skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what you need to do:

1. Learn HTML/HTML5 - I can't really recommend anything here. I just sort of picked it up.

2. Learn Ruby on Rails - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/. You can probably pick up a lot of HTML and CSS from this tutorial. I spent about 50 hours working through this. You're probably looking at 80 hours or so.

3. Learn JS - http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript

Once you've put about 200 hours into the the above, I'd say you're probably capable of building a working website. It won't be pretty, but it will work.

Refractor and fix from there.
Predictable does not imply partisan (though partisan likely does imply predictable).

By way of example, I predict that all of us will say that rape is wrong. Which ideology is that "slavish adherence" to?
Its going for last 3 years. Meaning it started in 2009 when we were in deep recession. Money has been floating around valley forever. When general public (via IPOs) buy into frenzy then we can call it a bubble. How this program is different from Andreesen Horowitz seed investments?
You would really rather lock yourself in the Amazon world for $2 ?
>The party won't last forever.

On the contrary, the party will get even bigger, It's a business model
for creators that demonstrably works, and I think crowd-funding in
general will only get more widespread in the future.

That isn't to say that the content industries won't try to attack it
on grounds of the very fear-mongering arguments you just presented, but as with their
fight against piracy, it's ultimately futile, and they will eventually
adapt - or die.
Jurors work on some issues - whether A killed B - but applying a non-technical jury to something as far from common daily experience of most people is, to say the least, dangerous.
IOS success is a lottery + Apple and Samsung are the 99%
LINQ. Someone please bring stuff like LINQ to other languages!

Edit: it appears that the MS Reactive Extensions are LINQ-y. Not sure if ReactiveCocoa is the same.
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Sheesh. The iPhone pretty much single-handedly catapulted AT&T from an also-ran cell carrier to the top. I'm sure "unlimited" was a bit of a headache for them, but surely it was well worth it in the end.
as usual its ok to downvote, just state why you downvoting. Plenty people, including myself, are upvoting when someone says something simple and interesting, something I didnt know before.
It would be nice if they tailored the searches a bit more to geo-location. I search for things and end up getting craigslist results for SF even though I'm in Canada.
You can call me sexist, and I probably deserve it.

But I read the whole post and my interest just grew from line to line. Until I got to the end and saw that the poster was not only a girl, but a hot girl.
Than the whole picture changed in my mind and now I see this just as one girl being pissed off about people not giving her the attention she thinks she deserves.

Before I noticed it was a hot girl I had this image of a nerd web developer and I would totally agree with him. But now all I see is drama.

I feel bad for my pre-concept, but there's nothing I can do.
as the old saying goes--the best text editor is the one you have with you.
I highly recommend Go. It is the most fun I've had learning a new language since Java.

(I don't enjoy Java programming nearly as much these days as I think the language has mostly languished and I'm not too fond of the FactoryOfFactoryFactories culture that has grown around it).

Even if you don't end up using Go a lot, it will make you question a lot of the complexity that is taken for granted in other languages you use and probably also make your code better in other languages (not in the sense that you will do things exactly the way you do them in Go, that would be foolish to attempt, but in the way you may begin to approach things with a fresh set of eyes in terms of how much flexibility you can maintain while also starting from a small set of simple concepts).
According to Freakonomics, low crime rates are due to birth control and/or the ability of couples to decide when and where they want to have kids.

[edit: birth control and the Rowe vs. Wade abortion ruling]
That’s impressive, actually.

Whether or not you succeed in lotteries is out of your control. There is a certain probability your lottery ticket will win and there is nothing you can do to change that probability. Your success in winning the lottery is independent from you as a person.

That’s likely not the case with apps. I’m sure there are some factors that are out of your control (some would call it luck), but others are most certainly not. Put another way: Those 40 percent of apps that at least break even probably are more likely to have certain properties that make them successful and that the 60 percent lack.

The success of your apps is dependent on you as a developer. Certainly not completely, but much more than your success in winning the lottery.

Given that the barrier to entry in the App Store is incredibly low, given that making apps is so hip, I’m actually surprised by that 40–60 split. Those 40 percent (more realistically you want to aim a bit higher, breaking even isn’t exactly sexy) are a big juicy target, and unlike with lottery tickets you can actually aim for it.

(By the way, this headline is perfect for many absurd re-writes to illustrate my point: “Success in school is a lottery: 50 percent or more of students only get Cs or worse.)
A little humor and motivation
No big. Print is a tough way to communicate.

