skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything can become relevant through analogy. Attributes, explicit end-tags, character entities, and validation before processing are acknowledged as worthwhile features in the contexts SGML was originally created for, but the desire to have them in the contexts XML is intended for is compared to an infantile longing to receive the comforts a child receives from a mother, when one is no longer a child and is relating to someone who is not one's mother. Abstractly speaking, an expectation that develops in one context (a tiny infant nursing from his mother's swollen breast) may become ridiculous if it is transferred unmodified into a different context (a grown man who expects women to have breasts larger than his head.)
> Thus, we should tax colleges and education in order to discourage people from attending, as well as construct cheaper screening mechanisms and encourage their use. For example, we could scrap subsidies for education (e.g., state colleges) and replace them with standardized testing centers.

I do not consider myself a republican or tea partier, but I really despise these types of plans aimed at controlling behavior. It works in some cases, but this is not something the government should be mucking with. They've done enough damage to higher education as it is. The last thing the US should be doing is making it even harder for kids to go to college. If anything they should be giving more money to the schools to make it affordable. The problem with college is not what you do or don't learn. Every form of school will involve wasted time. The real problem is the cost to attend.
Ahhh. I wish I was at Startup Weekend right now. Unfortunately it was scheduled right smack in the middle of the SAT's. I guess I'll have to wait till next time.
Monologue: a simple blogging (Rails) engine | Jean-Philippe Boily / jipiboily
The pharma corporations inflate R&D claims, and this R&D is also subsidized by taxpayers. (http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACFDC.PDF)

(I also recall hearing that advertising costs are stuffed into the inflated R&D claims, but it's hard to really know how much, due to lack of transparency.)
Ink?
Ire?
Ide?
Irk?
Ill?
Imp?
Ion?
Ilk?
Ubervu is still in Romania.
The above is more or less the way exceptions work in Smalltalk. (The elimination of "try" doesn't apply, because Smalltalk has no keywords.)

• Not all exceptions are resumable; there's Error is a subclass of exception that can't be resumed.

• Instead of conditions, Smalltalk allows a parameter to be supplied when resuming an exception, and this will be answered by the #signal message that originally raised the exception.

• Exception subclasses can implement #defaultAction, which is a used if there are no catch blocks to handle the exception. The default implementation opens a debugger.

The Wikipedia article on Lisp conditions (linked to by Someone) gives the example of an exception raised when the program attempts to open a file that doesn't exist. In Squeak (a dialect of Smalltalk) it would work like this, given the following bit of code:

1 [stream := FileDirectory default oldFileNamed: 'foo.txt']
2 on: FileDoesNotExistException
3 do: [:exception |
4 Transcript show: 'Could not open file: ', exception messageText.
5 exception pass].

• the message #on:do: is sent to the block on line 1

• #on:do: sets an exception handler and then evaluates the block on line 1

• somewhere in the implementation of #oldFileNamed: an exception is raised

• the runtime scans the stack and finds the exception handler we installed

• it creates a new stack frame to evaluate the handler block (lines 3-5) and passes in the exception as the argument

• line 4 creates a entry in the Transcript which is sort of a global log used for debugging

• line 5 reraises the exception

• the runtime continues looking up the stack, but doesn't find another exception hander

• the runtime sends #defaultAction to the exception object

• another frame gets added to the top of the stack to execute FileDoesNotException>>defaultAction

• the default action opens a dialog saying the file doesn't exist, and offers several options:
• (a) create the file
• (b) choose another filename
• (c) open a debugger

• if the user chooses (c), a debugger opens on the stack frame where the exception was raised

• if the user chooses (a), the file is created and opened

• if the user choosed (b), they get to type in the new filename, and we try to open that file, possibly raising a new exception

• if we successfully open the file via (b) or (c), the exception is resumed with the stream as argument

• the runtime unwinds the two stack frames it created

• the activation of #oldFileName: resumes and answers the stream

• the stream gets assigned to the stream variable, and execution continues, presumably to read the file
Buffett would not buy Google, Apple; prefers IBM
I am sure it is fun to design like that but the font is very hard to read, the links too. And the numbers on the images are much less easy to grasp than plain text.
Send us an e-mail with answers to the eight questions above. Put my name "kim" in the subject line and send it to tips at techcrunch dot com. I will find it.

We do cover some health and biotech (particularly if it's something that could be consumer-facing or doesn't require like a 10-year FDA clinical trial). We wrote about Dr. Chrono, which was a YC company.
IT people from Romania are not leaving for the West as much as the West imagines. And part of those that leave come back.

