skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely there is in fact a way, at least much of the time. In general, I assume encoding a digitized song with a given codec and quality settings is deterministic, so the files have some chance of being identical. Next, if the track were identified using a common process (e.g. CDDB) it might easily be possible to identify them as being identical in origin and then perform some tests to see if they are in fact identical and convert one into a pointer to the other.
There is, if the MD5s match.
I tell mine that I do weekly log analysis of all traffic crossing the router. It isn't true, but the bluff has held for years. Shit, now he'll find this and have the keys to the pleasure garden...
A Business Model Canvas as a gdocs template, save & start planning
At a fraction of the price.
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Isn't that what patents are for?

Independent of what you think about patents in general. AFAIK you need a minimal implementation to get a patent granted, which you could do almost alone (a crappy looking one), and one could start from there.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Sure it takes years and cash to finish that process, so it's not for every project, but wouldn't it make sense for some mind-bending idea?
As founder of a tiny startup, the biggest selling point for hiring was that you'd get to see a startup first hand and learn how to do your own.

Results:
- One dev who's working on multiple ambitious projects
- A startup that got into an incubator and still running
- Another startup that's still running

Note: These last two were my interns, and I haven't had that many.
Mainstream technology opens doors for the blind.
No, The European Commission is suggesting banning cars from city centres.
I debated going back and arguing each little historical point, but in fact, the response here is a wonderful example of exactly what I was saying. It doesn't matter. Just assume I'm wrong. If my information doesn't fit with a reader's model, the value of what I am saying is lost. With some types of information, there is no way to say it "the right way" -- it's just not going to fit. Perhaps 99% of that information is bad, perhaps not, but if we don't consume it, we'll never know. Several people still never got to the point of the article. So really the comments on HN work as an extended example.

Very meta, and pretty neat.
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Adjusting for inflation, the gas price 40 years ago was startlingly close to what it is now.
Hah, but he added citations! I would never have had this nitpicking opportunity if I hadn't asked!

I know there's a lot of evidence that increased screen time for kids is harmful for studies, so I won't begrudge that point.

Let me argue a point I didn't intend to argue. Suppose the average American (just a reference class that I feel OK making guesses about) really is getting dumber, more hedonistic, and more prone to distraction. Is this going to kill us?

The same technology that is causing problems for the average American is opening up awesome new opportunities for anyone who gives a shit. My life is way better than it would have been twenty years ago; I can get any book I please and it arrives instantly, or in a few days. I can take as much time as I like online and have careful conversations with smarter people than me, or collaborate with them. Anyone can self-publish anything and be judged by their peers on its merit, and I can generally go read it and judge them for myself. These are amazing changes, and it seems impossible to enable these things without enabling WoW players, cat videos, and inane soundbite banter.

Do we need to try to strive to make something out of people who don't care to make anything out of themselves?
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Facebook has stated on numerous occasions that they want to be a central ID authority, so the article is less speculation than simply extending the Facebook game plan to the next rung. I currently recommend my site users sign in through Facebook due to the depth of their instant personalization features, but may offer Twitter or other access as well in order to calm users who may rightfully fear a company that does not respect anonymous speech. Even though I like Facebook's features and respect their technology, I must hear my customers concerns first.
From an equally unusual angle, OkCupid's data mining shows the same basic pattern: having people love or hate you is better than having people merely like you.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-mathematics-of-beauty/
Because that's what they asked Google to do in their Webmaster tools.
Do not support files > 2GB in size. No go.
Adjusting the government school model and encouraging home education aren't mutually exclusive. It would seem that any sort of effective change in the way government approaches education is extremely difficult.

