skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on the age.

If he/she is 9-10-11 I think a fun combination could be a Lego Mindstorm robot that is controlled in C. You don't have to learn them pointers from the start, just let him mess around with the basic stuff such as data types and functions.

I think you should focus on results; getting a robot to do stuff could spike his/her interest because its 'cool'! A command line window might look dull.
I think you hit it on the head. In the US, the standards are lower and you are much more surrounded by poor options. My experience is that people in the US simply care more about price and convenience than about quality in many areas. That said, if you know your way around, you can find plenty of good food.
Black Scholes algorithm in Clojure
People think in different ways. I almost never think in "words" because I'm a visual thinker, but my girlfriend absolutely never grasps for a word. I assume the deaf have differences between language based thinker and visual thinkers or kinetic thinkers.
"Research suggests that the brain of a native deaf signer is organized differently from that of a hearing person."

That's trivial. It just means "the mind is a structure inplemented in the brain, so any change in the mind translates into some change in the brain".
Tell PG: A bug in HN?
Here is a screen-capture of the new page: http://i.imgur.com/M5Kwn.png

As you can see, one of my submissions has the orange star while the other one does not have it. Furthermore, there is an upvote button on that item too.

Out of curiosity I clicked the upvote button and it looks like the vote registered and now the item shows the orange star.
Yeah, well, Varnish is a slightly special in that it needs a C-compiler at runtime, so cross-compilation is not terribly relevant: If you do not have a native compiler, you cannot use it anyway.

(The VCL domain-specific language is translated to C, compiled to shared lib, and dlopen(2)'ed, that eliminated the runtime overhead of an interpreter)

/phk
For this reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees_... due to this law http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21shulman.html?_r=... (but it's not entirely honest, e.g. it doesn't tell you that Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the Congresscritter who slipped it into the bill in the dead of night at the behest of several pass-through agencies) it's going to be nearly impossible to achieve what you want.

At best you might start up an independent consulting firm, but you'd have to have multiple clients and spend a lot of time on sales and marketing (of yourself). Gerald Weinberg recommends you make your hourly rate 5-6 times what you want to earn just to allow for all the overhead (http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Succ... or get it new from the publisher: http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/soc.html).
Just as a counter-point, the posts to Cryptome from Wikileaks "insiders" all are negative towards Assange. It sounds, if those posts are true, that not even the Wikileaks folks approve of him.
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For my part I know that I don't strictly think in words, or pictures, or any other such representations. I'm sharply aware of this because I'm relatively slow putting thoughts into words; so when I have some thought, I can consciously hold that thought in my head for a moment before the corresponding words come to mind.

For instance, suppose I realize I'm out of milk. It'll come to mind that I should go to a grocery this afternoon to buy more milk, but this intention doesn't form as a complete sentence in my head. It may literally take a couple seconds for me to recall the vocabulary I'll need to express this thought in words, but I can continue thinking about my trip to the grocery -- which one I should go to, what else I need to pick up there, etc. -- before any words have even come to my mind. So ideas and their linguistic representations are very distinct to me, and sometimes I don't even bother with the latter at all, because (for whatever reason) forming the linguistic representation of a though imposes a significant overhead on my brain. (I'm also dyslexic, for what it's worth, and I often wonder of these issues are related.)

My hypothesis is that for people with better functioning language centers than mine, words may come to mind so easily that the delay between thought and linguistic representation is imperceptible to them, hence they "think in words". But for people like me those words might come late or not at all, but regardless, I do think all the same...
I access BBC regularly for general news.
It's just evidence that there is something different.
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Can you report on what works and what does not?

Specifically, I'm interested to know whether Javascript in the browser is good enough, or too difficult to use in practice.
email kyle at forrst.com with the subject HN invites and I'll hook you up.
No. That is a matter of taste. A friend of mine prefers it out of the can.
Patterns of Use and Abuse with IP Addresses
Google App Engine is not a language, but it is an environment where you can make a "hello world" web-page from scratch without much code... and it hosted and ready to show his/her grandparents out of the box.
The Keepers
What's the reach of this ad? I've never seen it. Are they getting tech writers to review the ad itself in an attempt to make people that don't watch TV commercials see it?
Communities evolve language spontaneously. Evidence of this is a school of deaf children (in Brazil IIRC) who were not taught sign language (due to lack of a teacher, due to budget). They developed their own, which became quite complex and of comparable sophistication to other human languages.

Taken with the conclusion of the submission that abstract thought requires language for its development, this leads us to the conclusion that abstract thought - far from an isolated activity - is a consequence of community.

