skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't trying to say anything about model and brand -- if I had an iPhone instead I would probably say the same thing. My point was that getting the thing doesn't necessarily take away the 'magic'.
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I wouldn't say "fail". You'll just get a tree conflict where SVN complains that it can't merge changes because a file no longer exists. In TortoiseSVN such a conflict is trivial to resolve, because the tree conflict dialog gives the option to apply the changes to the renamed file instead: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-...
This is why facebook is worth billions. They can mine so much social data and deliver targeted ads to the proper influencers.
There's a much more boring reason behind it too, though: Japan's military isn't nearly strong enough to hold off North Korea or China by itself, and if Japan's military was strong enough to match its neighbors, all the other countries in Asia would be very uncomfortable about it. It just keeps everyone happy (and trade flowing) to keep Japan militarily weak, and the best way to do that is to guarantee them the protection of our military.
I listen to Pandora a lot and I've only hit the 40 hour limit twice, in which case you can also just pay 99 cents. So it's anywhere from $0 to $12 per year, $36 is to get rid of the ads (which aren't too obnoxious either).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men

Link is wrong, possibly over-active link cleaning stripped the apos.
Odeo tried to solve the wrong problem. iTunes and tools like GarageBand solved the content and distribution problem. Odeo was never going to compete with that. What was needed was a scalable solution for monetizing podcasts that worked across platforms.
Australia and New Zealand are not on the list but I suspect they'd come down in the bottom right quadrant. If you took the U.S. off the chart I would certainly suggest a causal relationship. In very general terms: the wealthier the society, the more educated and independent-minded the people, and the less likely to embrace religion.

I wonder how the chart would look if you separated out all the U.S. states. I'm not from the U.S. so I'm not sure about this, but I wonder if there are distinct differences between where the various U.S. states would fall on the chart. In other words, is the correlation between the wealth of a given state and its religiosity?
He mentioned healthcare also. Thus the way he is using europe is possibly to contrast between a hardcore capitalist system like the US and a more soft capitalist system like europe.
Ask HN: Teaching programming to a 10 year old, and I'm kind of lost
Basically, I was wondering what would be the ideal introduction and flow to teach this - ideally it would start out easy and the more engaging the better! Obviously it makes no sense to try and force something if the kid isn't interested, so help me make it interesting and easy to understand!

I was thinking

-Scratch or Alice for the basic concepts

-Then either learnpythonthehardway, diveintohtml5, diveintopython3, ruby+shoes (hackety hack) (thanks to the respective maintainers/creators of these apps/sites)

Any comments (with or without experience) would be appreciated greatly, as I am unsure which of these would be most appropriate for a complete beginner, or whether there is something else that would be more suitable.
And she got a free car out of it:

In early August, Hyundai presented Ms. Cha with a $16,800 car.

Ms. Cha, whose name, coincidentally enough, is Korean for “vehicle,” now also appears on a prime-time television commercial for Hyundai.

Go Grandma!
One thing for sure is that the first people on forrst steered the creation of the posting guidelines tremendously. There was a time when we enthusiastically had posts showing off users workspaces but it started to get old and show that was not the type of content people were coming to see. Very organic growth with the community being in charge of content but you still need someone like Kyle to put his foot down here and there.
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Right. The next step is to change the URL bar in the browser
with each new page, so that history, bookmarking, and link-sharing work properly.

I've seen this done using anchor fragments (in other words, only changing the part of the URL after the hash symbol). That's how gmail does it (gmail.com/foo#inbox).

This site seems to have some other method that doesn't require the hash. I've never seen this on any website, so I would really love to know how its done!!
You would be mistaken to think YC is a Lisp cult. Calling them that is like calling the American government a bastion of Anglo-Saxon, Anglican, Royalist hegemony. Sure, the two speak English and they share common cultural heritage, but they're either philosophically at odds, or completely unrelated.

You would be stupid to think YC companies amount to anything in the global economic radar. One DoD contract is more profitable than all their revenues combined.

Take a step back, get yourself a phone book and scan it, read international economic reports; none of what we're doing is the apex of human innovation. The AK47-wielding fucktards in the Congo have more global influence than all the startup founders combined. In the grand scheme of things, computer programmers, their bosses, project managers, and employers are the janitors of the world economy. We're call-center operators, glorified with a smidgen of science. And YC "com'nies" have less than $50k standing between them and obscurity; that's less than what the typical restaurant owner spends on kitchen renovations.

Wake up and small the coffee; it's a 99-cent 7/11 re-fill, and I hope you like it.
From the article: "CouchDB + Another Layer as Web Server is Redundant". This is very true, and the biggest difference to other databases I've used, NoSQL or not. It ends up being a double-edged sword for CouchDB.

