skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about this and it's certainly a possibility. A few things:

1) Primarily, the site is designed for realtime news. So, a very popular news item shouldn't have priority over a recent one. However, you're right in that a particular news item may have affected the price. This is similar to how Google Finance does their charting (with labels overlaid on the share price).

2) It's difficult to work out whether a particular news item actually moved the share price (the timing could be a coincidence, correlation =/= causation etc.)

3) I'll certainly look in to it - thanks for the suggestion
Chrome extension to purge files from CloudFront
The problem was soliciting donations with the promise that the funds would be given to a particular charity/cause. Presumably in the past that has often been done in a fraudulent manner.

Just asking for money isn't going to have that particular issue... :)
Apple unlikely to slow in 2012, but questions loom
Benefits of getting up early even if you don't want to code
> Again, you cant circumvent democracy.

You can, you should and we do. For example, the US is a republic and not a democracy. People have unalienable rights that cannot be voted on.

Even if 80% of Americans would like to re-institute slavery tomorrow, it would be wrong and illegal.
Everyone had designs on "controlling the thing", and the ability to do it: France had long set the EU agenda, BeNeLux and nordic countries were seen as the "reference implementation" for most processes, Spain was extremely aggressive in occupying key roles (Javier Solana, anyone?), even the UK was quite good (watering down ambitions of full political union, basically)...

The real game-changer was the rushed enlargement. Now Germany can count on a political bloc of countries directly depending on the German economy, and for anyone else it's much more difficult to steer the boat with so many people on board.
Interesting filename: http://forstudent.co.uk/skin/img/facebook.png
Cry me a river, I still call it voting with my wallet.
This was my thoughts too... all that income has to show up come tax time or someone might come knocking. I feel sorry for this guy if he didn't put money aside for his tax bill.
Facebook engineers take a shot at Google
You're playing games with words now. If you're going to define "profit" so broadly that it covers benefit of any kind, then I fear we can't have a profitable discussion.

No, I do not typically profit from piracy. When I purchase a kids' movie on DVD, Hollywood says that I have only purchased a "licence" to use the movie. When I then rip the movie to avi's (no complex decoding required to view) and copy the files to two old laptops so that my kids can watch the movie in the car, Hollywood says that I am a pirate -- that I am stealing their movie.

Not only does this process cost me time (and thus money) and aggravation, I also get the benefit of being labelled a criminal. At least the kids are happy.
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"No debt is great, but cashflow is king.", Very true, its the very reason I've been holding on so long.
I don't think the list is meant to be read as "every first time startup founder does all of these" but rather, "be vigilant of some of these patterns."
I think this is the fundamental reason also. It's much easier to slip and add more hours to the end of the day than it is to wake up even earlier than 5am.
I know someone who spent days and weeks worrying about this. "But, Rokhaya, millions of people will come to the site so .....". Needless to say the site is still on http://localhost/
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>Erlang is interpreted

No it isn't, it is compiled to bytecode and executed on a virtual machine, just like most scripting languages are.

>Since this is not about a simple CGI application a benchmark in which you compare the running time of a compiled executable with the interpretation and running time a another program it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Read the site, this concern is explicitly addressed. The tests are long running, not short tests repeated a million times. So the byte code compilation step ends up too small to notice. That is why using a PHP bytecode caching plugin doesn't increase PHP's performance on the shootout, and why java isn't dead last from the massive startup time of the JVM.

>Also this performance usually isn't the best way to argument about languages for web applications

This is a myth. Very few web applications actually have one CPU intensive portion that can be moved out into a C module. Most web apps have pretty flat profiles, where overall language speedups make the biggest difference. When 90% of your time is spent in 10% of the code, a C module is a reasonable option. When 90% of your time is spent in 90% of your code, your only option is a faster language.
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Is the noise there so bad that noise-cancelling headphones wouldn't help? You can get a pretty good pair from Bose for $200-300. It might be a steep investment at first, but if it improvements your working conditions and you use them for a few years...
Any idea about how to solve this problem? Recruiters cannot do that: Most of them just add another layer between candidates and hiring managers, usually because of lack of a tech background and deep understanding of the business' needs. Any suggestions? Any HR people out there?
Why is "They launch in one month." a mistake? Aren't startups advised to launch early, then iterate? Unless he's implying that waiting a month is too long...
It might help to think of fitness as a self-improvement personal project. Track your accomplishments like stats in a video game, see fitocracy.com for example.
>Most languages can help you avoid using the wrong one through the use of variable names.

That doesn't help at all, are you serious? Cause you genuinely sound like you are trolling. Especially when you say things like "if a language can't prevent every possible bug then there's no poing having it prevent any bugs".
I hope this is just a first step toward big future ideas.

