skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not any wine store - it's a daily deals wine store that just raised a massive round. I have ordered from them before and got some amazing wines for dirt cheap. I highly recommend them.
I don't think there's a web proxy—but I could be wrong. Our sites themselves are sites that might be blocked by your average proxy (no, it's not gambling or porn).

I am also checking that hypothesis, but news.yc is the only site returning an empty result from my normal reading list.

Until this morning, I had a hn-related Chrome extension installed that could have been misbehaving.
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I was doing something even more silly and was banned for 48 hours or so.
Short term exhuberence or organised pump and dump? We've seen it before with the tech IPOs.
One rice university study says that 70% of health spa's , yoga studios and similar businesses see repeat customers. Since it doesn't cost a yoga studio to add a person to a lesson(up to a point), customer cheapness is less an issue and maybe daily deals are a new effective way to better scale certain kind of businesses.
I think they were trying to keep the hash sizes to ~1000 elements each key. At a 3 digit key you would be increasing the hashes to 300k elements each. You should augment the scripts and see if that has an impact on the performance, would be curious to see.
This attitude leads to fragmentation which causes more headache e.g. the web browser market.
The arguments in favor of Perl largely favor writability of code over readability. Code needs to be read, and most importantly understood, many more times than it is written, which is the whole reason Perl has fallen out of favor.

Elastic tabstops look interesting, but they won't solve any user experience problems until all major editors support them.

Using actual characters instead of substitutes like >= makes sense, except when I look down at my keyboard and try and imagine where all the extra buttons would go. I suppose you could still type the substitute and your editor could convert them to the actual symbols (LaTeX modes in emacs do something like this for you), but you'd have to get all editors to use the same substitutes to prevent another usability nightmare.
As a native English speaker who's tried to learn Japanese, the distinction between Perl, APL, and their ilk and other languages to me seems more akin to ideography vs. syllabary/alphabet (i.e., characteristics of the writing systems) than to natural language vs. computer language.

My big problem with reading and writing Perl is the same as my problem reading and writing Japanese: there's just so much you have to flat-out memorize. Look at the index to the Perl book: it begins with a vast collection of arbitrary symbol pairs. Sort of like written Japanese words are collections of often somewhat arbitrary ideographs, because many words were borrowed from Chinese over many centuries, while the Chinese writing system was evolving.

Of course, people still learn to read and write Japanese fluently; it just takes a long time (12 years of schooling). I bet I'd be fluent in Perl if I spent 12 years learning it as well. But I'd rather not have to do that to use a programming language well.
I would usually agree, although not all idiomatic constructions are created equal. I find the "could care less" construction to be as nonsensical and dumb sounding as "irregardless". Moreover, I found your response to be gratuitously offensive as it paired vulgarity with an implied insult to your parent commenter.
I think deal sites absolutely cater to "bottom feeders" who may be just looking for deals. I think it is the wrong way to attract a loyal following. A major point of this article made was with the 99£ oven cleaning for 19£. Who would pay 19 and then repeat and pay 99?! That's nuts, and the only way to get most of those customers to not feel ripped off is do another groupon or offer some similar huge discount.
If you can show that something is being stolen, then yes. If, on the other hand, no stealing is going on, then no.

The problem I have with the "piracy is theft" thing is that I think its use makes it harder to convince people who counter with arguments saying that the original owner still has the "stolen" item.

For one thing, it's an extra step one needn't take. First you have to convince them that it is actually theft, then you have to convince them that they should do something about it.

If you start with the simple position of "this thing normally costs money, and you haven't paid for it", then you can get straight to the heart of the matter.

Note that I say "convince" and not "be more right than". People indulge in all sorts of self-justification and moral balancing, particularly if they can convince themselves that it's a victimless crime.
That doesn't solve control on its own... you still need (smart, trustworthy, courageous) people to go through documents, verify credibility, determine and redact dangerous info, deal with media/pr, not to mention legal issues. Tech people seem to consistently underestimate the non-tech needs even of organizations that are primarily software driven. I'd venture to guess that despite technology clearly being a core component of what WL does, it represents a relatively small percentage of their expenses.
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I've been burned by this before, especially by the margin requirements for a short-sale. It doesn't matter how confident you are a stock will crash, because if it keeps going up, eventually you will either need to sell at a big loss or add more money to keep up. And it's very tempting to short even more as it continues to go up, since you'll make even more when it crashes! And then you run out of money and are screwed.