Fwiw: I think a better answer lies in providing more support for children and families. I typically focus more on providing parenting advice to people with really challenging children in hope of preventing the types of problems that lead to criminal charges rather than addressing what to do after everything has gone wrong. However I am currently homeless, which has me spending more time around very poor people, many of whom have done time. And this crowd references prison differently than the middle and upper middle class people I typically have been surrounded by.

Anyway, time to go eat. Have a great day.
> Much like music or book sales, there are a few huge winners, a bigger handful of minor successes, and a whole lot of failures."

Could read, "much like every industry in the history of mankind..."
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The problem isn't with the jury system, it's with the fact that juries aren't allowed more freedom to function as they should. The purpose of a jury is to act as a buffer between government and defendants. Before the government, or a plaintiff using government's power, can impose on a defendant imprisonment or a fine, a jury of his peers must agree to it. If a law or its application is unjust, a jury should prevent it's application. See the Fully Informed Jury Association: http://fija.org/
What zupreme was suggesting (and that I agree with) is that legislation will, eventually, change the process. Maybe a little, maybe a lot. But wait until someone raises a fake Kickstarter for the victims of sexual abuse, or some other political hot-topic. Maybe someone will get funded to do something wildly dangerous and will get killed. Legislation will be crafted, badly, and people will be limited by it.

Just like most other things, I suppose.
The State of the Web (Spring 2012)
It's not lazy and trite. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's either of those things. The reality is just that simple: Tablets vs PCs really illustrate core competencies in "Lean Back" (consumption) computing and "Lean Forward" (creation) computing, respectively.

The best analogy I've heard is vehicles. Trucks for heavy duty hauling, cars for ease and efficiency. Because of their form factors and feature differences, the utility of each vehicle is unique from the other.

It's almost obvious, if you think about it. Simple, really.
on sequoia funding : by sarah lacy !

http://nexthotstartup.com/2012/05/04/on-sequoia-funding-by-s...
Screw email and VOIP servers. In the movie Traitor, one person would compose an email and then save it to the draft folder. Then the other person would login to the same Webmail account and read the draft message. Since the message is never sent over the wire, there's no need for secure email (only SSL for the email client).
When you charge people $.10 for minimal amount of data transfer you should be losing sleep because of the inevitability of your products disruption. When it actually occurs, years after it should have, you will get no sympathy from me.
Thanks for the feedback. The timing wasn't good on this, and I didn't know until today that this DRM thing was happening. I hate DRM so much, though, that I really wanted to do something. I may have gotten a little carried away.

By the way, the reason for the big initial discounts was mainly that the product isn't finished yet. At launch, people who already bought the 1st edition screencasts only got two new ones for their trouble. The problem was especially severe for people who just bought the first edition, so I gave them a bigger discount. The discount for the final product will be much smaller.
Is the README not enough? What exactly are you confused about?

You may have better luck asking this kind of question on a Stack Exchange website, by the way. Hacker News is not really a site to ask for programming help.
You asked for an analysis of why semicolons are good, and you got it.
I'm not saying we should give government's back doors and censor the Internet...

But anyone who has been the target of a DDoS attack can tell you the Internet is very much broken.
I have gone through her site, and she is as competent as they come design wise. So her only crime is not looking like a stereotype you have in mind?

I feel bad for my pre-concept, but there's nothing I can

do.

You need help and there is something you can do, seek it.

It is obvious why you are anonymous.
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A CEO publicizing regret over a business decision? Hold on to your wallets, iPhone users.
How is it relevant to discussion here apart from some sort of joke about journo. May be I'm missing something.
What does this mean?

The first stable version was the JDK 1.0.2. is called Java 1
Why you should expose your Facebook profile for potential employers
"A" Webex, as in a service similar to what they do.
This is actually an example of content consumption from the iPad.

As a singer, you're creating music. But you're pulling information from the tablet - not creating content on it. This example actually supports the idea of tablets being optimized for consumption over creation. Content is going from the iPad to you, not vice-versa.
Ask HN: Coffee Shop / Third Places Reviews Site?
I'm a web designer/programmer who spends a lot of time at coffee shops, donut shops, hotel lobbies and other third places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

Do HN'ers know of a site that show reviews of third places for the freelancer, traveling or pre-ramen startup set? User-supplied reviews, no paid listing non-sense. Just good, local knowledge to find great places to hang out and code.

