skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Sal's stuff. I've used his videos on math to review stuff I didn't quite get during a lecture (given the quality of math professors I get, this is often). I've watched his other stuff because they're generally interesting (and really cool, I wish I could draw/write like he can).

I watched the video, and enjoyed it. I'm going to recommend it to my friends. It's rather high quality (not going to talk about the download that goes with it, I didn't look at it), and it gets across a good thing about computer science: You can easily verify the results with your own computer.

I see that their's a lot of criticism on this, but this is already loads better than what current uni students are getting (I just went through my first year of uni, and I can tell you that I've not learned anything [1] in my CS classes).

As I've stated previously, I would recommend this to my friends, as well as to people just getting their feet wet in programming. Good job Sal, you're pretty awesome.

[1] Except for an x86 assembler class. That class had an excellent professor, and I now understand pointer arithmetic.
How I Met Claudia
Instead of the cable actually managing this itself, though, couldn't the cable just contain a single, simpler chip containing the metadata on the cable's particular make and properties, which would allow the host port (and client port) to perform variable compensation based on the information received? I suppose this would create a more complex low-level protocol, or possibly require more pins, but for a "universal connector" type of cable I imagine they're going to see a lot of wear, so I would have imagined moving hardware out of them would have been a goal...
Sorry, but this comes off as typical nerd-rage, nitpicking about things that don't matter.

This video isn't trying to make people into professional developers any more than his videos on algebra are trying to teach research-oriented mathematics.
I would really love to try it all out if you have any invites left:

brownelltyler@gmail.com
I made a CSE so you don't have to keep typing site: to poke around on Google+: http://www.mkronline.com/googleplus/
The audio sounds like a recording of a Numbers Station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tcp_d1_4_phonetic_alphabet...
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Stop whining already. Whatever burdens these new taxes impose they are imposed on both you and your competition. Moreover, don't forget that in CA the sales tax is actually dropping by a percentage point, so your expenses are lower as well. In addition, there is a huge advantage of having an on-time and balanced budget. This fiscal responsibility creates a business climate in which we all can have some modicum of confidence that our state isn't being run by lunatics. I can't see how any of this is a bad thing whatsoever.
me too please skbohra123 @ gmail.com and here is a beer for anyone who invites me .
I think the "interstitial" is just a courtesy to the user to preview the URL. There is a link on that page that offers to "never show previews." Seems to work, but of course it probably must be cookie based and be selected again if the cookie is not available.
I will throw my hat into the ring too. REDACTED THANKS Julien-Charles L.
Separation of concerns and flexibility for the future are probably what drove this design decision.
If anyone's got any more invites to spare, it'd be much appreciated! naderhen@gmail.com
Would love one too: Awesome Thanks!
I suspect a lot of it is technical. Not only are they probably working on ironing out issues of scaling bugs, but you have to consider that even if it takes off the amount of usage overnight would be so much higher than regular usage if they opened their doors today. How many people do you expect to use their video chat feature on a day to day basis, and how many people do you expect to use the video chat feature the first day that they sign up?
Yes, but would you rely on it as the filesystem for a public server?

His point isn't that userspace filesystems are useless, but they are much slower, so the existence of a Fuse filesystem is not an argument for not including a kernel space filesystem in the kernel.
I collect these with their original Harvard binding and soft leather covers from thrift stores, usually the Salvation Army, at a great killing. Really nicely prepared and bound books. And they look nice in the study.
Right, I like Sinatra a lot. But there's substantially more magic there than in Express, which is actually a pretty thin (yet powerful) wrapper around Node's low-level HTTP API.
Oh. Can I have one too? [redacted]@gmail.com

[EDIT] Thanks, Julien!
I predict Monster Cable offers gold-plated chips in their cables
Capital G. "G"overnment. Sounds scarier.
I would hugely also appreciate an invite: @googlemail.com

Edit: Received. Thank you very* much
Lab126 (which develops the Amazon Kindle) and A9 (Amazon's search technology firm) both are located in the SF Bay Area, and from the outside appear to operate as Amazon divisions. In addition, EC2 offers instances in Northern California, though I'm less familiar with their physical presence.

I'm sure that Amazon's lawyers have done a very good job at structuring things such that they meet the letter of the law, but come on -- they've been in California for years.
It is a matter of scale. I'm of the opinion that the FDA and the department of agriculture, in coordination with the factory farms, have made it very difficult for small farmers to survive (Joel Salatin is an excellent source of information on the sort of regulations that are required). The farmer fro whom we buy our meat, eggs, and milk has stated that he runs at his capacity--he does not believe he could take on more animals (even though there is a great demand for his product) without ultimately making life worse for the animals and producing an inferior product.
Yup, this is definitely a problem that will need solving. Aware & thinking :).
What language do you use? / What kind of project are you working on? embedded, kernel, iphone, web, etc?

