skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll bet it can handle a 22 short.
"Or are there occasions when we might choose to leave off a book before the end, or even only half way through, and nevertheless feel that it was good, even excellent, that we were glad we read what we read, but don’t feel the need to finish it?"

I finish most books I start, but I choose what to read very carefully. However, I stop playing video games partially through all the time and feel little to no remorse over not finishing them.
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I think the underlying assumption here is that he commits and pushes these changes somewhere accessible from home and not taking it with him on his laptop or something. Otherwise there really isn't a good reason for committing it.
I was referring to the digital copy - it's $20 more in Australia than it is in the US.
I bought the app 5 minutes after I read about it here on HN. I already dig what it is going to do for me. I don't plan on doing any major custom controls, but I do have a few ideas that will work awesomely with using this tool. I had just recently been struggling with some ddrawing operations. If this thing saves me a few hours of work and frustration, it is totally worth the measly $80. Amazing what you can do with a 2MB binary.
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I really like the goals of your language. I'm an old c++/assembly programmer from way back, and today's heavily layered languages with non deterministic performance are disappointing to me. I like that Deca will never use GC or a virtual machine, never require a run-time library or an OS.

But to answer your question, the best way to monetize a new programming language is to stop working on it and do something more likely to have an impact on the world.

You seem like a super smart talented guy. Don't worry about sunk costs. I'd be happy to brainstorm with you, sutter at gmail.

I'd also be happy to discuss the many years of your life that could be eaten up trying to get a new language adopted. The most likely outcomes are (a) to choose the right category and fail to get traction, or (b) choose the wrong category and fail to get traction.
Is Greece any different, bloated government, high unemployment, high government salaries and where did it go? Default on its financial obligations. You would know that if you were aware of what is happening but seems you don't.
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Wow, that was pretty cool. I wonder if the climb to a stall early on in the flight is part of the typical flight profile, and if the design of the aircraft is optimized to deliver that profile. Anyone know?
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Huh? MS is now betting on HTML5 for Metro.
When I lived in the Bay Area during the dot-com era of the 1990s, the newspaper (yes children, the newspaper was on paper back then) had an article on housing difficulties. Some people lived in the state parks, where they could camp for up to a week before moving. One Stanford student lived on an RV in one of the parking lots.

As for showering, go ahead and get the gym membership. Sound mind in a sound body, after all.
Great guide a couple of comments:

- DKIM, aside from buying you a "non-spam" pass (or at least more generous first treatment), can get you into "most favored sender" status with big email providers. Notably Yahoo, who, despite corporate troubles is still a huge player in hosted email.

- Even if you're using a mail service provider, setting up an SPF record for your domain, with your MSP's IPs (or better, an "include:" record to their sending SPF record) will help your mails go through.

- If you're using postfix, then you'll want to use 'qshape' and 'pflogsumm' to track your queues and delivery stats.

- VERPs are great. Until you run into an idiot recipient who insists on explicitly whitelisting all sender addresses. Including envelope sender. We at Krell Power have encountered ... a large energy sector company relying on Microsoft products who apparently favor this route. We've de-VERP'd their mails.

- Throttled delivery services with domain-based assignments are a great way to manage queues. Strong endorsement of that here.

- Track your mail reputation. Look up your domain and sending IPs on Senderbase, SpamHaus, Spamcop, and other reputation systems. Address complaints quickly.
It's not a problem for counter-sniping and no man's land.
> Insurance for humanity against disaster is a small ROI?

A self-sufficient colony on the Moon would be efficient insurance against most disasters I can imagine and much easier to build. A colony on Mars offers negligible benefit over one on the Moon for the purpose you mention.
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Use crunchbase for the data.
I'd be worried about getting mugged...
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What is animals.txt?
Ask HN: I want to learn Python, what could be a good book to start with?
I know something about programming, but I'm not a master in any programming language.
What motivates me, is just curiosity, but I would like to learn how to create simple web apps.

I plan my next step to be Ruby.

Thanks for your advice and comments.
That's solid advice, but only follow it once a sense of trust and rapport has developed between you and the client.

There's far too many things a potential client may not be telling you about the project, and it's incredibly hard for the independent freelancer to do enough business development, or for the client to do enough vetting, to know which random internet person is trustworthy. This is especially true when you're just starting out.

A one week sprint that solves a small, immediate need the client has will keep the project manageable, and protects both the freelancer and the client from a potentially bad situation. Worse case scenario, one of you is out a week's work. Best case scenario, after a few sprints a rapport and trust develops, and you can start providing your clients with estimates for larger pieces of work, knowing they'll be treated as estimates and not fixed bids.

