skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the Canadian Wheat Board, perhaps the most egregious of all monopsonies (apparently it's not a "monopoly" because it is the only BUYER of wheat).
So is your credit card. At least your phone can be locked.
I actually spent a longer moment looking for signup form, then I started to think what to input there (email, login, or what).
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I went to a small state college (www.cofc.edu). I feel that I received a very good education in CS mainly because the classes were small and the teachers were focused on teaching. I just wanted to point this out because I'm sure it reflects my opinions on big-name universities.

IMHO, if you can get into a Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc... then yes you should go. If you can't get into the absolute top, then the school does not matter as much as long as it's an accredited institution.
How can I stop being a "faker", as you call it? I, and probably some other HNers, are often pretty critical or take things people say more literally than they meant often, rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt with a more liberal interpretation.

1) Find something fundamental to be secure in.
2) Just stop being a faker.
3) Get busy doing the real thing.

The first is the most important. One of the professors I admired greatly would always give your idea his best effort, because he knew that the mathematics would eventually cause it to blow up if it wasn't correct. Find first principles that you can take as iron clad, then always build off of those with honesty and humility. There was never a reason for him to grasp at straws to fabricate a straw man. He knew there were solid theories he could work from and test as hard as he could. He also never had a reason to pretend something was more solid than he actually knew it to be.

That's all well and fine for hard sciences, I guess, but the same goes for most of the softer disciplines as well. History is often your friend. Find the historical precedents and examine them honestly.

EDIT: Another thing you can do, if you haven't already, is read this:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
"The specific threshold varies..." around 200 points if I remember correctly
We'll get them to back down when everybody stands up and demands their rights. As I said in another thread, now is a a good time to rethink Hacker News' bias against discussions of civil liberties. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159003
The paid platform will be a bit more involved to get working, for sure. Right now we're focusing on getting this useful for open source projects to find collaborators then we'll worry about making it useful for companies.
It reads that the bureau has been shut down, not their activities.

They are still doing their coverage, but:

- They have been kicked out of their Cairo office [1] [2]
- Their "tv uplink" has been shut down [3]
- Their correspondants in Egypt are no longer being named when reporting on air "for their safety"

[1] http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera/status/31681013461557248
[2] http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011130...
[3] http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera/status/31755344522772481
In fact, I believe they even capture how many users click a result and then quickly come back (back button), which indicates a result that looks good in the search results list, but that is disappointing when users actually view the page.
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Maybe I'm getting old...

What problem do things like this solve? If I want to tell my friends about my favorite movies... there is the phone, email, in person conversation etc. All of which are mediums that are more like to actual be used by my friends.
Actually, I think the way the US and Norway handled the crisis helps to show how different they are.

Norway stepped in much more quickly, even though the risk was much less compared to the US (Norway had already placed stricter controls on banks due to the crisis they had in the late 80's and early 90's). While the Fed did step in in the US, they were more concerned with pumping in money rather than trying to fix the underlying cause of the trouble - because, after all, telling the banks what to do would be "socialism", which is why there is still so much uncertainty in the US right now.

Obviously not everything in Norway is perfect, but taking everything into account - the 3.1% unemployment rate just one example - I certainly have no desire to move back to the US anytime soon.
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Perhaps the title should reflect that is a translator from Lisp code to php code.
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That is a good idea. This is in fact already in my idea list for this project amongst :

- offering the ability to compare two pyramids, for example,

- allowing to embed a pyramid in a distant site (I am sure people would like to blog about some pyramids)

- adding a curve showing the population size evolution

- exploiting the wealth of other data available on the UN website. There is for sure something interesting to do with the available migration rates for example

- allow to add comments that could explain the shape of certain pyramids

- add coordinate informations when hovering over a data point

I will probably do some of those things, but I have lots of projects going on...
I think you mean subjective. Unless like the typical Graun reader you believe that it's everyone else that's biased...
I think it's a great idea. Our company has various projects on github that could use a second pair of eyes other than our engineers. We wouldn't mind putting a bounty on it if someone were to commit a python library or two.
My family migrated to the US from Canada. "America" is a geography not restricted to the US, at any rate.
Will do. Or add a link to this wikipedia definition, which matches perfectly what has been done.
Ooops, yeah. Thanks for the bug report. I will fix that.
Life is just full of coincidences. I was just discussing how my iPhone should be able to replace my passwords last night, and wrote a blog post about my ideal car that is controlled by my phone.

