skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely this!

I'm passionate about becoming a great hacker and I'm regularly trying to improve my skills in both hardware and software hacking (20/80 split at the moment).

My main issue is that I require a lot of structure in terms of the way that I learn, to deal with this I've borrowed "Programming Interview Explained" [ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interviews-Exposed-Secrets... ] from a friend. It's a fairly short book but outlines what knowledge would be requisite for getting a job at Microsoft back in the early 2000s.

I'm going through the book and finding out what knowledge areas are currently lacking and supplementing them with books which are considered to be good for that specific subset of computing. E.g. I found out I was terrible at bit manipulation, so I've bought "Hacker's Delight" [ http://www.hackersdelight.org/ ], which is helping in both my software knowledge and hardware knowledge.

I figure that this method of learning will likely take me over a year if I limit the supplementing books to just 1 or 2 at most. After that I can go through it again, covering all of the topics that I thought I knew well enough to make sure my knowledge is all up to scratch.

TL;DR Persistance is key if you want to gain domain knowledge in your field. I'm taking a backwards approach and using a book to define my learning path.
I don't see how you would have an expectation of that data being private when you put it on facebook. The whole point of facebook is to publish your identity, and you are a fool if you think somehow what you post to your friends will never get around.

And how does what happens to your data after an acquisition have anything to do with their current privacy policies? If that's you worry, there is nothing they could do - it's your choice to put data there.
Another benefit of this layout is that you can stack similar rules to make their relationships clearer. For example:

div.red { background: #f00; border: 3px solid #c00; }
div.green { background: #0f0; border: 4px solid #0c0; }
div.blue { background: #00f; border: 5px solid #00c; }

In multiline mode, it might not be so clear that they are related. We are experimenting with lessCSS here, in theory it might make this go away, in practice lessCSS seems quite buggy, so we are not using it for much yet.
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I've always viewed Facebook as a self-updating address book. I never got into all the other crap it offered and I loathed at their app platform when it was released years ago.
I canceled my account this morning. I never had any information on there that I wanted to be completely private but I don't like where Facebook is going.
Damn, I was reallly hoping I'd see a picture of a whale log when I cilcked through. No such luck.
I love how you ignore every single relevant detail here in favor of an interpretation that doesn't fit anything but your existing biases. I love consistency like that, it's amazing.

What is an "actual customer"?

Someone who is going to actually use the product they are buying from you, as opposed to someone whose sole intent is to capitalize on your product's scarcity. The end consumer, as opposed to the middle-man.

they are a pretty fucking excellent customer.

And what about the next guy in line? The "actual customer" as above, who doesn't get your product because you're too busy selling it to the guy who's only interested in making it even more scarce. Like I said before, you make the same amount of money from the sale, but if you can afford to be choosy about your customers (and in this situation, Apple can), the "actual customer" is the one you want to favor. The retailer has no incentive to favor the middle-man, who at best is going to raise the price to the end consumer without earning you a cent.

If you're worried about a secondary market, make more of your thing.

In what bizarro world does this happen instantaneously?
"Product-market fit cures many sins of management." Great insight.
The first story I checked had 422 retweets and only 10 likes. Maybe FB is not taking over the internet yet.
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May I self-promote and suggest Sass (http://sass-lang.org)? It's much older and less buggy than Less, and the currently-in-beta Sass 3 supports a CSS-style syntax (http://nex-3.com/posts/96-scss-sass-is-a-css-extension).
This sounds extremely cool, although I have a feeling the regulators won't be too happy if I start broadcasting in the GSM band(s) with enough intensity to be useful.
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that painful humility seems so so important for high intelligence types. it seems to be one of the biggest common factors correlated to the distinction between high intelligence people who leverage their skills and those who don't.
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The employee seems to have acted in good faith; giving 2 weeks notice and graciously thanking them for the opportunities he was given. The other guy was just being immature.
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Well played, extremely well played!
> the startup scene has heard all about this

I hadn't. And wow, that was brutal. I actually cringed in real life reading it:

> I certainly won’t be going far (), so I hope to continue a lasting relationship and hope that we all can work together sometime in the future.

> Don’t come back to the office, do not email the team list. Elliot will send you paperwork tomorrow. Today was your last day. Good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company. Horribly disappointed in you.

I'd like to add some analysis, but I mean... wow, that's just brutal. Wow. If I'd seen that in a movie, I'd think it was being melodramatic and was really poorly written because no one's that venomous in real life. Just, wow.

Edit: I do have a thought to add. Ideally, don't be vicious, be gracious, etc. But if you are going to be vicious and nasty, for God's sake don't put it in writing.
Nah, I made a concious decision to open up my Facebook account "publicly" about 18 months ago. So in my mind it is just like my public facing blog (with a handy added address book).

