skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/

The newspapers were filled for months with stories about serial killer called William Hickman, who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl called Marion Parker from her junior high school, raped her, and dismembered her body, which he sent mockingly to the police in pieces. Rand wrote great stretches of praise for him, saying he represented "the amazing picture of a man with no regard whatsoever for all that a society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. A man who really stands alone, in action and in soul. … Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should." She called him "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism."

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.ht...

An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).

There was a huge, multi-page expose about all of this stuff, but I'm having trouble digging it up. I'll edit this comment with it once I find it, but google searches will easily come up with all of this information.
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The title doesn't match that of the article, either. It's just politically charged editorializing by detokaal. Flag it.
Or, you can learn programming skills without learning computer science.
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There's quite a bit of a difference between "French in the USA", "Spanish in the USA" and "virtually everyone speaks it". Does anyone have any hard data? It does seem to dominate Twitter.
If i am gonna need a string search algorithm for something serious, i would definitely use KMP (knuth morris pratt). Linear in worst case complexity (wouldn't risk)
To answer my own question: the best resource I've found so far is the Algorithms course from ArsDigita University (now defunct). They have good videos, problem sets with answers and a lot of other useful notes.

http://aduni.org/courses/algorithms/
It's an electric motorcycle with a really convoluted throttle. To ride one legally you'll need a motorcycle license and insurance. The pedals are a cute little cognitive illusion, but this is in no way a bicycle.

Personally, for €10,000 I'd rather have a Brammo -
http://www.brammo.com/empulse/
You could give it a try.
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That can't be right, since the each point in the data is independent. In a 50/50 coin-flip game where you get 9 coins come up heads, the probability that the next coin flip results in tails is still 50%. What you need to understand is that probability deals with uncertain events. So instead of thinking about the final count needing to be around 50% heads and 50% tails, you should expect the count of the yet undecided part to converge around 50% heads, 50% tails.
I find it handy. Often I'll want to look at a file, but can't recall the exact name or location. I have a shell script that does a find, skipping certain things, and matching on some parameters.

I can also tell it to open what it finds in vim.

But I probably use the "grep files of a certain type for a certain string and open them in vim" version more often.
To be fair, Alexa doesn't purport to rank by page views.
I took a few CS classes at a liberal arts college and those exams were miserable. 3 hours on friday nights a few times a semester. That was part of the reason I switched from CS. Same thing; no compile no grade. And there would be some nervous kids at the 2:45 mark.
Couldn't agree more.

This is about the future! We could sit around and dissect events from the past all day long, but I'm way more interested in building a team and destroying the e-commerce space together. If you're a UI designer or Ruby hacker, please get in touch! :) http://www.storenvy.com/jobs
Where "S.O" is shorthand for "answers.onstartups.com"?
What stack is the most widely used by outsource companies? I'm assuming WAMP.
Could it not be as simple as the media taking any opportunity to scare people? Fear is a powerful motivator; if a story scares people, they will watch.
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Except flying at the speed of light would have put him in the future, and not back in time.
Correct - Most of the MPEG-LA Licensors are also licensees. Their primary business line is not suing other companies, but, rather, building and selling products. The patent pools accomplish two things. (1) It eliminates a "Patent Thicket" - which is a scenario where a potential licensor would have to negotiate with a bunch of different companies, and (2) creates _some_ (but not perfect) certainty that they won't be sued for violating patents by distributing a product.

With regards to "locking out any upstarts" - Google is _already_ a licensee of H.264 - and, regardless, the license fees they would pay are equal to what apple, or microsoft pay - these companies hit their royalty cap almost instantly, and it's a small number compared to the amount of product they distribute (on the order of $5mm)

Their has been much, much Internet debate on why Google dropped support for H.264, but, if the VP8 Codec takes off, and MPEG-LA is able to put together a patent pool, I fully expect Microsoft and Apple to support it as a first class codec in their products.

I personally don't know what Google was trying to accomplish - go eyeball the list of essential patents for AVC/H.264 [1] and tell me whether you think any modern codec doesn't infringe a few hundred of them.

