skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already posted this in longer form as a reply [1], but the UC Berkeley CS courses that are available online are really great, and you can usually find ALL the material for the course online.

If you want to learn Scheme (Lisp), I highly recommend CS61A [2]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103949
[2] http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/su10/ Lectures on iTunesU
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> In order to hear the song, one must “like” the page.

Or you could just click the link in the article and then press play? I'm guessing the author is just completely misinformed here.
"What's so great about your new software?"

"Its big, slow, late and expensive!"
That's a good idea.... Do you think having just a 1 or 2 patron round with some kind of 'tour' aspect (like walk-through help bubbles or something of the sort) would make it easier?

Also, do you think that the user interface contributed to your leaving during a round, or just the fact that you were heading through blindly?

Appreciate the feedback!
Or "Comic Sans helps your learning", for a smaller fix. :)
I find it hard to believe that someone with the possible cure to cancer wouldn't bother backing it up. If this is legitimate, I think it's beyond irresponsible. Also, why such a minimal reward?
Surely it's grossly negligent behaviour on her employer's behalf?
I expect them to keep activity very high, but I don't expect them to allocate capital well in a way that will result in much profit and sustainable growth. This could last for a while, but IMO it's very unstable and could blow up faster than many expect.

Part of my reasons for believing this are stated in this presentation (which has been posted on HN, iirc):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6010227/Webshare/China%20Japan%20Pre...
It's because spacing is used for both structure and presentation in HTML, so something like:

<span>This is some text</span>
<span>while this is some more text.</span>

shouldn't render the 4 indentation spaces that I used.. If it did we'd have to pack it all into one line. Can be adjusted appropriately with CSS though, if people here were obsessive about the presentation of their spacing.
Article criticises Groupon for claiming to raise $1B. Says much of that is being used for (...).

Who cares how they're spending it? They DID raise $1B. Petty article.
Microsoft says Apple's "App Store" trademark too generic to exist
Good advice, I think. Last year I put a year's worth of salary in a good emerging market fund and felt better having diversified. I think for us small investors, diversification for some tiny shred of possible safety is more important right now than maximizing yields. No investment is really safe though - best bet is in producing income in diversified ways.
This is probably one of the best use cases for open source. You can try to change the world, and if you can convince other people that you're going in the right direction you may just get tons of invaluable help.

I think you should follow on it, or if you don't have the time to do that without a decent monetary outcome, at the very least open up the idea, in this thread or another. See if it resonates with people. If so then let's get started, and then see what comes out of it.
Ask HN: Do facebook ads worked for you compared to other online ads
Yes

No

Did not try.
This is almost exactly what an open source software foundation does. For example, consider the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache web server and the other projects they work on provide massive amounts of value to the world, but they don't sell them. It is sustained through donations, I believe, and it seems to be working just fine for them.

Without knowing more about your idea, how can we judge whether it's worth it to follow through with it?
> which anyone throwing a stick to a dog could be creditably threatened with a patent suit.

That is not how patents work. Your statement is ridiculously ignorant fear mongering. There's real problems with patents, you're just fueling the forces that wish for status que by letting them label paten reformers as kooks.
how do you detect a spammy keyword?
Of course he's helping - they get money when he clicks.
It is not two full spaces, however, but a wider single space. Closer to 1.5 normal spaces.
Especially in Emacs: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/textmod...
Not all philosophies recognize deontics as either real or necessary. At least not in the notion of "obligatory" actions; most do recognize permitted and forbidden actions.
Mozy, anyone?
They also probably have lawyers begging them to proceed. They're the real winners in any situation like this.
US Rent prices rose 12% last year

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rent-prices-rose-12-last-ye...

Sugar Prices Hit 30-Year Highs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870350690457559...

Gasoline Tops $3 a Gallon for First Time at Christmas

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/3-dollar-gas/19775116/

Unless you believe the official US CPI, which excludes food/oil
I don't think so. After each drawing the number of whites is congruent modulo 2 to the initial number of whites. Hence, when there are two beans left, one will be white and the other black so the last bean will be white.
interesting but 37800 is low too, either not Linux or is a Virtual Machine :) That's what I get in my desktop system with Linux (Xeon E5520 2.27 Ghz):

INCR: 126743.98 requests per second
As both a hacker and a hack writer, I follow William Shunn's manuscript format: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

"In the days of typewriters, the usual practice was to put
two spaces after the end of every sentence, and also to put two spaces after every colon. This helped make the separations between sentences more apparent, and helped editors more easily distinguish periods from commas and colons from semicolons. With the dominance of computers, that practice is changing, and it is more common now to see only one space between sentences.

