skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be a different point of view depending on which you enjoy more. For example I wrote a trivial raytracer in Haskell once for a project at uni. It was hard because I never wrote a raytracer before and I never used Haskell. I'm still impressed with the result and the process for a number of reasons I would happily discuss.

At the same time I used compile-time code generation in Java to rewrite some handcrafted class hierarchy into something that was short, correct and implemented the right interfaces consistently. It was also a non-trivial problem to solve and the result was very useful.

The difference is that I'll never describe the second one as something positive. It was time wasted working around inflexible constraints in Java in the only reasonably available way to make the code suck less. Sure, it required creativity and a clever solution, but I'd never want to do it again. Ask me about something interesting related to coding and I could mention the first example in a couple of contexts. The other one would be only mentioned with "Ah, you can't do that in a simple way, but I know a hack that will work - you'll just have to explain it twice to everyone looking at it."
I don't remember Google superior search reasults
1) HDMI out is unnecessary when you have AirPlay.

2) Who on earth wants FM radio on a tablet ?

3) There is NO dependence on iTunes. You don't need a computer at all to use the iPad.
16x9 is a good compromise for a TV, and a poor compromise for a monitor. It's especially annoying on a tablet in portrait mode. I'd really like to see 16x10 tablets catch on, but I don't think anyone's making them or planning to.
Should be good now if you reload, right? I've been messing with the javascript trying to add a lightbox and accidentally pushed a syntax error.
"At most"?

The tests can be the same or even better that those added at some TDD style.

And, in either case, that would be a nice problem to have.
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I think you might misunderstand what he means by "free". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Nexmo offers 2 Euros for trial accounts (which you can sign up for unlimitedly). Let's say I'll use this get notified if my blog is under heavy traffic load every 5 minutes, how can I rely on it that it won't get shut down tomorrow? Who are behind this and why are they offering this service? Just a github-generated project page does not seem reliable to me.
No, it would not... Give me a break.

I pray that Poe's Law is in out in full force here.
Typical, a coward votes me down rather than having a counterargument.
So basically war.
I had several problems and returned mine for several reasons.
I don't think the Verizon iPhone 4 has support for GSM at all.
Ask HN: How would you manage the law using version control?
How would you manage the law using version control, and what sort of changes to the existing structure of the law and society might this have?

Particularly with respect to these things:

- file and directory structure

- the role of submodules

- forks vs. branches

- user interfaces
> HDMI out, FM Radio, Better GPS

This is why Apple doesn't ask customers what they want. This is a list of things that are not actually very useful in a tablet.

HDMI out? It's a tablet. AirPlay is a better solution, but very few people even need that.

FM radio? Seriously?

Better GPS? Is that nice to have? Sure. Necessary? No. Don't you have a phone in your pocket already?
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Home Office website blocked; 'Anonymous' hackers blamed
>Why in the world does a book on Biology sell for $152?

In addition to the changes in pedagogical approaches that lead to (if not require) constant changes, there's the fact that what we know about the fundamentals of biology is constantly being revised as we learn more. When I was in high school, we didn't yet know the archaea were a totally separate kingdom, and we hadn't yet sequenced anything more than a single celled organisms.

When you add in the fact that different states will have different guidelines as to what needs to go into a textbook, guidelines that are likely lengthy, dense, and opaque, I'm not surprised that some subjects do have very expensive textbooks. Are they too expensive? Probably, but not by as much as one might be tempted to think.
Why do people care about this? I mean, the guy is coding, cool... but what's the big deal? I don't even think anything he has done is particularly great.
If you want non-stop energetic, yet "smooth" techno with some soothing vocals, I recommend you check into trance. Specifically, "A State of Trance". There was a 6-city, 6 week tour that just ended last weekend. All of the music is playable here:
http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv
And downloadable here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316...

(I code to this music EVERY day)
But I need more ports!
No need to create a friend list for that - you can just set the visibility to "Only Me" when you first authorize the app.
I find evidence from mobile phones to be potentially problematic. If they track your position, you could just leave your mobile phone home when doing crimes, and say that you are home (You can tape it to your dog to make more realistic movement). If they track activity (but not content), you can make a program which sends empty messages to another mobile phone, or calls another mobile phone at some specific time. Finally, if you track content as well, create the content of the messages while you define when to send them, or make a predefined sound record which you transmit when the phone call is coming up.

You could be in a one hour phone call while the robbery you performed happened, and that phone call had your voice in it, and you were home while you called. Isn't that quite the alibi?

Hard? Sure thing. Impossible? Nope.
Only around a hundred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_in...

