skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just feel regulatory compliance should not be a barrier to entry for innovators. Why not subsidize the cost of regulation for start-ups, or wave the fee until they hit profitability? The U.S hands our freebies to large financial institutions in the form of subsidies and bail-outs, but we can't even make the marketplace fair for the little guy?

Wal-mart could lobby for states to require a 'retail license' that costs one million annually. You would have one camp who says we need to be safe from bad business, but the other camp would see this as a ploy to destroy competition and fatten their market-share.
Having some structure is useful when you don't know what you're looking for, or even what kind of thing you're looking for. And I find that's true of a lot of the technical documents I read. I also quite enjoy reading a physical book with a dozen bookmarks and fingers, being able to see several full pages of text at once.

I could see your way of doing things being useful, though. I suspect it hasn't been partly because it's harder than it sounds (look at the design process for HTML, and all of the mistakes that were made and alternatives that were proposed) and partly because so much of the relevant IP (and thus market) is already locked up pretty tightly.
>HN community more credit for having legitimate conversations about topics that arent purely sensationalist

/r/programming has massive issues with its userbase, they're opinionated and uneducated which is a disastrous combination. If you want to be with a supportive, interesting community you're better to stick to the languages subreddit (/r/python and /r/ruby are great) or HN. HN is superior in the fact it covers a broader range of topics.

As you mentioned reddit is great for entertainment, but not anything serious.
I'm following a little Bitcoinica, and it used to trade 5K-7K bitcoins a day. Yesterday, it traded around 120K bitcoins. That's huge. Any correlation with TradeHill shutting down?
The nice thing about Craigslist's authentication is that it allows casual users to post easily (and anonymously) without having to create an account, but they also allow you to create an account if you plan to use the service often.

They are able to account for both types of people.
Congressmen question Apple on Path controversy as Apple promises updates
Beyond Big Data
Apple has the technology, see:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61336
You provided a good definition: solves problems scientifically rather than by brute force. I believe the essence of science comes from being able to think (and report your thinking) in a structured way. Meaning it is about content, but it is also about form.

And just so we can get this out of the way, I'm not in any way offended by people applying labels to themselves in good faith, I'm only slighted offended by people who are offended by that.
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I got my bachelor's degree from a college where in one course we were supposed to learn Java. The teacher use to write the example code from the textbook onto the board and then dictate short notes on concepts like "Inheritance" , "Encapsulation" etc. According to her Interfaces in Java existed because they enabled programmers to overcome the lack of multiple inheritance. You can implement as many interfaces as you want but you can inherit only one class. That was her argument. My college was ranked 60th best college in the country that year.
Needs a link to your Twitter feed from the homepage. Had to guess that it was http://twitter.com/betakit. That's my preferred method of subscribing to new sites these days.

Good luck! Looking forward to reading.
If an app asks for location information I usually deny it. I would do the same thing for my address book and photos if I had the ability.

Almost all of the apps I use have no reason to need my addressbook data so it would be nice to know that none of those are secretly stealing it.
>I'm afraid because it seems like these days everyone wants their apps for free with absolutely no strings attached. There's an entitlement on the web that you don't see anywhere else.

I want a car for free, too, with no taxes and no insurance. Who cares what people want? Give them what you give them and they will decide the price they're willing to pay. No one is surprised when Facebook has all your contact information because you decided to give it to them. And if you want to give them access to your personal address book, you make that choice. They don't do it automatically behind your back.

The problem isn't that they're doing it, that's perfectly fine. The problem is they don't tell you. The very content majority will be just as content knowing it's going on. Asking for forgiveness instead of permission is much harder when the risk is your customer's trust in you.
The big problem with LCD screens is that they give some people headaches. I can't do any serious reading on one. The attendant battery life problems are also a pretty serious issue.
I find ebooks perfect for fiction - and useless for everything else.

Do you have any ideas on how to improve ebooks for fiction?
There's a reason our immune system doesn't simply keep all viruses out of the body. Any organism that did so would have offspring without as much random variation. That would greatly decrease the chances of surviving random threats including new viruses.

So when going back in time, don't change anything. And should science ever make it possible to design offspring, don't make it impervious to viruses.
And the blacklist message would go something like this:

> "Warning: The site you are about to open may be guilty of encouraging or facilitating copyright infringement or other illegal acts. Your use of this site may be used against you in criminal proceedings. Copyright infringement is a felony and can result in fines or imprisonment."

Must be fair, since they hedge with may be guilty, right?

