skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realized? Obviously you don't need to check your realizations with the facts. If you did check a conspiracy forum or subreddit, you would've 'realized' most ppl think these protests are orginized by the zionists/CIA.
Well, this one is not impressive, but I find it useful for C-like languages, Java included:

if (5 == somevar) { ....

If you accidentally write "=", you'll notice.
Tidal power scheme to power over 5000 homes
Gather feedback from your current consumers, including students.

If selling to school is hard, sell to students. Maybe offer a little cash for referring their whole class.
Yahoo selling delicious for $1m, SU maybe buyer
Opened invitation based signup on my product :-) Yay
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You probably don't know who Paras is and looking at your account details, you are probably trolling.
I think he's just talking about a parser that can convert

jarin's latest comment on YC news

to something like

site:news.ycombinator.com "jarin" sort-by:date

(pseudo-syntax mine of course)
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A little blue dot indeed.

http://000fff.org/uploads/Earth.png

Or did they find an unknown planet?
I'm fairly sure the name is a deliberate pun.
"Should" is, I guess, depending on your perspective here.

As a bandwidth user (=carrier customer), I don't think it should matter.

As a bandwidth provider (=carrier), I would probably think that different use cases provide different levels of value to the customer, and thus can motivate different prices.

You might argue that bandwidth to a computer is "more worth" than bandwidth to a smart phone, since the computer has more power do to things with that bandwidth. That also means that, to a first approximation, customers can just plain use more bandwidth from a computer, which of course also makes it interesting to charge more for the ability to do that. And so on.
But OOP isn't really a type of polymorphism, any more than a Ford Focus is a type of internal combustion engine. You claim that:

> OOP is about (subtype) polymorphism... Everything else is there to support and make it easier to apply this concept.

But if that were true, why does your typically OOP language handle polymorphism so poorly? If your only goal is subtype polymorphism, why not just have multimethods and type inheritance and be done with it? Why bother with encapsulation? Why only have single-dispatch?
What he had is an emotional sentiment. What's interesting is why do people old enough to talk about "kids these days" are not wise enough to think back to one generation before them? I think the answer is along the lines of: everyone knows this, but let me just be sentimental for a moment. After all, it's my turn to be old.
You can actually configure postgres to not do an fsync() after each transaction; instead it gets written to disk, which on Linux means written to the disk caches in RAM, then Linux flushes to disk when it does the rest of the disk writes (anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds are set as default on different versions of Linux).
It seems to use ceramic balls which have the same function as cranks in an Otto motor, which is probably a weak spot (much wear and tear). Otherwise the idea is elegant; an actual working prototype might be nice to see.
2 months & 1 day notice, not 1 day
What Does Monad Mean? (2009)
mine one has 2 floors, one more to go.
Nothing new, except for "CSS3" buzzwords.

This was possible in CSS2 days (obviously, without JS, except, maybe, for cross-browser quirks). Well, by glancing, most of the code is CSS2.1. There were even articles on — if I remember correctly — The List Apart on CSS navbars.

Oh, yeah, and that's still HTML4 semantics, because HTML5 has <menu> and <nav> elements.
There's a section in the Postgres docs about fsync and lying hard drives: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/wal-reliabil...

There's also a Postgres contrib module called pg_test_fsync that tests various fsync modes on your hard drive, and if you get too high results, you can strongly suspect that the dist is lying.
copy that.
What do you mean? How does what work?
Yes, that! If you can, take a sabbatical or a long holiday to focus on your business. It's difficult to give your best when your day job eats up your most creative hours of the day. He's right about taxation, but since it's your own business, there is no upper limit on how much you can make. Outsource the content business, recruit students and other teachers.
Cool. Inspired by the same reasons as you, I too was thinking of creating something like this but you've just beaten me to it. :-)

Now, my 0.02:

(There will be some duplication [read reconfirmation] of suggestions others have already made here and some new suggestions.)

1. Yes, don't force Twitter as the only sign-in option. (If you want, we can contribute a plug-n-play type e-mail authentication sub-system to save you the time and trouble - let me know.)

2. Create a separate (exclusive) page for each idea and allow people to post comments/replies.

3. Allow posters to (optionally) upload images/sketches to explain the idea better, faster. (Show such material on the exclusive page.)

4. Many idea posters would also be having a thread on the idea running at HN and/or other forums. Allow posters to (optionally) provide link/s to such URLs (as a separate field). This way, everybody can get an expanded view of all opinions about the idea.

-HTH
They don't want the attention and the resulting competition?
Maybe there is a business model for helping to bring a network of interdependent companies into existence simultaneously.

Yes, it's called a big company.
London Stock Exchange admits unfair dismissal of platform chief
I had success with @safetymail.info
Paras is my role model for the growing Indian Startup scene.

