skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well duh, money in of itself doesn't make someone wealthier. Wealth is a reflection of education and social capital. People who are really poor, even if they have high clash flow don't have the social networks built to leverage it. Once you have those connections formed and the insight on how to use it, you can give away all your money because at that point it's trivial to rebuild it.
How does it compare to C Programming: A Modern Approach, by K.N. King? That was great for learning C. Very readable.
Steve Wozniak likes to do everything on his Segway.
This is pretty funny.
I was referring to the copyright laws of the United Kingdom which is the country where I live (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988). Here, public performance infringement is not limited to solely films and music (Section 16.1c).

I'm not very familiar with US copyright legislation but I assumed that the copyright laws there are similar without checking any sources - which was a mistake apparently.
And 1/8 the size.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245206
I try to fit my whole message in the subject line (ensuring readability, of course).
Facebook decides what stories are "most interesting" to you, and displays those. If your fake account is low-activity, it might be culling entries just as a result of that algorithm.
Coincidence of the day:

13.	Git for the nervous developer (beust.com)
46 points by fogus 5 hours ago | 7 comments
14.	Git for the nervous developer (beust.com)
4 points by dhotson 26 minutes ago | discuss

(#13 is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245206 , with the '?utm_source=...' link)
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The cultural norm, at least in the US, is to make friends at work. I like my coworkers and teammates, but after spending 8 hours with any group of people, I just want to chill at home. I think sometimes my teammates wonder why I don't always go to team outings; I like to spend the 5 hours I have after work w/ my girlfriend, or hobbies. I think some people just don't have any kind of social life outside of work, so that's where they do their socializing.
Too bad that the first submission didn't use the canonical URL.
Blog Upgrade to Jekyll
it's a giant ipod. of course the girl knows how to use it. her father probably let her play with an iphone when she was still in her mother's belly.
This becomes a bigger problem when you're dealing with quoting.

Suppose I wrote something like:
"As MrCharles said above, it's a grey area, but...".

So then what? Do we scrub all mentions of your username down the thread? What about typos?

Don't get me wrong -- I'm all for a scrubbing mechanism -- but it's a complicated problem.
Really, downmodded for politely asking an honest question?

Had anyone used both? Will I get downmodded for asking another question?
Great example of how raising taxes drives business elsewhere.
Indication of Tech Bubble 2.0?
Almost everyone that picks up my kindle for the first time touches the screen before anything else. When I say it isn't touch screen they just kind of shrug and mumble.
The primary tools I use are ssh and sftp, emacs and git. Those do most of what I need, though occasionally I find myself saving some time by using Filezilla. If I can manage it, I use Acorn for image editing, and fall back to Photoshop if it doesn't crash too much. I'd count Mail.app as one of my tools, too.

emacs is my favorite, and I learn more about it every day.
Would it be profitable to have advertising in open-source program?

Of course, there would be checkbox to turn them off (or whatever). No recompilation needed.
TLDR: This is exactly what you'd expect ultracapitalist Objectivists to say: ISPs should be allowed to do whatever they want because their networks are private property.
Lacking any useful information on how I might accomplish something similar (which would be a useful hack), I'm calling this off-topic. Flagged.
I think the situation is probably as described by tienshiao a few posts down (ran late, only US)
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Twitter releases Gizzard, a framework for creating distributed datastores
Quite. I looked up some other articles by this guy, and his viewpoint is very evident.
Business income taxes just come out of the consumers pocket. They should abolish business income taxes and instead more heavily tax the executives with their multi-million dollar salaries.
Wonder if this stuff will be in 4?
I found Doug Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts" to have the same qualities as K&R's C book. Concise, readable and dense, a 'must read' for aspiring Javascript programmers.
He puts in the condition that you can't push your own button (or: you can't get the happiness jolt when you do). Contrast that with masturbation.
Console 2 - instead of the generic windows command prompt.
Jing - for screen captures.
>>>Even if Apple makes sure their device is not assembled using slave labor they can't be sure that all the parts and materials were produced using fair labor practices, and the reality is that they probably weren't.

What company can say that, tho? What devices are we all using that contain, for example, Coltan?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/magazine/the-dirt-in-the-n...

Even here in America, think about meat packers and such. Every time you eat, you could be perpetuating a system you might want to change if you saw what it was.
ISPs networks are not (totally) private property though. They are in many cases publicly subsidized, and they operate with a state-backed grant of monopoly or oligopoly within each region.

IMHO, regardless of what you think of Objectivism or libertarianism, the standard libertarian critique of government interference does not apply to net neutrality. It would apply if telecom were actually a free market and if telcos did not receive large amounts of state support.