This week, several antivirus vendors declared the Google CDN version of jQuery 1.7.1 to be malicious, most likely as innocent bystanders to a major unrelated Wordpress attack. Thank goodness everyone would put their top guys on the blacklist job, so those kind of mistakes wouldn't happen.

https://twitter.com/#!/phphil/status/168991609113948160
Programming Pearls was the book I came here to recommend. (Assuming that the original poster really meant "programmer" rather than "computer scientist".)
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I make a point to opt out every time on principle, too, and while I do get a tiny modicum of satisfaction of telling the clipboard-wielding screener to write down "because it's un-American" as my reason for doing so, I've noticed an increasing delay in getting the physical inspection.

I fly a lot, and the delays have gotten longer and longer over the past year -- recently I've been left waiting for 30 minutes or more. I would be surprised if this wasn't an intentional policy to coerce flyers to subject themselves to the pervscanner machines, just like when they originally instituted the policy of fondling your nutsack if you opted out. This is an effective strategy, I think, because when traveling on business that extra time really does make you want to say fuck it, I need to review the changes to the presentation one more time, I'll just go through the fucking porno machine.

IMO, the indignities Americans allow the TSA to subject them to are just one more sign of an empire in decline. Flying into the USA feels like entering a draconian police state from a sci-fi movie -- even compared to flying into an actual draconian police state like China, for fucks's sake.
I don't think that his remarks about Rails and Django should antagonize you. What motivated me to explore node.js is precisely the fact that I started to spend more and more of my time outside of Rails trying to push the envelope. Things like Cappucino from 280north showed that more and more of a web app was happening on the client and the server was being relegated to a fancy HTTP wrapper for a database.

His remarks about what node.js does well could be applied to just about any thin HTTP wrapper for Ruby, python and any other language. Rails and Django are still very productive if you're making dynamic websites. For web apps however, simply from a latency perspective it makes sense to push more stuff down to the client. At that level, you're looking at JavaScript frameworks of some sort being a far superior solution to the kind of thing that happens in Rails like this...

http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=47404

That's not to say Rails or Django suck, but web apps have been pushed to the next level. Rails was developed back when web apps meant more of a dumb terminal style system, with the server driving the display of the clients. Today web apps are more like 1990s style networked PCs where a fat client communicates with a server but the UX is driven client side.

There is no reason you can't write ruby or even Rails code that does this. But you'll have a ton of JavaScript (or Coffeescript or fill in the blank with something that compiles down to JS). Most frameworks treat this stuff as secondary to writing server side views and controllers, because it used to be, back when AJAX just meant dynamically update my drop down list.

EDIT: I forgot to add that Express makes the mistake of trying to apply Rails/Django/Sinatra style to node.js. Don't use node.js this way, it won't work well as just using the aforementioned frameworks.
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I'm also surprised Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of this in marketing Windows Phone since it has a capabilities model similar to Android.
the only defect i see in the upgrade is that I can't use the "watch" variable pane any longer. it looks like one of the drop downs is obscured or something. this is under Snow Leopard. otherwise, upgrade was great - drag'n'drop install without any obvious issues yet and is faster.
I really like the Boston tech scene, and the atmosphere and social environment created around it. I work with a lot of folks from/around the area on a daily basis, so even though I'm not in Boston, I have a lot of friends and connections there and make at least one pilgrimage there a year to spend a few days doing business in person. If it weren't for separating the child from the grandparents, I would move into the area (though maybe not in Boston itself, due to the high cost of living). Maybe when the kid is older.
Expedia is around as well
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(iirc) all but one of the interviewees in Coders at Work said the GOF design patterns book is rubbish. The guy who liked it said it was helpful to establish common language.
off-topic, but pertaining to the OP's project at hand: the taxono.my project is a jaw-dropping effort...when I saw the custom-map blog post I assumed it was for a big startup, not for an entrant in the NYC.gov data contest.

I immediately submitted it to reddit/nyc and even logged into the NYC.gov site with my FB account to upvote it. From a quick glance at all the other top entrants, this not only seems to have the highest technical merit, but one that seems to have the highest utility and feasibility as well.

