skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the entire course is technically already online:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Basically, I'll be setting up the first 26 lessons for class A, then the remaining 26 for class B. The purpose of the course is that you get my time to help you through the book and grade you on your progress.

It's actually pretty simple and should be a ton of fun.
I don’t think that the attribution is of interest to most users. It doesn’t strike me as something that is as important as name and time, the other two pieces of information displayed in the stream. Showing it among other less important information – namely on the details pane or individual page – seems sensible to me.

I can understand how developers might not be happy about it but I think Twitter would be ill-advised to eschew sensible changes for the users because of what amounts to politics.
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I agree. The first thing I would do, if writing a search engine, would be to do Google-style phrase corrections.

(Although lately, I find it too aggressive. When googling obscure error messages, it usually "do you mean"-s it into a less obscure error message that I already understand. Sigh.)
Flagged for what? For actually having some common sense?

The link you cite is a piece of freeware written by John Wordsworth. It's written right there on the page. I asked, very clearly, whether you can produce an instance where Apple themselves have referred to their own operating system as OSX. You have not done produced a single such instance.

I'm not sure why this is such a hard concept to grasp, nor is it clear why you seem so upset about it.
Jules Verne. Any would be good, but particularly Around the World in Eighty Days.
Historians & archaeologists value having an unfiltered look at what people were doing & thinking, because it's more honest than, well, looking at memorable events in retrospect with 20/20 hindsight, filtered through biases that only happened later.
Two different activities. If I want a map from 123 Fake St. to 742 Evergreen Terrace, I am going to use Google Maps, not Facebook. If I want to know how many degrees Fahrenheit 100 Celcius is, I'm not going to ask Facebook, I'm going to ask Google.

If I want to look at drunken pictures of my friends, though, then I will definitely use Facebook. I use each tool for what it's good for, and I think most other people do the same because it comes naturally.

(I hate structured socialization, though, so I don't use Facebook. But I can accept that I'm abnormal in that respect.)
The "barn" unit is quite useful in everyday life. For instance a barn megaparsec is a convenient measure of volume of powdered sugar, since 1 barn megaparsec of powdered sugar has 10 calories.
This might make understanding easier.

Start
100M mortgages.
100M bonds (in reality for "safety" it was more like 95M in bonds.)
80M was part of the upper class.
20M was part of the lower class.

If 30M of mortgages went busto without EVER paying a single payment and houses sold were worth 20M then 100% of the lower class got destroyed. Assuming the other 70M worth of mortgage holders kept paying until principle was returned the upper class never saw a single cent of loss and the lower class never gets paid a single cent of principle or interest.

It is a clever piece of financial engineering that allows risky loans to be "safe." It is also why writeoffs can be complete for the lower class even though the asset (house) is sold with a positive value.
Given that it's Wired, I'm surprised one of the reasons wasn't, "Facebook is dead."
If you you firefox and want to prevent the possibility of IDN spoofing, you can turn it off in about:config. Set network.enableIDN to false.
Second that this thing is unreadable now. I can't figure out what is going on other than some other people on HN know more about this situation than is in this thread.
"My understanding of these things is that this kind of debt is mostly unsecured."

The debt is secured by the home itself. It is a mortgage-backed security. In some places it is a non-recourse loan which means that once you hand over your house the lenders have no claim to the rest of your assets unlike a credit card loan.
He was referring to himself. Also you and I.
>Saying things like, "Pearces learn to read, and read a lot. You will. It's the only way to be smart."

I'm a reader, at least when I've time for leisure I'll read pretty much anything but gravitate towards international espionage and SciFi. My mother reads fiction vociferously.

However, "it's the only way to be smart" seems too much; the suggestion that 'members of this family read a lot' seems too much like undue psychological pressure. As if you'll disown them if they don't read as much as you.

If my sons choose not to carry on reading at the pace I've set them off at I won't necessarily think it's bad. One can learn as much from people IMO. If they dissociate from all avenues of learning then yes it'll be a major problem.

Indeed, there are many subjects where, wrt books, direct interaction with people and materials are far better for learning.

>"motivating them with a sense of duty"?

Huh? Duty to whom?
I tend to lean more conservative but I have to say that the government cracking down on this seems like a good thing. I have a hard time seeing how companies creating agreements to help reduce competition for employees is a net good.

However I don't have a great understanding of all the issues at play here, so I may be wrong. Anyone have any experience as to why this is good/bad?
> Ruby and Clojure stuff are the only thing I download and install myself.

