skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Math is about abstraction. It's OK to describe elementary maths and calculus with water-filling bottles, but it ends there, because the higher order abstract structures of mathematics have no real-world equivalent. If we start teaching people with Flash simulations, we 'll have to forget about the Standard model, relativity, electromagnetism, Symmetry, string theory etc. Sure, visual representations make some subjects more accessible, but they can also be terribly misleading and limiting. (Just imagine how much bias our 3-dimensional world experience imposes to our visual thinking). If anything, abstract (written) math allows us to escape the confines of perceived reality.

Math and language are 2 faces of the same ability we have to model the world in arbitrary symbols. Just like math, language has symbols and syntax, that have meaning to us regardless of representation (spoken, written or digital).
In my opinion, some of your biggest strengths are also what leaves room for competitors.

For example, you focus on Silicon Valley where you are extremely well connected. Competitors could do very well by simply focusing on less glamorous, but emerging startup hubs.

You require people to relocate to Silicon Valley for a few months. This shows commitment from both parties and is a smart choice for you, but it also makes the program inflexible and unsuitable for a great deal of talented, perhaps more experienced people who cannot easily relocate. Your typical candidate is a student who is fresh out of college. Your competitors may capture the value in other demographics which have less flexibility when it comes to relocation, ability to quit their job, and so on.

Imagine an Untyped Lambda which offers similar terms to yours, but is also very flexible. You don't have to relocate (you can work remotely). Oh, and you can also apply if you are going to do this part-time, if at the moment you are employed and want to see where the startup goes before quitting your job.

You may think that this idea is grounds for a complete disaster, that such candidates might not committed, and so on - but perhaps, just maybe, such a degree of flexibility would lead to all sorts of new talent giving entrepreneurship a honest shot.

I'm not advocating that you do all that, but rather that a smart competitor may use it to their advantage.
For this particular problem, your position is hyperbole. People have been "looking up phone numbers" since the demise of "operator, put me through to -foo-". Looking up a phone number for someone is a lowest-common-denominator task; if you're capable of using a phone, you should be capable of at least a cursory search for a phone number.
> Is it really easier to call people names than to just move on to read other stuff?

I didn't call anyone names, please don't put words in my mouth. I described their behavior as being lazy, that is not name calling.

> Anyways, this thread has outlived its usefulness. Over and out.

Ditto.
Go vs Scala vs NodeJS
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Building an ecosystem & beating the mob: PayPal mafia insiders' story
Chin up guys, neither work in Australia
Lazy, refusing to think for themselves, insults, names, tomayto, tomahto.
If you have ipod/iphone/ipad, have a look at <http://www.islap101.com/>; (and review of it at <http://lifehacker.com/5501364/photo-tutor-teaches-basic-came....
There are actually two apps (one for shutter speed and one for aperture) - and they teach/display those concepts really well - even if I say so myself :-). There are also "recipes" for taking photos in various environments/situations - all prepared by professional photographers.
> Genuinely curious: how did he improve the world? At least I heard more news about his Swedish affair than about anything significant disclosed by wikileaks (nicknames of the politicians aside).

Read the newspaper much? WikiLeaks and Assange have been responsible for breaking more MAJOR stories than all of the media outlets combined. First we had the Collateral Murder video which showed a Baghdad airstrike where Iraqi civilians including 2 Reuters journalists killed. Then the Afghan War Diary followed by the Iraqi War Logs. Huge amounts of documents. Then the "US diplomatic cables leaks" which contained more than a few important stories, maybe you heard about them? These we followed by the The Guantánamo Files which revealed that hundreds of innocent Afghan farmers were held for years there without being charged. (If you don't know what any of these things are, I'm sure you know how to find out more about them).

If none of the above is significant to you, I don't know what to say. Anyway, sorry to be snarky, but your comment is either uninformed or the mainstream media and the state have done an good job planting seeds of doubt in your mind about the importance of people like Assange in a free society or both.
Go looks really nice and I'd really like to learn it especially if I can make a web app or something with it this summer.

Is there something comparable to npm or pip for go? I've seen a few go micro web frameworks but I'd really like to see a list of things like database adapters and the like which have been produced so far. The thing I find amazing about node is just how many great modules have been put out in it's short lifespan (https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules). I suppose Go is a brand new language though.

Thanks!
Not if all the ads a user sees are CPC-based and the user doesn't click. Doesn't matter though, enough people do click...
Yes, I do tend to think that they would be tolerant of sponsorships, but I'm not sure I could find a sponsorship that would make up the difference.
Historically, it wasn't "S", it was "T".
The NSA Collects a Library of Congress Worth of Data Every Six Hours
Google Music is not available in your country.