Once you have it in your mind like that it is easy to remember not to post private stuff in there.
I just had a realization. Apple's actually becoming the next Microsoft.

And they're beginning to act the part.
Even Steve Jobs was smart enough to use reality distortion rather than lose his temper when someone quit: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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No No No. This completely screws up diffs and code revision tools.
But can we have email notifications yet?
Is it easy to exchange themes? I might be bothered to theme if there is an easy way to set the theme on every computer I use. I suppose some productivity enhancements are possible, I just never took the time.
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Man, this is a lesson about greed. Don't try to attain IT by confining yourself to any man's (banker's) device. In the end you wont enjoy yourself, no matter what you experience or how wise you become, because you'll learn to despise it all -- all that you have sacrificed.

Also, don't hate the banker, they have feelings too. Or something.
i don't know if i like this future
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>if advertising became more accurately targeted...You'd get in touch with products you were genuinely interested in... there'd be less utterly useless cruft in the ads you receive.

Counter-example: facebook.com. Supposedly that site has a lot of info on their users, yet their "targetted" ads are as useless and cruft filled as ever.
Why it's completely unnecessary to create one-line CSS selectors
Cannot find any FB integration on IMDb. Care to explain?
I also thought of doing that but I don't know if it's a good idea. Because it's not just up to you to not post private stuff. What about the private stuff your friends post about you on your wall?

On the other hand, limiting my profile also has only limited privacy benefits because my friends and family don't understand and can't be bothered to tweak fifty different checkboxes to get their privacy settings right. So anything I say or do on their Facebook pages is out in the open.

I'm wondering if it's even worth thinking about so much. Ugh.
Yeah, I don't see much of a need for a second thread, unless some actual new information emerges...

As far as TC50, it seems that disintegrated not very amicably at the end of the last one: http://venturebeat.com/2009/09/16/tc50-techcrunch50-founders...
If you're a perl head, try one of the modern web frameworks for Perl, such as Catalyst
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As a long-time pythoneer, I first had a look at RoR, but not being able to reuse old code and programming prowess is a letdown, so I tried Django and I liked it.

tl;dr: There's rails-like frameworks for many languages now. If you're heavily invested in one programming language, try the web frameworks there.
Not if you implement this in a third-world country, where regulators can't enforce. (But, in a country like that, you may be forced with guns to shut down :P)
Looks like there's a bunch of arbitrary session/key info in the IFRAME that the parent window can't predict/access.
Thank God for Alan Kay. When I get depressed with the state of the industry, with the twitter mashup get-rich-quick schemes and the lack of any interest in working hard on the hard problems, it helps to know that he's around and leading the charge against that tsunami of frivolity.
I am sure that I do not like this future.
The main value would be in finding other accounts to attack (some of which might have known weak security).

Also, if I stole a credit card, seeing what purchases someone has made in the past would let you make a larger number of future purchases without getting the card blocked.

Hacking email account still seems to be one of the best rewards for lowest difficulty.
I usually do single-line inserts for global elements like blockquotes and links. For the rest - no way.
well, it works if you consider modern as an attribute explaining when it was made instead of what it contains.

That allows you to have modern wheels, music, art.
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Have apple started screwing over lots of companies yet? (Well, apart from Adobe, and that is debatable)

Mac OS is still a great system, sure iPhone/iPad/Touch is quite locked down, but they still have not been acting as bad as Microsoft.
There have been interesting talks on GSM on the Chaos Communication Congresses:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/3007.en.h... -> Recordings on http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Conference_Recording...

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3535.en.h...

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3654.en.h...
There are plenty of reports of Jobs berating people mercilessly, and firing people on passing whims.

Compared to that, Calacanis making the resignation effective immediately -- often a good practice for other reasons -- and taking a couple parting potshots at an employee's choice/tenure-length and new employer is mild.
I have iframes globally disabled with only few websites allowed to use them. Try it.
Amazon is amongst the most expensive afaik
Amusing take:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/verity_stob_name_you... - Don't call me Ishmael - Choosing a name for your new PC
About the only thing I do really limit is the privacy of things friends post on my wall etc.

In terms of other stuff they do (controlled by their privacy settings) I think you just have to be aware of what's going on. I've de-tagged a few photo's etc.
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It is much better to get higher profit on lower revenues.
I've used single line CSS for 2+ years now. I find it better at both reading and inserting/edit (I find it weird to read/write Multi-line ones). I used to sort by layout-appearance (important layout first, than appearance), but have now switched to A-Z sort of properties for maintainability (if others have to look at your code, you have to think about them).

