skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true if that's how you frame journalistic neutrality; the important thing to realize then is that there's no way to discuss the neutrality of a news source at all meaningfully.

Perhaps a different term would be better, but when I say I think they're more neutral, it's because they use fewer "weasel words"/phrases, very clearly delineate between their core factual stories and their opinion/analysis pieces, and feature fewer sensationalist pieces without significant hard-fact backing.

Again, what you say is reasonable, but doesn't apply in the context I was replying to the parent's statement in.
Apple Calls Android Tablets 'Vapor' - and It Isn't Just Hot Air
Make an application that adds two inputted numbers together
Where In The World Is Eduardo Saverin?
The best way to tell if a news source really is neutral is if both sides accuse it of being biased against them.

I've seen accusations from both sides of the conflict in Israel accuse the BBC of bias, for example, so I feel happy to trust their reporting.
Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs
if it weren't for the "visited" links, I don't think I'd be able to figure it out, with pen and paper at least.
Go and reread his original point:

> remarkably neutral compared to most US news sources

Then go and watch Fox and CNN.
I think the delay is the seek time of your disk the first time it loads perl; and the python was already cached.

(OT: the Lua startup time is half of Perl's)
Quality of HN Comments Over Time
interesting article indeed...

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890701/5713.html
Do you know what that product is? If not, it's going to be a difficult slope for you. Wanting to build a product to make money vs building a product to serve the needs of a community are vastly different.
They have an army of lawyers, and getting themselves declared a non-taxable religion in every country they operate in is their first priority.
For CPUs, you need to at least allow programming at a much lower level because of the greater diversity of workloads. The average programmer will never write anything that cannot be specified in C, but they will certainly use such code (operating systems, for one). A good CPU needs to be versatile and flexible, but most of the good stuff doesn't need to be exposed to third-party developers.

Even CPUs' architectural transparency has its limits. You could squeeze a few percent out of your parallel code if you knew exactly how writes and reads were ordered on a particular system. As a rule, however, whoever made your CPU will not tell you; there's the 'trade secrets' thing, sure, but more importantly, telling you would impede their ability to do things a slightly different but better way next time, because your code would rely on the old behavior in ways that cannot yet be automatically detected or fixed. Instead, they specify a memory consistency model[1][2][3], an interface you can code to once and rely on for future generations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_consistency
They moved on to the next scapegoat. Generally whatever they didn't do as a kid, and is now practiced by small numbers of smart introverted kids.
This is good to hear. I think content is worth paying for, and that producers should charge for their work. Yes, it makes linking and therefore promotion harder, but a lot of readers of NYT just visit the site and read a bunch of articles.

Anyway, the advertising teat is going to dry up someday, and I'd like my favorite publications to stay around. If it means paying for them with actual money, it means paying for them with actual money. There is no other alternative.

People have paid for ad-free books, movies, TV, and music for ages. Why not newspapers?

(Incidentally, the article doesn't say whether or not the paid pages will have advertising. If they do, they can rot in hell. If it's ad-free, though, then they are on to something.)
Is Groupon the new Jesus Startup?
It is very interesting to see TI scaling back 25%, particularly with their OMAP 4 processors being in demand. I wonder what the reason is?
That doesn't work in general; it might help some in cases where there are really only two sides that matter and that they're both equally well represented, but even then it would be iffy.

I find this fetishization of neutrality to be bizarre: true neutrality is indistinguishable from ignorance. Why would anyone yearn to be ignorant? Is there not enough ignorance in the world?
Oh dear... the groups that were going around in the 80s warning parents that D&D was satanism would have a field day with that.
So if I am not distributing anything, I don't need to worry about the "reasonable wage" rule, right?
You may wonder why this site is offline, if you are reading the source then you are most probably a web developer
that has been paid to change this.

I put this here as the company in question broke our contract and left payments outstanding,
as a last resort I put their site offline, what else could I do.

Make sure you are paid up front, even if you have a contract, they aint worth shit.

-- Source code comment, haha.
why did you choose isomorphic over a top-down view?
It looks interesting, though.

I had made a RPG mapping/gaming thing in flash WAY back in the day, and had always thought about making it into a web version. Never got around to it, though.

Good luck with yours. =)
And for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbck...
Couldn't have imagined those two (Parker and Coelho) talking about Facebook.
Reminds my of the contest run by thedailywtf.com a few years back to see who could create to most contrived four-function calculator: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-the-OMGTWTF-Winne...

Finalists included an app that took OCR input, another that used Google calculator to perform the actual calculations, and one that somehow managed to get XML involved.
"The kick in the butt they need"? Under that system there would presumably be a considerable number of people who could no longer afford to live - a family of four would be taxed over $50,000 which they might well not be able to earn, let alone earning enough more than that to pay rent and buy food. Not everyone can be an above-average earner.