Pretty much says it all as far as I'm concerned.
The body element is already a wrapper.
We disagree. You are encouraging a bad habit and teaching people they don't need to think at all if you continually respond to easily answered questions they could have found in 5 seconds with a Google search.

It is not negative to tell them to Google for themselves, it's teaching a man to fish. The answer to all simple questions is Google it yourself, that's a more valuable education than any other response.
actually:
4. Kongregate's app was banned because the intent of the application of to install other applications there by side stepping any mechanisms setup by the Android Market place.

5. I hope Google v. Apple happens over this and maybe we will get a global accessor... oh wait isn't that what they announced?
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Somehow I think he'll be alright, especially compared to Bradley Manning.
There is an immense difference between "can someone give me their phone number" and "I'm having troubles with mdadm picking up this array, can someone help out?"

Pandering to trivial requests only encourages trivial requests. Hell, in a forum recently I responded to someone saying "you need version -foo- and you can find it here (link)". He said thanks... then three days later asked where he could find it (link was still valid). The next two comments were asking where they could find the exact thing in the link I'd given and described the parameters of. You also see the same thing in countless forums where commentor -foo- comes along, ignores the comments, and demands someone PM them with the solution.

I don't have a problem with repeating stuff that's buried in the comments on page 5 or whatnot, but when it's this level of trivial crap, it is just chaff and shouldn't be encouraged.
From the Lifehacker review:

> It's also worth noting that they're looking to crack down on piracy, so depending on how well it works and how much of your music is illegal, that could be a deal killer for some.

This would be a deal killer for me and nearly everyone I know.
I think this is the list of IP addresses your talking about:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/05/expend...
Actually this is not quite correct. F is ratio of aperture to focal length. As such, it does not tell you the absolute values of either, but it definitely does relate to DOF (although this will be affected by the focal length value - e.g., for the same F, you could have DOF of a few mm at short focal length, and a few dozen metres with long zoom lenses).
> It bothers me that as a generation, we are rejecting our parents way to play the game, when instead we should be rejecting the game.

I think this is the initial reaction to many 1st gen asians struggling to work out the paths to success. But I think in reality we don't need to reject our parents methods or the game itself - we just need to adjust our way of thinking.

If I use the analogy of building accommodation - if you lived in New York, you would learn how to build a high rise apartment block, if you lived in Montana, you might learn how to build a single story farm house. If your New York builder parents moved to Montana, your high rise building skills would not be as successful in Montana - it doesn't mean that your parents are at fault, or that the fundamentals of building theory are incorrect or bad. Nor is the 'game' (in this case, how to build accommodation) in itself at fault.

Most people will not experience the move from 'NYC' to 'Montana' and won't understand the challenges that it entails. For those that do, we don't need to reject our parents methods or rail against 'the system' - we just need to recognise that things are different and that we need to adapt.
Jobs = charisma and hyperbole
Ressi = language and ego
Musk = visionary (though haven't met personally)
Ellison = force of will
"Error Establishing Database Connection"

Way to fight racial stereotypes dude. My prejudiced view of asians as people that know how to build websites has totally been challenged.
Arrington - ego
It is expecting that if large power structures (governments, corporations, institutions) are afraid their dirty laundry will be exposed they will try to act more responsibly. Well, perhaps in reality they will just try harder to hide the dirty laundry, but that's for another discussion. Going with the original idea, if coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan feel that what they do day to day could end up on Wikileaks.org, perhaps they'll think twice about tolerating or engaging in abuse. Anyway, I think that's the logic.

Now you can of course ask "What did Obama do to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?". My answer would be "nothing" but many here will probably disagree with that. So to me it all just seems rather random who gets peace prizes and why: Is it a statement of encouragement, like a "preemptive" peace prize, in hopes more peace to come in the future? Or is it for specific past accomplishments, and then how does one measure that? What were Obama's accomplishments when he got his?
Here's my tip: give me something actionable. The e-mails that sit around unanswered are those with wishy-washy requests that require me to think about what the person really wants. The ones that get fast, useful answers are direct and obvious. The "five sentences or fewer" item will get you most of the way there.
I was thinking the exact same thing when i read the headlines. But not that the linux client is (was) as good as the mac or windows versions...
I see people being downmodded here for daring to use a little levity in comments because it's 'chaff', so why not apply the same quality restrictions for this kind of trivial question?
After hearing about this, I'm going to clean up my Facebook friends based on whether I'd let them crash in my house.
It's entirely correct. ƒ relates to DoF only in that it's relative to the maximum aperture of a specific lens. Without knowing the specifics of the lens, you cannot know from arbitrary ƒ value if the aperture has been contracted (narrowing the flow of light, thus increasing the DoF), if it's just really dark glass in the lens, if someone has a TC mounted that steals 1-2 exposure stops, or if someone has simply used a gray filter or two attached to the end of the lens. I can produce two identical exposures, both of ƒ/8.0, where one has a narrow DoF and the other 4 aperture steps deeper DoF, by simply using a gray filter in one shot, and contracting the aperture in the other. In a third example I can use a very, very dark lens such as f.e. what Leica used to produce in the 60s, still exposing at ƒ/8.0 in wide-open aperture, reaching the same exposure and achieving a narrow DoF (contrary to what anyone would think just knowing it's ƒ/8.0), but without having stopped down a single step and without having used gray filters.
go on...

