skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accidentally reinvented this algorithm many years ago as a C++ project. Here is an example of passages that it created:

sections of ice fell through the. invectives in which he had been wondering how. roman scales was in readiness. occasional murmur of pain that continued to torment. desavanchers dicksen dickson dochard du chaillu duncan durand was a. waging a war of extermination against. lively about it no snap or bite. chairs cane sofas carved wood pillars rose pillars. skirting an acclivity covered with woods and dotted with trees of very deep water. scratching as though he'd tear his nails out and sharp bite out. jerked by a sudden stoppage of the sled dogs barked. mentioned a cemetery on the south the four brilliants of the sky great and. ranks plunging into the flames would extinguish them beneath their mass and the rest were seen in numerous flocks hovering about the borders of some beautiful river until it fell. fridays well i hope that we shall overcome. emphatically an' i make free the. profitable the captains of the sea and consequently the balloon remained.

You can see more info about it or download my source code at:

http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/11/software-tool-f...
I'm in the UK and loading up Google Earth I get pretty good resolution images of Gaza and Israel...
Let's be clear - the article is about raising a kid with the skills and capabilities of an entrepreneur. But be wary of targeting your child's future career path. That is a very dangerous game to play, as your kids need to be free to make their own path in the world, not follow your script.

I do not think being an entrepreneur is right for everyone. If everyone was cut out to do it, YC wouldn't need to question their applicants so carefully.

And as a parent, I don't want my child jumping down a path that doesn't match who they are, and therefore won't make them happy.
I question the inclusion of bubble sort especially two versions of it. I worry that people are more prone to using bubble sort, because it's conceptually simple.
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http://i.imgur.com/ZA78z.jpg What's wrong with this?
Interesting to contrast this advice with the approach of Amy "Tiger Mom" Chua (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870411150457605...) who advocates strict routine and control and discourages imaginative thinking, participation in team sport and is horrified at anything less than an 'A'.

If she's truly representative of the way Chinese mothers raise their kids, I don't think America has anything to fear on the innovation front.
Should have gotten a Kindle, hardly any need to wonder if it's charged.
I think you might be overestimating how much insight the waitress has into the business. It may be the case that this was a close, family-held restaurant and they have a daily pow-wow on cost of goods and marketing strategy, but I wouldn't bet that way. My guess? Groupon customers are poor tippers, either from adverse selection or because they either a) attempt to tip with leftover funny-money or b) tip based on the amount they paid rather than the face value. Thus, mentioning you to other waitstaff: they're complaining about prospective tips. ("Gah, I drew another Groupon while you get a good table.")

Put it this way: if you had put twenty quid in her hand when you sat down she would probably have instantly become the most devoted Groupon fan in the world.
The US treats Israel like an intelligence/military base in the Middle East. Why wouldn't you support your soldiers?

A bonus is that Israel is still a sovereign nation and if it for example bombs Syrian nuclear reactors, the United States has zero responsibility. Which can leave the US to pursue détente with any country it likes, regardless the Israel protest.

A nations power is measured not only in its military capabilities but in its allies. The US has many, many allies but not that many loyal ones especially in the Middle East.

The benefits are way too many, but very few of them are international-PR-related. Except of course domestically, which is much, much more important to any politician.
I had the same experience with a Sushi joint in Montreal.
networks are pretty easy to build, and i've built an extensive one without the expense of a $60-100k MBA, however, it is not the same thing. I'm looking at things from a different perspective than most HN readers are. I see a bubble in education, as in a rapidly decreasing value for "just" my undergrad degree, and am looking out to 20 years from now, not immediate future. Short term, the value is less to me than it is long term (in my bet).
I'm curious how much you've actually used Haskell's templating system.

It is my understanding that a good macro system in a statically typed langauge is still an open research problem. I remember hearing that the Racket research group was still working on it for their typed Racket system, and that it was, at least as of a year ago, not possible to directly port macros from the standard language over to the typed language.

I also remember hearing that template Haskell is a relatively primitive macro system that very few Haskell developers currently actually use, but I'm not an expert in this area.

Scala is already cutting edge in a lot of ways. Expecting them to innovate in such a difficult and untrodden area on top of what they've already done is asking a little much, especially considering that it is meant to be a practical and not a research language.
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The next time I move I doubt I'll take any more than a couple books with me. Same for DVDs too. Physical media is a dinosaur.
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The reason is because that's one of the main pieces of the project. Providing a library that browsers can USE, not IMPLEMENT.

