skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting comparison. Largely accurate, I think, but I do want to make a counter-point:

reading a summary != memorization

The problem with students who only memorize is that they are incapable of creation. They can answer a set of questions, but not use what they know to respond to something new. A summary, in the best cases (far from always achieved, of course), is all that is needed to get a thinking brain from zero to the conclusions the full text would bring you to. Any gaps can be logically deduced and filled through mental effort, ideally more quickly than it could be told. Especially if one already has experience in the area.

Memorization, meanwhile, creates gaps, and provides no tools to fill them.
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Panda? Still a freaking mess

Oh, 7 years after FB Google wants to get in the action.
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Why didn't he say all of this internally? Surely he's not the only person with these thoughts.
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So they named their early IM program "writ", but pronounced it "write". These are also the people that named the file creation system call "creat" instead of "create".

Could the next person who interviews Ken please ask him what he has against ending words with "e"? I wonder if there is an interesting story behind that.
From my own personal experience, I would avoid the first offer. I'd say there's more chance that everything you'll learn at the first place will be how not to do things. It is actually a great way to learn, but it's also very draining.
btw, EMEA is Europe Middle East and Africa. Asia is APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Afr...
Ask HN: What goes into a JavaScript Engine?
I've been wondering about what all goes into making a javascript engine—what all concepts are required to understand how engines like v8 or JaegerMonkey work?
You've missed my point - re-read my comment.
So what about a team of people who have not worked together formally in a company before? I know several people who attend various programming and user groups around town (in this case Portland, OR) and there are some I'd really like to work with and I think we'd work well together as a team. Is there a way for a team like this to form?
What makes it depressing?
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Just a couple of quibbles:

> But it's not necessary to down talk where we're at to motivate improvement.

It is necessary if the general perception of where we're at is much better than where we're actually at. I think the U.S. still has a very strong cultural air of superiority which perhaps is no longer justified (if it ever was). The first step to solving a problem is to realize that it exists, and the U.S. educational system is only recently coming under scrutiny because of repeated criticisms of it.

> Students come out believing they can do anything.

I'm uncertain about this -- both whether it's true, and whether it's beneficial if true.

> They're not afraid to try new approaches.

Actually, there's a growing murmur of dissent that, at least in the special case of "gifted" children, the constant praise of their intelligence leads to a fear of failure which, in turn, leads to a fear of trying things which others might try without hesitation.
It hasn't changed much. some syntactic sugar and influence from functional languages has helped C# but the IDE is not as good as eclipse IMO. You can however add a lot of the refactorings and features from eclipse by using jetbrains ReSharper. (I believe they also make a Java IDE too).
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Just an FYI: Timoni is a she, not a he.
I think you have not seen the latest Asp.net MVC 3, it is pretty much something like rails.
Google and Amazon are bigger and could afford a fight. And I hope they do.

To me the fact that Apple will have deals with the music labels and will probably only allow you to play music you bought from them - that's no surprise at all.
Ask HN: Resources to get knowledge/information in Enterprise Applications space?
Resources like Hacker-News, TechCrunch, Mashable, et al primarily provide knowledge/information in the Consumer Applications space.<p>What are the similar resources in the Enterprise Applications space, http://www.theserverside.com/ is one of them are there any others?
"So to make the most of your intelligence, improving your working memory will help this significantly"

This reminds me of how RAM is underestimated in improving computer performance.
>They 'fixed' it by changing the disk image spec rather than the Safari feature.

Which was the right thing to do, by the way. I don't want disk images running shell scripts when they are mounted manually OR automatically.
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Even older (dec 2008) than Webkit:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5688
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No way will this allow to listen to music not purchased via iTunes without uploading. How would they prevent anyone from creating a 10000 track library full of correctly tagged empty files?
Can't really say this or that about the project. It looks cool but I have no idea whether the user interface would lessen the friction between myself and the computer; it might just as well increase it.

But that's okay. We're not supposed to decide whether the prototype points to the right direction or not; we're just supposed to rant and ramble a bit about it.

However, the question of whether this turns out to be a good idea will be evident when and if TermKit delivers. In this context it means that TermKit or some of its derivatives turn out to be actually more useful than the standard Unix shell.