I'm all for the idea of simplifying tax systems, but your idea doesn't remotely work.
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There is, perhaps, a larger question...There appears to be a large mismatch between public perception of the weight of certain academic badges, and the actual substance of the badge.

In your example, the Rhodes selection committee selects only people from a particular elite slice of Australian society, yet it may have nothing at all to do with their actual intellectual qualifications, "such exceptional people exist all over Australia".

Yet the public perception is that a Rhodes scholar is somebody who is not only extremely bright, but the top of the tippy top of bright people. They are the medium from which light itself emanates.

You can find this kind of mismatch elsewhere when it comes to similar comparisons of actual intelligence, vs. perceived intelligence a particular badge bestows on a person. "I graduated from Harvard" "I went to Oxford", "The best school is Seoul University" etc. Appears to have only slightly more substance to a person's intelligence and worth than the brand of socks they are wearing. Yet the public will grant significant weight to these things.

Articles like this work to slowly peck away at this often faulty public perception. It's not that Rhodes Scholars, or graduates of top schools aren't smart -- just that similarly smart people exist elsewhere. It's only a matter of time before "Rhodes Scholar" means only slightly more than "Dean's List" in terms of perception.

I'm afraid more and more that badges that should signify significant intellectual achievement are becoming more and more worthless. In order to improve the value of these badges, it behooves the selection committees to cast a wider net and find people from many other places who fit their requirements...doing the hard word of actually finding people than the lazy work of fishing in only well known ponds.
Ask HN: What do you do to counteract procrastination?
I have recently started counting down in my head when I need to do something important. When I reach 0, I make myself go and do that thing. While it may sound like a gimmick, it does seem to work well for me. Simply starting to count down is easy to do, and can be done simultaneously with almost anything (except writing perhaps). Counting also gives you time and preparation in order to stop what you're doing (a.k.a. procrastinating). When you reach 0, you have this sense of obligation to stop procrastinating and do the work. The longer you count down for, the more obligated you'll be to do the work.
I have no reason why, but these incredibly useless approaches to simple problems fascinate me a lot.
Basic question: where are the documents themselves? I see lots of 'analysis' and commentary, and some links to 'key documents' but where is the directory of 1,600 PDFs that this site alludes to? I'd like to make up my own mind.
I agree. The problem is, no one will look at your work, profound as it might perhaps be, if you give it a boring title like 'A price discrimination degree transformation framework for understanding Groupon'. Trust me. I've tried already. Do you have any better suggestions?
Groupon is one of those stories, when in a year or two or five, one side or the other is going to be going "I told you so!"

I agree with a lot of the author's points... especially about customer fatigue.
agree with max on this one. i'm at columbia and max is at NYU - i have worked with a bunch of NYC startups and can tell you that both the funding environment and the excitement around startups is second to none. we also have some great schools here if you're thinking of transferring.
Could have sworn the last one was attributed to Einstein, but I'm being pedantic.
She offers no evidence that the student hasn't thought long and hard about nuclear weapons. I wonder if she reached that conclusion because he disagrees with her. As if saying "If he supports Global Zero then he couldn't have considered these things."
I believe a different question should be asked.

Instead of: "Do universities fail to educate students on the underlying importance of the problems they are training to solve?"

We should question: "Is our system of education more than just a game?"

My thesis is basically thus: While the issue presented in the article reflects accurately on many students, the root is not grounded in university education, but in our system of education as a whole.

HNer adrianparsons notes (1) that many of his former classmates were excellent at being students, but their interest was not in their learning, but rather in passing the classes. Where, then, did this way of thinking originate? Not in universities, as the author suggests, but much earlier. Students are trained from a young age to participate in the game that is schooling; you are foisted into generic classes and made to take surface-level standardized tests (measuring nothing but the rote memorization seemly criticized by the author). Very rarely are you taught by a Professor in elementary, middle, or high school. Rather, "education professionals" prepare you for what is to come later. Just as often as not these teachers are uninterested in your learning (2), simply seeking a paycheck. Both teacher and pupil are playing the same game, one in which neither benefits from going above and beyond. Is it any small wonder that students enter college as excellent students, but poor learned citizens?

The article is far too narrow; The problem, much more broad. It's not the universities failing students, but the institutions that placed them there. We're not going to college intellectually and socially curious, only to have that squashed out of us; We're going to college expecting more of the same.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133712

(2) This is not to say that great primary education teachers do not exist. I was lucky to have been influenced by a number of excellent teachers at a young age, though in hindsight I find that they were far and few between.

