, and that is your click through rate, and it's just the percentage of visitors who click on the ads. Many adsense ads only pay on clicks, which means that you'll have to design your site so that your ads are likely to be clicked on. Ads at or near the top of the page do better than those at the bottom of an article or hidden on a sidebar somewhere.

I can't tell you what Google pays for each click, because quite simply, Google doesn't know what it will get! It's all dependent on how valuable certain keywords are to advertisers.

A typical website running ads through an impression based ad network should earn about a $5 CPM. That number can go up to around $100 if it is a highly targeted and valuable demographic.

It would be difficult to tell you what the actual equation would be, because there are the previously mentioned variables that we can't accurately predict:

How valuable are the keywords you're offering?

What will your clickthrough rate be?

I hope this helps!
I think libertarian is the wrong label, and classical liberal perhaps but not necessarily the correct one, if you identify more closely with Thomas Jefferson than with Robert Nozick.
I love mine. I was sceptical at first but its been a lovely machine so far.... and I've owned 10+ Macs in my time.
I don't know early American philosophers very well offhand. But wikipedia says Jefferson sympathized with the French. The dates are around the time of the French Revolution. So, my guess is I dislike him. The French Revolution was really awful and revolutions in general are bad.
Bear in mind that the French Revolution began as something very different than what it became. Thomas Paine, arguably the most libertarian of any of the founding fathers, was one of the French Revolution's most ardent American supporters in its early days. After the revolution got hijacked by the Jacobins, Paine ended up in a French prison.

If you'd like, substitute Locke for Jefferson.
http://www.prosper.com or one of the other p2p lending sites.

Also a credit card.

Or did you only want risk free money?
This reminds me of the following Penny Arcade cartoon:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020712l.gif
Thomas Paine I know about. I read his book about the French Revolution -- the reply to Burke. It's really bad stuff. He doesn't understand Burke at all, makes bad arguments carelessly, and throws in lots of insults. (I realize I'm being insulting. Besides the low quality thinking he made excuses for massive bloodshed as well as glorifying some of it. And I have detailed notes with which I could back this up.)
You don't intend for your children to make up their own minds about religion?
Interesting. If you sympathize with Burke then I have no idea where to place you. He's pretty much universally reviled by every modern school of thought that I'm familiar with.

Anyhow, we're quickly veering away from the topic and toward the right margin. We should probably take this to email. My email address is on the page linked in my profile.
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...except that a tar file really has nothing to do with compression at all. It's just a way of serializing a hierarchy of files into a single file, without any compression. The compression comes when you run gzip or bzip2 (typically using the -z or -j option to tar) on the tar file.
of course, given hacker news, and arc, you could do it in no time at all :)
I like itertools as much as the next programmer (although a large subset of it will be subsumed when Python3k switches to iterators on operations like map and zip), but I feel like using an imported module to (apparently) produce a list of numbers might actually give the wrong idea about Python. In several other languages, you can't even write to standard output without importing a module or five, whereas in Python, you can get a lot done without even touching the standard library (although you will likely want to rather quickly). Seeing an import statement at the top might give the Python newbie the idea that core Python doesn't have "basic" functionality.

I think a good later lesson would be to explain how iterators and the standard library works and then revisit this code to make it look like your example, but in the beginning, I think range(10) would be simpler and would better serve the purpose of the lesson. Even in this case, xrange (at least in Python 2.x) is obviously the better choice, but introducing that complexity at this point doesn't gain much, in my opinion.
/upvote

I like this service. I think you guys are onto something.
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Hmm better shut down mine it newsyc ~ http://www.chatterous.com/landing/newsyc/ Is there any way to find/view the output via the web ie: http://www.chatterous.com/landing/questions ?
I downvoted this because I've seen three "/*vote" comments from you just today and they're starting to get annoying. What's the point of the "/" again?
If you're poor and you're not taking advantage of free (and moral) opportunities to better yourself, that might be part of the reason that you're poor to begin with. All you can really do is offer the opportunity; you can't hold someone's hand and force them to take it.

