skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a university professor, I would look up the names of professors teaching compilers or related classes at various American universities, and send them an e-mail with a link to your site. Offer them a freebie if they are interested in using it in a class or sharing it with their students.

This will annoy some of them, but if so, they will have forgotten about it fifteen seconds later, so I don't think it matters a lot.

You might offer free copies to any class (i.e., the students too) that uses it until it becomes more established.

Keep in mind that a lot of university professors are fed up with the traditional publishing model (see http://www.thecostofknowledge.com) and will be naturally sympathetic to you.

Keep the e-mail brief. No HTML. A lot of these people use Pine :)

Good luck!
See that link hanbam put up? This has been known for months already with no patch. Hopefully this pushes them to make an actual fix.
fyi, you can ask here too - http://askolo.com/pg
Sure, but if you want a Preferred Way, like the OC seems to, Yesod's your huckleberry. Right? Or is that not so?
extremely misleading title. Airbnb is not Facebook. You register, look for a place, maybe book one or two a year. Then you go back to Facebook
MPAA / RIAA are weighing the cost of prosecution vs. the potential for any return / reward. If they were to prosecute and even successfully win, what would they get out of it? Certainly no financial reward as there's none there. A Publicity success? I doubt it. A ruling that serves as a deterrent? I think not.

They have bigger fish to fry - legitimate pirate networks that are making millions. This is simply not worth their time, and they don't have much to lose by "letting him get away with it" as there's no active defense required to maintain copyright, and no legal precedence they are setting that lessens their ability to prosecute in other cases.
well, Google Maps says this guy is not happy with you http://maps.google.com/maps?q=123+Fake+Street,+Chuxiong,+Yun...
Part of the problem is you're trying to understand a classification that's fairly broad (learn to code) in terms of your narrow definition vs. their narrow definition. It's too broad of a term, so it's better to just say "learn to code" means the whole spectrum, then get specific about what they actually can do.

For example, these people are learning to code, but they're beginners so they won't be very capable. They'll struggle with most concepts, have to be reminded about syntax, and kind of think the computer is "magic". If they get through a few basic books then, yes, they "learned to code". If that's all they wanted to do, then they've done it and now they have a better understanding of computation and the things they work with all day.

After that, maybe some of them move on to build things, figure out the computer is not magic, learn a few more languages, pick up techniques, and generally continue the path of "learning to code". At that point you have a wider range of phases they'd go through on the way, but they are still doing what the phrase says. Maybe none of them will ever reach a professional level, some may master it and never do it as a day job.
zsh is relatively large compared to bash. and bash is large compared to sh, rc, tcsh, etc. if there are space and memory constraints, size is relevant.

the path to "user-friendly" shell nirvana (i.e. interactive use, not scripts) can be achieved through use of a library like editline, without installing a huge, "kitchen sink" package like zsh... if size is an issue. make the shell cmd line behave like the editor you know well.
New Facebook tool fills queries in under a second—even with terabytes of data
They don't need to be discussed and argued about. If the irrelevant flamewars are to be the standard by which a language is judged, then the only language that will ever pass muster is the one that is never released.
A lot of tradesmen use this method:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVxNZlNgDU&feature=relat...

for thicker cables that will be stored or tossed around between uses. An industry sound guy taught that me that one, and it has been effective.
Wow, I am 100% in agreement. I'm an American living in Mexico and find it much harder to be in confrontational situations in Spanish.

My Spanish is good, but I've had almost the exact same "workman" situation happen to me. I'm positive that a native speaker would have picked up on the subtleties of the conversation and not made the same mistake, but pressure like that does not lend itself well to thinking things through carefully while trying to navigate the landscape of a non-native language.

On top of that, I'm highly sensitive to the "Americans are loud and uncultured idiots" image that seems to persist in lots of places, so I tend to err on the side of being polite to counteract that, even to my occasional disadvantage.
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I suspect (but have no real insight) that this is similar to the wisdom we gain from Rubber Duckie coding[1]. For those unaware, the process is simply to explain what you're coding to a rubber duck.

The duck, being an inanimate object, obviously has to be talked to like a moron, so you end up explaining it "like it's five".

What I've often found happens though, is that in the process of explaining it, or just in organizing the logic in my head enough that it can be explained -- is that you find logic flaws in the application you may not have been aware of.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I plucked the relevant points of discussion that reveal the thought process.

Q: "I've heard for years that pagination should remain outside rails since it has to be lightweight, and now that !?"

homakov: good example, but "pagination" is a design-related thing(like decal on a car) but "queue" or delayed jobs(jquery-deferred for example) is deep engine built in feature. As cars vendor You shouldn't choose decals for driver but you should install the best and reliable stuff under its hood IMO

...