The indicator would be that instead of a traditional Unix shell, people start using TermKit in order to get more things done more easily and in shorter time.
The most important page on Flickr is a Yahoo login page?
"Any fool can make things bigger and more complex. But it takes a genius to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

Solving things in the easiest way, is often the hardest challenge there is.
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If somebody were to have read only the summary points and agreed with your post, you would have caught somebody who misunderstood the article because they didn't read it...but how do you plan to "hook" the people that skim articles and extract the summary points themselves? Aren't they just as susceptible to misunderstanding the content as well?
I believe that summaries [and skimming] are definitely useful and do not detract from the spreading of information or the gaining of knowledge. In fact, I would say that they contribute to both.
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Doing math in base-60 would have a number of benefits over base-10. 60 is highly factor-able, after all (this is probably why it was chosen as base for some numbering systems, e.g. time).

Had you compared Roman numerals with Arabic numerals, I'd agree with you.
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I'm not sure about the counter-point. I'm trying to think of the cases where I might agree, and about the only one I can think of is the summaries of papers in scientific journals, where the reader is already pretty familiar with that specific subject. (And I'm really undecided about even that.)

I think context -- all of the nuances and subtleties and justifications and reasonings surrounding a statement -- is pretty important, and without that context, you still end up with gaps. They're just, maybe, slightly different gaps than you get from memorization.

I tried to spring a trap on some unsuspecting HN'r downthread to make this point. If you just take the bullet points -- say, "2. Challenge yourself" -- by themselves, then you miss out on the point that repeatedly doing the same challenging activity doesn't get the desired result. And if you get that point by reading some of the comments here, then you might miss out on why it's important to take on different challenges, and therefore what kind of challenges would be most beneficial. And, if you skim the article, you might miss out on the author's justifications for these suggestions in the first place, which would leave you stumped if someone asked you why novelty mattered.

It's true that you could go back and fill in these gaps, or possibly even derive answers to them on your own, but if you're going to expect to do that, why not just read the thing in its entirety to begin with?
It strikes me as very strategic for a few reasons.

1. As pointed out below, Google and Amazon are likely to pick this fight. I would imagine Apple is more then happy to let those two companies spend the blood, sweat, tears and dollars on what will surely be a lengthy legal fight.

2. With the labels opening a deal, they'll feel more inclined to shutdown/stop Amazon/Google pressing their need to move legally in return.

3. While all this is happening, especially if injunctive relief is given to the labels, Apple has the legal solution in the U.S.

4. They continue to sell silly amounts of content and done right the process of shopping by my iPhone now becomes building a playlist, that can sync later to physical files in my iTunes, if at all. Or a subscription stream model, where again just putting together a list from the largest online retailer of music.
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Perhaps you didn't talk to enough people all at once. Having a few people trusted by the community back you up and call out the weasel would probably stop this kind of thing cold. If you get a rep for poaching ideas and hogging credit in this community, you're done.
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You seem to be unduly assuming emergent behavior. First, we do not know how to completely mirror a human neural network. Second, even if we did we don't know how the initial input affects emergent intelligence.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying that you're taking a rather unscientific leap of faith.
Yes! What about spotify? Uploading your own music? Only playing songs that you already own? Bah! Spotify came before google, amazon and apple with what seems to be a better service..
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Actually, it's a "powered parachute"[1] which relaxes the FAA rules required to fly one[2]. I'd guess maintenance rules are relaxed as well.

[1] http://mavericklsa.com/releases.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_parachute
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system.

His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."

-- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson#Attributed

He got his chance with Go... when he added the O_CREATE symbol (an alias for O_CREAT) his comment was:

spell it with an "e"

-- http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=4a3f6bbb5f0c6021...
If people had these, it wouldn't of course solve any of the classical 50's flying-car-in-a-traffic-jam problems. Instead, the jam would materialize mid-air with hundreds of these little flying cars looking for a strip of highway to land nearby a supermarket before they all run out of gas and start dropping like flies, unless they've already crashed into each other in the uncontrolled airspace in a very uncontrolled manner.

