skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obligatory What's New in Python 2.7 document: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html
"The results so far are that I can occasionally "fly on the water"; that is, engage into some kind of a suitable circular moment that allows me to flow forward as if riding on a sine wave perfectly aligned to my movements, giving me a practically endless slope downwards. I can't describe it but it feels great!"

That's the 'point of enlightenment' I mentioned below. Very cool that you figured it out on your own. Gratz!

Your 2nd phase measurement of how many strokes you do per 25m is a good one. Once you've learned how to glide and keep your momentum between strokes, you can really stretch the distance you move per stroke.
Correlation does not imply causation, though there is probably some truth here.
So only allow http:// and https:// in URLs?
SBSettings (and the Congruence skin), Grooveshark, Fake carrier, RandomRing, MyWi, Backgrounder. Grooveshark is a big one for me since it's the only streaming service we have in Canada.

I could live without any one of them but when I reconsider my jailbreak they all add up to make my phone, well, my phone. I could live without them, but I won't.

Patiently waiting for iOS4 to be jailbroken for the 3GS with the new bootrom. Then I'll be able to cross Backgrounder off the list.

I don't use it, but there's a call recorder which is pretty neat. And My3G, which allows you trick apps into thinking you're on WiFi when you're on 3G. Oh and screen recorders too. Lots of useful stuff.
Tips on Finding and Approaching Angel Investors
This was a really cool study. More of Rogoff's papers on it and related to it here:

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/Recent_Paper...
That sucks. Do you sleep well? If no the obvious advice applies, walk outside every morning, install flux or avoid bright screens at night etc. etc.

For your year off have you considered doing something like volunteer work somewhere? 1. you'll be useful to someone 2. it will be cheap 3. your friends and the college admissions people won't think you're wasting your time (nor should they, you or anyone) 4. you will be able to live without stress from various obligations and social pressures (assuming this is a factor) 5. It's easy you could have it arranged in no time and just be off.

And medicines supposedly work as well, if you haven't you should probably talk to a psychiatrist.
Forget (b). I get that it may not be perfect. Why do you think (a) wouldn't work? It is as simple as disabling JS on the HTML pages. That works on all browsers already. Let's keep that + enable JS from .js files. I understand it is more complex than I'm making it out to be but isn't that better than XSS error on the world's largest sites?
I'm a fan of writing your own; it isn't very hard (just send back some data in appWillTerminate: and a quick ruby/perl/python/cgi/whahtever script to parse it into results) and it lets you keep track of information like the OS or device type that your users are running. Flurry and the like can no longer collect this data for you due to a change in Apple's dev agreement. Although, with your app, this might not be terribly important information.
“They say historians peak in their 50s, once they’ve accumulated enough knowledge and wisdom to know what to look for,” says Mr. Rogoff. “By contrast, economists seem to peak much earlier. It’s hard to find an important paper written by an economist after 40.”

Anybody has pointers to where this data comes from? What about other professions?
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Examples of term papers provide us with the information needed to write good term papers. However, as there are many online writing companies which provide examples, you need to be sure that the example you select is the correct one. Only the correct example term papers will provide the right information.
I am wondering, does anyone have insight into how App Store search results are ordered? Can anyone give SEO tips for the app store search?
> selectively parse out the original and recreate what is explicitly allowed.

This is the ONLY solution. trying to blacklist and escape characters is ultimately trying to push your parsing problem down to the browser, and what will you do when the browser contains a bug that someone can exploit to steal your own credentials on the web app?

I'm a strong believer in using JS to inject unsafe text directly into the DOM. If you want people to mark stuff up, give them a markup language that you parse. Note that Markdown has its issues: If you use a library to parse it, be aware that html is valid markdown, so you're just moving the HTML escape problem around.
That's their paper, also available for free on the authors' websites. Not the book (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html).

Though having read the paper, I imagine the book is the same info with some redundancy (for persuasion) and filler thrown in.
The Poison of Arrogance (Google and Navx)
> It's time that browser makers went back to the drawing board and came up with a base security model to cut the fat away from the basic attack footprint. Some drastic limit on the source of executable JS files, specified in an HTTP header, could be very effective.

Absolutely! I'm just surprised that so many people here are against any changes to the browsers while expecting that every single developer in the world ensure there's not one bug in their code.

This isn't the same thing as PHP's safe_mode that never really worked as excepted. This is more like crossdomain.xml file. It is something browser makers can proactively do to improve security. Sure, web developers should keep sanitizing inputs as much as possible. And browsers should try to prevent XSS as much as possible. Why can't both work together? Why is it only the developers' problem?
Wow, thanks everyone for the responses. It looks like the general consensus is that while reading the book is important, also do the exercises, in different languages if possible, as that's where you'll really start to understand the concepts.

