skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wholesale beads
Online bead store that sells pre-made bead jewelry and a wide assortment of quality beads to make your own jewelry.
Wallstreet capitalists & CCP members' pockets filled, Americans & chinese ppl's emptied
My first business was designed with two purposes: to earn a profit, and to support artisans in developing countries. Was it a business or a charity? Well, its legal structure was 'business' but its purpose was not only to earn a profit for me. I would consider it a failure if it had only helped myself, because that was not why I started it.

So I don't care whether you call it a charity or business. What is important is clearly understanding your purposes and means and making damn sure you communicate them well to the people who matter for your success.

The important realization I had was that it doesn't matter what traditional expectations are. As long as I stayed within the law, my limits were simply defined by the agreements I could make -- with artisans, with customers, and with all the other players in-between.

Later on I went to university, and that was the first place I was confronted with this inane idea that it was a structural necessity for a business to be driven solely by profit, etc. etc. -- as if this was an immutable law which transcends human nature and society.

I didn't get into business only to live up to expectations that society has created, as though I was a gas waiting to expand to fill whatever chamber I was put into. I got into business as a way to express myself through thought and action in whatever ways might lead to the most impact.
The problem with graduates in the Western world is: there are too many of us already. Even in the "hard" disciplines of science and engineering, there are too few jobs. How many physics graduates go on to become full-time physicists? How many of all graduates go onto jobs where they need what they learnt in undergrad? Not many.

Meanwhile, try finding a plumber or an electrician... Our physical infrastructure is quite literally crumbling around us while our heads are in the clouds.
C++ certainly was popular, in fact the most popular by every measurement I saw back in the day. And he's talking about how it got there when it did, not today. I don't necessarily agree, but what he was saying should have been pretty obvious. :)
It looks like it sorts by points?

Is that the best way to determine top stories, or would something like a time-at-position score be better?

(Thanks - I kept meaning to do this myself. Would you do proggit & friends too, please?)
There are those of us who remember the Internet before Google...
yep it's sorted by points. reddit already has this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/?t=week
not sure about the other sites, I'm just usually on hn, reddit and stuff on my google reader
just an update: I created something that does this: http://hnweekly.watdahel.com
Yep, Micheal Moore can save the planet single-handed!
Beware of the causal claims. Sure, kids and adults rely, to differing extents, on different regions. That's true of almost every domain. Real world pressures - active and passive learning - are influencing the activity and connectivity patterns throughout life. For instance, older individuals compensate for decreased brain functioning by shifting activation to other, supporting regions. Folks are reluctant to call that "reorganization". It's a change in activation (as this study shows) without a clear change in structure (which this study doesn't appear to show).

Here's a good review of recent number work:
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/pdfs/feigenson2004.pdf

Another involving specifically the parietal cortex:
http://www.unicog.org/publications/HubbardPiazzaPinelDehaene...

Andreas Nieder and Earl Miller have also shown some really cool effects for how number relies on specific response properties of individual neurons in non-human primates:

http://web.mit.edu/ekmiller/Public/www/miller/Publications/N...

http://web.mit.edu/ekmiller/Public/www/miller/Publications/N...
I'd argue that we're (almost) already there. Right now in the UK it would be cheaper to scrap our entire welfare system and just give every man, woman and child in the country GBP 3000/year, no questions asked, no strings attached. A family of 4 could live on GBP 12k (tax-free) outside of London - and anything earned over and above that would be subject to taxation as normal.
Yeah, when I first started looking at zed's website (around the time mongrel became popular), I really enjoyed his essays.. At that time, even his rants were interesting (http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/programmer_stats.html).

So thanks Zed for going back to writing thoughtful essays :-)
Now a museum for Yoga, in Mumbai
wow what what a pathetic waste of time!
Except that there are no interesting links on digg any more. It is close to 100% blog spam. Sites like this have to stay small to be useful - it's sad but the same thing will happen to HN if it gets too many readers. Luckily these type of sites are easy to set up so if HN ever goes bad an alternative will appear :)

Personally I am completely baffled by people who think it's an achievement to increase their rank/karma etc.
Google is a tool, to be used like any other tool.

I'm very good at solving most problems that come up in whatever I'm working on, but Google can also be a massive "accelerator".

Often times I've thrown at error message at Google just to get an idea about where the general problem may lie (is it me, is it the system, is it even fixable?), etc.

Before Google you'd have to weed through manuals (if you owned all the right ones) or ask a question on something like FidoNET. Getting answers took much longer, sometimes that allowed you to solve the problem on your own by giving you lots of time to think about it. Other times it just delayed your progress.
I think you could get them for less than that by 1994, like $5,000. But then Jim Clark gave up trying to turn SGI into a mass-market company and went to go start some software company.
Do you have any numbers or stats on this? I haven't heard that theory before.