I've worked for several of these large companies - and their mindset typically isn't that of a "Patent Troll" - they are just trying to get reasonable license fees for the IP that other companies are distributing that use those patents, and, most importantly, avoid being sued by Trolls and other low-lifes that are trying to leech $$$ from companies that are actually creating value. (Though, our General Counsel has used words somewhat more derogatory than "leech" and "low-lifes" when referring to patent trolls)

[1] http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcCrossRe...
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>There's claims that switching the engine off while in motion is dangerous, but that's a wholly unproven and rather stupid claim. The problem, if there is one, is that people would panic and over-steer because of the resistance of the wheel, which would be deadly at 70mph. However, that's still driver error.

It is stupid and dangerous. You forgot about the steering lock.
But as techtalsky pointed out above, the merchant agreements between the credit card company and merchant often prohibit requiring ID for a signed, valid card and your matching signature.
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40% - 60% here (CS classes, HW + projects).
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Ask HN: Which writers...
..do you always read? That is, you read their books and articles and blog posts and tweets and so on.

Me: Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer.
He's a Russian hacker. That's where awesome new algorithms come from these days, including things like Dual-Pivot Quicksort. (And QuickLZ may have been invented by some Scandinavian guy, but I'm pretty sure it was announced on encode.ru.) He's not an academic, but that doesn't mean he can't do competent algorithmic analysis.

I concur with the other commenters that it's silly for you to complain about his not comparing his online string-search algorithm against offline string-search algorithms that search an index of the text, such as suffix-tree algorithms.
Call me a cynic, but the fact that this witchhunt happened during the very short timeframe where the government owned GM and had a significant incentive to show returns on the 'bailout' investment makes me think there was more to the regulatory investigation than public safety.
I don't think it is tht simple. Nothing that was announced mentioned exclusivity either to MSFT or NOK. This means that they are open to walk away in GOOG's arms if this thing does not work out for them.

Though the events make it seems like so. I think that's just a conspiracy theory.
Looks so weird to see the letters "NOKIA" on something running WM7, you almost get the feeling that they just sold their soul (not that WM7 is any bad, just not used to see that combination).
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Are they even relevant any more? I thought reddit has eaten up their lunch by now. I used to use digg fairly regularly but gave up and now reddit serves up what I need.

Internets are very brutal, Kevin.
No, you're a fucking retard if you pull your key out triggering the steering lock. Electrical and mechanical steering locks only activate after the key has been removed, or in the case of electrical locks after about 10-15 minutes. However you can keep all instrumentation running without having the engine running, so the electrical lock wouldn't kick in until 10-15 minutes after turning that off.

Why do they do this? Oh, because it's still possible to tow or push-start a vehicle and the point at which you cannot start your engine is long before you cannot power your instrumentation and thus deactivate your steering lock.
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I smell the potential for a vertically integrated megacorp.

That, or a sitcom.
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This is a ridiculously bad article that glorifies Nokia as something they haven't been in many years. It was sink or swim time for them. Choosing Android 2 years ago may have been a really smart move but there are already established leaders in Android handsets. It was too late for Nokia to go anywhere with Android. They will be a first class citizen of WM7 and get a tremendous amount of support from Microsoft who will be willing to piss away millions, if not billions, of dollars to promote WM7. They could have never got that type of treatment from Google. They'd be just another player in an overcrowded market. At least this gives them some potential to offer a unique product.
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in case you didn't know the WP7 app store has eveolved faster than android and has already passed 8000 apps. It's about the same speed at which iPhone market evolved, except that the iPhone had a huge installed base by the time apps were allowed.

It's foolish to underestimate the developer muscle of MSFT.
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I understand this. But let's say I ran some experiments and collected some data in an attempt to disprove theory X. What does it mean for me to say that at the 99% confidence level X is still true, but at the 98% confidence level it is not true? I just find it a bit spooky, is all.
The way I see it, Paul was willing to take a huge gamble on this company from the outset because of a strong gut feeling. Y Combinator didn't have to let them in and was being incredibly generous, going as far as setting aside their own rules for this one special case. They went above and beyond the call of duty. And then, to hear word that they'd have to yet again do things differently than they are accustomed to for this one company probably just didn't feel right anymore. I am happy for the writer and I bet he'll be very successful, but where he went wrong (if my facts are correct) is expecting YC to allow him to stay in the program because of "protocol." They made the first decision based on a gut reaction, and they reserved the right to make a second decision "on gut" as well. Also, to be clear, they didn't kick him out, they respectfully asked the founder to apply again next quarter. My purpose isn't to declare a winner. I have a lot of respect for the author and his perseverance. But I hope he sees just how much he was asking from YC, what an incredible achievement that was to convince Paul to take the first leap of faith, and why he probably should have just swallowed his pride and accepted YC's decision with genuine gratitude.
Some interesting bits:

"... The secret sauce in the aerospace business is not building a pressurized tube with swept wings and podded engines, It’s carefully surveying market needs and building a product the market wants. That’s the secret sauce ..." ~ Richard Aboulafia, Teal Group.