Many highly sought professors already have great brands, and I'm surprised that they are so highly underpaid for what they do. Many of them could be getting paid a lot more in scale. Further, they could also be providing value-add services to directly validate some of the best on-line students and grant certifications of expertise. Think of the mozilla badge model [1]. There are hundreds of ways to spin out revenue and scale that model.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About
I guess the market for developers isn't too bad these days .. you'll probably be fine either way. That said, I'll reiterate ... it is not fun to be in a position where you don't have cash coming in (an MVP typically != stream of cash). Also, not going into work everyday might make it harder to get structure in your life. If you are resolved to pull the trigger and quit, may I suggest you consider joining an incubator, or some other organization that will give you structure.

Best of luck my friend ... whatever you decide!
"Can Simplicity Scale?": an examination of clean-and-simple vs. "real world"
OPA, PIPA, and the Cloud: We Have “Mega” Issues
It's quite possible that the image was also used for their facebook group image and simply not renamed when pulling together the landing page.
Grokking electricity
As a non-hardcore linux guy, I find Debian a lot easier to maintain than CentOS
because it's never in "one month".
This one month becomes half a year…
Python from scratch
I wish - I pay between 400 and 700€/month for healthcare (public insurance). It's my biggest expense after rent.

They fool employees by making the employer pay half of it, though - which of course doesn't make a real difference, but people are less likely to notice.

I think the actual rate is something like 14% of your income, capped at 700 or 800€ (not sure). As I am self-employed, unfortunately by law they are required to assume a minimum income that might be higher than what I actually earn (completely absurd and unfair regulation to discourage self-employment).
I have no idea why would anyone feel entitled to any sort of placement in Google search results, they do not charge anyone for being indexed, and if you don't care for the results that is what the address bar on web browsers is for.

This whole issue feels artificial and exaggerated: social profiles? seriously?! that is the least of any user's concerns. I think Twitter/Facebook and whomever should focus on their own products and not resort to these sorts of PR stunts.
assuming an average work week of 5 days for both your brother and the average German truck driver, the German truck driver would have made €421,80*

How did you come to that number? Is it from extrapolation on the minimum wage? Because truck drivers don't get the minimum wage, they are compensated very well. This €420 would more likely be something like €1000 for a 5 week trip, or more.

Oh, an important distinction though is if the truck driver just drives the truck in some city (low normal wage), or if he's making cross-country and cross-europe deliveries (much much higher).
Anonymous: New attacks against CBS and Universal Music
Performance is really good. How much processing is server-side vs client-side?
How are you going to distinguish your service from a free open source solution like Annotum/WordPress?
Could you please elaborate on how you reached such an interesting reasoning behind the launch of these classes.
18 dollars a ticket? Where is he paying that? I just saw a flick in San Francisco and it didn't cost that much. Is this a NYC thing?
The Web of Places
Show HN: Self-driving Lego Robot using Python, Neural Networks
Hey folks,

Check out a project I built over the past few days .. a lego mindstorms robot that autonomously drives around a track using vision/neural networks. It was coded entirely in Python. I did a short write-up and would love to get feedback.

link: http://slowping.com/2012/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-robot/
If we are talking about wealth in the broadest sense, as discussed by PG in the link below then I certainly class copying a DVD that you haven't purchased as profiting, yes.

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

I don't think anyone realistically considers format shifting as copyright infringement, other than opportunistic executives. I'm not aware of anyone being taken to court for format shifting.

Oh, and I'm not sure if your 'profitable discussion' pun was intentional or not, but I enjoyed it anyway.
1. if someone stored plenty of movies that were "shared" within Megaupload network, it would mean they got the copy online (ergo illegally). even if you rip a digital BluRay disc twice, its impossible to get the same filesize/hashtag if its encoded (not a bit by bit copy).

2. dont see a problem with this one.

3. lets skip this one; a UK student is almost on its way for breaking US law and be deported to US, so juristiction doesnt matter anymore -- especially if you can narrow your search down to people who hold hundreds of files.

4. I think once you prove the file was downloaded from a different IP than your (owner) then its enough of an evidence. you uploaded from California, bunch of guys downloaded in Europe. Unless you can prove you went to Europe and lived in all the cities download took place from, you are cooked.
a/b) your infringement does not have to be willfull AND you dont need to make money off of it to be charged with owning illegally obtained files.

5. dont see problem here either. the justice system has all the time and money to persecute.

6. with a 5 or 6 biggest hollywood studios it shouldnt be a problem, should it?
I think the point is that the simple presence of a Like button tells Facebook that you've been there. You don't have to click it, you just have to load it. HN comment history is active participation.
I think Stanford is more for keeping things closer to the status quo. Students in seats is how they make their money, after all. Not to say that they won't make courses online. I think they would be more than happy to charge $5,000 like they do through SCPD. However, if this develops the way I think it does, the economies of scale have to take over, right, especially after reading about Professor Norvig's discussion last month (http://remotelearningproject.com/interviews/peter-norvig/) about potential business models that try to keep it mostly free.