I just watched a video interview with Bill Gates yesterday and he said that we're now behind in software. The entire robotics industry (according to Gates) is behind not because of hardware, but because we don't have the software. He went on to say that software will continue to be a field where we need even more people involved, where we have most of the hardware we need.
I agree.

Also, they bitch because it's hard to measure performance directly. The best we can do is often look at the % of administration vs programs vs fund raising. Even there you can have a lot of funky accounting.

If you really want to get into it, we can look at the names & brochures of the individual programs. Going all out, we might news search the names of the programs to see what news references we come up with.

We know that charities are inefficient. But we can't work out who or how. Charities don't have ROI or p/e. So we look at things like CEO salary.
mihasya, understand your concerns. I have high confidence in the HN crowd so take your pick :)

Zip:
http://www.recessframework.org/preview/content/files/recess-...

Tarball: http://www.recessframework.org/preview/content/files/recess-...

Registering at this stage is required as solid documentation/tutorials are still on their way (now the top priority) so having a simple, single place to go for support/discussion is important to help bridge the gap between now and then. Download away but reconsider registering if you run into issues or questions.
Cool idea. Anyway, I created a Top Stories Directory 2 days ago too. It will record down every number one stories starting from 2 days ago. But, it lost tracking some stories due to some bugs. But, I already fixed them all.

http://hn.siong1987.com
I'm in a similar situation, I looked at stocks, but really to make much money out of the stock market in bearish conditions, you need a hefty amount to invest in the first place, unless you go down the spreadbetting path, but that's dangerous territory if your not in full control of your passions.
I'm going to invest the money instead travelling in the spring, to check out eastern europe - 90% pleasure, but I'm arranging to meet up with some startups over there and who knows, I might take a punt on one of them.
This is towards the top of list of documents to produce. More screen casts demonstrating other features of the framework are also on the way.

The overarching mission of Recess is to provide a full-stack framework with functionality along the lines of Cake but designed for PHP (as opposed to attempting to clone Rails which leads to poor design decisions as PHP != Ruby). This way Recess will achieve the performance characteristics of CodeIgniter without sacrificing higher-order functionality of modern full-stack frameworks like Django and Rails.

For links to download without registration: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410119
Given how 2008 turned into the year of false predictions, I wonder how this will influence the development of predictive search? "You are looking for a new television" as a question rather than statement?
scrap our entire welfare system and just give every man, woman and child in the country GBP 3000/year, no questions asked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income
Fiscal Chaos Aside, Start-Ups Bloom in Argentina
Thanks for the feedback. The belief is that though this practice may feel uncomfortable at first it should make things easier to mange in large applications. The premise is routes don't exist without a controller and method to route to - so why duplicate that information in another place? With routes stored somewhere else if you want to change a method name in a big app (especially one you're not the sole author of) there is an extra step of finding all the places that method name was potentially referenced. Routes in controllers is an attempt at being more DRY than routes.rb and less raw than Django's list of regexps.

For what its worth Rails actually generates code with comments that give examples of routes in its controllers: http://tinyurl.com/5jstgu

Regarding not having to register, here are links directly to the bits: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410119
I prefer a ruby Christmas tree:

"/|"\
"/wl)e";eval(\
"A | A"\
"A | A"\
\
"InHhL"\
",Z,%w{-"\
",Y&/LH,L*"\
"cCnd,Hh&/d,"\
"YCB/Hh,Y&YHh,"\
"L&xHh,L*v*nHh,*"\
"&ghHh,n&nHh,H*nHh"\
",*q*v*nHh,Hw*qv*Hh}"\
"Iq&n*L,Z,[,n&qK,n&qK,"\
"@TwC,LH/&ng,gLBbL@K,@Th"\
"/**,YC/k*d,Hh/*QdL@K,@FCB"\
"/,cQqq&ng,=/CcL@K,@F&v*,RBb"\
"y,g*mL!@K,@S&x,mQ/LhQqL,dBm=&"\
"ng@K,@S*v*n,dBckL,Q-Hy=&ng@K,@E"\
"&ghH,d&/L,Q-gqCbb&ng@K,@N&n*,/Qng"\
"*L,LH*==&ng@K,@T*n,H/yL,Q-cQHch&ng@"\
"K,@Eq*v*n,&CL,=&=&ng@K,@Tw*qv*,mCnk*y"\
"L,=QHch&ng@,]IDAJJA2)J*Qch,dC,U&UI=/&nH"\
",@\nOn,Hh*,\#{nHhL[&]},dQy,CY,MQHzmQL,my,"\
"H/B*,qCv*,gQv*,HC,m*:\n@I&JdCwnHCD2),dC,UjU"\
"I=/&nH,@,,,\#{q&n*L[j]}\n@I*ndI=/&nHDD&,ZZ,A)"\
"?,@,,"\
",G@,:"\
",@,,,"\
"Gnd,Q"\
"@)I=/"\
"&nH,@,n*w,v*/L&Cn,CY,RBby!\n@I*nd"\
"I".tr(' ID/VHLYGBqCA&|*UQJ=Z@K,',
'+;(r/tsfAulo1i8e|a.p=", '))

…and for non-rubyists, that outputs:

On the first day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
A new version of Ruby!