There are usually tricks to speed up your compile process, copy the code to a RAM drive before compiling, etc, also try using testing and create a small program that monitors your src dir and will recompile and test automatically. That way as soon as you save it's automatically recompiling and testing, then you just look over at the terminal window and see the results.

Also, split your code into libraries so that only a single lib needs to be recompiled, etc.

The drive to speed up iterations usually pays off in spades and you end up doing stuff you really should have been doing anyway, like writing tests, modularizing code, etc.

If it absolutely can't be sped up, document your code while its compiling, Doxygen, etc.
So you're saying that the tax system favors shipping things across states by design? It's not just an accident that fell out of the tax code?

Can you explain the benefits? Why would we want to tax local goods and not goods that are shipped across state boundaries?
I hope that someone who knows Hans Camenzind shows him this.
I'll join the gravy train, sergei.rabbinowitz@gmail.com pl0x!
I'd appreciate one: linktamake[at]gmail[dot]com.
The other reason they split up the baseband and the main CPU is for regulatory reasons - the baseband is the only part talking to the radio, so it's the only part which needs to be thoroughly tested for regulatory compliance. This then lets them upgrade other parts more frequently without having to go through as much testing and obtaining approvals.
Type-safe mathematical vectors
Me too? Would be much appreciated. - Done, thank you.
Where are the slides?
I'd love to see what's going on in google+
edkenne@gmail.com
I'd like one, please. waingram at gmail.
me too! Thanks
Details on Best Buy's cloud, incl. "Geek Squad cloud installation"
Get Your Own Google+ Invite
I found this website entered my name and email, you should get your email within 24 hrs.

Mine was instant!
No black bar on Youtube
Yes, I'm really not clear on that either. Can someone with a legal background provide some clarification?
I would very much appreciate an invite: @gmail.com
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Thanks Gerard and Julien-Charles.
Did the TSA take all your stuff? Texas will sell it back to you.
Complete SEO fail by Google for Google Plus
There's actually room here to mention Michel Foucault as a hidden partner in the discussion in two ways:

* The political debates between Foucault and Chomsky in the seventies: Chomsky wholeheartedly believes in the application of justice to injust actions, Foucault was interested in how an act becomes just or unjust.

* The revolution in historical method effected by Foucault lies eliding the descriptive apparatus with which we usually explain the transmission and transformation of ideas (author, book, oeuvre, influence, tradition, consciousness); or, imagine if we did history as if consciousness and its attendant concepts were disqualified as descriptors.

The key to comprehending Foucault here is to suspend the following ideas:

* There exist a particular set of universals regulating historical description of a domain of knowledge

* "Consciousness", whatever that is, is a constitutive principle for that historical description

* The particular set of universals and consciousness exist inextricably, the latter buttressing the concepts of the former

Basically you can sketch a considerable amount of human history without reference to any human subject. You can accomplish a lot just by looking at what was said. What's more, you'll discover a completely set of rules and regularities when you do.

So I have a speculative interest in what discoveries for linguistics might be discovered with Google's method.
It's ok for some of the comments, for example Aras Pranckevičius' responses show a pretty balanced view of the situation. Not for the flamebait blog post that just gets a lot of things wrong.
Love to have one too. Thanks.
tensaix2j at gmail dot com
I'd love an invite too. [retracted]

[Edit] Got it. Thanks Julien!
I flagged this submission because lanyard adds little if anything to the slides on the page. In my opinion that link should have been posted.
Interesting. That's what I modeled it off of (and have been consulting Mint folks about it). The previous (posterous) blog had a banner at the top that was identical to mint's, but the ctr was abysmal. I've been moving around the giant button on the right sidebar to test placements and recently added the 'search for flights' and 'search for hotels' in the footer of each post that have been doing quite well lately.

I do appreciate the feedback!
Mint Digital are pretty hot at this sort of stuff. They usually do stuff for TV companies, but have done a lot of work for web campaigns too. Really interactive sexy stuff.
http://mintdigital.com

(I have no affiliation with them)
I'm not too ashamed to beg! (redacted) Thank you!
From the first link: "Rather than invest in a productive, useful and frankly unprecedented product such as FaceCash, venture capital and angel investors have focused their time and billions of dollars of their money in companies and entrepreneurs that have, in serial fashion, deceived co-founders, deceived employees, and deceived customers. In many cases, shareholders are next. Meanwhile, they've left companies like my own for dead."

Whining-like typing detected.
Interesting. I used the exact top header from the mint blog on our posterous blog for the last 10mos or so with little CTR success, even as I tweaked fonts/color/size, etc.