Why would anyone do that? That's WAY too much work just for fucking something up just for the heck of it.
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Nano compared to any other UAV.
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Posts from groups that I'm a part of do show up in my main feed. Maybe you need to tweak some settings here or there?
Why bother following people if you can just pull several years worth of detailed driving records on thousands of drivers at a time?
Thanks for the clarification. And yes, I was serious, not trolling.
Suggestions on how to improve the phrasing of the website are always welcome :D

I'd love to hear if, once you've read through the spec you still feel that the features are perceivably as complex as C++... I think they feel very naturally into the language, but then again, I designed it, so your mileage may vary ;)
Okay. Assuming I liked it and it really works. This is going to make websites, no? How is this going to display on the browsers that people are using? Is my site going to be consistent across them?
No doubt waiters loathe serving Grouponers.
In the Chua discussion I heard many times that she's not representative of Chinese moms but of Chinese-American moms. Can't really verify that but it seems plausible.
Professional spammers will just keep a 'stock' of created-but-unused accounts and let them 'mature' before using them for spam.
Nothing. It's missing the point, See the thread started by 'gryzzly'.

No one seriously/actually claimed that you cannot see satellite images of Israel. Zoom closer, compare to the quality you're used from elsewhere.
Well, 12 is the stable release, so I hardly think supporting 14 is a priority.
Twitter could add an option to fill reCAPTCHA with tweets. Updates posted with some human verification could have higher weight.
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> #2 In order to actually get anything done you have to 'bust out' into the Windows APIs anyway.

I remember this being the case when we did VB6 application programming. We were constantly "shelling" to Win32. I'm surprised it is still so like that.

Our favorite call was Win32 LockWindowUpdate.
You'll never avoid the use of bubble sort by hiding it away from sight. People are constantly reinventing it regardless.
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If you click the X it removes the specific story you clicked on. It does not (at least in the fb version I am being served) block all stories of the same type, nor do I see any option to do so.
...the database of their own RSS feed webserver? By picking up the current location at the various times someone's car hits your server on that morning commute just mentioned, you could probably map out the commute in detail within a few weeks.
But that's exactly what the parent was asking — how are you defining "loyal?"

His question was, what are we getting out of it that would cost us more if we didn't do it ourselves.
Once flexbox, grids and calc come out as official specs, you'll still have to wait until all browsers implements them, and then wait again until enough users update

How would the situation be any different for AXR?
And what do you know, The Social Network came out on cable around the same time. Coincidence?
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> How is this not a violation of the first amendment?

Google is a private company.

> I quite honestly don't understand why we have such a relationship with Israel as it yields us zero benefit and many losses.

If you don't understand something, a good bet is that your premises are wrong.
Well the point was I don't know I want to reference back to something until I encounter something new. Good writing isn't all foreboding. So a depiction or conversation may seem innocuous but become much more relevant 70 pages down the line. I'm not good enough to predict those situations, but have strong enough recollection to want to go back and review the older passage.
The way I see it is that before C++11, the semantics of individual threading implementations relied on compiler and platform-specific primitives (like atomics and barriers) that happened to be similar enough to create an illusion that C++ supports multithreading as a language.

C++, for all intents and purposes, supported multithreading before C++11 via extensions and libraries that are vaguely similar to each other on different platforms, but you can never be sure that your multithreaded code will work when ported to another platform (see "volatile" keyword semantics in standard C++ as opposed to MSVC).

But now,

1. it's officially mandated, and

2. you have more tools in your concurrency toolbox (for example, compiler-independent atomic variables with the ability to fine-tune memory order).
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Yep, it's the only Group/LivingSocial deal I've done as well :)
I find PDF search for tech books almost wholly useless, whereas the index does a really good job. I guess it's because it has that human touch to give a high relevancy score shrug
I read the article one more time, it does seem to be much more lucid now. I'll attribute my bad interpretation of it on the fact I read it very late last night - when it seemed to me he was saying that HTML5+JS was replacing .NET and WPF.