I'll have to take a look at the Berkeley videos to see how they compare to the MIT videos. I am however going to use them more as a supplement to help me understand sections I'm having trouble with, rather than going through them systematically.

As far as the timeframe of two months, two months is not a deadline to finish and completely comprehend the book. I understand that can take years. Two months is actually how much completely free time where I can concentrate on it before I have before I head back to college where one of my courses is using SICP as the textbook for the semester. I won't, however, be able to devote my full concentration to SICP as I would like to during the school year because I'll have other work that I need to do.Wow, thanks everyone for the responses. It looks like the general consensus is that while reading the book is important, also do the exercises, in different languages if possible, as that's where you'll really start to understand the concepts.

Thanks for your help everyone!
<snip> Navx is a €1m a year French company whose business is speed radar location databases. In France, it is illegal to sell or use selling radar detectors, devices that pick the microwave or laser radiation emitted by speed guns and automated cameras. But providing speed trap location data is lawful. ... To sell its product, Navx relies massively on Google AdWords: the company buys keywords that guarantee a high ranking in search results associated to terms like “avertisseur radar” (radar warning). </snip>
Where have all the MySQL DBAs gone?
Notice he doesn't actually demonstrate playing any of the games. Mainly because it's not immediately obvious how you could do it on a device with no mouse & keyboard.
Doing. If I just read, I don't get the other parts, like getting the debugging aspect correct, finding out the requirements of the environment, etc. Plus, I have less investment if I haven't typed the code in myself.

Edit: And continue with the formalized learning through reading (and experimentation). Later get a handle on common conventions, as they usually help accuracy/readability.
>>>Don't focus on "the path" - the stuff that needs to be done. It's too much. Focus on what you want, and then ask what's the next action? It's taking a 15 minute walk. You can take a 15 minute walk. No problem.<<<

That's my problem right there.

Seriously, I hadn't been able to figure this bit of it out, and I've never thought of it that way. As I have been taught to believe that those who are afraid of the big picture are weak in some way.

Thank you.

I really can't tell you how I feel right now. It's as if someone has told shown me the hint of a new beginning.

I was about to say, I just hope I remember this, but now I realize that I can remember it by writing it down and reminding myself of the possibilities that exist whenever I am down. I don't have to worry about the end. It's too far away. I don't have to worry for today, because it is now and if I hinder it shall be the past. I have a bad past, but I can forget it by one little step at a time.

You are right.It's all about one step at a time.

>>>Yeah, that's classical deterministic thinking right there. The ability to "actually make it work" doesn't come from being "smart enough/hard-working enough" - making it work isn't an inborn inability, it comes from regular, incremental training. Definitely check out Waitzkin's Art of Learning. It'll do wonders for you. It's a light, easy, pleasant read too.<<<

A lot of it derives from the fact that since I was a kid I was told that I was "gifted", and all that crap. After a few events in my life that spiraled me down into that suffocating abyss that exists in our minds. I started flunking stuff. I flunked maths and other exams, and somehow I became convinced that I couldn't figure out a way out of my problems, because I wasn't smart enough to do so. So it became this cycle of self hatred that ate me away.

I am so happy right now that I can start anew. In fact, I even found a theme song for myself through mixest (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1482928)! I kid you not. Listen to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgEfYGzojcA). It just brings a smile to my face every time I listen to it.

By the way, I'll read it when I'll be able to buy it/find it. I couldn't find it on any of the torrent networks. So, in a day or two I'll go to one of those British Council Libraries and stage a systematic invasion.

Thank you for everything.

Oh and can I bug you through email every now and then?
7 days a week, at least few hours a week. Usually up to 12 hours a day. Saddly, most of that time is more or less procrastination :(

I spend the rest of my time cycling, listening to music, browsing interwebs, making food and just well.. living my life.

Yes, I'm working on my startup
Not sure what you mean by "local search", but GAs (/GP) are used precisely when the target function is unsmooth (otherwise basic hill-climbing algorithms such as backpropagation in neural nets could be used). The search heuristic of GAs (mutation, crossover, fitness-proportionate reproduction) is pseudo-random and very analogous to simulated annealing, where we start out very random then coalesce on our best guesses.