Why post a question like that if you're going to be so intellectually lazy?
Nobody is giving money to public schools. It is taken under the threat of punishment. If you homeschool or put your kids in private schools, you still pay taxes for public schools.

By all measures test scores are not improving in spite of quadrupling the DOE budget over the past 40 years. How about them metrics? This suggests we should abolish the pervasive bureaucracy.
Yes, looking at your projects page, I can totally see how you are in a position to judge him.
During the dot com boom days, I sustained an epic burnout. I quit playing hockey and soccer to concentrate on a buddies startup. It was the worst thing I could've done. Within months I was consumed by the work, when the crash came, I was too deep to dig out - like in the article, I knew my sanity was at stake and almost had a nervous breakdown.

I took a job for six month in a totally unrelated industry (a high-end home audio company) and got back to playing sports and working out. It was a slow process, but after six months, I had the itch to get back into the tech world again.

What I realised is that its important to listen to your body. When you ignore those signals, it can start impacting all facets of your life. Also, no matter what, you need to exercise. Run, walk, play sports, it doesn't matter but do something to get those endorphins humming and the blood flowing. It makes all the difference, trust me.
Does anyone have a clue of what he is building right now? What are the pyramids?
You'd need multiple IPs to go beyond 75/day. If you're going through the trouble to do all that, you might as well directly email phonenumber@txt.att.net, phonenumber@vtext.com etc. yourself ( http://hacknmod.com/hack/email-to-text-messages-for-att-veri... )
It's simply a fact that most textbooks now being published were unnecessary. The textbook publishing industry exists primarily to shuffle existing material to produce new editions on an almost annual basis (to destroy the used book market), and to produce custom editions organized according to the whims of state education boards.

The need for new material in something like a math book is truly rare. In the past twenty years, we've developed new instructional technologies, but a textbook really shouldn't be tied to a specific brand of calculator or programming language. I'm currently teaching precalculus using a 1994 edition. It's got some exercises to be done using a computer, and has some sample code in BASIC, but they're easily adapted to modern tools. I'm also making use of a textbook published in 1967, because it does a better job at explaining certain topics. Sure, the word problems have prices in cents instead of dollars, but that doesn't make it any less effective.

I'm using those old books because they are the best books I have available. I have newer books available, but they eschew clarity for colorfulness and newer "teaching practices" that only get in the way of actually teaching.
I don't think we're disagreeing on your first point. A cooperative dynamic is hugely important for some personality types. I would argue that such a dynamic arises in student centric teaching.

As for your second point, I too was a teacher a few years ago. Great teachers can work wonders with a good textbook. For example there is a lot of great evidence/support for the Direct Instruction model which requires extraordinarily well curated material.

But the real question remains, how do we repair our STEM education system in this country (and many other parts of the world) for happier, more capable workers and a more competitive work force?

Student centric learning tools offer amazing potential for scalable and cost effective solutions.
The weird thing is this is so automated that it doesn't even convey any social proof. It's not "articles my friends actually thought were interesting" so much as "linkbait my friends fell for".
I think that is one of the root causes, both internal and external. Also I think that europe was extraordinarily lucky in retaining its lead once it got it.

[edit] and it is very difficult to separate war from protectionism as they are all on a sliding scale of policy.
Read carefully and reflect: http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-a-technical-co-founder...

That said - if there are actual money involved, it becomes more realistic of a negotiation
One thing I've never understood is the point behind denying root login if you're enforcing key-based auth

The administrator then has to do one of
a) remember/manage a root password for su
b) remember/manage a user password for sudo
c) use passwordless sudo

What is the advantage?

Or is it just a hang-over from the telnet days where capturing the connection header was simple and thus preventing root login stopped the capturer from getting the root password at the start of the session?
Hey mike right now you can only post a pic. Try sending one to hello@inboxi.us
You should have screen-shoted the tweet, and send it along with your original story to some rival online outlet.

Journalists like exposing other such frauds...
One,

>When building the engine, Notch wrote a function which would continuously pan the camera around and clip through the walls and keep the view on top, so he could make changes to the code and see the effects they made in real time. I’m used to testing by writing a function, building it, installing it on the device I’m testing on, and then seeing the result, which can take up to a minute at a time, so it’s easy to see how HotSwapping could save a lot of development time.

and two,

https://vimeo.com/36579366
I think for the same reason people like watching "making of" documentaries or seeing the work processes of famous artists / musicians etc.

Either that or we are just voyeuristic.