He still makes some absurd claims though:

"... they were told that all their experience, all their knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be useless on Windows 8"

Flamebait. FUD. Just look at the comments there.
Apparently hassonybeenhackedinthelastsevendays.com was already taken.
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It's almost a rhetorical question.
I think you're spot on that Groupon customers are poor tippers. This was in the UK though where the tipping culture isn't so common place.
The other advantage of a paperback on a flight is the FAA allows you to use it during takeoff and landing. I overlooked that the last time I packed my ebook reader.
I like your commitment to proper scientific process but I'm not sure I could bring myself to go back though - my heart is no longer in it..
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Higher than "simple to medium" scale/complexity situations are probably their priority when it comes to optimisation, on the basis that most smaller scale/complexity apps won't experience the difference and those that do can be tweaked by the programmer. A major factor to consider when optimising anything particularly something as generic as a large framework is that an optimisation for small scale situations can have a detrimental effect on larger ones (and vice-versa, though as problems are more noticeable on larger scales of size or complexity optimising for that at the expense of the smaller situations is the better over-all choice in many cases).
So we'll be waiting for "Thinking in Scala" book...
I did find the official WPF docs and examples rather simplistic. Most of the advanced stuff I luckily stumbled upon on forums or blog posts. Perhaps developers don't have enough information to build upon the simple examples.
> If you don't understand something, a good bet is that your premises are wrong.

But another bet is that "that something" doesn't actually make sense.
I don't really feel books will disappear. I know personally I read most of my books on ebook, but on occasions I will go buy a book of an author I like and I know many people do the same as I do. Also the library of congress made it its goal to archive all the knowledge both to a giant database as well as in the paper form. So I feel the article is slightly off in that regard.
Even though it's a promotional infographics, it higlights some interesting connections and is pretty well made with regards to condensing and presenting the information.

The parts on the % of population drinking tea and the difference between younger and older people, and the part with consumption per capita convey the information really effectively.

All in all upvoted not for the content, but for the presentation that I have learned something from.
Because "absolute success formula" such is an impossibly high bar that we already know the answer to the question as soon as it's posed.
The problem is that if you do a partial commit, you have to test that it works. You may have forgotten to add one line, etc.

One way to do this is to use "git stash save --keep-index", after patching. Then you can test that your program works with only that patch. After committing you can "git stash pop" to patch again or commit the rest.

Maybe it's possible to make a hook to make this easier.
It's a good point that it would be very 'industry' specific. If they are simply delivering goods it's hard to cut corners. Though that said it's not easy to cut such large amounts from physical goods.
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This is funny, and therefore probably powerful. If it gets enough attention, it may actually pressure Sony to step up their security company-wide.
I know we don't have anything to show right now, I didn't put this on HNews... we're still about 2 months from actually doing something like a public release, so sorry about that. But be assured that we'll have something to play with pretty soon :D

The framework I mentioned (Firebreath) already provides an abstraction layer for those APIs. I agree iOS will be the hardest nut to crack, but since this is a long-term project I'm pretty sure we'll be able to work something out (either by Apple's blessing, by providing an HTML fallback mechanism or something else) when the time is right. Right now we're just trying to figure out if it is at all possible to create a better technology...

Why do you think that you'd throw out hardware acceleration? The latest Flash has hw accelerated video, for example, so not at all impossible. Advanced layout logic? Don't make me laugh... do you mean floats? Or inline-blocks? I've had my share of trouble using theme (I'm a web designer with many years of experience...). Layout is exactly one thing that we're trying to do better! And to use flexbox and all the other new layout stuff reliably you'll still have to wait a couple of years, I think. Then you'll probably still need to create a conventional layout for older clients for much time ahead...

And for the text rendering, there are plenty of open source libraries out there, we won't reinvent the universe from scratch just to make an apple pie.

As I said... the prototype will soon be available for anyone to try out so web designers and programmers will be able to play with it as a browser plug-in, this is not just some crazy random idea ;)
About this topic I really liked Jaques' summary of the HN thread: http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company
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Though I feel little sympathy for an agency who looks at an already active twitter account, sees it has 4000+ followers, and makes the determination that "Hey, what we should do is take over this account and send marketing crap to all these followers rather than continue to send them what they originally signed up for. I mean, it's just a feed of what time the bridge will open/close, it's unlikely any of these people live near by."

Way to piss off your target market.
people bring this stuff on themselves by treating fb as a massive 'who I know or am related to' index instead of following who they are interested in. I suppose fb brought some of this on themselves when they went down the twitter-emulation path a few years ago.
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But are they happy? A simple question, but one that no doubt should be answered. Pay is just one variable, and perhaps the least important of all.
Good to know it wasn't a one off.
A while back, I translated a few of these into CoffeeScript as examples for the repo. They're pretty fun:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tree/master/examp...
Yes but in this case America does benefit from a healthy relationship with Israel and, more importantly, from Israel's existence.
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I think it's nice to have it included to realize that while merge sort is not significantly more difficult (once the idea of divide and conquer is clear) the latter is a lot faster.