However I do agree that the smoothness of a target function under a particular encoding is key to evolutionary methods. I think the No Free Lunch Theorem implies that for every target fitness function, there is an encoding that makes it smooth and an encoding that makes it purely random, and everything in between.
Oh yeah. It does, at least for me. I write code in ruby, .Net, Java (and eager to work on Clojure/Erlang/Scala) for my clients. I write tests, usually in TDD style. More importantly, i understand software and software development, i am usually the one who suggests adding/removing features, not the other way around. I am also a little optimistic about my estimates (who is not? ;)), but don't think that ever got me into trouble, at least yet. I can communicate really well. My clients are mostly happy with my work. And.. Wait a minute, you are talking about a buyer's perspective aren't you? Ignore my comments. :)
NewScientist's Enigma brain teasers
If you read the article, you'll find that somebody is talking about their experience as a sex therapist. This to me, trigger a "conflict of interest" alarm. It's also trigger a "skewed" perspective simply because the therapist spend a lot of time treating individuals with bad sexual problems, not spending time with healthy individuals.
Every game he loaded up required a keyboard. Oops. Oh and there were Flash ads on Newgrounds. Yay?

TED talks, Slideshare, and blip.tv would have made far more compelling demos. Lots of good content trapped in Flash on those sites. Until they move to HTML5 I would use Flash on an iPad for those sites.
Congratulations on your newfound fame. But I can't help but notice something startling in the article.

Do people really still use the anthropic principle as a real argument? That's so silly it's almost sad. It's the logical equivalent of a double-ended knife; any non-trivial universe or solar system or planet is discarded by that misguided notion.
Congratulations!

1 Put "as featured in the New York Times!" with the best quote about you from the article at the top of your app store description.

2 Consider temporarily dropping your price and trying to convert more of the people that check out your app after reading the article.
> What is surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to today’s American accents than to today’s British accents. While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.

He claims that RP has diverged much more than American English, but only goes on to support this claim with the divergence of the (r) variable. Any other variables that characterize the innovations of RP since American and British English divergence?
Maybe they just added it but they do include a link to the github repo at the bottom under "source".
I usually code 5-7 days of the week, ranging from 1/2 hr - 7 hrs. My hands are the limiting factor in this regard, seeing as my carpal tunnel syndrome dictates the amount of time I spend on my computer.

And if I'm not coding, I read about programming/implementation/software design/etc. Currently I'm working through "The Mythical Man-Month" and "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet".
For non-computer-related stuff, I run, I spend time with my boyfriend and cats. I also recently got into Rabbids: Go Home! on the Wii.
Programming is my passion, so naturally most of my time is spent on related subjects. My sister faults me on spending so much time on my computer, but I am constantly amazed at the incredible breadth and depth of the topic! I wouldn't have it any other way; breaks from the subject are important, but no other interest of mine compares in scale to this one.

Don't have a startup. Setting up my personal business/front for freelancing & contracting.
> The syntax for set literals ({1,2,3} is a mutable set).

> Dictionary and set comprehensions ({ i: i*2 for i in range(3)}).

Neat.
It's always a VALID statement, it just happens to be TRUE in this instance ;-)
Flurry isn't real time though, is it?
What happened to studying?
pace of development and somewhat closed development make android different then desktop Linux.

iPhone's big plus is providing value for long period of time. Still today original iPhone is useful device and except 3d games most of new apps can be used too. Which is great in fast changing market.
Interesting to hear you say that you forget code you've written and do it again. I do the same. Code is so dense that I get the impression that the brain just has to do a bit of mark and sweep.
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Thanks! The paper was maybe a bit pedantic, but I appreciated his checkpoints and test cases. The perl was way overkill, though.
I seldom code outside of work these days. The physical (not mental) strain is too great, on my back, shoulders, hands, arms, and eyes. So from seven to eleven hours a day, five days a week. However, I'm weak in the face of temptation, and often do hack 4-6 hours in a given weekend, which I'm trying to stop.
Sweet, we received a mention.

If you have any Android questions feel free to post them here or email me : aschobel [at] snaptic. com
> You split anything acquired during the marriage 50/50. Period.

And on top of that the judge that ultimately reviews the case can change the terms even if both parties have agreed to them. Presumably this is to fix the problem of making someone sign to a unfair arrangement under duress.

This annoyed me (scared me, really) when I went through my divorce, but ultimately our agreement went through the court unscathed (pretty much just 50/50, though certain things are complicated, like how do you value the dog??).
Could explain what you mean by this?

Do you mean filtering what is sent to the browser - validating libraries so user input cannot generate URIs, IMGs, etc?
I went over to Amazon to see what the reviews said. Some of them did a decent job of summarizing the salient points. The crises were characterized by real estate crashes followed by stock market crashes, followed by an average of 86% increase in public debt (sound familiar), followed by severe inflation. I guess that means in a few years my backbreaking mortgage can be paid from my Starbucks fund.