"... When the 747 entered service the global air transportation system was a lot different than today,” he says. Back then, individual nations held strict control over who could fly where, so you had to fly large numbers of people into relatively few cities. Today’s open-sky policies make it easier for airlines to connect cities, making point-to-point flights more attractive. ..."

I'd never thought about how connectivity has increased in complexity like this before. Network theory considers Air transport as just another human network like powerlines, movie stars working in films and roads.
what about microsoft FAST search? why it was not used?
You don't necessarily have to love algorithms to go through CS.

Personally, I always liked the linguistic aspects of CS--parsing, lexing, compiling and language semantics from the basic theoretical level through the practical aspect (e.g. how they relate to best practices, optimization, and design patterns). But when it comes to the fastest way to implement a sort, you shouldn't come bothering me.

I won't doubt that low-level algorithms are important, but a pure disinterest in them makes me a pretty poor C programmer.
Isn't this something that the latest IE9 browser comes built in?
The majority of people that I know that wanted an iPhone got one via AT&T, even if it meant they still carried a different phone from before (verizon, sprint, etc). I'm not surprised that pre-orders went well, but not too surprised that there weren't massive lines in stores. Couple that with the uncertainty about iPhone5 - will Verizon get it this summer (assuming there is a new iPhone this summer) or will they have to wait unti next Feb? Too much uncertainty, ease of pre-orders, etc - not a massive event.
I once read something along the lines of "AI is whatever computers can't currently do". There is a ring of truth to this. We once thought that it would take AI for a computer to be the best chess player on the planet, but now most phones can beat 99.99% of people of the planet without trying. One day the Turing Test will be easily passed and I am sure we (humans) still won't be satisfied.
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I first saw this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fje57 and thought it deserved HN's quality of discussion.

The original link is actually http://www.feedbag.com/re/re172_master.html but is much harder to read and shoves the interview itself off onto a second, hard-to-find page.
> a significant distinction between a scripting language or not: whether it needs a compiler.

The characteristic you're describing is "delivered as executable source code" rather than "needs a compiler".

I'm currently dealing with a project (GForge) that delivers some of its PHP code encrypted. Painful.

You could also ship Python projects as .pyc files.

On the other side of the fence, you can also use interpreted C without a compiler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_interpreter

(But I agree with the main idea - if the project is delivered with executable source code, it's much easier to customize!)

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That's a really great distinction. You've captured the difference well: scripts can be read without a disassembler.

That's really good for maintenance for the reason you've stated.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I found a post from 2002 with a similar citation regarding NY's classes of employees: http://www.perlmonks.org/?displaytype=print;node_id=153046

He doesn't explicitly state if his open source work was entirely done on his own time and equipment or done during down time at work or such, but it might be the case in his post there.

It's strange. As you probably know, the work for hire exception to copyright comes from the 1976 Federal Copyright Act. It doesn't extend to times when you are not at work, or have a 24/7 idea for professionals. It's also the case that nearly every state has hourly, contract and salary/overtime exempt employment categories, yet no other states I know of extend work for hire to off hours in the absence of a contract. If this doctrine can indeed be found in NY State Law, it would seem to be a state regulating something that only Congress has a right to regulate, which is copyright law (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8).

It would be really interesting to see the text of the NY state law on this, maybe I'll be able to find it some time.
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I think there's a lot of frustration venting. I'm frustrated. Nokia's move leaves a lot of open source initiatives dangling as well as a lot of jobs lost. Maybe it's a harsh but necessary act to save the company or some part of it. But maybe it's just a harsh and foolish act which will cause in harm both the long and short term harm to all involved.

