skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, regimes who can rely on revenue other than taxes (say, oil) are often even more corrupt.
I think it really depends on the person. The main thing I'd say is that you don't have to drop out of school to start a company. There was a front page article just recently about Quizlet -- the founder was in school for 5 years before dropping out. I'd almost say that it's better to go to school, because it's the type of environment that allows you to find ideas and people easily in comparison to living on your own. Startups (and most ideas) seem to come out of life experiences rather than "Eureka moment" ideas (I don't remember the studies, but the science shows this). School gives you quite a lot of interesting experiences, even if it isn't always enjoyable.
Aha, that makes sense.

And yes, some quick Googling turns up several papers that talk about the Roche limit for a black hole and a star being well outside the black hole's event horizon.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Merge Sort in ANSI C
Second this. I am currently so fed up with catering to all sorts of browsers and their incompatibilities and shortcomings that I think a 'stop caring' approach along with 'go somewhere else then' is becoming the only way to preserve my own sanity, as long as the given project/task allows it.
Nobody else spends dollar coins, so young cashiers sometimes don't even recognize it as currency they have to accept. The government would have to stop printing dollar bills for dollar coins to really see use.
Backbone.js came out just a couple of weeks before I gave this talk in October 2010, and I just hadn't had time to look at it enough to feel comfortable mentioning it. It is definitely a powerful tool for bringing structure to an application, and I'd certainly mention it if I were to give the talk today.
There are educational systems other than the current US one you know.

Presumably "better colleges" would include, among other things, better and cheaper state schools.
Can money really buy happiness—or at least rent it?
There's definitely some subjectivity and it comes down to what you want from a language and framework. I think Haskell is the best way to learn functional programming because it's pure, has a powerful type system and helpful community, and it's easy to use it to replace shell scripts. One of the things that really bothers me about JVM based languages is the startup time that makes it painful to use them as shell scripts, but if you're just writing a web application this might not be an issue.

If you decide to go with Haskell then you need to decide what kind of framework you want. I started with Snap and it I enjoyed using it but it doesn't have the high level functionality that Rails or Django do. I'm now using Yesod and it's great. It seems very Haskelly to me and the high level functionality means I don't have to write my own authentication system and persistence layer.
If you are on linux, use /dev/urandom.
First Days on Android: Where Are the Apps and Why is My Phone Frozen?
My mom's Royal has been working for 20+ years without losing suction, although it's heavy as shit because it's all metal. She bought it when she worked at a sewing and vacuum place.

My friend got a used kirby for $350 that kicks any dyson's ass all over the place.
Previously discussed and killed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426162
He saw opportunities, sometimes embedded within problems, and worked them to his favor. This is what he's referring to when he speaks of the learned skill of transforming "nothing into something", and it's a skill that obviously applies to business.
Fork our new album on Github
I find companies talking about their internal products with no release pretty much the antithesis of hackeryness.
Such a way does not do honor to the spirit of the craft.
I may just be over-sensitive, but this post seems a little too cavalier about the Libyan crisis to me. In addition, I had the impression that this piece might be about some kind of "hack" for humanitarian purposes, or something like Google's work to help people in Japan to connect after the earthquake and tsunami.

I am no stranger to writing somewhat more compelling titles to blog posts, but I feel like this attempt has misfired.
I agree in general, it is better to inform your readers, your type system and yourself in a few weeks of your intentions. But in simple cases, if your testing out something, it might be better to use lists and cons cells, at least initially(for example plists or alists instead of hash tables). But like a lot of things in common lisp, this requires good judgment.
This suggests that tests should be more frequent.
A Ferrari might get you laid. That's enough utility for some people.
The question says you have just COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, and IO.SYS.

One day Nirva Toomish entered the ACM Programming Competition. But the languages allowed were Pascal and something else, neither of which he knew. But the machine had DEBUG.COM on it, so he wrote his programs in DEBUG.COM's assembler, and solved several (all?) of the problems.

The problem came when the proctors asked to see the source code. He used DEBUG.COM to disassemble his programs, but they were not satisfied with that.
Interestingly the equation for the Roche limit has a term for the radius of the primary, but not the satellite. Only the density of the latter matters, not its size.
Let's see... in tuition, the students paid collectively over $300,000. Between me and the two TAs who were grading and doing discussion sessions under me, about $60,000 was spent on teaching for the class (the $60,000 figure includes the graduate student tuition waivers and our health benefits).
I think about 98% of the population are what I'd call statistically and economically illiterate. Basic economics should be a mandatory lesson at school, but unless you picked the class you can leave without even understanding the law of supply and demand. And then politicians, whose job is mainly to interfere with economic activity, blast these people with statistics (the significance of which they barely understand) about the economy, in order to secure their votes and Run the Fucking Country.