Luckily the guy was apparently envisioning usecases for medical and rescue team, mostly.
You can probably induce similar effects (in the reverse direction) by entering states of dehydration or low blood sugar. I've observed that dehydration can be a big cause of poor performance on my part.
I remember spending hours and hours on DigiKey and Mouser looking for the right components for the prototype we were building. It's a huge pain. Especially the low value resistors and capacitors. We later found out that we should have fist checked if the parts were available before we did the design (the design itself was from reference design provided by manufacturer's, outdated). I wished Google would get into Electronics Part searching. But then it's too niche an area for Google.
Once again, my reaction: "What is this I don't even"

Amateur hour gibberish.

This was just as stupid as the last time it was posted. Same shallow treatment. Same jokey stuff about becoming 'the master'. Same name-checking of a few books that this guy has vaguely heard about ("The Dragon Book is teh awesome") and not read.

This would be charming if it were rewritten without the pretentious gibberish and sexism as a 'what worked for me, a newbie myself' type post.
It's amazing that a growing company from 2007 is considered "vintage". Just goes to show you that the timescales when it comes to web startups is highly compressed.
There are only like 4 companies that sell these products. Why would those companies bother giving Octopart a referral fee?

It's not like Octopart is going to remove their listing if they don't pay up, that would hurt them more than the companies.

What am I missing?
Not every summary is necessarily a TL;DR. Even for the most diligent reader, a cogent explanation of what exactly the author believes to be the most important information can help clarify and distill knowledge.
I am someone who empathises with your situation.

However, look at it this way.

If it is such a great idea, chances are other people have already thought about it. To assume that you are the only person to have thought about something is just selfish and egotistical. Noone should have a monopoly on ideas.

If you were the only one with that idea, I'd say 80% of the time, it wasn't such a good idea in the first place.

If someone thought your idea was worth stealing, then I'd say that you should feel confident that your idea is a good one, steam ahead and speed to market.
Thanks! You saved me a lot of time there.
> Google and Amazon didn’t have to play nice with the labels

Want to. Whether that will pan out is still to be seen.

> Apple does.

To an extent. Jobs's Apple has always been headstrong, and right now — because of Google and Amazon — they have labels by the balls.

> If it doesn’t, its usefulness will be quite poor compared to what Amazon and Google have to offer.

True, time will tell. It would not be the first time Apple fucks up a "cloud" service either. Still, I think they would realize how shitty the situation would be, and would have an easy time arguing that a worse service than Amazon's and Google's would not be able to compete, and would fail.
Could and will are two completely separate things. As I said there is no research effort included in this project to attempt to discover those inputs.
The guys from sitepoint are doing something very similar (http://sitepointmarket.com/) and it looks like they're having a hardtime getting posts. It's not exactly the same but its in the same neighborhood. To get some attention you would have to offer something none of these craigs-sites offer.
Carnegie Mellon's intro CS course has been in python for a couple of years, and we're switching to ruby for the coming year.
Of course, that's followed by (Our own version of! =/ ) C, and then SML.

Question for those who know more than I: what are the tradeoffs of first learning one language in depth, then branching out versus learning several languages(/styles) early on?
there was a brief window when online 3d gaming was first taking off and none of the major consoles supported it in a good way -- the only game in town for hardcore gaming was the PC. Sure, the dreamcast might have been able to do it, but everybody was using gamespy to connect to their favorite servers.
PDD-NOS – Pervasive Development Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, is not necessarily a mild form of autism. The meaning is in the name. It means that the diagnosed doesn’t fit more specific diagnoses such as Kanner’s autism or Asperger syndrome.

Even though someone who’s autistic fail to show intelligence through a test, I believe they still may be very intelligent and can show this better through training.

I personally still believe reasoning skills can be trained by learning new heuristics at least.
Of course, OAuth is also vulnerable to phishing in a "trusted" browser, when you're talking about average users who don't really understand how it works.

One interesting way to provide "trust" would be to have a system wide "OAuth" view (or, "secure browser," or whatever you want to call it). It would have to contain some piece of user information, like say your user account name and photo, that the app itself is never granted access to. That way, if you're actually paying attention you can verify that the system displayed this view.
It is very obvious if an entrant in a running race is riding a motocycle. Its less obvious if someone is using a computer to cheat at chess.
ClamXav is fine: http://www.clamxav.com/

By the way, all this only encourages me to keep using ADBlock+ ...
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Give some time to your selling property repair, prepare your home will for sure make it noticed by buyers, and will make it for valuable to the buyer.
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Hey, this coin has two sides.
Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programs. Most people who illegally copy programs would not purchase them, when it means for considerable sum of money and lengthy sign-up and payment process. Therefore, if there is a way to sell programs with easy price tag and via authomatic painless process, it's possible to sell N times as much.