"Ingrained habits die hard, though, so if you're used to hitting the spacebar twice after a period, you shouldn't stress out about it, particularly if you're using a Courier font."
People are different.

Is that really so hard to fathom? You may not get IB0, you may not be capable of "getting" IB0. It's ok.
Good Lord, is this a Q&Q session with a bot? The amount of lawyer speak is atrocious. It's like they copied and pasted those answers from a legal document somewhere. I've read about the H.264 legal issues from all sides from layspeak to lawspeak, and this has to be the worst one yet. In fact, it makes me want to avoid H.264 all together.
If you're working through the 6.00 class, you may be interested in joining the people on Curious Reef who are doing that class also: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc.... Over 250 people have joined that class so far.

(disclosure, Curious Reef is my website)
As did mine in 1981.
If your new search engine gets enough traffic to be worth it, spammers will just target your search engine too, and you'll have exactly the same problem Google has now, but presumably with far fewer engineering resources to throw at the problem.
This article just drips with total arrogance.
Through the search results it's involved in. Actually, you wouldn't detect this for single keywords, but for keyword tuples, which is exactly what SEO spammers who are scraping stackoverflow are optimizing on.
This article reports it as a research result, not as a recommendation. It links to an article that's pretty dumb, but it doesn't endorse it.
That's the right answer, yes (you can even skip "Hence, when there...the other black"); but what do you mean by "I don't think so"?
DjangoCon Europe 2011 announced - June 6-10 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The reward is only $1,000. While their research may have offered some interesting insights into cancer, they clearly didn't have an absolute cure (for prostate cancer, which is mentioned in the article). If they had a real cure, then around this moment Merk would step in and offer a $10,000,000 reward for the return of the laptop, in exchange for the right to commercialize the technology.

I've several friends who have pursued biology in universities. They could claim that their laptops have data offering possible cures for diabetes, high blood pressure and AIDS. This is the kind of thing they will talk about when we meet for lunch. I realize, of course, that they are not on the verge of a genuine cure. But occasionally their research offers an important new insight. I sense that these researchers, in the story, had info at that level.

Otherwise, the reward would be more than $1,000.

I do think the university should do more to help researchers manage their data.
I don't think the Facebook concept is really something that is 'invented', per se. It is one of those kind of ideas that will emerge spontaneously at a certain point in the technological timeline, as the natural progression of things. It was Facebook's execution (as a product and a business) which raised it above the many similar services that appeared simultaneously.
I knew a couple of older, non-traditional Hmong students at my university who simply didn't listen to music. Didn't have a favorite style, didn't ever listen to music while they worked, if a radio was on and they were alone, they'd turn it off.

It must have been a combination of age and culture, because all the other Hmong students I knew (we had a large Hmong student population) who were my age were really into music.
Not really, but kind of... the person doing Cancer Research (or other work that is socially/culturally critical to the world) who did not back up their data should be held criminally responsible.

Not so interested in the punishment as the (possibly non-existant) deterrent effect such laws/prosecution would have. It's fucking ridiculous that in 2011 people are still not backing up their data.
The monkey randomly picks two beans from the urn, then puts one (from the pile) back. That is, if the monkey picks two white beans from the urn, he gets a black bean from a pile of beans next to him, and puts that black bean in the urn.
It already irritated me that he says I'm wrong after a lifetime of typing - but then he goes on to misspell "Ay yi yi". Does he think that was a piratical saying? Wouldn't you think someone obsessed with punctuation would at least care a little about spelling?
I like it - make the private lock clickable though - the other icons do what's expected, but the lock icon does nothing
Ah I see, this is what confused me, there's no stipulation as to what beans are sitting next to him in a pile.
Volume of code, lines written/bugs created ;)

In house software typically has 0 revenue.
Call Of Duty Invades The Mac App Store at $50
That is really cool. I only read the transcript so maybe I missed it but I wish they talked more about the technical aspect of developing the app. Learning Objective C isn't the easiest thing in the world especially with no programming experience.
Yeah, and given the results of the past decade I'm inclined to trust the Communists... Not that they're actually communists; they're just a really big national corporation, imho.
Why you should always, always use two spaces after a full-stop (when writing for online use):

1. Because it remains correct in monospace, and
2. Because no HTML rendering engine displays the second one anyway.

This man's rather ill-informed about the 'tech' part of his 'tech column' gig.
Tips and Tricks for the Python Interpreter
The front page design makes me think that they're going for some whitespace, but that you really can't click on the page without clicking on something. A blurring between ads and content that makes it more likely to accidentally click an ad, and that every click on a page should result in a pageload of some sort, even if the user was intending to click a blank area.

