skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much exactly what that guy from Mad Money predicted would happen.

I wouldn't invest in Tesla. Either electric cars take off or they don't, but if they do then the big car companies can easily muscle in and eat Tesla's lunch. Nissan and Chevy both have electric cars coming out soon which will present a much better value proposition than the Tesla Model S.
I was playing with Clojure this last weekend, and so far have enjoyed it. I ran through a dozen or so project euler problems, but am now looking for something that takes longer than 10 lines of code to complete.

HN, what other projects do you do to familiarize yourself with a new language?
Thanks, this link is great.

I enjoy copying content that others worked hard to prepare, against their express permission, and then not compensating them, so this is great.

THANKS!
This Yahoo post thinks that stylesheets don't block the browser, typically: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/07/high_perfor...
It's impossible to be a pure empiricist because you must translate your experience of reality into a conceptual representation in order to think about it at all.

Perhaps you can be purely empiricist if you have no conscious awareness. But if you are conscious, you can approximate empiricism by maintaining awareness of the distinction between reality and your understanding of it.
Are you defending TC or Gizmodo?
I'll be there to talk about the D programming language.
It would be an even happier state of affairs if the Master's-qualified teacher were free to take whatever salary could be negotiated between her and the school, without union interference.
No of course a Masters doesn't automatically equate to a higher quality, but she can't get a job at all because of it. Because of the Teacher's Union, she can't even waive that extra $2000. She would be grateful to take the base wage if it meant employment.
Ask HN: What is the best iPhone Task Management App?
What do you use? Things? ToodleDo? Remember the Milk? Notes?
Programming languages are cultural, not technical, artifacts.

Sociology is a factor but that's wildly overstating the case. The fact that people prefer to borrow from Lisp rather that adopt it is telling. Many programmers are aware enough of Lisp to take inspiration from it but choose not to use the language itself.

There's a subtext of arrogance in the claims FP and Lisp advocates make about the popularity of various programming languages. In my experience most of those people don't actually write much code. I gave up on the Common Lisp community years ago after realizing that it was full of people that would rather sit around discussing how things should be than actually building something.

Clay Shirky talks about people knocking out an important app in 2 days PHP here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_w...

I doubt very much that the typical Lisp crowd would have gotten past arguing which web templating library to use.
Basic Puppetry: Intro to Puppet Labs Data Center Automation
Very much so. I don't get the (apparent) belief that code samples must be hidden at all costs.

If I'm looking at a language, I want to see what it looks like...
Get a merchant account and take payments yourself. PayPal isn't worth it for anything more than selling your junk on eBay.
If the speculators are able to make money off the geeks, who are the real geeks then?
On what grounds to you claim that this is a "win"?

That is, what are your criteria, and what makes you believe that this factor is on the path toward that criteria?
11% conversion rate increase from a "Commitment Checkbox"
The finance geeks made money off the technology geeks?
To what extent are other verticals open to tech innovation as well? Such as the Art market.
Lisp, erlang, forth, scheme, prolog, ML maintainer(s) needed urgently in Fedora
"In order to properly understand Derrida's philosophy, you need a solid understanding of the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, Hegel, Freud, Nietzsche and Levinas."

If I already perceived half of those guys as going in the wrong direction entirely, is there any value to reading what is essentially a commentary on them?

I must say, a long exposure to the analytic tradition has, to me, evaporated all these excuses. When you're saying something about morality or the nature of knowledge, you can state it directly, even at the risk of restating some elements that others have stated. This is true even if you're directly responding to them (in which case you restate the points you are responding to). The main prerequisite is a training in logic, simply because many statements in analytic philosophy are most clearly expressed in variously-formal logical forms.

On the other hand, if you're only offering a commentary on past philosophers, perhaps some novel technique of reading their texts (which, judging by your posts, seems to be Derrida's primary innovation) is enough of an innovation.
I don't doubt the iPad's capabilities, but I still dislike false advertising (of course they will claim that the image is not real just like all the camera ads on TV, "not actual images from in the camera")
Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar
I wonder why to Go guys aren't there.
My impression is that as far as Greek public opinion goes, "will it work?" is currently the biggest open question. If Greece is going to end up defaulting anyway, a lot of people are in favor of just defaulting now and getting it over with, instead of paying huge interest bills on a loan that they'll never be able to overcome anyway. Selling the austerity plan requires selling people on "yes, it'll work", which so far many people don't really believe.
How'd he do on the other two?
> Does WePay allow international (non-US) payments? Not right now, but we hope to soon.