Q: What's the point?

josevalim: The point of the Queue is to be small and provide an API that more robust engines like resque and sidekiq can hook in. So you can easily start with an in memory queue (as you can see, the implementation does not even reach 100LOC) which is also easy to test and then easily swap to another one. Why this is good? By having an unified API, tools like Devise, Action Mailer can simply use Rails.queue.push() instead of worrying with compatibility for different plugins. So the goal here is provide an API for queueing and with a simple in memory implementation. It is not meant to be a robust queue system.

...

Q: Why not make it into a gem?

josevalim: The implementation today is less than 100LOC, so there is no reason to move it to an external gem. If the implementation actually grows a lot, which I highly doubt, we can surely consider moving it to a gem.

...

Q: Why include it in Rails at all?

DHH: This is really very simple: Do most full-size Rails applications, think Basecamp or Github, need to use a queue? If the answer is yes, and of course it is, this belongs in Rails proper.

...

Q: Then, and I'm not just trolling, should Rails provide an API for user authentication or authorization?

DHH: authentication, pagination, etc are all application-level concerns -- not infrastructure. Think Person model vs ActiveRecord model. Another way to think of it is, would two applications have materially different opinions on queue.push depending on what they're doing? The answer is no. That is not the case for authentication, pagination, and other application-level concerns where the usage is often very different depending on what the application is trying to do.

...

Q: Is Rails getting too big?

DHH: The size of Rails itself is not a first-order metric of neither progress nor decline. The right question is: Does Rails solve more common problems than before without making the earlier solutions convoluted? In other words, what are the externalities of progress? Will introducing a queue API make it harder to render templates? Or route requests? No. It's most direct influence will be on things like ActionMailer, so a fair question will be: Is it harder or easier to use ActionMailer in a best-practice way after we get this? That's a fair question, but I'm absolutely confident that this will make using idiomatic AM usage (queuing mail delivery outside of the request cycle) much easier. Thus, progress.
Sony Pictures, not Sony. While it indeed is part of the Japanese conglomerate, it was founded in 1987 as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc., and renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1991. So, it basically is a wholly owned US subsidiary.
A lot of people seem to be offended by this, or think it's a waste of time. I think you need to realize there's a difference between learning to code and being a professional programmer.

I see "programming" as a skill like "writing" or "basic math" that everyone should know something about. We all know how to write and do some math but we don't call ourselves "writers" or "mathematicians".

But you'd never claim it's worthless to learn how to write or do arithmetic. Why not programming?
I Hate Google's Self Driving Cars
Anyone who reads HN knows that 42Floors (I cannot read that name without feeling slightly annoyed at what seems like a 37Signals rip) have been playing the attention card lately -- popular blog post after blog post on contentious, contemporary, pop-topics -- and this is just the latest.

Anyone who misinterprets and describes this as a realistic recruitment strategy is a little naive. It's attention seeking, with the target being secondary.
this is not an "exploit". as the man says, your IP is being sent out to the network. others on the network are using your machine's resources. that's how skype works. he's just showing you this fact.
If you do decide to go the Ruby on Rails route, you might want to check out the ar_mailer gem as I believe it does _exactly_ what you're requesting.

https://github.com/adzap/ar_mailer
That depends on one's definition of Preferred. And there is most definitely not a single one, even within the Haskell community.
Just a quick datapoint. I've used 3dsmax casually (free, academic version), and I managed to produce some images of which I was quite proud. They weren't magnificently detailed scenes, but they were photorealistic representations of the objects I was modeling. So no, it definitely doesn't take 10 years to get to the point where you can make something meaningful in 3dsmax.

It does, however, take grit, because there's a ton of documentation to read, particularly concerning rendering settings.
Exactly. Everyone has worked themselves up into hysterics over the individual words that he used, while failing to recognize what he was saying.
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Which Apple _won't_ use any code from. They're certainly capable of doing so, both legally and physically. They choose not to.
Also, it's important to note that most startups that fail to make money, also fail to change the world. So if statistics are the reason why you shouldn't start a company for money. That's the same reason why you shouldn't start a company to change the world.

The argument Phil Libin is making very silly and very typical kind of advice from people who are not really trying to help you at all.
Yes, they can. Please don't change the title of submissions. The original article title: Apple Wants to Patent Its MacBook Air Design
Yahoo: Facebook Bought Patents Just To Countersue, Should Be Disregarded
I'm not sure why everyone is sounding so surprised that Samsung would outsell the iPhone. Samsung has always sold more phones than Apple, and now they are replacing most of their non-Android phones with Android smartphones. Since they sell almost 100 million of them each quarter, you can imagine that by replacing them (half way there) they would outsell Apple.
Block Pinterest Users From Pinning Your Images
I'm not sure how far "Vorsprung durch Technik"[1] would go as a competitive advantage with regards to your particular choosen hosting provider -- it will always just be hosting to your end users -- but I like the sentiment :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsprung_durch_Technik
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Local dev has a great opportunity on Android, but Android tablets are still the minority. (I own one myself, but know only a handful of other people who do, too.) I think iPad has to be considered a target if mobile programming will ever become mainstream. Until Apple and developers can make nice and find a nice tradeoff between control-of-the-experience and hacker-friendliness, I think this will be a long face-off.
I never knew this, this is absolutely going to be a timesaver!
How can 100,000 pages of anything computer generated be "high quality information"? What are you generating?

