skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The name of the pdf linked to on the language.js page is "Packrat Parsers Can Handle Practical Grammars in Mostly Constant Space" (www.ialab.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~mizusima/publications/paste513-mizushima.pdf).

They achieve this by adding a Prolog-style Cut operator to the PEG language.
Anyone who wants to read a fascinating insight into the early days of personal computer development should read this entire site - it evokes wonderful memories for me of how exciting it all was in those days, and how a few guys can develop a historical product all on their own.
The "sign in with Twitter" button doesn't appear to do anything (Safari 5.05 on OSX 10.5.8).
Believing in "The Machine" - a single coherent entity running things seems almost like the belief in Thor, the god of thunder.

Sure, stuff happens for crazy reasons. That's not because of the agenda of some mysterious weather god, or an elusive organization; it's because of a complex system of dumb entities bumping into each other. You can rationalize it as gods or Illuminate, but it's probably just random noise.

Sometimes stuff like the Patriot act can give a single actor a disproportionate amount of power, but they usually have no idea what to do with it; thankfully.
Lawyers, drug dealers, assassins, politicians, bankers, managers, accountants, stock traders, to mention a few: all paid significant amounts but not really that worthy, are they?
Probably around 8 months - 1 year for us (https://wonderproxy.com). My co-founder and I were both employed full time elsewhere so we used revenue to expand constantly, becoming profitable wasn't on our short to-do list.
Centuries of financial crises and speculative contagions seem to be enough evidence for me.

If majority of market participants were value investors you simply would not have bubbles to the degree that we have seen historically.

Value investors buy assets at a discount to their intrinsic value and they derive that intrinsic value using conservative assumptions on factors such as liquidation value and future cash flows.

If majority of market participants were value investors you would not have had the Dutch Tulip Mania, South Sea Bubble, or more recently the Dot Com Bubble / pre-GFC highs reached in 2006/2007.
When I read the naive comments that didn't consider the birthday problem properly I scoffed, but I actually think they may have accidentally had some insight that the "correct" answers didn't.

The value with the highest expected value of man hours worked would be to hire 365 people, but that might not actually be the best strategy since the variance is going to be pretty high. It's possible that you would be better off with a lower expected value that is also more of a "sure thing" venture
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>Honestly, even C execution could probably be speeded up by having separate stack and heap memory pipelines.

Later versions of Alpha AXP architecture did almost exactly that. They reorder memory access based on addresses. Alpha could execute load after store without blocking, providing load address did not clash with store address.

It helped them a lot, given that they had 80 registers at their disposal.
I'm not sure as I haven't thought about it before so I'll think about this and hopefully try to post back but people I follow on twitter or friends I have on facebook probably aren't the best demographic. Chances are people I know, I'd be linked with on github if it mattered and for the vast majority of people linked together on facebook and twitter are probably not really all that targeted. Sure they'd be some correlation but it'd probably be a low percentage.

I'm not sure where you'd get a list like this (maybe you'd just create your own) but I think linking people to common languages (i.e. python guys to python guys) and similar projects/interests they like would have a higher correlation.
If you have already brushed up on linear algebra and calculus (which you're gonna need if you want to do any serious ML) take a look at Hastie et al's Elements of Statistical Learning.
The PDF is free, and the book is both extremely well written and super comprehensive.
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

You might also want to check out R, as its an amazing statistics language which has hundreds of packages available for ML. There's a large user community, and the really obscure error messages you get will teach you a lot about statistics. http://cran.r-project.org/

Also, a lot of machine learning is getting the data into a usable form, so learn how to use Unix command line tools such as sed, awk, grep et al. They are absolute lifesavers.
Sorry if I am not possibly answering your question, but can't you do both? Do you still have time to do another internship the following year? So if you choose to go with startup this summer then go for large companies next year, therefore you can decide better which one you want to pursue for your full time after you graduate.
Huh?

I get the appeal of the stripped-down interface (I'm typing this on a cr-48, which I love). But if I have my Mac, with it's reliable suspend/resume and otherwise reasonable battery life, why would I restart it to do something I could do by starting a browser?

