skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok wow, this site is awesome. Simple and clean interface to easily create a playlist and share it. I found all the song I wanted and also found other users playlist featuring my fav. artist.

I know thesixtyone and grooveshark. They both have their uses..

For ts1, I use it to discover brand new artist but the playlist part is so damn hard to use with this sucky interface. I'm always lost in it.. I click on a user playlist, then cannot come back, etc etc.

For grooveshark, it's just terribly slow with a huge flash engine that take all screen.

* edit * : I feel I was really harsh on grooveshark and I feel bad about it. It's a great website that I use pretty often.

Could someone enlighten me about the use of flash for audio.. Is it the only way to play songs?! I think I was playing midi file before even flash existed. :-/
"Like a spreadsheet, it only needs to recompute the subgraph that has changed."

Yes that's right - and that is a key feature for GS - they need to be able to revalue huge trading books ~ real time. (Most other banks estimate impact of intraday moves, and do a re-price overnight in batch)
Good point, hadn't thought of that. A dynamic scripting language could be useful for backtesting as opposed to execution.
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If someone is making 30+ requests from distinct ip addresses in their botnet, you won't even suspect they're related.
Vim and I and what my ideal Editor would look like
Thank you for managing to express what I couldn't put into words. You have my gratitude.
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So, his ideal editor is Emacs with CUA-mode?
Chrome on Win7, burns 100% on one core.

And some block is broken and stopped refreshing.

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There are also some concrete highways when entering Paris (after the highway gets under Paris's own supervision). They suck. They're bumpy and extremely noisy, a far cry from the smooth and silent flying over the good asphalt of most french highways.
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Bollywood's upcoming movie Dabangg is the first movie of Arbaaz Khan as a producer. Salman Khan will seenin a negative character and its first time in his career. The lead actors in the film include Arbaaz’s elderbrother, Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha, daughter of Shatrughan Sinha. Dabangg is the story of a corrupt police officer played by Salman Khan and highlights the flaws and loopholes in the system.
I just finished going through that, thanks a lot for the link - and excellent presentation.
I tried Emacs last year. And yes, with CUA mode. And I didn't like it. MacVim feels a lot better and more natural to me. Even with the copy and paste problem.
Embracing failure is a good way to fail and also a good way to succeed.
If succeeding in business was as easy as following a mantra we'd all be millionaires. Time has told us that Winer made arguably the right decision, but time has not told us whether Google made the right decision to kill wave.

If either philosophy was right all of the time YC would just put a checkbox with "Embrace Failure?" on the application and be done with it.

Wisdom is knowing when to apply the right knowledge.
Which is not to say that Microsoft embraces it. Even internally their policies are almost downright hostile.

How so?
It's not as simple as just throwing money at the problem and managing things differently.

I've been homeless before and it's not pretty, a lot of the people who I met on the street during that time would not have been able to just take an apartment and that would be their problem solved.

They are on the street for a reason and if the reason was purely financial then perhaps the apartment would help, but a lot of the time the reasons can be associated to mental health, poverty, drugs, alcoholism... and giving someone an apartment in those cases is unlikely to add anything to the solution.

What those people need is real support and care. And an apartment will just isolate them and risks exacerbating the problems for them.
Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong. But if you plug in numbers from their latest quarterly report (ref: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://investor.google.com...) and ComScore's search rankings for 1st Quarter 2010 (ref http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/2/c... http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/3/c...
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/4/c... )

You get still get a Google US Search revenue of $0.12 per query and profit of $0.07.

The US is getting 15 Billion queries a month which makes that market worth $1.6B a month, and one percent of that is $160M a month x 12 months, which would make 1% of the search market worth $1.9 Billion in revenue give or take several hundred $ Million.

Makes me feel pretty good about trying to build a financial news search engine out of Newsley: http://newsley.com/k/Company/google/77/
And that's Numberwang!
That's unfortunately how much of college education had begun. Unfortunately (this is a guess), but I think the problem has come into being because of many universities' desire to scale up. With scaling up the number of students, it has become impossible to give quality attention to the students and encourage interaction.