Working in IT in Romania is a good position socially and economically. You have a good salary and you are part of the middle class from the start.

If you just want to have a normal career and a family life there is no reason to leave Romania for the West.

So, the number of quality developers isn't influenced as much by this.

It's influenced much more by our education system which imho is failing and by the very same local (multinational) companies that want worker bees and don't know how to grow their own people.
Nice analysis. I love this kind of analysis of social phenomenon. But I will add that not only do cars make hats inconvenient they also make them less necessary. You spend less time standing around or walking around outside when you drive, especially if you have a garage. So you spend less time exposed to the elements, like sun, wind and cold. I will suggest this might help explain why hats were less common for women: They were more likely to be homemakers or do "pink collar" jobs. So they probably generally spent less time outdoors than men.

We still have men who wear hats at work but we typically don't mistakenly think of it as a fashion choice because they tend to be hard hats or otherwise clearly utilitarian. Much of what we view as mere fashion has either a utilitarian purpose or a utilitarian origin that has since been forgotten.
If you think it's possible for anyone, registrar or no, to "quietly" change the NS records for google.com., you're confused.
Which means don't be self-sufficient. Sell out. Don't go into an enterprise with the necessary resources yourself.

Thanks, but I'll just forego their "coverage" instead.
@nikcub I think it's not a coincidence.

In fact FB declines Post and Messages for a while already.
For example you can't post or comment and include a picture from imgur, while it (obviously) fine from other hosts.
Thats what i experienced so far, but i can imagine there are other examples.

That does not need to be censorship.
Might be that they got an agreement about not hotlinking or hosting imgur images for copyright reasons.
For TechStars Startups, Life Beyond the Pitch
Well, that's one way of reacting to it. Many people who found Christopher Hitchens delightfully witty decided he was no longer so witty when he became a neocon and started writing things they disagreed with. That only means they never appreciated him as a writer, but only as a cheerleader for their particular side.

misogynistic, nonsensical analogies (rape)

Being offended at horrible things treated lightly in a piece like this is the surest sign one has misplaced one's sense of humor.
If you want to build a successful startup, your ability to wear many hats and push more than one aspect of the product forward in the early days is super valuable. If that's your goal, continue to straddle the fence.

If you're thinking about this inside of an organization, you have to decide what kind of person you want to be: the nail or the glue.

It's possible to not specialize and to be super valuable. You can even lead teams with this approach - as long as you're very cognizant of where your people are better at one specialty than you (i.e. your designer gets to make the tough calls, not you). When you straddle the lines, you're able to translate between experts and to make sure all of the little details are covered. Often, you are the reason that things stay together instead of splintering apart: the glue.

But if you really want to be able to call the shots and be the expert in an area, to lead the team and to be ultimately responsible for "X" - you need to be focused on it. You need to have the most clear understanding of the problems you're dealing with and the person who spends the most time working on and thinking about it. Your value comes from having a sharp and accurate point of view - the nail.

To those who say that you can be expert in both, the answer is that you're fooling yourself. The world that we live in is such that it's impossible to truly be an "expert" in anything. The best we can be is to be constantly learning through practice, education and discussion.

It's impossible to constantly be on top of code and expert in design at the same time because there's so much to learn about each area that splitting your time leaves you behind the truly focused individuals.
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i never heard it before, looks amazing!

my version is pretty simple and ugly compared with sworly, i've done this in a couple of hours last night ;)

but it's not only itunes, the same script runs other sites like:
http://migueldev.com/pin/slideshare.php
http://migueldev.com/pin/toprural.php
http://migueldev.com/pin/11870.php

all the source code is available on github:
https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin

thanks for comment!
If you read the article you would know the answer is "Ike", the nickname of former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
This happens to me fairly often. Though I seem to get this warning more:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/374152_...
Isolated incident for whom? This happens to me once a day for the last couple of weeks. I get this a couple of times a day:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/374152_...
I'm one of those. I keep a list of good intro material I can send to friends, nephews, etc, who want to learn programming. HN and reddit are two good sources of those kinds of posts.
> However the solution really is trivial.

I find this statement rather presumptuous. I take it as axiomatic that any problem which Tim Gowers and Terry Tao are in the process of trying to solve, and have not yet solved, is not trivial.

Agreement with Gowers' position is widespread but not universal. For example, of the last nine Fields medalists, four are signatories to the boycott. If the other five are still publishing in Elsevier journals, then libraries are still going to subscribe to them.