Meanwhile, people leave school and, regardless of profession, find themselves doing largely the same thing: sitting in front of a computer in an office. The productivity of virtually every job in the country depends in part on the employee's ability to use a computer. But unless they picked computing as a class (and, hell, even then), they'll have absolutely no clue how to really use a computer to your advantage, ie. to program it.

My suggestion: teach maths (which is already a mandatory subject) using computers and scripting languages. Let students practice abstraction to make computation/calculation easier; and then get them to model tougher problems and tackle them. Pick these problems from the realm of economics and finance, thereby building knowledge of another domain simultaneously (the only reason I understand what 'hire purchase' is is because my textbooks used it for exercises).

By the time they leave school, these kids will be no strangers to writing macros. In their further education and in their desk jobs, this will prove enormously convenient. Single handedly it could boost the GDP by a % or two (ok, I just made that figure up, but having worked in offices you all must have seen how inefficient the workflows are, and how one whizkid can make a big difference). It would even be useful in totally different disciplines. For instance in the study of literature, textual analysis by computer can prove very useful - finding all the references to a certain thing or instances of a certain word often shows deep patterns in the text. On my literature course only one professor/lecturer was doing this (he said it was particularly useful for Dickens), but he was definitely one of best in the department.
I think it's great to have more active frameworks for PHP that keep questioning how 'stuff was done' with the previous ones.

The only thing that I keep wishing for is that the whole 'new school' PHP 5.3+ gets something similar to Ruby's gems and having more high quality code that lives outside of frameworks.

(That's no criticism towards FuelPHP at all - just seeing that you guys are writing some 'good PHP code' it might be worth considering if it wouldn't be great when some of it was available outside of FuelPHP as well.)
Presumably the author meant US Treasury marketable securities, but of course The Atlantic doesn't want to intimidate its readers with more than one idea at a time.

The Atlantic is a very average and annoyingly centerist publication. Tons of mildly interesting articles like this that are basically ancillary to how the world works.
Anybody answering this question is admitting they call themselves a rockstar.

Everybody knows ninjas kick rockstar ass.
It sure can, with Facebook Credits. Today, the margin is a little high for physical goods, but it works well for virtual goods.
if you need to do stuff with a inside of the function, then you have to do $(this), so every time an a in that collection is clicked $() is run.

In my first example I actually took that problem out of the equation by looping through the collection and storing the jQuery'd a as a var accessible via the event closure. However, if you want to reference an element in that collection later in your code, you have to jump though the jQuery selection hoops.

But you are right, sometimes you may not need to have every element in your selection wrapped in the jQuery object and it is up to you to determine which solution to use in a given case. But I do feel that most cases I see devs constantly wrapping $(this) inside of event handlers when they could have made an external reference/collection before hand and used that.

$('a').hover(
function(e){
$(this).doSomething();
},
function(e){
$(this).doSomething();
}
);

vs

var as = $('a'),
collected //using the same method as above;

as.each(function(i, e){
collected[i].hover(
function(e){
collected[i].doSomething();
},
function(e){
collected[i].doSomething();
}
);
);

This is a very rudimentary example and I know that there is a simpler way to accomplish this, but imagine code with multiple collected items who all match up on a 1 to 1 basis collecting the pre-wrapped objects has its advantages.
Well, a whole-house vacuum's not an option here. But as it turns out I installed a whole-house vacuum for my parents while helping to build their house. And we basically never used it, for two reasons. First, we didn't find its cleaning capabilities as good as a standard vacuum. And second, one should not underestimate the inconvenience and weight of long hoses.
I go to Australia fairly often and know quite a few people who live between the US and AU. Finally frustrated beyond the breaking point by iTunes and Netflix goe-location nonsense, I got one of these small servers(1).

I loaded openvpn(2) server on it and put tunnelblick(3) on all our macs (and a few openwrt type devices)

Cost of a tiny dedicated Atom server payable with paypal: $39/month. Having an IP address that that says I'm in New Jersey wherever in the world I happen to be: priceless.

1. http://www.interserver.net/custom-managed-dedicated-servers....

2. http://openvpn.net/

3. http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
Absolutely. I think the word "renewal" is probably better then. I used both in the article, but "renewal" really makes sense.
There's nothing overly special about an object disappearing across an event horizon, observationally. However, blackholes happen to have extremely severe tidal forces that border the event horizon, and objects passing through this region (even stars) will be torn apart and smashed back together and will be raised to incredible temperatures and release massive amounts of energy. It is this process which is being observed, and it is actually one of the most efficient processes for converting mass to energy in the Universe.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Accretion_of_matter
Sourcing a 3d Printer
Basically correct (except the concept of volume doesn't hold up in a black hole). It is theoretically possible to have a black hole big enough that its Roche limit is inside its event horizon; but a black hole that big is probably at least vanishingly rare in the observable universe.
I'm guessing that they write notes on your application as they review it.
Is binarray2000 someone's alt account? Because they are quite old, haven't been active for several months, and now have 3 items at the top of the homepage. Just curious.
I decided not to read the study within 50 ms due to the painful format chosen. This blog post does not add any value, it is just a one line summary of the studies results. The submitter would better serve serve HN community by submitting the original source, or better yet, by giving some analysis.
AIUI, graph databases have much less impedance mismatch to objects than SQL databases do. So why are most people still using SQL? Tradition, or efficiency?
> An even bigger problem is speed. It only runs at ~10% of native speed.

