skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not go to the Fintech hack weekend in London next month, probably the best place to find cofounders.
IOSBizWeekly, first issue - nice summary of articles about iOS Biz.
Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education
Prof Chomsky on the purpose of education, the impact of technology, cost and investment and assessment vs autonomy.
Viva la revolucion internet
A. I live in the future.

Indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY Enjoy.
Samsung is RIGHT about TV because they put Lua SCRIPTING capabilities in it.
Except I never understood why all the work in writing and researching this rich universe and back story got wasted in the main story arc which was pure hollywood b-movie action...kill-the-evil-cackling-bad-guy.
What has saved the US so far is really a combination of a few things:

The first is available talent but the advantage is not as great as you might think there.

The second is the way our ivy league schools have functioned as networking hubs for folks starting businesses. But that then just is helpful if you already have money.

The third has been the investor climate and the US financial strength. This is the factor that has traditionally tipped things heavily in the favor of the US.

The problem with this assessment though is that it shows that if you are in the capital class in the US, you have a relatively easy time but if you are not, then you are more or less shut out. The only way to get a decent-sized business started for such people is to do it overseas.
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I stopped listening when he started doing interviews with Internet Marketing types and bloggers. For a time, there was great content/interviews, and while there are still some gems buried amongst the rubble, I couldn't help but be turned off by the App Sumo promotions and later, the courses engineered by hucksters. Sadly, Mixergy now feels like a Don Lapre commercial.
Again, it's not implied when you state it categorically in headers. If there's a CDN or load balancer out there which breaks your Content-Type headers it's much, much better to replace it with something which follows HTTP a bit closer.
Does 1-based indexing have any advantage, beyond familiarity to scientists?
If Apple really wanted to kill growl, they would have allowed non-appstore apps to use notification center. I think growl will survive this, but I'll probably uninstall growl as the apps that I want notifications for are already in the appstore. I'm sure there are a few others like me, but on the flipside, I'm also sure there are a few more diehard growl fans.
What kind of business are you talking about? Your comment sounds very "labour vs. capital", is it relevant to the kind of start-up commonly discussed here?

If I started a business in Singapore (and I have been considering it) I would be hiring employees that I liked and respected, and I'd pay them fairly. I can't imagine that I'd fire them "at will" because I found someone a few bucks cheaper, or that they'd abandon me for a few bucks more. I can't imagine high-value knowledge workers playing these kind of games. Maybe discount supermarkets poach each other's check-out workers but rails programmers?

And even if you were hiring relatively blue collar workers, eg if you were setting up a factory, it seems to me that the fact of being in a hands-off regulatory environment would make employees respond even better to being treated well.

Just because in theory you can get away with acting like an asshole, doesn't mean you have to, or it is wise for you to do so.
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I am the type of person who is capable of critical thought. I love video games, and find that they are an interesting new medium. They are immediate, interactive, visual, auditory environments that have the potential to convey ideas that books, comics, and movies could not.

Take Rohrer's Passage. Without saying a single word, you have an experience that presents a vague glimpse of the past and future while you navigate the present. There are goals that you can pursue (points, coverage, distance, tricky locations), but the limited time that you have in life only allows you to achieve some of them. You can choose to travel with a companion that makes you happier, but also logistically prevents you from going certain places.

The potential of new media is in the ways in which it is different from previous media. An epic odyssey is better told by a respected elder in a social setting than by a a short, unresponsive, bright, noisy projection in a dark room. Literal emotion and visual environment is better portrayed through the lens of a camera than through a drawing or book.

The problem is that you think that games are a great storytelling medium, and they are not. They are a complicated storytelling medium, and an attractive one, but until we see more powerful artificial intelligence, they are not a great one. The closest you currently get to great storytelling in games is the puppet box of Rohrer's Sleep is Death, where the storyteller is actually another human.

So, go read a book, go watch a great movie, go tell a story to friends and family, and go play a great game. But don't tell me that a sophisticated, visually pleasing, well voice acted choose your own adventure game is a modern classic.
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You do make good points, but I'll counter that the US is the place for startups because that's where the customers are. The countries you list do not have 200 million internet-connected individuals with first-world levels of wealth. Western Europe is similar, with a bit more friction in crossing jurisdictional boundaries, most notably in accepting and processing payments.