It seems to me that it would be possible to develop abstract thought in isolation, but perhaps it would take a genius, in the same way that some mathematicians have developed mathematics in isolation, and it's just that it helps tremendously to have the cultural foundation to stand on. eg. I find it much easier to visualize abstraction, reference and so on, than to say it.
It was a joke, jeez.

It's kind of funny that of all the post-CVS version control systems, the one that calls itself "subversion" is the one that hews the closest to the traditional paradigm.
There has to be some need for this in the legal industry. Good luck!
Calling between 60 and 100 companies a day and asking why they haven't paid. I did that for three years while I saved up to go to college.

I'm a programmer so I'm unemployed and not doing anything now, apart from fiddling around with the Linux kernel which is much more interesting.
Compare and contrast:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505123
-1 ?! The "I'm sorry for you" was meant to be humorous, not snarky or condescending. Honestly, sorry about that. Short answer - he just chose the right-hand side arbitrarily is my guess, it has nothing to do with game mechanics. Wasn't meant to be a snark, seriously I'm not like that! :)
I don't think it's a dyslexia thing - at least not necessarily. As I wrote below, I also don't think in words, but I don't have any language problems that I know of (at least, I understand 6-8 languages, learned to read extremely early, and spell better than almost anyone I know).
Alzheimer's and end of life &ndash; links between alzheimer and end of life
That's called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and has largely fallen out of favor in modern (Chomskyan, universal grammar) linguistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Link to Amazon preorder: http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Mark-Twain-Vol-1/dp/0520...
Private compartments are more like $400, but yeah, you can get a 3rd class berth for like $180 Moscow to Beijing.
My aunt was a deaf-mute (That's what she called herself. I have no idea if the term is pejorative) Her husband, my uncle, was blind. So she would sign things that he couldn't see, and he would yell at her and she couldn't hear them.

Made for a great marriage.

(Joking aside, it was really interesting to watch them communicate. He would hold her hands while she "spoke" Then she would hold his hands -- so he knew she was there -- while he spoke back to her. Worked very well, actually. They had two beautiful kids that grew up to become advocates and workers in the hearing and sight-impaired communities)

It was an amazing family. As I recall, both had jobs outside the home. Both were avid readers, writers, and participated in several civic organizations. I used to love visiting them as a kid.
If you like UX philosophy and principles, http://www.UXMovement.com is a great resource for learning about user experience.
Amen. An entertaining polemic that discusses some of these issues is "Against Love" by Laura Kipnis.

It seems to me that conservatives - if they really do stand for "small government" - would oppose the concept of legalized marriages, in which we are all expected to submit our personal relationship for approval by the government. If that's not intrusive state power, what is? Yet even the most diehard libertarians rarely question the validity of state-sanctioned marriage.
Yes, but the difference is not the language, but the words. The complexity of the words.

A single word can hold a large amount of meaning, but to the brain that single word uses the same "storage" and any other word.

So by having many complex words a person can think more "efficiently".

This is why many fields have jargon - the jargon helps the thinking process, by essentially acting like file compression - you compress an entire concept into a single word, and you can now think about some big complicated thing by using a single word.

This is also why language have so MANY words. English has something like half a million of them. Yet it would be totally possible to replace the vast majority of them with simpler, but more, words.

But doing so has drawbacks to thinking ability.
Sure you can get good cheese, but it's not predominant. Same as getting a good bread in UK. I guess that was the point.
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Yes, although most people who talk about the SWH don't actually quote what was originally said. The Wikipedia article is pretty good, but should be regarded as a starting point rather than as definitive.

There is still some dispute over some of the related issues. I know some linguists who separate SWH from "Linguistic relativity." It is clear that there are ideas we can have without necessarily having the language to express them, but similarly, in groups with fluent polyglots the language in use shifts regularly according to the subject/topic. It seems clear that polyglots will prefer one language over another, and that seems to be correlated with the subject, but research in this subject is hard, and clear, unambiguous and uncontroversial results are rare.
Question: Do you google facebook and click on the result?
Are you one of those people? Or do you know any? It's funny how google/yahoo/bing/etc have not figured out a way to make this harder/easier for the user.
Buffet invested in December 2008. Here is the graph of the stock price: http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG:1211
I know the guy in charge of in game economics, he used to work for Upper Deck Entertainment as lead on a few of their games. He's a smart guy. When we talked he was hesitant to discuss Zynga too much because he knows that people are not fond of the brand, but his job sounded interesting.
Back in '02 I wrote a C program called "clump" that compiles and links C code, detecting dependencies automatically by scanning for "includes".

http://github.com/chkoreff/Clump/blob/master/src/README

People have been downloading it consistently ever since, and I know some of them like it a lot.

