skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seldom acknowledge it but I think the truth of the matter is that a lot of people become entrepreneurs because they want the recognition, the fame and the status.

As silly as it is, taking VC money gives you that in a way that is much harder to achieve with actual tangible success. You might be killing it with your product but carefully explaining your company metrics to someone over dinner is seldom more impactful than saying you took $10M from Andreeson-Horrowitz.

This is not entirely unreasonable as most people realise they are unable to judge the success or otherwise of early stage companies (even VCs struggle). Telling someone you were invested in by a great VC tells them that someone who knows their stuff things you're great. It's a marquee endorsement.

If you'd asked me whether I wanted the status I'd have always said yes. At the same time though I never acknowledged it in my life-calculations. I always wondered why I gambled on a big outcome when I knew a smaller outcome would (financially speaking) make me very, very happy. I doubt there are many people who can point to the happiness bump from the second $30M.

Acknowledging that recognition was one of my goals made it all of a sudden easier to rationalise decisions that, while optimal for my investors were actually totally sub-optimal for my personal financial utility. One of those decisions may well be having investors in the first place.
Shiina Ringo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMwhCqD2cc#start=0:00;end=5:...
point well made, thanks. I will probably incorporate this in the next version of the draft.
Definitely. I live in Ireland and wear the same clothes year round (in the winter I add a scarf and gloves). Definitely not possible growing up in Atlanta.

Blue jeans, black t-shirt, light jumper (I have about 20 in different colors), and soccer flats. I have a suit which I have to wear about once a year.
I'm biased but I like my own design better:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/restful-j... (Google Groups breakage; link is meant to go to first post in discussion)

Instead of requiring that objects have a special _links property, you can put links anywhere in a JSON structure, just like in a HTML document.

Everything of the form

{ "$href": <url> [,"rel": <token>] [,"type": <media-type>] }

anywhere in a JSON object is treated as a link.
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>In an international survey conducted in 2003, students from forty countries were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: "When I study math, I try to learn the answers to the problems off by heart."

Is "off by heart" really a well known phrase in 40 countries? I'm from the US and this question really confused me (even though I'm aware of the phrase "by heart").
I completely agree. I found math later too, at 29, and had it been taught better it might have clicked with me earlier.

The only academic program I've experienced that got right to the crux of its execution was History: but only because I feel its only real purpose is self reflection.
I too couldn't help but notice that she spent an awful lot of timing thinking through her fashion to be "liberated" from "taking up too much time and energy" deciding what to wear.
That's a little harsh of you, don't you think? Her wardrobe isn't varied, but as long as the default 'works' there's no reason she can't pull it off.

Do you remember what your friends wore yesterday? From what I've experienced, clothing doesn't really matter once you get past first impressions.
Don't you ever get too hot and sweaty wearing a shirt and tie all the time? Do you still wear a shirt and tie to very casual occasions, like a baseball game or a night in playing video games?
In 1988 they filled a lawsuit against Microsoft and HP, alleging that Windows and HP's NewWave violated Apple's copyrights in Macintosh's user interface. They cited things like the use of resizable/overlapping windows in Windows and the whole thing was about "look & feel".

So yeah, the history is repeating itself.
> a REPL. Just give it a whirl and see what you get.

In a large system you might have to jump through a lot of hoops to get an accurate result from the REPL. What if the thing you're trying to puzzle out is 20 call levels deep? As a new Ruby dev I struggle with this.
How do you possibly reason your way from her making a blog to her not being able to change?
The _links field may not be necessary. There is already an HTTP Link header proposal, and is already being used by API's like GitHub's: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/9707-link-header.html

From their examples, this is the equivalent representation:

Link: <http://www.tld/orders/523>;rel=self, <http://www.tld/warehouse/56>;rel=warehouse, <http://www.tld/invoices/873>;rel=invoice

It also allows for multiple Link headers to be sent instead of the comma-separated version.
Um, no.

Lisp will give you 201/2.
I'm currently at 5 because I had to get some after some of my older ones are starting to fall apart and get holes. Soon i'll probably be back down to 3...
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Out of curiosity, why do want the Galaxy S 3 instead of the Galaxy Nexus, especially after a Nexus S?

Disclosure: I work at Google.
I actually built something similar to this for where I work. We just recently open sourced it: http://jetsetter.github.com/MobileSafariQuickTap/
"Textmate" should read "TextMate".
Launching a startup when you have a family with kids
I think this is more about political activism than racism.

Something like a fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs, and Arabic is one of Israel's two official languages.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
Maybe json._self is better than _id since _id is already used by apps where it's not always an href
I am mostly looking for a larger screen and it needs to be a GSM phone (so that I can use it in Europe as well).
I found math interesting in school, but then I'm also virtually certain I was the only one in my high school classes actually reading the math textbooks. Even at an engineering college, I don't think reading the calculus textbook was the norm.

A shame, really. A lot of value ignored there.
But what if you want to store the links in the content? (E.g. if you have no control over the headers a server sends.)
Congrats Kale. I've been loving TimeHop lately and think it'll equally apply to non-social content. Is there a way you can scale 'curation'? This is something I'm currently researching for The Fetch...
Problem with headers is that they basically don't exist as far as Joe beginner programmer is concerned.
Yes, but I'd risk that a 25% deviation is significant when the sample is 49 students. The smaller the sample, the larger the deviation must be to be significant, but 25% is quite a difference.

Also, it's worth to notice they controlled for language - they used the same language in two flavors - to isolate the typing system difference. It's not a Lisp vs. C thing.
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Yes, we used ruby with over 100 programmers at the office I was in.
> However any salting tactic that can be pushed and used on the client side would have a tough time using a salt that is on a per-user basis.

How so? Surely the client would know their username too?
As they are so dependent on Samsung as a supplier I can't help thinking they're trying to get leverage for negotiations of future components, rather than actually kill the Galaxy
It is a sad day when "solutions" like these xip.io is necessary for something that our general computing devices are already equiped with and capable of since the 80ies.
I'm all about physical metaphors being used to teach math - instead of handing someone an equation and saying that the equation is what the concept being taught is, it's easier to remember the physical metaphor that the concept is like, and then to see how the equation describes both the concept and the metaphor.

More of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From
Sorry to be off topic here but is there a standard for laying out specification documents like this that i can read up on? When ever I come across these they are always well thought out and nicely presented.
It would be a nice way to present ideas due to the documents feeling well thought out and structured as apposed to a simple idea scribbled down.
In my opinion, Link Headers are not a good option as the primary hypermedia of your API. They are useful for adding links to responses with a Content-Type that is not capable of expressing a link, and they are useful for protocols (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-linked-cache-inv...), but they are not reliable enough for 'every day use'. HTTP Headers are frequently stripped, modified, and generally abused by intermediaries, and there is also the issue of practical upper limits on the size of the HTTP Header block.

Github already use hal+json's _links convention in their latest Pull request API: http://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/
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Large projects, at least 4 years old.

"I will also throw in the fact that doing software library version upgrades on dynamically typed systems is a pain in the ass."

This is very true, but you gain a lot with dynamic languages in other areas. The last company I worked for had about 300 programmers in the office I was in. Roughly half did Java and the other half did Ruby. I was one of the few that moved between both ruby and java projects. I did not see these great benefits of static typing that people always insist exist for large teams at large companies.
Linen suits are very comfortable on hot days.

People who say suits are uncomfortable have usually only worn cheap suits.
NZZ is based in Switzerland but has an international outlook. It has a good reputation, is distributed throughout Europe and has a significant influence in Germany as well.
fwiw, I used xml2rfc for this, it inserts all the boilerplate for you

http://xml.resource.org/
The HAL specification was created by Mike Kelly and a very readable introduction to it is here: http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

We've been using it recently and we like it a lot.
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Last I knew cars in the US don't even have to have a passenger side mirror. I remember seeing the old base model Dodge Neon's on the streets with just a driver side window and confirmed they were sold as such, presumably to reduce costs.
I think I pretty much found myself in the same situation, but without putting any conscious thought into it. I wear combats and t-shirts, every day. I put a jumper on if it's cold. Combats are good because they contain large leg pockets for all of my gizmos.
"I could probably mount a plausible argument that the end-game is to discourage talented developers/cryptographers from contributing to the sorts of projects that could be seen as "sticking it to the man". Especially since this isn't a singular isolated anecdotal story (and I know the plural of "anecdote" isn't "data", but still…)"

I addressed this in one of my earlier points: I don't quite understand what you are talking about. We are computer programmers. We can build a product from anywhere in the world. Why would physical borders stop us?
Yes, but that's the main difference between computer science and software engineering.
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> How far Jamie has to walk to get 3 bags of milk is not execution

Fewer examples are that planted in reality, although you still encounter crossing trains and leaking bathtubs. But even if it's just about finding the reason of a geometric suite or calculating the derivative of some function, the teaching process is the same as in the Jamie example:

step 1: those are the Rules and Theorems.
step 2: IF $situation THEN apply $rule42
step 3: solved!