# Bootstrapped

# Good challenges at work.

# Pays his engineers well because of Day 1 Cashflow.

I sincerely hope he attracts the best talent; he deserves it.

I cant say the same for the rest of the so-called 'startups' in India. Equity/ownership is unheard of in most places.

Note to Indian 'Founders':
The word 'startup' is not an euphemism for 'pays peanuts because we are small'. ;)
is it real link?

that's awesome!
Oh, right. Now I understand. Yeah, you see those a lot.
The story that I have always heard is not that he got bad grades, but that he was a "poor student" in a more general sense, that he was extremely disinterested. I remember hearing claims that his teachers complained to his parents: "he just sits at the back and smiles."
Wrong: Algebra, geometry, descriptive geometry AND physics are all 6 (obviously the highest possible).

Chemistry and the history of nature are 5, as well as German and Italian, art drawing and geography are 4 and some "..drawing" I can't recognize. French 3.

Moreover as far as I see it's his final degree score of his whole secondary education (the last step before university).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)#Final_degree
If you're in love with your current business, why would you do that just to take a 1/100 shot at The Next Big Thing?

Because you might have fallen in love with the idea of creating the next big thing? The thrill, the excitement, the challenge of taking a shot at the next big thing?

Joel Spolsky is a great example.
Or you do both GPL and hosting offer at the same time. This what we are doing for Indefero and this is working very well. In fact, we secured some big companies because of the ability to easily move in/out of the hosted offer from/to a company installation.

The cost of entry on the market for a SaaS application is so low now, that companies start to ask more and more such kind of insurance.

For some other services, code in escrow could also be a good idea, but when not open sourced from the start, closed source code is often hard to bring back to life as an open source project. Sometimes it works well, for example with Blender.

Indefero is a code hosting/project management software: http://www.indefero.net
Same here. I guessed because you said you studied "economics and languages" (Economie-Talen) and because you had a bunch of teachers discouraging higher scientific studies because of less math background.

You do need to be really good in maths, have a really solid basis or work your ass off to succeed in the first few years of university-level computer science education. You did the latter, and you have my respect for that!
One person's need is another person's want is another person's "wtf is this? get off my lawn!"...

Need is in the eye of the beholder. I think "Make something people need" really means "Make something some people are willing to pay for". Which is nice, but more niche advice than "Make something people want".

No one wants to pay for Google search. But it's damn useful, and a great thing to have made (and led to business services that businesses need). Conversely, nobody needs any given movie or song or fiction book or game - they are largely commoditised and interchangeable before you've actually consumed them. But making movies and books and other forms of unnecessary art still makes hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues every year.

"Make something people want" applies to more companies than "Make something people need", imho.
You might also like to look at Grothendieck. He wrote how he felt like a plodding turtle compared to his peers. Hilbert also must've seemed slow.

Of course, when people write stories on mental feats, they'll choose a more showoffy person who can do well on the tests that people remember from childhood. That means fewer stories about people taking time to think about things in their own way.

(What horrors would result if a schoolchild got it into her head that maybe she should just take a day off from school and lie in a hammock and think? That kind of crazy thinking gets you Clojure. (http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042/))
$10k/mo is just a decent salary. If you're a good consultant, you're looking at more like $25k/mo. And that's accounting for slack time.
Thank you for pointing the mistake out.

However, it is not so obvious that 6 is the highest score. While it was the case in Switzerland (where Einstein was studying at that age), it was the exact contrary in Germany at that time - 1 being the best score and 6 the lowest.

As pointed out in the Stack Exchange's answers, this discrepancy in scoring systems may also have contributed to the myth of Einstein's poor performance at school.
I think Fried and DHH are already shooting for the moon in their own way. The kind of people who shoot for the moon are generally not just looking for money, they are looking to "change the world", they are looking for fame.

Fried and DHH make enough money from 37signals. They are shooting for the moon by contributing to open source and writing bestselling business books.
Best way to have quality comments only?
"Make people want something you have." is probably also a common strategy.
Shorter RTF: The client might GET from a cache, so obviously GET isn't a procedure running on the remote server.
This is very general speaking. Of course, make something people need is good, because you have a nice niche then to sell something, but I think it is not accurate enough. Everything a person needs are 4 walls, a roof, something to eat and someone to love.
Lets find a better sentence, something like: "Make something which makes people smile". While it is not catchy like the original sentence, it is a lot more accurate. A secretary will smile when presented with a better accounting software. A lumberjack will smile when given a better axe. A developer will smile when given an awesome new programming language.

Oh, and not to be mistaken, it is totally OK to have these people pay for things that make them smile, Disneyland also takes an entrance fee.
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> [from Reddit link]> well there's no way you can set it to 256.