So with this program you just cd into your code directory, type "clump", and it builds your executable program in ../bin.

One current limitation: it expects all the .h and .c files to be in a single directory. I could enhance it to walk through a directory structure, but I haven't gotten around to it. Yeah I know, even after 8 years. :)
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/?format=pf
It won't work. Do the calculation on the SIZE of your market, then do the calculation on how you will REACH your market.

You'll discover that there is a problem.
If you're not afraid of Microsoft I recommend Kodu http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/ My kids literally beg me to be allowed to program with Kodu. It's very visual and very X-Box friendly.
You have to want something that being in shape is a prereq for.
It seems the https equivilent of this page is missing, so if you're running EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere add-on, you'll need to disable it via the Options button in Add-ons.
Remember Pepsi Blue?
The railroad also helps with strings of light of a different kind - fiber optics. It connects Europe to Asia through the Internet too.
As a Ph.D. Synthetic organic chemist who went on to postdoc in a top group at Harvard in the 80s, I can attest to the tone and content of these memos. Both Gassman and Meyers, though not giants in the field were very well respected researchers and were not famously hard ass. I'm surprised I hadn't seen these memos before but there wasn't anything there that I didn't know intuitively by my second year of grad school. The most profound advice there is that what your thesis advisor thinks of you is the most important thing you get from grad school. Like many fields, it is an old boy network and your future career is entirely dictated by recommendations. For some reason, many of my lab mates didn't get this and led horrible relationships with the boss. Even if you are a competent researcher, when your recommendation contains the phrase "he's a pain in the ass to work with", you are not going far in this line of work. I'm not saying to be a brown noser, but your ability to function well in a group environment is extremely important to employers.
Clickable: http://i.imgur.com/M5Kwn.png
Then that must have been one crappy lawyer!

Are you serious? An actual, practicing attorney told you this?
It's still a mandatory class, but most people treat it as another mandatory class, so the majority of people you'll meet don't speak a foreign language well. However, learning English has been seen as useful for career advancement, and many people take classes later in life. The classes taught in public schools aren't enough to teach a language with no extra practice.
It does. Also as far as the Georgia Tech campus goes you won't find a Pepsi vending machine anywhere. Even the on-campus Pizza Hut sells Coke.
Thanks. This is going to be epic. The Texas school board will have to edit him out of our history and English curriculum.
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all right, point taken. and dare i say, lesson learned.

however, it does represent, at least to me, a flaw in the whole HN voting system; given that user privileges are tied to karma points, i feel that upvotes should be allowed as they are now, but downvotes __must__ require some form of response from the downvoter(s) as to why they are downvoting anything ( a la /. ). you don't need to write a paragraph explaining why you downvoted anything, but you should be required to pick at least __one__ response tag that classifies your reason for downvoting (wrong, inflammatory, trollish or whatever).

anyways, sorry for taking up screen real estate with all this unneeded c.r.a.p. i better get back to "real life"[TM] and soon!
Some time ago I had a problem that, intuitively, felt similar. An internal inconsistency showing itself as an oddity. PG replied that it happened very shortly before the system restarted itself - it had got into a funny state, was doing the best it could, gave up, and restarted.

This feels similar, but I have no specific knowledge of the internals, and speak without authority.
Hey look everyone! A new educational crisis! Quick, get the money canon.
Actually pretty wide, I barely see any TV and I have seen it a several times. It has been about for about a week as far as I can tell.
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A great review on cashunclaimed.com
Server-side E4X in Apache Sling
yes, please. What the heck did that mean?
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Dylan Thomas term paper must essentially focus on his literary work. But when writing a term paper on Dylan Thomas, you may have to mention his alcohol addiction, private life issues and his death. Here are some important points you may use in your term paper.
And modern, Chomskyan, universal grammar linguistics has fallen out of favor among most post-modern linguists everywhere outside of Boston ;)
The Nexus One was pretty well received wasn't it?
Surely not here: http://www.cheesesupply.com/images/jarlsberg.jpg

(a top selling cheese in norway)
Funny, I'm actually amazed that so many people keep up on this sort of thing. I wouldn't know where to begin.

I've been on the road the last several years, so unless it concerns rock climbing or surfing, or is something that you'd talk about with fellow travelers, it usually doesn't make it onto my radar.

Evidently there was some sort of economic downturn recently. Missed that too :).

