skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some publishers might do this. But it would be very surprising if any major publisher has been completely standardized on using the exact same toolchain and file formats for more than 20 years. Most publishers also have no incentive to modernize the markup for a book that's not getting any content updates.
I have to ask, how hard would it be for an American to get a job in Norway (lets say at Opera) and move their family there?
How my very first iPhone app (version 1.0.0) got featured in the App Store
We submitted our very first iPhone app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/localuncle/id473554413?mt=8) about 3 weeks ago to the App Store and about 2 days ago we were featured in the App Store. It's called "LocalUncle" and it gives you the ability to know what's happening anywhere in the world by sending questions to people who are checked-in on Foursqure. Think Quora meets Foursquare meets Magic.<p>Here's the proof: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=197084127038309&set=a.131140903632632.33967.124227507657305&type=1&theater<p>Or just go to the App Store to the "Featured" and "New" section and you'll find us.<p>How did we do that? Well, we just built a great app! Literally the only thing we did was build an app, submit it and we got featured! We haven't had ANY press whatsoever cause we wanted to softlaunch our app and prevent a #faillaunch like color.com. Little did we know that version 1.0.0 of our app would already be featured on the App Store!<p>We're seeing an amazing amount of downloads and couldn't be happier.<p>So our advice is: Focus on building a truly useful and nice-looking service. The rest will take care of itself! Good products always surface to the top and rise above the crowd.<p>If you have any further question, shoot me an email to philip@localuncle.com.
Thats a pretty decent time for laying out that much text. I would like to point out that if you throw in indexes or a complete "book environment" like memoir that time is going to change remarkably.

Why are we talking about PDFs now? If you seek to a location in the kindle it takes you to a page with that location at the top. That location might be in the middle if you read from cover to cover.
This reminds me a little of how familiar I am with certain classical music, because of watching Looney Tunes so much as a kid.
An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes' Theorem
I think we are slowly but surely walking into an era where any and every activity we do on the web will by default be broadcast to a (smaller) or bigger audience.

The government spies or NSA do not need to track users any more. Privacy is dead because websites like Facebook are now setting an exception of no privacy and lots of people are blindly falling for it.
exactly what I am thinking of. Should be fine with around 2 months off from work, I don't mind loss of pay for the period.
The trick is to start with a few basic ones then learn more as you go along.

Know how to quit (C-x,C-c) & save (C-x,C-s).

Then basic moving commands:
C-p (up), C-n (down), C-b (left), C-f (right), C-a (start of line), C-e (end of line)

I used just those for quite a long while before I learned others, and even with just those command I realized how much faster I was working, as it saved time from having to move my hand to the arrow keys.
"I just scan books, I don't get paid for that."

I can hear it. Meanwhile someone is rubbing his hands (or should I say wallet) and tells people that they are now available on ebooks.
Another point worth mentioning. If you feel you know what the hacker community looks like, you may fail to correctly recognize hackers that look or act different.
This is called destruction of evidence, and is a crime.
I disagree that is not inherent to Javascript. The way "this" is promiscuous among functions allows methods to be "just" function properties and is integral to prototypical inheritance.

The alternative closure-based OO style also works fine most of the time but it has some limitations, such as not being able to define protected properties that can be accessed in a subclass.

Of course, "this" breaking inside inner helper functions and event handlers (and having to use "var that" or Function.prototype.bind) is annoying as hell but is more of a syntax issue (fixed by things like CoffeeScript and the proposed #() lambda syntax for ES6)
Here's the other vi emulation mode: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

It even has its own port of surround.vim:
https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround
Another Stanford Class: Game Theory
Tell HN: Parking In Motion is hiring engineers/coders. 
Santa Monica, CA based & venture-funded Parking In Motion is hiring. If you are a good fit, we don't care where you live.

We have parking data from all over the world and are using it to answer the question, "Where do I park?"

3 challenges you'll always be working on:

1) How can I use the millions of new, daily data points we collect to infer social behavior or refine existing forecasts?

2) How can we more efficiently handle geo-spacial and temporal data? We're mobile, but don't ever count on wifi.

3) We manage a diverse and rapidly growing number of data flows, upstream and down. How do we build the infrastructure to scale with us, without burdening our data providers.

View job descriptions @ parkinginmotion.com

FIRST FILTER - YOU WILL BE CODING!

email address in my profile.
Had no issue accessing on firefox either, I run a bunch of ad and script blockers though.
Which Stanford course does this correspond to?
http://hackernews.jpg.to/
He may as well say, "Enough of supporting iPhone and iPad users. I'm sick of it." Good luck with that.
Based on how you described it, your users will have to reinvent a wheel for each game. If you could provide templates for the most popular games -- or a way for templates to be crowdsourced, shared and edited -- you'll probably see quicker adoption.
This article was a bit odd. My b-school experience was almost the opposite. IRR was presented as inferior because it could put you in situations where you are giving up a lot of profit in dollar terms for a smaller dollar profit that had a higher rate of return.