In general, it's not a good idea to start from "this stock is priced illogically" and then apply logic to it.
It could very well just be the people I know. It isn't meant to be sexist.

My point is that people enjoy putting effort into their public persona and appearance, and put up with a lot of crap to perfect it.
Whenever I try to learn e.g Haskell, the small things stand in my way; for example everything looks like a series of identifiers separated by whitespace, and the only way to understand it is to manually parse it in my mind, knowing the arity of every function, data constructor, and the like. Probably a minor thing to most Haskellers, but still an obstacle to me..

Besides being easily able to visually parse a source file, a usability issues in some languages for me is 'voicing' the code in my head or reading it to another programmer; a problem I also have with mathematical notation sometimes.

When creating my own language for teaching programming, I decided to have a 'canonical reading style' so that teachers and students always know how to read a given code snippet out loud or in their head, facilitating understanding and communication.
While the participants are encouraged to use TDD, this is no strict rule. The goal is to write the best, cleanest code you possibly can.

What I've found the most value in, is that you get to pair with 6-7 different programmers you've probably never met before - and thus you get to learn how other people approach the problem, you'll learn how your skills compare to those of others and you'll also learn a lot of little things, e.g. IDE shortcuts you didn't know of.

And you usually get to program in a language you might not be familiar with.

I've already attended two code retreats and it was very, very well worth it!
Blog post OP here:

Interesting points about the about the mental capital angle. I'd like to think I can just focus on my users, but the reality is that I'd probably be more focused on where'd I'd be sleeping that night.

I think you can make an argument that even jumping into a startup is common sense foolish - that is, you're risking way more than what is normal. What I've given up in opportunity costs in other careers is already huge - this just feels like another step. I've always tried to live by the "go big or go home" mantra. In this case, it's quite literal.
On it's own no. As an example of the 1000s of tiny details that make it a fantastic product - yes.

Is the magnetic power supply attachment worth $10 more (actually yes it is!)

Or the lack of 'Intel' inside 'designed for blah' stickers all over the case - these cost Apple $5

Or the way the lid fits to the case when closed with no gap, or the rounded corners of the windows on MacOS?
Its a VC funded startup which uses technology as its primary business model and has several interesting problems to solve?

Seems like normal "Hacker News" fare...
Well I'm not sure that it's actually a problem in practice but with a W taking up two ' ' spaces I can imagine a scenario where you over correct and end up in the wrong level.
read the article..Google was not the only company listed of pulling out..
To me that's lying to them.

While supporting IE6 is onerous extra work, it's still work that can be done and has little impact on the final product.

Take the other position, that 'Not supporting IE6 will mean I'll charge you 70% of my original quote, only x% of people use it in your target market' or better add it as an extra in the quote in the first place as the article suggests.

Then it's up to them, it's a risk assessment. But be up front in your quotes with it, not an after the quote is won 'I don't know how to do it!'.

The article's incredibly OTT on how much adding IE6 support costs, but I certainly would never go down the route of lying to a customer about it. If he charges double it's probably because he hates doing it and fair game to him.
"Gates liked someone who gave him a hard time and stood up to him?"

One last thing about this: pg is not my boss. I don't know him and we have no relationship, consequently, I cannot "stand up" to him, and he cannot "stand up" to me.
I had split jquery 1.6 to two parts just put some code to string an then used exec, hack but work.

Why eq:
1.css 14kb -250ms
engine.js 12kb 250ms

jquery 33kb 320ms ???

so

jquery1.js 13kb - 243ms
jquery2.js 14kb - 250ms

So my page open 100ms faster :P
Trading volume went downhill quite quickly..
I'm not really convinced its in startups' best interests, either.

Being so limited, that is. Letting users get started without first creating yet another account is certainly awesome, and getting rid of that friction is undoubtedly a huge component of the success of sites like Stack Overflow.

But going with only one or two of the social behemoths seems unwise. It means you've decided to hitch your applecart to a business that, by virtue of being in the social space, could very easily become a competitor. Or decide to bless one of your competitors in some way that disadvantages you. Now, that's one thing if it's another startup with which you're forming a strategic partnership. But when it's one of the Facebooks or Twitters of Googles of the world, you're dreaming if you think you aren't doing business at the King's pleasure.

And with so many OpenID providers out there, it's not like it really takes any effort to give yourself some flexibility. So it's hard to fathom why any thoughtful, ambitious entrepreneur wouldn't want to do that.
IMHO, the tl;dr here is "math is hard." I do feel like math is the sticking point. At my school, it wasn't intro programming courses that weeded out so many CS students, it was sophomore level discrete math. That class had a 50+% failure rate.

Edited to add: I'd like to pose a question. I've always felt that math divided people into two classes -- those for whom it was mostly easy (or at least approachable) and fun and those for whom it was inherently unpleasant. As someone from the first group, it's hard for me to relate to some of the ideas in the article, such as making classes feel more socially relevant. To me, that seems superfluous. My question is, has anyone experienced these sorts of approaches directly, and how did they work for you?
Everything we create and think of is based on experiences (sight, smell, feelings....). Therefore it's very strange to have patents. A patent is just a smart mix of things that already exist. Software is always mixing existing things using existing tools. So it's very difficult to have a 'smartness' value for a software patent.

Fortunately Harrison Gray Dyar and Samuel Morse don't have all rights for binary code...
When it suits them, it doesn't matter to me, I could care less if an executive can convince someone to take their stock off of them.

Taking 'like a billion dollars' in liquidity when your company is bleeding cash does not engender me to believing that the management team sees long term viability in the company.

Groupon is built to flip, if you're a trader a stock like groupon is perfect, there will be lots of volatility to trade on. I'm not a trader, I believe in creating long term value. Groupon might be the kind of thing where a guy like Buffett could take advantage of the cash flows it generates to build a bigger better Berkshire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydqjqZ_3oc

This is fundamentally the best explanation of the groupon business model.
I've been using DejaVu Sans (proportional) for programming (including Python) for the last few months, and found it very easy to get used to.
There are just a few glyphs that could be adjusted to line up better (closing braces in JS/PHP are a few px off), or in the case of quotation marks, two single quotes render the same as one double quote.
I've started editing DejaVu (it's OSS) to correct these small number of issues, I don't think they are insurmountable.
This reminds me of the quote which I believe I read in Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation but cant seem to find right now in the pdf version - "Syntax is the Vietnam of programming languages."
Let me preface this with saying I long for the day IE6 is completely irrelevant.

The fact is, when doing client work I have a responsibility to design the site in a way that when their customer visits they get the information they need. If the website is broken, for whatever reason, that looks badly on my client and on me.

When I do a site I code and design for modern browsers. However, I make sure even IE6 users can get the information they need or order products or whatever the case is with the website.

True, the IE6 users are small in number, however in some cases they can make up an older or important demographic to a client.
could or couldn't give a shit? genuine interest.
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Edited to add: The original, British form, was "I couldn't care less".
my logs (for a file sharing solution for businesses in France) show 5.5% for IE6. Maybe because there are more early adopters at the moment? I for sure hope I won't need to spend hundreds of hours supporting IE6...
I can't help you with the programming advice, but depending on where you are, there are tons of startup, entrepreneur blogs around that also have jobs boards.
Here in Boston, I follow:
http://venturefizz.com
http://greenhornconnect.com

Not to mention HN has their job board.

Good luck!
Easy solution: you enter your source with ASCII approximations, and the language implementation can prettify it in-place with the canonical Unicode characters if you choose.
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I'm absolutely unsurprised that the shares were sharply up on the open; IPOs over the past decade have mostly turned into government-sanctioned (or at least ignored) "pump-and-dump" operations. One of the things I've come to despite having moved to Silicon Valley is this absolutely infantile obsession with by-the-minute stock prices.

Congrats to Groupon on their successful IPO; I still have very strong doubts that they have any means of building a successful, sustainable business. Time will tell better than my attempts at fortune-telling.
It's the judge's responsibility to explain the legal basis to the jury in the form of jury instructions. These will usually be created in consultation with the lawyers for both sides.

Trial by jury is the reason why East Texas is the court of choice for patent claims. For some reason jury verdicts there seem to be biased towards the patent holder.

I should also note that being a juror in a federal case sucks. The first issue is that you're "on call" as a juror for 30 days instead of a day or two like most counties/municipalities. The second part is the cases are usually boring. People don't like to bring cases that they're likely to lose to a Federal court.
Thanks, Ian. Yes, I definitely agree that I need to flush out why I'm an advantage over the rest.
Surface syntax issues (most of what the complaint is) by and large go away for the experienced programmer.

The gcc error is a meaningful problem though. :-/
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IE7 only came out 5 years ago, IE8 2 years ago.