Plus this is live, I can't think of anywhere else you can watch somebody actually work on a serious commercial game in realtime.
Yes, in my opinion.
Users like these get karma while honest opinions get downvoted by people running startups and feeling that there's a "clash" of interests between the comments here and the business they run. My 2 cents.
Compression curiosities
Indeed, I always thought the whole part about moving to the Bay Area was a little close-minded. Although, I guess they might have tried (and failed) to do everything online. It's just... different.
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"In addition, the issuance of shares of common stock creates three potential problems. First, the founders risk substantial dilution because it is often difficult for the founders and the investors to agree on a valuation for the startup and, accordingly, to agree on the percentage ownership the investor will receive."

Isn't determining the cap of the convertible note equivalent to negotiating the valuation when issuing stocks? The dilution won't occur until the conversion, but it will occur eventually and at the ratio that was determined at the time of issuing the note. I think the above applies to uncapped notes, but I don't believe those are very common.
I believe HN is written in PG's lisp like language called Arc.

C, C++ and Java are the standard tools of the industry, so it's unusual and noteworthy when an alternative language or technology is used for a product. You can use a wide variety of languages for web development backends because it tends to be less sensitive to performance(the majority of hits should be hitting caches), it has simple IO requirements, and user sessions usually don't have much state so parallelism is easier. I'd argue that web development is much more about the product than technical programming challenges, so having the ability to iterate quickly is especially important and leads to favoring scripting languages over the traditional languages which are more suitable for complex and high performance software.
It's a shame there is no random commentary like there was on his LD.
I was refering to the concept of "total dominion" over our computing devices, and trying to illustrate that this a hopeless goal.

Yes, you could generate your own power, live in total isolation off the grid, attempt to make everything in your life yourself. You would fail, but you could try. But even in this, you are not free from being subject to the laws that govern where you live.

This is an old debate: where should peoples freedom of behavior be controlled to the extent that it impinges on others' "freedom."

This is where RMS loses me. His concept of freedom does not seem to include the concept that people should be free to conduct business in accordance with the laws of the land.

In the US we are currently free to create and distribute FOSS if we want. Isn't that enough freedom? It's not totally free (in the liberty sense) but there is still a lot of freedom to do as one please with anything that you create (if its "original").

I happen to think that there are real problems with copyright now. The concepts behind the laws were derived before digital technology, and were always intended to address the commercial exploitation of original works. Not what individuals did.

We have a situation now where the copyright laws are being enforced against individuals making copies of works for personal, non-commercial reasons, which feels unjust to me.

I think part of the intensity behind the MPAA's legal attacks is the perception that if they give an inch, people will take a mile. And the legal foundation of copyright would be undermined by "facts on the ground."

Changing the copyright laws to reflect current technology seems like a good idea.
If you turn off the app platform, you MUST be careful not to turn it back on. If you authorize any app, for any reason, you turn the platform back on AND Facebook restores the default sharing preferences, which at the moment seem to be that your friends’ apps can read everything about you except for your sexual preference and religion.
Calling netbooks a "revolution" is too much of a stretch for a trend that basically lasted 2-3 years, if that.
Wholeheartedly agree; the people that make the most noise are generally those who have done the least research.
I gather that what makes this problematic is the expense of recovering evidence from the servers, as the hosting company is owed millions of dollars for them. MU does not have millions of dollars anymore.
"student-centric, self-paced products"

What does that even mean? Self-paced isn't a property of the textbook, it's a property of how it's used.
I think it has to do with the fact that Lisps and functional programming is not something you tend to use to build a whole product on, but rather something to crack the hard nuts with at a higher level of abstraction.

For example, at Chartboost our backend runs on a LAMP stack, but our new implementation of the smart ad targeting algorithm involves using Clojure (another Lisp dialect). Chartboost is definitely not "Made in Clojure," but I think it's fair to say that that doesn't mean that the language isn't being used to build a useful product.
VCs hate acqu-hiring. It murders their returns: they'd far rather you take a 50% risk of failure to get 5x the offer and can and do screw entrepreneurs by forcing them to turn down life changing money to do just that. Their business model means if you can't 10x investments they do not want you and acqu-hiring will not 10x any investment past seed stage.

Acqu-hires are really, really not the main game being played at startup incubators or in the Valley. To the extent that HN believes this, HN's zeitgeist believes something which is at odds with measurable features of the material world. (e.g. To use YC as an example, if every company other than Dropbox sells for 1 million an engineer, Dropbox is still the majority of the portfolio!).
There may be some of that, especially at the beginning, but with a little experience that phase seems to pass, it helps to be working in an environment with a good XSLT debugger of course...