With GNU/Linux iptables it's just one rule in the "mangle" table with TTL target.

On *BSD with pf "packet normalization" can be done with pf's "scrub" directive with min-ttl option.

Unfortunately, I've never used iOS and/or OS X/Darwin, so I don't know what are possibilities are there. But I believe there should be some.
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They're riding the one-hit-wonder train as far as they can... and probably hoping something other than that will eventually happen.
I'm not sure if it will help, but have you looked at Notifo? They have an API which might help you with notifications for a web app.
Well if you don't think you can do it yourself maybe look for funding to hire some help? Did you get a change to read this today? http://www.ycombinator.com/imaginek12.html
The 520 bridge is also very vulnerable to earthquakes (the primary reason why it's being replaced).
Save Discounts on Vietnam Honeymoon Tours
The Hanoi-based tour operator Lotussia Travel announces its 5% Special Discount Offer the company is making on Cat Ba Island Resort and Spa honeymoon packages.
so..

It needs to understand that "jarin" is the username on a website called news.ycombinator.com, which allows comments, and these comments are different to the stories posted on the site.

But of course "Obama's latest comment on CBS news" means the president's comments on the CBS TV channel's news service.

An equally obviously "Brook's latest comment on Fukushima" would refer to a blog post by Barry Brooks on the Fukushima reactor problems on his blog http://bravenewclimate.com/

Oh, and that "sort-by:date" bit needs to understand the difference between comment date, published date and any dates referenced in the comment or post.

Easy!

The truth is that currently Google doesn't do too badly on any of those queries, without any special parsing or "understanding".
if they need it they want it, if they want it they need it
Compare Contrast Thesis must be balanced
When students are assigned the writing of the compare contrast thesis they need to ensure that they do this in the most unbiased manner possible. Knowing how to write this type of thesis in the proper manner will enable students to receive a good remark for their thesis.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Iterative experiments to discover what works, then encapsulating it in rules - sounds extremely promising.
You've solved some of the hardest problems already - getting the initial traffic, a decent product, initial user base, and marketing. You need to work on profitability and market size.

I agree that you should keep the free exercises to keep traffic flowing to your site. Don't focus too heavily on these, though.

Without knowing much about your market or product:

- Estimate the size of your market. A back of the envelope exercise should help you estimate how many schools are in the Netherlands, how many classrooms at each school, how many students. That's your current market size. How can you expand that? Can you extend to universities, or to other countries in Europe? Increasing your market size gives you more potential customers.

- You need to extract more money out of each user. $5/user/year requires a huge amount of users to generate even basic profit. Can you offer a premium subscription, for $15 per month? $20 per month? Compare this to the cost of private tutoring for parents. Put high value material in the premium subscription. Offer a 7-day free trial of premium.

I think you've got a good opportunity, you need to monetize it.
Can iPhone just route all your traffic through some encrypted VPN? I've heard there's a port of OpenVPN for iOS — that should be sufficient.

At least you'll be sure telco guys are not inspecting your packets by any means, be it "teethering detection", blocking some kind of traffic, or something more malicious, like profiling your Google searches. (Timing analysis may still apply.)
Are you sure you didn't search for 'parrots of south america in 1836'? That returns birds for me. 'maps of south america in 1836' returns some maps, of south america, from various historical periods around the year 1836.
You should try some collaboration with KhanAcademy . It's a non-profit measure but you can take out your basic expenses from it.
I agree with all the above. I eventually figured out why people work at Starbucks. Be nomadic. I've been exploring the idea of "hacking field trips": taking a train somewhere (which itself I've heard works) and staying with a friend to spend the downtime with.

On a related note, when I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with ADD (no H) but was not told. Instead of medication, my parents took me to a behaviorist who insisted I always "get ready" for tasks that required focus. Even if it was the weekend and I was at home, I should take a shower, get dressed, and "splash on some cologne" before I even attempted to do my homework. He was real big on natural light too. In my case alertness and depression never seem to coincide.
Silly indeed. I also wonder how much more energy is wasted sending these extra bytes around, millions of times per hour.
How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate The World Economy by Michael Lewis (1980)
Michael Lewis penned an article on the economic effect of a major earthquake in Japan. This piece predates Liar's Poker (the business book that launched his career), maybe more interesting for that reason.
Ask HN: new Google Docs discussions: edited by a group, discussed by anybody?
The single most disappointingly missing feature of the new Google Docs Discussions: edited exclusively by a group, discussed by anybody. Are there online, embeddable, free (like a beer:) replacements for it with this feature?
Shell oil fires stark warning on critical system security
Cf. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/introducing-discussio...
There will always be big companies. The question is how quickly they are replaced as the biggest ones.
Huh. Mobile operators in Russia are trying to battle with VoIP. There were even news on lawsuits against Skype, and attempts to block its protocol (reportedly, sometimes succesfull, sometimes not).