Recently I decided to do a Do-It-Yourself masters in computer science, using open courseware and social learning. It's an experiment, and I am also hoping to learn a few new things. So far I have had a great time, because I can learn at my own pace, and follow concept leads which I think will be useful.

I am documenting the experiment at - http://opencs.wikidot.com

I am hoping that in the future students will take charge of their learning, rather than the other way around.
If your definition of dying includes getting bought for $40M then maybe dying isn't such a bad thing.

Dying from lack of customers looks completely different.
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Would love to have the company of such a lady.
Thanks everyone for the advice! I've updated the landing page with everyone's comments.

- Moved the call to action to above the fold

- Changed the copy to focus on the player, not the game

- Added another image (more on the way)

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I read this on the weekend just before I wanted to adopt IronPython into our company. It was supposed to make C# obsolete.

Well.. what can I say. It sucks to use any M$ tech. I should stick to OSX and Linux and leave my current employer due to strict use of M$ tech.

Sorry to say that man, but your story reads just like that to me.

I want to thank you for your great work, though. And I wish you all the best for your NY future(;
"That's very clever."

The above quote comes from the smartest developer I've ever known, talking about a piece of code I had written that I was just as proud of as this guy is of his ifless branching. It took a minute to sink in that "clever" is not a term you want people using to describe your code.

As a developer, the first time you're going to encounter any piece of code is when FireBug drops you into it with an exception. Personally, I'd prefer to look at a single line that does a single thing.

For any non-trivial implementation of the author's chained implicit conditional logic, a null reference exception will leave you looking at a single line with a half dozen candidates for what might actually be throwing.

Please please please don't make a habit of coding like this for anything but the most trivial cases.
I thought Slang was a static subset Smalltalk used to implement virtual machines, like PreScheme (Scheme48) and Restricted Python (PyPy).
Even if there was plenty of information and the best online, it is very different to read something and to learn something. With programming is easy because you can just start coding and test for yourself and experiment and all that. You can't do all that if you want to be a surgeon. You can't just have a dead body sent to your house.

It is a bit like a pharmacist or a chemist who has never mixed two compounds together but knows all about them, yet does not know for example what colour they are, or what do they actually look like, or what the actual reaction from mixing them looks like.

I think another comment here made a good point. It is not just about the learning. It is also about teaching you how to think, and experience of course, practical experience. For example, I might be comfortable talking to a lawyer who got all his knowledge from the internet but only for reference, to ask him lets say what the law is, but I wouldn't hire him to argue a case for me. You can read all the books, or lectures, but without the practical experience of how to apply the law to facts which is then graded to give you an idea of whether you are applying it correctly and how to find things you do not know in the area of law where there often are conflicting points and maybe the law is not settled, and perhaps most importantly how to think like a lawyer, which argument would do, which evidence would do.

Even if all of these things can be replaced through virtual stimulation, why would you want to sit in front of a computer for say three years on your own rather than share the experience with others and make friends and have the opportunity to be part of interesting student groups, and expand yourself in many more areas than just the core subject.

I suppose it might be good for someone who might be thinking of a career change, if all those things can be replaced, but for an 18 year old, it would be very disadvantageous.

In any event, as things currently are Gates is very much dreaming. People have access to textbooks yet they hardly have replaced universities though pretty much they teach what is in the text book in the lectures which are only a small part of undergrad courses.
Visitor pattern intents:

* Represents an operation to be performed on the elements of an object structure

* Visitor lets you define a new operation without changing the classes of the elements on which it operates

To me that sounds awful like MAPPING/FOLDING.
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I think Gates is right, and this is something which I've also ranted about in the past. The cost of university education has been increasing, there are an increasing number of people wanting university education and that level of education is increasingly expected in the workforce. There is also a significant fraction of the population who cannot afford university education (don't have wealthy parents) or do not want to take out gigantic loans which may take them decades to repay. University education is no longer a ticket to a high paying job, and that has been the case for quite some time, so large education loans can't necessarily be justified on a financial basis. Also this year many applicants have been turned away by universities due to budget cuts which means that they have fewer places, and that trend could go on for a few more years at least.