Don't eliminate the appearance of uncertainty when you're legitimacy uncertain. That's bad communication. If a client needs solid estimates out of the gate they don't need an independent freelancer. They need a full-service agency.
Yup, eventually XP becomes less attacked, and in practice, more secure.
While people moving in droves to newer untested Windows that are heavily attacked.

I'll stay with XP until it becomes undefendable. Then i'll move to Linux.
Well, let's get that out of the way, then: "see, even Microsoft lovers hate Windows 8!" ;o) Anyway: you do have a point with waffle-resistance; but "talking sense into the Internet" sounds a bit futile...especially when the Internet is trying to do the same, with senses that are incompatible to yours. The video is indeed somewhat unfortunate (note that I've actually watched it much later than this discussion started) in that it's easy to latch on, instead of the - somewhat positive - rest of that site.
Here's another one:
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=jobs
There were many great data-related Python presentations and discussions over the past few weeks at Strata, PyData 2012, and PyCon. There's a lot of momentum in the space - we were thrilled to be sponsors & participants. Everyone we met was smart, capable, and best of all, exceedingly friendly.

If you want to be a part of the ongoing discussion, please join the new pydata mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/pydata) and irc channel (#pydata on irc.freenode.net).
Lets see what could he bring to google??
He studied computer science and university and has spent basically his whole life working in the tech industry. Oink had 150,000 downloads in a month. He's probably one of the most influential people in the tech industry and he obviously knows social (which google struggles with). Plus he had an awesome team thats going with him to google. Some of the best designers and DEVELOPERS that he (again one of the most influential people in the tech industry) could get to work for him.
Thats just off the top of my head.
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We already have FeedDaemon on Windows...
Building a product is obviously extremely important, but without the bzdev skills and ability to launch and scale a business you need a well rounded team. Not just an all start programmer.
Seen it. http://www.google.com/search?q=sites.google.com/site/worlddu...
By taking a picture of your credit card? Or a swipe attachment?

There's a big difference between trusting a national chain and a small business which this seems to be going after.

The Obama campaign better do anything it can to get money. After how much clout the "small" donors had during the health care legislation, no dollars are moving from me to them this time. SuperPACs maybe. Politicians seem scared of SuperPACs.
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"If you ever want to git-bisect your code-base to track down when you introduced a bug then you'll be very thankful that every commit is functional and passes your test-suite"

I agree that this property is very useful, but I disagree that it it is necessarily implied by the workflow as described in the article. By using "git add -p", he is constructing a tree that probably never actually existed during development - hence there is no guarantee that it works and passes the tests.

I strongly agree with you that a clean logical progression of commits is a good thing (especially for code review). However, making sure that each stage works and passes the tests takes extra discipline.
It was a little of both I suppose :)

I guess it's particularly frustrating when you compare it to a company like Valve - who set the same prices for Australia as they do for the US (not sure about other regions) for all of their new releases. Even Apple have brought the App Store price tiers almost to parity between the two regions.

I suppose that they did do the math though - as you said - I think they just priced me into ordering an import instead. A quick look around has shown a few online retailers offerring it for less than $AUD 60.

Meow.
Paul Goodman published "Growing Up Absurd" in 1960. I wonder how much of our secret sauce is based on people trying to escape the absurdity of their environments --- would we have a Silicon Valley if people felt comfortable and happy remaining in their childhood communities?
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I would be surprised if it would have got many users if it hadn't got the press it did and have the Kevin Rose name attached. Of course anyone who has this power to market is going to take full advantage of it, you would be stupid not to.

What it does though is translate into a lot of people giving the app a try, that marketing isn't going to have people continue to use something if it isn't any good. Obviously it wasn't good enough to hold peoples attention, user retention or engagement must have been bad for them to shut it down.
Horrific may be hyperbole, but I have seen many an incomprehensible parameterized Java type definition.
I haven't been to Palo Alto in 12 years, so my info may be dated, but what no one ever talks about is "the EPA", East Palo Alto. Is it still sketchy?
Getting off-topic (although, I think we're already there)- I have been finding HN discussions harder to navigate lately. I still miss seeing the post voting scores.

I don't remember if how the comment thread display has changed, but it's getting ridiculous. People respond to the top comment because anything lower will be ignored. This top "thread" is taking up 80% of page.

I understand that this isn't supposed to be Reddit and I'm supposed to work a little harder to digest the information, but I find it very unlikely that people are going to read this entire comment page and find the signal in the noise.

I came to HN after reading the article and I'm not finding the discussion I was hoping for.

EDIT: Maybe what HN needs is an enhancement suite like RES.
Asteroids can be large - up to 1000 km, but comets are much smaller - up to 40km.

According to http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=20000&... a 40km comet impacting the earth would destroy entire countries.