Important details would be:

* Power outlets / hook ups
* Seating (good for singles or the entire team?)
* WiFi (fast, consistent - or slow with lots of drops?)
* Coffee / Food
* People (friendly staff? are other patrons friendly and open-minded?)
What TechStars Really Means for Innovation: A Critical Look at Boston
On APIs and Copyright
What’s a QA team without a spec?
I know several expert witnesses who agree. They say the jury never understands their testimony, and they just side with whoever is more charismatic. Several experts have told me this in various forms.
Great, but which questions are they sure on? Title should have just been "Wait until Monday to find out Google v. Oracle verdict"
I don't think the world would burn if APIs were copyrighted.

There are 'fair use' provisions and most companies would grant carte blanche to people to provide new implementations. I am actually struggling to think of an example other than Java.
The iMessage thing is, IMO, the more interesting comment. Apple has effectively ripped a revenue stream away from the providers, and they can't do much about it apart from raise prices for other stuff.

They're not alone, of course- BBM does the same thing. But they're all disjointed networks, which plays into the provider's hands right now. People still need text plans to contact people on other devices. I wonder if we'll see an app like WhatsApp finally get big enough to challenge that.
Honestly, I'm already "locked" into the Amazon world by them having the best e-book reader that I've owned for years (though removing DRM from Kindle books is very easy).

I'm very unlikely to ever read this type of book again after I finish it, so needing it on a non-Kindle format if I were to ever switch to another e-reader is not that important. And unless there's a lucrative, legal resale market for e-books that I'm unaware of, there is really no point in even keeping the file around once I'm done reading the book.
Dutch we contacted in Dutch, others in English. Not tried to contact anyone in Asia yet, but I can recommend Brazil. Think that's also a good market.
http://search.priceonomics.com
I lol'ed
How about AT&T Customer regrets choosing AT&T iPhone model?

As an AT&T iPhone user (grandfathered with the unlimited data plan), I've had nothing but poor service in both Silicon Valley, CA & NYC.

AT&T's CEO regrets offering unlimited data because AT&T has to "invest capital"? As an iPhone user experiencing the lack of capital investment every day, I have no sympathy and only hatred for AT&T.
"If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding"

What kind of sick, twisted monster thinks "adding extra coding" is a GOOD THING???
Got a dozen solutions to inverse fizzbuzz so far, atleast two of which are O(n).
Got some disturbing emails - a recruiter plans to use inverse fizzbuzz at his next interview! Dear God what monster have I unleashed...programmer community, pls forgive me. And a CS prof is going to assign inverse fizzbuzz to his cs 101 students as extra-credit.
A classic sign of a bubble is when you start getting unsophisticated (non-professional) investors that only see money and start chasing the successes of others. Two huge examples from the past 15 years:

1. Tech bubble. Everyone and their brother became day-traders, chasing the hot stocks and trying to make their fortune. People were throwing their retirement savings, spare cash, anything they had into tech companies trying to make a quick buck.

2. Housing bubble. Everyone and their brother became flippers, chasing the hot properties and trying to make their fortune. People were throwing their retirement savings, spare cash, anything they had into properties trying to make a quick buck.

Copy/paste intentional.
"Let's reserve prison for people that absolutely cannot integrate with normal society."

To do that, we'd have to find an effective alternative to prison. Financial / professional penalties are clearly not enough - if the penalty for getting caught in a crime that makes you millions of dollars is just paying some penalties, why not take that gamble? From a purely rational standpoint, it would be the logical thing to do - if you win, you make millions, if you get caught you just cough up the money.
"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?"

It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so significantly based on a hack (SMS) that you stay awake at night worrying about it, and you didn't bother innovating by developing a real solution to the problem (pervasive real-time communication) in the past 20 years while the hack became popular, then you absolutely deserve to lose this profitable part of your business - especially when you're in the friggin telecommunications business!
Sure, I didn't say anything about that, but in this scenario it's implied that you're applying to this company, so presumably you know something about it and like it. You likely know a lot more about the company than it knows about you.

The Github filter is a bad one, though - lots of good programmers don't do the whole open source thing, and we need to stop this pretense of a good Github account being necessary for hiring. What started as a suggestion in some hiring blog posts has become overblown into dogma now.
Yes, arrays are special. Which makes some people furious.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JavaArraysShouldBeFirstClassObjects
Interesting. How many people have advertised jobs on the site? How many job seekers have used the site?
This seems like as good a place as any to add my own experience. I wrote an iOS card game:

http://platinumball.net/hearts/

It has made me about ten thousand bucks to date.

Certain things I did seem to have helped a lot. For example, I nearly killed myself to make sure my app would be ready on iPad launch day. Being one of only a few native iPad apps at the beginning really boosted my sales for awhile.