The solution isn't new. The Open University has been around for a long time, and something like OU, augmented with all the media content that the internet can deliver, would seem to be the logical way to deliver higher education at lower cost.
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viper mode is nice. it's mostly different keybindings...
can't eat your cake and have it too
Nope. Its a find something to support your point and bend it a little bit.

I was thinking on the point he made though that maybe textbooks in America are thicker because America has more scientific knowledge than Asia and maybe the books get updated more often and maybe they are more in depth. Basically, I do not think you can just take one variable and compare it to another and proclaim that's the reason.
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This is not a bad idea. It might be a great one. Do you know anything about the logistics of getting something like this legally worked out? Presumably, there are some businesses who'd be okay with that very high coupon -- as the business model improves itself it could come down. It's a lot less risky that credit card and other personal debt, but it handles a niche that equity investments mostly can't touch. That's possibly trillions of dollars in an underserved market.
B2B. you're right. there's a very high chance that i'd getting it wrong without the appropriate level of feedback from the target market. i'm not good at approaching corporates, which is why i haven't done this.
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I'm a bit confused about some of the things he says are missing.

* Command line mode to open/edit files without touching the mouse

Is this from inside the editor? What's wrong with ":e <filename>" ?? If it's from outside the editor it's an OS issue. What am I missing?

* Good default shortcuts for copy and paste and other standard operations

I can't talk to the defaults, there there are half a dozen ways of picking up one piece of text and putting it somewhere else. If it's a single line you're interesting in, for example, then just "yy" will copy it, search or move to your new location, then either "P" or "p" depending on whether you want it before or after.

* Easy way to record and replay macros

What's wrong with the "q" command?

It sounds like he hasn't yet really found half the things vim does. I fully agree that it takes a long time to become a vim master, and the commands require study - they aren't "discoverable," but it sounds like he just needs to pick one of his gripes and figure out how to solve it. Then move on to another.
closures in datastructures ;)
Well, they have also tried to make revenue in other ways but haven't done well with Google checkout and Google Apps for Enterprise, if they are so happy with ads they wouldn't be doing Google Apps which is basically not their main forte (enterprise customers, actual support, non-free web apps) Dependence on ads for money is like the Google's Achilles heel right now.
HP's CEO Hurd packs his suitcase after sex scandal - $10 billion off stocks
Particularly bad article written by someone who preconceptions on sexism. Instead of focusing on a one element and analyzing it well he's going for a broad article with a way too many "it's just that way" statements left hanging!
Ask HN: How to store and stream private video content
Hi,

What is the best way to create an online video-on-demand service with this requirements:

- Private and secure

- Analytics

- CDN

- Flash

- Low price

What's the best solution(s) for this? I was thinking of using S3 + CloudFront but it doesn't provide any security against malicious users.
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And lower quality.

I do not see anyone replacing an Oxford place with OU or any university place with OU. I think, though I might be very much wrong, it caters to niches, rather than the core of university market which is 18 to 21 year old.

The difficulty with OU is that it is not too easy to motivate yourself. In uni you know you are there to study - kind of - with OU or any other virtual replacement its a bit like a project which easily can drift because really nothing has changed with your life. You'll just get a bunch of stuff in the post and some online logging.

Also, there seems to be many generalisations on your comment and almost wishful thinking. Sort of saying, things are bad, so this replacement is the alternative so lets do it, rather than judging the replacement on its merits.
You may want to reread the Visitor Pattern.
Isn't the user expecting a short delay before video loads? Like the other videos they view on the web?