In the end, one metric was not used as the be all and end all. Using multiple metrics to help inform an investment decision was the ultimate goal. The problems with American business are multiple and complex; it's not a matter of a simple financial metric.
Ignoring the aspects of finding the right model that your eyes like, possibly tangential to your question.

All other things being equal (including resolution) - bigger displays (same resolution in the study - just bigger) - increased productivity. Something like 15" -vs- 40". That was for joe average office worker - but the point was that simply having a larger screen at a reasonable distance made it easier for the brain to process stuff (not so much see better as process better)

If you are having negative effects on your eyes see an opthamologist, get your eyes and prescription checked, etc.

Ignore comments about perfect colour calibration - that matters if you are doing design or print, but if it's just code, I can't see how that matters. Sharpness, the rest, matter.
Overseas buyers lead surge in property sales in Miami, Florida
Ask HN: Guide for HIPAA Requirements?
I may be joining a medical related startup and was wondering if there are any good guidelines on how to become HIPAA compliant? I've read the AWS whitepaper about being compliant on their servers... but it wasn't terribly concrete and is two years old.

Also I would appreciate recommendations for where to host a HIPAA compliant web app as well.. AWS? Something else?

Thanks!
Well, given that this title is a pretty decent summary of the first sentence of the article, I think it's not really artificially drumming up more attention so much as accurately characterizing the content.
Given the ambiguity of english, that sentence does not necessarily imply "at the same time" - it could read either way.
I got a paywall on my iPhone FWIW.
looks like CS 161 https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/courses/214383/cs-161-fal...

Can anyone (at Stanford or otherwise) tell me if there is a follow up course? The (online) course title says "Design and Analysis of Algorithms I". Is there a Design and Analysis of Algorithms II (or III or IV)?
Funny, I was thinking the opposite -- the Clojure code is far more readable.
You should be so lucky, with recoiledsnake's transcript.

Times New Roman in the middle of three animated gif ad units, that all change frames at different rates and times.
If I'm a high income earning father, that means I'm successful and I'm going to want to pass that on to my kids, and whether i Own the company or jus thane lots of pull there, getting my id in there for a while is certainly something I would try to do.

I'm not in the top 1%, but I certainly hope to educate my son and should the opportunity ever arise for me to give him a good job, I would, as would any parent. This is how it SHOULD be.
> Except, it's your future job that's getting cheapened.

That is the economically proper result, it just looks bad when comapred to how developers and our employers have been ripping off software users for so long. Every time two or more of us write essentially the same code when implementations already existed but weren't freed, the industry has tacitly coöperated to inflate demand for software developers and pass on the costs of the wasted effort. The free software trend is not in my narrow interest, but I still think it is what should happen.
yomomma so dumb she bought a white emacs at the parking lot
One of the interesting things about Google's recent forays into products is that it appears to be able to outsource its risk and subsequent losses. Imagine if Apple released products as unsuccessful as GoogleTV and Chromebook — it would be a bloodbath. On the one hand i guess this makes being a product manager at Google less stressful. On the other, just how committed is Google to any of this?
One of the AI tutors tweeted about the possibility of offering a Master's degree for $2000. AFAIK, there hasn't been any more public discussion of this.

From the courses building up, it seems quite possible. The $2000 could be to cover limited personal support, and the sitting of a proper exam, with the bulk of the teaching coming from the online videos.
The ideal situation is that other Universities get into the game, so we can pick and choose courses from specific professors - one course from MIT and another from Stanford and so on.

Another thing I'd like to see is this idea expanding beyond CS to, say, Math and Physics. Within CS it would be great to see courses on Compilers, Operating Systems and so on. Yes I am greedy :p (and the courses are addictive!)
Someone should create a blogging platform where the features are unlocked with each post you make. After your first post, you can name your blog. After your second, add an about page. Your third, comments or a blogroll. Fourth, analytics, etc.
That is why I distinguish between "legacy" and "modern" MBAs.
If you are stopping to think for what the command is before using, might as well start moving the mouse.

No, because over time you will pause less often, and for less time, until it becomes automatic.
If thats all it took to improve your productivity, you can't have been very proficient with whatever it was you were using before.
I can not imagine my mom saying that she selected the kindle fire over the ipad because of typography.

As far as your final hypothetical goes I honestly do not know what answer you were expecting, but maybe that's the point?
I think emacs is probably one of the biggest mistakes to ever happen to computer science.

