skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you explain the concept of logarithm to primary school students?
The effective "trapping" of women to only work in education and nursing was a huge subsidy to those fields. It seems like the US education system (quality and cost) and medical system (cost, at least) started to really fall apart around when women had other career options.
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you can also do it with jrebel, which can reload alot more then debug mode.
I'm actually being really productive having the stream on in the background. I'm not looking at him code, but hearing his techno going is reminding me that someone somewhere is getting a ton of shit done, and it's shaming me into working hard.

And I don't even like techno.
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Is that because most people can "see" the solution in most programming languages, but most people can't see solutions in XSLT except by experimenting?
I hate to nitpick, but it is written in as LaTeX[1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX#Pronouncing_and_writing_....
Watching the old media companies is like watching that scene in star wars where the star destroyer is on a collision path and there is nothing that will save it from the complete explosion that comes next.
Interpreted is The Future
Good teachers are underpaid, mediocre and bad teachers are underpaid, since the industry is regulated to pay based on seniority and a strict scale, vs. merit and performance.

(Same thing with government employees; there are great scientists in the government who could make 10x that much outside the government, and plenty of seat-warmers.)
Direct link: http://investor.google.com/corporate/2012/ceo-letter.html

https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/12aVWvcG...
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From watching his older live coding sessions, I am guessing it is one of the stations on DI radio (http://www.di.fm/). Ambient Space Music, Chillout Dreams, and PsyChill happen to be personal favorite stations of mine to code to.
Aahhh, I didn't have my head on straight from writing so many non-console programs with ZMQ; you are certainly right about using iconv here.
But if people then want your code, your stuck with code without tests. That you at most, can retro fit tests to.
I am on Verizon and will not switch away (grandfathered into unlimited data, and AT&T coverage at my house is the pits).

Back in November I wanted to get an iPhone 4S. I was not upgrade eligible, so I'd have to pay full retail price.

If you pay full retail for an AT&T iPhone, the phone is automatically fully unlocked (this practice seemed to have quietly began around when the 4S was launched). You're basically buying the unlocked model even if you didn't ask for it. However, there was nothing indicating that this was the case if you bought it for Verizon and paid full retail.

I only keep my phones for a year or so and then sell them on. Not having the phone fully unlocked hurts the resale value. A phone that will only do EVDO a year from now just isn't worth as much as a phone that could do HSPA+.
The music reminds me of a small group of coders I was inspired by at my first startup. Back then I was only doing tech support and light front-end work, but every day it was three programmers and I getting stuff done to music like this. Ever since then, this kind of music is a great booster for me, even though I get embarrassed if someone comes into my office while it's playing...

The only thing I try for nowadays is to find an energetic, repetitive mix with no vocals.
It does get stored on a PC in an internet cafe. Which is more worrisome than when the same thing happens with a one-time password.
There a lot of things the iMDB would be useful for but unfortunately their terms don't allow for free use.
A lot of these reports are based on data from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web. Does anyone have any information on Doctor Web, and how valid their counting methods are?
What SCOTUS case are you referring to, and quoting from?
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He codes with what he knows to get a prototype. I bet he'll get a team of smart guys involved once it's time to get the game running on other platforms.

Of course, it'd be better in the long run to stay up to date and eliminate that extra work, but sometimes it helps to build it first to see if it'll even get to the refinement phase.
There's a difference between being unlocked through normal processes and being unlocked with a special sim or jailbrake/unlock.
great stimulating A league people. I'd pick that over pizza toppings,a window, chairs or a slow computer. Scratch that last part about the computer, I wont work on anything but a Mac, with as much ram as physically possible. and a SSD.
I dont use any application and I turned off the app platform. I think its the best thing to do right now. By doing that, you dont have to set anything else, nothing is shared with any app.
The only downside to this is that some apps might decide to force Facebook on you (hello Spotify), but I was lucky enough to have an account before they went Facebook-hungry, so I am all set.
Whats the techno he is listening to?
Is it possible for people outside Chile to connect with local developers in Santiago? I speak some Spanish. The talent pool must be growing.
Um, free software was the way of the world before Bill Gates popularized the selling of the stuff.

Stallman rose to the occasion as the defender of the "old way". He did not "invent" free software, whatever that means. (He did invent the Copyleft license, but there are many other licenses of free software besides Copyleft.)
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I was expecting more blow by boo coverage for the original post. Apple really had done a lot to smooth the process for app developers. Apps are getting review much quicker than before. With in-app purchases you can sell additional features in your upgrade, thus making those new features paid upgrades. I'm sure the charts algorithms are more complex than just pure download numbers, even normalized for time. The only real problems I see still are not being able to respond to unfair/untruthful reviews.
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He's listening to http://www.di.fm/, specifically the Electro House stream.
If you ignore service contracts, fire and safety regulations, and every other aspect of reality, that is. I think I'm seeing a pattern here.
For those wondering about the music, it's at

-> di dot fm
-> Listen Now
-> Electro House
In almost every case these investments are part of a portfolio for the investors. Seems unrealistic to expect anything less from the founders.
I don't think Minecraft ever got updated to using the correct APIs; I doubt this will either.
And Nokia smart phones don't pass the test.
All the attempts focused on syntax and mechanics.