http://2011.nycbigapps.com/submissions/5832-taxonomy

Bravo.
people who are not motivated by a pursuit of facts or truth

I am not quite sure about this. In my view Wikipedia tries to negotiate a middle ground between all the different people who think they have a claim on the "facts" or "truth". Just imagine Charles Murray presenting his research that the economic problems of America's working class are largely its own fault, stemming from factors like the presence of a lot of lazy men as a fact on Wikipedia. (Quote from: http://chronicle.com/article/Charles-Murray-Author-of-The/13... - currently most popular Cronicle article). I truly believe that people have most of the time good intentions with their edits, but there are a lot of different versions of "truth" around - especially in Social Sciences.
I don't think this is the same. In the FBI case, the link was very obviously going to something labeled as illegal. The case would have to show intent, which the FBI was able to prove. In this case, all you'd have to do to defend yourself against legal repercussions is show this HN article. The CNet article doesn't give any indication that these people clicked the FBI's links expecting to get anything OTHER than illegal materials.
From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back
The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds
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lmfao your all idiots. this is why stupid shit like this makes it to the top. im going to reddit
Not sure how I feel about being sprayed with someone's spit...
A better title to the post would be "A Letter from a Congressman...". It is not all of Congress, it is one person.
Thanks! Care to share what kinds of lists you were looking for? I might as well try to populate it with content that I know people want.
There's a bit of overhead in this price due to him trying to bandage fix an old model with some features of a new one. Instead of trying to reinvent it.

If you think about it, you can do a stand up comedy with a cheap at home or at a bar with friends. And upload it to YouTube as a private video and/or use existing platforms to sell video.

They could save a lot. They're only not doing this because they just started taking baby steps away from the existing model. Plus they don't know any better, Louis spent a fortune just to setup that simple website. He could have used existing platforms. If he doesn't know how to use those, then here's a startup opportunity.
A single comment does not define the opinion of the majority of the HN users. Calling everyone a bunch of posers is just childish.
Answered elsewhere--let's try to consolidate our discussion.
To be fair, I didn't take offense to "self-taught computer scientist". I took offense to "every self-taught computer scientist".

I'll be the first to admit that university is bullshit and mostly acts as a social signifier. Like I mentioned above, I'm credentialed, and I'll put that on my business cards but between you and me and the internet at large I mostly work as a software engineer.

There are even many problems with talking about "computer science" because for the most part it's treated like a branch of mathematics and its academic circle really hates dabbling in messy empirical data.

Yet, there's a degree of rigour in it. There's an actual underpinning behind a lot of this stuff.

So! Can you be a self taught computer scientist? Certainly! K&R and The Little Schemer just have almost nothing to do with it - even if they might make you into better programmers :).
What are best ways to find hacker+business co-founders in the Silicon Valley?
When I worked on a custom CMS the killer feature (according to clients) was the ability to upload and resize images (which they can then insert to their text) in just a few seconds. If you make a service, with an API and wrappers/scripts for common CMSs I think you can get some money out of that.
I think in this case Congress involvement was a bit uncharacteristic and populistic. We see so many issue in this area, and they are stepping in for a relatively minor issue on a platform which is generally most resrictive and protective?

I would rather see them stepping in and kicking AT&T (and friends) for 20c cost per SMS, non-free incoming SMS and abolishment of bulk SMS plans. Just recently I wanted to sign up for 100 for $5 plan, it's not there anymore, the only bulk plan left if $20 unlimited. This is ridiculous oligopoly and consumer exploitation.
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Yea mean "every self-taught PROGRAMMER should read".

Computer science is very different than day-to-day "real world" programming. Computer science is more akin to applied mathematics... its the study of algorithms and computation.

What your books teach is programming, building software and such.
"Treated as data" isn't the point with GPL2, what makes the viral part kick in is static linking. If the images are compiled into the binary, as they are not, then they would need to be made available under the terms of the GPL.

Since they are not, GPL2 has nothing to say about the matter.
Stephen was wrong, Kip was right! :)
Upvotes for you, sir.
As a self-taught C software developer, I came here to say the same thing Phillip said.

To it, I would also add that C isn't the "latin" of computer science (if any language is going to prove to be that, it's Lisp, but it's too early to say, other than to say that isn't going to be C).

I'd also suggest that the best book to follow up K&R is Hansen's _C Interfaces and Implementations_.

If I wanted to teach someone to be a computer scientist, I'd look for a book that would help them read papers. I'd also point them towards compiler theory, not so much because it's fundamental computer science (it's a vital applied discipline), but because it exposes you to more real computer science than most other domains.
Feynman: "I love my wife. My wife is dead."
So, Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
> 1. If the studio had filed a lawsuit, there's a very good chance that, after seeing the Asimov estate's permission, the judge would have quickly tossed the case on summary judgment

Surely when the studio optioned the rights, they got exclusivity as part of the contract. That is: it doesn't matter if he got "permission": at that point Asimov's estate had no right to grant such a thing.
My read: he just means it in the sense that I mean "professional" when I say I'm a professional application security person, except that it's weird to say you're a "professional computer science" when your day job doesn't involve writing papers.
The updated nook color has a new "skimming" bar. It allows to go from the beginning to the end of the book in a swipe, displaying chapter titles and sample phrases. It's really usable, but of course it couldn't work on an eInk device.