We home educate our children, and you are correct. It has been a genuine challenge on many levels. I've observed various families with the minimum of means achieve success home educating, but in general it is folks that have a solid single income and understand that they are making a "sacrifice". There is very little in this life that favors those of bare minimum needs.
We'll always try our best to deliver content that is valuable and entertaining for our readers. We've put together an editorial calendar that I hope everyone will enjoy! Thanks for pointing out the h1 problem!
so what? so does every other seo optimizes page. (but how SO dealt with it was interresting nontheless)
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The work Jesse and VeloCity have been doing over the last few years has been great for the community at UW. YC-funded Allerta (of inPluse) is also VeloCity alum, as was the 7CUBED project (of QuickCite). Not bad results after only 3 years.
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Circumventing that filter is easy for the user, but I don't see how it's easy for the referring website.
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android
Being over 30 myself, I find Khan Academy useful as well.
Even if it's just to quickly brush up on a subject I happen to need and forgot all about.
This disturbs me. In spite being an avid gardener, I really can't see how watering a couple of plants actually costs any money (or how removing them saves any). With that being said, I too would like to see these studies
Doing something part-time does not mean that that project is a one weekend experiment. If you do something for let's say 2 years 3 hours each day, why cannot you call that thing a startup? For some of us, quitting our day job is not an option (yet). (For example no one would invest into an eastern european guy's vision about user-friendly database access, and his ability to execute on it). But it does not necessarily mean that our projects are child's toys. (Maybe some of us work on even more sophisticated stuff than startups with $40 million funding.)
Yahoo Plans to Open Source Code for Non-core Technologies
The other side of that coin is that, if it is easy to move somewhere else, Amazon does not have that special of a product. If that is the case, how are they going to compete? Both price and quality are options, but even those are forms of lock-in, if they keep customers in-house.
It feels like amazon is slowly dismantling the advantages of other content services. It's now competing head to head with one or several other companies within each media space.
"The average public school student taking these standardized tests scored at the 50th percentile in each subject area."

Was that intended as irony? If not, exactly what would it take, given the overwhelming size of the public school systems, to move the average significantly off 50?
"Its ability to change what any object is, on the fly"

No, it doesn't. It changes the reference. If things are referred in the right way, it is possible to statistically compile them. PyPy relies on this info too, but JIT compiling.
I think you are using the wrong vocabulary for libertarians.

This legislation is more about climate change than about peak oil. It is possible that peak oil hits just when we also want to limit our CO2 emissions but the two are unrelated. (Some non-libertarians would probably add that peak oil is also a good reason for legislation, they will say that without it the transition will be very rough, too rough to be handled only by the market. But that’s only non-libertarians.)

There are no incentives for individuals or companies to change their behavior because of climate change. It’s a good old tragedy of the commons. The incentives have to be created outside of the market and a typical way to do that is through legislation.

Here are the three assumptions that might lead even a libertarian to support such legislation:

1. Climate change is an example of the tragedy of the commons and doesn’t create (enough) incentives for individuals or companies to change their behavior.

2. It is possible to create such incentives through legislation and the proposed legislation is a good way to do that.

3. The costs of climate change are lower than the costs of preventing or slowing down climate change.

Those are also the three assumptions (and there might be more but I think the list is pretty complete) you have to argue against if you do not support this legislation.
I like the idea, but there are some weird things about the home page that I thought I'd mention (first impressions and all that).

There are a number of areas on the page that look like they ought to be clickable, but aren't. For example, I was initially drawn to the square with the shopping cart inside ("Pick 24") and tried to click there before I realized it wasn't a link. Likewise, that "24 snacks for $24" box in the banner looks clickable. Might be worthwhile to have multiple hot spots on the page that all lead to the products listing.

On the products page, the text "Add Snackpack to Cart" overflows the button, at least on my setup (Safari & Chrome browsers, on Mac OS X).

OK. Now I have to figure out what to order. ;)
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MongoDB indexing and query optimizer details - video and slides
Apple's iOS 5 rumored to have 'deep' voice command integration
"The 12-year-old taught himself calculus, algebra and geometry in two weeks..."

That is real smart.

How come I have never heard about this 12 year old before? The world needs more stories like this.
> If the blog supports comments, it needs to talk to databases.

Sure, but it doesn't have to fall over. Outsourcing to Disqus is the easiest solution, but you can build your own AJAXy solution. Or just write out a new static file for each comment (if you're really overloaded, comments may take a while to be processed, but you can just serve the old page in the interim.)
LOL, would be interesting to see the reaction of an employer
Which was what exactly? I ask because I am light on this subject and haven't a clue.
Even a day past the deadline I was thinking we could have said it better, but at some point you have to call it done... We did edit quite a bit at least, and I don't quite cringe at reading it. We've also since honed our idea and it's looking vastly better day-to-day (IMHO ;).

Our video looks particularly awkward to me, and feels like it conveys little info since we kept trying to get it down to a minute, by which point it became more of a general introduction. Time will tell! :)
This is a very interesting point and should be highlighted. You said implementation artifacts (especially in reference to reducing code duplication), and for clarity, I think you are referring to the definition of operators on data (class methods, friend methods, and so on). I agree with you that subclassing (for the purpose of reusing behavior), traits (for adding behavior), and the like can be confused with classification to such an extent that modern designs tend to depart from type systems and be used for mere code organization.
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Hmm... HN's post page changed the != to an = in the post title, which totally misrepresents the content...

