skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who had a false positive not long ago, I am not gonna be using this anytime soon.
I've read the whole thing but didn't do all the exercises. I generally don't like doing exercises unless I don't understand a concept.
You can also get better compiler texts, these days. I recommend starting with Niklaus Wirth's _Compiler Construction_ (http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/books/CompilerConstruc...), then Andrew Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_.

I have a comment linking together several threads of compiler-related advice on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922002.
Their API's pretty easy to work out since you can NSLog the Objective C stuff to see what and how it's sending. I did it last week to make Parse available to my ActionScript, HTML5 and Unity developers.
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That is why the notability criteria came into existence, but it most assuredly isn't wielded like that any more.
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Just checked out my Airbnb stats, they're equally impressive.

All Page Views: 246
Money Earned: $1,249
Total Bookings: 2
So less than 1% conversion rate though.
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Yeah, I see www.domain.com vs. domain.com show up a lot over time. It'd be nice if this weren't the case, but, it's also sometimes nice to revisit things months later.
To give a very rough idea that works, but pitchers can vary so much, for example some of them, when at their best, get a bunch of strikeouts, others will get a bunch of groundouts/DPs. A pitcher who doesn't throw many strikeouts but consistently makes it very hard for a ball to be hit anywhere that isn't an easy play defensively could looka lot luckier than someone who gets a lot of strike outs, but when he does get hit gets hit badly.
Well, I think the distinction is that the techniques were originally designed to improve the response to the state of, for example, shipping in Rotterdam. That is, the traders didn't particularly care if the shipping patterns were the most efficient possible, but that they were making the best trades based on observed patterns.

I believe the point of the article is that now these same techniques are being used to instruct the markets they were originally designed to simply monitor.
It's funny that your parent is downvoted below zero when he's absolutely right. I don't use IRC very much, but the last time I did, I wanted to use the name I'd registered with previously. Unfortunately, Pidgin kept telling me my name was already in use or some crap. It was quite difficult at the time, not being an initiate in the appropriate vocabulary, to figure out the search terms to use to discover that I needed to "ghost" the user or some ridiculous unintuitive incantation. I may have got the details wrong, but that only confirms my point. IRC is too hard for non-techies. I'm a programmer by profession, and if it gives me the slightest hassle, it's too hard for other people.

Maybe a nice client could make this pain go away, but I doubt it. All the ones I've tried have suffered from the same learning curve problem and the same in-grained assumptions that come from regular use of IRC. Even if one were easy and elegant, I'm not sure that could overcome the negative network effects of so many clients, billed as IRC, doing it badly. I'm not going to analyze it in detail right now, but there's myriad subtracting reinforcements from a community that mostly uses user-unfriendly clients and protocols. You can't just make one good client and get a tipping point. In fact, desktop linux does look like a good analogy here.

Moreover, it would be disingenuous to claim that IRC being techie-unfriendly is "outdated" when the majority of clients and tech how-tos pointing to clients are the same as they ever were. I would guess that the majority of IRC use is still done on unfriendly clients, e.g., Pidgin. One or two low share clients existing don't speak for IRC.

Now, I'm not saying XMPP or this client is an answer. But, yes, IRC is and always will be unpopular with the non-tech population.
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It does points out how valuable and high quality their traffic is though
You can also use nginx. I don't know about nginx supporting url rewritings, but basicly you just need that for rewriting http-bind/ to your jabber server's http-bind
This might just be my conspiracy radar turned to 11, however, it seems very suspect that a blog with only 1 post ever, is using that post to rave about AirBnB right in the middle of their storm.

I want to supplement this by saying I really admire AirBnB and have no doubt that they will over come this security lapse with the killer product and marketplace they've built. However, this suspicious orphan blog post has my BS antennae throwing out sparks.
> Your intentional misrepresentation of the discussion raises questions about your motives.

Your intentional assumptions regarding intent and motives raises questions about your motives. :P
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But look at the example cited: Google ended up with TWO systems, because he didn't fully understand what the program did.
Good job on the earnings but there's not a whole lot we can take away from the CPM figure. I'm not sure there is anything to compare it to besides other AirBnB listings and the only other data point we currently have is an order of magnitude better (246/$1129).
By reading the post title, you've now heard of it. Once you decide whether or not you want to read it, "No, and I don't want to" or "Not yet, but it should happen soon" would be a good choice for you.
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May be a viable business, but I find I completely disagree with TC's opening comment 'Most developers would agree: building backends is no fun'.

