skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading fiction shouldn't be brushed aside as something frivolous. When you read a story you live the characters. When you live different characters to acquire the ability to relate to different kinds of people that are not like you. In short you learn to empathize. You become more human.
I think they prefer to get reexaminations to get rid of the patent and have a "Patent Busting Project" to that effect.

While a wall of shame is an interesting idea, killing the patent outright is likely a more effective use of their funds. Some of the entities in question aren't really known for their shame and only programmers are likely to appreciate the absurdity of patenting a doubly-linked list in this day and age.
I don't think it's that unique. When I was in school, in the early 1980s, many engineering professors had similarly returned to the university after gaining professional experience. I remember hearing that that was normal for most engineering schools. And while less common, it was also true of many in the business school.
None of the benefits you claim come from living in NYC are any different from those you get from going to college. Look at Reddit: a geek and a front man lived across from eachother and bonded over video games. Would Reddit have been successful without Ohanian? Probably not. Did they need to be in Williamsburg to figure out their concept? No.
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The post already says that you will be occasionally great just by sticking around for a long enough time.
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That's undoubtedly true. My comment was meant to be taken as a foil to arts PhDs. My cousin's boyfriend is doing an economics/geography/statistics post-doc (modelling the behaviour of people in cities in regards to travel to and from work, traffic, etc), and his focus is entirely on research. He would be very hard pressed to get a job in the private sector, so his goal is to get published many times then get a tenure track position at a research university. There's nothing wrong with that, but I appreciate the fact that my professors have actually worked in the field they're training us for.
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Moodle is horrid! I can never find anything on it. Blackboard works at least!
This reminds me of an old Perl script I made with Markov chains for a very similar sort of random nonsense text generation.

I think I fed it some text from a few usenet kooks/conspiracy theorists and something like Alice in Wonderland and got quite a few laughs a long time ago, though it was made to allow you to combine arbitrary texts into a single chain.
Twitter is running a expired copyright.
Here's an example of me pinging my router:

smokinn@ubuntu:~$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=1.24 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=1.21 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=75.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=1.26 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=5 ttl=64 time=1.18 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=6 ttl=64 time=1.21 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=7 ttl=64 time=1.20 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=8 ttl=64 time=1.28 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=9 ttl=64 time=1.28 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=10 ttl=64 time=1.23 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=11 ttl=64 time=1.23 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=12 ttl=64 time=1.24 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=13 ttl=64 time=1.19 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=14 ttl=64 time=1.22 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=15 ttl=64 time=101 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=16 ttl=64 time=1.31 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=17 ttl=64 time=1.69 ms

Notice number 3 and 15. I'm not yet sure why exactly it does this, I haven't had time to investigate fully and honestly it's a minor problem since I don't really play games so it's pretty low on my priority list but I suspect it's either bufferbloat or a driver issue.
The spam problem will always exist as long as search engines are built to index and crawl as much as possible: someone will adapt to get their spam into the system. It's evolution. And the only "innovators" in the search space are at Google, since they're the ones who HAVE to adapt with the spammers, it's their problem.
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The year in language
Note that this article was published in 1996. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=227717.227722&coll...
I think programming is a vague term. If programming just means rigorously encoding an imprecise set of instructions then while not easy I cannot say it is especially difficult.

But if your programming involves complex mathematics,physics, linguistics, biological, intricate interactions with the world, heck even philosophical concepts then programming is in the cartesian product of the domain and field and is as hard as the toughest problem you are attacking, judged with respect, also to the source field. The true difficulty is in balancing multiple species of abstraction, domain knowledge, device knowledge and encoding instruction in a way that satisfies all of these.

So there is the base difficulty of abstracting and then converting mental concepts to a set of computations compounded with the difficulty of getting the abstractions of your domain knowledge to transfer to a set of mental concepts that are transferable to a set of computations. heh. If the field you are dealing with is easy And Or you are continually dealing with the same problem more or less (just different facets) such that you had internalized most of the process to automated subthought (mastery) then yes it will appear easy.

Programming then, would only be bounded by its own internal difficulty, which gets easier the more you explore it and learn widely applicable abstractions. Once you mix in the difficulty of the field the same applies till you have reduced the interactions of field+programming to mastered concepts. If the field has a high minimum then this reduction may still always remain extremely difficult. So if one finds programming easy it could also be a sign that you are not challenging yourself enough, not pushing your boundaries sufficiently.