Old link, but that's the best I could find for now: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=393471
I agree with all that, to be honest. Google does a good enough job.
I seem to recall he had trouble getting into university... which I guess is supported by him being a patent examiner, instead of a student.
I stopped reading this as soon as I got to the "negative point" that Microsoft thanked JQuery for supporting IE9.

Libraries such as JQuery of course have to support major versions of all browsers. In particular in this case much of the work was disabling workarounds required in earlier versions of IE!
Ask HN: Experiences developing simple games using Corona SDK? 
Hi, I am mainly a python hacker, and having seen the iApps revolution, I wanted to develop small games, etc that won't require me learning iOS development, so I was wondering whether anyone here has given Corona SDK a shot, and what your experience has been like ?

Thanks.
Why Android conquered iPhone but not the iPad
A good time to IPO...
Yes I looked into it, however we are not in the position to relocate to the US. And also imagineK12 looks very US orientated. While our product is very focused on The Netherlands. (and Dutch schools abroad)
Whats, Whys & Hows of WordPress Child Themes
ReadWriteWeb closes french edition in a bold unexpected way
RWW killing its french version, french blogosphere mourning
Why are there no green stars?
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CSS3 animation studio - Sencha Animator, (where's Adobe during this?)
Honda, Trek, Dell, Proctor & Gamble, Exxon, Whole Foods: There are companies I give my money to and most people spend money like I do.
Viaweb had investment. And it wasn't a lifestyle business - there was a terrifying bit in the middle where they weren't profitable. Plus the investors tried to screw them over multiple times, right up to the point where they got acquired. You really do need to read up on Viaweb's history.

My counter-argument to your post can be summed up in one question: name me one lifestyle business that is consumer Internet, of sufficient scale so as to make the world a better place.

Almost every startup in the 37signals's Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud series are in enterprise. Consumer Internet companies (which are what blogs like Techcrunch obsess over) have different rules, different scale.
This article is trash. In one breath, the writer lambasts IE9 for supporting a compatibility mode (while not mentioning that other browsers also have a quirks mode) --- and then goes on to criticize the decision not to support XP, the most insecure operating system on earth. The article is a classic example of what results when you start with a conclusion and work back to the evidence.
He reports the facts in a way that doesn't give any clues to any biases; he gets neither excited nor upset at any point that I could detect. His voice is pleasing; not nasal, screechy, grating, nor anything else widely considered objectionable.

I suspect you knew all of this and were simply trying to jump on some point that sounded subjective to you and perhaps it is, but that's what I mean.
Tks for all the feedback. This is an awsome list to get started.

On to reading & hacking away...
I can't read the stream neither in VLC or mplayer ... any idea ? I'm on macosx.
chuckle I suspect there are several people that do the same thing. I'm one. Then I use FF to download chrome... =)
Something to keep in mind about cloning games:

Zynga started with "Just another Texas Hold'em" game and followed that with an exact clone of Farm Town[1] which it iterated on quickly and marketed well.

Angry Birds is thought to be inspired by Crush the Castle[2] but with a better control mechanism and friendlier targets.

Minecraft was a fork/clone of Infiniminer[3] which focused on the community aspects of the game rather than the competitive nature of the original.

What starts as a clone today, could be something unique tomorrow.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FarmVille#Originality
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Birds#Development
[3] http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Infiniminer
For the ignorant, mind explaining who's Paras?
You might need to educate customers about their need. They might need something without knowing it.
Windows XP is certainly not the most insecure operating system on Earth.
Honest question : How do you qualify to give such advice ?
Exactly. I didn't bother reading the whole page but came back right away on HN to check the comment thread. You guys though are killing all the fun.
Rails 3 Dashing to the Finish - What has changed & not changed
Well it is the case, just not what's being trumpeted in the latest press release. v4 was supposed to speed up page load significantly, that's why they added the little page load timer at the bottom of the page.
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Possibly Technischen Zeichen - That would go well as a contrast to Kunstzeichen.
I've been in 2 about 20 years ago; both ~5.1. If memory serves there were 2 distict types of shaking. The first was a fairly high frequency vibration that shook the walls and mimic what you see in movies; $#@! flying off shelves, etc.

The second came a few seconds later, and was a slow back and forth horizontal movement of the ground. I remember it being a bit faster frequency than that video shows, maybe about 1Hz, but it seemed like the ground was just moving fairly slowly back and forth a few inches.
To risk being obvious, because there is no device the same size as the iPad at the USD499 price range?
Thanks for your kind words! Yep, plan is to pay at par with best companies out there. Startup shouldn't mean less salary!
Ubuntu VLC worked on the first try

You may also want to try http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl