skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are righht to stand up for yourself, but in practical terms, it is doubtful his tweet wouldve ever been seen by any of your potential customers. It's not like Yelp, where the business listin serves as a repository for reviews and is often the first Google result.
That's exactly what I was thinking of when seeing this. It could prove fruitful for getting a "Tortoise" interface for git that's both easy to maintain and doesn't rely on clunky bits like msysgit.
The study mentioned in the mindhacks story can be found on the author's website:

http://mors.haas.berkeley.edu/CAnderson%20Pilot%20Site/Pubs/...
I think "iForgot" is a nice touch.
we recently moved three of our children to a Montessori school (one initially, then the other two six months later).

I'm quite astonished, still, at how different it is to traditional schooling. Classes are mixed age, usually spanning about 3 years, and children move to the next cycle when ready, not at a set date. Within a class, there's no mention whatsoever of what grade kids are. I don't think my kids even know.

Walk into a classroom, and you'll see the children spread out in groups of 2 or three, each group working quietly on an activity. The walls are lined with bookshelves full of activities; everything (almost) is hands on tactile experience. The older kids help the younger ones to understand things and the teacher, because she is not "teaching" (in the traditional sense) is free to work one-on-one with the children and make sure they really understand what they're doing.

Best of all, the kids love it. They really do. My daughter, who was previously hated school with a passion and was getting further and further behind (school didn't care) and was barely reading, is now an avid reader, progressing well in maths and writing and loves school.

Edit: few more details for anyone who doesn't have much experience with Montessori stuff, and I had none until only a year ago.

Each child has a journal in which the teacher writes a number of activities for that student at the end of each week (the teachers, because they spend a large amount of 1-on-1 time, know exactly where each child is in each subject). During the week, a child needs to complete those activities, but they're free to choose when and how. The remainder of the time is there's to work on/explore what ever they like.

There's no time slots, so kids are free to spend as much or as little time as they like on activities. The school actively encourages them to work towards spending the entire afternoon (3 hours straight) focused on a single activity if possible. The kids respond well to this too. Like science? then you've got three hours uninterrupted to work on some experiments with a few friends (group work is very much encouraged). Of course you can stop any time for a break and a snack. Heck, want to spend the entire day working on the one thing? Sure, so long as the teacher's confident you'll complete your journal tasks by the end of the week

There's also no exams. none. no tests or quizzes either. Here in Australia all primary school children are required to sit the NAPLAN[0] tests, and this school is no exception. Kids do no preparation and it's barely mentioned except for the days of the exams. Surprisingly (to me) the school ranked very well.

I'm extremely envious; I'd have loved the opportunity to enjoy school. If my kids have to spend 13 years of their life at school they may as well enjoy it

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPLAN
Funny how one of the most common objections, pirates, is also the most easily refuted (and of course, an FAQ - http://seasteading.org/about-seasteading/frequently-asked-qu...)
I know who my friends are. Their online nickname doesn't change that a bit.

Heck, when I lived in California, everyone there called me by a short form of my internet nick at the time. Most people didn't know my real name, and the few who did still called me what everyone else called me. It didn't change anything. My boss even wrote my check out to that name once, with my real last name. I had to have him correct it.

I think some people are scared of things being different, and socializing on the web is vastly different than socializing in your home or a bar. This 'real names' thing is an attempt to hold on to a little bit of the socializing they are used to. It will pass.
The hypothesis of this paper rings true (based on my experience).
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I do. Our official deploy environment is RedHat, but our official development environment is Windows. I use a linux distro in a VM to do most of my dev, but since a lot of guys use Windows I have to make sure that scripts and such work in both. The actual coding I don't switch as often, but there is some. I use emacs for most of it.
There appears to be an obsession with leaders and leadership in American corporate/political culture. I would like to understand it better. Can someone explain it to me?
Do the i5/i7 chips in the new MBA count?
Dont forget that a lot of trades didn't clear.

I read somewhere that something like 30% of trades used to fall through because of paperwork mixups and other problems before electronic exchanges.

How would you like to think you sold at a profit only to find out that the trade didn't clear and now you're in the hole because the stock bottomed out?
Really? That's fascinating.

I pay with a credit card for everything possible - I don't have to worry about carrying cash, don't have to carry change, it takes less time, and I get a comprehensive list of everything I've bought (and for how much) at the end of every month.