What did you find -- HN is perfectly discreet.
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Hahaha - thank you. Glad to help.
don't forget even if they a subscriber, you can play the IP address is not a good identifier for a person[1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-botche...
I would love to contribute to how to get accepted faster, but I honestly can't. I've followed all the rules the last couple years and really haven't been rejected when I've tried to get through. About 1-2 weeks each time for each app and update. Two years ago when the app store was new, I did test the rules and got rejected in static analysis pass but that was under my own personal user and for obvious stuff.

I really don't know what it takes to get rejected on top of the already existing ground rules they spell out on their site. Apple really hasn't given me any trouble at all (except emailing after accepting to change a little artwork to clean up an icon next pass).
If you're astounded that people who have been given much want more, you haven't been following the trend of CEO pay or the activity on Wall Street or history of human conquest. It is part of human nature to always be wanting more.

Leaving the snarkiness aside, you make a great point. It is always worth thinking about how lucky you are and how much worse things could have turned out.

There wasn't a place for me to note my appreciation for what I've been given in the article, but know that it exists. My statement about getting after what you want still stands.
> If I was a member of the jury I could not in good conscience return a guilty verdict to any organization the holds it's prisoners in the conditions that the US Military holds their prisoners.

What I am interested is how people like you get on the jury without being filtered out. You are certainly not someone the prosecution would want on. Are juries selected for authoritarianism and blind conformity, could you fake it through the selection process?
Symbol overloading almost never pose a problem, since the intended meaning is usually obvious from the context.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

So I would have believed until I tried to learn differential geometry. The default is to eliminate all parts of the notation that are unambiguous. Proving that they are unambiguous is left as an exercise to the reader, and the exercise is often non-trivial. Furthermore widely used constants vary by factors of 2 pi depending on who is using it.
It's about time! i always wondered why google left out Go! for the app engine last time i was there, since it's their language and stuff. Tough i guess it's ruby next? yeah probably not...
This all seems really shallow and superficial. "Money!" "Women!" "Pushups!" "Fuck yeah!"

I don't like loud douchebags of any race. I'm not saying you're a douchebag, but what you wrote here says to me that strive to be one.
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Oh yeah downvote such comments by all means. Refuse to answer the question. I'm behind these options.

Or gently remind them to google it. I wouldn't bother myself, but that's reasonable too.

Saying "it's literally the first result" like icey did seems more than a gentle reminder. It's the start of the slippery slope. Distracting - I don't even remember what we were talking about anymore.

Generalizing from the action to the actor like gnaritas did, criticizing somebody as rude, lazy and refusing to think for themselves because they thoughtlessly introduced some chaff -- now we're deep in over-reaction territory, breaking eggs with sledgehammers, generating more chaff than the original poster.

I'm not in any way defending the question itself. The best response to a minor infraction (including levity perhaps) is to just ignore it.
I don't think this deserved the downvotes. What can be proved in a court of law is one thing; what we as onlookers believe probably happened can be something quite different. I have contributed to Manning's defense, but there's no doubt in my mind that he leaked the cables. I'm just hoping his defense team can get him acquitted anyway. And indeed, it appears that the hard evidence is remarkably weak, if indeed there is any at all.

Why am I hoping he is acquitted? Because his intentions really were those of a whistleblower, and I think he has done us citizens a service. Really, Manning should have been named in this prize along with Assange.
Adobe sues Wowza, makers of an alternative to Flash Media Server
They said in the Fire Chat with the Android team that they will push the icecream source to git. This will include all the previous commits including the Honeycomb ones. They are not sure yet if they will tag what exact commit exactly corresponds to 3.0 and 3.1 but the commit will be there (this is how git works).

Anyway, it doesn't really matter as long as the icecream release is tagged (and it will be), why would we care about a year old commit when the latest can be used instead?
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That post is hilariously arrogant and off-the-mark. "Strong typing is for weak minds?" Really?

While I grant that that's a harsh statement, would you disagree with what he says next?