Making sure IE6 was supported was still commonplace even last year.

You're not as unique a snowflake as you think you are, we've all been having to do it. It's only becoming viable now to suggest otherwise.
It was (is?) pretty fashionable in European programming books for some time. For example, all of Niklaus Wirth's books use variable-width fonts. I also find it unpleasant or even irritating at times.

It's useless to compare programming languages to natural languages. Programming languages are formal languages and require some amount of precision for proper tokenization and parsing. If you misspell a word in English, or forget to capitalize something, or miss a space, people can still read it; if you do the same thing in a programming language, you often get an error. Typographic errors in code stand out better in a fixed-width font than they do in a variable-width one.
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Since when has the burden of proof been with the accused? Do either of these women have evidence other than their own testimony?
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No, it doesn’t. Your indentation level matters, but provided your indentation is consistent, it doesn’t matter whether you use tabs or spaces, and the notion of “column” isn’t relevant to proportional-width fonts. If you’re worried about invalid indentation hiding from you, don’t use spaces for indentation with a proportional font—it doesn’t make sense anyway.
Thanks for the feedback. I do agree that I have been thinking about having the flat rate and being able to limit on a certain amount.

About "one flat rate", do you mean to say that it would make more sense to say how many minutes you would get from $10 or something?
Out of curiosity: why is the fact that this effect was achieved with a few simple lines of CSS3 (whether it was keyframe animations or simply a rotate transition doesn't really matter) front page news? Maybe I'm just jaded because I'm a UI engineer--but the "trick" wasn't particularly impressive (though it was quite amusing--and would have been even more so if they'd used HTML5 audio to get Slippy Toad in there).
As a kid who grew up playing the original Star Fox, I LOVE THIS

But it's not from the original Star Fox.
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I'm a member, but unfortunately I am in Canada.

However, if their deals were opened up to us, I would definitely buy a bottle every so often. They have awesome deals and wine isn't just for special occasions!

The numbers from the site said 600,000 members who have purchased 500,000 bottles of wine. That's not bad, but I would assume it's a smaller chunk of the 600,000 members who buy multiple bottles of wine.

Just a hunch.
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“Typographic errors in code stand out better in a fixed-width font than they do in a variable-width one.”

That’s a bold assertion. I would be very interested to see a study that demonstrates this.
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Math isn't hard. It's just difficult to teach well.
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Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. I realized that I was rash in just putting up the copy. You and several other people have also mentioned that didn't get what's going on. I'll definitely have to spend some time to work on it and I'll definitely look into your suggestions and post an update.
It sounds a bit like it's also the shock of encountering such hard math.

I'm jealous of other countries that work their high school students hard. I remember meeting international students that had learned all of my engineering college math in high school. Back then, neither me nor my parents knew that I could and that I _should_ absorb that kind of math, let alone how to go about doing it. It would be nice if that notion was more institutionalized in the USA.
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Right. I think the goal of all this is to have everyone be on SSL so there aren't any mixed-content vulnerabilities. Hardware has come far enough where SSL is no longer overly taxing to encrypt-decrypt streams between the user and the site. So SSL-enabling a site isn't problematic (and in my opinion should be encouraged). (Full disclosure: I wrote that article).
I concur that this is a very significant issue. One of the things they did not mention was that the way the course loads are designed, it is very easy for a student to get burned out. For example, pre-med students often take, in their first semester of college, Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, and then usually some fine art to clear requirements. Its the same thing the next semester. Then you're onto physics, organic chemistry, higher level biology classes. These are all incredibly difficult courses that require hours and hours of reading, studying, and practicing. Many students get completely burned out and drop pre-med because of it.
Too bad it's not called Rately.
I'm completely speculating, but I wonder if the bottleneck of math being hard is tied directly to how notoriously bad the standard of math in K-12 education is? I've always wondered how in the US the public school system is very weak (or at least people constantly complain about it being so) and yet they have some of the best technical colleges in the world (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, etc.) I've always wondered how students cope up with this big jump from high school to college.
I agree that the accusations aren't clearly false, but note that he hasn't been formally charged with a crime. He will be extradited to Sweden to be questioned (!). AFAIK nobody said he's not going to court yet.
hi Tommy! My guess is that most "IE6 only" corporations would not allow using a file-sharing site anyway :)

I still maintain one site which is around 70% IE6 (internal stuff in insurance). But one day it will change all at once, for political reasons :)

I'm not sure you will see more than what you currently see on the long run...
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