*Disclaimer: I am a first-year student at American University, and clearly hold a grudge to a system that, I believe, has wasted so much of my time.
I think it's much more subtle than that. 'Powered' is a poor metaphor I think. I believe what they're referring to is the actual reverse transcription process. Retroviruses carry its own reverse transcriptease, and must use the cell's own resources to do the actual transcription (they need to get the dNTP to build actual DNA strands). The 'big deal' about this discovery is that HIV can use rNTP to preform reverse transcription instead in cases where there isn't enough dNTP, which presumably (I'm not an expert in this field) is one of the reasons why it is so successful compared to other retroviruses.
I read a book by Jim Rogers, I think it was "Investment Biker" and he said that the US is the laughing stock of the developed world because of the way our incomes taxes work. He said that in Australia you have one form the size of a postcard that everybody mails in once a year.
Relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/27/
I prefer Datum - its free now on the app store.
In the good old days of newspapers, newspapers made 80% of their income from advertising and 20% from subscriptions and individual sales. 80% of their expenses were devoted to printing, distribution and management, with 20% going to pay content creators.

The biggest reason that newspapers charge for their content is just to ensure that their newspapers go to people who actually want to read it and can afford to do so. (Advertisers aren't interested in advertising to those who think a dollar is a lot of money). That's not a problem on the web -- the marginal cost is so low that there's no reason at all to limit your readership.

Yes, ad rates have gone down, but I find it very hard to believe that there's not a viable business paying journalists and giving their content away, ad-supported.

Another piece of evidence is the fact that those "subway papers" give away physical newspapers for free. Yes, they don't pay much for content, but their marginal costs per reader are so much higher.
If I recall correctly, it used to be the case that they only showed the answer to Googlebot and if you wanted it, you actually did have to pay (or perhaps forge your useragent)
Jared and Steve (founders of GroupMe) are some of the best entrepreneurs I've ever met. Your characterization is ill informed and just plain wrong. The fact that they were able to take a simple idea and implement it so successfully speaks to their ability as operators.

I also don't think quality entrepreneurs base decisions about where to start a company on where it's easiest to get laid. Most quality entrepreneurs that I know have no problem meeting women wherever they are because they are passionate, outgoing, interesting people.

Also, GroupMe's major investor is Khosla Ventures, which is a west coast firm. So I am not sure how that speaks to NYC as a "dumb money" scene.
> It may sound like I am being impatient. Has Apple spoiled us with product launches that include actual, functional products to show off? Call me crazy, but that's what I expect: an actual product.

Whether you love or hate Apple, you have to give them both credit and respect for showing up with working products. It's a wonderful change from the status quo.
While venture capital investment is not the ultimate proxy for a city's startup'ness, NYC did just overtake Boston as the #2 for tech VC investment.

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/new-york-mass...

As an NYC startup entrepreneur myself, I can attest to the fact that the level of optimism is very high as is the level of activity amongst startups, investors, etc. Some say frothy but (1) that's not specific to NYC and (2) people love predicting bubbles as a sport.

Come on down.
I call bullshit on you as I know everyone involved. They are great, but can you deny the part about jam bands and a history of drunk tweets by their engineers? There's a whole website about "things X says when he's drunk" where X is the engineer I'm talking about.

If you don't think it's important to get laid, good on you, you've transcended to the next level of hacker zen. If you think it's easy to get laid in Silicon Valley, you are a bartender with a huge dick, not the VP of Product for Whatever.com.

As a New Yorker I am allowed to call bullshit, too.
Merlin Mann has written interesting stuff on this topic before: http://www.43folders.com/2005/10/11/procrastination-hack-102...

What he's suggesting is kind of a mind game, but hey if it helps you then why not right?
I was 8 or 9. I wrote a two-line basic program that printed my name to the screen in an endless loop.

I don't know why. Because I could, I guess.

Not sure what the librarian though of it...
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Is this just me? I visited Quora for the first time a few days ago. I logged in, couldn't figure out what I was looking at, and logged out.

It prompted me a few times, ...I think, but I couldn't see questions and answers right away.
My interpretation of the "yield" keyword is not that of a coroutine yield, but that of "cough up the following value", which is more in line with "return". Under that interpretation, the fact that generators can also be used to implement coroutines is a coincidence with unfortunate terminology namespace conflicts.

I looked around a bit for the original semantic intention behind choosing "yield" as a keyword, but came up empty. Anyone?
If you want to see more students who are broadly informed, create an incentive. Don't expect people to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for a broad university education that will land them a mediocre, 9-to-5 $10 an hour job.
If consumption is taxed the poor will have less purchasing power. If production is taxed the poor will have less jobs and less money. Empowering the poor will not come by penalizing production or consumption, but by empowering the wealth producers.
To offer another data point, I took off at 20 after 2 years of school.