To the immediate right of "home," the links "flights" and "hotels" link to their respective searches, but thanks for the anecdotal evidence. I'll give it a tweak right now.
If anyone has an invite I would like one <removed> Thanks

edit
I got mine thanks.
Mapping caves using gunshots
Yes, a good call in this case, and a rallying tweet has just been sent.
I try to only eat mini-cows. No seriously. Mini/micro/teacup cows produce a fraction of the methane emissions and eat a third less food per pound of meat.
Wow, you got this so wrong and with such malice it's disturbing.
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You're right - but the point still remains, they can't find anyone of insert heuristic for quality for the same price. Completely agree that this is all just the market working itself out.
Extra cash in your pocket
Request for Google+ invite here - Let's help each other. 
Let's request google+ invites here in this thread. I want one, skbohra123 @ gmail.com
Can Turntable.fm Survive Its Popularity?
Khan is doing several things at once -- teaching about comments, teaching that the program's file name can change without changing its functionality, and underscoring that this is a program that computes factorials.

These type of efficiency tactics enable him fit a meaningful lecture in under 10 mins.
Question: The article mentions you should guestblog. I know this is important but writing is a chore to me.

I am in the outsourcing space but I find outsourcing writing really hard to outsource because I need someone who can express my ideas or who have a good experience in outsourcing.

Is there a place where I can contact great writers?
there is a lot more energy that goes into food production than just the fertilizer.
I'm determined to email an invite to you once I get mine. edit: sent. Thanks Julien-Charles, Jake.
Scientists create brain-like computing component
You see all of these small banks and credit unions with 1-5 branches in total, what prevents them from getting into this business? Or facecash doing something similar? Get silicon valley bank involved as an investor/backing bank or some other small bank?
Holy crap Google + looks ridiculously like Friendfeed!
The Problogger job board seems appropriate: http://jobs.problogger.net/
Here is the law, marked up:

http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx1_2...

I read parts of this and noticed the following exception for small retailers (<$10,000 annually), which may or may not be applicable to Amazon Affiliates (could be interpreted either way, because "retailer" includes "an entity affiliated with a retailer within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code."):

"This bill would include in the definition of a retailer engaged in business in this state any retailer entering into agreements under which a person or persons in this state, for a commission or other consideration, directly or indirectly refer potential purchasers, whether by an Internet-based link or an Internet Web site, or otherwise, to the retailer, provided the total cumulative sales price from all sales by the retailer to purchasers in this state that are referred pursuant to these agreements is in excess of $10,000 within the preceding 12 months, and provided further that the retailer has cumulative sales of tangible personal property to purchasers in this state of over $500,000, within the preceding 12 months, except as specified. This bill would also provide that a retailer entering into specified agreements to purchase advertising is not a retailer engaged in business in this state and would define a retailer to include an entity affiliated with a retailer under federal income tax law, as specified. This bill would further provide that these provisions would not apply if the retailer can demonstrate that the referrals wold not satisfy specified United States constitutional requirements,as provided."
We're growing our faredata outside of the US every day, but we started with the market we know best to make all of our carrier relationships. Keep checking back! In the meantime, if hipmunk doesn't provide you an awesome set of search results to/from Oz, do try http://adioso.com
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In addition to the problems raised by other commenters, there is a huge problem for ISPs that rent space in BT's switching centres:

BT wholesale will only allow approved parties to enter their premises. AFAIK only BT retail and Alcatel are on the list of approve maintainers.

So third-party ISPs are forced to pay extortionate fees to Alcatel who get to make more on-site vists (and charge more) if they make more mistakes.
Oracle Buys Pillar Data Systems, adds to its Storage Portfolio
A brief but interesting discussion of the article can be found here:

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/06/12/new-cave-mapping-tec...

Note Mark's comment in particular.
Hurray! Thanks, Max :)
me too (my HN userid) @gmail.com
Duh, i can see it a little lower... was just being an idiot

http://membership.thinkvitamin.com/library/css3#borders
I'll take on too, please. _______ gmail.com

Got it. Thanks, Gerard.
This reminds me of Radio Shack's Engineering's Mini-Notebook series. I still have a copy of the 555 timer one that was given to me by my high school electronics teacher.
I can remember people selling GMail invites for a decent amount at the very beginning of their launch.
Nothing stops them from doing this. What they're upset about is that there is no regulation that says "if you raise X x $1MM, you will receive a money transmitter's license"; they'd like to do it on their own.
As a rule, legislators don't actually write the laws. Professional draftsmen are usually employed for this purpose.
ASK PG: Why is it that you've ceased writing essays?
Is it because you're working on Arc?
The short answer: Security is HARD.

The long answer:

When even OpenSSH, a product dedicated to security, with highly trained, security focused minds, has new vulnerabilities coming to light on a regular basis, chances are this isn't an easily solved problem.

There can be any number of reasons why a security hole exists, covering laziness, incompetence, ignorance, or simple mistakes. Unless you can mathematically prove the correct functioning of your program (no small feat), there are bugs in it, and chances are some of those bugs are security vulnerabilities.