It's like 'horror vacui'[1] applied to web development.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui
Async web apps with pyramid?
Flux capacitor + 1.21 gigawatts? Delorians are getting hard to find, though.
The distinction is that the company actually received $600M. The other $350M was really a form of "secondary offering" that let existing shareholders take some chips off the table.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_market_offering
Some apps are appearing in the mac app store at what look like bargain prices (Aperture for $80, but due for an upgrade soon). But Call of Duty, which is years old and available online for like $30, went up yesterday at $49.99.
But he also gives the reasons why current authorities say one, and previous authorities say two - all due to the aesthetics and readability of spaces with proportional typesetting versus monospaced type.

The reasons are fairly subjective, but I don't see why so many here are dismissing them simply as pure arguments from authority.
Many C programmers would argue that C++ does not belong to the C family of languages.
I'm in the same boat (still am). I hardly ever back up my data.

My employer though, uses source control rigorously and makes deployment and usage of those tools dead easy. We also have folder redirection possible if you wanted to make your "My Documents" folder available (and backed up automatically) on the network. There's SharePoint too, but sometimes it's a PITA.

My hypothesis is this: Given OU Medicine's student computer requirements [1], I'm betting that these researchers just didn't have the patience or knowledge in integrating a Mac into their Windows-centric network.

[1] http://www.oumedicine.com/body.cfm?id=954
I've always been a single spacer. I understood the purpose in monospace, I otherwise never understood the practice. Almost everyone I've heard only practices it because that's how they learned. That reason wasn't good enough, especially when that was (mostly) rooted in the typewriter, and we're using the modern day computer. Some (justified) reasons are enlightening.

I was always under the impression that in a proper typeset manuscript, sentence spacing should be slightly wider than a standard single space. Typographers make this change when they typeset right? Isn't there an alternate ASCII character for this purpose (entirely not sure, I might be thinking of special characters in certain fonts)
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Google, WebM, Android, Flash, Adobe)
CPI doesn't exclude food/oil, only Core CPI does.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCSL

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPILFESL

The only major difference between CPI and Core CPI is that CPI is more volatile than Core CPI. This is why, for the purposes of year on year changes, Core CPI is usually reported. If we didn't do this, we'd get headlines like "OMFG, massive inflation, we are all doomed" followed by "OMFG, massive deflation, we are all doomed" 6 months later. Over a period of a year or two, massive inflation x massive deflation = small but stable inflation.

A better way to go would be to use moving averages, but that's too complicated to explain to reporters.
Instead of the blather at this blog, read the original news report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12176463

The judge didn't "recommend" that he serve it in a half-way house; he just said that 'even a half-way house would be sufficient punishment' . That doesn't mean he said "it must be in a half-way house".

Also: he's been sent to a low-security prison, and not a Super-Max.
This has been on my mind recently.

If I meet my financial goals, how do I prevent my child from turning into a helpless person who just couldn't possibly live on less than she was accustomed to, growing up?

I didn't really want for anything as a kid, but my parents weren't extravagant. Nevertheless, it did set a kind of baseline for me.

The problem is once you scale up, it's very hard to scale back down. I'm shocked by people who are struggling to live on $200 K+, but I suppose, perversely, it makes sense given what they've become accustomed to.
And mine, using pre-proportional word processing kit, in 1986.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean by a practice round.

The only interface problem I had was distinguishing if I had selected a glass. If you could make it more clear that something has been selected that would be helpful. I didn't notice that at first and clicked it multiple times before I looked closely enough to realize it had been selected already. I'm not knowledgeable enough to reasonably succeed in the game, so it didn't seem that interesting, which is why I left originally. Targeting a specific, more interested audience would help, like maybe on a bartending forum, or bar building community, or something? Also, with all the bartop games I've been seeing pop up in bars and clubs, it would be a logical game to play there.
like several people have mentioned already, these guys actually did build a product. i wont speculate on what they're entitled to, but claiming all they did was 'discussed at length' some concept is factually incorrect.

not sure why you're being up-voted -- is there something i'm missing?
This does not follow at all.
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Cameron Chapman caused a bit of an uproar last fall with her Smashing Magazine article Does The Future Of The Internet Have Room For Web Designers? Her general position was that the current crop of mobile devices and their accompanying applications are robust enough to the point that they may eventually replace the need for desktop and laptop computers. Add that to the fact that it’s much easier to purchase pre-built website templates, and it appears as if web designers are going the way of the dodo bird and headed for extinction.
Startups are easy. It's making one succeed that is hard. That might seem like a semantic nit-pick, but it can be a real problem for some people that easily begin a startup, but don't have the knowledge or abilities (gumption) to succeed.
Did anyone care about the Winklevoss twins before the movie?
Approaching Design as an Individual
My gut feeling tells me Redis should be faster at this, and as everyone else has pointed out, the methods used to arrive at these conclusions are most certainly questionable.
Donald Trump and Getting Stuff Said
> I think it helps for learning to specifically mention everything and be a bit repetitive.