I am personally a signatory and a strong supporter of the boycott, and I know many others who are the same. However, I know others who disagree. They argue that having our work published by commercial publishers such as Elsevier lends dignity to the process, and that having to spend a lot of money makes us look important in the eyes of university administration.

A further, very substantial obstacle is that junior scholars have to publish in the best journals they can to enhance their reputation, and thanks to buyouts of Academic Press and others, Elsevier now owns many of the titles that publish good-but-not-great papers.

"Our discipline" does not make decisions. That is up to individual researchers, and for the time being, many of them continue to choose to publish excellent papers in Elsevier journals.
Woning: zonwering voor goedkope energie
Mashable = shills

http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/02/mashable-shills-hard-...
According to the History Channel, aliens brought it here.
First Impressions of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” #Blog2012
Water does not stay liquid in a vacuum. It is either solid or gaseous, depending on the ambient conditions. It is not well established where the primordial Earth gained its water. The matter in the protoplanetary disc from which the Earth coalesced probably didn't contain much water or other volatiles because of the proximity to the Sun. Instead, it is thought that water arrived afterwards, via numerous collisions - then commonplace - with icy comets that originated beyond the frost line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line_%28astrophysics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth
i have been covered by techcrunch, mashable, boingboing, lifehacker, ... a few times, here is what i did:

made a page/webapp that

a) offers an iteration on an existing popular product
b) pitched every good damn techblog out there

a) is basically a story in itself

and

b) it's all about distribution

most of the time i got covered by the big guns, after some other tech blog picked me up. (http://www.makeuseof.com/ and http://www.freewaregenius.com/ are good starting points)

so basically: do not pitch a product or your startup, pitch a story, distribute widely.

said that: every time i pitched a company i was consulting, the success was not as easily as with my private (weekend project) approaches, most products/companies aren't a good story.
Another interesting perspective: Earth's atmosphere is about five miles thick. Yes, it trails off exponentially and airplanes can fly and people can breathe (sort of) at 30,000 feet. However, were it uniformly as dense as it is at sea level (i.e. the atmosphere most of us are familiar with), it would fit in about five miles.
I was born in Hong Kong and copied Chinese characters until I was in grade 4 when I moved to Australia. My parents recognised the importance of practice in learning Chinese so had me join a weekly 3 hour class to learn Chinese characters until the second year of university.

I am now 22 and I can understand 95% of the individual words in a Chinese newspaper. I don't claim to be able to read the newspaper, however, because the 5% of the words I can't read are the ones that actually matter. Also, for the phrase "學而時習之 不亦說乎", I know what each individual word means but when it is put together like that, it makes no sense to me. (I know ancient phrases are hard to understand in any language, but it's easier for me to point to this phrase in the parent post than searching for a random chinese multiple word-term that I actually don't know on the internet.) I'll have to sit here for 5 minutes to figure it out. My reading speed is also horribly slow. Imagine if you can only read English words at one word per second. Yes, like that.

Here I am, a Chinese born in China (technically an English colony at the time...), more fluent at my second language English than my native tongue. Sad as it may be, when I speak English I have a slight Chinese accent and when I speak Chinese I have a slight English accent so I don't sound native in either.

I hope that can attest to you how much practice learning Chinese takes.
Certainly, and that is a very important side of the argument. My point was that people with advanced degrees who have ascended to great success are probably the people least qualified to tell others that the expensive degrees they obtained were not worth it. Peter Thiel is a very smart man but he is not capable of assessing whether or not he would have been so successful without two degrees from Stanford.

Let's be honest though, for most high-school graduates the choice isn't between attending Stanford and going for a startup. It's between taking on debt to go to college or taking a menial job (if they can find it).
Why Instagram Is Terrible for Photographers, and Why You Should Use It
I read /r/programming regularly. Hadn't thought of looking for /r/bioinformatics!

Btw, EyeQuant looks nice, but the activation email went to Spam (Y! Mail for small businesses), and the password in there isn't working :(
Show HN: World map visualizing energy data. (Coffeescript, Ruby, Raphael.js)
I don't know what republicans and the tea party have to do with this. I'm making a simple economic argument.

Based on your reasoning, attending college has social costs and no social benefits. I.e., if you go to college and I don't, you get the job and I don't. If neither of us went to college, one of us would still get the job.

So your college attendance merely redistributes jobs from others to you, and destroys the wealth it took to educate you. This is a classic example of a market failure and a classic use case for pigouvian taxes.

