skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
regarding Ruby:

Ruby is dynamic. Kind of like Perl, Python and PHP, but meta-programming features make it feel even more powerful.

Ruby is object-oriented. Even more than, let's say, Java. No primitive data types. Even things like regular expressions and pieces of program code are objects. This makes the language feel very consistent.

Ruby is beautiful. The syntax and consistency appeal to many developers for a variety of reasons. For me it's the fact, that if you adhere to some common sense rules of naming your variables and methods you get extremely readable code.

Ruby has some unique and interesting features. Such as code blocks (kind of closures).

Combined this means that you can accomplish a lot with very small amounts of actual code. Still, this code remains extremely readable and thus maintanable.

For many developers, Ruby ist the last language they ever want to learn. But to be honest, I think it is not for everyone. You should try it and see if it feels "right" for you. Do not worry, if you don't get it, and maybe try Python instead.

regarding Rails:

Today, I guess Rails is nothing special anymore. These days you can choose from a variety of quality web frameworks in whatever language you are comfortable with (and most of those probably borrow some ideas from Rails).

To understand what really set Rails apart you have to imagine the world of web development in 2004, when Rails was first released. Back then you had to either use PHP, which has a bad reputation for many reasons I do not want to delve into, or some ridiculously complex Java framework.

Rails was (and still is) a wonderful framework that takes the tediousness out of many repetitive web development tasks. Furthermore it gives your project a structure, trying to lead you to write well-structured, testable and maintainable code.

Oh, and of course Rails is written in Ruby. Rails introduced many people to the Ruby programming language. I think it is the combination that makes it both so powerful and likeable.
Using NLP to Go Beyond “SMART” Goals
Our product's userbase, which is cross-company on many Fortune 500 companies, is 81% XP, 8% Vista, and 7% Windows 7 and the rest on 2000 / 2003 / NT.
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Engagement, Facebook Comments, and News Media
Social media sites are not typical distribution channels for newspapers. They are Web sites that we do not own or control and that have changed (and will continue to change) their terms of service, restrictions, and features. Even if the sites are driving traffic to your Web site now, the traffic to a local media company’s Facebook page is usually being monetised only by Facebook. This needs to change.
sort + callback is what I did in JavaScript:

.sort(function(a,b){if(a==b){throw a;}return a-b;});
I wonder if turning off the Internet will start to be treated as a reliable predictor that the government is going to fall. So far it's a pretty good one.
I found an exploit ;-) http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Calculus.html
Offer HN: I will build what you design
Hi guys,

I saw a recent thread by another member who was offering something similar so thought id do a little something too.

My skills:

PHP/Python (Codeigniter/Django)
HTML, CSS, i.e. the whole shebang.

I will help you code up your mvp and get it out the door.

Why:

I want to gain some experience and have been on a downswing in terms idea of generation. So id be happy to help others out while i fix my brain :).

Post your idea, request below and we can get started!

Note: I will be picking ONE of the ideas.
I'm also guessing Maxthon[1] has a large browser share in China and you'll notice that MSIE6 is in its userstring[2], which could possibly be diluting the results for pure IE6 instead of those with the same engine (Trident[3]).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon

[2]: http://www.useragentstring.com/_uas_Maxthon_version_.php

[3]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)
I've heard it both ways. First-to-file either means:

- A patent cannot be challenged on the basis of prior art once issued

or:

- If two people independently invent something, and both apply for the patent, the first one to get to the patent office gets the patent, rather than the first one to document the idea. That documentation would still be prior art, though.

People who think it's the latter tend to like first-to-file. People who think it's the former tend to not. I haven't actually heard from a patent lawyer about it, though.
Running up the score: Thoughts on iPad 2 announcement
I think you have to consider the intended audience, though. Seemed to me he was addressing people who had idly dabbled in working out, but quit because they weren't seeing results or were intimidated, and people who chase fad exercises and spend ineffective time in modern gyms.

So, in the analogy, I guess it would be for people who have tried to learn to code but couldn't get past basic syntax , and coders who are always chasing the latest language/platform but never really learned the fundamentals...? The analogy might be starting to fail at this point.
I haven't yet but I plan to tonight
I was about to "like" the page, but the like button is for facebook.com/internetexplorer. Liking ie6countdown.com means you like Internet Explorer. That's the opposite effect from what I was expecting.
What language do you think the default should be for a .com site?
Warning signs to look for when dealing with VC firms and Individual Investors
see 'Green Mars' by Kim Stanley Robinson
Something of this size and cost is perfect for many local hackerspaces to build and operate.
Couldn't edit link. Actual destination link:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/apple-ipad2-tablet-competit...
Scri.ch, a website that let you draw.
A few things:

1. Place a call to action on the social icons at top. Something like "Share with friends:" or "Spread the word:"

2. I would make the price a link (in addition to the deal name).

3. The subscription box at the top doesn't really stand out when I first arrive at the site. The goal is to get subscriptions so I'd make it stand out a little more. At the moment I feels blended in.