Besides, what does an "MIT-caliber mind" need growing up? I would like to think of myself as an MIT-caliber mind (99.5 percentile PSAT/NMSQT, 35 ACT, 1500 SAT), and I didn't have anything special growing up. We qualified for reduced lunches, I worked at least 20 hours a week, played sports, did a lot of work at home (my family completely renovated our first house ourselves (everything from plumbing and electricity to siding), and we also had a dog-breeding business we were starting up), and still did well enough in school to be valedictorian. And before you get the wrong idea, I don't think I'm anything special; I simply have an inquisitive mind that my mother (no college) was smart enough to stimulate at a young age. After that it's just hard work and good habits.

The implication that intelligence requires some material object is off mark.
My votes don't count, so I write them in comments. Feel free to complain to pg.

the / is like an irc command or various other places.

PS your profile says to email you but doesn't give an email address.
what's the point of Paul Graham taking away voting rights and refusing to give them back?
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rms - do you know or can you vouch for those guys in some way?
Do you guys have an IRC backend? There's a #startups on freenode that you could probably link to...
I don't know them personally. From Googling around a bit they seem to be the merger of YC startups Clustrix and sproutit.com. I assume they're onto something big if they raised a Sequoia Series A.
I don't think you'd need that metric to make Hamming's point.
I can't speak for your personal sources of happiness but what if your metric is 'When I'm old, can I look back and feel content?'?

The difference between what is and what could have been could cause regret in either direction (productivity vs 'fun').
No, you aren't going to watch some videos and come out of it a skilled python programmer.

But lectures can be good as an overview or introduction, or to help getting your head round difficult concepts. For instance Shai Simonson's Theory of Computation lectures ( http://www.aduni.org/courses/theory/index.php?view=cw) gave me a lot of insight which I couldn't have got just by writing code. There are also some excellent Haskell lectures around, which helped me grok the basic concepts so I could start programming with it.

Plus, I can watch video lectures while I'm eating, grooming, mentally exhausted, or huddled with my morning coffee hating the world. Yes, it's all too passive to really learn much, but it's a good way to semi-relax.

Also: Peteris, who wrote that blog post, also writes an excellent montly round-up of video lectures he's been watching. Highly recommended: http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/
Sounds kind of desperate to me. Why don't they finish up their own phone platform?
not really. depends on the number of uniques, type of content on your website, is the content niche, the type of users, demographics, geographic location, how much relevant inventory is available, etc.?

You are better of experimenting with adsense and other adnetworks. Use pubmatic (http://pubmatic.com) to get a better sense for which adnetworks are better for your website/
No, unfortunately I don't.
I live in Germany, where college, with a very few exceptions is free across the board. On the one hand that's wonderful and part of me wants to love a system that offers free educational access to all. On the other hand, you see the influence of a value economy on it: there's little motivation to finish for those who enjoy it. I think there's a sweet spot in the middle where people pay just enough to assign value to a semester of schooling, but not so much that they're crippled by debt upon graduation. In an ideal world, for me, tuition costs should be for engendering value rather than recuperating costs.
can this be related to the problem of dark matter?

As far as I understand it dark matter is a problem of a large amount of gravitation that is unexplained. The article implies that something similar might be at work here.

I'm a layman on this subject, so if anybody knows anything about this it would be interesting to hear.
Yes, when they're old enough to understand that adults often tell lies.

Other things my kids won't learn about, unless they want to explore it from the perspective of human superstitions or in fantasy stories:

Astrology

Witchcraft

Area 51

Scientology

Sasquatch

Vampires

Elves

Oh, yeah, and can't forget Eskimos

Of course, in the context of fantasy, all of this stuff is fine. But I don't think adults should tell kids that things that are clearly fantasy are, in fact, reality. Kids actually believe things that adults tell them, so I think you should try to tell the truth to kids as much as possible.
Wont writing an iPhone application with another language and environment violate Apple's SDK terms of use?

Also, this will be pretty pointless if the JVM must also run in the same sandbox as other iPhone apps. Its just additional overhead and the libraries will ultimately be limited to the same resources native apps have.

The only benefit I can think of is if you already have a Java ME based app you would like to port to the iPhone quickly.