The trade-off of the Chromebook, or similar, is that you pay less and can carry somewhat thinner/lighter hardware because it's somewhat special purpose. If I've already paid for a MacBook, and I'm already carrying it, what reason would I have not to just use the main OS?
If anything, Go's popularity has been driven primary by (entirely earned) Ken Thompson hype.
I agree, may be there is room for such use cases, large display screens, kiosks etc where it may be configured to be used in an os-like mode.
It is not the OS that makes this happen. The device ships with a windows driver disk. The manufacturer made it happen. Out of the box Linux probably ships with more drivers than Windows, but the process is much more centralised.
Yes, of course. There are problems or portions of problems where direct hands-on control of the bare metal gives better performance, sometimes spectacularly better performance. Programming in assembly language for this kind of problem is often simpler than trying to make a compiler do what's needed. As the size and complexity of the problem grows, the structuring and abstraction support of programming languages provide win out.

And, of course, the last refuge of the assembly language programmer is the optimization and code generation phases of a compiler where reasoning about programs at a very low level pays off.
I used to call it enjinx.
There's a full screen icon in the top right corner of the Safari window that will put it into full screen mode.
...or as long as you don't reside in the United States.
Depends on what level of ramenability you're setting your bar at. Here are some of my milestones for S3stat:

6 months: Regularly covering server expenses (which were ~$50-100/month at that point).

18 months: Would have paid for me to live nicely on the beach in Thailand.

30 months: Would cover my rent (and nothing else) at a nice apartment in a major city.

40 months: Passed the monthly take-home pay from my first job out of college.

That's for a SaaS subscription product that I built with the explicit goal of having a low-level income stream that I didn't have to put much time into. Early on, there were periods where I worked 80 hours or more per month to get the infrastructure ticking away to my satisfaction. These days, it requires maybe six hours of my attention each month.

So I guess the answer to your question is: longer than you think. But once you're there, it's pretty nice.
Mac OS X Lion has a Safari-only boot option
This will be great if you need to lend your laptop to someone. No need to worry about them seeing your files etc. They can do what they need.

Like this idea!
> Money well spent. Anything we can do to increase communications outside of officially sanctioned methods within the borders of these regimes is a good thing in my book.

I agree. I would also add that in my book, "these regimes" includes the USA, UK, EU, Australia, etc.
Had? That's cute. Come to Indiana. Liquor stores aren't open on Sundays here as it's illegal for then to sell alcohol on the sabbath. Why the fuck did I move back.
It's for people who want to lend their Mac to a friend, but don't want them having access to all their already-signed in accounts, to applications like Mail, and all your files. I suppose places with public-usage Macs could also use this to keep clientele restricted to just using the web.

Also, seeing as this boots from the Recovery partition, it means that, should your Lion install go belly-up, you've still got internet access, which I think is brilliant.
Thanks! For an achievable short term goal I just wish to use the libraries first so I can roll my own simple apps. This way I get to learn the basics while making use of what I already know (build web apps). An integration of sorts, should keep me motivated all throughout. Eventually I'll go deeper, and will definitely work on the advanced topics you posted.
Doesn't change the fact that the C++ design is a giant ball of mud.
iOS was another big one as well. I was surprised that Cisco allowed another operating system (albeit one that isn't entirely similar) to use the IOS name.
I don't believe it. For e.g. Banks in India gave 84% of loans to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_caste community
Haven't sold all the BTC, but enough to recoup expenses+some.
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Good day to you too.
I consider this slightly hypocritical.

Only a despot would mess with DNS w/out due process.

How did revolutions occur prior to the creation of the TCP/IP stack?
It sounds like you're referring to C++98 while the article specifically talks about C++0x. C++0x adds closures to the mix so it's now very possible to implement something similar to .NET LINQ in C++.
Ask HN: What should I do with the domain "thepriceofprogress.com"?
I bought the domain with the intention of starting a political site but have been thinking that there's probably a better option. Any ideas for what to build on the domain would be appreciated.
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Ask HN: Looking to get involved in the startup community in Toronto 
I'm moving to Toronto in a few weeks time and am looking to connect with the startup community there.
Can anyone help? I will be living downtown.

As always,
Thanks!
The fact that cats hunt mice doesn't mean we can't have megapixel cameras.
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Just wanted to say that's a nice website. very simplistic. i assume you will let us change the url for a price.
Perhaps if you expressed yourself better you'd receive an interesting discussion rather than a bunch of downvoting, but as it is I can't figure out what it is you're saying, except that:

a) You think you're right about something and everybody else is wrong, and

b) You're being belligerent about it.
Quite the confused article. I did some digging of my own and here is what I found:

In order to use this you need to install iCloud and enable 'Find my Mac' (this allows you to locate and wipe your Mac should it be stolen). The guest account is then repurposed and will only reboot to the recorvery partition (which is also new in Lion) and only allow guests to open up Safari and connect to WLAN networks. As soon as they quit Safari the computer shuts down.