But on the other side of the earth, while it would be noticed, it would not kill anyone and it would not cause severe damage.

So deadly? Yes. but humanity destroying? No.
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i don't like that guy, who digged himself on his digg site frequently.
Facebook's (In)conspicuous Absence From the Do Not Track Discussions
Didn't he let the Butterfree go fairly early?
The topic here is completely unrelated to the semantic web, except in a tangential mention (the "etc"): "We can leverage the agreed “global” semantics of HTML elements, certain HTML attributes, Microdata, etc."

Your caricature of semantic web "people" is misplaced. Local specialized semantics is fully a part of the design. No one believes there is a single master schema.
I like this. Hey, even Chris Sacca tweeted about sleeping in a Wal-Mart parking lot. (Not sure about his setup, though.)
https://twitter.com/#!/sacca/status/156064344831045632

Hardship (even self-imposed) might even lead to new ideas. If life gets too cushy, there are few problems left to solve. Shelter is one of the most elementary human needs.
I have thought about doing this for home renovation because general pricing takes at least a phone call or two and involves people whose time you may not be keen to waste at that point. e.g., Have estimates for home demolition, flooring, rendered walls, brick work, fences, landscaping, pools and spas, etc.

Gyms in Australia are often pretty cagey with the pricing structure and many have not historically advertised their prices openly. Because of that, I created gymprices.com.au - it does suffer from the problem that the traffic is people looking for prices rather than to share their membership prices, but maintenance is pretty minimal and it makes enough to pay various bills.
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opposing barrels fired simultaneously might work, though it would be a bit wasteful.
Many cities in the bay area have laws or regulations prohibiting this. I understand the sentiment, but he needs to be aware that an officer of the law may be knocking on his window in the middle of the night or placing a ticket on his window while he sleeps.

Some cities allow overnight parking, but only with a permit which only residents can get (and it isn't cheap).

Obviously all of these restrictions only apply to public property (streets, parks, etc.).
All that cringing and you only call out a misnamed variable?
We respect his privacy both because of his contributions, and because his feelings are clear. That does not mean everyone else on Earth is obliged to.

They're obviously not obliged too, but when they don't, they're acting in a shitty fashion, and calling them out on it is definitely worthwhile.
That's actually a GENIUS suggestion. Too bad Congress is in the RIAA's pocket, not the public's.
I don't even remember what year it was that I ditched T.V. entirely. Was way before it went digital. Nope, no news on T.V. For me.
I think you've deluded yourself into thinking you can read minds. Vic knows better then you or any of us exactly how much G+ is getting it's ass handed to it and not just by FB.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CRed...

He still has a job to spin it in the most positive way and anyone else in his position would be forced to say the same things.
It's fun to read it right now, for I'm sitting near the gates at SJC airport, a fresh PyCon behind me, waiting my flight to Salt Lake City.

I wish I had the kind of impact he did. It's nice to have role models, even if being one of them is not.

:-)

:-)
But it's only a visual tweak - they still behave exactly like the normal scrollbars.
I've actually considered doing the same just to get out to SV for the benefit of my startup. I'm in my early 20's with student loans to pay off, not a ton of free time (due to the startup) to freelance enough to pay for rent, and grew up in a pretty poor family as my parents screwed up and had my sister and I before my father was even out of high school. So renting a place wouldn't be easy, and I would prefer to bootstrap as long as I can; I feel like I'd learn the most that way.

I was born and raised in NC, so moving out west would be pretty exciting regardless of my living situation. For the past 20 months or so I've been bumming it under my dad's roof, and I feel like the stagnation has really slowed my startup's development to a crawl; so when I get back in good shape (man, I've really let myself go!), I'm going to jump at the first opportunity to get out on my own again, even if that means living out of my car. I actually bought the car I have now because I expected to live out of it for a bit when I moved to SV.

Luckily(?), doing this actually won't be new to me. Back when I toured with my old band, we practically lived out of our 15 passenger van - bunk beds and all - so I picked up a few tricks that help out when living on the road.

The only damper on the situation would be that I have a dog, originally my father's but I've ended up taking care of him. Not sure what I'd do without the little guy by my side all this time. ;)

Should I end up moving out west at some point, living out of my car or not, if anyone has any suggestions for good dog-friendly places for me to work out of (and network!)... I'd love to hear them!
Yeah, comparing the specs (CPU/GPU performance/display resolution/weight/battery capacity/disk/RAM) of the iPad vs. MacBook Air over time is pretty compelling evidence that the touch / keyboard & mouse paradigms are converging and the current dichotomy between the two types of devices/OSs won't last much longer
Thanks for the link. That is definitely the kind of thing I have kept in mind as I have created this product. I've spent enough years in software development that as a UX guy, I have been approached with far too many harebrained schemes that turn out to be "do free work for me to see if my idea is any good." I personally hate that crap and I'm doing what I can to not come off that way.