Though I like building both front and back-end, I find front-end development can be painfully slow vs much of the backend stuff. Particularly when all you're doing is CRUD operations, which it seems is all the Kinvey does.
There's Keldeo, Meloetta, and Genesect - the missing Pokemon. They are only present on a Nintendo game, and only if you hack it. But they are vaporized, 1984-style, from the English Wikipedia; as they don't exist in the real Pokemon world.

At least, that's what I can glean from 5 minutes on the discussion page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_(599%....
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Someone posted a gist wich looks like DNS hits for facebook content delivery network (fbcdn.net) https://gist.github.com/1125307 plus another one about top domains https://gist.github.com/1125203 . It seems the odds are around 1 over 1 billion, or even less. Edit : Can it be something else? maybe IP/UDP checksum collision over corrupted packets ?
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Even better than a tutorial, have the shell pass any unrecognized commands to apropos or a help program. This would make things much more discoverable.
"but if I decide to learn (say) compilation for real then I'd be better served by reading a book focused on compilation."

If you're a total noob at compilers, as I was when I read SICP (and still am) I think chapters 4 and 5 are a great intro. Like other Lisp/Scheme compiler and PL books (Lisp in Small Pieces, PLAI I think, EOPL to a lesser extent, parts of PAIP I think) SICP doesn't scratch parsing and lexing, but just uses (read). This means you can get to interesting stuff like program analysis and code generation without getting bogged down in parsing, at least at first. It's a really nice approach to learning that stuff.
* If the article you are creating was deleted for not meeting the notability criteria, it means you probably did not source it with a reliable source, and the administartor who deleted it could not find a reliable source about the article you were writing.*

Define "reliable source." Could it ever include a thread on Hacker News, or a blog post written by an expert in the field?
In case you are interested, here is my shameless plug.
I am writing a series of posts about SICP in Python:

http://pedrokroger.com/2010/09/sicp-in-python-1-1-the-elemen...

Hopefully I'll have more time to continue with it this year.
The CPM term is misleading.
I'm not sure it translates. I've got a place, listed on AirBnB which is almost always available for rent. It's a vacation home. http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/59577

We've had 458 page views and made $262. Hardly astonishing. We do rent it locally through a property manager, they get much fewer page views, but have repeat clients and make us $5k to $10k per year. At least in South America, AirBnb might as well not exist at all. Nobody uses it to rent.
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Yes. Exactly. Sounds good to me. I am glad we can agree on this.
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I agree. If you look on jamendo.com you can find lots of great music that people have released for free that no one is talking about. Here are some of my favorites (I tend to like instrumental, progressive music):

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/76891

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http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/34267

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56244

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/27332

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3492

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1472

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/17100
Massive Injection Campaign Affecting More Than Six Million Pages
Will be interesting to see how many people take advantage of this.
I've often thought of building a community developed series of visualization plugins to drive off this kind of data. Getting the data and making it fungible is a pretty cool first step.
First 3D Printed Plane: Future of Drones and UAVs?
In my experience (which isn't a ton), I really enjoyed having 3 person co-founding team. As far as decision making it helps to have that number of people to help settle debates. Strictly on that level it was a positive as long as there is a level of cooperation and dedication with everyone.
source: Google chrome Sundar Pichai's g+ post
https://plus.google.com/116651741222993143554/posts/Kk6m2TLS...
[Sorry, I haven't forgotten about this message, but things are really hectic right now. I'll try to get to it tomorrow.]
They're working on it and purchased Fridge to help get there -- as far as I understand.
is it though? No way to tell with one data point. We'd need to at least compare that to 1000 page views on Craigslist.
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Right. And I think the right features will help to produce the conversations in which people will more likely say the things that the algorithms need ;-)
If we are talking the top 1% then they can buy a building in Bangalore and put a helipad on it to fly them to the airport where they can travel wherever they want.

Ambani bought himself a building and a helipad to commute to his office. That way you've fixed the commute problem too.

Bangalore weather is also pretty awesome. I wish I had my kite and board ... its been windy the whole past month ...
Another discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847028
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Parse is like an envelope labeled "Instant Server Guy – Just Add Water."

Danilo, you are a quote machine ;-)
It's the only book on programming that I can say changed everything about the way I code.
Given that HN is a forum, HN threads are inherently not notable. Blog posts written by experts are a more grey area. It really depends on what the content you're backing up with the source is. For article notability, it probably wouldn't fly - but for backing up a claim made in the article, it might be okay.
It's an encyclopedia, not a tutorial or textbook. It's not supposed to be something you learn from, but something you reference.

What you want is something that would be more useful, but harder to produce.
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What is the big deal? If you really wanted to learn AI there are plenty of books and free resources online to do it. Why wait to learn until somebody offers a free course online?
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FTA:

25,000: Number of requests reported by Verizon alone
300: Number of those that were from federal agencies
17: Number reported by federal agencies to federal watchdog
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Very sneeky: http://groovehq.com/images/marketing/features/EasilySubmitTi...
Yeah, I guess that's about right. (usually) go to class, scan the pset and read up on the bits that don't make sense, or better yet, find someone to explain them. I do have some distinct memories of reading the book. I wasn't a great student and I find it a challenge to read lots of technical stuff without a specific purpose, so I'm not sure my experience is representative.
As an iOS Developer who cant do any server side coding, this service is a boon!

I visited both Kinvey and Parse and the one major difference i can see straightaway is that Parse allows schema less development. From their website:

"For example, you do not need to specify any schemas before pushing data to us. Our data API simply uses a schema-less JSON-like format."

While Kinvey lists "model your data and file requirements" as the first step to using their service.

Of course, both the services are still in beta and post-beta pricing will also be a major differentiator going ahead.
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I challenge both of those assertions. I haven't done LYAH, because I was learning haskell before it existed, but I did nearly every available haskell tutorial when I was learning.

As soon as you step out of bounds, you find strange corners of the type system. It's quite a complex beast, and many of the error messages are cryptic at best.
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There's a lot that goes into making a product for developers. Take a look at the APIs, and decide for yourself:

https://www.parse.com/docs/ios_guide

https://github.com/stackmob/StackMob_iOS
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Discoverability of GUI components is definitely a big advantage of graphical programs. A bit of NLP magic could help. Most CLIs have this at an extremely basic level -- invoke the command with invalid arguments and it will print out a short "help" blurb.

Some tools (e.g. git, sbt) take it a step further and will suggest alternatives based on similar commands. 'git sattus' will ask if you mean 'git status', for example.

WolframAlpha has a particularly interesting interface where you basically type natural language and it tries to parse it into a formal language. It then shows you the formal input interpretation (in addition to the output). This lets you immediately see if the program interpreted your command correctly, because a person can understand the formal specification of the command very easily. If you, the person, detect a misunderstanding it is then very simple to update your input so it's parsed correctly the next time.

For example, look at these queries. Note the formal input interpretation of the first, and the "closest interpretation" of the second:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+10+percent+of+the+po...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=combinations+of+1%2C+2%...
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For those who have read it, I'd be interested in knowing what it is that you feel you got out of it, ie how did it make you a better programmer? Better understanding of what's going on at a low level?
They took the exit, so as to not miss it, they sped up to catch it and cut me off.

I remember it took a second or two for me to figure out what was going on, while my mom was telling me to hit the brakes slowly and start leaning to the far-right of the road (where you stop if there is an emergency).
Interesting... I heard that NPR report that got corrected.
I spent 6 months and read the entire thing and did most of the reasonable exercises. I lead a Seattle SICP study group a couple years ago.

I <3 SICP, but I don't agree with the idea that Universities should still be teaching it. It relies too much on math for a subject domain.

Robotics is a much better domain. AFAIK this was the book that was took over for SICP in 6.001.

A web programming course would be an even better subject matter.
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The criticisms leveled here against this article are a bit more conservative than the ones you seemed to be hinting at and which were made in comments you supported in the other thread.

The author having more details than seems plausible is one thing. The idea that fundamental parts of the story are wrong is quite another and would of course be a charge made against the official story disseminated at every news outlet thus far. Since the "official" (if we are taking this to be the official story now) is already fairly damning if you are an Osama sympathizer (it was a kill only mission, he was shot unarmed, body was dumped in the ocean), I don't see any reason for it to be appreciably false and I certainly wouldn't spend any thought on it unless extraordinary evidence came to light. The simplest explanation is almost always right and conspiracy theories are almost always wrong.
The title is so obnoxious that I flagged your post. Also, I'm pretty tolerant of linkbait. This just takes it to the extreme.
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... And the lords of the surveillance state said in unison, "Long live the emergency!"
CPM is COST per impression. He's talking about revenue per impression (RPM) which is a completely different metric.
Wasn't that exactly what Knol set out to do? Associating ownership of an article to an individual.
I had a hard time with Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_ when I did the compiler course (7 years ago...) for my CS major. I much preferred _Modern Compiler Design_ by Dick Grune et al. (http://www.dickgrune.com/Books/MCD_1st_Edition/). A second edition seems to be in the pipeline (http://www.dickgrune.com/Books/MCD_2nd_Edition/).
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The point of The Hard Way methodology is to type everything out and understand what you're doing.