I'm very excited.

PS: I've noted that the PGM course website says it'll start in Feburary.
This site is great not only for its recommendations, but also as a list of cool things that I didn't know about but may want to use.
Standard raid procedure for the feds - they take all the servers. I had it explained to me like this, imagine you store some goods in a (physical) warehouse where another customer was using it to store mass quantities of hard drugs (or kiddie porn, or humans, or other $contraband). When the raid inevitably comes, the warehouse will be shut down for a time, and you'll be unable to access your perfectly legal stuff until they get done.

It's not right in any sense of the term, but as it stands, its legal. The cops have all the power.
Could this be used to generate typing lessons for programmers? One of the things lacking from many typing tools is practice typing symbols as used by programmers - I guess random code would be difficult to generate though and you'd need to specify language etc, although maybe just pasting in your github projects would be sufficient as learning material.
Am I missing something, or is this just another guy who isn't a lawyer giving us "legal analysis"?

What's next, are we going to swap out hacker-based content for technology content written by lawyers?
There's a lot to be said for that. For small businesses that will be predominantly marketed online it makes sense to choose something that communicates what you do. If you've got a massive PR budget, I think the rules are slightly different.
There was a talk about this recently on one of the IT Conversations podcasts, one of the O'Reilly conference keynote speakers, I believe.

The speaker discusses her inquiry into trying to find out about the device to be put into her own body.
Google Plus's Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook (or twitter), but to Force (them) to Open [1]

It seems to be working.

[1] http://marshallk.com/google-pluss-real-goal-is-not-to-kill-f...
I would love a version of this tutorial written for WebGL.
It works fine with code -- it basically just splits on whitespace and considers anything in the result to be a "word".

The code won't make sense, and parens/brackets/etc won't be balanced, but you can definitely use it for practicing.

EDIT:

Here are a few drills it generated when I gave it its own source code:

# Lesson generated by Typkov

Lesson 1
(string/split (sanitize text) #"\s+"))) dict [w n] 0))) (rest words))))))
lessons)))) (defn sanitize [s] (-> s (string/replace \" \"))) (defn
[lesson n] (let [w n] (let [initial-word (random-choice (keys dict))))
(defn markov-dict ([words] (markov-dict words) n "\n" (join-n lines)))) (defn

Lesson 2
text 24) [:text "You must enter a decent amount of
"])))) "G:MENU\n"))) (defn random-choice [coll] (nth coll (rand-int n))] (loop
data))) (render "/" data) (not (form-valid? data))) (render "/" data)
data} (t/home (:text data) (t/home (:text data) (not (second words)]

Lesson 3
n] (let [initial-word (random-choice (keys dict))] (case format n] (let
[w (first words) lessons (repeatedly n (partial string/join "\n")) (def
\' \') (string/replace \" \"))) (defn markov-dict ([words] (markov-dict {}
get-lesson [text format n] 0))) (rest choices))))))) (def join-nn (partial
I generally agree with most of the points made by the author, except he neglects a very basic requirement - usability and memorability.

Whether we like it or not, these products often end up needing a website which need a domain. theagileplanner.com is a substandard name because someone else owns agile planner.com - most users will not remember the "the" and leave it off the domain when they type it in or write it down. It is okay to refer to the "the" in a product or company name in your copy, but generally fatal when it comes to domain names - unless you own the corresponding version of the domain with the "the".
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Not to sound too down on it, but.. "well, duh". It's not like Google forgot they were able to do this. They have made a business decision, and the site doesn't really tackle why they should change their minds.
Kernel Log: Linux 3.3 goes into testing
Sounds great. Do they take Amazon gift vouchers?
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Dealsbell.com provides adidas coupon code for Adidas which is one of the biggest German sports apparel companies that offer varieties of sports products like Footwear, sportswear, sports equipment etc.
What happens to the self-driving car? That was his life's dream.
The proper way to use recruiters is to quote a high salary as your minimum. If your skills set you up for say 80k-120k then it's easy for you to find an 80k job and hard to find a 120k job so quote 115k. If they call you back it's probably worth your time to listen, and if they don't you have lost nothing.

PS: Now, this can change if you have been looking for a while and really need a job, but there is little reason to start low balling yourself.
He wrote "7 that matter".
Doesn't hurt to ask?

A job offer is the whole packages things they give you (salary, benefit-in-kind) and things you give them/have to do (come into work every day, do what you're told in work, and any NDA/IP enforcement/non-compete). If one part of the package (non-compete) is something you don't like then you can and should ask them about changing it.