I have to admit that I can't say for certain which it will be in the end. But I can understand how all those who fear being hurt by it would have a tendency to believe the later choice.
You know something's screwed up when you can buy a company's stock, but not their product. Canadian music and copyright laws are terrible.
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I'd rather not have my version control system dictate my project structure.
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Digg lost their favicon.ico after the update. Just checked again. It looks like they still haven't been able to get it back.

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At Caltech, the homework was 0% of the grade, the final and midterm exams comprised 100%. That was the school policy. You didn't have to show up at all to class or do any of the homework, and could still get an A, and many students did just that.

I tried that, though, it didn't work for me :-) In order to pass the exams I discovered I needed to attend all the lectures, do all the homework, and make sure I understood all the homework problems and solutions.
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Yes. A great example is Beanstalk. The following interview might be of interest.

http://mixergy.com/beanstalk-bootstrapped-run-virtually-gene...

From the interview...

Andrew: Where in the country or where in the world are your people?

Chris: Let’s see. I always have to think about this. There are nine of us total. We have people in Ukraine, Germany, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Russia.
Because there is such a limited range of Winpho7 handsets (and as a matter of personal opinion, I feel they're all token efforts) Nokia can step in and become "the" Windows phone handset. Microsoft needed a hardware partner that was all in with them, not diddling android on the side.

If you put out android phones, you're just another fish in a sea of commodity handsets, no matter how you differentiate your product.
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I'll miss Series 40 phones. A basic, no frills dumb phone OS with a UI that made sense. I'll miss the flexibility of Python for Series 60, even though the Series 60 OS was crud.
One year without salary sounds pretty close to a founder level committment in that first year. I am not so sure that 6% equity is adequate for your troubles.
Isn't this what daycare centers are about? Buy-store-sell is economically equivalent to leasing out storage space, after all.
Caltech had a famous EE lab class. At the beginning, you wrote a spec for the project you would design and build. The spec had to be approved by the prof. At the end of the term, you handed in your project. If it met the spec, you got an A, if it didn't, you got an F. No excuses were accepted.
From the source:
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Not sure what browser you're using that doesn't recognize that. Ancient versions of IE don't support it, I think.

Also it has correct quoting, HN seems to choke on that.
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The first comment on this article is the best:

I will not, NOT be using Google again until he is FIRED! Go to Egypt Wael Ghonim, you are no longer welcome here!! Going to Bling now, not Google.

I wonder what kind of features Bling has.
Thanks. That's interesting. I'm pretty confident that you don't really need to compress the reference that way. It doesn't make a lot of intuitive sense that you would, in a way: streaming over the reference can be very fast and the question is how many reads you can align per pass, how flexibly, and with how low a pre-processing cost. I think my stuff (which doesn't count since we didn't get to publication stage for other reasons, etc.) was probably faster and more flexible.
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Although I know little of the airplane business, I had predicted the 787 to be a success from when I first heard of it(when it was still called the 7E7), simply because the way it had been marketed was very passenger-appealing(improved comfort and noise levels - a huge downside in the contemporary air travel experience), while also offering an obvious bottom line benefit for the airlines in fuel economy.

Regulations aside, the alternative from Airbus simply did not make sense in terms of growing the market and increasing air traffic. Big A380-style planes have been made in the past( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225 for example ), but they are constrained by airport facilities. As in cloud computing, horizontal scaling beats vertical.
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I first read about it on Techrights, back when I was still reading it. I think it dates back to when it was called "Boycott Novell".
Ask HN: What's the difference between a theory and a fact?
Can a theory ever become a fact? Or are they in two completely different areas, so one can never become the other?

For example, was gravity ever a theory (assuming it's a fact now)?
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The information in patents isn’t exclusively described in those patents themselves. I imagine a lot of the ideas become known through books, papers, open implementations of patent-encumbered codecs, etc. There was a blog post several months ago that made it sound like VP8 may have lifted several ideas directly from H.264.

Furthermore, how could a patent system possibly work at all if merely claiming that you hadn’t examined the patent in question was enough to avoid liability for infringing it? Proving definitively that you’d read something before making your own invention seems like it would be an impossibly high burden for patent owners.
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I'd love to see what could be done by some of Google's Chinese-speaking managers.
How do you target an exit?

They are asking you to take founder-level risk. Probably not appropriate ownership for that.