On the second day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the third day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the fourth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the fifth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the sixth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the seventh day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the eighth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Eight dirs a-globbing
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the ninth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Nine ranges stepping
Eight dirs a-globbing
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the tenth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Ten trys a-catching
Nine ranges stepping
Eight dirs a-globbing
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the eleventh day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Eleven ios piping
Ten trys a-catching
Nine ranges stepping
Eight dirs a-globbing
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

On the twelveth day of Matzmas my true love gave to me:
Twelve monkeys patching
Eleven ios piping
Ten trys a-catching
Nine ranges stepping
Eight dirs a-globbing
Seven ducks a-typing
Six marshals dumping
Five Ruby gems!
Four calling procs
Three forked threads
Two string gsubs
And a new version of Ruby!

:)
very cool, i love mibbit :) we just set up an exception on our IRC server so that it doesn't trigger the max clients limit.
No Risk No Return.

I think post 9/11 average American has stopped taking risks.

Instead he invested (time & money) in buying houses.
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nice work too :)
CS isn't about coding. I understand where you are coming from, but high level governament educational initiaves shouldn't focus on consumer products. Smart people are meant to build great things. The United States would have never come on top of things if it had focused on shiny stuff.

Maybe I am old school, maybe I want the next mission to Mars to work instead of looking good on TV. And maybe I haven't slept today so I am bitter. But you have to thing bigger than Ipods.
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Their big test will be the first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket early next year. It took 4 launches for a completely successful Falcon 1 launch; hopefully they'll have even quicker success with Falcon 9.
Godaddy sent me an email notification but already billed my visa
has anyone experienced this?
they have auto-renewal on by default? is it even legal to have that option on by default?
how do i get my 10.88USD back? it is not much but i am totally pissed off by this. i personally think that there are better ways of making money than doing this.

they sent me an email confirmation but they already deducted money from my account. i never got the chance to confirm anything. they just deducted it right away.
It's incredible to me how anyone gets away with doing predictions without a corresponding article like this afterwards documenting their (lack of) success. We only hear about predictions when they are accurate.
Philip Greenspun's essays are a good starting point:

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

Also that's kinda nonsense; what's really lacking in robotics is a suitable power source.
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While I am with you on open source. Unity uses lots of it to build on such as mono.net (C#, boo, javascript), OGG formats, some collada support and FBX support (autodesk), opengl (also directx), Cg formats for HLSL and GLSL shaders etc. I am betting you haven't tried it, if you do I am sure your opinion will change the pipeline and ability to create quality stuff with it is almost immediate. There is not just another product like it currently in terms of pipeline improvements, apis, ide, size of plugin, shader support etc for the web.
Here are stats on math. In short: 1157 PhDs given out, and 761 have academic positions (the main place to get a job as a mathematician).

Plus, a reasonable fraction of the academic positions are purely teaching.

http://www.ams.org/employment/2007Survey-DG.pdf

I know physics is similar.
It's highly likely that you a) explicitly agreed to this default when you signed up and b) their terms of service (which you agreed to when you signed up) is written in such a way to prevent them from refunding you.

I'm not going to go look into the details but I'll wager $10.88 that this is the case. (seriously)
Back to my question about the distribution, if IQ is just a rarity ordering metric based on rarity, then IQ testing is somewhat confused. For example, say someone scoring 150 on an IQ test is rarer than someone scoring 160, they should be ranked higher according to your definition of the metric. If the claim in the article that higher IQs occur more frequently than predicted, then something like this scenario is possible and IQ scores may be unreliable as a rarity ordering metric.

At any rate, is there quantitative metric for intelligence?
Tough Times for TechCrunch in ‘09?
On the one hand, I think it would be great to live in a world where some basic level of "code literacy" was expected of all adults--just like today, every adult in the industrialized world is expected to be able to read and write, and Ph.D.s in education have put a great deal of effort into figuring out how to teach that skill to the kids who Just Don't Get It.