Conservatives and most libertarians usually fail the see the distinction between actual private businesses that operate in a free market (e.g. Google, Apple, etc.) and state-backed quasi-private enterprises like telcos. The latter are aptly called "Soviet bureaus."
ProSwitcher for your jailbroken iPhone does this nicely. http://tinyurl.com/proswitcher
A good number of laptops I've tried have palm detection on their touch pads, if the contact patch too big to be a finger, then it it is not a finger and it is not a touch.

Probably wouldn't help in the case of a toddler's hands, but, as mentioned, the hand-on-edge is something many have trouble with.
hm, wavelet analysis on (source) code... strange notion, and intriguing.

i've long thought that language is a fine tool to deliberately construct notions beyond our horizon.

composing such nonsense sentences feel like fuzzing the brain's pattern recognition.
It looks like they also have a very neat and clear way to measure and visualize the speed of PyPy across version: http://speed.pypy.org/overview/ -- didn't someone say that what you can measure you improve?
This looks like tptacek's review on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/review/RMXKDJNH8UOPU/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per...
Spell, not so sure. Matching letter shapes - she's got that down pat.
sorry, I forgot about the split of the dependencies, we use both Conch and ssl sockets at work. Using SSL proxies is a complication because you normally end up killing the client IP addresses without more creative proxies.
Komodo Edit for most coding because it gives me a consistent UI at work on my Mac and at home on Ubuntu

nano for editing files server-side

Git/Github (work) and Mercurial/Bitbucket (personal) for version control and deployment

scp for those rare instances when I need to transfer files manually

Windows XP in VirtualBox for IE testing and Photoshop
This really can't be overemphasized. I have a child about the same age (two-and-a-half) and he's been playing with my iPod Touch since I got it December 2008. He's proficient with it, just like her - able to easily navigate between the different pages of apps, launch new apps, use the navigation within apps, etc.

But obviously, it wasn't like that when he first used it. It took time. For example, it took forever to teach him that if the hand that is holding it is touching the screen a little bit, then it won't properly register new touch events from the other hand. Eventually he just learned this, but it took a long time.

The other thing to note is that children actually learn how to use computers far more rapidly than you might think. It's not just devices like this, where people will assume that it is the multi-touch and intuitive interface that makes it easy for them to learn it. This helps, sure, but I was shocked when, after a mere two hours or so of usage, my two-year-old had learned how to navigate Flash games in a browser using the mouse. I was about to restart the game he was playing by clicking through the menus but no, he grabbed the mouse and did it himself, to my amazement.

Bottom-line: although I sense that many people will assume it is Apple's superior design that is responsible for this child's proficiency, I think that the combination of prior experience, plus the very quick learning abilities of young children, is a more important factor.
55% is kind of a big cut
True.

But if her previous experience had been with Windows 7, would she be similarly proficient on an HP Slate?
I mount my server via SSH through MacFusion, then create a project in Aptana.

I'll add files by dragging and dropping into Aptana, or I'll use scp to upload through terminal.

I'm a designer by training, so I just know a little command-line and emacs, so I'll use that for quick edits from time to time.

I also use the Adobe Suite for image editing and creation. I haven't dove into Fireworks yet, but I keep meaning to as I hear it's great.
Yep, that's unfortunate.. I didn't notice the original submission either. My bad.
Temple Grandin thinks in pictures. She has written several books, including a book called "Thinking in Pictures". You might find that helpful. You might also try reading illustrated works, like webcomics, to help bridge the gap. You could also pick up "The Cartoon Guides..." by Larry Gonick. They aren't at all watered down. My oldest son thinks in pictures and had trouble learning to speak but he is quite intelligent and, these days, articulate. These are things that helped him.

Good luck.
Nice article, but it is possible to explain this as forming a habit. The 10,000 hour concept was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell who based it on a research on students learning violin. http://www.google.com/search?aq=0&oq=malcolm+gladwell+10...

Someone who is trying to learn how to play a violin is really trying to form a habit. Once playing a violin becomes a strong habit, as strong as walking, so that it is done without thinking, it is said that the student has become a virtuoso.

But becoming a virtuoso does not guarantee a career as a concert violonist because there are a limit number of slots available in the world for concert violinists.

At some point one must consider quitting for strategic reasons. There is nothing wrong about quitting in this sense. In other words, once you realize that you were not chosen for the top spot you must quit or accept the consequences.
Dave & Buster's uses this technique - as well as something called "foot-in-the-door" when persuading you to buy more gaming credits: http://blog.kadavy-inc.com/post/465860827/psychology-hacks-o...