My theory is that those of the greatest skill have burning curiosity and will to improve, respond positively to challenge, and have great ability to focus - together this allows them to hold on to and continually attack a problem to a greater depth than most. You need only pick 3, maybe only 2. If there is any inherent genetic advantage held by some - greater ability to focus, efficient use of nutrients, quicker and more enduring synaptic connections, whatever - for the rest of us, I feel the brain is marvellously malleable and can be tuned down another set of dimensions. The space of intelligence is gigantic and non euclidean and likely with no concept of a global maximum. If the person is so determined they will work around their deficiencies and or train their mental processes stronger so that any "lack" of inherent skill does not get in the way of what they wish to do. This is what I believe I do and did. I do be slow as molasses.
I think the site has been HNed (or whatever is the HN equivalent of slashdoted).
Why are we here? And the meaning of life
I'm adding another node - just rebuilding the disc. It will be back momentarily. Sorry!

Edit: Site's back - should be all good now.
That's how it always seemed to me. Objective-C is a slightly above-average language with really good APIs.
> I suspect people laughed at him, told him he would never succeed, told him he should do other things.

I don't think that's true. IIRC, Wiles was pretty successful before he started the work (tenure at Princeton?), worked on it secretly, and still published (though at a lower rate) to cover his secret.
No doubt countless Cuban smokers have said it since Mort Sahl attributed to him, because it's a great line. I can't see Clinton, famously circumspect in such matters, cracking that joke to a reporter, though.

I like the Kennedy misattribution better, but the attested anecdotes about Jack Kennedy and Cuban cigars are pretty great too:

http://cubanmadecigars.com/kennedy.html
maybe it's because I'm getting old and crotchety, or perhaps it's because I didn't get a good night sleep last night (it's stinking hot here and we've no air-con), but my internet today is full of self-entitled whiners.

ffs people, cut the lady some slack. all this fuss over a $5 cover art app!?

Sure, she broke a promise, there doesn't seem much doubt about that, but don't we all? Who here has never broken a $5 promise? Who's never said they'd be home at 6, but didn't get in 'til 6:30? Who's never said they'd meet for coffee, but then couldn't make it?

And no, I don't accept the argument that this is the same as if Apple reneged on an Aperture promise or similar. It's not binary, it's a scale, but $5 is at one end and $100 is a lot further up.

I realise this is an unpopular position, but I just can't stand all this negative attitude all heaped on one person. would you behave like this if she was in the same room as you?
funny pick, I jus didn't noticed.
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You don't get the luxury of revision control with engines.
I think that "one thing" you identify is one of the most important abilities in determining business success. Those who refined their ability to properly communicate, think critically, and analyze problems have built a transferable skill set that cannot afford to be learned at the workplace. So in my opinion, they've got plenty of options. You could easily go the business consulting route where they specifically look for people with those traits and eventually have them specialize in some field. From there you could easily transfer to any industry job you specialize in for a comfortable living. The more ambitious could use those skills to build a startup and surround themselves with the right mix of a math or science backgrounds to create a business.
Maybe we simply disagree. I don't think software, personified, has the capability to appreciate freedom. And, I think both the FSF and Stallman think the same[1][2].

Apple lost (or, more accurately, never had) the freedom to distribute VLC under the terms and conditions of the App Store. And the end users cannot get VLC from the App Store; though, it's readily available from other sources.

Whether or not Facebook users see themselves as running software isn't relevant to the argument. A person who licenses their software under the AGPL does view it that way. Therefore, if you choose to host that software, you're required to redistribute the source code. The AGPL doesn't restrict your ability to use the software on a network-connected computer. It does, however, require you to distribute the source code to any other users who use the software. If you don't want to distribute the code, then don't let other people use the software over the network!

I don't think it would be ridiculous to want the source to a server-- whether or not I had an account on it. But, I'm a curious guy.

I also agree that there is a lot of value in the account and identity. But, that's a different issue than the software and its license.

The id software games all had previously existing ecosystems. However, I was specifically referring to the ecosystems around the engines. Those improvements, derivatives, and the insight into a professional game engine were only possible after those releases. And I think that Quake's position as the often first-ported game to new game systems is a good testament.