I actually don't like the particular iterative version of merge sort, to me it's lacking in clarity; then again, I like to use the ternary operator ?: on the left side of an assignment in javascript (as an array index or function selector), so I'm probably not the right judge when it comes to clarity ;)

I was thinking to include some sorting visualizations in my html5 canvas experiments, this looks like a neat start,thanks for posting it!
Aww, c'mon. I was just coding something like this :(. Always beaten to the punch.
I don't understand the supposed inability to have a diverse panel at any technical conference. I run one and am involved in speaking for several in the .Net community, and for the ones i'm involved in, both the female and minority populations are represented among the speakers. For the one that I run, we'd have to bend over backwards to not include them.

Is this more of a problem in the design world, or in newer technical communities? I doubt it.
Hey look, it's this guy. Troll of every Microsoft thread.
"As a non-religious American, I quite honestly don't understand why..."

As a non-religious American, I quite honestly don't understand why so many non-religious Americans try to paint this partnership in grandiose, apocalyptic religious way (heh, ironically just like many religious people). Just as the arab-israeli conflict is not inherently a religious conflict, the US partnership with israel is not a "religious" bond - it's a political partnership like all others.
But he has sold a tech company, and is in general an experienced entrepreneur (plus knows old school finance and wall st money management from experience).

This doesn't make him infallible, but i'd much rather read business tips from somebody like this than a career journalist. (No offence to career journalists, they're great too, but for a different type of rigorous research.)
I would before that, question the methods add/remove/get of specific positions on a linked list..
I think you're right that they don't love it - and if I were in there shoes I'd have trouble keeping a pleasant demeanour if I was losing money from people being in my restaurant too!
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This is outrageous! Rothschild st was built when fuzzy edges was the IN thing in architecture. Of course they look outdated now!

In all seriousness though, on the Android I can't get a detailed view of Israel from any app the charts my movement (like biking or running tracking apps). It annoys me greatly. Not to mention our really secret places are not military bases.
And we did! Check out: http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/03/languages-as-libraries-p...
Exactly. Bubble-sort is really fast for more-or-less pre-sorted data. But it's terrible in the worst case.
also, it sounds like the company is (understandably) restricting what is available to try reduce the losses implicit in the deal. that means hassle for the waiting staff, who need to explain the restrictions. i imagine, for example, that in this case the waitress had previously had problems with a similar group who ordered the "wrong" wine and then were vocally unhappy. when they found out.
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I tend to agree that we have a little time, but then again these things happen quickly when they happen. If you don't prepare in advance, you end up trying to invent your archiving plan in the middle of the fire sale.

This needn't actually be that hard if we do it systematically.
He was saying, I think, that that was the public perception. I'm pretty confident, though I obviously don't speak for him, that that's not his own opinion. At the end of the article, he seems to make that clear.
How would it know if you're walking or driving?
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Agreed, the same goes for reference books. In a paper book, I'll often find things that I didn't realise were important at the time, or a later conversation will bring to mind, and I'll recall something fuzzy like: "It was in the lower half of the right-hand page, a few pages after that diagram with the donkey in it", but can't recall anything that will allow hard searches.
This comment on Typed Racket isn't correct. Lots of macros work just fine in Typed Racket, and XML literals would certainly be among them [1]. The macros that don't work yet are the most complex ones, like the one implementing an entire class system with Java and Beta style inheritance (both!).

[1] In Racket, we typically use s-expressions rather than XML literals.
Thanks for pointing it out. I am not a native English speaker, and this is another lesson learned to me. :)

The point I want to make is that people are spending too much of their time and effort on raising money. We need to build a sustainable business after all.

I think Seth put that in a much better way than I do:
"The goal isn't to get money from a VC, just as the goal isn't to get into Harvard. Those are stepping stones, filters that some successful people have made their way through."
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It seriously bothers me that the article is using market cap.... The value of microsoft is actually roughly equal to the of apple, the value of IBM is equal to microsoft and apple combined...

This is looking at assets and profits per year.

The article is discussing the market cap as if it is a way in which you can determine the value of the company, instead of what it is, the value of its shares. Granted it should be a representation, if lets say microsoft drops 2 Cents on its stocks over a minor scare or something the market cap drops much more than the company value which maintains the same price.