My only concern in both of these cases though is what happens when my phone runs out of battery? Nobody seems to have an answer for that.
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By 2030 we have long passed peak oil, renewable will not be able to provide sufficient amounts of energy, nuclear power will not be used in many countries because of irrational fears, and we will destroy the climate by using coal to produce energy.

Economically China will have surpassed the US and Europe and will therefore also have a higher standard of living than US/Europe (but still a lower standard than today's standard in US/Europe).
You do have to determine where winds or sunlight will be regularly available. People that need solar power in Seattle will have to discover sunlight somewhere first. This is precisely my point. I get the idea when people calculate "total system costs are the same" the calculations go like this:

Current system costs:
Fuel + Transport + Transmission + Environmental destruction + 1/3rd of all cancer costs + 1/3rd of every hurricane/flood + 1/3rd of Iraq war etc...

Proposed system costs:
Solar plants in Arizona + Wind Generators in Nebraska + Hydro on the mississippi

Somehow I doubt the proposed system is considering the costs of the mines/foundaries for the solar panels, or the dead birds from the windmills, or the destroyed fisheries from the hydro.

Additionally, consider that you still have to transport the electricity if not the fuel, and you lose a lot more on this side of the equation. Transmission losses are significant over distance. You can put a natural gas generator anywhere and it will produce power in a very dense footprint. Specifically when compared with acres of solar panels or windmills. So even if you can produce power at a similar rate it matters where you produce it.

Anyone that's concerned about fossil fuel dependence and CO2 should be campaigning for more nuclear plants. Solar and wind can be used where feasible, but to say they can replace the whole system is overshooting.
I think it's called a "Berliner"....
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and remote wiped, which combined with the biometric scanner, makes it far more secure than anything else you have to carry around right now.
A side comment, we really have to collectively agree to drop "whom". It's archaic and has not been part of common usage for at least the last century if not longer. It's noticeable only with the unusually low frequency it shows up and does nothing to aid or clarify communication. It's like spelling "old" with a silent final 'e', "olde".

It's time to get over this and move the language forward a bit, thank you.

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SubStack is a rare gem: he is an excellent coder AND a great communicator. This article is good to read even if you aren't into node specifically, but want to learn about parsing streams in an async environment
The rate is already falling, isn't it?
i think for a backbone view it's a fine assumption. i didn't mean to be nitpicky, just an fyi for anyone reading unaware.
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I am so getting one as soon as they're legal. A road trip with a book to read? Heaven!
i agree with most of this, but i think that

> When it comes to knowledge, classes are useless IMHO.

i have to disagree. it's a pretty reasonable statement in intro and intermediate level classes, but in advanced classes, a lot of the material covered does not exist in textbooks yet. the info is possibly located in academic papers, or maybe the result of unpublished research. even if the information theoretically exist in papers, it is very nontrivial to find the papers (typically only universities have subscriptions to the journals they appear in), determine which ones to read (just because its published doesn't mean its good, or even true), and then assemble that into a reasonable narrative.
Yeah the per-seat point is really a moot point when it comes to enterprise. ClearCase is $4000 a license and a lot and I mean a lot of large companies use it. I know of a company that is currently spending $2.5 million a year on ClearCase licenses and they really want to get off it but ClearCase is so entrenched/integrated into their work flow that this is not a trivial task. Github is not going to solve this problem for them.

The problem with Github:Fi is the value proposition is extremely weak when it comes to meeting enterprise needs.

- They have an issue tracker that doesn't support custom fields. This is critical for companies with 500+ developers and/or very diverse product lines.

- They have a wiki but you can get confluence for $12,000 for the entire company which is more feature rich. It has decent searching.

- They have blogging but this is of no value in the enterprise world. The majority of employees really don't have the time or care about blogging internally.

- They have Gist which offers no real value for the same reason why blogging isn't that big of a deal.