HN is the only exception, since it keeps me up on the tech side of things.
I got sick and tired of /r/iama once I saw the fifth or sixth 'IAmA Shut-In. AMA' post.
Yes , they are all over the place, but some see it as trying to optimize and defend the whole value chain of their main products. sort of vertical integration , in the unique form it shows on the internet.
Keeping someones attention is almost the winning or losing factor in startupa
Wow, same stuff here: http://ifesdjeen.tumblr.com/post/393020309/why-i-prefer-andr...
The original post is here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
No. That's what bookmarks are for.
Did you read the article? The reason he had to sell his portion of the business for a pittance was because the buyer knew he was desperate for cash which was caused by the divorce.
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So what does this mean in practice?
Especially when I'm thinking fast thoughts - just assembling some concepts in my mind to see if they fit - I switch to English(not my native language) because it's words are shorter.
Not to derail this post, but did concrete evidence that _why is alive and well ever surface?
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You consider Zynga, a company with a ridiculous amount of attention from users, and expected to hit $1Bn revenues next year, useless?
Articles can't get downvoted, only flagged. Personally, I completely disagree with it, but I wouldn't flag it because of its relevance to HN. I only flag spam, linkbait and off-topic stuff, usually.
The school was in Nicaragua, and it's been of great use to researchers: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/2...
Also BN for slightly less: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Autobiography-of-Mark-Twain...
Or here: http://www.enrupt.com/index.php/2010/07/07/skype-biggest-sec...
You should read Richard Feynman's book What Do You Care What Other People Think. There's a really fascinating chapter about this.
While I spared my comments on Java on this thread, I was specially referring to the fact that Java's classloaders are braindead. You'll know some years in operations; as a dev you can be hidden from its ugly influence for quite a time.
It's online again.
What do you folks think of Twain? I have limited exposure to his writings. I recently read Last of the Mohicans and really enjoyed it. While searching for more information on Cooper and Last of the Mohicans, I kept running into criticism of him by Twain. Twain said his grammar sucked and that he attributed romantic and ethical qualities to Native Americans which they simply didn't have, because they were entirely blood-thirsty savages.

Twain seemed like quite the jackass for those remarks, especially since I found Last of the Mohicans to be very readable and his portrayal of the Mohicans to be very interesting as contrasted to the European characters in the book. One such passage remarks that the Chief and his son, after considering new information, turned their whole plan on a dime, exhibiting the type of inconsistent behavior that would sink the career of a western politician.
The article indicates that parts of it have been published before, but that the previous editors gutted it.

This edition has six editors working on it. But the article doesn't indicate what if any changes they're making.

Why can't they just publish the original manuscript?
If only the Internet Fax specifications were written in a more sane manner...
Well, I don't know you but many people around me are living their lifes deep into Facebook.Facebook is an Internet inside Internet and that's very dangerous.
I'm a bad speaker because I think so abstractly. I'm already thinking of the following concepts and their relations as I'm speaking, which is why I tend to stutter and pause constantly. I often find myself thinking in English because it has some representations my language doesn't, but there are things I can't conveniently express in English either. Because of this, I've been laying the blueprints for an artificial language of my own that would follow my line of thought. Synesthesia helps.
I've probably seen at least one example of each of these at some point in my career (Education, consulting, entertainment, financial and online sales industries, 2 of which were startups). Most of the developers who act like this didn't last long. I have also seen all of these "myths" busted.

Sometimes the server really is anemic. I've seen a new feature set added in a weekend of 4am hacking sessions that involved code, not cola and porn. I've seen people get RIGHTFULLY blamed for their shitty code. And I've seen the UI get tweaked so that it works so flawlessly for the demo that it got opened to private beta the next day.

People who are this acerbic and jaded about things in their line of work should consider doing something more interesting and fun with their time.
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striaght dope, pretty much sums it up.
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Also, it proves that his name can be spelled without the underscore.
He took the time to change the registration on his domains to a fake company, so I think it's safe to say he's still kicking.
Space Shuttle Atlantis on Craigslist for $1.7 billion
those who are looking at these comments but haven't seen the ad yet, please do so. Irrespective of its marketing merit, its amazingly well done.
The magic numbers p and b1-b5 were obtained from approximation (2) in Bryc, W. "A uniform approximation to the right normal tail integral", Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 127, Issue 2-3 (April 2002), Pages 365-374.
I have added links to this reference in the post if you'd like to look at it.
I tried to click it and nothing happened.

Oh, the link is clickable!
The only Apple ad that affected me on an emotional level is Think Different. In fact, it's the best commercial I've ever seen.
>not as interested in actually getting leaks out as it is furthering Julian Assange's personal indispensability.

I agree, which is why it's hard for me to care if his adversaries squish him like a bug. Not a good way to get funding.
I used to experience this, but I called it the "WOW is making me fucked up" effect.