So, still very limiting.
The name is OK I suppose, but it makes for an incredibly confusing headline on any sort of social network. Certainly don't start anything with "Fake -" or the first question everyone will ask is "is this real?"
If I understand how this works, there is a clear use case for using this over say Selinium: flash interaction testing. so assuming you have a fixed dimension site in the fluid browse, you could interact with flash widgets... Right? or am I totally off track here?

For most other functional testing I'd stick to webrat that I can bake into my build script.

But flash testing...I really want to crack that nut.
Try looking for a job as an “overqualified” applicant in private industry. If they are not paid more or treated better then it’s assumed they will quickly move on.
You mean virus protection software for your phone? :p
Another Canadian dropout here. I did take the most advanced courses offered and couldn't stand it. No one could explain why I was learning any of the course material. In my mind I may as well have been learning sanskrit. Also, I had no idea until an acquaintance did so that graduating early was even an option.

A agree that schooling is only what you make of it, but some effort to explain to disenchanted teens WHY it is useful would go a long way.
"experience tells us that the majority of people are quite capable of reading normal passages and understanding what they mean."

Unfortunately science tells us the opposite.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3b.htm
As I remember when a sprite was a hardware assisted moving image on a screen, I really dislike how this term has been adopted. The fact that it uses a section of a large image does not make it a 'sprite'.
Read some of the Clojure code, both in main and in contrib.
What experience? I know quite a few people (not the HN crowd) who are reasonably smart, but give them a newspaper editorial by itself and they'll be lost. Not 96% of people I know, but a decent amount.
I'm curious, what interesting features does it have?
Amazon Payments might be an option https://payments.amazon.com/

Seems like the market is there for a PayPal alternative. It would be an interesting start-up. I'm putting together a Wiki soon to spec out the project.
Blizzard/Activision Removing Anonymity From Game Forums
Maybe something like UT or CS, where it's all over in 3 minutes, that's true.

I remember being a kid and playing games like Tomb Raider where you would have to really think and work hard to unlock puzzles. Even games that offered you the opportunity to just fly through them usually had some form of deeper gameplay. For instance, SF Rush was all about things flashing by really fast, but the real challenge was to collect all the keys in the game, which often required a lot of innovative thinking about finding things to jump off.
They seem to support "Power Sellers" very well, selling physical goods, and screw everyone else.
I assumed he was defending TC since he states that he is a writer in his profile here on HN.
I will argue that this is a good time to buy Tesla Stocks; this is a time for real geeks to make money.
Looks like it was fixed by a moderator.
I was going to make this point on the OP but my comment wasn't posted (yet?)

There are ways around it (define all your background images at the end of the CSS file for example), but I think it's a bit early to be declaring data-urls the holy grail of page performance.
A sprite is just a 2D image. Animation in old 2D games would usually store several frames of animation in a single image, similar to the current use in CSS.
Here is how to apply to become a maintainer:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
It was obvious his conviction that his country could not lose was based on faulty reasoning. Japan was inevitably going to lose, nuclear bomb or not. So I think his persistence was fueled by his blind allegiance to his country, most likely because he believed that his country was superior to all other countries because he was born in it. Professional or not, I think the primary motivation was his country, and not his training. Doing something that dedicated requires a firm belief in the purpose (unless you were retarded to some degree). Of course he may have been lied to, or misled into thinking his country was greater than it was. In any case this would be why blind allegiance is bad.
I don't believe the IPO is about the model S; it's about ramping up to build a sub 30K (or was it 20K) model at the newly acquired plant in Nor Cal, partnered with Toyota.
JQuery google api and other google hosted javascript libraries.
The problem of course is when you allow too many "too big to fail" institutions to exist and suffer a cascading failure such as the ones started by Creditanstalt in May 1931 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creditanstalt) and Lehman Brothers in September 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_crisis_impact_timeline...), the latter fortunately got stopped.

One obvious solution is outlaw "too big to fail" although that seems to be hard (the current US financial regulation bill enshrines them), and it still doesn't address the lemming like behavior you see in bubbles which allow near total systems failures.

In fact, wasn't the US banking system of the '30s mostly comprised of small banks (as I recall, 8,000 of them had failed when FDR closed the rest, but my memory of that number could be off or maybe that was the total???).
This is beautiful. I love that it saves its steps as an OS X plist file.
You may want to offer a both, a one-time-fee as well as a monthly cost, and let users decide.
It's not influenced by Star Trek. As I said, my reasoning is completely unrelated to the Prime Directive — the effect just happens to look the same in the context of an advanced, peaceful culture meeting a more primitive, tribal one.

It actually comes from my observations of politics on earth. Countries with closely shared cultures and correspondingly close levels of advancement in certain areas tend to be more trustworthy with the technology they create than countries that were previously poor and balkanized. Most of our intrusion in Africa and the Middle East, even when it's intended to help, tends to just get more people killed. This is not to say that everyone there is a savage, but their culture just isn't at a point where it prepares the citizens or the leaders to handle elements of our culture properly.