While helping a few kids go to college would benefit them, the benefit would only come at the expense of others (the guy you won't hire because he lacks a pointless degree). So why do you want to do this?
I'm very curious to know as well. However, in the illustration, a whole lot of that water would be in low earth orbit, so the thought experiment gets complicated ;)

At first I thought perhaps you could use tsunami wave speed data for a very rough estimate. But that's wrong, because tsunami speed (roughly between 500 and 900 km/hr depending on ocean depth) is a measure of the wave energy propagating through the ocean, not a measure of the water's speed over ground.

Instead, perhaps one could start by using a model for the flow of water from a catastrophic dam breach. Hopefully someone more mathematically inclined than I will give it a go...
I think this explanation fail to explain why hats disappeared in Russia, where cars were not ubiquitous until the fall of USSR.
Zurker invitations
Like Hell It's a Bubble
Are you referring to the text links? Thanks for the feedback. I thought it would make it a little more interesting having a visual for the referrers / countries.
Swindler Game
My bad regarding the password. Had copied surrounding whitespace.
Is this something you need to have in some of your Rails project? Maybe you'll need a blog + a e-commerce framework like Spree? If yes, what are the features you are looking at?
Doesn't the C compiler do all sorts of optimization magic that makes the output of the compiler sometimes hard to predict? C is also not the only language that succeeded; C++ and Java are doing pretty well, and I've used them quite alot without delving into the sausage factory of GCC/javac. Scala is doing pretty well too, with it's 20 stage compilation process!

I disagree that anything trying to abstract away network communications will fail; I doubt that every engineer at google is a full-stack expert who single-handedly sets up a massive-scale service every day by hand. More likely, they have developed a set of somewhat-reusable abstractions that they can build upon for a variety of services. Hadoop is another example where the whole network thing is abstracted away. Amazon S3/Cloudfront is yet another. Difficult, but not impossible.

Perhaps Opa is trying to be the minimal portable abstraction over a full-stack service. I know GWT tried to be the same thing and failed, but one failure doesn't mean you give up, and I'm glad they're still trying.
Sprint CEO takes pay cut as investors voice concern about cost of iPhone deal
Dear NPR,

You do realise that there's a world outside the United States, right? And that in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, all the other culturally similar countries, they also stopped wearing hats sometime in the 1950s and 60s? That public transport remains the main way for (say) Londoners to get to work, and yet that the hat slowly vanished from the heads of Londoners over roughly the same period that it vanished from the heads of Los Angelinos?
Commercial vehicle conversion kit makes aftermarket hybrids
Here is my experience with domains and I always goes for $15 domains - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933250
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employment@ensighten.com
http://ensighten.com/company/careers
I accidentally downvote on Reddit all the time on my iPhone, but they let you switch.
If you click on 'reply' below the comment you're responding to, it will nest and your comment will show up in nikcub's threads (so it will be easier to notice for them).
i really like your project, good work! pintunes is a very simple idea that i did in a couple of hours, thanks to insomnia :)

I've been lucky with the headline, i think that this is my second post in hackernews and the first one was deleted for choosing a bad title.

good luck for the next time!
thanks for comment
It's funny to see this perspective; lately Robert X. Cringely devoted several posts on his site[1] to just how messed-up IBM seems to be.

[1] http://www.cringely.com/
The unlimited data plan has a lower monthly data limit than the tiered plan with the same cost.
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2 of my co-founders interns have gone on to be accepted to YC, so if you are planning on applying soon this is a great opportunity to get a leg up. We will also drag you along to relevant office hours with yc partners.

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Google+ needs to do this. I follow Linus Torvals and some other big names in tech, and there are dozens of worthless comments on every single one of his posts.

"+1"

"Wow,,,,,,,,,,,﻿"

"。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。﻿"

Incredibly low signal-to-noise, which makes me not even want to look at the comments.
Oh. I just meant its audience is really broad, like I mentioned in my other reply to you (not saying that's a bad thing!). It's like the NYT of startups. Practically everyone who wants to consider themself clued in reads it (or in the case of NYT, pretends to ;)). Naturally it's competitive to find a spot in it.
Ezzeddine Rouissi appears in a deplorable condition in hospital Soussi Rabat / A
California requires at least four years of full time practice at internships certified and supervised by certified lawyers before allowing one to sit for the bar exam. It's hardly a lesser burden than attending law school.

There is no state where the general public can sit for the bar.