To me, extending my credit card usage from interactions with stores to interactions with people (a la Square) would be (and is) awesome (no more checks!).
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And for INT_MIN? The c-faq (http://c-faq.com/misc/sd26.html) says that this approach fails in that case. Is your suggestion to just avoid INT_MIN? If so, that works. :)
TinyMCE has had this ability since 3.3

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wiki.php/Configuration:formats
I don't really want it per se, but isn't this quite similar to pixelpipe? Since that service already exists since 2007 or so and they recently (April) raised some $2.3M, there must be quite some people who _do_ want it.
Yes, no one wants to work but get all the credit.
Cool. How do you get to that state (of having lots of buffers open) without accidentally closing Vim? My Vim sessions don't last long because I always :q with a single window and its gone.
"The phrase This Time Is Different has often been cited as the four most dangerous investing words in the English language."

http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/wise-investing/thi...
Ask HN: Which Degree for CS + Internet Mkting?
Previously I was sure of CS.

Though now I have realised a big part of my interest is mixing programming/content with internet marketing/affiliate marketing, which I am doing well with so far.

Would a CS+some kind of marketing be a good idea? Or psychology? Or just doing a few units in these?

I honestly feel the internet will give me better advice than anyone I know personally.

As for unis - any suggestions? I am after a smart uni where I can find programmers+co-founders, but also women+balanced life. Stanford and USC seem great to me. I live in Australia btw, and have taken the SATs (~2350)
I've used this approach in one of my school assignments. The result (macros) weren't so nice but I think they've worked. It was few years back so I'm not so sure now.

https://github.com/rplnt/personal/blob/master/C/fractions/zl...
> I have seen it already last year and the way how this guys speaks has not changed since then (speaks like a salesmen) ;)

+1. I'd actually trust the company more if they had someone who spoke in measured tones and laid off the hyperbole.
This is great input, the named styles are my absolute favourite thing about Word. One of my other peeves with almost all WYSIWYG editors is that they default to line-by-line editing, and generally avoid exposing paragraphs as a first-class construct. In both Word and HTML, treating content as paragraphs makes things more predictable, stable (in terms of layout), and easier to understand IMO.
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My $0.02 - Leaders are born and their skills are hewn over time through experience. Its more 'natural selction' then random selection as the author suggests that brings leaders into their natural position.
Ask HN: Why such a big number of news about Airbnb on HN?
I'm amused about why there are so much entries about the Airbnb fiasco. Why is it of so much interest to hackers?
A guided tour of Emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Why would I want another editor?
Nice post veyron. Please keep it up.

For those interested, here's some other good reading on this topic while you wait for veyron's next post :)

- http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25308/ Using textual analysis

- http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/2593339/Markets... Article on HFT

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517339 Ask HN: Is it feasible to do high-frequency trading as an individual?

- http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9s9d7/iama_100_automat... I bootstrapped an automated trading firm ama

- http://quant.stackexchange.com/

- http://bitstat.wordpress.com/
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Earn over $2500 USD per month doing part time jobs without any investment?
Earn over $2500 USD per month doing part time jobs without any investment just working a few hours per day. Our data entry jobs is the simplest job available among work at home jobs.
America has enormous disparities in terms of wealth and power. If you're not a leader then there's a good chance that you won't be able to get good healthcare, you won't be able to afford enough food or at least enough nutritious food, your kids won't get a good education, no one will respect you, you're much more likely to end up in prison, and you're very likely to have a shorter and less happy life in general. Thus there are a lot of people who are obsessed with trying to figure it how to become leaders, because the stakes are pretty high.

In short, if you're not management then most likely this is a fairly accurate description of your life: http://bit.ly/qVqbOb. Imagine being 50 and not being allowed to use the bathroom without asking, not being trusted to use the cash register, being watched by video cameras constantly, etc. That's what the life of the average American is like.
It's a shame the OP doesn't ship to the US. Hacker News US people would probably buy a lot of tea and this is good exposure.
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> ...it's harder to be jealous, since it was obviously fairly done.

I assuming by 'fairly done' you mean 'completely random'. If you meant it in the sense of 'just', then I'm not sure I agree.
Is he a hacker?
High-speed traders are living in the millisecond range. Do you think the people doing trading on the order of seconds are pleased they are paying to save milliseconds or not? I suspect not, but would be happy to be proved wrong.
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"Darlings of the technical press?" Can you show some examples, please? The ones I've seen have been skeptical, or reported on alleged extortion, such as:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/yelp-sued-for-alleg...
What about http://berkelium.org/?
More often than you realize. I switched from Windows to Mac at home last year, and being able to take my editor with me was critical. I also had Windows/Linux machines prior to that (and now, of course, OSX and Linux).
I've often seen that people who tend to talk first and more often start getting followed around by the group, and they more easily accept what he or she is proposing as the next action. It helps to have a strong personality, too.