How logarithms are used might be a better introduction.
You can, if you want to, but it could run you into a lot of trouble. That's not the point.
Digitally Imported, Electro House station.

http://www.di.fm/
I have to grant you a few points.
#1: I've heard RMS complain about his lemote netbook, about it being slow and with a small screen, although I supposed he could attach an external monitor. As far as the lemote netbook, I wouldn't buy one because lemote is an arm of the Chinese government and the loongson processor already has design flaws, and is licensed from MIPS. It beats me why he doesn't use an OpenRISC platform if he wants something just for cli editing with emacs.

#2: RMS seems to have stopped hacking software, so his computing requirements seem to be limited to what's necessary to produce his writing. He also seems to be getting support and service from other people's computers/servers and other people. I'm not sure that any average person would want or be able to do things exactly like him. Since he is trying to be a role model, he should model something that everyone could do and would want to do.

#3: Instinctively I want to say you're probably right that hackers should use the best tools available, and most of them do. However, I've known too many Russian/Finnish hackers who grew up with computers like clones of the sinclair zx80 who would surely not have been as awesome had they started off on supercomputers. Something about the easy availability of resources and lack of simplicity seems to spoil some of the fun. This is why I think so many hackers are drawn to simpler devices like ardunio or embedded microcontrollers.
> if you'd have a job that Notch is willing to take and you are not hiring him into that role then it's practically a factual statement that your hiring process is broken

Why do you say that? Do you think Notch's success is a result of him being an exceptionally competent programmer?
You are possibly not being cynical enough. Learn how to wave at judges.
This is economically incompetent and probably ideologically motivated. All that you can conclude from the DoE statement is that if 280,000 teachers employed under the Jobs Act were to find themselves unemployed, then they would be unemployed. They say absolutely nothing about the demand curve before or after the Jobs Act. Other comments pointed out the economic circumstances that would have made Federal funding of a public good necessary to make up for the local government shortfall. My condolences to your deceased neurons.
Instagram is a real business. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
I didn't know this about CFLs: "The compact lamps have the low-quality Chinese electronics that often burn out faster than the bulb itself."
More seriously, I wonder if people who have run their own companies in past make for bad employees.
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i know the feeling, but .. don't be embarrassed, whatever music you want to listen to, you should listen to,
That's the second time you've failed to comprehend the use of a negative. I suggest you reread what you've written.

The rest of the thread doesn't show me attempting to win any argument. I suggest rereading that too.

Whichever way my interlocutor responded to my question would neither invalidate his own position, nor 'win' an argument for me.

You are mistaking this form of discussion for a straw man because you are seeing things in black and white, when instead the question was intended to provide context.

Sometimes people ask provocative questions in order to better understand where other people are coming from. Dialog consists of more than just direct argument. Not every exchange is about gaining rhetorical advantage.

If you try playing back the comments in your head as if they are being spoken by a collegial group involved in a discussion, you'll see what I mean.

Your judgement is incorrect because you have misidentified the nature of the conversation. You are imagining there to be an argument where instead there is actually a discussion.

And on this note, do you really think it's helpful to throw comments like "straw man" into conversations you aren't constructively participating in?
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Good read. This coincides with my own impression after reading HN for a while. I suppose the problem of "Feature, Not a Company" sets in for any maturing market. But aside from "plumbing" start-ups discussed on HN (like Heroku, Phpfog or Parse), I rarely see anything that would be viable as a long term stand-alone business, as many of our business-side colleagues would also assert via "Porter's Five Forces"-type analysis. So I guess now it's all about making a quick lottery ticket type start-up and trying to get acquired. That's why you need VCs, 'cause they can negotiate a much higher price for your little company that you can.
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no, i think you're falling into the common technical-person trap of assuming that raw intelligence is the only measure of competence. i don't want to work for myself, and i don't want to hire people - i want to be competent at my job, and work for someone who is competent at theirs. that someone may or may not be more intelligent than me; it's largely irrelevant as long as they're smart enough to do their job well. (and i may or may not be more intelligent than they are; it should likewise be irrelevant to them as long as i do my job well)
Standard response to SSH "bruteforcing" articles: use SPA or port knocking to hide sshd. Use key-based auth and disable passwords/root login. Use the AllowUsers setting to restrict which accounts can login.
It doesn't quite seem to match the Typography section.