However ocharles is right about the fact that it screws diffs (as long as they are per-line oriented).
I'm following the Futura characters. My Unibody MacBook is called Bender because it indeed has a shining metal ass (although different kind of metal) :D
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Would'nt the pypy project's self-hosting interpreter be helpful for Jython ?
In the internet only Facebook can quit you. All your data are belong to Zuck.
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Oh I remember de-tagging photos once. It made me laugh when I realised Facebook was making me do work and there was no end to this chore!!!
Makes it easier to sort in Vim; 'ggVG!sort' will sort your css alphabetically:

.bar .apple {...}

.foo .apple {...}

.foo .banana {...}

.foo .cherry {...}

(I also have a wee script that sorts the declarations alphabetically too.)

I prefer the style, I find it much easier to write, edit and maintain.
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I joined Facebook this year for a class in Facebook app development. I never really wanted to join the network - like some of the posters here, I saw something like this coming and told myself it wasn't worth the investment to join Facebook.

After four months of using it, I've come to several conclusions.

1) Facebook is a huge timesuck. Time I used to spend reading on the Internet, or programming I now spent watching stupid videos on Facebook itself. What Facebook needs is a noprocras feature (but even then - the content isn't worth the time).

2) Related to point 1: I began to think that what Facebook really does is to use my need for connection to keep me returning to the site. And I didn't like that. It felt as if ... well it feels as if they're trying to use my friends for their benefit.

3) Superficial communication != valuable communication. There is no centralized discussion on FB, and your profile page tends to be this highly decentralized echo chamber. How many people, if ever, argue against your (bad) ideas on your very own profile page?

4) Privacy has always been and will always be an issue on a social site this big. It's too easy to mess things up.

And so, after four months: I'm quitting.
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This incident being a phone who some Apple fanboys claims to be stolen, not lost, I'd say a most definite "no".
Whoa, I didn't know until just now that Phil Kaplan was at both AdBrite and Blippy. I think of him as the FuckedCompany guy, so wouldn't have thought he'd be part of something so close to the kinds of things FuckedCompany used to ridicule...
You can block them in Firefox by using the RequestPolicy plugin. At least, I assume that you can, because I am not actually seeing any ;o)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727

At first it seems like overkill, because it blocks sites from accessing data from other sites, but you can enable certain sites (either globally or on a per-site basis) and it remembers those, so after a little playing around, sites you visit frequently look quite normal.

It's also very interesting seeing how people assemble sites these days...
Yes. Your question made me think I am missing something obvious. Maybe http://firerainbow.binaryage.com/ or another add-on?

I have the Firebug out-of-the-box syntax highlighting, but that doesn't apply to JS in the Console or Script windows.
Email them graciously, tell them you think they have a lovely service and that the deal is a steal, tell them you lost it right at checkout, and ask if they can take care of you. I'd bet they will, they seem like they're run by nice and smart people.
This "when no one is watching you" insight made me think of GaryVee vs. Tom Crush 5am phone call:

http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/455059045/i-was-pranked-at-5-...
Ask HN: What does it mean to have a 4.0 GPA?
As a person who studied in the European system, I'm having some difficulty understanding the GPA concept in America. Whenever I read an article about some smart person, there is usually a line that says - he graduated with a 4.0 GPA. My understanding from Wikipedia is that he either scored a perfect value on all his tests, or he got above a 90% on all his tests.

What does a 4.0 mean? Does this mean the person never failed to get below a 90% on every single test that he ever took at the university? Is this a linear system where 90% actually means that 9 out of 10 questions were correct?

What's the perception of other scores like 3.7 or 3.5? Are those considered low?

Do people have the chance to go back and correct an exam where they scored less than 90% or are these 4.0 people really that smart?
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Each time you write a method that accepts arguments you must make a decision as to the type of those arguments. If you are not careful, your choice could place unnecessary restrictions on the caller of the method that requires them to pass too specific of a type.
The difficulty there, however, will be proving that the phone is worth $400.

In the US, a completely unsubsidized current-generation (3GS) iPhone carries a sticker price of at least $499. It's unlikely that an as-yet-unreleased next-gen model would be worth over $99 less than that.
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I assume they've done studies of the monthly subscriptions model versus buying more storage for a single sum? Because the latter option appeals to me a lot more.