That said, it's certainly possible for a startup company to exist in Singapore or somewhere but target and sell to US customers. The communication and regulatory hurdles will be higher, but not insurmountable.
Strange Google results
The way I remember it wasn't tossed because people did not like it, but because they did not have the computing resources to do it anymore.
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I live in Hong Kong, which this report ranked 2nd. In my opinion, the advantage is staggeringly MONUMENTAL.
This really isn't much of an article. How about we just link to the actual blog post[1] instead?

[1] http://growl.posterous.com/growls-response-to-notification-c...
Look up Erik Demaine, winner of a 2003 MacArthur genius award. You may have seen him on the 'in between the folds' origami documentary. I have a feeling that this process has a lot to do with his past work in origami and algorithms.

His website: http://erikdemaine.org

Intro to folding: http://erikdemaine.org/folding/
> one notable restriction is that inheritance is only for interface, not implementation.

Not quite. You do inherit methods defined on abstract types.
Google seems to be broken on Firefox Nightly 13.0a1 (18 Feb)
Ask HN: Looking for a Quiet Windows Desktop
I know this isn't a typical 'Ask HN' question, but I'm looking for recommendations for a very quiet Windows desktop. A friend lives in a small studio apartment and must have his PC near his bed. The fan on his current PC is too loud. The usual search sources (i.e., Google) yield too many useless results, so I thought I'd see if any fellow HN'ers have recommendations. This doesn't have to be the most powerful machine in the world ... it simply needs to run typical home user apps at a reasonable speed. Thanks in advance.
Ask HN:  Best Online Learning Sites?
Educational sites like Khan Academy, Stanford's online offerings, OpenCourseWare MITx popping up at a rapid pace and changing the way we learn. What are the best sites of this kind that you use?
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This is actually surprisingly helpful and insightful as it's written for the interviewer but just as insightful for the interviewee.
To give a bit of context I've been working on a site that aggregates online learning opportunities:

http://gradesquare.com/by_source

At this point we have courses from the following sites:

Annenberg Learner
Blender Cookie
CMU
Google Course
Khan Academy
MIT Blossoms
OCW JH
OCW MIT
Open Yale Courses
Stanford

A number of others have been flagged as possibilities - but I would like to hear which ones the HN crowd frequents before adding more.
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Bravo! Part of the reason HR is so broken is that few will speak up when exposed to this kind of crap. Thus the crap peddlers (I used to be one of the trick question kind, merely because I was emulating others) are left with the idea that they're following "best practices" or some such nonsense.

Job candidates should be turning down companies as often as companies should be declining to make offers.

If you're not ready to walk away, then you're desperate and you're going to end up in a crappy job.
I wonder what proportion of top-voted comments per article start with, "I know I will probably be down-modded..."

It's taking pains to point out that you don't care about public opinion, which is, at least here, a way of ingratiating yourself to public opinion.
ShowHN: LongReader: Random #LongReads Generator
http://longreader.ep.io
user/pass: showhn/thelongreader

I still need to fix some bugs, but I thought I can see what you guys think before launching :)
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605822 instead
You are interested only in academic learning and courses or on learning about some very specific things?
Yeah when I upgraded to Lion I stopped using Growl. The App Store version somehow screwed up support for the apps I used it for most. Having a simple API that all developers can hook into and not have to worry about Growl's bugs is a welcome improvement.
I think you are right that the key is to get away from the labor vs capital direction.

It means ensuring that your early employees have a stake in the business. I would think that the stock options approach would be fairly similar.

The issue is that if there is a serious labor vs capital division, the struggle is going to hurt everyone.
I wonder if such things still happen. In 1955, the world was a lot less interconnected, and there was a much more real sense of global tension such that you would want to keep secrets. Today I'm not sure an academic would be so quick to dash off a letter to someone who would keep their discoveries secret for half a century.
Open Xcode 4.4 (just works with Mountain Lion), go to preferences -> downloads, and install the new command line tools.
From my experience, a fair amount of scientific computing is done on Windows through Matlab.
Wow, this will be hard for a beginner to process. Unless that beginner has a week to read it, and has a good background in programming languages and design patterns. And then he probably won't need to read this.
Yeah, I agree IE box model makes more sense. Padding is basically useless if it adds to width, most of the time you end up creating inner divs with margins to simulate padding. Didn't know you can toggle the behavior in Moz/WebKit, good to know!
What may happen in the next hundred years (1900)
Anything really. We started with a pretty heavy emphasis on traditional academics - but many of those sites are the best publicized as well.

An idea for the list of subjects we currently flagged (sorry about the dups):

http://gradesquare.com/by_subject

We are open hearing any ideas.
Just remember that Amazon is a sweatshop.
After reading various reasons as to why it's bad to be incorporated in the US, you held off on applying to YC, but you are still using GoDaddy? Moving from Singapore to the US is a hard decision. Switching from a sleazy registrar to one that isn't, isn't.
A big part in training to have lucid dreams is just plain suggestion, so maybe just having a constant culture-wide preoccupation with lucid dreams would make people pay more attention to their dreams and have more lucid dreams.

Too bad hearing about other peoples' lucid dreams is about as boring as hearing about other peoples' dreams in general, so there it's a bit tricky how you'd set up the culture around it.

One idea might be what traditional shamanistic cultures do, and pretend that dreams actually take place in a "real" astral plane, instead of just being whatever your head comes up with. As per the suggestion thing, this might make people end up imagining their lucid dream adventures into the culturally shared astral plane imagery instead of stuff that's more transparently just a rehash of their daily stuff, and strengthen the lucid dream inducing cultural narrative.

For a completely different approach, I wonder if it were possible to build some kind of transcranial magnetic stimulation device that increased dream recall and lucid dreams drastically.
Ars had its own article on this saying that you do not need enzymes. It's forcing the molecule through a tiny pore and reading the change in an electrical signal. That said, one problem mentioned is that the error rate is quite high.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/nanopore-tech-br...
Is Groupon Becoming a Tech Company?
Notice that the author mentions CSS1 was published in 1996. IE3, the first version with CSS support was also released in 1996, meaning it was in development well before the W3C got together and decided on what they thought the standard should be.

It's not like they read the "standard", then deliberately misinterpreted it, as is the popular belief. Rather, they just picked a sane model and implemented it. If anything, it would have to have been the W3C who deliberately wrote their spec to leave IE out in the cold.

Naturally, I don't think either one was the case. It seems that the IE team made the correct choice (as it's very difficult to argue that the IE box model is not in fact a better way of thinking about boxes), and the standards team (who weren't actually in the business of building browsers) made a less good choice.

If only the Netscape team weren't so (possibly for good reason) angry with Microsoft, they might not have switched they way they sized boxes when they built Navigator 6, and we would have had a much less painful time writing web apps these last 10 years.

Shame. At this point, it's probably too late, as we're all thoroughly trained to deal with the idiosyncracies of the W3C box model to bother using the CSS hack mentioned in the article to get us back to a sane box model where a box with a width:100px actually renders as a 100 pixel wide box.
Well, you might. IIRC, there is another group who have those micro helicopters working in a swarm like way. I assume convergence at some point in the not too distant future.
Like everything, this will be refined over time. Give them a chance!!!!!!!
Ask HN: Have you taken 6 months to 1 year break to do self study?
There are so many nice lectures on AI, Machine learning etc., by Stanford, MIT etc., Have anyone took a break from work ,went home just to study these ? I am thinking about taking a break.How does it feel to be not earning that time ?
Stanford/Coursera Machine Learning class delayed
We're sorry to have to tell you that our Machine Learning course will be delayed further. There have naturally been legal and administrative issues to be sorted out in offering Stanford classes freely to the outside world, and it's just been taking time. We have, however, been able to take advantage of the extra time to debug and improve our course content!

We now expect that the course will start either late in February or early in March. We will let you know as soon as we hear a definite date. We apologize for the lack of communication in recent weeks; we kept hoping we would have a concrete launch date to give you, but that date has kept slipping.

Thanks so much for your patience! We are really sorry for repeatedly making you wait, and for any interference this causes in your schedules. We're as excited and anxious as you are to get started, and we both look forward to your joining us soon in Machine Learning!

Andrew Ng and the ML Course Staff
Haskell like pattern matching in javascript in 40 LOC
Cupertino's photocopiers are hard at work
Does it have to be a desktop? How about a Macbook Air or some netbook with a monitor attached? Or why not just hibernate the machine he already has when sleeping?
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There are other considerations regarding Singapore, like what many of us consider civil rights so basic that they should be human rights (freedom of speech and expression, for example), not to mention caning and hanging.