Currently that is basically the situation, yes (but it depends on the benchmark - some run much faster). However, improvements to Emscripten can probably get that up to 25% of native speed. As LLVM and JS optimizers like Closure get better that will improve even more.

And JS engines are getting faster too. Things like type inference will work particularly well on code like this, since the code is basically statically typed (but not explicitly).

So, in the long term I believe this approach can yield code that runs at very decent speeds. Plus, when comparing to NaCl it will have two main advantages: (1) it doesn't require a plugin and runs everywhere, even on iPads, and (2) it doesn't have the sandboxing overhead of NaCl (NaCl code itself is fast, but communication with outside code on the web page is slow).
Objects would almost never fall straight in to a black hole. In the case where there is relative angular velocity, they spiral in, and then the physics of accretion disks takes over. This involves the release of massive amounts of energy, particularly along radial jets, as the stuff in the disk spirals inwards. The energy release happens well before the infalling matter gets close to the event horizon.
Looking at the diagram it says 7% out of 102 online retailers. Which, slightly rounded of, is 7 online retailers.
It seems like one could pretty easily point out the logical fallacy there.

Another thing is that most governments and corporations don't necessarily look at the positive benefits so much as the negatives. That's one reason why I like this dollar amount idea. You shouldn't say "each child's life is worth 40,000 pounds," but rather "the potential cost of a lawsuit brought by relatives of a deceased child is in the millions of pounds."

The same method could be applied to valuing nature. You can simply say something like "the value of fisheries from the coast of Japan is $20 billion per year. Any release of radioactivity into the ocean could put TEPCO at risk of this amount in lawsuits."

Corporations and governments don't want to put a price tag on people (even though there are well established pricing models, based on historical disasters). By putting a price tag on the environment they can hopefully do better risk management. Maybe they can make smarter decisions like: "Increasing the size of the Tsunami protection wall will cost an additional $200,000, but will prevent the potential $20 billion in cleanup costs from a radioactivity release incident."
Is Tumblr the new WordPress?
You're right, sorry about the wrong information.
> My friend got a used kirby for $350 that kicks any dyson's ass all over the place.

As long as you never have to carry it up or down stairs. Or need to replace the bag. Or use cleaning attachments. Or disassemble to remove something stuck in the works.

Granted, Kirbys are built like tanks, but I'll choose my Dyson DC14 any day.
Khan Academy doesn't have to be bad for the thing you are doing to be good.
Ask Py Programmers: Is there value in writing an alternative to Twisted?
I have been using Twisted to write servers, while its very reliable and rich, I can't get over its Java-ish style. Do you think there is value in writing something which is more pythonic and also less object oriented?
Of the listed frameworks I only have (limited) experience with compojure, but here is my advice. I love functional programming, but i think that we've over-hyped it a little. As you know(i hope), there are no silver bullets. I wouldn't worry about a language being impure, purity is over hyped as well, clojure is also impure. What I used to do with clojure was to take a bunch of components(compojure, sandbar, hiccup etc.) and glue them together to make an app. I haven't been following the clojure scene for a while, but i believe thats the idiomatic way to write web apps, not the full stack style of rails or django, where you just fill in the blanks.
The editorialized headline might also make for an interesting article, but the actual title is:

"Success in These M.&A. Deals Appears on a Report Card"
Also a HN poster -- http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer
It can be read by the general public, but a tweet beginning with @ is shown only to the addressed person and to those who jointly follow the sender and the addressed person. So that's quite different from something that all followers see in their stream automatically.
I'm the FBI. :)
They'd probably get offended for not being referred to as "hackers".
>>allows you to select an item from collected without having to rewrap it with the jquery object

I think the following does the same thing:

var collected = $('a').map(function(element) {return $(element)})
At what point do unique usages of Github become mere abuses of the free bandwidth Github offers?
I don't doubt you're smart, so I suggest get coding! :)
I look forward to the useful commit logs from forks.

Binary files a/song and b/song differ
Nice, I didnt know that jQuery had map. Thanks.
How Worried Are Consumers about Privacy?
I guess it's just bit of cpu for memory trade-off
Maybe it was fixed ... it works fine for me.
I agree that tying these bonuses for everyone's participation is Larry Page's first big blunder.

I think there's two things that google can do to be a leader in the social space. Maybe you won't agree.