4. Add a short description each of the deals. 1 to 2 short sentences max. Maybe that could even include any huge restrictions that are on the deal (like can be used on Tuesdays only). It'll also help having the extra content from an SEO stand point.

5. You're sending traffic to sites like Groupon and LivingSocial without monetizing on it. So:

a) Sign up for their affiliate programs.

b) Use your own url to link to their deals. Make the url load a framed version of their deal so that you can still pitch your subscription box at the very top.

c) I'm presuming your goal is eventually to source your own deals to generate revenue.

6. Have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Especially since you're taking signups.

7. When I signup, send me an intro email. Keep it short and to the point.
Last time I checked, "Genuine advantage" validation was not required for installing newer IE, as well as critical updates. It was, for a time, but then Microsoft let installing never versions of IE regardless of Genuine advantage.

The linked article doesn't provide any evidence for correlation of pirated Windows and outdated Windows(or IE).
Believe it or not - even though donors give - they're still asking, "What's in it for me?"
Yes. Sorry, that's what I meant by disappear.

Would have preferred it if they found another way of presenting that list to me.
While I doubt there are many individuals with the space or need, although there certainly are some, there are certainly a lot of hackerspaces that I'm certain would love to have and/or build this. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
What did you find enlightening about this book?

I've tried to read it 3 times now and each time put it back. I find it dry and lacking of any new insights or actionable advice:(

I really would like to get some worth out of this book!
Funny, just three days ago I attended a Master's Thesis info meeting where one of the slides had this exact headline :)
Of course not the hardest.
http://brad.livejournal.com/2331278.html
> If obesity is a disease of poverty, then how come truly poor people (e.g., the poor in India or China) are skinny?

Because they're not eating extremely processed foods based on subsidized grains that make them cheaper than real food... yet.
If obesity is a disease of poverty, then how come truly poor people (e.g., the poor in India or China) are skinny?

Corn subsidy in the U.S.. Not much else to say.
> 1. Identify any Windows desktop program that most people need.

> 2. Build an equivalent app that will run in any browser.

Like Solitaire? http://worldofsolitaire.com
As an Android user, I agree with you.

Is anyone else concerned about the way Apple is changing the way we think about computers, more as appliances than what we think of as computers now?

Maybe that's actually the more natural state, and the last few decades have been the anomaly. Makes me a bit sad, though, and concerned about the future.
I tend to think its the latter. If you look at the actual text of the bill...

(a) Novelty; Prior Art- A person shall be entitled to a patent unless--

(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention;

... it seems to indicate that prior art is still applicable when considering the validity of the patent. However, it's still not clear to me if prior art can be applied after the fact, or just during that 9 month period.
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Reality of Group-Buying
Well because Apps aren't everything and not everyone needs the Sketchbook app for example.
I'm a coder and I don't need to know design. ThemeForest works just nice...
West Indies won by 9 wickets against Bangladesh
Charlie Sheen quotes to make you a better entrepreneur
You should reverse-engineer your dates: "You really don't wanna go a date with me." Unfortunately it works. Problems will arise when your date will realize she really shouldn't have gone on a date with you.
I hope it goes down too, but for a different reason: so startups will stop using "ly" at the end of their name.
What's the value add?
Why is it different from signing up with each deal source? besides removing the clutter?
Why is it better than yipit?

It looks clean and simple. Easy on the eyes.
You need categorization of the deals for easier navigation
I assume you'll add more deal sources.

Everything else Nishank says too.
The weak point in your assertion is that you ignore the fungibility of those items. Keyboards, monitors, desk phones, etc. are all fungible to a certain degree.

Domains ending in .ly are not fungible. You can only buy a .ly domain an organization managing them for Libya. Furthermore, this isn't $10/year like many domains, but rather $75/year.
Virus protection is just one vector.

WinXP doesn't have several of the security features in newer versions of Windows. And even those it does have aren't as good. Such as buffer overflow protection was updated in Win7, but not since XPSP2 for XP.

It's fundamentally less secure top to bottom. Which is why there is exist many vulnerabilities that exist on XP, but not Win7.

UPDATE: For a concrete example, see http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2009/03/20/enhanced-g... -- added as a result of http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-017.... . There are a plethora of these sorts of things that architecturally make Win7 different than XP when it comes to security.
you'll maintain the connection and build a loyal donor base.
Unless you have to do some crazy undercuts, you'll never need more than 3 axes. And even if you do, you can flip the part. A good Cam program and some ball endmills will do very complicated 3D machining.