Low tax rates and business regulation should not be our only concerns in building the future.
ABC's Nightline goes behind scenes at controversial Chinese iPhone factories
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> Shame. At this point, it's probably too late, as we're all thoroughly trained to deal with the idiosyncracies of the W3C box model to bother using the CSS hack mentioned in the article to get us back to a sane box model where a box with a width:100px actually renders as a 100 pixel wide box.

It's never too late to do the right thing. As an extreme example, everyone who's used to it now, will eventually die, and I'd venture to say the web will outlive them all. (although probably not in its current form, but that's kind of the point) CSS3's solution is a good one because it allows people that are used to it to keep using their old dodgy hacks, and it also allows people who prefer logical consistency to opt in to that. It's definitely not too late.
Happens for me too :) .. Some days I seed what I want to dream about before sleeping (usually by watching a related genre movie).. I can go back to the same dream if interrupted for a few minutes (5-10).. not hours though... Once in the dream and after realizing that it is a dream - I can control most of the things (environment, flying, running on four legs etc) - though I keep moving in/out of that realization...sort of like inception... :)
Entrepreneur is one thing - a tech entrepreneur is another. I don't think you can compare the labor pool and funding climate in SE Asia to the U.S. Plus the large, homogeneous, wealthy market of the U.S. is really the key to all this if you're looking to do a typical high growth tech startup.

Certainly Singapore has its advantages, but I think you'd be hard pressed to value them more highly over the factors I mentioned.
Personally, I enjoy Strobotone
http://www.ideology.de/archives/audio000261.php
also there are other good Ideology.de artists, that are well
suited for "music for programming" IMHO.
When reading through the manual, I was struck at how similar the language seems to be to Lua, at least superficially.

Lua also has 1-based arrays. Heh.
I never said Jobs could do no wrong. The way he treated Lisa, for example, was about as bad as it gets.

However, I felt the Isaacson intentionally diminished Jobs' genius, and while I'm not sure why, I suspect it was an ego decision.

He made it sound like Jobs just stumbled his way onto the path of success, and was lucky to have achieved what he did.
Um, that article is just another self improvement article. What these authors never ever do is tell you how to actually get to the ideal place as it were. All it does is lead to more frustration, defeats the point.

Do I have anything to offer? Nope. Sorry.
The sky-high cost of everything needs to be factored in. Paying an engineer $100k a year will get them a lower standard of living than $50k would get them in Northern California.
Startups Trying to Replicate 37signals’ Success
I'm a fanboy, but thought the book went far too deeply into personal relationships, lacked objectivity, and diminished Jobs' accomplishments in an effort to make him seem more human.
I don't think so (based on what I read). They want to manage your APIs and add functionalities that you're missing, like the extra layers of security. They don't provide you with a way to build your API to publish your data.
Having worked in Singapore for many years, I believe the examples that you have given are the rare exception rather than the norm.

I don't think many companies would simply fire existing workers when cheaper ones are found.

Nor do I think anyone I know would make a job switch just because of a slight increase in salary.
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If you're just thinking "a shop that develops APIs", that is the same as "a shop that writes code". You are not offering the client anything tangible they can identify. Unless you restrict your clients to software houses without the time or expertise to write their own APIs, the larger non-developer world of clients has no idea what you are offering.

I write APIs. I specialize in them, but for a specific purpose. I develop 3d animation technologies and then expose them via an API. I then license use of that API to 3rd parties, hosting the servers in both cloud and colocation. That is something tangible they can grasp. This is after spinning my wheels for a while trying to do what you seem to be thinking.
I still feel quite bitter about the way Growl handled their move from a free, open-source app to the paid App Store version. I understand their desire to make money from their work, but they utterly abused their own notification system to incessantly remind me to upgrade. I had installed Growl on several family members' computers and it was quite frustrating for me to have to explain these messages and uninstall the software for them. It seems to me that requiring the paid version for upgrades and/or Lion compatibility and leaving existing versions unmolested would have been a more diplomatic approach.

I feel bad saying this, but I don't feel much sorrow over the fact that Notification Center will likely obsolete the product.
Is Julia homoiconic? Could someone give an example of a Julia macro?
The Bee didn't assemble itself, nor did it look robotic to me yet as it was not even shown if it could fly or do other tasks. Very cool demo tho.