"Our current popular languages are designed to help losers
lose less."
I hope the above two posts are detailed enough. If not, I'll gladly explain if you have a specific question.
You'd think I'd know that considering I used to live in Denver and drive a truck all over the US (coast to coast). I now how remote the west can be, like the stretches between Green River and Ritchfield Utah, or Needles to Barstow, CA. Still seems surprisingly far east though.
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The last time I checked, the FSF still requires submitters to sign a copyright assignment. Their rationale is that it is difficult in the U.S. to file suit for copyright infringement when copyright of a work is not held by one single entity.

Still, there's a world of difference between handing over copyright to a non-profit organization that is chartered to further Free Software, versus handing it over to a for-profit corporation and hoping for the best.
How To Bypass Internet Censorship
Well, that's what we have git rebase for.
non-economic decision making

government regulation
I agree with the parent. F-Stop is the ratio of the Focal length to aperture diameter. Increasing that ratio, increase the depth of field. Decreasing that ratio, decrease the depth of field.

Instinctively, F23 will put everything in focus (which is why we use it to identify dust spots on our CCDs, whereas F1.4 on anything reasonably close is going to have a DOF measured in inches.

Can you come up with a counter example where DOF doesn't change in this direction?

Apologies if I'm missing your entire point - I've been starting at it for five minutes, not sure if you are going a different direction.
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That makes the problem go away, but doesn't solve it. Just shifts it onto having to wade through a lot of tiny subreddits.
You might be surprised - crunch the numbers to find out how many people are actually using it, then start emailing any relevant, big blogs, software products, services etc. If you've got enough traffic someone'll bite.
roughly correct insofar as there are undecidable mathematical statements. I don't understand though, how "we can study, meaningfully" these objects that our formal systems cannot compute. These statements do exist, and we can (interestingly) express them in language and understand them (as a gut feeling), but all we can do is stare awkwardly at them, undecidedly. imvvho, we cannot claim that metaphors (or language) are more powerful than formal systems by that.
Go has a surprisingly large package list: http://godashboard.appspot.com/project

Like pip or npm, their is goinstall http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/
Ask HN: Getting the Facebook share button to work 100%
Facebook is pushing the like button, but for obvious reasons in many cases we prefer the share button.

In doing my research some people have found problems with how the share button scrapes the page so that the wrong metadata is sometimes pulled in.

Does anyone have a concrete description for how to reliably (meaning 100%) get the share button to work?

The core idea is that we want the share button to scrape a specific title and body and allow the user to add a comment. Sometimes the share button scrapes the correct content and sometimes it doesn't.
Can you explain why the ratio of aperture to focal length would change simply by using dark lenses or grey filters? The implied meaning of "ƒ only tells you how much light is passed to the film plane" is that ƒ would change merely by adding or removing a filter, rather than adjusting aperture or focal length.
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or genitalia

Sounds a tad defensive, only proving the point of the New York Magazine article.
Not to mention wider society - it's difficult to countersignal that you are intrinsically driven.
It's a testimony to the effectiveness of link-baiting when pretty much the only bad review gets the most attention.

Other than the fact that some of their grievances are unrelated to the actual functionality of the product, they don't seem to realize that it's an invite-only beta.
It's very good. Thanks alot.
I'll second that. I was thrilled to see him pop up again in my RSS reader last month, after years of radio silence.
im a DSLR newb, but i think i just nailed it with:
sunny, 55mm, ISO:100, f4, 1/2,000
not quite. with git, he is almost 100% certain the commit is his.
I'd argue the opposite; I've found it to be very positive to travel and host with AirBnB and CouchSurfing when it comes to, ahem, the opposite sex. Friend-of-a-friend might get awkward, but then again, that's never stopped us either.
First you have to define what "popular" means. Do you only allow, say, C# and Java? I use Scala quite a lot. It has a vibrant community, increasing popularity, and it sure doesn't hold back on the advanced features.
I think yc generally does best with consumer products where the founder could put himself int he place of the user. Industry products (good example is health care) has such a high barrier to understanding that someone who hasn't been in the field would have a very difficult time designing a useful tool.
Did you even read the article (the OP and the nymag article)? Those articles were nothing about whining or narcissim - it was all about the sense of displacement and confusion that many 1st gen Asian-americans feel.

If you have ever travelled into a foreign place (and preferably some non-Western place - assuming you are from the US), you will get a feel for what displacement feels like. Things look similar to your home, but people behave and act differently in obvious and subtle ways. The things you learnt you could do in the US don't always work in these foreign places.

But when you travel, you know it's temporary and you can always go home. For the asian-americans in the article, it's not temporary and they can't go home - they are home, yet 'home' (as they view it through the lens of their parents upbringing) can feel like a 'foreign place'.
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Why are Asians to race oriented?
Is Being an Indie all Fun and Games?