On the one hand, it saves having to context switch between thinking about the database, thinking about the web server, thinking about the web framework, etc.. For a single developer, this is not to be sniffed at. As learning is often done by lone experimentation, it makes CouchDB an excellent system for learning about NoSQL. It's also great for prototyping, where you don't necessarily want to spend a huge amount of time creating an industrial strength back-end.

On the flip-side, it means that if you do run into a situation where you want to use another layer, you've just given up the biggest advantage of CouchDB. For my current project, I found I would need to be able to integrate authentication with an existing Kerberos system - the easiest way to do this was to use Apache.

I also had slight reservations about CouchDB's approach of limiting what you can do - everything has to be a map-reduce - to ensure scalability. The plan as I understand it is to introduce further safe operations down the road. I'm sure that approach will yield dividends, but for now it seems quite limiting - similar to eschewing C in the 70s because it does not have garbage collection.

Didn't mean to beat up on CouchDB too much - it's a fine system, but I prefer the flexibility of MongoDB at this point.
True. I for one would also love to play games in 3D. I always tend to think of sports as more of a social viewing event though, but I guess there are many people who watch it on their own.

It will be interesting to see how it goes, but I'm still not convinced it will be the next big thing. I guess that's partially because overall I don't find it that exciting.
Really?

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

I think the title conveys possibly well that it is about politics, hence no need to read the article.
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I think this post is missing the point entirely.

The strength of git has nothing to do with "magically resolving all possible corner cases". That was never the intended purpose of git.

To quote Linus himself:

> The important part of a merge is not how it handles conflicts (which need to be verified by a human anyway if they are at all interesting), but that it should meld the history together right so that you have a new solid base for future merges.

> In other words, the important part is the _trivial_ part: the naming of the parents, and keeping track of their relationship. Not the clashes.

http://www.wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/...

In other words, there are corner cases where git might fail to resolve conflicts automatically.

If git does manage to resolve some obscure corner case on its own, it would be mostly accidental; it's not why git is better than svn.

git would still be an awesome tool even if it didn't handle all the obscure corner cases.
My first Rails App: geek score calculator
I just started with Rails. Built this over the weekend and deployed it on Heroku.

http://g33k.heroku.com/

Felt like sharing with the HN community :)
3D TV right now is badly used in everything EXCEPT animated features.

Pixar does 3D right. Toy Story, Up, etc benefit greatly from 3D and it is used well.

Non-animated shows haven't yet figured out how to use it. But they will. And when they do 3D TVs will become the norm.
I think Hulu really missed something if they named it Hulu Plus and that is what you get, it is like if movies started coming out with BluRay+ and all you got were special features.

I bet they couldn't get the broadcasting networks to agree and that is why it is just a bunch of old content not being shown...
I actually believe that the iPhone will have a _huge_ (indirect) impact on subsaharan Africa, in a manner similar to traditional cellular technology.

Principally, the iPhone seems to have hastened the development of low-cost hand-held medical diagnostic equipment, including digital stethoscopes, portable ultrasound, eye examination, remote disease diagnosis, etc

Sometimes it takes a revolutionary product targeting affluent individuals to help drive innovation for everyone else.
Ask HN: YC Series AA docs but what about Convertible Notes?
Think most of us that follow YC know of the trend towards funding using Convertible Notes. Y-Combinator has released series AA docs but my question is will YC be releasing standard docs for raising money using Convertible Notes too?

Pauls Essay on High Resolution Fundraising
http://paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html

AngelConf - discussion
http://www.johnbautista.com/2010/07/trends-in-angel-investing-from-yc-angel.html

Series AA documents
http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html
I can't help with pictures of MIT, but there are a few pictures of some interesting places in the Caltech steam tunnels in this essay:

http://pandora.caltech.edu/~antognini/tunnels.pdf
Apple mixes up app store financial reports for few developers
You also give up replication, not only of the data, but of the entire web application. CouchDb's replication shouldn't be overlooked not as a technology, but in its various applications of a decentralized system.
If the community decides that it falls into the "most stories" side, it'll fall off and be forgotten.
Thanks for the link. I think the difference between my product and this one is "execution". My script is flexible, so you can make the same effects and boxes. But I think I'm missing on execution.
Not only that, but consumerwatchdog.org uses Google Analytics:

view-source:http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/
just remembering the answers to several of the same questions that are probably being recycled from test to test.

I assumed this is how she did it, but assuming all questions are recycled, 4 options in 40 questions, perfect memory, no knowledge, and a naïve strategy, she should have passed in just 29 tries (1.75 retries per question, 10 initially right, 24 needed). Mastermind isn't that hard a game. So clearly, some assumptions are wrong.
The strip clubs don't compete, not here in NYC.