Where N is the "old" ratio between piracy and purchases.

That's how iPhone economy works.
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def f(b):
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a = ['Hello', 'world']
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It's more efficient to pass function arguments by reference, and it would be fairly baffling if function argument passing did not work like assignment (c.f. C++ copy construction being similar to, but slightly distinct from, assignment).

Less philosophically, everything in Python has pass-by-reference semantics, even ints. The things you might think are passed by value are immutable, so it doesn't really matter whether they are passed by value or by reference. For example:

a = 1
a = a + 1

conceptually creates a new integer object and binds the name a to it, and so does

a = 1
a += 1

, because ints and longs are immutable in Python.
"Doctors still aren’t exactly sure what part of his treatment allowed his body to purge the virus, but clinical trials are scheduled to begin in 2012."

there you go. the catch.
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> Aren't they just as susceptible to misunderstanding the content as well?

Yep! The only distinction between skimming and reading a summary is that skimming at least gives you the opportunity to spot something interesting, stop, and read it fully.

I also wouldn't confuse speed-reading with skimming, so long as the speed-reading gleaned as much from the text as slower reading would.

> I believe that summaries [and skimming] are definitely useful and do not detract from the spreading of information or the gaining of knowledge. In fact, I would say that they contribute to both.

I disagree. I think that they are dangerous tools -- useful occasionally, but too easy to abuse. I'm being more vocal about it nowadays because "TL:DR" has recently become a "thing", and I'm concerned that larger numbers of people seem to be considering it acceptable to skip reading a 10-minute article in favor of reading a 10-second summary of it. Rather than debate that here though, I'd just point to my comments elsewhere on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563051
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I've been a hardware hacker since I could walk. Finding and actually obtaining any parts at all in the 80's was excruciating. Even in the bad old days of the web, datasheets and even pricelists seemed to be the locus of some very unseemly rent-seeking activity.

I can't even begin to say how awesome octopart seemed when I first discovered it. Even today, when I go looking for a part I find myself stopping and not believing how awesome this is.
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What's more interesting is apparently some people are immune to HIV. I can't believe that's possible.
problem with most load testing tools is the fact that you have to script through them. It's a PITA. Especially with PaaS and Heroku/EngineYard/Other-Vendors/-style deployments, time-to-deploy often obsoletes the time-to-script-test-cases. Need something different, agile and continuous.
Do you think it is OK for F or a brain mdoel to experience pain? As long as it is not you who is feeling the pain, it is moral acceptable? Is that what you are saying?
Considerations for a fun weekend hack project
I'm learning to be a developer, and would love to engage in some small projects and work on some of my ideas along the way to learn and have fun.

I was wondering what should we consider and not consider when doing a fun weekend hack project as opposed to a long/mid term project. Any ideas?
Hanging in there is key. I have found that sometimes you have to dig deep and hold on to the good idea that with good work everything will work given enough time. Something I have reflected on after three months at http://infostripe.com
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Ask HN: Anyone using Pyramid?
as per the title - I'm starting a new project in Python and just wondering what everyone's experience with the Pyramid frameworke is? The good, the bad, the ugly?
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I'm conscious of the audience here and attempting to connect a simile to things that happened a century ago. Nothing personal.
How does it 'learn' what is illegitimate traffic? (An actual explanation rather than just vague claims/graphs would be truly "frickin' awesome".)

What's the risk it misclassifies real surges in interest as illegitimate traffic?
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Nowhere did I say it'd be limited to DRM, I said it would be limited to music purchased from the iTunes store.

Even though today's iTunes music doesn't contain DRM it is still fingerprinted and Apple (and iTunes) know exactly whether a song in your library came from the store or whether it was one you ripped yourself.

I'm pretty sure only the former will appear magically in your cloudstore without an upload, and I suspect the latter will never be welcome.
Using python for a completely introductory course for students that had no prior exposure to programming is one thing. However, it must almost _immediately_ be followed by C (and later by Lisp, ML/Haskell) rather than be used as primary language of instruction.
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