Quite frankly, your argument confuses me because you claim the software itself is of limited value while simultaneously taking umbrage at being required to redistribute it.

[1] "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[2] "Authors often claim a special connection with programs they have written, and go on to assert that, as a result, their desires and interests concerning the program simply outweigh those of anyone else—or even those of the whole rest of the world. ... To those who propose this as an ethical axiom—the author is more important than you—I can only say that I, a notable software author myself, call it bunk." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
Technically doesn't matter. First, according to copyright laws in most countries you do not have to display a copyright notice on a website as it is automatically covered. Secondly, the copyright date is when the work was published. If there have been no updates to the page in 2011 (besides the tweets) then they do not have to change the copyright date. For example, if a book is published in 1980 and never edited the copyright date in the book remains 1980, it doesn't change every year you open the book.
If it really does, that's an overreach by the prosecutor and the judge should not grant the order.

But my reading of the order linked by Glenn Greenwald is that it is asking for information on the named twitter accounts, not the recipients of messages from those accounts.
Unfortunately, that is easily defeated by modifying all non-SSL pages on the site to link to a non-SSL login page look-alike (which is easily generated by downloading the real one over SSL and forwarding it decrypted). I don't see any reasonable way to solve this other than /always/ using SSL for your site.
Does the software include good OCR? If it's just taking a bitmap picture then it's not very useful. But if it can produce text files with no DRM then I could read the content on any device.
How do you implement user access control, authentication and authorization while being stateless?
I find it very hard to believe that Google's Matt Cutts would come down from the ivory tower to answer comments on a website.

Google suspended my Google Checkout account because two words in the title of my book (make money editing from home) sent up a flag. No matter how many times I offered to give them a copy of my manuscript, they declined.

The eventual apology was appreciated, as was the full reinstatement, but it doesn't change the fact that I was wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, and had no court of appeal to go to except the very people who shut me down.

I no longer use Gmail, Google Toolbar, Chrome, Google AdSense, Google Checkout, Picasa, Blogger, Feedburner, Google Webmaster Tools, Google as a search engine, or whatever else I can think of. Google violated my terms of service.

Oh, and the nastygrams looked outsourced, and the apology had typos and bad grammar. You guys should hire an editor.
I am new here and so do not understand the intricacies of this community. Is there anything particularly offensive or especially stupid about my comment? I tried to be careful but perhaps I failed and so would appreciate any insight for further edification.
Then why not have the network self-organize into its lowest latency form with the "server" acting as a trusted arbiter / validator?
The now language is Haskell.
It seems to me that it proves Twitter's weakness, in the sense that Twitter ultimately must comply with the law, however unconscionable that law may be, but also Twitter's strength --- Twitter did fight the subpoena and may have done so successfully.

It doesn't seem that it proves Twitter's value, except in the sense that WikiLeaks is a savvy enough organization that it wouldn't be using Twitter unless it thought it was valuable enough to be worth the risk.
Unnecessary plug: I wrote a ridiculously simple version using node and socket.io to get a feel for this too: https://github.com/nshah/tictactoe -- it only has random matchup mode. It's running here: http://tictactoe.daaku.org:9999/
Exactly: it is very wrong to think PhD are useless because you won't use what you did during your PhD. This is stupid on two accounts: even if you do an academic career, what you did during your PhD is rarely what you will do later, and PhD teaches you many other things.

I only realized it afterwards, but many people are simply incapable of working by themselves without being given precise instruction: PhD teaches you that in some way (of course, there is a selection bias). It also trains you to communicate to other, which is a very valuable skill. You are also used to being criticized on somehow objective criterion: few people are able to take critics in any other way than personal. Finally, you almost always learn tenacity.

For me, saying that PhD is a bubble because there are few academics positions is like saying being an entrepreneur is a bubble because so few people become very rich. Even failure teach you a lot (where failure would be defined as not becoming an academic in the PhD case).
Please don't call it "Obamacare".
When I was at Caltech, a number of students were interested in Astronomy and majored in it. They were well aware, though, that the chances of getting a job in Astronomy were exceedingly small. So they did the sensible thing - double majored. One was AY and was for fun, the other they expected to be able to get a job in.
That's pretty rare situation nowadays, and relatively specific to maths and few other fields where you can work by yourself. Even Nobel-prize level research is rarely done this way anymore.
Shimers college, a great books college, had a tuition of $21,000/year in 2009–2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimer_College

"Classes are exclusively small seminars in which students discuss original source material rather than read textbooks." Shimers is also rated among the top liberal arts schools in the country.