Of course they do. A given girl can only be at one club at any given time - how does she pick which one she's going to be at? She takes into consideration how much money she can make, how well the club treats her, what kind of crowd the club draws, whatever. If you're a club owner, you want the best girls to want to be at your club, and not at the club down the street. That's competition.

You have to audition. They pick you.

The flip side being that some girls won't get picked, and will have to move on until they find a club that will take them.

I'm not criticizing strippers or trying to imply that there's something shameful in stripping. I'm simply pointing out that not all strippers make 6 figures in top-tier clubs in major cities, and that you can't assume that the experiences of the ones who do are the same as those of the vast majority who don't.
>Why is the test so inaccessible, and how many others are there like her?

The test should ensure that a driver can read read and understand street signs both symbolic and textual ones and respond correctly ... oh yeah, and drive the relevant vehicle. They should also be able to service the car sufficiently to keep it safe - pump tyres, check fluids, know mostly when it needs attention from a mechanic.

Not everyone can do all these things hence the test appears "inaccessible".
A couple of random thoughts:

When we got our first computer, my then husband was excitedly explaining to me how to do stuff on it. I stopped him and said 'Where is the on switch??" My point: You may need to scale things back to where she is from your current vision.

Also, I recently showed my two sons a little html and css. My oldest has been wanting to learn a programming language and not finding anything intelligible for the way his mind works. A few minutes of demonstration and the light went on as to what kind of info he needed, which he promptly began looking up. We also used analogies using video games to provide some mental models for it. So if you run into any hitches, consider trying to adapt to her learning style and using something she is familiar with to provide examples.

Good luck. And I still want to learn a programming language, so would love to hear how this goes.
Yes. I could stomach the ads during the TV programs but the commercial breaks during Hulu-streamed movies really sucked. There's definitely something to be said for the commercial-free programming available via Netflix streaming.

The Hulu Plus content was also disappointing (compared to what's offered on the free Hulu site).
Not at all. I learned Perl from the manpages, and I'm mystified how noobs are to discover and convince themselves that "man perlobj" is now bad advice yet remains official.

As for bless/Moose interop, I read somewhere there were big problems mixing the two but don't remember the specifics (I mostly dropped Perl a long time ago over its dogged attempts to guess what I probably wanted when I made a mistake). Others in this thread now say that's not true if it ever was, which is good news for users of pre-Moose CPAN modules.
...and Amazon and Microsoft.
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I write unit tests so that I can refactor fearlessly. How does the author handle situations where he can either 1) put in a hack to fix a bug or handle a feature request, or 2) restructure the code to make it fit the modified problem description better? If you have unit tests you can do the latter, and feel good about what you have. If you don't have a testing infrastructure, you must do the first, because you have no confidence about how the behavior of the code might change and you have to be paranoid.
Well, after deducting 960 * $5 fee ~= $5k, plus 960 * unknown bus fee (let's assume it's rounds to $1k), it's more like a $10k car. Also, this car is given to her, so her value for the car may not be $16k (imagine she's given $16k towards the purchase of any car, she'll probably ended up with a different car). Finally, not sure of tax laws in Korean, so she may have to pay taxes on it before the $6k fee deductions. She still comes out ahead, but probably close to half of $16k value.

But her fame from the story is priceless.
Do you have plans to open forrst up at any point? I don't have a portfolio and doubt I will have a good one for quite a while (in engineering school) but I really do enjoy looking around the design community at what people are building and how they are doing it.
It would be pretty darned difficult to make a standardized test "match" folks who are illiterate or just barely literate, which this Granny seems to have been. BTW, literacy rate in South Korea is around 98% (most of the remainder being old women like Ms. Cha who couldn't get education during colonial times) so I don't think the test would have been too inaccessible to the populace in general.
No plans to allow open signups, but the invites are purely meant to help throttle the growth of the userbase & community. If you are a developer and/or designer and are passionate about what you do, no matter how experienced or not, that's more than enough.
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You're either using Chrome, Safari, or the Firefox 4 beta. This is the HTML5 history management API doing it's magic. If you want my uncompressed javascript to take a look let me know chris@like.fm (it's kinda messy). If you use an older browser that doesn't support HTML5 history management then it goes back to the hash thingy.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655585
It doesn't look like it. If you need a remote desktop, NX is the way to go, in my opinion. However, I do use Xpra for long-running programs because I don't want to have a full-blown X server running all the time.
Being sex-starved is a lousy reason for starting or staying in a family.
The post talks about merging working correctly with renamed files. That's not a "corner case"; that's exactly what Linus is referring to in your quote.

The author could've given an example like this where he got a conflict and that would still be an infinitely better outcome than what Subversion's doing. You'd actually know that there are changes that you need to reconcile, instead of it silently succeeding.