I think the fundamental issue may be more to do with a flawed distinction between read "code" and just a "stylesheet / data transform"
Polaroid film is dead. Long live Polaroid film.
Yes. The poster is only posting links to their blog. That blog contains a bunch of ads. The content is only mildly interesting for HN. A single post would have been fine. Two posts a day shows -and no other comments- show the author is not interested in discussion at HN, and is just driving traffic, possibly to get ad views.

There are many articles on [new] and it's a shame that interesting articles get drowned out by this kind of low quality stuff.
That's not what I meant by legitimate criticism.

Go write a compelling, well-cited account of all the things he's done to upset you or--even better--all the ways he's discriminated against women.

Publish it somewhere. On a blog, in a municipal paper, on TechCrunch, whatever. If you can actually write that story, do it. Make it good enough that people care.
This comment doesn't actually say anything. Yes, things change. Yes, that's a part of life. That doesn't automatically make all change for the better.
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Sorry for the typo and thanks for reporting, I fixed that. Insanity? Where?
Unix-like operating system for the TI-89 and TI-92+ graphing calculators.
I would at least like to claim that it wasn't blind hate; I have used XSLT before so it's partially sighted at least. And really, it's tongue in cheek. XSLT is a programming language, "hate" for such a thing only really goes as far as "I don't like working with it and hope I don't have to again".
and it is very difficult to separate war from protectionism as they are all on a sliding scale of policy.

Why isn't protectionism just part of the terms that nations negotiate when they trade?
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Maybe that's why his code is buggy?

I love the games Notch makes, but he's not perfect.
Instead of responding to things that might be factually inaccurate, let me just save time and reframe the debate between ESR and RMS.

ESR thinks that open source makes good business sense since open source is better than closed source. Computing is something that extends our ability to get things done, but isn't an end in itself. We need to be pragmatic about what businesses want, and how the business world works in order to perform our role of helping people do business.

RMS doesn't care so much about what the business world wants or the fact that open-source is indeed better.

He sees hacking and computing as one of the greatest achievments of mankind. Because it's a great achievement of mankind (like writing, or alphabets, or language itself) he thinks that it should be made available to everyone, and never closed off. In other words, for the people who live in it, spending their lives working on it and in it, software is culture. It's not just an application that you use like a word processor. And in the hacker culture, there needs to be a free flow of ideas like there is in the scientific community.

This is reflected in the different licenses. The GPL "restricts" people from trying to close off one of the greatest achievements of human kind for the sake of some people who want to earn some more money off of it. The BSD-style licenses consider themselves more practical in that they allow for better commercial exploitation by eventually imposing restrictions. This is why Apple is so heavily involved in converting FreeBSD away from GPL code Currently I think it's about 50% GPL and OpenBSD is more like 60%. They plan to replace the GPL code with BSD licensed code so they don't have to contribute to the project eventually.

Clearly some code isn't the equivalent of Shakespearean drama, and it won't matter that humanity is deprived of it. Microsoft word comes to mind. But for the really amazing software, the software that involves the cutting edge free flowing of ideas, and I would argue that the linux kernel falls into this category, GPL gives it the ability to serve as a lasting monument to human ingenuity, as well as a way of transmitting culture. It's no coincidence that the linux kernel powers nearly all web servers, smartphones and supercomputers.
Cameras.

They just need one camera that caught you outside your house to shatter all that work. There are so many cameras that it's very difficult to hide from them all. If the crime you commit is serious enough to go through strapping your phone to your dog, the police will scour lots of cameras in te area.
There's no point in code that doesn't do anything for anyone

Notch has proven he's able to program fun games, and his programming styles is pretty well tailored to that

Who's to say if the goal changed he wouldn't change his style too
I assume he's building a level editor. The "pyramids" are building-blocks to create stuff with.
They are analogous but not equivalent. A cap of $5 million is a strictly better deal than a valuation of $5 million from the investor's perspective, because if the startup underperforms their next valuation will be below the cap (investor gets more of the company than a $5 million valuation would imply) and if the startup outperforms their valuation will be above the cap (and the investor gets shares worth more than their slice of $5 million would imply). This makes it much easier to pick higher dollar amounts with less kvetching, which is in startup's interests.

Also, just as a social norms thing, the "round" structure forces contemporaneous investors to get the dame deal regardless of value add (and you have to herd cats to make it happen) but you can close convertible notes individually at heterogenous terms. This helps break deadlocks.

See pg's article on Higher Resolution Fundraising.