For Apple, the "foot-in-the-door" is probably the iPod or iPhone.
7.7-magnitude quake strikes Indonesia
> Were it not for net neutrality, a start-up ISP might compete against Comcast by configuring its fledgling network to favor Bit Torrent’s peer-to-peer data packets, thereby earning it the business of serious movie downloaders without having to match or exceed Comcast in expensive infrastructure.

Really? If someone advertised their ISP as 'BitTorrent-friendly' they would have to contend with the MPAA, RIAA, BSA, etc trying to sue their company back into the stone-age.

> If an ISP were left alone to manage the transmission of data packets across its property, it could profitably improve the speed of its network, it could profit from charging more for more bandwidth consumption, and it could profit from providing special services to certain customers, such as smoothly streaming high-definition video feeds. But because none of these things is possible under net neutrality’s rules, the property of Internet service providers is worth considerably less to them in terms of its profit potential. Accordingly, their incentive to expand and improve the infrastructure on which the Internet relies is greatly diminished.

The government poured billions into the country's major ISPs to 'upgrade infrastructure' and there was little to no return on that investment. Infrastructure was not upgraded and we are now at a point where ISPs are trying to claim that their networks can no longer handle capacity, so they are forced to do filtering and 'QoS.' Where did all of that money go? Shouldn't the free market have allowed the ISPs to use that money to improve their networks so that they could reap larger rewards from those better built networks?

The problem with trying to treat Internet Service Providers as some sort of 'free market' is that it isn't. There are huge barriers to entry in the market, and well-established incumbents. Most places in the USA only have 1 or 2 choices for internet service. How is this in any way a 'free market' that the government should say out of? In fact, the governments created this mess in the first place by creating phone company and cable company monopolies. Now these telcos preach about how 'the market should be free' just because they have a huge advantage (i.e. established customers and deep-pockets) against any possible competitors. Which is a hypocritical stance seeing as they are where they are today due to government-granted monopolies.

tl;dr The ISP business model:

1. Get the government to give you a lead in the market through a monopoly
2. Grow your business by leaps and bounds during this monopoly period
3. Government opens market
4. Complain that government intervention in the market is evil and lobby
against the government helping out any potential competitors
Good info. Thanks. Didn't know you could register anywhere in the EU.
It is what all the cool kids were using. No, seriously, there was that "try Ruby right in your browser" site and I fell in love with the language in a matter of minutes.
I don't know much about Rose-Hulman, but I can give input on UCLA if you like. username at gmail
TextMate, VIM and Eclipse for editing, Transmit for FTP, Acorn for quick image editing (I'm a really bad designer), Mail.app and SSH.
This is, by the way, [2008]. tap tap tap has changed a lot in the last two years. Groceries and Tipulator are no more sold by them, Sophia Teutschler, one of the two founders, sells those apps (among others) now on her own.
Relativity gives gold its color
Emacs, python-mode.el, ipython.el, org-mode.
New carefully worded rules for US nuclear weapon use
The coming death of the newspaper began in the 1980s. I worked in a consultancy specializing in the online world (Prestel, NAPLPS, videotex, et al). And one of the execs saw back then that classifieds -- the heart of paper revenues -- would be stolen away from them. Of course, what happened when the Internet came along was totally unexpected, a true Black Swan event, one guy stealing away all that business with Craigslist. Don't separate money from the issue.
Emacs, Git, (SVN occasionally), Paint.NET (if im on windows), and Python.

I know you said not languages, but I see Python more as a tool since I can use it to hammer out code to convert data and the like.
You Should "Should"
That might be true but it's irrelevant. I'd have no objection if you left out the introductory clause.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
OSX Specific:
TextMate,
Terminal,
DTerm (awesome timesaver),
Digital ColorMeter (Pixel measurement, CMD+SHIFT+C FTW)

General:
Firebug,
Dropbox (automatic backups!),
Git,
Photoshop,
Customized .bashrc, .irbrc

Ruby specific:
Sketches (with the default sketches dir symlinked into Dropbox)

These are probably 95% of where I spend my time. My workflow is generally: I use Spotlight and Finder to find things and then DTerm to interact with them or launch TextMate. If I want to dink around in Ruby I will go into irb and start a new sketch which will pop up TextMate and away I code.
So it seems your problem is with the initial government intervention? So in order to fix that we need more?
I'm guessing not. By far the more important experience is with a touch screen and not the OS.
Also a clock involving vectors: http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/js/clock/
I tend to use Carbon Emacs and Plainview (webkit based browser) in their fullscreen modes when knocking out code. Beyond that, just a small gang of shell scripts and aliases alongside the usual shell tools.
I don't think they fail to see the distinction, but instead of further cementing government control they in fact argue that telcos should lose their government privileges and be left to compete in the market. Sure at first they will have significant advantages but as time goes on competition should be able to function.
Vim for coding. Mustang is the current color scheme of choice. Plugins I use:

* Fuzzy Finder
* surround.vim
* supertab
* NERD Tree

Git for version control (at work I use git-svn, don't get me started about subversion). I have aliases for status (s), commit (ci), checkout (co), tag (t), and branch (b).

