skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe Coca-Cola successfully protected "Cola" from being genericized by asserting that the generic term was "cola drink". Pepsi is now just known as Pepsi, and the company's name is now PepsiCo instead of Pepsi-Cola.
S&P's position doesn't make any sense. If U.S. defaults what happens to the world economy and every other AAA rated debt? So long as US Treasuries shore up the balance sheet of every government and corporation, a default takes down everything. If the US can't have a AAA, then no one can.
More meaningful if you look at it as a portion of GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_current_ac...
Android does do this, but it only very rarely has worked for me. Like, take the Dropbox app, which is even listed under "featured tablet apps": you have file listings that are 8" wide, with no more content shown on a tablet than on a phone (which is just file name and icon).

A few, rare apps are usable scaled (ConnectBot is a good example), but almost nothing is ideal — or even usable — OOTB. At least with the ones I've tried.
Yes, doesn't strike me as idiomatic. But I can't come up with a better version on the spot.
Way to go John!
> building on "free" operating systems (as if that will really save money)

You're selling that business model short. Linux really is more cost-effective than Windows for most tasks that aren't "Run GUI apps" — and Android is not just leaps and bounds better than the proprietary operating systems that preceded it (e.g. Symbian), it's competitive* with Apple and Microsoft's modern offerings.

* Note: I say "competitive," not "better," because I personally prefer iPhone, but I know many people who like their Android phones better.
the more volatility -> the higher HFT intensity (thus -> the more volatility, repeat loop ...)
I am not sure about the backup your photo pitch. I think the way they are showing pictures in a horizontal + vertical timeline is very very nice. If I were a photo person, I would like to have this app talk to Instagram, Picplz, FB, etc... grab all my pics and show them in such timeline.
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Some of the best books in the industry. +1 for Thinking and Learning and Behind Closed Doors.
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He agreed that the word "scrolls" is contained within the trademark "the elder scrolls". I don't think he agreed to any other part of their position.
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Fx is consistently faster than Chromium on my Linux machines, while my roommate notices the inverse on his Windows machines. It's definitely partially OS-dependent.
On a related note, producer-consumer relationships in Ruby: https://github.com/aphyr/producer_consumer.

Should probably be an arbitrary DAG, when I get time to generalize.
The author may want to take a look at the clustering the markers.

http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/01/handling-large-amounts-of...
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What I really appreciate is the fact they have client libs for both Android and iPhone. Developing for both platforms it's a huge win to be able to use the same system everywhere.
Are you thinking Robert Kiyosaki's adamant distinction between asset and liability? Wealth is a different thing and cars are a form of it.
I'm a bit nostalgic but I think IE3 was huge. I was still in high school but I remember staying up all night so that I could download it the moment it was available. Up until IE3 was released, Netscape Navigator was virtually unchallenged. It was only a few months, but Netscape Navigator's big new feature was Javascript. IE3 came out with JScript support only a few months later and nullified much of Netscape Navigator's advantage there. It matched Navigator's support for plugins and HTML frames, which was important because a lot of sites were taking advantage of HTML frames at the time. If I remember correctly, it even loaded pages a lot faster than Netscape Navigator. Netmeeting and Windows Media Player also eventually came bundled with IE3 which provided a tiny glimpse of what a future web could offer, even if our paltry 14.4k and 28.8k modems couldn't deliver at the time.

Also, ActiveX gets a bad wrap but mostly because of the lack of forethought that went into security and the fact that ActiveX was Windows-only. The underlying goal being able to add functionality to the browser using a "real" programming language was just ahead of its time. For what it's worth, ActiveX was a response to Java applets which attempted a similar goal but ultimately failed because of a lack of performance (i.e., people hate Java applets because they're slow). I don't remember ActiveX suffering from the same performance issues.
I'd guess a little over a month...
Since I will not be enrolling back in University any time soon, can anybody recommend a decent online resource I could use?
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At first glance, your statement is incorrect: there is no Python code to create a list here, and no list comprehensions. On further examination, though, string_join in stringobject.c invokes PySequence_Fast to convert its iterable argument into a sequence --- a temporary list, in this case --- so your statement that this code generates a temporary list is correct, although I suspect that this is more by accident than because you have a deep knowledge of the implementation of the Python standard library.

The temporary list of temporary strings probably will use less memory than the original dict did, though, so it's only a very mild sort of "explosion". It will, however, be several times bigger than the final output string, which also has to be huge if the dictionary is huge.

Python doesn't have anything like a StringBuffer. If it did, it would be reasonable for string_join to use it instead of generating a temporary list. The Python code above would look the same.

But hey, if you just want to print the values, you could say

sys.stdout.printlines("%s: %s\n" % (k, v) for k, v in mydict.items())

but frankly I think I would write instead

for k, v in mydict.items():
print "%r: %r" % (k, v)
If you like, there are configurations that make vim act like conventional text editors[1][2]. To paraphrase Umberto Eco, I like vim for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences[3].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-e...

[2] http://cream.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,...
At the same time, if a few people riding the system that way is the price you have to pay to help the people who truly need it, isn't it really worth it?
I'd caution against taking the Republican's word that they want a 'small government'. History contradicts this assertion -- the last 3 republican administrations increased the budget deficit.

I think Republicans want to allocate funding differently from the Democrats, but I'm not so sure they want to do any kind of 'small government'.
And by "organize" they mean "sort by date".

What's the real breakthrough here?
I prefer to think of this as focusing on low-hanging fruit above all else. Not taking care of problems that have a low cost/benefit would qualify as "stupid shit".

It's easy, psychologically, to focus on achieving excellence in one aspect of a large project. In the meantime, the project is hindered by other, more mundane parts that could easily have been improved.
Kinda cruel to do speed test and ignore browser which advertised itself as the fastest browser on Earth not so long ago.
As someone who has started studying programming and CS recently, avoiding becoming a guy who "glues APIs together" has been one of my goals. I want to learn the underlying principles, not just the surface-level implementations that change every few years.
In genereal, I agree with what you have written. However, it seems the OP's debate, and most of others, overlook an adjacent idea that used to be one of the more serious disputes of our country. That is: The debate over Federal vs. State governments, and which entity should be concerned with which issue(s).

I would prefer that states that want more government involvement implement that at the state level. The states could then better compete as more people (and companies) would move to the states where they agreed more fully with the rest of the population.

If one looks at the US Constitution, it appears (IMO) most concerns were originally and explicitly intended to be left to the states, and reading Jefferson's writings it appears even more so. This has the added benefit that we can probably bring more transparency and accountability to state legislators because of the smaller network size.
It will be released very soon. Probably not worth posting until it's actually out.
In Python 3 yes, in Python 2 no. In Python 2 you'd say mydict.iteritems() if you were concerned about it.
Have the counter-parties insuring Greek debt paid up?
I don't know, but I think that you are reading far too much into each party's alleged ideological stances. As far as I can tell, both modern political parties seem to agree that spending is the best way to go about governing.

Yes, I know that one party talks about cuts a lot and the other party talks about spending a lot, but what do they actually do?

Wars? Wars are expensive. Entitlements? Well, entitlement spending is also quite expensive. Neither party will be the first one to threaten social security. Neither party will be the one to threaten medicare. Sure, there will be lots of hand-waving and other forms of gesticulation, but no elected politician in their right mind will take a hatchet to the programs that benefit America's senior citizens. It's just not good politics in a nation with a rapid electoral cycle. (Who votes? Answer that question and you can usually go from there.)

Ideologies - they don't matter. Grandiose claims of some great idealogical divide are wonderful to hear (and great for motivating the base), but what is actually done in practice? Well, the answer is whatever gets you re-elected. Which tends to be lots of sound and lots of fury but very little in the way of action.
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As a have, I'm cool with this.
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Clustering the markers will greatly improve performance: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...

I actually had this same idea a few months back. I'm the developer of truxmap.com, a real-time food truck map, and I wanted to export the concept to farmers markets. However, the USDA data set isn't sufficient because it doesn't include days of the week and times. Nevertheless a map i easier to read than a table.
Did you read the article? It’s not a review. Let me quote the first two sentences verbatim since you seem to have completely skipped them: “I don’t review games. But I do study games, and to that end, I have an interest in dissecting them to figure out what makes their designs work.”

This article sets out to explore factors in Minecraft’s design that make it successful, that make it work. The author uses those two terms synonymously (as you can see in the very last sentence of the article). You might have a different definition of “works” – and that’s alright – but the author clearly doesn’t share it.

Please don’t argue about definitions, it’s pointless. The author of the article simply thinks that games that work are games that are successful, i.e. that can attract a lot of players. That makes sense, considering the context. (The article is published on a website targeted at hobby game developers, not art critics.) Again, there is nothing wrong if you have a different definition of “works”, you just will have to accept the author’s for the duration of the article.

To repeat: The whole premise of the article is to list factors in Minecraft’s design that make it successful. It doesn’t set out to also list flaws, it never claims that the game has no flaws and, considering the premise (which is clearly and transparently laid out in the very first two sentences), it doesn’t need to waste one word on Minecraft’s flaws. Criticism is not the article’s purpose.

Where did you get the crazy idea that an article with the title “Why Minecraft Works” that mentions in the first sentence that it’s not a review and that is targeted at hobby game developers must also contain criticisms of the game?

I also want to note that the article doesn’t use very flowery language and mostly just describes features. I don’t really see any praise in that article. If you do please quote (correctly, please), I’m lost otherwise.

Oh, and regarding your funny “design choices” misquote, that phrase is actually only used once in the whole damn article, as “design choice” (singular) in reference to water and lava sources. I just want to note that “design choice” is not at odds with your interpretation. Making water and lava sources behave a certain way is objectively a design choice. (Except if you think that Notch codes by randomly smashing keys.) That language doesn’t tell you anything about intent. If the author had written “and Notch in his infinite wisdom had great foresight in designing water sources a certain way” you would have a point, as it stands you certainly don’t.

Confirmation bias indeed. A nasty one that blinds completely. I really am baffled this time.
Netflix proved this idea incorrect. People pay for movie access they could still torrent because of the access and peace of mind.

As for the parent above, if an easy USB-USB device that was easy and existed, I'd buy it. It isn't just movies anymore, it is also about giving grandma the HD video of her granddaughter's dance recital as easy and quickly as possible.
Amen. 100% of problems mentioned by grandparent (Bush tax cuts, Medicare prescription bill, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) were enacted by a Republican president.
You'd think so, wouldn't you?

On the other hand, where else are you gonna put your money?
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Can you find me a recording of any Democratic officeholder saying they're "for Big Government"? I don't think even Bernie Sanders is on the record with something like that. Fox News saying what democrats think is not what democrats think.

Which Democratic spending initiatives are contributing to the current deficit? The Democratic war in Iraq, or the Democratic Homeland Security Dept? The Democratic Medicare Part D? You can argue the stimulus but that spending was all temporary and is gone by next year. The healthcare bill reduced gov't healthcare spending (and the tea party ran against it on a obama-is-taking-away-your-medicare scare campaign, I remember the attack ads, irony is not dead).

1999 wasn't that long ago. We had a surplus. The ideological split is mostly the result of opportunism by Tea Party commentators/legislators and the complete illegitimacy of any Democratic president in the eyes of about 50% of Republicans. Democrats will bend over backwards to not be perceived as ideological, as we saw last week.
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That's correct, we log connections TO our VPN but log absolutely nothing in terms of traffic sent THROUGH the VPN. So whatever you do while connected is not logged and therefore un-subpoena-able.
I know this is a bit of a nitpick but am I the only one who cringes every time a new developer site like this requires logging in to look at a code sample or download an sdk? If you want developers to spend time and money enhancing the value of your platform you ought to make it a low friction process.
My understanding is that the protection aspect only requires the trademark holder to prevent unauthorised use. There's nothing stopping them from accepting his terms (Only used within a specific phrase, etc) and granting him a licence to use it for a nominal fee.

That can all be done with a minimum of lawyering, and without getting courts involved at all.
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I don't think these ratings are intended to still hold true in a global meltdown type scenario.

Your point does show though how ridiculous the current situation is. A country that is up to its eyeballs in debt really should not be the measuring stick.
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"If your wealth is gone the second you invest in stocks, then it's also gone the instant you purchase oil futures, buy dollars/euros/your-favorite-currency, put it in the bank, or pretty much anything else."

Agreed!

"purchase gold, " -- disagree:

You're right on all counts but you're simply expressing my point more "extremely" than even I did myself... certainly, every trade of physical or digital goods is a subjective value judgment of both parties involved. In fact, stocks are a lot more "solid" as an "investment" in my book than pure debt and bonds and "financial vehicles" etc. But then, another question is how many of "working peoples' savings" should be entrusted to the ever-swinging daily judgments of full-time traders and speculators, 'wealth advisors', 'funds and trusts' that always chase yesterday's bubble and collect their commissions one way or the other. If capital goes into real estate, surely enough new condos spring up in Florida and Bangkok. If capital chases dot.coms, new dot.coms get created left and right. Tulips can be grown at will, too! Certainly, paper wealth can be multiplied indefinitely in nominal terms, but not in "real terms". The question then is, what are "real" terms? Well what happens when capital, tired of all the bubbles, runs into Bitcoins? They cannot be duplicated easily but boy can they be hacked. Bonds? Safe to bondage the tax-payers of 2030, today, is it? Ultimately, savings and holdings that are not "for-play money" will have to return to seeking protection in stuff that cannot be hacked by smart script kids or replicated and duplicated at will or by 'economic emergency laws' -- savings will at some point no longer be entrusted to better-dressed Madoffs -- they will have to seek assets with a long history book of storing wealth generated by productive past work well into the future for reference. That could be Mona Lisas but there's only one of them. Or that could be any other tangible, non-hackable, fungible, liquid physical good that has no competing industrial use, most importantly cannot be produced or increased in quantity at will and has been valued consistently by the kings and millions of "normal people" around the world for millenia well into the present. Sure, the "currency prices" of such assets may well fluctuate but the mere storage of savings function might well out-perform today's vehicles and instruments over the long term. Plus, as you already noted, currency does not reflect "intrinsic" value either so these nominal fluctuations are a laughing matter at best :)

But wait, couldn't this be said of stocks either? Exactly! Long-term savers will know this and not panic much. But those who talk about "wealth that evaporated" -- they were likely trading and speculating for a paper profit next week or month, not for "value-investing" or "storing savings". So both you and me shrug at them and say, "look again, no real wealth did evaporate! No factory collapsed, no car or house mysteriously disappeared..."
There's a lot more than that meets the eye happening beneath the surface. When you have a thousand photos up there, you'll get a better feel of our algorithmic clustering.
Practice is good. But please stay away from Strunk & White. (See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style#Criticism for some criticism.)
>basis of our decision [...] size of the U.S. economy

These guys missed have missed all that drama about to big to fail.
I don't understand how that's possible. I mean, I'm going to assume that you're telling the truth, but I don't understand how it's possible for that knowledge to reside so entirely in your IDE rather than in your head. Do you mean you know that you would use an Enumeration, but not the names of the Enumeration and Hashtable methods that you would use? If you're trying to debug a piece of code and it's calling the wrong methods on an Enumeration or a Hashtable, how do you tell that they're the wrong methods? How does this work?
If you don't mind, would you explain what the draw is? (I'm genuinely trying to understand. I don't _get_ pinterest, and given the interest it's generating, I'd love to...)
Difference - all e-mail addresses follow the same standard. Twitter & FB are just two of many competing "social media" places.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/why-s-p-...

Over the last 15 years or so, you could have made a lot of money with an investment strategy of "bet against S&P".
At first, I didn't realize that the ad that precedes the video wasn't describing Parse. Only when the two founders appeared did I clue in that the stuff about market research was nothing to do with their product. I know videos get monetized with ads these days, but I don't think you can find a worse genre of ad to lead off an elevator pitch video.
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Yeah there is that wall inside that you gotta break down. I'm in Canada so when Winter hit I stopped running but something inside just eventually clicked and I went out and started running in the snow.
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I have an app in the iTunes Store that covers farmers markets in CA, OR, and WA. If someone wants the code as a starting point for building an iOS app on top of this API, let me know. (I have no time to update it at the moment).

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/farmersmarkitwestcoast/id4139...

I can also get some promo codes if anyone wants a free copy to try first.
That brings them down to Amazon prices, but without free shipping.
The design of these books is awful. I wish they would hire a good book designer and revamp the series.
You could store the dictionary in a trie in O(m) time before you start. But I don't think it's true that it makes it O(n); being able to tell that the prefix you're considering is the prefix of some word doesn't help you, because you still don't know if the suffix of the string after that word is segmentable. (Or even whether the string contains the entire word.)
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I put together a fun simple voting and social sharing site similar in vein to tfln or fml. Does anyone else on HN frequent any of these humor/entertainment sites? Any thoughts/reviews/critiques of my site? In general what do you think?
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>I have the impression most Google-interviewers (and similar dudes/dudettes) wouldn't. I wonder why

Perhaps that was rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway:

Being able to wire up existing libraries to accomplish a goal is a pretty low bar to set as far as proficiency goes. Google doesn't want code monkeys. The solution above is perfectly good from a software engineering perspective, but it doesn't show the depth of the candidates knowledge nor how strong their grasp of CS techniques is.

Google's interviews are more like IQ tests than software engineering tests, using CS as the measuring tool. When you're Google you can afford to be that selective.
Went expecting a whiny article, but it's actually pretty good (mentioning telecommuting and a few local things you can do to get yourself in contact with the right people for your job).

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