We had a giant 5-axis Thermwood gantry router to make composite tooling - I think we used the additional axes only once - they are a lot more time consuming to program and can get out of tolerance much easier.
Exactly, I'm advocating everyone to add produce into their diet so that they can die early.
monitor keywords as in keywords position in search engines?
Not anymore. Someone registered 7, 8 and even 9.
Yes, these secondary affects are interesting to think about. Also, if people don't have to drive 95% of the time, people will forget how to drive, and will probably be unable to instantly switch into 'operator' mode when/if the car decides to transfer back into manual mode. For this reason, I don't see the technology being successful until it can drive reliably enough that it never has to switch back into manual mode.

Can you imagine reading a book, watching a movie, eating (or whatever) in your car and suddenly the situation gets so hairy that the car switches back into manual? I don't think that would work out, especially if the last time you had taken the wheel was 5 years ago.
I thought Bing was already copying Kayak, here is a article from 2009 - http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/kayak-bing/

I think there was a lawsuite and settled
copyright violation is not equal to stealing morally or according to law.
It's more of a sensory problem than a logic problem.
2 ways to get richer, earn more or spend less.

That said, as you get bigger, you earn more. ad networks pay higher rates as you get more traffic. So I wouldn't dismiss the business model right away. Looking at the traffic curve on that site, it was going up a lot at the end. I bet the bulk was made recently.
It does not.

Running on the ground you push yourself forward. On a treadmill the amount of work you are doing can vary quite a bit by technique (ie. how much contact you are making with the treadmill) because you are not actually propelling yourself.
Your restraint in not using speed as the independent variable is admirable.

With fuel prices on the rise again, it'd be great to track fuel efficiency against a ton of different variables--you could find out if you really do get better mileage by lifting off the pedal slightly when you hit your cruising speed, and what temperature and humidity do to your mileage, etc.
Did you eval the dom to get the dataset?
The posted link is dead because it has a session id in it.
Here's the article: http://drdobbs.com/201001928
What good would that do? Make you feel your tax dollars were hard at work while you realize you almost got nuked yesterday?
I found the responses linked in the article interesting as well:

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/fb36.html
Using a 4k minimum was just one of the possible implementation strategies. It looks like there are several ways to get it much, much lower.
Joseph Heller's Guide to Marketing
For most users I suspect it's better than Quora's, actually.
Firefox's new chief envisions a worldwide web app store (video)
Sadly, 99% of our clients (pharma-sector) are on IE6 due to corporate policy...
A strong trigger for giving, and as a tax strategy. You get to write-off your contributions when filing your tax returns.
So you see, it's not always about the cause. I see representatives from non-profit groups getting emotional and trying to sell the cause.
I would do chinups/pullups/pushups/dumbell-presses instead of bench press. If you have long arms then bench press can lead to shoulder injuries as you approach 1xBW if you dont do it right.

Lots of great info at t-nation.com .
Depends. It doesn't require too much imagination to conceive of scenarios where the present course is better. Besides, the public was fed scary shit for political manipulation. But that doesn't mean that the other isn't true.

But I've said all I'm going to say on that.
MS really don't help themselves though. My company won't upgrade from IE7 because they are worried about breaking a legacy,critical web-app. If MS could build a feature into IE9 that allowed you to specify a white-list of URLs/domains (set by AD group policy) that always used the IE6/IE7/IE9 renderer/js engine for the tab it was opened in - boom corporates could start upgrading. It's also holding back adoption of Windows 7.
Do you have any example work I can look at? I have a startup www.qlobe.com and we are looking for another developer.
Solved the puzzle with a couple lines of Python ;) Unfortunately, I won't be attending SXSW this year. Boo. If someone can solve that puzzle, I'll teach you all the hacks I know.
Berita Terdepan - good news: Internet Freedom
Lemelson's story is rather interesting:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-08-21-...

Relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_H._Lemelson#Patents_and_...

(The USA Today link above was a reference from this WP page)
Smoking meth improves your memory too, but it's hard to imagine a bunch of cracked out tweakers being given extra credibility on the witness stand.
How I Organize Posts in Jekyll
Printing and the Commercial Marketing
There is no use of a product that has no printing quality. Only the use of full colour CMYK printing process can help in this regard.
Tampa is a vast, flat, suburban wasteland of sprawl; but there's a fantastic climbing gym built into an old warehouse 5 miles from my work, martial arts studios everywhere, public parks with bodyweight exercise stations in circuits, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04holmes.html

Charlie Sheen is clearly an egomaniac and a nut. He's pled guilty to assaulting women on lots of occasions. He's got a recurring drug problem... Worst of all, he's totally unrepentant.