I returned to school at 22 with a lot more perspective and had a lot more fun. Just graduated too!
Thanks, that clears it up. I was reading the article wondering since when these people don't have to pay SEP taxes.
I also know everyone involved.

As a former New Yorker transplanted to Palo Alto, I can attest that there are less girls here, but I have not had trouble meeting them.

Why is drinking and listening to jam bands reflective of their ability as a company? I can cite many examples of famous entrepreneurs who have well documented episodes of drinking or using drugs. Steve Jobs would be the most obvious.
Good question. As it turns out there are really only 16 PDF documents. Combined, there may be 1,600 pages in total, but to speak of 1,600 documents seems kind of misleading to me, especially since most of the PDFs are maps and peace talk minutes.

http://www.ajtransparency.com/en/
You really ought to employ some method to monetize this, such as advertising, and then post it on a more "general interest" site like Reddit.
If you tell someone to hack their life by gathering statistics, that's cool and nifty.
If you tell someone that the Personal Software Process requires you to gather data on time, defects and estimates of software development, you'll get a lecture about maintaining flow and the evils of high ceremony and the SEI.

That is quite possibly the single most brilliant thing I have ever read on HN. And that's saying something considering the people who post here. Maybe it's not so much "brilliant" as just "timely" but that really hits home.

It's amazing how a little bit of wording can completely change the way we view something. It's one of those things I - and probably most of us - appreciate intellectually... but when it's so glaringly pointed out, it's like somebody pulling the wool from over your eyes. Or like seeing The Matrix, whatever. Thanks for sharing!
I'm interested in the same kind of stuff, but I have nothing really tangible yet except a prototype I work on in my off-time. Let me know if you want to chat.

http://galapag.us/
Try:

http://news.google.ca/news/search?as_q=Tim+Cook&as_nsrc=...

for the link "The Understudy..."
I have come to love this keybinding as well and try to fit in most applications. I can mentally map 1-9 to different spaces/needs and use them like that.
After thinking about it for a moment, I guess I'm totally wrong. Guys who built an awesome app in 24 hours, then improved it and raised $10M during brief moments of sobriety in between jam band benders... Those guys are superhuman.

Good job on meeting girls in PA. The secret of dating in SV/SF that I wish I knew when I moved there: the women are all in Palo Alto, Pac Heights, and The Marina. That may not be your "type" but it's better to broaden your range than hold out for what you think is your best match. It's not like in NYC where there's a match (or 10) for everyone.

Sadly, I think sometimes my posts come off as mean-spirited. I consider myself sort of a forum comedian who tries to throw some wisdom in while being entertaining. I wasn't trying to disparage GroupMe. I actually like and use their service! On the other hand, I also don't think anything I said is factually inaccurate!
Sorry, but how do you add all websites to the whitelist?
I have a feeling that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Sean Parker has a lot to gain by dismissing his portrayal as fiction. While Eduardo Saverin has lots of reason to demonize him, I would think it has some grain of truth to it. After all, if Parker is such a swell guy, why is he kicked out of every company he founded?

For the movie, I think Sorkin just created one dimensional people from character nuggets to serve the story he was trying to weave.
> I liked the statistal myth-busting part the best.

Peter Saunders is an interesting thinker. I met him a few years ago at a program run by the Centre for Independent Studies here in Australia, called Liberty & Society.
are you using something else that is faster (for comparison)?

are you on a netbook? low on RAM? everything feels fairly responsive on my end.
You could use eventlet or gevent for coroutines in Python.
I think this would help with domain squatters, in some situations. Who'd buy a 'used' domain that's already built up a reputation for being filled with garbage?
Damn! I was planning on writing code tonight... Ah well...
Look it up where? I can't find anything that mentions this.
I don't think that an impartial presentation of the facts by a news organisation can reasonably be equated to 'ignorance'.

You, me, and my mother's cat can and should have opinions and biases, but I'd like my news organisations to at least make a serious and sincere attempt to avoid them in their reporting.
For my 22nd birthday,* I got an 8 1/2 pound bouncing baby boy. Complicated the heck out things.

Oh, and congratulations on your graduation.

* (Technically, he was born the day after I turned 22.)
HIV does not prevent pregnancy.
Yeah, looking at the journal article the linked article refers to, it appears that this is the case.

http://www.jbc.org/content/285/50/39380.full
Carl Herold's Higher Computing for Everyone
Mark, congratulations on the sale and good luck with your future businesses. In the video linked above, you say that you don't know for sure what caused threewords.me to go big after a few days of little activity. Do you have any theories?
have drive to succeed
Yes I wanted to add the option to associate a generic variable with each Task, such as 'number of hours' for sleep, or 'number of calories' for lunch. I would like to tailor the app so that more data can be stored and analyzed - that way you end up getting exponentially more correlations and ways in which to interpret the base set of information.