Time to use "ne" in the future...
Yes - they provide download capability, however it's at the individual file level only right now.
I do see where you're coming from - and I tentatively agree except on two points

if there is zero financial incentive to help out the Earth

I would argue that there's a HUGE financial incentive. The company/person that comes up with the "next big thing" in fuel sources is going to be incomprehensibly wealthy - I think that much is clear.

and it's cheaper to keep doing it

I think supply and demand almost guarantees that it will not always been cheaper. Maybe not on an acceptable timeline, but, its obvious that at some point it will become prohibitively expensive to continue to use fossil fuels.

I also feel like your rich people reference is sort of a catch-all FUD argument. Oh no, those terrible rich people are causing all the problems. There are plenty of people on this very forum that are probably rich by most standards. Surprisingly, that doesn't make them faceless evil monsters.
I doubt this will stick. The reason is because ultimately that means Amazon will be put in a position to delete peoples' files (if they fail to pay for their 20GB that month it reverts.) That could lead to lawsuits etc, probably not worth the chump change they'll save by revertting those plans.
The fact that it's CSS is cool, but apart from that (if you're not aware of that), it looks really bad (ie. the almost but not entirely right logos etc).
I don't think dead tissues are emitting any magnetic flux. I'm not sure though, but it seems obvious. #trivial
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That screenshot was to point out that when changing from "automatic" to "custom", there was no difference ie the setting Google's automatic setting settled on was "full pelt".
I had to read this for a literature and composition class. Definitely an eye opener
Thats because you're too young....

Xdrive was what? '99/'00?

THats the funny thing about technology -- there isnt too much that is new -- its just that all the underlying factors for success are more mature, thus products today can succeed where ten years ago they failed.

/Lawn
I don't know if the EU is taking the right approach. I don't personally see how this kind of deadline will nudge anyone along. Perhaps it will let car manufacturers know that their Britain division will not do as well in 2050 if they do not develop now, but I doubt that's what they were going for. I think the EU needs to provide consumer incentives to buy EVs, such as designated lanes or parking, or tax rebates. Companies producing electric cars are really going out on a limb right now, and until they know that there's some kind of serious demand beyond the environmentally minded, who simply want AN electric car to exist, they can't understand their demographics or create a sense of direction for their R&D. Quite simply, If governments want electric cars to catch on, they need to turn the project into an industry, not a charity effort. And for the industry to catch initially, the companies need to understand the demands of their first customers, those who are most willing to buy. They can build from there. The idea of creating a deadline turns the prospect into more of a charity effort toward the environment, not a self regulating, consumer rich industry. Environmental aspiration is important, which is why the governments need to press the gas pedal in the first place, but the companies need real paying customers to grow, not deadlines.

That, or I'm missing something having to do with the logistics of this whole thing.
While not 40 gigapixels, I really loved this similar 360 of the Sistine Chapel http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

I had always known about the central image in the top of the Chapel but until this I didn't see that the entire room was so well done.
Yup, it's open to all students. My (engineering) friends, love the art/business students who pop up there. Turns out that they are smart. And really useful. Especially since the faculties time their crunch time differently, so a mixed group/team will likely always have at least one person who isn't totally crushed at any given time.
They are already: http://www.aeryon.com/
Thanks merijnv,thanks for the inputs.

To be frank,I never did start with PHP, but yes I did flirt with Perl. I know a bit of Perl,(though embarrassed to admit,I lost my patience with Perl midway)

As for Ruby, I strangely had the impression, that I can't attempt at it, without knowing PHP and others.

So anyway for RoR or Django, do I need to learn Ruby and Python respctively to start over, or can I jump straight to it.
I have coded in C# and did some personal db work in MySQL . If that helps.
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Homeschooling is harder - most parents are not trained teachers. They could not for instance teach a class of 30 better than the teacher at the school. Or even tutor their own child as well as the teacher at the school.

But parents very likely Can tutor their own child, better than the teacher teaches a class of 30. That's the apples-to-apples comparison that matters, since its the option facing parents.

Imaging for a minute that the classroom teacher spends the day tutoring each child. That would be, what, 10 minutes per child per day? And this doesn't of course happen.