People seem to be more willing to follow a strong direction even if it's wrong, than a weak one, even if it's the right one. That's because our brains associate confidence in something as being right. It's like a default for us: when in doubt, go with the most confident one. And we're most of the time in doubt.

But we usually go with it even if our gut instinct tells us otherwise, so it seems confidence overpowers gut instinct (which is just a way for your subconscious to calculate the decision in a split second, based on knowledge present in our brains and on our past experiences).

If we think of that person as an authority in a certain field, we also tend to think they are right more, even outside their own field of expertise.
Membership Site == Website Business

Ebook == becoming an author.

Both need ongoing marketing efforts.

Doing an ebook only? Without marketing efforts?

Well, maybe you sell a few copies. But probably not for various reasons one being the niche you serve is so small.

Is releasing it for free of the web a good idea? Maybe. If you can leverage that to build reputation for something like getting jobs or so.

But just throwing out there something without promoting it won't make you a buck.

So I guess it's a more strategic question that you have to answer yourself. Also, where do you want to have experience to show for? In membership sites or in ebook self-publishing?

Having said that, what about approaching a regular publishing house? They've are aware about ebooks already ;-)
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My father, who passed last winter, showed signs of dying peacefully while awake. He was lying back on his bed, whith his hands behind his head, like he was thinking about something when they found him. There was no sign of discomfort or struggle- only, really, curiosity (but I am probably assuming too much with that).
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IANAL. MPL basically says "do what you want, but if you change any of the files we distribute, you must release the source to those changes under the MPL."
It's back: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-ipad/id442012681
"I also don't appreciate the call to some kind of moral high ground ... Wouldn't make any difference to his argument, either."

In fact, the moral standing of participants in an argument does make a difference. It informs us regarding the credibility of their moral judgment. For example, the moral judgment of someone who knocks over convenience stores for a living is probably a wee bit less reliable than the moral judgment of someone who spends his time serving the poor in soup kitchens.
SCM doesn't mean Aubrey Jaffer's scheme implementation, does it? What is it in this context?
Faces do get better, and I'd be pretty content with something like Mass Effect 1 (not exactly state of the art anymore), unless we're going for very emotional scenes in close-ups -- where most real-life actors fail, too.

One problem where in my opinion the advances aren't exactly exponential is body language. If I'm looking at the NPC talking to me, it's not just his facial motions, teeth etc. that I'm aware of, it's also the movements of his body - shoulders, arms, etc.
This is still pretty bad. Most of the time they're just flailing around in a pretty uncoordinated manner. It gets better for highly "scripted" scenes, but the usual "shrug / fist pump / scratch yourself" animations are bad. They've gotten pretty good at the purely physical parts, i.e. what muscles and body parts have to move if something connected to it moves (skeletal and muscular animation), but there needs to be a better "body language AI".
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I think it's a bit to much, too. It's essentially just one story..

As to why? Because it's a popular, successful startup (and an extremely awesome way to travel!!!)
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1) it was a big story in general, 2) it was a very big story in the tech blogosphere and 3) it is one of the most successful ycombinator companies to date (ycombinator also being the host of hn). Seems pretty straightforward to me.
You're confusing the issue. This isn't about SSH versus FTP: it's about whether or not the Apache user running your website can also write to the filesystem inside of your document root. The Wordpress update feature is actually able to use FTP as the means of updating the site.
> sudo /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
This reminds me of a gripe with Perl: If you are on a machine where you lack root, everything is a lot less convenient.
Or use saturating arithmetic, loads of common processors have instructions for that.
Instead it should be: Our Commitment to Rape and Thievery.
The return value of 1 is strange, but superficial. It's easy enough to replace that with arbitrary behavior. The advantage of the approach in the OP is that it is more agnostic about the types involved, leading to more flexible code.
Justin Frankel is the guy behind Winamp, Gnutella, Ninjam & Reaper, among others.
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You'll want to read http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#creating-revoking and use BlobBuilder.js (https://github.com/eligrey/BlobBuilder.js) to smooth out the inconsistencies (e.g. createObjectURL is on window on older WebKits) and add BlobBuilder support to browsers that only support data: URIs.
Agreed, not very impressed.