And why do you do this? Because the Debian/Ubuntu packages for these things are old and broken, primarily because they are insistent on breaking up the packages and scattering the files all over the FHS they worship. They despise RubyGems because it installs packages in a self-contained way and lets you install multiple versions of everything without mangling the names. It puts them out of a job.
Maybe the ideal is that there are signals that permit bicycles and pedestrians, but if cars want to go they have to get out and push a button to get the light to let them through.
Every employer believes they pay market rate and their city is the best place to live in the world. This may be true for them, but is not true for others. I have seen job offers from LA shops ranging from $18k-$60k range. This entire range is very very silly.

Developers and engineers are professionals. Living in a one room apartment or in someone's basement are not acceptable options. Salary needs to cover the cost of a single family house.

A decent house in a safe neighborhood in LA runs from $400,000 to $2 million. Yes, you can buy in the barrio for much less. You can also rent decently and that is what most in LA do. But to attract a developer who is married and has a family and who will be leaving his 4000 sq ft house on an acre of land, that is not a good option.

I agree completely that people in LA like it there and are OK with it. All I am saying is that recruitment is difficult from outside the area because nearly all developers are asked to take a huge hit on their standard of living when moving there. LA recruiters feel the low rates are justified because living in LA is considered itself to be a valuable benefit. Most people outside the area do not see it that way however.

Having lived in both areas, if a company in LA is really offering bay area salaries which are $110k-$170k, then yes, they are paying market rate. But a shop in LA offering $70k or even $90k is simply not comparable to a SF job at twice that, given that the costs of living in both areas for reasonable accommodations and commutes are essentially the same.

As far as free things to do, SF has LA beat by a mile.
I think that it should show for example 10 matches (not only one), so it is easier to have an idea of "all" the possible matches.
I recently took a month off from Facebook.

I would say that 95% of communication (excluding face to face) between people I know is conducted over Facebook. In addition to that all events are organised through Facebook, if I didn't have an account I would be missing out.

When I meet someone new I don't exchange phone numbers anymore I exchange Facebook details.

For me at least Facebook is my phone number and email address all rolled into one. If I didn't have it I would be unreachable for a good percentage of people I know.

This might not be typical I'm a younger person with a good percentage of my friends still in college or just leaving to start work.
Can you explain number 1 please?

I'm hoping it's true because I'm bootstrapping an app that's on the ugly side. I've been told the product and workflow are solid but that the amateur design will hurt conversions. It's a B2B product. Personally I think the ugly design will filter out some tire-kickers (which is good because the product is somewhat compute-intensive) but anyone who knows they need the product will not be deterred. Of course I could be biased.

I'd like to add that I don't intend to keep it ugly, but I'm hoping to see some revenue first.
hope you're not talking about me Paul.

I didn't leak ron's email, and I've been consistently public about this from the beginning.

the issue here isn't collusion, it's convertible notes.

your post on hi-def investing captures it perfectly, and some investor are likely not comfortable with that.

however I agree with you, and conv notes are definitely the future of early-stage investing...

angelgate sensationalism or not, that's the core issue here.
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That depends, if the board approves the compensation package and it does not run afoul of the letter of contract law, you are free to compensate yourself how you feel assuming that you are a for profit corporation. Generally contract law rules out over that situation though as generally contracts spell out you give me x and I provide you with y. Not delivering on the contract in a grossly negligent way could be fraud, but you would be surprised at the liberties one can take under the protection of limited liability, I have seen the worst of the worst operate within the confines of limited liability while just shying south of the fraud threshold. It is an art many sociopaths master.
You (and others) may be interested in this reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis
"[a] strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
To take that further. Don't be that percentage by not acting like them. Don't hide or promise things you can't deliver. You go to them. Lay it out and work something out.

Everyone takes risks doing people. Inability to pay is one. Bad people is another. The first is usually rarer and more manageable. The second is not so bad. You can avoid being in the second category.

*Mixergy interviewed a bankrupcy lawyer a while ago. Maybe there's something useful for you in it. One useful thing I remembered: Discounted debt is usually taxable. Be careful you are not caught off guard. http://mixergy.com/russell-demott-interview/
No, Debian is doing it wrong. Ubuntu is doing it wrong at a faster pace.

What's wrong is the cycle of freezing all the packages for a 'release' and then 'supporting' them in the future by trying to extract 'bugfix' patches from newer versions instead of just shipping the goddamn upstream software.

The answer is rolling releases and a proper slots system — look at Gentoo or Arch.
It's fine to me in Chrome - Linux.
>I added: ban game boxes from the house. No great loss - the boys never missed them, thought they were stupid compared to what they had (books, board games, family).

Do you have a TV?

We have a TV for DVDs only but I let my eldest play games occasionally and imagine that both lads will play their share of Nintendo (or whatever) as they grow up. I find games less troublesome (depending on theme) as they are interactive usually involve consideration of tactics or puzzle solving and are fun. They don't have commercials either.

Presumably they don't play games on a PC either as that would be functionally equivalent (wouldn't it?)?
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Seems to me they could just take XPath and XQuery and rebrand it as JPath/JQuery.
Yea, all the fine print is a big "fuck you, you owe us" unless you're big enough to negotiate.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kilohanadesign/page2/

bunch of weirdness, but my hobby is building sprayed in facecoat glass fiber reinforced concrete pieces.

Most of my newer pieces are 3/4" thick and have EPS foam cores. My first attempt is the solid grey double sink in the bathroom which weighs at least 250lbs, I thought there had to be a better way, and there was. The desk with the imac on it is 28x60 and weighs 90lbs.

Sorry about all the other random pictures, especially if you get to see t-shirt diaperman on the beach.
You have the tone of trying to keep the house from collapsing until the parents get home.
In almost every important system in our economy, self employment is consistently overlooked or treated as an afterthought.

Its not just the federal government, its pretty much everything. Taxation, business licenses, bank accounts, legal protection, insurance, unemployment, mortgages, etc etc. Its infuriating how few bureaucracies that involve your employment status adequately adapt to self-employment as an option.
Well, I have a feeling that most of our credit card transactions are fraudulent, being in the space we are in.

What space are you in? Phone cramming or reg path reoccurring billing or something like that?
Do you watch StarCraft Replays? 
I watch Day9, HDStarcraft, and Husky more than I play. How about you?
That reminds me of Jason Scott's comments about trusting "the cloud" with your data and not keeping it locally: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
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Everyone agrees that statements proven by appeal to majority [consensus] are logically fallacious.
It's hard to tell since Twitter is not releasing any meaningful statistics about this.

A couple of weeks ago they released a graph suggesting that 78% of all users use twitter.com (http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/evolving-ecosystem.html)

If you look carefully, they explain that this 78% is the percentage of people that have logged into twitter.com at least once in the last 30 days. Unfortunately this is not very useful since there are a multiple things that can only be done on twitter.com and not in 3rd party clients, either because the functionality is missing from the API or is broken (they started to fix some of these though). So even if people use a 3rd party client most of the time, they would still log into twitter.com every once in a while and thus will be counted as a twitter.com user.

A more useful statistics would be the percentage of users who use any given client as their main way of interacting with Twitter. Of course twitter.com would still be the biggest client, but not with 78% of all users, more likely somewhere between 40-50% (based on stats by twittersource.info, tdash.org and stats of Hungarian users I've collected).

As for the original post, we're running a web-based client and twitter.com is one of the most important referers so I'll have to agree that removing the "via client" attribution will hurt developers in a big way. (Yeah, I know, they are not removing it just making it a lot less prominent)
I've stayed away simply because of the inevitable overlap between my personal and professional lives.

For each online presence, I decide if it will be professional or personal, and then try to make sure they don't overlap.

Some things are fairly easy to separate: Linkedin professionally, Flickr for personal photos. Nobody at work knows who I am on Flickr, so I'm free to post whatever I want w/o affecting me professionally. If I'm job hunting, the prospective employer will not associate my weird photography style with my professional qualifications.

FB pretty much assures that I'll end up with friends, family and work mixed together.
It wasn't until the third paragraph that I realised this wasn't refering to the Jade Programing Language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE_%28programming_language%29
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Yes.

I'm a diamond-league player (Saint.860) and I watch the replay of almost every game that I lose.

I also watch Day9 and replay packs from Protoss players (ie, White-Ra releases his own replay packs).

HD and Husky are okay commentators, but they occasionally miss things that are huge or complain that a player made a mistake when it was actually done for a very good reason, and that grates me a tad.
Watching and reading are both quite sedentary - don't forget to mix in some 'fleeing from rampaging space-monster-vampires' and associated activities.
Ask HN: I'm about to open source a project at work. What license should I use?
I was given free reign to develop a reporting system at work, including the OK to open source it. I'll be ready to do so in the next couple of weeks and am going to need to recommend a license to management. Anyone want to help me weight the benefits and drawbacks of MIT vs GPL vs the other options?
The biggest chunk of content appears to the be the Terms of the Service that I can't see. Is there something in particular you wanted to highlight?
Seems pretty straightforward to me: Hulu has a much smaller catalog than Netflix, and is watchable on a lot less hardware. The only content they soundly trounce Netflix in is "current" TV shows, but how many people a) prefer watching TV on their computer over paying for cable TV + a DVR, AND b) prefer paying Hulu for that privilege over just torrenting everything?

I don't see how Netflix is competing with YouTube at all.
Yep. Freelancers specifically it's about building a wire framing tool;
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Another application of special and general relativity outside the laboratory is in the corrections to the GPS system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Relat...
yum install ImageMagick.i386

yum install ImageMagick-devel.i386

pecl install imagick

echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini

service httpd restart
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> I frequently get asked how and where I registered a non-ASCII domain name. Many — probably most, in fact — domain name registrars don’t support IDN. I used Dynadot to register mine, and consider myself a satisfied customer.

Bizarrely all the registrars I checked seem to have a separate search portal for IDN, and don't even let you search for the punycode version using their normal tools.
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I like what the author has to say about commenting, as a counter-point to those that think comments are a sign of bad code:

... I think by focusing on this communication, the code becomes inhertitly (sic) better, because you think more deeply about the abstractions and layering you are doing ...

Explaining a problem (or solution) definitely helps me understand it better (or even realise that I don't fully understand it). Interestingly, you might find that the act of commenting refines your code to the point where some or all of the commentary becomes unnecessary - it's served its purpose. So sometimes the feedback loop might have a few iterations to get to the most clear and concise form of code + commentary.
Hmmm. Long ago I sent examples of the "NULL" issues for Twitter status URL's that I had bookmarked (possibly before favorites were available) as replies to the Twitter team -- not sure where any of that went but while a database is likely to exist, a guaranteed and representative content store may not be as likely.
I deleted my facebook entirely as an experiment, and completely forgot about it a week later. I used to use it very often, but the moment it was gone, I didn't miss it in the least.
Just saw this post about our startup, I'll clarify some things since some people seem interested.

RubyPay was a points based payment system for digital content that anyone could use. Points were bought for cash, and redeemable for cash. It was released because we wanted to generate some feedback on the model.

RubyPay was closed so quickly because we realized some problems, and didn't want any live transactions going through our system that we'd later have to refund. Among some of the problems were:

1) allowing anyone to sell content without a screening process for them or the content

2) allowing consumers to redeem the points for cash, which brought a whole new set of laws into play

3) not anticipating all of the ways that fraud could propagate through the system

We're currently working on the service to address these and other issues. We've also discussed the business further with lawyers, became PCI-DSS compliant, and are in the process of forming industry partnerships. As always thanks for the feedback (there was another discussion thread on HN too), it helped us quickly pivot and iterate on our model, and probably saved us tons of time and headaches.
I swear on my annoying poodle's life it was found randomly. :)
Your choice to make your information public is not a privacy issue. Sure, for the naïve (average) user, networks like facebook should provide explicit and honest disclaimers, intuitive customization, and conservative defaults. Beyond that, facebook only has information you choose to make public, and they shouldn't be expected to not use that information. If a random person on facebook can look you up and see your favorite music, then I don't consider any different if advertisers utilize that information (either by scraping it themselves or by purchasing ads through facebook) to target ads.

Granted, you can make the valid argument that information can be mined without you explicitly providing it (e.g. friend graphs). That's an iffy ethical argument that is up for debate: is deriving information about someone from public information an invasion of that person's privacy? For example, if you walk out your front door and drive your car away, it's obvious that a neighbor witnessing that has not invaded your privacy. However, if the neighbor noticing you leaving and returning on a regular schedule, and learns that a local strip club has a weekly special event that corresponds to your outings, has the acquisition of that information (whether or not you're actually going to the club) constituted an invasion of your privacy?
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Something similar to check-out. Based in javascript and lets you visually verify basic patterns on text-blocks: http://regexpal.com/
My CS honours thesis involved deriving regexes (well, DTDs for XML documents, but it is essentially the same problem).

The quality of the results depends a lot on the amount and quality of the input (how well it represents what you are really trying to match). A single example string is unlikely to get you far - you would certainly need multiple matching examples. So I think this approach works best when you already have an example corpus to work from, rather than providing input manually. If you're going to spend effort providing a lot of input, then you'd probably be better off spending at least some of that effort in providing hints or possible regex answers.

Further, there are many possible regexes that would match an input set, so the algorithm also needs some way to evaluate them and choose the better candidates. In my case I used some ideas from information theory (such as MML), which actually worked reasonably well. But this is a computationally hard problem, so even with an objective measure of the optimal regex you won't necessarily be able to find it.
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