A parent can do better than that in the first half-hour after breakfast. The rest of the day is gravy.

What does a home-schooled child miss? Socialization, practice at behaving as a member of a group, classes that require investment in equipment/facilities (art, gym, sports). These things can be mitigated by the clever parent, and honestly missing some of that is not all bad.

Anyway you end up with a different child. Not necessarily better or worse, but certainly different. And I suppose we need a few different adults.
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Well there ya go.
I read an article that references this, that says Olin is "feeling a lot better now". I sure hope so.

http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/BitterAcknowledgment...
That actually is (sort of) addressed in the article's initial example. Your class extension can turn someone else's class extension into a monkey patch. Worse, your extension may not match calling semantics of the other extension, so you can get some truly ugly behavior.
Save your Cleverness
Since they're not answering I'll take a guess: $80k - $140k
I am stunned. Is a simple CMS a basic project for PHP? I must admit I dont know much about it, but then Php looks incredibly powerful
Do you run your site with keepAlive set low all the time or only when needed?
Common Lisp supports that --- it doesn't really much with compilation too much.
"Everything is going to shit" is a much easier thing to argue about than "you should listen to critical people."
Three members of the Google Chrome team do a reddit AMA
Static whole program type analysis is pretty much a lost cause for any production compiler.
Because he's only been 12 for less than a year (last year you would've heard about an 11 year old and next year about a 13 year old) and hasn't really had a few decades to make a name for himself yet. He and Google would be in the same grade together.
HN is a place for people who are interested in web startups not a place for founders. There's overlap, but it's simply not the same audience.

Somebody who is actively spending their life trying to grow a business doesn't have time to "actively participate" in HN, because HN is a timesuck. It's largely filled of stories that have little or no impact for somebody who is actually on the ground, executing their business.

None of this means that HN is a bad place. But active participation in this community is a bad idea for the entrepreneur whose target market is something other than startups.
If I ran my resume through Google Translate a few times, to some languages and back to English again, I wonder if it would be very similar to this.
Oh yes. But any business relying on organic search and having an idiotic linking rules deserves to die.
SO is the best case study of a startup scaling with .Net. Whenever I read their infrastructure stuff I cringe I am not in their team.
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How? Its a free country, and people optimize their lives for their own perceived benefit.

Regulate startups? Businesses operated out of garages/spare offices/abandoned warehouses? Ridiculous -they are exactly the sort of thing that cannot be tracked, counted, taxed or bent to someone elses view.
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True. But even with very few links, I suspect ryanair.com would come up high for a search for "ryanair". They get a bonus for an exact domain match. So no matter what they will probably come up high for searches for "Ryanair"
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Ask HN: What's the best way to accept recurring $5-20K/mo payments?
I was wondering what's the best way to accept high value recurring payments like that(can't very well use paypal or credit cards).
What you need to do is Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.

The OODA loop has become an important concept in both business and military strategy. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby "get inside" the opponent's decision cycle and gain the advantage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
This was also posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379419
If you're thinking of going back to school strictly just to learn how to program in a "structured" way that you do in school, I would suggest checking out the free courses that MIT offers online. (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu...)

And it will give you a taste if learning programming in a school like environment is right for you.

Good luck!
I'd be very surprised if this isn't step 1 to a whole-phone-data-sync solution. Media, Data, third party app API -- the whole shebang.
> I reckon we have about a decade of reasonably affordable petrol left before we hit the wall in a big way.

Citation needed. We have at least two decades of cheap oil ahead.
It's not easy for the general ryanair customer. The average person doesn't know what a referrer header is.
a few more bits:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/scribblings.html
I've seen interns do great things too. One sold his webpage test app to Adobe, still works their in a senior position. One went to a small ecommerce company to engineer their database for scalablity - EBay didn't work out too bad for him either.

There's very little risk of Entrepreneurship overwhelming our economy. Sure it makes the headlines.
Probably to stop online 'price compare' or 'find a bargain' website. Ryanair want people to buy via their site so they can upsell.
Lanyrd is a complex site - we have over 50 different page templates, all of which are styled using that one stylesheet. We get a lot of functionality out of that 100K. Not to mention that CSS compresses extremely well - served with gzip, the entire stylesheet is actually just 19745 bytes.

We use a far-future expires header (and serve from Amazon CloudFront), so browsers should only ever fetch the file once no matter how many pages on the site the user visits.
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