When it's all over, their only strong value proposition for the enterprise world is their intuitive push and pull interface. But the problem with this is they are competing directly with free solutions like:

- gitorious

- gitolite + internal web interface

- gerrit

I'm obviously speculating here, but based on how their pricing model changed:

old: 1000 per user (initial purchase) + 200 something a year per user subscription cost

new: 250 per user if less than 25 users and 200 per user if more than 25 users

I think they realized they over estimated their value proposition initially. If Github wants to seriously break into the enterprise world, they are either going to have to lower their per seat cost and/or strengthen their value proposition.
It's more like "black," which comes from a PIE root meaning "to burn," and is thus closely related to the word "bleach."

You can't look at the roots of a word and declare it "wrong" because it doesn't precisely match the original usage. That would wipe out a lot of everyday language.
In 2030, Diablo III will finally be released.
"So they gathered info on 35,000 papers in biomedical research where there was at least one Harvard author, calculated where the authors lived, and examined how influential the papers were — based on how many citations they received."

Hmm. The papers they looked at were from 1993 to 2003, and remote collaborative technology has improved a lot since then. Other teams may have very different dynamics that biomedical researchers and Harvard professors. Hard to know what to take away from it.
2030 is less than 20 years away. Can we look back on 1990 and really feel like an equivalent amount of innovation happened? I feel like these predictions are too optimistic. Not to mention just because we have the technology to do something doesn't mean it's practical, desirable, profitable or many other things that are required for something to become reality.
My all-time favorite News.YC comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121413

About the success of failure from fiaz
>Unsurprisingly, didn't work too well.

I find I cannot pidginhole this statement in an easy anti-communism idiom. While it may be addressing the failures of communism (read centralized planning), it actually holds rather well on a long view historical suggestion. Mao was talking about peasant-farmer communities, and ones of around three million people, with strategically divided borders, could easily continue their existence at a turn of the century (for North America) standard of living.

Just saying, there's nothing structurally wrong with the idea.
This seems like a cool idea. You might want to check with a lawyer about the logo up top though, thats definitely GitHub's octocat hiding behind Apple's Terminal.app logo.
It would be very useful to share those per application analytics to Facebook developers so developers know which messages are getting reported as spam / liked / etc instead of just telling developers after the fact that their message is now blocked (or their app got killed).
>From the context it seems to mean: criticism by an "anti Semitic" person, you probably meant "criticism that has no truth in it"

Sorry, my other comment skipped this question. What I mean by anti-Semitic criticism is criticism motivated by anti-Semitism, and, separately, criticism that attempts to exploit the emotional weight of the Holocaust (e.g. "the Zionists are the new Nazis" or subtler variations thereof).

The former of these might be legitimate criticism in some cases, yes, but tends not to be, and even when it is, bear in mind that most people are totally clueless about the world. If Joe Sixpack hears ten times as much criticism of Israel as Saudi Arabia, he'll assume that Israel is much worse than Saudi Arabia, even though this is clearly not true (unless you happen to be a Wahhabi Muslim, I guess). I remember hearing of a survey conducted in China where Chinese on the street were asked how big they thought Israel was and some answered that it was probably about as big as China. I can't find it, but I did find an article where the Chinese ambassador to Israel describes something similar: "I explain to [other Chinese] that Israel only has seven million residents – barely a small town in China," he says. "They find it hard to believe. I understand them." (source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3961612,00.html)
That is the problem with it being uncapped. The trend from Ycomb were capped convertible notes that put a limit on how much the series A could be priced at. This acts as a type of anti-dilution for the angels who know what their percentage ownership will be on the next round. The problem with uncapped is that you can be diluted to very little ownership depending on the valuation for the series A which sets a share price and conversion number for your note. In this sense you have the potential to be substantially squeezed down in the round which is how I was using diluted.
“War is the father of all things”, so said Heraclitus, and it’s true of modern America in particular. It has not been a good thing for those who cherish Liberty above all else. It has been a good thing for people who believe government can be a force for good (for the federal government would not have the power, without war). Before the Civil War the standing U.S. Army consisted of 3 regiments. Even in those days that was a tiny army. At its largest the Navy had about 40 significant warships, many of which would be in reserve (mothballs) at any given time. This was the design of the founding fathers, who considered a large standing military a threat to the people’s liberty and a tool of despots.