Fabric / rsync for deployment.

Sphinx for documentation.

IPython for my python shell.

Screen for terminal persistence and management.

http://github.com/rupa/z for directory navigation. Also, learn how to use your shell. It probably does things you never thought possible.

In Snow Leopard, I use X11 to interface with the shell (256 colors yo, makes syntax highlighting SO much nicer).

Spotlight for finding things.

Firebug and Flash Player Debugger Version.
My first real job in Japan was as technical translator for the prefectural technology incubator. (I am not comfortable telling you who, exactly, although given that I live in the equivalent of a small town in Kansas it isn't exactly hard to guess.) It was arranged through the JET Program -- I applied as a Coordinator of International Relations, they saw my engineering degree, the rest is history. Note that I'm told there was exactly one technical translator placed that year, so I wouldn't suggest that as a high-percentage route to your dream job in technical translation.

My next job was the job I recently quit. I got that by overdelivering on a project for a client of the incubator. When my contract was up I called him and essentially called in the favor. He arranged for my recently ex-bosses to hire me (they were clients of his), and came with me for the job interview, which at that point was a formality.
Limiting what lobbyist and special interest group can squeeze out of government should give a fair shake.
The strategy that you have outlined has vanishingly little to recommend it. You lose the exact match domain bonus and split your link equity across your main site and the mini-sites.
I haven't actually tried out the Android OS that extensively. Aside from testing it now and then on friends phones I've never really used it. Hence my question. Though my own experience with the iPhone is that a two-year-old could actually start using it right away, and that's not the feeling I get from Android.

aphyr makes a brilliant point that simplicity and power often compete with each other and maybe Apple is trying to target the less tech-savvy user.

Since I interpreted aphyrs comment as saying the Android app-switching method was easier, I was genuinely curious as to wether he thought the Android platform was overall as easy as the iPhone platform.
The problem with a lack of net neutrality is not how ISPs relate to their paying customers, it's how they relate to content providers. That's not to say that I agree with the arguments in the article; I find them extremely distasteful, although there is some reasoning behind them, based on ideas of morality that I disagree with but don't find completely invalid.

I'll outline the scenario that worries me. Comcast sends all internet data as second-tier data, unless the content provider pays Comcast to provide it as first-tier data. The difference between the two is small, say one or two tenths of a second in delivery time. The end user doesn't notice a difference. But, as Google has found, the extra tenth of a second has huge impacts on conversion for websites. So, Comcast effectively offers the same experience to users, but now also holds a huge sword over the head of content provides. Effectively, it is in an excellent position to leverage its ISP monopoly to create a massive extortion racket to content providers. And the magical free market isn't going to push back against Comcast, because the experience for the end-user has not noticeably suffered.

It's quite possible that under such a system the internet could actually be free, because it's subsidized by corporate content provider partners, and charging the content consumers becomes obsolete, although I doubt Comcast would suddenly drop a revenue source. However, it also raises the barrier to entry for small content providers, because they don't have the spare cash to pay Comcast for non-sub-standard conversion rates. In a (weasel) word, it's less democratic. Not to mention, Comcast can sustain its monopoly on ISPs by giving even shittier third-tier access to its competitors. The end result is a less-free internet, Comcast enriching themselves by abusing a monopoly, and all of this done without Comcast delivering a higher-quality internet to users. I think I'll take my stupid pipes, please.

I agree with the author insofar as I accept that his conclusion is consistent with Objectivism, although it's still debatable if owning the wires means owning the data that goes through the wires. Fortunately for me, I'm a pragmatist, not an Objectivist, and I think the loss of property rights (if any!) is perfectly acceptable for the benefits to expression and communication.
Here is something similar that I posted a while back that got some good responses:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937855
For most of the uses for me it is a good speed. However, there are a few activities that during most times of the day time out. If I look to see a user's submissions, that will frequently time out. Occasionally, checking on my 'threads' will also time out.