Having said that, you could clone the git repository, remove the "linenos" option and run the Jekyll site locally.
It did, the article mentions "NPR subsequently issued a correction for reasons noted below" and links to: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/01/138884570/details-of-the-bin-l... which has the correction.
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I don't see how it could really work otherwise. There is no such thing as a good that everyone would value equally. Intrinsic value varies depending on the needs of the traders.
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Personally I couldn't care less about finding microbial life. I want to find animal-sized life or heavy vegetation. That Mars might house single-celled life does nothing for my excitement.
Allowing the people to unlock the boot loader if they want is a good idea. People who aren't interested in rooting/installing custom ROMs won't have to bother.
On the flipside, someone who makes very little also knows how to live with very little. I make $30k and have $5k in the bank - I am not terribly worried about quitting my job in the near future. I already make garbage salary, living off my own savings won't be very different.
And pop up not only once, but twice.
This is a great resource. I'm in the process of learning Ruby, and will be trying out Ruby Koans and Satish Talim's Ruby Learning site as well in comparison. Does anyone know how good those tutorials are, or if there are any other good online Ruby guides?
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Why are we wasting time looking for microorganisms on Mars when Europa might have fish?
Believe me, I don't disagree. I'm just talking about the example of ports/shipping because of the huge amount of money moved around in commodity trading. If the example was applying this to say, trunk congestion/scheduling on the nation's highways, it would be a completely different story since traders don't care about (i.e. trade on) that information.
It's totally appropriate to raise questions about a story as detailed and important as this one, but this article seems more tendentious than the evidence suggests.

The claims against his character that the journalist makes at the beginning do not seem substantial enough to cast him as a liar.

Even more so, the parts of the story that do not add up, in the author's eyes, seem problematic but not totally unresolvable. For example, I don't think it's too farfetched to think that they may inventory the contents of the SEALs' pockets before departing on a mission.

The author of this piece also seems to imply that there is no good reason for the journalist not to reveal his sources, which is of course totally wrong, especially for something like this.

Lastly, the author totally ignores the fact that she is accusing of complicity a magazine known for the quality of its fact-checking. I would think it's safe to say the author's deception would have either have had to be astonishingly good or the new yorker to be particularly malicious for the accusations here to be true. One of those may be the case, but she should explicitly say that she is questioning the ability of the New Yorker's fact-checking team.

I guess at the end of the day, it's still worthy of questioning and investigating, but to me this article comes off as the argument of someone with an ax to grind more than an investigation.
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Full disclosure: I am an HIV-negative gay man with poz friends and acquaintances.

It's counter-intuitive, but it's not a better idea.

Especially when drunk, people have unfocused attention. Signals of trust are amplified. "He's safe, and we don't have a condom, so just this once..." If you go into a hookup thinking every single person is HIV-positive with an entire host of other STDs, you are much less likely to get one.

You don't want to know how many people I've talked to who got HIV from someone they trusted, and "knew" was negative. On the other hand, by law of averages I've slept with at least 20 poz people. I don't know who they are, but I was smart enough to be careful.
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It reminds me of the UK panel shows, a format that has died off here.
I, like Ixiaus, also took something different away from the article than most of the comments. I have several smart, talented friends who indulge in social media to a gross extent. They are the kind of people, like Mayer, that are at the point where they are asking questions like, “Is this a good blog? Is this a good tweet? Which used to be is this a good song title? Is this a good bridge?" but for their respective fields/talents. I certainly wish they would invest less time into those questions and more time into their craft/themselves.
To be fair, John Mayer started as an independent. His first album was self-published. He did a tour where he drove from gig to gig in his own car. Even after getting a contract, he played unglamorous gigs second-fiddle to guys like Glen Phillips (the lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket) at dinky clubs in Seattle.

Sure, he's hit the mainstream, but the guy knows something about being independent.