I like their service a lot, especially since it works on Linux, Mac and Windows but the monthly subscriptions are too expensive.
As long as facebook maintains some semblance of a concern about privacy and allows people to opt out of their invasive and intrusive new features I will stick around. It's a great way to keep in touch with old/current classmates and family members. I of course don't allow facebook applications to share any of my info, have all my settings on "friends only," and have all applications blocked except the baseline/stock ones (calender, etc...)
4.0 means he got the best grade for each class that he took. You can fail a test and still get an A, depending. I believe you can retake a course to get a better grade in my school. 3.5 is fine. 3.0 I guess might be average or not stellar.
In my school career fair, ratheon or some weapons manuf acturing company only accepted candidates with GPA 3.8 or higher. I thought that was high, but I guess those companies want straightedge people.
And VC would have asked how big is the market for file sharing for grand mothers..

Just joking, but I find the parallel to usable by grand mothers quite amusing! A lot of products are usable, yet they aren't what grand mothers would use.
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The letter grades A and A+ are equivalent to 4 "grade points." A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.3, B is 3.0, B- is 2.7 and so on. If someone has a 4.0 this means they received an A/A+ in every class.

Depending on the university and the professor, this can mean different things. If the class is curved, one third of the class will probably receive A-/A/A+ range grades. If the class is not curved, anywhere from 85% to 95% may be considered an A depending on the professor, class, and university. Most commonly a 90% range is considered A- and up and 80% range is B- and up (assuming no curve).

The overall GPAs themselves are usually calculated by taking specific units of each class into account to give some classes more weight than others. For a 4.0, all grades must have been A anyways so this detail is insignificant.

3.7 and 3.5 are often considered very good GPAs in university. Receiving an overall 4.0 GPA is fairly rare at many schools as an receiving even one A- or below would ensure less than 4.0.
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...and Apple closed the income gap with Exxon Mobil to ~ $3 billion.

Not that these comparisons are of any value.
This is, incidentally, the same Don Libes of Expect and Tcl fame.
Downmodded?

Please, wait a few hours before complaining about that and providing additional explanations. It usually evens out.
+1 for Sass. Sass allows me to apply the same modularity and reuse principles to my CSS that I do to my code, so writing it is much faster and editing it is much easier.

I played with a few other CSS processors over the last few years (Less, Moonfall, one or two others) but Sass is clearly in the lead. Thanks nex3 for a very useful tool.

(Oh, and FWIW, I use it on a Perl website. You don't need to be on Rails to use Sass.)
And what do you expect the books to do for you?
Great ending!
Frankly even quitting via email would only be a minor count against him to me. Having difficult conversations face to face is a skill not everyone possesses, that was a polite and professional resignation letter no matter the delivery (or whether he was lying through his teeth) and the proper response in a business context is "We're sorry to hear that, good luck at Yahoo!." especially if you mean what Jason wrote.
Especially since the technically correct spelling is Eyjafjallajökull. :-)
I'm in pretty much the same boat, except I deactivated mine a while back. (Maybe 2008?)
prowl is free?
Ask HN: GeoAPI or SimpleGeo?
I'm not too concerned with price. Interested in which is easier to use and whether anyone has done benchmarks to make sure they're not going to choke up.

I'd assume geoapi would be reliable (bc it's twitter) but not sure of any twitter-sized sites using simplegeo. Thanks.
So <em> is not enough?

I'm seriously considering the use of <blink> at this point.
I just spent 30 minutes going through all my privacy settings and switching everything to "Friends only". It was time consuming, and given the number of config pages, I'm sure I've missed stuff. And there's still stuff visible on my profile.

I'm just so pleased I signed up with an alias. Only my actual friends know it's me.
What do you consider modern then? A reincarnation of Algol-68? Yet another Lisp? Another python-killer-killer (ie. a ruby-killer) ?
Haven't read about it before but sounds interesting.
C syntax? We clearly haven't read the same homepage.
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PGP?
Becuase it's not just what you put on there, it's what others put on there about you.

Plus - do you really want _anyone_ who feels like it to be able to find out stuff about you? Insurance companies, potential employers, the tax man, debt collectors and so on?

Or how about a scorned ex-gf/bf, someone you've had a dispute with etc etc.?

Basically, it makes you vulnerable.
Our professor defined DP as solving problems by reduction to finding longest routes in acyclic directed graphs.
It is interesting, particularly if you play it with like-minded friends.

Another similar game which is just as good is Bartok (or Bartog or Warthog, depending on who you ask). Similar to Uno, but when you win a round, you get to make a new rule which applies to every future round. Best played with drunken Mathematicians/CS types.

Finally, if you want to be really scared, there's PerlNomic, in which rule changes are actually diffs applied to the voting code: http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/PerlNomic
I guess the page load is tested by loading a blank page and therefore just testing the networking stuff and not the rendering, javascript, etc.