If you have secured your Mac with a password, logging into the guest account is the only thing thieves can do. iCloud cleverly uses this to goad thieves into going online and broadcasting their position as well as allowing for remote wipes – it even displays instructions for how to connect to WLAN networks when it boots up – while still not allowing them to access any of your files.

This is not supposed to compete with Chrome OS. It doesn't have a password manager and you can't download anything. It also won't remember anything after a reboot.

By the way, you can now also sart up Safari when booting into the recovery partition normally. That's also new and it's just useful but nothing else.

Apples's answer to Chrome OS is the iPad with iOS, not OS X running only Safari. If you don’t understand that then you have understood nothing about Apple.
That reminds me of the Cuckoo speech from The Third Man-

You know what the fellow said in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#The_.22Swiss_cuck...
> It's in the nature of our species to increase our reach and breadth,

It is? Maybe it's in the nature of some individuals, but three boats ain't no rocketship.
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Well this is off topic in my opinion, but I think Silverlight simply has worse designer tools than Flash. There isn't anything intrinsically bad about .NET, it just so happens that the tools are nothing a designer would ever put up with.
I encourage you to try Blend...defining a few animations is magnitudes more complicated than just drag and dropping stuff into keyframes and then pressing play.
I guess the Internet should be free, as long as you don't violate copyrights...

Well yes, that actually sounds like a pretty reasonable proposition to me.
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Did you drop your SOAP?
What, because one arm of the US Government is doing something bad at any given time means that another arm isn't allowed to do something good?

These are very separate sets of issues, and I think it's kinda sad that about half the comments in this thread are ignoring the issue this is about and jumping straight to whining about how the US Government won't let you pirate Battlestar Galactica.
Which Richard Dawkins using Game Theory found to be wrong-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Guys_Finish_First
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Another week is gone and now it's time to propose my listing of the best security resources of the week.

Hope you enojoy it.

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Do you use an anti-fatigue mat on the floor? Do you think it would help?
No way I'm signing in with my twitter account to any of your projects. I'm being cautious because I still remember your blogpost about storing passwords of 3rd party accounts in plain text.

Relevant: http://swizec.com/blog/small-trick-for-seamless-base64-passw...
No, I'm not; I explicitly mentioned closures which capture state precisely because that's where C++0x gets thorny. You can capture by copying or by reference; what you don't get is wholesale movement of the variable into a heap-allocated location, the way variable capture works in almost every other language supporting free mutation of variables.

I wrote about it in an earlier thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617990
The recovery and kiosk cases make sense to me, but seem pretty special-purpose.

The proposal here that doesn't make sense to me is the idea that I'm going to hand my computer to a friend (who I presumably trust with my Mac) and not trust them to sign out of my gmail when they want to check their gmail. Also, the use case of "Can I borrow your computer?" is almost always quick, and, in my experience, rebooting a Mac is not quick enough. I'd much rather give them my laptop with an incognito window open than resign myself to rebooting my laptop after they're done (even if application state saving works perfectly, rebooting is still a 30 second affair).

If they can make it quick, then it seems like a great idea, but forcing a reboot to get into this mode seems to relegate it to special cases.
At least Apple licensed the iOS trademark ahead of time.
I'm not an expert on wormholes, but: general relativity will tell you how space curves for any ol' distribution of mass you like, and it tells you there ain't no distribution of mass you can arrange that'll give you a wormhole.

On the other hand, we still don't understand the whole relativity/quantum-mechanics overlap region, so it's possible that whatever new physics are waiting for us in that regime just might include wormholes.

I'm really reluctant to say that, though. Many people seem to jump straight from that to drawing pictures of wormhole-hopping spaceships. Sorry, it's very very very very very very very unlikely to happen.
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Interesting that pet dogs and cats know how and when to stretch, no?
Whoa, hold on... I think medicine and biotech are misunderstood here.

First of all, Big Pharma != Academia or biotech startups. The former group concentrates on profitability and marketable drugs, whereas the latter two do the heavy lifting for a broad spectrum of diseases.

Secondly (and more importantly), we must realize that there are two issues at hand: the ease of developing an effective drug to combat a particular disease state, and the predominance of a given disease in the general population.

Big Pharma already claimed the "low hanging" fruit decades ago. Many of today's medical problems require a systems engineering methodology to approach them as the pathways and metabolomics are just too incredibly complicated to yield direct solutions. The search spaces are vast, multidimensional, and tedious.