I admit I am skeptical, but I am also genuinely curious. :-)
This article sounds eerily like one I read last night about a study centered around religious belief and critical thinking [1]. It sounds like deliberate use of heavily analytical thinking displaces the "gut check" in the decisions we make.

[1] http://news.discovery.com/human/religious-belief-critical-th...
Heh. I recently had a password reset function break. Problem not reproducible on the test system. Turns out the reset email is produced by a Freemarker template engine, which is "smart" about datatypes: "oh, a number! I need to Format that nicely with commas to separate the thousands!" Too bad that number was the user ID - Not a problem on the test system with its 300 users, but in production...
Magnetic fields light up 'GPS neurons', scientists say
Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pigeons' brains that respond to the direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field.
I heard that it would be when it is ready :-P
Have you taken an IQ test? I have. It didn't strike me as a way of finding out much about a person, except perhaps whether they are able to do difficult arithmetic quickly. Also, people with lots of raw intelligence often find ways to misapply that intelligence in awesomely terrible ways. Smart in the little way, dumb in the big way.
HP ‘Slate 8′ tablet with Windows 8 leaks to the web
I recently moved from tcsh to zsh, and this is one thing that seems to be a bit weird in zsh. For example, given

git clone
git rebase master
git log

in my history, if I typed

git r<UP>

I get 'git log', not 'git rebase master' as I'd expect.
XML is self-describing, it just so happens that XML's data model is not identical (and actually not even close) to SOAP's data model, or the typical programming language's data model.

XML itself only describes a text encoding, XML infoset describes node labeled trees, possibly graphs through xml:id and idref.

Unlike JSON it doesn't have a concept of null, it only has absence of a node. The authors of SOAP just invented a truly terrible way of mapping XML into a programming language's constructs (which are typically edge labeled trees with typed nodes).

XML is actually a decent data format for markup. Using it for other purposes (RPC format, configuration files, ...) usually doesn't end well.
I would LOVE to watch the self-driving Indy 500.

That aside, his argument is pure speculation. He's afraid of something that might happen in 30 years[1], but probably won't.

[1]I figure even if self-driving cars were released tomorrow, it would still take decades to become popular enough for such a mandate.
I know that the world is essentially flat and that we shouldn't be so jingoistic anymore, but does it trouble anyone besides me that CERN is under the Swiss Alps near Geneva instead of under the scorching sun in the New Mexico desert? Shouldn't the "greatest Superpower in World History" be the one crashing atoms together like NASCAR autos and seeing all the mess that comes out of it? Now that I think about it, maybe if we market it that way...

I fear that the only advocate we have left for a strong scientific America is Neil deGrasse Tyson.
If instead of "do it to change the world", he had said "do it to build something cool". Then would you have agreed?

I personally still wouldn't. But it seems there are a lot of people cherry-picking with this "world" hyperbole and ignoring his actual point.
Well my last name have a ñ . So for example my credit card have a weird character like "&" . Others just change to n. My last name crash a educational site when I registered
Does anyone have any ideas about what new uses might be found for these precious metals should they ever become as cheap as any other metals?

Gold wiring would be superior to copper, what else?
this is excellent - needs to be an iPad app.
Bionic eyes to be tested on humans next year
I don't think this advice applies to every type of business. Particularly service-oriented startups that are able to land paying clients right from the beginning.

I will agree though that working at a company that isn't financially stable is not a good place for someone who needs financial stability. Imagine your boss telling you that your next paycheck will only be half - or they can't pay it at all, but you'll get paid back later. Imagine that happening occasionally throughout the year. Add to that a constant, looming feeling that your company could go out of business any day even though you love working there. If those kinds of things upset or stress you out then a startup probably isn't a good place to work.
My Project: Qotr, a quote board for your friends
> A small meteor does not do real harm, and there are tons of them burning up in the atmosphere all the time.

I won't say it can't be done, but there are significant challenges here that you may be underestimating. Not the least of which is the fact that there is no "suck" orbit.