If you want to host the file yourself (e.g. not use a video hosting service like YouTube or Vimeo), then you should consider a CDN.
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I remember a homeless called Lounis (after my studies, I joined Paris Firefighter Brigade), we collected him regularly because people would complain he was staying at their frontdoor. On our way to the hospital, he would sing with us in the truck, he would even do air guitar. The day some of my colleagues came back to the fire station after they collected his body on the street, we all felt like the police officers did for Murray.
Something like what http://www.microdrones.com makes, then? There was a demo at it at 23C3 (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events/1402.en.h...) and someone made an open-source UAV control system and demo'd it at 24C3 (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2225.en.h...)
This post attracted my attention for several reasons, but I'm having trouble understanding the flow and finding the point.

* Well.. here’s an interesting solution:

What follows appears not to be a solution - it's a story.

* When organizations make decisions that their people need, you have multiple advantages.

I don't understand this at all. I can nearly make some sense of it by reading the next paragraph ...

* People are naturally inclined with the decision, and its easier to motivate people to make it more effective. On the other side, when decisions are taken without considering the people, they mostly fall flat on their faces.

But where are the multiple advantages? Why do I have advantages? I really don't understand what you're trying to say.

* It is also important to cultivate a culture of discussing important things.

Chicken and egg. Things will get discussed if and only if people think they're worth discussing, but for some things, you don't realise they're worth discussing until you've discussed them. You've stated the obvious, but have offered no solution (as yet - I read on, waiting to see if there are any practical suggestions)

* The change wouldn’t have to be made from management side only,

What change?

* the employees are as much responsible for the decisions as the managers.

That's an interesting statement.

* Once you have people expressing their opinions in a much clearer format and are debated on various forums, its easier to understand the pulse of the organization. Hence the decision-making process improves.
This is one of the best ways to affect decisions in a democratic way.

Wait - you're advocating having decisions driven by discussions involving how many people? If you can't get the decision makers to care, how will you get enough ground-swell to make them care?

It seems to me that there's a hint of an interesting idea here, but I can't really find it. I wish I could - perhaps you could write a more careful piece.

ADDED IN EDIT

In thinking about it further, it seems like you're saying this:

* Decisions don't get made by management unless they discuss the issues

* they don't discuss the issues if they have no interest in them

* They won't get any interest in the issues unless they hear and see the employees talking about them

* Therefore, get the employees talking about things,

* therefore the managers will notice,

* therefore they'll discuss them,

* therefore decisions will be made.

The chain is faulty. Getting employees talking is neither necessary nor sufficient. It's not necessary because sometimes one of the managers will be interested. It's not sufficient, because even if the employees are talking about things, the managers may still not care.

In any organisation of sufficient hierarchical depth, the only way employees can get managers to make decisions is by getting the "on board" and acting as advocates.

Discussion on forums, etc, is a great way for managers to make employees think they (the employees) are having an influence, and that they (the managers) care.
Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years
This is a book which I'm currently reading. On my recessionista budget I found a second hand copy (1980 edition) with a few dodgy falling out pages. My main reasons for wanting to read this were that I say a video a talk by Hofstadter in which he talks about analogy as the basis of cognition, which I quite liked, and also I more recently discovered that his book, GEB, apparently contains steganographic content (i.e. hidden messages), after searching for steganography in the light of the Russian spy story in the media.
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While his point is that he was in some degree lucky and gained success by writing one code. Sure that might have not been easy back then, it might have required some intelligence, but it hardly makes him qualified to know much about education.
just in case somebody is wondering: "These are transcoded files from the RealVideo on the MIT site"
I may be wrong but what-the-heck I am going to first watch all these videos, go through the lecture notes and all other ocw and then "acquire"(because I would not be able to buy it for cheap in my country) the book and read it.

I get a feeling that GEB is about materialism (of philosophy of mind) and I am actually not very impressed by it now (through my limited reading). But may be if I am successful in keeping an open mind (I would try my level best) and digest some of it (by ocw and reading) I may change my mind.