I don't see how a parent and child relationship is applicable here either. It doesn't tend to happen that way in international politics, so I see no reason to believe it would be more like that on a galactic scale.
Because they lack the ability to read, or because they lack background knowledge on the subject of the editorial?

Take, for instance, today's editorial in the Telegraph (of Calcutta):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qrMr6hx...

I'm pretty lost trying to read that. If I didn't keep up with US politics I'd be equally lost trying to read the New York Times.
I think if you have a college degree, most employeers I ran into don't care for a high school education. One of the points in the article is that you can still get into college without finishing high school.
The biggest Python 3 annoyance I have is forcing Unicode strings on everyone. My code is not for widespread/enterprise release, so I do not care at all whether people for whom ASCII is not good enough can use it. Python 3 forces me to distinguish strings from arrays of bytes whether I want to or not.

(Also, 3 / 2 should be 1, not 1.5, dammit!)
Ask HN: Looking for textbook on web technologies
I am looking for a textbook for an introductory course on web languages and technologies. No previous knowledge of the main web technologies is assumed. This would be a course offered to computer science students. Essential topics are: HTTP, DOM, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

It is easy to find isolated books on each topic, but it seems hard to find a comprehensive good quality book.
The thing he's railing against is technology-as-panacea, and he's right, except that he overreacts and wants to throw the whole thing out. The Internet will not solve all our problems. It's helping, though.
The guy who declared wars with every website, even if there was no music but just photoshopped photos of him. Can't wait when he decides to fight /b/
How about purposefully not providing Adobe Flash on your mobile dev ice because it's insecure and unstable?

Nah, that'll never work.
There is an easy test to see if a subject has inherent meaning or not. Just submit a randomly constructed article to the related journal and see if they publish it.

PS: Guess which side won?
Alpha males win again. Keep trying, beta males.
The real smart geeks road the wave to 40% then shorted them on the way back down.
So, where's the relation to animation here? I know what a sprite is, thanks. It sounds like you might want to go read the Wikipedia page, on the other hand.
If we take the intended audience of this post and apply the assumption that the only reason they're staying in school is because of a checkbox that needs to be filled for future job prospects, I'd say they'd be better off taking the GED exam and getting on with their lives.

I took the GED exam as a Sophomore in high school and was shocked by how easy it was. If the goal is to actually get a fulfilling education that enables you to chase your dreams and high school is the problem, go learn elsewhere. Find an interesting college that will take you, pass the GED (or entrance exam, if they'll take that instead) and stop wasting time in high school.
How about a side-scrolling shooter MMO called "Super Dragon Star?"
I can't speak for every company, but we've never passed over an applicant having a higher degree. [EDIT: we've never passed over such an applicant for that reason]

And having this be a judgment call by the employer still provides a heck of a lot more chance for the applicant than the union-dictated state of affairs, in which the combination of budget and laws forbid the hiring of this teacher.
This guy (a) has a theory that sounds totally unjustified and crazy, even if it happens to make a good prediction now and so often, and (b) underperforms the markets (noted on the second page of the article). Hard to see why anyone should listen.
app looks interesting.

features which I would ask for

a) headless runner

b) applescript may be usable but could it be integrated with ruby or other programming languages, that I way can make it a driver for my current testing flow

c) logging/debugging capability

d) and of course price it reasonably :)
Wow, they must have better websites than mine, averaging about $0.04 / click.
I dropped out, and then dropped back in... also at CMU, but no six figure salary (yet).
11% increase from landing page to application or did the conversion rate increase off the application page?

If it's 11% conversion increase off the application page, wouldn't conversions increase naturally because of the fact that you're filtering more people from the landing page?
A review of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey
They are: http://emerginglangs.com/speakers/

First one in the list :)
Yes, if you have spare capital, invest some in Tesla now with the risk of losing most of your investment. Think long term.

Depending on the general mood of the stock market, I think the price will hover around 15~17 until we hear more news in the coming weeks.
Agreed about the name. I passed this link 3-4 times, and only ended up clicking on it because it made its way to the top of HN.
I'm surprised we haven't heard more about the increasing difficulty of rooting Android phones. On an open platform I would expect this option to exist in the Settings menu somewhere maybe with a warning that it might void your warranty or crash your phone. I don't think people should be advocating Android as a free/open alternative until this situation is resolved. It's very misleading.
I have spent a ridicules amount of time reading everything from trash to the classics and most well respected works are terrible. I blame the form of "Criticism” you just described because it does nothing of the sort. Then again I might be the only person who morns all the interesting works never created because the echo chamber effect that infects the literary world. Everyone is to afraid say anything of substance lest they be accused of “not getting it”.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the big car manufacturers have any electric cars that is anywhere comparable to the mileage of Tesla. The second best option, Nissan Leaf, has less than half of Tesla's mileage.