I'm bummed that he's even MENTIONED on Hacker News.
Ask HN: We need HN advice on Customer Development
Hello lean startup community. We are just getting started on a new project and need a little advice with our customer discovery. How can we make sure that the feedback we are getting is relevant, unfiltered and coming from the right source? As well do any of you recommend any tools for tracking these interactions?

Thanks in advance- The Lean Startup Rookies
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Not really, which is why i am offering my services. All my past projects have been personal, entrepreneurial, so they no longer exist online. I do have a git repo though. With a couple of projects that i've done and saved there.

Link: http://github.com/Tapha
Are whites racially oppressed?
Does the Swiss army really use the Swiss army knife? (1995)
Yeah, I enjoyed it when I first read it (about when it first came out), but I tried to reread it more recently, and found it patronising. I think these pragmatic programmer books are like the pop-psychology of programming books. They're easy to read, written in a light humorous style, but have low density of information and lack deep insight.

This was the best out of their books that I've read, and at the time, like I mentioned, I enjoyed it and got a lot from it. Not now though.
Sorry, my phrasing was unclear. My AWS ping time is from my desk, the "typical ping" to our colo is from anywhere in the south of the UK where all our clients are.
Hopefully the notion of developing for IE6 compatibility will soon be as laughable as that of designing for Netscape compatibility.
Microsoft Research has been a money drain since its inception (having never created a revolutionary advance).

I can only assume you don't know anything about MS Research. They've been producing more published CS papers than anyone else for years now. They conducted the user studies that went into region-specific handwriting recognition on their tablets, and the Office Ribbon. They also developed the vision system in the Kinect. http://research.microsoft.com/ They're doing an amazing amount of research there.
No, I'm not arguing for the corrupt "record company" model. A model that, actually, appears to me to be propelled in good part by psychopathic (in the clinical sense), type A and often extroverted personalities.

I just don't want to see such ideas become another form of discrimination against introverts. In many fields, introverts end up being placed at some disadvantage by extroverts who argue that they should simply "suck it up" and "put themselves out there".

Ultimately, I guess it's "survival of the fittest". In my perspective, however, too much of such attitude makes for an unhealthy society. (At which point, we have to get pissed enough to (meet and organize on Facebook, and) rise up and kill all the lawyers, etc., etc. ;-)
Forget about IE6, countdown to IE7 instead. Still craps up alot of CSS, forcing designers like me to hack around, use graphics instead of CSS, both or create a sub-experience to a large audience.
So you have evidence?
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"and holding consumption constant" is the trick, ain't it? Works great if you want to lose a little weight later more than you want to eat another 500 calories now. Most people don't want that (me included, by revealed preference -- I'm over 300 lbs).

When people say that obesity goes with poverty, they're noting that virtually everyone eats until they are sated, and if you eat until you are sated with high-quality, expensive food, you will be far less likely to be overweight than if you eat until you are sated with low-quality, inexpensive food.
That's why I made a more future-proof version of their "Join the cause" banner code: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/03/05/ie6-final-countdown/
we do that for 233 countries and 32,000 networks: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

We also throw away the end-user IP.
Yep, I saw a lot of derivatives of a constant, and multiplies by zero. There were a couple that weren't obviously 0, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of the actual answers were 0.
Open Matlab -->
answer = mode(Copy --> Paste)
solved it with no code by copying and opening as csv, transpose paste, sort, scroll to match column number with number, check for mismatch, bingo!
email me @ tapha[AT]live.co.uk and i'll get right back to you!
US Department of Justice investigating MPEG LA
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Thanks to certain senators, the US will have a similar killswitch soon too (they resurrected the bill and snuck it back in).
I'm pretty sure this is false. As I understand it hunters and gatherers lived about as long as we do. It was only with the invention of agriculture and the kind of societies (and diseases) it enabled, that our average lifespan took a nosedive which we are pulling out of now, thanks to modern medicine.
Just as long as you realize you're using uncommon terminology with respect to 'religion'. I'd rather term faith-based thinking as religious-thinking (or religious-esque), but it's certainly not unique to religion, and some irrational atheists also suffer from it... (I'd also ask how many bits of evidence about a belief you require before you take something as proof but that's fairly off-topic..) In regards to the god question, for me I care about being right, and my number of bits for the proposition "the Christian god exists" is at least below -10 so I'm pretty sure it's false. :) If I was presented with a strong piece of evidence in the other direction, I might join you and uninstall Gentoo to use the holy Ubuntu Christian Edition.
As a sole proprietor nothing precludes you from having a web development agreement between you and your customers. In general, it's always good to have things in writing, it will not only protect you, but it will help eliminate confusion and address issues that may arise between you and your customers down the line. If you are planning to grow, hire employees, or just want limited liability and pass through taxation benefits, than you might want to also consider forming an LLC rather than a S corp - but it really depends on your circumstances. It would not hurt to consult with an attorney...