skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do your research. At least three different companies produce and distribute a Vatican-approved condom under license. Its innovative latex-derivative material has been engineered under Church supervision to block the HIV virus while allowing sperm to pass unhindered.

UPDATE: Folks this is indeed one of the oldest jokes ever told. I’m not surprised nobody is laughing, my ability to tell a joke it matched only by my ability to compose rhyming couplets extemporaneously. But I am surprised nobody identified it as such.
You described the requirements for a medium of exchange, and they make sense. But I don't think that that means "value" necessarily. Value is bread when I am hungry. Or gold when I need to make microchip contacts - but that usage is nowhere near justifying the price that gold actually trades at.

This is just a nitpick with the use of term "intrinsic value" - gold's characteristics make it a good form of money, but it's still (abstractly speaking) on a fiat basis.
It's not just their choice of profession. When a redneck says he hates "bankers" that's code for "Jews".
IANAL. Plagiarism is only relevant in a classroom environment where you aren't doing work in the expected way. Copyright infringement is different. In the case of SICP, the entire book is available online for free, as far as I know the book doesn't contain answers to all of the exercises (so most work you do there is your own), and many of the code snippets are small enough that I don't think they would withstand a copyright claim in court. (It'd be like trying to copyright "for (int i = 0; i < MAX; ++i)".) Even if you blatantly copy out large sections from the ebook for a blog entry, I'm still pretty sure there's a strong fair use claim to be had. (I guess it would be weakened if your blog serves ads.) Cite your source and you'll be alright.

Of course, looking at the actual page is better for solid legal ground http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ . It's licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ so again you're fine to redistribute and modify if it's non-commercial.

re: Calculus, you could always watch a few videos at Khan Academy. ;) I don't remember needing all that much calculus, but if you don't have a concept of derivatives or integrals then some of the earlier examples of higher order functions will go over your head. You could watch some online lectures here: http://academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-interpret... which don't ramp up the difficulty as steeply.
Not a bad idea. I'd be more than happy to give the kit away if it meant I'd get some consulting work out of it. Thank you.
Like Neal Stephenson's mediaglyphs.
I think the argument is that Google is being predatory with their business, and whining when it doesn't always go their way. They want to be cut throat, destroy other peoples business, but they don't like the blow back. Oh, and they whine about it.

Don't get confused here, Google is as bad as MSFT, that's the point. They even want patents with the same justification as your Oracle quotes. But they're not going around trying to elicit sympathy from people by making blog posts about it.

Make no mistake. Google is a PLAYER in this through and through. They're just spinning everything and trying to pull a PR move about it.

Go out and find me one piece of evidence that Google is actually trying to do something to stop software patents and maybe I can agree that they are doing things differently than the others. But for now their playing the same game as Apple, Oracle, and MSFT. They just appear to be losing for now.
That's like opposing seatbelt adoption because you think it will increase the rate of fender-benders.
For people who only read as far as the "Fixing It" section, this post will make the problem worse. There's an unfortunate mistake that changes the meaning to the exact opposite of what was intended:

Write your code to call open asynchronously.
You need to pass false for the bAsync parameter to the open method...

The "bAsync" parameter governs whether the call will be async. True (the default) means async, not false. Oops. At least the examples get it right.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841635
Over here at TripLingo, we collaborate on the direction of the company. Our fearless leader(tm) however, has set the vision from the beginning, and continues to impress the vision with some small tweaks as we've moved forward. But we're a small team still - only 6 core folks - so YMMV if you're in a larger startup.
i suspect never not funny passed 6 figure revenue as an enterprise (subscriptions, shirts, back episode sales, etc). he dropped some clues in an episode once before quickly changing the subject.
For Wikipedia, apparently someone did their homework: the disclaimer under the edit box says "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license."

SO's insistence on non-obfuscated links doesn't make much sense to me, though. Users retain copyright to the content they submit to SO, so it's them, not SO, who say which attribution they would like. SO could require some sort of attribution to be sufficient (like Wikipedia does), but users are free to say that they accept any sort of attribution besides that, even one which does not credit SO at all.
Had Google joined the bidding, they would be unable to use the patents to defend against Microsoft. Microsoft would win.

Since Google refused to bid along and the CPTN and Rockstar groups won, Google isn't able to use those patents to defend against Microsoft. Microsoft won.

Had another group won the auctions, the result would be neutral to both Google and Microsoft. Both would, probably, be bullied.

The only scenario where Google would win would be if they offered the winning bid or joined a winning group with no ties to Microsoft. They would then be able to use those patents against Microsoft.

And don't forget Apple's patent portfolio threatens Google and its partners too.
The Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.
Wow.. killed with the downvotes.

Can someone explain please?

I'm pretty sure I'm right that Google didn't bid for Novell at the time. I sure can't find any record of it.

Here's some coverage of the Novell deal: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-20005491-16.html. Google wasn't bidding at that point.
Could you care to explain? Right now what I understand is not "F# Rocks" but "F# is the most weird language I've ever seen and no one cares to explain me why I should consider F# as something that rocks" :(
I wouldn't really call transitions behavior considering that they don't change the state of the page, and degrade gracefully.

Now, CSS3 animations might be a different kettle of fish entirely, I haven't looked too closely at them.
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> Yet, about half of our $700 Billion USD stimulus went to tax cuts.

Right - tax cuts are not Keynesian stimulus spending by any sensible definition. Trying to stimulate a recessionary economy with tax cuts is like pushing on a piece of string.
that account has been suspended...you can read the cached copy at http://fireballed.org/linked/2011/08/04/google/
It may not be news to you, but younger people may only be learning this now. We need to keep talking about it if they are going to learn about it.
In answer to your query: Yes. It is the same logic the Catholic church uses to oppose the spread of traditional latex condoms, particularly in Africa.
Monetate Raises $15 Million For Realtime Testing And Targeting Platform
>> While I'm sure that everyone on HN understands the seroconversion window period...

I don't. Care to explain?
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Mutual fund and navs
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It's not good public health to deny information to everyone because some people will misuse said information.

While the linked rag's piece is sensationalized, the Nature Medicine article on this device is more useful. http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.2408....
That fact (and the Dr. Horrible ignore) probably wouldn't fit the narrative the articles author was going for. It also doesn't give credit to Felicia Day's pragmatism and judgement. I am not a fan of how Forbes does a lot of their articles.
Oh, And we're hiring engineers http://jobs.monetate.com
When you put emotion into the analysis it seems disgusting. This is business. Purely from a business standpoint do you think MS (or Google) would take it lying down when a competitor undercuts their product with a free product? Don't for a minute think Google made Android open source for philanthropic reasons. It did it purely because it wanted to use the open source as a strategic weapon to get a foothold in the field. I do believe Google strongly believes in their "Do not evil" mantra but this particular one is all business. This is NOT the linux-ms battle again. Linux/GNU was more like a movement without a business/monetary aspirations behind it. Redhat and others sprung around the ecosystem as service providers later on. Android is started/released by a business to make money. So MS is dealing with a different beast here. Google cannot think it would get away by giving their software for free. Nothing is free. It just takes time for things to settle down. The mobile world is still in its infancy.

TL;DR -- Do not put emotions into a business analysis.
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I see nothing to prove this has been happening more than a week. Just some claims that it's been happening since last year, which might have been a different problem altogether.

Google's working on it.
Oh, wow..love the site! I frequently check out "Show HN" posts. I mostly view the feedback that was given. I like that you included a preview and link to the comments section.

EDIT: I tried it out more. It would be nice to have a search option too.
Racket v5.1.2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14403432
Two critical elements of a successful B2B lead generation campaign
At first glance, it looked like something you might sell on codecanyon.net
The Easter Eggs are pretty neat (if you can find them).
Here's one: http://thenounproject.com/noun/swing/ (Mouse over the thumbnail)
As a current university student, it's not my paternalism. It kind of sucks, doesn't it?

But it's like lots of things in life: sometimes we can't have nice things because other people, who are much less mature and sensible than you, will misuse them, so nobody is allowed them.

Also, "paternalism" is an irritating dog whistle. We are talking about "public health policy", which also means such sensible things as that you can't have plastic surgery done in a car garage or buy cola sweetened with lead acetate or Cyclamate.
Being against the real name policy I made sure to change my name to something obviously 'not allowed' ("Firstname .") as my tiny bit of digital protest.

It took a roughly a week, I'm suspended now and my G+ usage is ~0~ (I could repeal, I guess, and change my name back. But I don't support the rule and it's a dealbreaker for me).

So far I'm hard pressed to name anything missing..
Both Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC.

1. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

"Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr."[2]

2. http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin
Couldn't agree more (hence my post) - although nutrition may play a role in the antibody response. Malnourished individuals (especially those with low protein diets) tend to show slower antibody responses, so may have a longer seronconversion window period
> What time do you go to bed?

10pm, usually, and asleep before 10:30 (I've been using the K&R C book + melatonin as a sleep aid recently). 6.5 - 7 hours of sleep seems to be enough for me at the moment.

> Do you ever drink, go out, etc?

Yes, at least once a week I'll see friends and twice a week I'll go out with my wife. If I'm not careful, I can get off schedule, and it often takes quite some time to get back (as in weeks). Those periods when I'm off schedule precipitate bursts of intense productivity (maybe I'm more rested; maybe I'm more motivated).

> I'm asking because I'm a morning person, but I doubt I would enjoy 'getting to it' at 5am everyday.

You nailed it with 'personal time' and a disinclination to work after work hours. I have a few hours of personal time before my wife wakes up where I get to enjoy an activity (coding) that I can't share with her. Any time I spend coding after work hours is time I can't spend with my wife and friends. That time is necessary for me as a human being, and for my work: socializing is good for my brain (promotion of neuronal plasticity and neurogenesis), and breaks are important (recharging and subconscious synthesis + assimilation).

> Do you all consider it part of your job to listen to what's happening in the tech world, learn about personal productivity, etc? If these times were taken out and only time producing tangible output were measured, my average rate would go up, maybe to $70 per hour.

I'm now salaried, and I've stopped thinking in terms of $/hr, and that helps work/life balance, productivity, and attitude.

It's not necessary to learn what other coders are doing, unless I want to be good. Isolation is a straight path to mediocrity.

> It's consumed by my GF, running, going out, casual reading, a couple TV shows. All this I think is a worthwhile tradeoff.

I wouldn't even consider it a tradeoff. Eating isn't a tradeoff to work time -- it's necessary for function. Rest and socializing, too.
Usually, an HIV test doesn't test for presence of the virus itself; it tests for the antibodies your immune system develops in response to infection. The "window period" is the span of time between contracting the virus and the presence of detectable antibodies, which can be up to 6 months in some cases (though it's usually shorter). During this period, a person will test negative for HIV even though he or she is infected with the virus (and, worse, is contagious).

Newer tests have been developed that test for presence of the virus's RNA, shortening the window period to about 21 days (if I recall correctly), but they are more expensive and much, much less widespread.
> Its innovative latex-derivative material has been engineered under Church supervision to block the HIV virus while allowing sperm to pass unhindered.

This is either a joke or the stupidest thing I've heard all month.

Anyway, the RCC does allow people to use condoms when the primary purpose is disease control and not contraception.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/8148899/Po...
Perfect 10 v. Google: No Presumption of Irreparable Harm in Copyright Cases
perhaps the java ecosystem is different than what i'm familiar with, but in my experience you have to really sell your framework- even if it's free. $200 is enough to make me close the page before reading the features.
@pg- see Page 2 & 3 of this paper for actual A/B testing results on the coupon code issue

http://cginsights.posterous.com/hippo-ab-testing
On a side note, this page looks beautiful at the top, then gets uglier and uglier as you scroll down.
What I'm not understanding is the object space. If a voxel's coordinates are implied based on its position, then there would be voxel data for every "point" in the object space. Unless we use a sparse representation of some sort, in which case it seems that we're basically using point clouds.
http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ is a nice project that implements svg in flash when necessary. it would probably work here.
Apple is suing smartphone and tablet manufacturers as well. Why didn't you mention them? Microsoft and Apple didn't invent the patent system. Why blame them for using it? Google is obviously planning on using patents to fight it's competitors too, since they bought all of those IBM patents. Why else would they buy?
You've got this backward. His aim is not to switch to something radically different. When he switches, he's looking for something more like what he once had. Linus endorses stability in UIs, and the thing that drives him away is senseless novelty-driven churn.

Here's the signal that UI geeks miss with regard to Linus and DEs: His goals are utterly utilitarian; he wants the UI to save him time. That's it, nothing more. He uses Fedora because of its mostly OK out-of-the box functionality, and he picks from among the canned UIs offered at installation. He doesn't dick around with installing and configuring desktop environments, because he's not a fucking UI fetishist, as the gnome and KDE folks evidently are. He wants to press a button and have it work.

It's a simple and noble goal.
Highly unlikely that three runs of the same test are fully independant, i.e. they might match all on the same antibody which is similar to an HIV one but not due to a HIV. You likely only prevent operation goof-ups like "oops, spilled a bit of blood from the needle of my bro here ..." (or something less fancy and more likely).

Which is why in practice you run a different test to confirm results.
This seems great for a persisent group chat! The chat client is in the browser and I automatically seem to get persistence. Seems nice.
One might argue you shouldn't mix functional programming with side effects. ;P

But it's not so much the case of scoping as the case of variable binding. Assignments/statements in Python don't work like they do in some other languages. So your inner function can reference the outer "x" all it wants, but you'll get problems if you try to do something like x += 1.
I don't think there are that many companies out there that can turn a "big iPod touch" into a success, especially not a startup. People are much more willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt and try their products than they would be with a startup or with most other companies.

This is why I want to laugh when companies like HP and others think they just need their own OS, and then they can be just like Apple. Apple has a lot of other advantages and factors working for them, that the other companies can't easily replicate.

The whole world spins around copying others and putting our own spin on it. 99% is copying, 1% is innovation. Thinking otherwise will not be compatible with reality.

http://vimeo.com/25380454

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100912/22380510974/why-im...
"Researchers at Columbia University claim the mChip has a 100 percent detection rate, although there's a four to six percent chance of getting a false positive"

That sounds like a negative result DOES mean you don't have it, but a positive result DOESNT mean you do.

Edit: I guess this is just misleading and you actually can get false negatives.
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Anyone with a brain will look at the marketing expense numbers and make a bet as to their relevance and size going forward.

Dropping them completely and saying "look - we're profitable if you assume our customer acquisition cost is zero" seems pretty dumb. How, exactly, are we to assume their marketing numbers will drop at all? It is a sales-driven organization, no?

I'm not sure I'd call it slimy, as the article implies. But I would call it irrelevant. It's not like they're extracting some subtlety from the numbers that is not already well described by GAAP.
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There is actually a third way to spot conflicts like this. The author is even aware of it - his first example is captured by the type system. Is it possible that a stronger type system can solve more of these problems?

Let's imagine I'm looking at that calculateBill method and realize that as well as calculating the bill, it also sends off accounting entries to the accounting system. I don't like the side effect, so I pull it out into a separate notifyAccounting method.

Before:

calculateBill: BillEntries -> Writer (AccountingSystem) Bill
...Jed's code:...
produceBillEntries >>= calculateBill >>= billProcessor

After:

calculateBill: BillEntries -> Bill
notifyAccounting: BillEntries -> (Writer AccountingSystem) ()
...Jed's code:...
produceBillEntries >>= calculateBill >>= billProcessor

This yields a type error. calculateBill needs to have type a -> M b, instead it has type a -> b. If your type system can express concepts like "removed side effects" then the compiler will catch mistakes like "forgot to put the side effect back".
You have my attention, but all I have is contrary:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-vatican-reaffirms-...

Do you have a reference?
thanks for the explanation. it worries me that anyone thinks this is common knowledge amongst a more-or-less programmer community. It worries me even more that perhaps it is, and I'm just ignorant.
Condoms won't slow the spread of crabs, scabies, or the common cold. Maybe we should ban those too under your logic.
> Google's major complaint was in relation to the Nortel patents because of the ridiculous price that they sold for (multiples of what their expected worth was)

I found Google's position on this to be especially lame.

"These were worth only 1 billion, and they sold for nearly 5 times that!", omitting that Google bid "nearly" 4 times that. (Where "nearly" is defined as rounding up.) Why is four times "expected worth" okay, but 5 times isn't okay? Because they lost.
The only way to truly find out if it sells is to start selling it.

Sometimes, the people who give feedback on your idea are not the same as your target audience.

What would people search for in Google to find something like this? SEO and throw some money at PPC.
"Less fields in a form is always better" is not entirely accurate. I'd agree with "Less fields in a form increases the number of people that complete the form", but this is not necessarily "better".

It does not mean that people will actually read the newsletter or complete the checkout process or come back and spend more money, those are the real metrics to track and rarely have anything to do with how many people submit the form.
How 'bout this:

/// Compute the highest-common-factor of two integers
let rec hcf a b = // notice: 2 parameters separated by spaces
if a=0 then b
elif a<b then hcf a (b-a) // elif = else if
else hcf (a-b) b
// note: function arguments are usually space separated
// note: 'let rec' defines a recursive function
Thanks alot SubZero ^^
didn't know it's that easy, and about legal issues, believe me if you know what I'm gonna do with that, you'll wish to do it your self, ... thanks again ^__^
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I've been noticing the problem, but as far back as I have noticed it personally thus far is to 7/26... some spot checking from 7/11 shows the web orders going through fine then, at least for me. But from 7/26 to now, my web based orders have been charged, but I have received no payout for them.

I have confidence that it will eventually get sorted out.

When the market breaks (it does so occasionally for developers), I wish there was more immediate feedback available from Google. The forums are a good start, but they tend to get filled quickly with melodrama on any hot issue. But all in all I am happy as an Android developer.
Or isolation, starvation, psychedelic drugs, near death experiences and sex. There are countless ways of achieving inner peace. Personally, I think that even Buddhism is littered with dogma (any subject that people form groups around tends to suffer from this). It would be nice to see a study comparing the different techniques and ranking their usefulness for different personality types.
This is awesome !!! :)
TRSI Red Sector were the best :-)
> Most people won't put a high enough value on a free class, especially if they're not getting credit.

Both Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are Very Important Persons in Google (Google Fellow / Google Director). This is basically a free diploma to be put in the CV for any Google wanna-be engineer, if they can make it. I doubt even credit would be more important than it.