Where it says "We’re using Georgia for body text." and that they're using em for sizing it appears to be styled as "Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;" and using px+% (like YUI).

Also main.css has 7 declarations at the top of just the font-size for html object - which looks weird. Deleting all but the declaration "html {font-size: 62.5%;}" appears to right-size the fonts for the page.

I can't see where the web-font is supposed to be being downloaded either but I've only taken a quick glance.

Edit:

Looks like it's browser specific - this is FF11 on Linux. Somehow not applying the @media declarations correctly? Also looks like the little script isn't giving me the fastfonts css.
Here's a gem of a review I received. Contested it with Apple and got nowhere :/ Very frustrating.

Mis-information

It is horrible when you don't provide enough information on the app description, or on their (garbage) website; and let people believe that this may be able to check other (e.g. gmail) accounts. I think they should have clearly written: CHECK YOUR REDDIT ACCOUNT).

I will give 4-5 stars if that was the case, this is a request to the program developer to work around and make a useful little application. I am very frustrated.

The app's name?

Reddit Notifier
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?m...
Right. If it helps you be productive, the shame would be not in listening to it but in failing to. And what are headphones for?
Aerial images of Apple's planned NC fuel cell and solar farms
I might be missing something, but how is that relevant? Surely there's no need to hot-swap any OpenGL API methods, right?

EDIT: Also, I googled a bit and I can find no indication that HotSwap doesn't work for static methods. Are you sure you're not spreading misinformation here? See for instance http://stackoverflow.com/a/9466778
Next Silicon Valley be virtual imo. Breaking limitations of travel further and bringing people from diverse backgrounds together with ease.
tcfast in the "news.yc" style is my favorite.
can you send to multiple numbers?
Minecraft is still in active development. It may yet (if it isn't already).
This is true. The only things that are trivial to fix are the absence of for loops and the use of ArrayBuffer[AnyRef] to implement ArrayBuffer[Double]. It might also be possible to make TCO of mutually recursive final methods work, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
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Comp Sci: Is it Engineering, Science, or Liberal Arts (clip from Udacity CS101)
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Just to interject, but the us and british protectionism started a long time before maoism, or even marxism.

Surely since there are two different periods here is it not sensible to suggest that the two are not directly comparable in effect, although both have contributed to the history of the country.

One important question in this could well be whether imperial attitudes by the uk and us might partially be responsible for the development of maoism in the first place, and on reflection it seems more than obvious that they must be to at least some degree.
I still find a lot of value in Quora, but I guess directionally speaking, you're probably right that the mainstream audience is lowering the standard. Not sure if I heard you point that out, but you probably meant to say that it's possible to build a horizontal site that fits the needs of niche audiences - it's all just a question of product decisions. Twitter is a good example of how it can be done the right way: my stream is completely different from my wife's, and we both love using Twitter.

I recognize that user segmentation is easier to implement on a site that's focused on the social graph as opposed to on the interest graph, but I am not convinced that it's impossible. Ie, how about requiring social credit in a certain vertical before being able to ask a question in that same vertical? That credit could be earned with good answers to existing questions, or inherited from relevant 3rd party sites with applicable currency.
Depends on where you live. There are places like the Pacific NW that get very little sunlight, and going outside during the winter isn't enough to satisfy your Vitamin D needs.
Android is definitely on fire. And not in a good way.

Fragmentation is a massive issue with less than 3% of Android users on Ice Cream Sandwich and carriers taking zero interest in pushing updates to customers.

I fail to see how Android is going to sustain itself going forward without changes from Google.
I whole heartedly agree here, in Lima, Perú, the major publishers were under fire for paying off school staff to get them to make their textbooks mandatory. The next day the spokesperson of the association of publishers said that programs of educational institutions that rent the book for a semester or year to the student "aren't paying copyright"(sic). Traditional textbook publishers are at the crossroads to embrace the new paradigm or die.
It's not a joke. Notch is good at thinking of fun game ideas and implementing them, but he's not a very skilled software developer. I'd never hire him.

He belongs right where he is, as an indie game developer - kickstarting a fun game, alone, from scratch, proving that it is popular and that people love it, and then letting more skillful programmers take over developing it and fixing all the bugs that he created.
TextEdit's full (?) source code is available online
>A hell of a lot of people are doing really good work with Java.

Absolutely true.

And a hell of lot of people that brag about Haskell, LISP et al, don't produce anything useful to the masses with them. Where are all those LISP/Haskell/whatever killer apps? I mean, even Erlang has CouchDB, Riak and RabbitMQ.

I don't mean to troll, I actually think that 99% of those languages are used for personal/hobby projects, or for stuff in some company where the rules are lax and the programmer can choose whatever he likes --and those could be great or shit, but not really relevant to anybody else.