There have been numerous attempts at protecting so-called "data-only" memory, but thus far they have not stopped buffer overrun exploits completely.

The only way to be more sure that your program is not vulnerable to memory pointer exploits is to use a language that doesn't expose pointers to the programmer. But then you sacrifice speed and executable code size. And even then you can't be 100% sure because the compiler and runtime have bugs in them.

The more safety you bake into a language, the slower programs written in it will run. And even then, you're only safe until the next generation of exploits come out that take advantage of something nobody thought would be a security hole. And round and round we go.
Excellent overview! Even if one are aware of the basics and/or one choose their own creative way of doing the marketing I really think it is perfect to have the best-practices like this like a roadmap. Even experts will get use of this.
So then it will still work like twitter if a celebrity goes on and just publishes everything as "public", then anyone can subscribe to them.
Spreading the word with fewer AdWords
Content Marketing for Startups
My ver 0 of the blog had a nearly identical top banner to the mintlife blog, but the ctr was atrocious.

I've been experimenting with placements and sizes since day 1. The buttons on the footer of each post are doing pretty well so far (but they're still a new edition).

date update: Turns out the referrals to hipmunk from the blog were practically tied for second highest ever, so perhaps we should just keep drawing attention to our funnel methods ;) Realizing you totally missed the next 2 links beside home (flights / hotels) was a good prompt to update that section. Thanks for that.
Beyond Agile Programming
I like how I keep seeing 'free' and 'contest for invites!'.

at this point I think most people who want one could get one very easily without demeaning themselves or spamming their twitter contacts with some contest…
There is a polyfill out that handles the lack of File API in IE and earlier versions of Safari; http://sandbox.knarly.com/js/dropfiles/.

Also, great list of polyfills available at the Modernizr github repo; https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-brow... .
I think the meaning of 'law' has been lost here. When I was doing my masters in Info./Comm theory I remember coming across a much ridiculed paper that claimed to break Shannon's law. It was pretty funny but of course I can't find it now since a google search only turns up hits for this.
If you look to Europe, we have a sales tax in every country and yet Amazon manages to operate an affiliate service without problem.

If every state harmonised to a similar sales tax range and contributed a certain percentage of the earnings to a central pot (which is shared), then you wouldn't suffer from these problems. I know this is unpopular because people in the US tend to be strongly against tax, but it's a solution.
I will also love one too. andrewreds AT gmail DOT com
Can you really call something like Roomba a revolution? I've met a single person in my life with a Roomba. People everywhere still sweep manually.
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He's pretty busy with YC these days.
Amazon has it's search engine A9 based in Palo Alto, CA.
Amazon refers to A9 as "our search engine" in its own documentation: http://www.amazon.com/gp/xs/sharethepi.html

How can it then claim that it has no offices in California?
Keeping Track of Work -- Gantt Charts
Samsung Sues Apple Over IPhone, IPad, IPod
"Why learn anything when you can look it up?"

I'm certainly no linguist but isn't this confusing learning with remembering facts and details?
eBay has these for a really good price. I just picked up a nearly complete set of first editions in crazy good condition for $60. Most of the sets cost more, but they're usually complete (this one is missing 4-5 volumes of 51).
Microsoft can now record calls from Skype
Adding fine-grained locks without risking deadlock is pretty tricky. Perhaps too tricky for automatic addition.

As I (shallowly) understand it, STM doesn't introduce deadlock threats, so it requires less-amazing feats to add it automatically.

Note, again, that the FA does admit that using STM will perform more poorly than fine-grained locking, and he only hopes that it will scale well enough that extra cores will pay for it.

As I understand it, one of the reasons for the GIL is that it makes it easier to write C extensions (especially as compared with fine-grained locking, which is not friendly to extensions), and I'm not sure, but I think the STM scheme preserves this property?
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"this is very anti-entrepreneurial."

This is the end result of the "pro-business" crowd pushing society's tax burden into regressive taxes like sales. Sooner or later those taxes have to go where the money is.

"all the small business, affiliates (large and small) will now relocate to other states that are more friendly to their business."

No, all of them won't. Many have physical locations in their state which they earn more from then they do from Amazon.

"Too bad California :("

Maybe you missed it but it's also too bad for Amazon. Affiliates add value, 40% of their sales. Now some will relocate and some will fold but the majority will keep selling their stuff and trying to chip customers away from Amazon.
Alternatively, rank the people on the "keep me posted" list by their network centrality within their group of contacts, invite the ones of more centrality first, and give them a limited number of invites to give away themselves.

(That is: select evangelists from the "keep me posted" list, invite them first, and let 'em do their work.)
Would really appreciate it if anyone can send an invite - * @ gmail .com

EDIT: Thanks Julien-Charles! 3 mins!