You need quite a bit of energy to make the proper orbital adjustments to aim the rock at a precise spot on earth (rather than some random ocean, somewhere inaccessible, a major city...) and lumps of asteroid aren't exactly known for being aerodynamic, making reentry calculations pretty unreasonable.
Your assuming that as soon as they start producing platinum domestic production stops which seems unlikely unless they drive the price well below 1% it's current value. Still, suppose they have a 20% profit margin on 6 billion / year of raw materials 20 years from now. It would take a huge investment to reach that kind of scale AND huge risks AND a poor ROI. It might be possible, but it's a huge long shot and basic skepticism is reasonable.
Based on that picture, I pity the employees.
Cookies error

MacOSX Lion, Safari [SP], Skype is installed and on, don't know what else I can tell you...
IMHO I really do not know how this nerve-racking sound can be endured while programming. Besides it basically is just this classic on steroids:

http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.sw...
> Who says they're awful? You just don't like them.

Well yes, but he is the guy who wrote Gmail, and that does add a little bit of strength to his argument.
I'm not sure I completely understand. Are you recommending people shop around? Do you want someone to develop a service to shop around for storage? Or, do you simply want a cheaper competitor?
Interestingly, rejecting candidates because they score too well on IQ tests seems to be totally kosher in the US.

Who would do such a thing? Cops.
Like superted mentioned - Spotify is one example. There's plenty more. A friend of mine is building LikeBright.com - it's a unique concept for a dating app that exists as a layer on top of the Facebook.

FB auth is obviously a huge part of Facebook's extension beyond their walled garden, but there's plenty more examples. The fan-page widgets for social proof, Facebook Comments for publishers, and like-buttons are all areas of integration that solidify Facebook's lead.

It's not just a site, and it's growing into being more than just a platform. Already, Facebook's certainly beyond anything any historical precedents have set before.
As someone who has been living on and off outside the US since 2005, I've gone through similar experiences.

Initially, I just believed it to be about your humor, in that you can't be yourself if you have lost your sense of humor. This is an easy and guaranteed thing to have happen when you are primarily using a foreign language. But it doesn't stop at something as light as humor.

I've had a lot of people take advantage of me, business-wise, while overseas, yet I never allowed this back home. It reached the point where I just decided not to work under foreigners anymore because work ethics aren't clear cut and 'misunderstandings' abound. It doesn't help that I live in a culture where it's seen as a positive to be one step ahead of the other person (even if they are working for/with you).
What else are we suppose to do?
My license plate when I live in Texas was "NULL". I never got a ticket when running the toll booth and the camera OCR'd my license plate.
Thanks. Those specific complaints from the link seemed more like quality of implementation issues of typical ECMAScript editors vs Adobe's ActionScript IDE. I can live without type inference in a dynamic language, but Visual Studio and Qt Creator have spoiled me on the other features.
Many of us are familiar with http://bash.org, or have our own Google doc full of funny things people have said in IRC, Campfire, et. al; my friend and I put together a free service where you can create your own quote board.

Boards are public by default; you can set up a whitelist to keep things private, and set mods and admins who can administer quotes and board settings. You can also set up sub-boards, such as "x.qotr.net" and "z.y.x.qotr.net"; permissions and quotes are inherited.

It has an API built in as well; you can make requests with a token you are assigned on your account page after sign up. It's a RESTful interface, so you can get/post/put/delete quotes to boards.

It uses PHP and MongoDB, hosted on EC2. We built this mostly in a weekend, and open-sourced a PHP framework that came out of it at http://github.com/Olivine-Labs/Mint (although we need to, um, build documentation and examples.) We're working on rebuilding and vastly simplifying Mint as well, over the coming months.
You're probably right.

But I still hate them!
Its for images, doesn't sound like this applies to the 'general purpose' storage limit. Title could be a bit more clear.
Among CS-led technical departments, this does tend to hold in my experience. Like seeks like, and as much lip service is paid to meritocracy the language and motivations of the industry are largely driven by those who have paid their dues to the ivory tower.
I will be surprised if Apple does not eventually allow programmers to program directly on iOS. I think they restrict it for now because of the limitations of the device.

If they don't go that way, then I'm willing to bet on Android or any other more hacker-friendly platform to give them a run for their money.
>I'm impressed you only had to go back 13 months to find a bad quote? If it's all horseshit use the latest column as evidence.

Very well.

How about if Mueller references his own 13 month old horseshit this very day? http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/former-sun-chief-about-go... as though it is still a valid theory?

Does it count as an up to date impeachment of your favorite bullshit peddler? Especially because he knows nothing came of his the-sky-is-falling claims regarding the Linux, GPL and Android? And that Linus himself said the claims were crap?

His current article also references another year old prediction he made which turned out to come to nothing as well

http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/03/more-evidence-of-googles-...

It's almost like he spews forth shitty predictions with a specific agenda in mind and doesn't care when his bullshit doesn't pan out because he makes good money by running his mouth.

Then there's this snipe at Jonathan Schwartz: "In yesterday's testimony, Jonathan Schwartz tried to do as much damage to Oracle's case as he could."

that or Schwartz told the truth which just happens to not be in Mueller's employer's favor.