The Civil War changed everything. Fighting the war required a huge modern Federal Army and Navy. Men got used to the idea of serving in the standing military (instead of militia service). Occupying the southern states after the war required a larger standing army. The experience of Imperial France occupying Mexico during the Civil War made leaders rethink the old militia system (militias had not done so well fighting a professional army in the War of 1812). And with the final great push of settlers westward, the larger professional army was useful in suppressing the Indians, which had largely been conducted by state and territorial militias before the War.

America in the latter half of the 19th century became a culture accustomed to militarism. The federal government, growing more rapidly in the aftermath of the war for many reasons, found the bureaucratic disciplines of a military carry over well to other government services.

WWI required not only a rapid military build-up, but for the first time in our history the federal government directing industrial production. That was a new genie let out of the bottle. WWII more of the same within one generation; Cold War immediately following introduces continuing state of war that doesn’t much affect our lifestyle; Korea, the first major shooting war without an explicit declaration of war by Congress; Viet Nam, more of the same – and all the time ever-larger Leviathan finds new areas it can intervene in society (not passing judgment here, just saying).
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Wasn't that part of the goal?
And now thankfully we have the Play framework for java/scala.
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Those things change fast.

I remember when in the 90s most people preferred POP3 (for mail transfer), because for privacy reasons they didn't want their provider to have access to their mails. And quite a large number of people used encryption, even if they weren't technically inclined.

Today almost no one cares about privacy anymore. Expectations have completly changed within a century. Today it's, e.g., common for most people to store all of their chat logs on Google's server, without regularly deleting them. Or another example: Today we have much more advanced surveillance systems used against the general population than the techniques used in the DDR. For most people back in the DDR those surveillance systems where not acceptable. Today most people accept them if it helps the government "to find terrorists and criminals".

If privacy expectations can change within a century, why shouldn't the expectations on one's car change?
Yeah, working on that too. Our creative juices started to run dry after the weekend sprint. We'll refresh that in the coming days.
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I suppose we should have a flat tax also?
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Maybe you can add gray text on input field saying 'enter your email' or something like that, that disappears when input field is clicked?
Part of me is wondering if many of the more controversial discussions on this site are between people who have sysadmin experience (and considered it valuable) and people who don't.

I've done a fair bit of sysadmin work over the years, mostly in self-defense, because I want fewer crises when a critical development server eats itself.

Lots of people can figure out how to install Ubuntu, or rent a Linode. But if they don't master upgrades, patches and backups, they'll eventually end up paying a real sysadmin a lot of money at the worst possible moment.
This looks like an interesting project, but I don't see how it can teach kids how to program. I clicked on the lesson 1 screencast and saw that, even before trying to run a single line of code, it dived into importing 2 modules, subclassing and defining 3 methods, and running a GUI. It's hard to grock inheritance if you haven't been introduced to variables and operators. If you actually want to teach kids programming in a way they'll understand, I recommend Zed Shaw's book Learning Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index).
If you look at the docs for the Signed Claims[1] perhaps the most interesting part of this is the safe way to share content. Being able to cryptographically verify a claim of access to or ownership to content sounds pretty awesome to me.

I spoke to Brad and Brett at OrdCamp[2] here in chicago this weekend and it sounded pretty interesting. They plan to make the tooling around this hide the difficulties in dealing with public private keys from the average user. I suppose if it's done right this could do for sharing content what SSL did for Commerce on the web.

[1] http://camlistore.org/docs/json-signing
[2] http://ordcamp.com
I think I've heard "Pardon my English" before too.
I wouldn't be at all offended if I heard that term. In fact, I'll make a point of using it in the future. :)
I like the concept, looks like a great way to promote a new startup. Of course, the startup needs to be good too ;) Since I have a startup is there a way I can use your service/code? Note; we’ve already gone the hipster (I mean USEhipster) route with some success, but showing people their stats is a cool feature.
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What's up with all the OpenID hating?

I personally find OpenID totally awesome (not that it couldn't be better) when I want to try a new service and don't want to go through a registration form or hand out my password to an untrusted website or when I'm too lazy to type my username/password.