He's not missing the point.
I used Xpra today to run a small console program on my headless server, and I attached to it from my laptop. It worked very well, until I changed my ssh port to some nonstandard one. Bye-bye, attach functionality...

Does anyone know of a way to specify the ssh port?
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" ... but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites."

There's certainly some sort of misunderstanding going on, because now I have no idea what that is supposed to mean or refer to.

My original intended point:

I do not want to see more posts such as "Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010". When they do appear, I prefer people not up-vote them; it just encourages more of the same.

I do, however, like certain posts that accumulate a multitude of links to a variety of music sources. And it was a post of that kind that was (incorrectly) presented as some sort of precedence for the current post.

In any event, these things will sort themselves out as people prefer.
Since money is predominantly allocated by insurance companies, not individuals, I would say that Pharma knows what insurance companies will spend money on.
There's a ton of connected TV's which do this. Samsung/LG/Sony - they all are playing in this space.

The big downside is that right now most of the TV chipsets (outside of the latest models) are severely underpowered, and no one wants to upgrade a TV, when they can upgrade a box for about 10-20% the price.

If you want a TV with all the cool interactive bells and whistles wait for the TV's which can run full flash 10.1 - not so much for the flash, but so you know you have something that will be able to handle much of what's being thrown at it.
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Hackety Hack still exists http://hackety-hack.com/

I've taught several people quite new to computers Ruby and HTML, I've found the hardest thing they try to grasp is logic, drill into their head how conditionals and boolean logic work - it's needed everywhere.

EDIT: I can't stress this enough, I've had people where I thought I've made a break through, they seem to grasp it, then two weeks down the line I look at some code they're trying to debug, and it's like they completely forgot how flow control and conditionals worked.
"Branches of science", eh?

I kind of think the moral of the story here is: "Wanna write a lot? Write crap! That's why I'm so awesome!"

It's true, of course, to an extent. "Writing crap" is absolutely essential in any creative endeavor. Otherwise that crap gets impacted, and the good ideas can't get out.

However, the editing and refinement process is at least as important, I think. If all you do is just write a lot, most of it being bad, it might just all stay bad. You have to be trying not to write crap, knowing that's what you'll often end up doing, and be ok with that.

It's the same in software development. Over-reliance on design can lead to analysis paralysis. Software is best when there's code first, and analysis afterwards.

It's probably worthwhile to have a dev branch and release branch in blogs, for the same reason as it makes sense for code. Friends and regulars can see the just-released content, but the mainstream page doesn't show anything that hasn't been vetted and carefully edited.
It's a fairly accurate summary of British University, for many anyway.

And yeah in the UK it's cheap. I graduated with about £15k of low interest debt, and my parents probably spent another £10k
I live here (born and raised) and have trouble with such aspects of it. Best answer I can suggest off the cuff is culturally inherited "Puritan guilt". The folks who founded this country were the societal rejects of Europe and had to survive a lot in the process of coming here. I think that still impacts the culture.
How do you monetize forrst? ads?
The article claimed that "svn merge --reintegrate" did not complain about a conflict, just quietly gave the wrong result. I'm the designated svnmerge.py entrail reader at work, and I've seen that make even more severe mistakes.

(They keep saying our git repo will be ready Real Soon Now[tm]. So looking forward to that.)
Well, I'm living in vancouver and I noticed we were mentioned in the article. I'm currently renting at around 900$/month. I was looking around town at housing and even a small place costs around 2,2M. I think the average price in the entire city is around 730K$. Considering the median income for family is around 66k$, that doesn't give much hope.
Each one is true for at least one of those platforms.
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For what it's worth, this is pure politics IMHO and not HN worthy.
"(if any Last.fm client developers are reading this, Like.fm uses an identical scrobbling API. You can email me at chris@like.fm if you'd like to help)."

Hmm. Can I just tell (if possible) amarok to use a Like.fm URL in place of last.fm?

Also, the gender thing is not a big deal, but feels like a big sign saying "We're going to use your data for marketing purposes".

If you think it actually adds to the quality of the user's experience (via some analytics and such), then that's a good thing. But my initial reaction is that all a site needs is a unique way to identify me; past a name and password, everything else I'm made to enter isn't done for for my benefit.

Maybe I've been thinking about form usability too much lately for my own sites ...
Change your assumptions to assume a larger set of questions, not 40.
Interestingly, whether these are facts or not, they aren't what is taught in Japanese schools.
Try throw these questions at a Japanese. He/she would think you are talking about conspiracy.
Prohibiting the importation of drugs cannot and is not something anyone should be for. It is highly immoral and it says that your own government wants to deprive you of things that others have. Now if the governments that get the discounts are forced to ban the export of drugs, well then that is completely different story.