Probably the worst thing I did wrong: It's not pretty enough. If there are any designers reading that would like to collaborate on a prettier follow-up app, my contact info is in my profile.
"Recruiters, rockstars, and ninjas need not apply."

You're doing the Lord's work.
Wish there were a bit more instructions on how to get it running using lein2 / project.clj. Maybe that happens this weekend :-). I am a bit at a loss how to start the webserver used by c2 (and if its even included) from within emacs/slime/swank.
Free Software Song by Fenster (better than the interpretation of RMS)
"A classic sign of a bubble is when you start getting unsophisticated (non-professional) investors that only see money and start chasing the successes of others."

I agree with this, which is why I am confused as to why you see this program as evidence of a bubble, since it's pretty much the exact opposite of what you're describing.
Forgetting the fact that there is very little evidence* for a large scale bubble, I think most people want to believe in a bubble.

"How is it that SV can have so much money changing hands when the rest of the world is suffering. There must be something wrong!"

If the accusers spend a few minutes thinking about the facts, the probable conclusion is SV is an outlier of the economy. Not only is it relatively insulated in terms of geography, it also seems to attract a whole different breed of investors. Instead of trying to scrutinize why this is happening maybe we should try and study how we can replicate this sort of mini-economy else where.

* Seen the Zynga/Groupon stock? The market still appears to evaluate companies with a non-bubble mindset.
I've posted about my disdain of the practices by the RIAA before and this is only just a digital example of what they have been doing for years. I've spoke about this before on this site so I will not be detailed as I have been in the past.

In the past, record companies would send promotional materials to the DJ's. Their objective was for you to play the material on your radio show, at parties, and on your mixtape. They would explicitly say mixtape because for a long time that was how hip hop was promoted. They would do this through a third party who would cover a region of the country, meeting all of the DJ's.

Every few months, the RIAA would send government agents to arrest people who were selling these same mixtapes. So even though you were getting the wink and the nod to put the music on your mixtape, they would then turn around and use the fact that their music was on your mixtape to try & sue or arrest you.

I was never arrested or sued but I refuse to help promote people who would pull shady practices like this. A big reason why I'm a programmer and not a DJ now.

Its no surprise to see them up to their same antics. I just hate how entrenched they are in both parties of government.
I read last week that although most recent college grads are having problems finding work, there are exceptions. One of those are, sad to say, legal professionals seeking government work. The federal government is snatching up young lawyers and even paying off all their college bills in addition to their salary. In return we're creating an army of legal attack dogs in each agency looking for new ways to "fix" things for their paymasters.

Got a link for that? Given that there are about 600K less government jobs in the US currently than there were when this administration took office, I'd be surprised if there's been a great surge in legal hiring (although I'm willing to be convinced).
Clive Davis was a piece of shit. But he was a successful piece of shit, so nobody realizes that he's actually a piece of shit. Everyone thinks he's Brian Epstein, but he's really no better than Suge Knight, if you want to make analogies. He takes what he believes are "great images" and puts his own cookie-cutter formulaic music behind it. Fake, fake, fake.

Just like these "judges" of the startup industry. Fuck them.
I find it interesting that this was made in 2007, before Lehman and before the great recession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

Can there be a bubble bubble? Instead of irrational exuberance you have irrational cynicism?
I don't understand. Didn't his test program output say that the superclass of the array class was java.lang.Object? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. Doesn't that mean that arrays are in java.lang?
I can't even try the site web or see what it actually does without using my Twitter, Facebook, or Google account assuming I have one. To bad, it seemed like it might be something worthy.
It's also a good way to become the CEO of Yahoo!
Its called a "slice", not "substring" - but your solution is the simplest to understand and the shortest to code up in Scala (using slice on lit and List.tabulate). The multiplier is much smaller than 15. If input list is n, I think 30+15*ceil(n/15) will suffice, because that'll cover n on both sides. I'll hold off on posting my solution to give others a chance.
FYI, Sequoia investing is not at all an example of both the points you've mentioned.

Sequoia doesn't choose duds as their scouts. These are all experienced entrepreneurs who have "done things" (like YC choosing its alums as partners). And Sequoia is not investing in millions. They hare investing in thousands. Their returns on Instagram alone can take care of this program for years to come. They are helping budding, young first time entrepreneurs to get started. They are creating network of budding entrepreneurs and budding angels. Many companies may fail but you have hardened entrepreneur out of this program.
Training wheels is actually a good metaphor, since whether or not one should use training wheels for learning to ride a bike is also fairly hotly debated.