Unfortunately the authors dont give a prescription. Given that this one was fueled by hubris and institutional corruption with no political will to fix it, we are due for more in the future.
I can't speak for the others, but TED has HTML5 support and works great on my iPad.
Let's say you want to color the messages you've read, like he says he's doing:

1 - Message -> Tag -> New Tag... call it 'Read' and choose a color

2 - Tools -> Message Filters.. click 'New' and give the filter a name (eg. color read messages)

3 - select 'Status' - 'is' - 'Read' from the first row of drop down menus ('For incoming messages...')

4 - select 'Tag Message' - 'Read' (under: 'Perform these actions:')
That's exactly how I feel. If I don't make an actual effort to be social, I'll spend every second I get "working". I love it so much it doesn't feel like work and that's the real blessing.
Mammatus: Use DNS NS failover to create HA Web Service.
Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
Interview with Andy Grove (2001)
I did the TI program and went to one of the bootcamps. My stroke count for a pool length went from 27 to 14 during the bootcamp. If you're skinny, you may have trouble with some of the buoyancy drills - you may actually have to lean downwards (not straight horizontal like more normal body-mass folks). The TI drills are tough - as always if you want to learn quickly - take a workshop.

Swimming like a fish is like a sort of meditation. And like any meditation it requires concentrated practice. Timothy Ferris is somewhere between the elite athletes who come to New Paltz, NY to perfect their technique and average recreational swimmers.

The difference between an elite, National-level swimmer and normal swimmers is that they are up to three times more efficient. Instead of 97% of your energy going into fighting water resistance, elite swimmers can put 9% into propulsion. The reason why we feel like we've run the 100 yard dash when you are a beginning swimmer is that you've fought a wall of water 25m long.

Good luck. I highly recommend TI. Swimming is one of the best exercises for counteracting the strain of bad posture+typing.
Single page:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/04/...
Which explains why we can understand Aussies and Kiwis, but a random Nigel from the UK would have a speech that baffles. It boggles the mind how two people from different corners of London have different accents. Not to mention Manc vs Scouser vs the myriads of tongue-twisting nasal hiccups uttered all over them Shires.

It's like they almost take pride in differentiation. Throw an international party and the two UKians that show up will have a verbal civil war that puts us Somalis to shame. The shopkeepers maintain their peace with healthy and frequent exchange of muted disdain and murmured resentment. That's, when the other ethnic tonsils are not being inflamed (Scotts, Welsh, and the verile Manx; consciously absent are the clover-wielding gentlemen of the east, left out of the union for my own safety, and to keep membership of my drinking club.)

All good people though. Except the Chavs; a meta-culture of mediocrity that belongs on the next boat leaving for America, to plug the Gulf oil well.

[Edit:

Oh, this seems to have offended someone, most likely a fellow yank. No need to be a hero; piss-taking is a national past-time of the Isles, and its cultural debris scattered around the world, outside the U.S (we have escaped the wit shrapnels I guess) I have deliberately disclosed my own heritage within that rant above, expecting to be paid in kind ;-) When in doubt, stay out of it. It's a bonding experience]
I remember hearing that there was a concerted effort in England (initiated by some Queen) sometime after Shakespeare to modify the way that vowels were pronounced and that this was largely responsible for the divergence we hear today. I did a little searching but couldn't find anything. Any links would be appreciated.
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As I recall from an article in Time a while back, the Southern American accent is the most authentic representative of the pre-revolutionary war accent. The Northern American accent has been changed more by waves of immigrants (especially those coming in the 1890-1920).

I've heard that the French-Canadian accent is closer to pre-Revolutionary French as well.

It seems that those areas with the least upheavals are where language stays the most constant.
I use a PS3 + Rivet, but it's overkill if you don't play games.

http://www.popbox.com/ or http://www.digitalconnection.com/products/video/tvixn1.asp look like the new hotness in this area.
Slideshare also has an iPad viewer.

EDIT: Also, blip.tv appears to work just fine.
Google's official statement:
"We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on youtube.com that was discovered several hours ago. Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour, and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future."
http://techie-buzz.com/online-security/youtube-hack-update.h...
Your first claim is not supported by your second. You might be wrong.
Hi, could you tell us more about the employees at the company?

How many Android developers do you employ? What are their usual background? And how much do they get paid?
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iPads in the board room
I'd love to know how it's working out with the founders split between SF and London. Especially an asymmetric split like that.