On the other hand,

(1) as jmtame says above, we don't seem to have a clue (yet) about how to teach programming to college students who Just Don't Get It

(2) if we put CS in to the K-12 curriculum, then something else needs to be taken out, and I'm not sure what deserves the boot.
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If you are really angry and want a refund, you'd better move your domains out of godaddy(I recommend Moniker.com) quietly before you do a charge back. You know domain name is your most important property so don't put any risk on it.
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On Hiding our Underwear with Annotations in the Recess Framework
I checked your profile and you don't have any contact information. I'm curious about what you think the mind is. Most seem to think it is an "emergent property" of the brain.
It's certainly important to know where Erlang doesn't perform so well. Project Euler ( http://projecteuler.net/ ) is also good for exploring the strengths of a given lanaguage. In terms of building robust and scalable distributed systems it cannot be touched. This stems for it's motivating use case of telephony. I'm not sure about Python but I know Haskell has been used largely in academic circles and hasn't had the same amount of attention paid to robustness. Joe Armstrong wrote a very good paper on the history of Erlang's development ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2811 ).
"Ph.D.s in education have put a great deal of effort into figuring out how to teach that skill to the kids who Just Don't Get It."

Actually, Ph.D.s in education have done a generally appalling job of researching how children learn to read. There are a few happy exceptions, but I would look more to Ph.D.s in linguistics or psychology (harder disciplines, and more evidence-based, than education in general) for advice on how to teach children to read.

Here are some sound resources on reading instruction:

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom...

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Development-Learning-Read-Sci...

http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Dyslexia-Complete-Science-B...

So, yes, the problem with introducing programming into the K-12 curriculum is

a) figuring out how to teach it well to learners of that age of varying backgrounds and interest levels, and

b) figuring out what else gets crowded out of the curriculum.
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Handguns: Revolver or Pistol? Pistol ALL THE WAY! Yes, I saw the video of the guy that accurately emptied his S&W in ½ a second. I also saw the shooting range and the crowd behind him, watching the event. Can he shoot and reload that way if he is in his car, driving with one hand and shooting with the other, while a bunch of scum bags in another car are shooting at him? Hey, maybe he can. I know I can’t. Can you?
Generally speaking, the revolver is more difficult to master than the pistol. The double action is hard and it affects speed and accuracy. It can be done, but I found that pistols are easier, as did many shooters. Also, even though they seem to be more simple, revolvers are not as rugged as service pistols, the mechanisms that cycles the cylinder and cocks the hammer is both complicated and fragile compared to auto pistols.
Before anyone starts casting evil voodoo spells at me for insulting their prized S&W or Ruger: I own revolvers and like shooting them, I just don’t think they are the best option for self defense, and I see that everyone I talk to in my country who is worried about security as I am also chooses pistols. Quality pistols resist sand, mud and dirt in general better than revolvers, where a small pebble locked in the mechanism may render the revolver inoperable.
To: all software project websites

Please include code samples or screenshots (whichever is appropriate) on the first page of your site.

Thank you.
Allow it to sort by number of comments
Doesn't seem to handle non-ASCII very well: "Does Gdel matter?"
"You think you're going to figure out how to teach it to younger students if you can't even understand why half of everyone loses interest in higher education?"

Our public school system taught Logo in third or fourth grade. That's how my friends and I got interested in coding.
Lists are almost cool.

Allow us to choose: Today, Yesterday, Week, Month, Year
why a gun instead of a pistol?

A pistol is a type of gun.
He got the world's attention.
Handguns: Revolver or Pistol?

A revolver is a type of pistol.
I second Yoga too.

I particularly recommend the "Sun Salutation" exercise :
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yuvfHTaftLQ
(she's an expert, but you can do the movements as far as you can)
It would be good if you provided links to the corresponding HN/comments pages as well as to the stories themselves.
I won't even mention who Godwin's law refers to, but I'd like to point out that they were alive at some point. By the same token, shit-hits-fan scenarios are awful and usually warnings are false alarms, but they happen. I don't think that doesn't mean we can't talk about them without getting into a flame war. I think HN is civilized enough to address these topics once in a while and come up with an interesting discussion.
Ask HN: Interested in coworking in Thailand?
I'm planning to rent a cheap bungalow in Thailand for two months or so and work on my stuff from there for a change. I went there a while ago to check it out, and found at least one place which I recall cost about $10-20/night and came with wifi. It felt nice to swing there in a hammock and code away on my laptop. Actually more than just "nice", it seemed like the perfect environment.

The benefit from joining forces would be the usual coworking benefits, combined with the comfort of not having to travel alone. For me it's important though that it remain as cheap as possible. This means off-season and staying away from expensive resort-style places. I work on my own small Facebook / MySpace / iPhone projects.

My e-mail is in my profile.
Sounds like the thread-ring benchmark (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=thr...) at the shootout. It benchmarks an Erlang program that isn't the first the author ever wrote, so its performance is probably more representative.
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dunno.. somethings def up tho..
I might have problems with unicode in PHP (I really don't know much here yet) so I opted to remove them (for now) using regex.

btw I'm using http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ to scrape/parse which is great, it let's you use jquery style selectors on html.
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