First. Buy Reddit. Buy all of Conde Nast if you have to, Larry.

Second. Given that search is an instant gratification thing (which google does so well) what would happen if, like in a subreddit, I wanted to be aware of goings on in a certain subject? Facebook is great for checking up on what a bunch of my friends are doing all over the world. But if I want a good daily overview of what's going on in a subject I'm interested in, with generally good coments, I go over to Reddit. Google could rule in this "automated newsgroup" space quite well. You would turn to this space to get commentary on articles all over the web. Google could keep it free from bots and not easily gamed. But Reddit's doing it right, and has the biggest userbase. (And yes, I find it pretty annoying most days, but now I filter out a lot of the subreddits I don't like.)

My point here is that Google should look at and learn from Reddit's model so much that it'd be better if they just bought it outright.
Have you looked into Eventlet or GEvent?
Ask HN: Coolest Gists that you have, or have found?
I feel like Gists are not very discoverable, by virtue of the current github UI.

Personally, I'm interested in handy gists for ruby, rails and mysql, and javascript, but anything that made you say "neat" would be worth posting. Anyone have fun gists?
You're not the only one. There's a sizable underground economy in this country that feels the same way about traceability. Organized crime, drug transactions, and black market goods represent an enormous amount of currency exchange. Even non-nefarious businesses like local laundromats or sidewalk vendors deal in cash with the advantage of being able to skimp on their tax reporting.

It would be interesting to see the effects on these "industries" if we were to move to a purely electronic exchange of money.
Nice. A couple of us at G5 are giving it a try. We like the reply feature and left sidebar showing all the rooms.

A few issues: at some point the font size in my reply text field got too small to read. And several times I got the spinning beach ball. I'd like to be able to resize the right-hand column with the names of folks in the room, too.

Overall, though, I'd have to say I like it.

Just shoot me an email and I can send you more feedback from the rest of the team next week.
Could you elaborate on what's wrong with the CEGEP system? If you're planning on going to University, it doesn't add any additional time to the end of your degree (since you don't do grade 12 and you only do a 3 year degree if you've done CEGEP), and it seems like it makes education more accessible.
I completely disagree. They are showing us what is coming and getting our minds going re: what possibilities this opens up for us.

Now, I admit, Microsoft is not the first company to create a graph centric db, but them weighing into this market gives the market further credibility. At the moment, I think graph is seen as an edge case. Maybe people will take another look now and start getting more serious about it.

Is it sad that it takes a big company jumping on the bandwagon to give it credibility?? Sure, a bit, but that is how the adoption curve goes.
How cool (ok, mostly annoying) would it be if you could accept pull requests and have the change automatically pushed to everyone's iTunes!
Also check out LuaAV, which is more mature and has some differences of philosophy: http://lua-av.mat.ucsb.edu/blog/
I have. While they fulfill the same purpose using co-routines I much prefer simple callback based systems.
Buy Reddit.
Regarding the original source, the actual results (at least, those mentioned in the abstract) are thus:

There is a high correlation between webpage visual appeal when presented for 50 ms and 500 ms.

So, a user who views a webpage for only half of a second is likely to give the same rating if viewed for only 50 ms. For this result to be significant (to me) there would need to be a correlation between 500 ms and a longer (5 second?) exposure.
Here is followup:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/07/fo...
I also live in Canada --- and would love to re-watch TNG.

The best-looking option right now (that doesn't entail copyright infringement) is Zip.ca, which has a bigger selection than Netflix Canada (at least for DVDs-by-mail), and has all the seasons of TNG on DVD. Zip.ca starts at $11/month.

http://www.zip.ca/DVD/Browse.aspx/1/s/Next$20Generation
It is obvious that Facebook makes some businesses lots of money (see: Zynga). It would be more interesting to know who is making money, and what their business models look like.
I'm glad others noticed this too. After the 6th time, I just gave up.
Why U.S. School Kids Are Flunking Lunch
C++ quicksort :|

#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <functional>
using namespace std;

template <typename T>
void sort(T begin, T end) {
if (begin != end) {
T middle = partition (begin, end, bind2nd(less<iterator_traits<T>::value_type>(), *begin));
sort (begin, middle);
sort (max(begin + 1, middle), end);
}
}

from wikipedia
How about option

4) making someone aware and giving them the opportunity to cease and desist from commercial infringing activity

Is that a threat?

It's one thing to tolerate infringement from a community open-source project. It's another thing to let someone commercialize that technology and bundle it with hardware when a fully proprietary competitor would reasonably expect to be sued in to bankruptcy in no time flat. Should the fact that part of your business is "open" give the whole business immunity from patent infringement claims?

Also, IBM isn't "a self-declared friend and protector of open source". They only made a limited non-aggression pledge. They aren't (and aren't trying to be) in the same category as the FSF and EFF, or even RedHat.