Can anyone else verify this?
The Upshot: Search Powers The News At Yahoo
"Lunch gets delivered to the office every day at noon. We asked our former office manager to order lunch every day, because I didn't want to worry about it. I just wanted food to show up. He did it for a year before starting his own business, which now provides this service for us and for other start-ups in the area, too."

Anyone have the name of this service?
No, not yet. A lot of people are going to panic sell. Then you will have those who will hold on hoping it goes back up at least to what they paid for it. The moment it does they too will sell.

Wait till it stops going down, goes up for a bit, then down again. Only then think about buying.

And for those who are hoping it goes up to at least what you paid for it: Please be aware you ALREADY lost your money. Waiting for it to go back up is poor investment strategy. You don't loose your money when you sell - you loose it instantly. Either you think it's a good buy right now (in which case buy some more, or hold what you have), or you don't think it's a good buy _right_now_, in which case sell and it makes no difference what you paid for it.

Waiting for it to go back to what you paid for it will make you feel better, but in the long run you will loose money that way. Only keep a stock if you think it's a good buy at all times - pay absolutely no attention to what you paid for it. The present, and future is all that matters, the past doesn't.
Don't forget that Toyota has a stake in Tesla, and they are a big car company. It's not inconceivable that Toyota could assist in distribution, as it doesn't directly compete against the Prius.
Try eggPlant by TestPlant: http://www.testplant.com/

We're using it, and it's the only solution we've found that works well for Flash testing. Costs a bundle, but was worth it to automate our (mostly Flash-based) app...

Also, it doesn't look like Fake would be able to interact with Flash/Flex apps, based on the screenshots. Looks like DOM scripting to me.
There will never be a hostel. That's why it's important to go to zoning board meetings / your local planning council. Just skim the meeting notes once a month and if there are new businesses opening near you, read what they are!

In general, there is a place for people to stay and party -- and that's in business districts. Or in hotels that are subject to increased sound insulation requirements and further regulatory requirements requiring noise, with penalties for not enforcing compliance from the guests up to and including loss of licence.
Here you go:

http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit/comments/cma7t/cl...
"It is not known if Kim Jong-il is a fan of Justin Bieber's music"
Maybe a perfect time to buy?

Their brand is now recognized as the electric car manufacturer. As long as this trend continues, they will submerge as the winner.

I've also heard that their technology is somewhat unique and that they've found solutions to many hard problems. Do they have any patents?
It's based on data. The ratio of students to teachers has gone down significantly over the past 30 years and that is a small win to celebrate. Lower student to teacher ratios imply an improved environment for instruction in the classroom, more individualized attention, and more. Of course there’s much more to be done to improve education in the United States, but the ongoing lowering of student to teacher ratios is one of many small steps in the right direction.
I don't see what this possibly has over webdriver/selenium for anyone that can code.
Drug lords are much like the big telecom companies in the US: They do want customers, but their product has steady enough growth that they don't mind burning a few customers if it's convenient to their business model. (See, for example, all the hate AT&T has gotten over its handling of iPhone customers.)
I don't know where your reading of the law is going wrong, but I know that isn't true at all. For example, our coop did not allow subleasing of rentals.
citations? I thought it was about the model S, e.g. model S _is_ their consumer model.

wikipedia: "On May 20, 2010 Tesla Motors announced it would form a partnership with Toyota to produce a new lower-priced model along with the Model S at the former NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, California.[6]"
I'll add... it really makes sense for mobile/webkit where you can depend a lot more on CSS3 and most images are small icons or tiles. I've seen Apple use it a lot in their mobile web apps.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog
This is probably the most ridiculous change ever made by a gaming company. The negative stigma associated with being a gamer and even more so being a wow player is a terrible thing to have when looking for a professional job.
Whether the other guy starts a war based on a lie or not is immaterial to whether or not you are a: dead or b: living under his boot heel.

As reference: see most of human history.
I use Toodledo for long term things. Toodledo has the most flexibility for complex tasks. They also are a very customer-friendly shop so I like to support them, but their iPhone interface is not great for quickies. I use them for stuff I would use a computer for anyway, and tasks that I want a history of, even after I have done them.

I use a shortcut to google tasks for the equivalent of post-it-notes, i.e. stuff I want to flush out of my brain and do in the next few hours. Nothing that would carry over for more than a day, and stuff that once done, I delete.