I don't see many widely used tools made with them, Open or closed source.

Re: the people mentioning HN runs on Arc. I know that. It's a service. Doesn't count as "widely used tools" (I gave CouchDB, Riak etc as examples).

It's more of the "stuff in some company where the rules are lax and the programmer can choose whatever he likes" variety of uses. As was ViaWeb.

Not to mention that HN is filled with bugs and a broken caching system, and Arc itself is half-complete and mostly abandoned IIRC.
Pet peeve: conjecture stated with the adverb "actually."

It’s a guess, man. And I am not convinced. Consider that the traffic for that page is still higher now – a data point in favor of "frictionless sharing" if, say the company is testing randomly enabling it for certain articles. Separately, the fact is now you contributed a page view and perhaps a tiny bit of ad revenue in response to seeing an auto-shared article.

It probably does still matter.
Techno's nice, but I prefer this kind of thing for when I'm making something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTovW5Pb2w
Apparently I created a page at "http://inboxi.us// by emailing "/@inboxi.us". Although it doesn't seem to work.
Find your own workflow and memorize the shortcut keys.

Some of the keys I memorized:

F3 and F4 are must.

Ctrl + . = Go to (next) Error

Ctrl + 1 = Quick Fix (usually follow the above)

Ctrl + Shift + T = Open (T)ype (Java class/interface)

Ctrl + Shift + R = Open (R)esource (all files)

Ctrl + E = Show list of opened files in the IDE
(if you type the file name it'll highlight/select it for you once this pop-up is active)

Format on Save - hook up your style with the Save action (right indentation, spaces, tabs, or whatnot).

Bind others that requires multiple steps (generate getters and setters).

If you're like me and use JUnit as a substitute for REPL:

Alt + Shift + X + T => run unit test.

Alt + Shift + D + T => run unit test in debug mode.

There are tons more if you know how to use Eclipse...

For Mac: swap the Ctrl key with Cmd.
They should have called it Munix :P
TextEdit has a handy, but often overloooked, use as a basic HTML editor for non-technical contributors.

(see: http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2007/03/using-text-edit-as-ht...)

While researching ways to parse the Web Archive HTML format it outputs, and was surprised to find Apple makes the entire source code for TextEdit available to any developer. Nice!
The problem was that there was no barrier to entry, and therefore there was no way to prevent people from misusing it.

The intellectual value of Quora dropped as more and more people who had no reservations about posting inherently useless questions joined. If there was a system for filtering out questions from less authoritative or knowledgeable figures, they could have prevented this.
i don't get the anger or argument. xslt is a templating language, nothing more, nothing less.

it is awesome as a cross platform solution for transforming xml into some other stuff. for anything else - why on earth would you use it?!

i really enjoy playing with it, generating complex html out of xml. things like grouping with the muenchian method are the defintion of nerdy fun for me. to this day i have no idea what went on in steve muench's head to come up with that small snippet of code. i just love him to death for it. i pretty much build a career on top of it, as a lot of other coders never groked it.
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Thank you for pointing out the invalid inference. The hidden agenda is that the government should not be supporting jobs.
http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/OES_texture...

No dynamic server-side templating language, easily transformable to other XML formats (docbook, atom (see front page of registry)). If the user/client has libxml, the processor command is already installed. The specifications are now provided in an application specific format that is language-agnostic instead of manually maintained ad hoc HTML. The extension registry index page is now automatically generated into static HTML instead of manual HTML+JavaScript for sorting the lists.

Finally, the restricted power of XSLT is an advantage for this application vs PHP, ASP, or JSP. If browsers actually implemented web technologies like XSLT, sending XML specs and generating HTML on the client side with cached XSLT would save bandwidth.
Funny, I was just about to start playing "Tales of Symphonia" when I read this...
I need help scaling (profitable from day one)
So I've had a hidden gem in my pocket that no one knows about. I stumbled across a problem and found a way to meet the needs and from day one I was profitable. It netted over 2k the fist month with little, trivial effort. I know it can be made bigger and scale on a much bigger scale. I only put in limited time and money and was profitable and have never lost money.

It's not a need that absolutely no one has done nothing about, but there's not a solution for the majority of people that is efficient, friendly, and usable.

It leverages physical and virtual sides of things. I know it can be taken farther with the right help. I'm looking for a technical founder that is familiar with business or a business guru that can help me take it to the next level and make some serious cash. I'm young, ambitious, and I work hard. I hope you can say the same (with the exception of young.) Email me if you'd like to have a chat. Email is in the profile. I can't think of a better group of people to ask.
I just wrote a Backbone Sync Adapter for PouchDB: https://github.com/jo/backbone-pouchdb

Its very basic but has a working Todo example.