First, let's remember that emacs is not powerful in and of itself. It requires mastery to understand the potential and power that lies in it. The inclusion of emacs lisp is amazing, but seriously? Have you programmed a separate application in emacs lisp? You haven't? What? You used Scheme or Common Lisp instead? Than why the fuck are you defending emacs lisp?

And that is the biggest flaw. The flaw no one likes to talk about. How many people have picked up emacs and quit? I certainly have. Numerous times. How big do you think the population of people who have tried emacs is to the number of current users? Seriously, in terms of a conversion rate, it's absolutely terrible. And you think that's a good thing? Don't give me that bullshit about how only "smart" people will put the effort in. It isn't about fucking effort. It's about giving people the confidence to learn more about your software. And emacs almost definitely fails there.

And that's the whole fucking point of computer science. It's not writing the "greatest" programs. It's sharing. Sharing techniques, skills, libraries and ideas. And emacs is an artificial barrier. And worse than that, the most elite people in CS continue to protect it and cannot comprehend that their elitism is to the detriment to CS as a whole. It's complicated, arbitrary and designed in a terrible manner. I don't care if it makes sense to you. What matters is that you should be able to easily defend any design decision. And you can't.

We need more people to start programming. We need better editors. Why is it that CS has some of the oldest, most decrepit tools with the most adamant defenders? Why?

Seriously, we deal with fucking computers all day. The most arbitrary representation of knowledge possible. And all people do is whine about how things are "good enough" or "no, someone made this decision a long time ago, and now a lot of people make the same choice, so don't be stupid and choose that."

The number of new computer languages being invented is almost fucking SLOWING down. WTF? Computer science is about the drive to find better ways to express and share knowledge, and that means trying new things. Usually, they will suck. But jesus, we have to keep trying. And whatever we do, we have to help a). more people try programming, and stick to it b). support people following their own loony ideas.

I mean seriously, it's fucking sad how slow shit happens. Common lisp, one of the more powerful languages ever invented, got a wonderful tool called quicklisp last year. 15 FUCKING YEARS AFTER CPAN CAME OUT. Why the fuck is shit so fucked up, I mean jesus, it's fucking inexcusable. Our descendants are going to mock us to our faces til we fucking hara-kiri.
I think that's a fair article, but it doesn't really say a whole lot that isn't already taught in a lot of MBA programs.

I think the key here is to realize that IRR, NPV are imperfect measures of profitability. In addition, the impact of decisions on factors that can't be measured: R&D productivity, ability to respond to technological changes, can have serious consequences.

I think the article makes some excellent points, but very few people in business aren't aware of them.
Users stay on a website for more than 800ms.

Wouldn't it be more cost effective (rather than convert/port a whole site to a new js lib) to rewrite your page init JavaScript so it does not require a js lib at all (0ms)? Jquery would be async loaded by the time the user executes actions/buttons; if it had not loaded yet you wait, or show a loading icon, etc.

This porting/optimization adds no value to your users 6 months from now who are running a quad core nexus-razr-droid's browser that loads jquery in 300ms.
I am a long time Emacs users but now I shamelessly admit I am an Eclipse user.

Eclipse handles plugins really well. What I loath about Emacs is its plugin management. It is a PITA to download new plugins or update existing ones.

Also Eclipse generally understands the programming language your working on. The whole you have to use your mouse in Eclipse is total BS. In a simple keystroke I can navigate the type hierarchy of a class and or the call hierarchy of a method.... not to mention auto-completion.

For Scala, Java, Javascript, and XML I use Eclipse. For Python I use Emacs because its still the best editor for it.

If your using a JVM language give Eclipse a try. I'm glad I did.

IMHO IDE vs Emacs is becoming so Déjà vu of Emacs vs Vim.
So, I have Chromebook, it is really nice laptop for what it is meant to be used. I have friends who are huge fans of it, I installed Ubuntu on mine recently and kind of, improved it quite a bit.
I have Samsung and build is not that great, battery life is, though, having MBP, this is one machine that is much lighter and long lasting for significantly longer.
I think if they would do next round it would be really good machine, and lower to like $200, keep the format of 12". Add maybe page up and down to keyboard, that's all.
For people commenting on his statements about WordPress:
Yes, there are better ways than having 12 files to generate what you need. In fact, you can do it with two: an index.php and a style.css file (technically).