If they are accepting you working for them with no IP things in your contracter contract, then it's not impossible to imagine them accepting an employment contract with it. If they want to hire you then they might be more motivated. Likewise since you edited the contractor contract, you have already successfully raised the issue of outside work with them.
I didn't know what NFC meant. I couldn't find an answer on the site so I had to search for it on Google (it stands for Near-Field Communication).
This article is a little hyperbolic.

First, the item in question was Overt Act #28 out of 103. Case law is not going to rest entirely on this French Sopranos episode.

Even then, overlaying a copyrighted work with translated subtitles isn't transformative. What's Up Tiger Lily is transfomative. Fansubbing is not.

Finally, any website that allows public upload and sharing knows that copyrighted works will eventually end up on their servers illegally. It's how the company handles it from that point forward that matters. This (among numerous other examples):

ppp. On or about January 28, 2010, in an e-mail entitled “activating old countries,”
a user of a Mega Conspiracy site asked BATATO: “where can we see full movies?”
BATATO replied “You need to go to our referrer sites. Such as www.thepiratecity.org
or www.ovguide.com[.] There are the movie and series links. You cannot find them by
searching on MV directly. That would cause us a lot of trouble ;-)"

is not the way to handle it.
The Super Simple Secret To Stopping Online Piracy (Hint: Not SOPA)
I think its both. While it may be possible in your group of friends to quit Facebook, it might not be so for other people. Imagine quitting the telephone. People were social long before the telephone was around, and can remain so without it. I know that quitting Facebook wouldn't harm my socialization too much, but quitting the telephone probably would. I can imagine people for whom quitting Facebook would have similar effects as me quitting the telephone.
Also, if you want to get to sleep, avoid screens (TV, computer) for the last hour or two before bedtime and you'll find it's a lot easier

Is there evidence for this? I've heard it's true, and it seems to be from my personal experience, but I've never seen any kind of a study of it.
In a few years, he'll teach a class on that too and... mission accomplished! ;-)
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349461

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3355254

AFTER EDIT: Oh, and the previous submission with the most comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350529

As a few other HN participants before me have done, I note previous submissions (when I notice them myself) partly to figure out the vagaries of the duplicate thread detector here and partly to keep the emphasis here at Hacker News on new stories. Some old stories are very worthy indeed of further discussion, but looking at previous threads and their level of discussion can help busy HN participants who didn't notice the last thread(s) decide how much new discussion to engage in about a previously submitted story.
Agree with your first sentence. Being an expert takes loads of effort. For some that effort is work, for others it's fun, but no matter what it takes time and determination.

What I see more and more of these days is (in the Midwest of the U.S. anyways) parents are not teaching the value of effort to their children. Their children end up being lazy and entitled, never knowing what it truly takes to be good at anything.
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There is no hard and fast rule. There are loads of Real Jobs™ that don't require any sort of NDA/IP thing. It is definitly not 'standard' for all tech jobs to include that. Also, if a contract has that stuff, you are free to negotiate that. There is no philosophical difference between negotiating about salary, and negotiating about out of hours work.

There is a shortage of IT talent. Ergo you are in a strong bargaining position.
CoffeeScript : Why is function binding not the default?
I started with Debian because I perceived it to be the safest. As I became more comfortable with Linux, I became frustrated with the versions available to me through apt-get of software that I wanted, and I rapidly became tired of compiling everything I wanted from source in order to get a more recent version. I finally took the chance on Ubuntu for that reason, and haven't looked back. I suspect my story is a common one.
Title is a bit misleading. It's the site, www.dropbox.com, that is flagged. Which might be reasonable, considering that people can and do host arbitrary publicly accessible executables on dl.dropbox.com.
As far as I can tell all of those licenses are some variation of libre licenses, I need something that's compatible with a license that says "this is ours , nobody else can have it".

The reason we need to use a license like that and not a libre license is that some of our software is very niche and would only be useful to a handful of companies around the world.

It's quite likely that none of these other companies employ any programmers at all bar the occasional contractor.
Basically we are trying to disrupt an industry (in a small way) by getting more efficiency by doing stuff through tech that they are doing by employing legions of admin staff and using the old-boys network (it's a very old school industry).

If the source for certain parts of our software was available to them then they would most likely simply use it (employing an Indian contractor or similar for a couple of weeks to set it up) to wipe out our advantage and not contribute much if anything back to us.

There are however other parts of the software that could be generally useful to a wide number of people who are much more likely to contribute code back.
Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking
dwarf fortress next!
Yeah I let it expire after the SOPA stuff with godaddy. Doesn't get quite as many hits as you'd expect, but I didn't exactly bend over backwards advertising it either.
You could also add debian and ubuntu, but I guess the connection is not quite as strong.