IE, education involving more attention from teachers can be cheaper than what now the standard in college education. The large university today is essentially a racket which takes undergraduate tuition to pay for the capital expenses (building-booms) and then tells the undergraduates how lucky they are to be there.
WikiLeaks subpoenas spill out into public realm
You're probably right, but keep in mind that mass production imposes some costs of its own. There are the up-front costs you allude to when you say "short-run" --- even if you're cutting your mold from aluminum, that's an expensive way to make five instances --- but there are also costs associated with the "mass" nature of the production.

First, mass production must be geographically centralized. This means you have shipping costs. For fragile or bulky objects, the shipping cost can sometimes exceed the material cost.

Second, mass production involves inventory at every stage of the supply chain, although you can cut inventory down quite a lot from what we used to do 60 years ago. Maintaining inventory is expensive.

So it's possible that 3-D printers will beat molding for mass production. It's just not likely in the foreseeable future.

Molecular nanotechnology will, of course, make 3-D printers beat molding.
Actually, I'm not done. I didn't do anything wrong. Google admitted this. It was their mistake, not mine. They admitted this in their apology, which I did appreciate.

For my account to be randomly suspended reminds me how much an Act of Google resembles an Act of God. That's what annoyed me so much. Google did evil that day.

And that, to bring it back to the point "Matt Cutts" made, is WHY Google sucks. It can't be fixed.
A lot of the questions students have could be answered by fellow peers. I know blackboard is a well hated program but (at least at my university) it has a forum for each course that students often use to ask questions or exercise their knowledge for their peer's benefit. Maybe we don't need to get more lecturers so much as encourage students to ask each other questions.
The way this was handled certainly has an "ick" factor, but I wonder if it will matter from a pure business perspective in the end. Hell. It may even help. It's got a lot of people talking about her...

Here are some other thoughts/questions:

1) Users have been receiving free upgrades for years, meaning she received no additional revenues from them. I wonder many of the vocal unhappy users would upgrade to the app store version anyway if she just called this 3.0. How "valuable" is the livid segment of her existing customerbase?

2) The app store will allow her to reach new users that don't know or care about the developers. The Mac App Store is a black box where the developer reputation doesn't seem to matter much, unless its reflected in the reviews. Think about buying an iPhone app... Have you ever researched the reputation of a dev before buying a $4.99 iPhone app? My brother would just buy the app and be happy as a clam.

3) She has 70 reviews in the store so far. Only 1 mentions this and gives her 1-star. Many give 5 stars and some talk about how they are happy to pay for this upgrade.

Again, not condoning the behavior... Just thinking out loud.
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Don't worry about it. Your comment was fine. People sometimes downvote for idiosyncratic reasons but someone else usually comes along and neutralizes that (as I just did). The main thing is to keep the discussion on-topic and not go meta.

You make an excellent point: the difficulty of programming is not only that of instructing the computer but also that of the problem the program is to solve. I agree.

(As an aside, the main problem with your comment is that it was rambling. This obscures your otherwise valuable insights. I recommend a course of obsessive-compulsive editing :))
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Haskell has a tendency to steal people away from python too.
He just copied the title from the article. He didn't "call" it that (i.e., editorialize).

And before anyone starts on how this is irrelevant political tripe, read the 2nd & 3rd words of the title again.
Autho.me and Vault-13 look to solve three issues:

1. Remove the worry of security. Look at 90% of the security/password questions on SO/reddit. Almost all the answers are SHA1+Salt.

2. Remove the resource requirement from development. Writing these things takes time and research if you don't know the proper solution. These services can reduce it to an install or a copy and paste.

3. Removing needless database structure. We manage the database (including any sort of movement or upgrading), the customer doesn't have to.
Filter on 了 or 的 in the body of the message. That should catch most natural Chinese of non-trivial lengths. (You'll lose most Japanese ham, too, but I'm guessing not a problem for you.)