Realistic movement is a more important factor than detail, you can have 8 cubes move fluidly enough to immerse in. 1,0000,0000,0000 polygons seems un-important when you have pixel shader's and normal mapping.

Maybe they should of made duke nukem forever with this engine, as it seems like its from a similar era.

The new frostbite engine 2 a million times amazing, because of the dynamic lighting and radiosity. Plus the amazing fluidity of the animations.
One might argue all our activities are geared for one thing: existence. But then it is not mere existence that counts, but what the existence results in, that makes any one useful to the world. Same goes with Google. They have to exist to do cool things (like android, remote controlled cars, street view etc).. and their existence depends on serving ads.
This is great news! Been waiting for this one for a while now.
As commenter fantasygoat wrote: "I've noticed the decreasing thickness of skin on the intertubes for awhile now - blame Generation Y and their interest in form over function." I don't know that it is any particular generation; it's just that people who actually do things seem to have given up on listening to complaints of "aggressiveness" and even "bullying" (what more rational people would call "getting to the point" and those with intelligent vocabularies would call "brusqueness").
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Will you please stop?
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Actually they say they're doing 20-30fps on 1 core.
The most surprising thing about How Leaders Emerge is one:

1)CITATION NEEDED

So you say, leaders are so and so and "a study says that" and you need to provide references to those "facts" and studies.

Just asserting something with Athene's God confidence does not make them right.
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For full-window animations, canvas would be pretty slow in many browsers. Also SVG hasn't always had the best browser support. I use DOM based animations for http://worldofsolitaire.com and it has worked great for many years. On my To-Do list is adding support for CSS transforms where possible so that the animations can be hardware accelerated when available.
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At the time they evaluated hg and git, hg had better http protocol support.
x86 only has SIMD instructions for it, IIRC.
Notice anything about the money?
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It's quite a drama and everybody can relate to the story as a potential host, traveler, or founder.
Entrepreneur threatened via Twitter/pastebin, offers reward for capture.
I think that's a bit on the dramatic side of things. Most people with a desk job can afford all of the things you mentioned (which doesn't necessarily mean they're going to buy them, like nutritious food). You don't have to be management to be able to use the restroom at your convenience -- I've never been in management, but I've never had a desk job where I explicitly had to ask before I got up to use the bathroom. I just went to the bathroom.

You are exaggerating quite a lot here. There is some distinction between peons and management but in general it's mostly a status/mental thing, not a necessities-of-life thing. In the office, advancement and accomplishment is made by politics and promotion. It's not like a construction worker who can survey his work site and visibly see the progress he made; in an office-centric culture, people want to get into management because management equates with much-needed validation that you're actually doing something valuable. If you are made a manager, it means your managers think you're cool enough to join the manager club. And, again, in an office-centric environment, politics play a heavier role than they reasonably should.
Sweet. When's the YC version coming out? :)
my main concern is that you don't have any options to use something else.
From part 1:

Question: Why don’t more people do it?

Answer: People do try, but its not as easy as it looks.
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My question is, given the existence of sleep paralysis which is both terrifying and plausibly able to leave "no evidence of thrashing about", if many people died "peacefully" but also awake and very scared.
This (I mean lack of overflow checking in arithmetic) is one of the areas where C shows its weakness as a sort of a lowest common denominator assembly. If at all possible (portability be damned) I'd prefer to crank out the inline __asm__ and get the access to the overflow flags of the underlying CPU.
I think a good game and a game with good graphics are two unrelated things.

What would my mom say? This game looks a bit better than this other game? Or this game looks 100,000x better than this other one :)
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You do recall correctly.

Further, x86 only provides these SIMD operations on 8-bit and 16-bit quantities, not on 32-bit or 64-bit quantities (although all these types can be packed into a SIMD register and operated on with at least some operations; for example regular, non-saturating add).

SSE has a menagerie of non-orthogonal oddities, unfortunately; this is only one of them.
I just read it online.
Oh wow, thanks for pointing that out, I should've checked before posting!
sounds cool, I have gone through your site, i would like to give a try before I am buying it. I think you should have a demo version or an video of it.
And IIRC it's int16_t/uint16_t max.
How on earth do you manage nearly a million server?

I can barely deal with a few of them. Always something going on.

I guess it helps theirs are all identical images?
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In web-development (which is where your skills would apply most) we don't do internships.
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