To make matters worse, it's really difficult to commit to studying an orphan disease. A solution to a particular type of cancer, Alzheimer's, or HIV would have wide applicability and save many lives. Finding a solution to a rare genetic disorder, however, may help only a few thousand individuals. It's incredibly sad that there is such suffering from rare diseases, but we have so little mental capital to invest in fixing these problems. At present, biotech and medicine is nothing like programming where iteration and debugging yield fast results. Years of personal labor can become pointless if mistakes are made.

I don't know if it's justified for me to feel this way, but I wish more of the brilliant minds in programming would switch to a biotech/research profession. Computing is such a well-traversed and developed field and solution space. While it isn't glamorous, medicine and biotech really need you...
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This is big!
There was another post similar to this a few days back. While this focuses specifically on Facebook (for seemingly hoarding intelligent people), the real issue is that there are little to no philanthropic movements in the tech industry. Reiterating my remarks from the aforementioned post, this is merely a result of "people" being bored and caring too much about themselves. For whatever reason, consumers have yet to be enlightened that there are others on the planet who may not be able to play farmville all day, let alone eat. This behavior is understandable, though, because we've developed pretty much everything with a narcissistic angle. Share your photos, talk to your friends, it's all about you, you, you. Until we abandon or differentiate between this attitude and a more caring/understanding one, then the intelligent folk are going to flock where the money is: narcissism.
I'd rather have a thousand text files which are platform portable.
If majority of market participants were value investors you simply would not have bubbles to the degree that we have seen historically

I'd like to see that quantified.

If 60% of investors were value investors and 40% were speculators, would we still get bubbles? I'm thinking yes.

In reality, most people are in the middle. Looking for value, but still mortal, fallible and susceptible to being persuaded that the flavour of the month really is the next big thing.
> I'd rather have a thousand text files

Then you are certainly not the target audience.

"The books have been scanned in high resolution and color so you can see the engraved illustrations, the beauty of the embossed covers, along with maps and even the texture of the paper the books were printed on."

A better quip would involve PNG files.
Text files and PNG files then for the images then.

What people don't realise is that the content is important and the format is not.
Why was so much effort expended on Viagra instead of a cure for AIDS?

Viagra wasn't created for the purpose of treating ED, it was originally meant as a treatment for high blood pressure and angina[1]. The fact that it caused erections just caused Pfizer to shift to marketing it as an ED treatment. So it's not like they were spending tons of research money specifically to "help old men have erections."

Knowing this, even if they wanted to do it for the good of humanity drug companies couldn't - they'd be busted for failing their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders!

Not necessarily true. Drug companies have worked on cures for diseases that are prevalent in the 3rd world, and they have even - on occasion - intentionally distributed that cure for free, to people who couldn't afford it. [2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil

[2]: http://www.mectizan.org/history
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That is true but also irrelevant. It places blame and provides an explanation but it doesn't change the result.
Wwz.
Now, that's a lot of books. I'm sure it'll be great to procrastinate on those.

Just today Sebastian Marshall sent his weekly newsletter[1] about targeted procrastination. Here's how it could be adapted for reading some of these books:

- Write down two or three topics that you're interested in.

- Do a search for books that match those subjects, and write them down.

- When you feel like taking a break, pick one book from the list, and start reading.

I like this approach because I easily get tired from reading a book for a long time, but it's easy to do it in 10-15 minute chunks.

I'm not the type that reads lots of books anymore, but I prefer that over lurking on Facebook or Twitter.

[1] http://getsomevictory.com/
Nice find. Your answer makes much more sense given apples focus on apps. I can't see them trying to compete with chrome, especially after announcing icloud.
I think what you say makes perfect sense, but do you have any information which actually says that "iCloud cleverly uses this to goad thieves into going online"?

This is indeed a really great reason to have this feature, but I'm just wondering if this was Apple's intended use of this feature.
What is your "coming soon" page for?
Put another way, why has the UK taxpayer-funded BL made its initial offering only for Apple customers?
Sure, but building everything from source yourself is a lot of effort to maintain. You can go with something like NixOS, but it's also a hassle to use because nothing is in the "standard places".

If you generally want the latest release of everything, then go with a rolling release distro. You can build old versions from source or through namespaced legacy packages.

If you generally want year-old packages, then go with an incremental release and build your own version of those things you need the latest release of. I have found this to generally be more effort, but I tend to want the latest compilers and base libraries (not least because I want issues like reduced header promiscuity to cause breakage on my machine first instead of handling the support tickets when it breaks on a user's machine).