That's right at the bottom level of the Dreyfus model of skills acquisition. One may be able to draw inference from this to the apparent profusion of useless Java coders, but that's further than I'd really want to go. Once you've stepped off that bottom rung, however, it's all noise and just gets in the way.
A few years ago (and probably still), a lot of companies had interest in tighter control over source code and development environments. This would be one possible move supporting that direction. (I haven't read up on Orion, yet.)

I can imagine some developers not liking some aspect of that. But there are a lot of people sitting at their desks, putting in their 8 or 10 or whatever. And if you're outsourcing, suddenly you're giving the contractors access to a web page and only the components they're working on, rather than the whole shebang.

I think I'd find it kind of / rather frustrating, but it wouldn't be the first work environment to generate those feelings.
this implies that you can detect the spammy sites in the first place, take a ridiculously spammy keyword like "buy viagra", how would you detect useful sites in this mess:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Two spaces sound weird, but my biggest gripe with the typewriter legacy is the QWERTY layout and it's prevalence. (yes, I'm a dvorak typer by choice, re-learned it after QWERTY).
If Facebook wasn't so wildly successful, the Twins wouldn't bother suing Zuckerberg. It's sour grapes and lust for gold.
> Ruby and Python are also mainstream, and both provide saner OOP.

For various other reasons I prefer Python to Java (or Ruby), but there is one thing that Java got right and Python totally messed up: avoiding the disaster that is multiple inheritance.

Of course a much better option is to completely do away with inheritance like Go has done (plus Go combines some of the advantages of Python's 'duck typing' with the static type checking of Java's interfaces).
Groupon reportedly planning spring IPO
The burden of being sentenced to a prison significantly far away from your current home and family is a terrible burden, regardless of security level. The justice system understands the punitive damage of this sort of measure, and surely took this into account in sentencing.
I don't understand this...are they giving you a better interest rate? Aren't they simply operating as a US bank (if they are FDIC insured). You really aren't investing in the Yuan...
The idea that a "cure" for any type of cancer would only be on one laptop is absurd. It may work in a movie plot, but in real life, no way.

At best it would have info on how to possibly, vaguely minimise the suffering in some situations. Cancer is not something that one brilliant researcher can "cure" alone.
Turn off autoplay right now or HNers will curse you.
Ask HN: Desktop & Laptop vs Laptop for everything
I am really torn between this and everytime i read an article about someone on usesthis.com for example i switch my mind again on which route to go.

Would you get a Desktop/Workstation AND a small Laptop or just a Laptop for everything ?

In the first case id go with a Mac Pro/Imac at work + a 11" Macbook Air for mobile use. However, i would still need a Windows Box for Gaming at home. That makes 3 Computers + iPhone and maybe iPad in the future.

Second option would be to go just with a Macbook Pro for everything. Problem here is that to make it a reasonable gamer for home use i would need a 15" which isnt really mobile. The 13" might just not be powerful enough for every task i throw at it.

I still like solution A more, having a powerful, always-on, Workstation that you can VNC into from anywhere is great. Also having a second small mobile computer around for dabbling is great aswell. I also hate plugging/unplugging everything all the time.
But then theres the money argument. You need to setup some kind of data syncing which could be painful if you forget to sync and need your data on the road etc.

What do you use and why have you chosen todo so ?

I am a web / game developer by the way.
Their company name is "Perseverer" which is persevere in French.

I don't think it's a mere coincidence that the pair of zero programming experience programmers managed to push out a iphone app downloaded 20,000 times, with a company name like that. :)
What makes you think the idea is world changing and that you can execute on it well enough to change the world? If it's not going to make you rich, you might as well post it here and see if anyone else has an idea for monetizing or scaling.
> IE6 is a browser not a standard.

Look up "de facto standard" please.
You'll need a lot more money, or to live very frugally/not in the West. A 1% post-inflation post-taxes return would only give you $10 000 a year, and even then a single bad year could make it impossible to live off interest alone - and a million dollars won't last a lifetime if you're actually spending it (20 years?)
It always amazes me how cultural differences find their ways in the oddest little details. I had never heard of the 2 space rule until I moved to the US, and only recently did I realize that the question mark was missing its preceding space... I had to do a bit a research and I'm relieved to read that the ellipsis can still be used to indicate a pause, or a trailing off thought.
Worse than using two spaces is using no spaces at all. Intolerable.