At the same time, I feel like I have to walk a delicate line between being open and forthcoming enough to attract potential partners and just opening my kimono and having a public discussion on the minutiae of my product, designs, market research, and business projections. Don't get me wrong, I certainly think the product concept is mature, viable, and worth building. I'll open the kimono willingly, it just has to be in private and with a potential long-term partner :)
I'm SO glad that the core of the python scientific computing development has many of the same apprehensions as I do.

This panel was interesting also in that everyone was not so subtly beating around the Python 3K, why? bush.

I would have been more direct:

1. pick a single implementation, my choice is PyPy, the performance difference is just too compelling, drop CPython. A lot of the hand-wringing regarding implementing new language features because it would cause a 'few percent' speed cost would be a lot more negligible.

2. if python 3k is going to be non-backwards compatible, then take the opportunity to put a lot more 'carrots' in there. There a lot of good language features/design choices that can still be 'stolen' from other languages. Python could really use more flexible function declaration, ideally something flexible enough that you could simulate creating new keywords, then you don't have to worry about hardcoding new operators with hooks into object methods.

3. have the scientific community start switching to a different language/platform. There are quite a few now that, IMO, are as nice or nicer than python, and have a lot more support behind them (V8?)
Here's an importer to turn your old oinks into @cheers! :) http://chee.rs/oinkimport
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Seconded. It's the first text that made Python stick in my mind.
Suppose you were writing about a rape? Would naming the victim, their current employee, partner's name, along with a picture, constitute harassment? You have no idea why _why needs privacy: destroying it was a somewhat evil act.
Lights also generate a fair amount of heat and use unnecessary energy -- both things you don't want in a data center. Was that part of the calculus?
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This was a concern I had, but it turns out that it is legal in Palo Alto. You can see the details of how all the logistics will work on my original blog post: http://kurtvarner.com/post/19347794553/man-car-startup
The answer Musk gave at a Q&A I was at was, "We won't go to the Moon because the Moon sucks."

His point was that the Moon can never be made habitable for humans, and the low gravity makes it hard to work.

The analogy he made was the Arctic--sure, it's a lot closer to Europe and Asia, but Columbus et al. went to the Americas instead. Farther away, but more habitable.
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Yeah, I hear you - that's Tim Cook the supply chair & operational efficiency maestro. Or more specifically, Apple's unique ability to successfully coordinate design, engineering, and manufacturing for appeal, quality, and profitability.
Yes. The same way I would discourage an enthusiastic designer from building a car with the brake pedal on the right and the gas on the left.

The idea might be good -- most people are right-handed and might have better response times with their right leg when it's straighter. But there's too much inertia in the current convention, and the change can't be made incrementally without creating serious risks.
This illustrates that free parking is a major subsidy to auto owners.

I've lived in some bohemian situations in the past, and largly, the most difficult part is dealing with people hassling you. People will literally call the police about, "I saw a guy living in a car", and then the police come to check it out, even if it's perfectly legal.
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here's my list. I've read/purchased each of the following. Without buying a thing:

Tute: LPTHW by @zedshaw
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

Tute: Official Python
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html

Reference:
http://docs.python.org/

and if you must have a book (tutorial) buy @zedshaw "Learn Python the Hardway" or "Learning Python, 3rd Edition" (pink mouse) by Mark Lultz ~ http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-3rd-Mark-Lutz/dp/05965... For (reference) get Programming Python (pink python) also by Mark Lutz ~ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Python-Mark-Lutz/dp/059615...
Pluto is effectively a comet. There are objects just as large or larger in the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud. It's likely that the larger an object is the less likely it is to be jostled by interstellar forces and have its orbit perturbed enough to fall into the inner Solar System (if we're lucky) but we don't really have any clue on what the size limits are for such processes. It would suck to find out by way of the entire human race being eliminated.
Musk said in a Q&A that he views it as cheap insurance.
It is a world of buy and selling securities. There is always someone else on the other end. GS was one of the first to realize that the subprime mortgage market was about to blow up. To cover their asses they began selling everything they owned and at the same time bought CDS's.

So if a German bank that GS does business with still thinks its a good idea to buy some CDO packaged with "AAA" bonds without doing their diligence then GS should have every right to sell them some CDO's, and also short those same securities. They realized there was a problem before everyone else, and they exploited those people to profit from them.

Isn't that how the business world works? Especially with start-ups? You look for inefficiencies and try to capitlaize on them. You use the information that others dont have to create value.