But the point is that if you just want to write on the web and not deal with a bunch of nonsense, learning a whole CMS like WordPress can be a pain. I cringe when people give WP a bad name, as it really is awesome and it's pretty much how I make my living. But you can't deny that if you just want simple posting features, WordPress can be a little unnecessarily large.
this should change when many people start telling how they would have liked the ebook version more if it would have been polished a bit, most of the time business think they are doing fine unless someone complains or bring these difficulty to their attention.

this will also change when more and more people are opting ebook version to the printed copy. as of now the printed copy sells more compared to ebook format AFAIK and the ebook format is catching up fast for the many convenience stated in the posts here. We can expect a change soon as many people are getting ebooks and raising their concerns.

this could also change when some really nice product(device or software) to read ebooks comes to the market, I dream of a ebook reader where I can annotate, mark and make notes using a stylus like device. while many of these features are available in the ebook readers today they don't give the same feel as using a printed copy, for example (making handwritten notes)
I wanted to take ML, but only really had enough time for AI. I was very happy to see that ML is having another semester.

For those who can only afford to take one or two classes per semester, keep them coming!
Let's see, you authorize actions and then form a task force to investigate said actions? A whole lot of hubris going on there.

Whether or not one agrees with the Occupy movement, going directly to pepper spray when dealing with passive/non-violent protestors is at the very least stupid, at the worst criminal.

The article from HuffPo provides an interesting perspective:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/uc-davis-protest_...

What I really don't like about this "task force" is that it will likely focus on the rank and file skipping over those that made the decision to give the OK for force....
After pepper-spraying incident, UC Davis redesigns website
Hell, due to the amount of interesting courses they've been pumping out lately, I'm more inclined to take a whole year off just to study.
Why not do a master's instead? :)
Yeah thanks for the spam...
Why can't it be both? The claim in the article is that there are deadlines, "you have to ship", etc.

It seems to me like you'd skip the whole deadline-shipnow-ASAP nonsense and just write awesome software with awesome code, even if it takes longer.
For small libraries, and users with fast connections, the HTTP request can be the limiting factor.
Show HN: LifeFORCE - Game of Life visualization with Canvas and CoffeeScript
site: http://joshuacc.github.com/LifeForce/

code: https://github.com/joshuacc/LifeForce

This is a little project I put together which creates a sort of visual "history" of a particular world in Conway's Game of Life.

The first canvas just steps through the Game, while the second canvas updates cells to become slightly lighter or darker at each step. Over time, this results in an image indicating where life has been able (or unable) to flourish.

The main goal was to familiarize myself with canvas and CoffeeScript, but I'd love to hear any thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks!
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I am guessing there are three more classes to come. That way the rows showing the classes, at the bottom of each class page, will be nice and symmetrical.
Quizlet.com is good for this and will autosearch Flickr for a picture matching each word when you create flashcards.
> We do have some games like that: Civilization and SimCity, both games that teach the critical skill of resource management

The Settlers takes that a step further and emphasizes supply chain management, production bottlenecks, etc (and I thought it was a fun game, too)
Is there a central place to get a list of all the classes? (Aside from the bottom of these individual pages)
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I found the Python more readable even though I have written programs in Clojure and never written programs in Python. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Python-like syntax would be found to be more readable than Lisp-like syntax for programmers with N years of experience in that language, if such a study could be conducted. (ie, I'd bet that an average programmer with 5 years of Python experience and nothing else can correctly read programs faster than an average programmer with 5 years of Clojure experience and nothing else (not that the latter exists)).
This would be great, much better than waiting 13+ hours to get information back. Imagine using this for rovers on Mars and instant communication with Earth.
upvoted for wordcount.
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The user most likely already is giving Google a backdoor into your app ... if they are using Chrome.
Or "microsoft" http://microsoft.jpg.to/
It's because of his role in Davis that makes this more credible. It shows how much he just as much, if not less, in to the UC Davis community. It can mean more if it was made as a group, but other faculty may not have agreed with everything he has said. Anyways, I don't see how can you even say this is a self-promotion.
I find it very improbably that Google will decide to mess with it, but as a general feature it would be nice if one could indicate an hash of the file to be loaded (as a <script> attribute), and throw an error callback if the verification failed.

That way you could use Google's jQuery file without being vulnerable to them messing with the file contents.
What? That's absurd. You understand why that is hyperbolic, right?
Great article! Racism Disrupted by Eric!
Coming from Europe, more specifically France, I find the law in the US to be very protective against discrimination. For example, compare the typical resume in France to the one in the US. In the french version you often find the following information : color picture, age (not the date of birth, the actual age...), nationality, marital status, number of kids and gender. I never saw any of this in resumes here. An example I got by googling "exemple de cv en Francais" (ironically CV stands for resume in french :) ) http://tinyurl.com/6t7p3o2
In my opinion the United States is one the of the most innovative countries when it comes to fighting discrimination. Having people like Eric Ries getting involved can only augment this tradition.