Unfortunately it only works on epub, not PDFs alas.
It seems if you later decide to make an account, it aggregates all your posts into a useful summary pane.

I was able to sell a couple of things using Craiglist. I was surprised at how easy and smooth it went.
It's very easy to think if you don't hit it big after 3 months or even a year, you're doomed. But we often fail to recognize that the successful players have a 5-8 year head start sometimes.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
I didn't know that Python support was that bad in vim. Can't say the same for Ruby thought.
Well you said that Arch would fail LSB because it didn't have a converter, which seems strange if - as my link appears to show - it is capable of using RPM natively. That is why do they need to convert .rpm packages if they can run RPM and install them direct? Not that I'm saying there wouldn't be any work to do but the fact that people are already using .rpm via RPM (the binary program) would appear to show it's not a huge obstacle.

http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB...

To me says that the distro can use any package format it likes ("The implementation itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages") as long as it can handle .rpm packages ("Implementations shall provide a mechanism for installing applications in this [RPM] packaging format"). So if Arch shipped RPM it would appear [superficially] to meet the requirements.
Skiena's is my favorite computer book of the last 5 years; it's radically different (and I think better) than CLR.

TAOCP is, considered on the whole, an even better work, but I end up using it way differently; I've consulted Skiena to solve problems, but TAOCP I more or less flip through and then read 10-20 pages of at random; I am never sorry I did.
Obama could close this election right now by simply getting rid of the pornoscanners and the groping. Please, oh please, let the Republicans be the party that wants to take away your birth control, and subject you to the TSA, while the Democrats are the one removing government interference from your life.
Android's permissions model doesn't work at all. Every app asks for a ton of permissions at install time. You can't install the app without saying yes, and every app asks for far more than it needs.

In theory, it is good, but in practice, it's broken.

The iOS way installs the app, but denies access to the resource.
Been around a long time, never caught on. Their traffic #s from compete are a joke, even if they were off by a magnitude - still shows they are stale. They should try something different than competing with google.
Time for a humble bundle style package for indie comics...
Congress sends letter to Apple questioning developer data access
Report: Cydia Apps Leak Less Private Data Than App Store Apps
It looks pretty, but, honestly, I can't see it getting me to leave OmniFocus.
Zero-Knowledge Authentication protocol
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iBooks has full text search, My kindle appears to as well although I think it might work off a prebuilt index

Definitely agree about the poor quality publishers dump for sale
The only time there's really a valid reason to complain about affiliate links is if you're rewriting links posted by others; and even then IMHO disclosure is enough to clear you. Otherwise, affiliate links are serving their purpose properly (encouraging bloggers to post links to Amazon; and Amazon compensating the bloggers for the referral).
Finding the angle
I use Unix as an IDE but refactoring is much, much harder without dedicated IDE support.
Motorola Mobility outlines Android Ice Cream Sandwich plans
Many of you may know Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org/) in which articles are primarily written by an expert. Unfortunately that leads to many articles being incomplete, biased , slow to update or simply non existent because the invited author does not have the time to compile an encyclopedia entry for free.
I have a different conclusion. Wikipedia shows that the physical limitations of encyclopedias were not the real limitations of their size and scope. Rather, it was the time and effort required to maintain them.
Welcome news, and hopefully the existing entitlements system will allow this change to be made quickly and clearly.

More granularity might be nice also. They could have a separate "names only" entitlement, or allow users to identify address book contacts / fields that should never be shared; that are redacted in content returned by the underlying APIs.

Important to note that this still does not address the wholesale detailed export and persistence of contact data by developers. Could be opp for a new provider there.
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What's really ridiculous about this whole thing is that I could, right now, write an application for any version of Windows, OS X, or Linux that uploaded your address book without a single prompt. Hell, I could do this with any file owned by your user. I could log your keystrokes and upload them too.

I'm not saying it's ok to do any of this. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't have better controls on what apps access your personal information. I'm saying that members of Congress have demonstrated that they haven't even an inkling of a clue as to what the fuck goes on inside a computer, and should probably stay out of this while these companies figure out better ways to protect consumers, then fill in the shortfalls.
Bitcoin Talk forum thread posted and commented on by tradehill:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63749.0
Seemingly apropos: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Isn't that the status quo? The suggestion I replied to was to make the loser only pay part of the winner's fees.