Basically this is about the same as someone telling you that when you encounter screws you need to use a screwdriver. Thus the whole teaching of basic mathematics currently is akin to learning to build all Ikea furniture directions by rote and expecting people to get something out of it that would propel them to carpenter level.

Math is not about driving screws with the screwdriver given to you, it's about understanding what a screwdriver is made of, why it is shaped this way, and building your own appropriate screwdriver should you encounter an unknown screw.

The current system is so hopelessly wrong that when I was faced with it my personal solution was to solve stuff in the quickest way possible so that I'm not bothered with such crap anymore. Incidentally to achieve this I taught myself to truly understand mathematics. The majority of others though could not be bothered and simply learned the rules by rote, because it was so complicated (and of course it is if you understand zilch about what you're doing). The irony is that the whole teaching process ended up this way because some people up above deemed mathematics too hard and "simplified" teaching. Then the whole thing got out of hand in a self-sustaining loop.
Thanks Kate! Scaling is tough, but I think you have to use every type of feedback you can get, so for me I look at what is being read in each issue and finding patterns. Curation is all about the audience, which is why the newsletter approach works so well.
If there's a big player that might jump into your space with a bigger marketing budget, and you know how to use money to accelerate your growth before that happens, it makes sense to take money.
I wouldn't really call Zend "lightweight", I find it to be rather an overkill.. That being said, nice work!

Was this built on the latest stable release or on Zend Framework 2 beta 4?
"Oops, we ran into a problem processing this search term. We've been notified and will fix the issue within the week.

If you have any questions, please contact matt@leandomainsearch.com or say hi @mhmazur."

I tried two words: "power tube"
I love my Galaxy Nexus but the camera sucks. I'm pretty convinced I'll ditch my Nexus within 12 months for that reason.
There is a GSM Galaxy Nexus. In fact, it is thinner and lighter than the LTE Galaxy Nexus, and has a larger capacity battery.
Personally I prefer HAL's model because it is couched in web terminology, i.e:

- Resources
- Resource state
- Links

hal+json results in more uniform representations, which makes it easier to write generic client + server client libraries for
From one of the linked documents:

Operating Agencies shall endeavour to provide sufficient telecommunications facilities to meet requirements of and demand for international telecommunication services. For this purpose, and to ensure an adequate return on investment in high bandwidth infrastructures, operating agencies shall negotiate commercial agreements to achieve a sustainable system of fair compensation for telecommunications services and, where appropriate, respecting the principle of sending party network pays

What's the "sending party network pays" principle? I get that if I make a phone call, I pay, not the receiver. But if someone in a village in Africa consults google, _that_ person is the initiator, not google. So I'm not sure what way around this is supposed to work.

Besides, each party is already paying for bandwidth on each end.

"operating agencies shall negotiate commercial agreements" - this doesn't sound like "tax" (in that governments are not the beneficiaries), it sounds like granting new powers to bandwidth providers. I'm guessing the T-word is linkbait, even if the proposal is horrible anyway.
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Also, what if you want to persist the content?
The 8-bit renderings are cute, but actual pictures would be nice.
Ah, I misunderstood - your subtle question made me think it was a typo.
If they put up a sign which says "temporarily closed due to power failure" then I do not blame them.

I go someplace outside of the power failure
Design for Developers
This workshop is aimed at developers who want to better understand the language and practice of visual design. We will teach the fundamentals of visual design, along with instruction on other topics of interest for design on the web: grid systems, typography and color.
Nice try Barney Stinson.
Coding by hand versus WYSIWYG tools
I don't think OLark is quite dead. They seem to be doing fine.
Fair enough. They prove large projects built by distributed teams are possible in at least one dynamic language.

There was a time I was familiar with both codebases (I have some catching up to do) and that's why I mentioned them. Both projects carry heavy heritage and are experiencing huge pressures to evolve and both are doing very well (from what I hear on the dev lists).
I love how some of the screenshots show the Chrome browser and a Mac console :-)
Dynamic Optimization - the Next Logical Step?
She could just stop at Muji, job done.
After Vector Calc, I wanted to go back to the fundamentals, to understand instead of remembering.

I came across Silvanus Thompson's 1910 reprinted textbook Calculus Made Easy [1], and it was hands down the best primer on any topic I've delved into.

1. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Made-Easy-Very-Simplest-Int...
A good repl that automatically prints out the function's heredocs is usually enough for me. I like bpython particularly because it shows the argument list and the heredoc as soon as you type the opening parenthesis for a function call. In other REPLs you can usually call a docs(fn) or a source(fn) to handle the rest.
Yes. I want pictures. And I wanted pictures before I even realized she was a member of the opposite sex.
Is it just me or did she fail to include a picture of what this actually looks like? Would've been a great usability enhancement to the article.
True, but as you get used to seeing the vehicle cross from your center mirror to your side mirror, you get a sense of where it is. Your point of reference just changes from your car in the side mirror to the combination of the location of the vehicle in the side mirror and the center mirror. You really just have to get used to it. I swear by this technique now.
He was my math prof. Here's a gallery of his crazy mirrors: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16585-amazing-mirrors/...

When I saw the article title, I immediately knew it was Dr. Hicks because he would talk about his work occasionally in class when it was related to what we were studying.

Also, if you're at Drexel, you should take his math courses. He's easily the best math teacher I've ever had, and I didn't know it until after I graduated. All his classes seemed really easy, but in the last course I took he said something that made me realize how good he was. He said, "Before we get into the math, I want to give you an intuition of how this works." Later I realized that his courses like cryptography and multivariate calculus were so easy is because he knew how to give you that intuition and the mathematics came almost naturally after that.
Yes, it is your fault for trusting what Heroku says about its availability. But it would be classy for Heroku to take responsibility. It is not classy for Heroku to say "it's your fault because you trusted us" in front of the users, which seems to be the principal defense of Heroku in these comments.
Yeah, that really bothers me about web frameworks. It's particularly problematic for type negotiation, which is ignored pretty often in my experience (people tend to indicate type in the uri, using ".json," for instance).
Leggings are a great solution for women, but I'm still looking for a non-jeans everyday pair of pants for men. Something stretchy and comfortable, that can be dressed up and that I can ride my bike in.
You can buy an unlocked GSM Galaxy Nexus directly from Google https://www.google.com/nexus/
Thanks dcope, corrected!
There's a device called Snapshot from Progressive that seems to do this. In fact, they set your car insurance rates based on the logs. You plug it in right under your dash.
In my work, it's generally better to optimize for clarity rather than performance. I suspect this is true more and more as compilers grow in sophistication. In this vein, use:

x = x / 2

To DIVIDE, use the DIVISION operator.
Our industry is quickly becoming a clusterfuck of lawsuits, so I don't understand why you feel the need to excuse Apple's behavior by pointing fingers, when they started this whole mess in the first place. I don't see how the old proverb "you get what you sow" doesn't apply here.

Also, what was Google's involvement in this? Stop reading the blogs of shills.
Maybe they are becoming cooler after all! ;-)
One suggestion that's probably way too late in the game: underscores are often used to indicate privacy, membership, or a special state compared to the non-underscore-prefixed key. I think a dollar-sign prefix might be a better indication of meta-data.
So much of fashion is fit anyway, you'll be more stylish with a small wardrobe of clothes that fit well than a wide variety of ill-fitted stuff.
But using >> for division is still a bad idea. If you want integer division, use //.
Nice, so far I've gone 2 years without shopping for clothes. My coworkers have my dress habits practically memorized, gray/blue T-shirts Monday thru Thursday, and a Maroon or white shirt on Friday.
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You're way too easy on authentication Implementations
tl;dr embrace polyglot :-)

If static typing wasn't useful, I don't think anyone would bother with types. At the same time some static type systems are restrictive while coding, so you're seeing more and more type inference in languages.

Go does it by allowing one to declare a variable with an expression " a := 1".

C++ 2011 has it with "auto"

Haskell is pretty darned good at it, and a lot of people don't write the types of their functions, though I think it's good practice to make sure you and the compiler agree on what you've written.

That said there's languages like Clojure which are dynamically typed in a sense, and I believe pay a slight performance penalty because they have to use reflection to behave that way. There's ways to annotate types in Clojure to get around that. This is an interesting case because Lisp is typically a dynamically typed language.

At the same time there's awesome languages and environments like Racket that have statically typed and dynamically typed versions of their scheme dialects.

My feeling is that a ruling on whether types are useful or not is sort of a pointless discussion. It's not even true that "the jury is out". You're just choosing tools with different properties and some make sense for some situations and others for others.
Well, Orwell isn't to be read as a prescriptive list of things you can't do.

The problem with automated law enforcement is quite simple: It operates in the gap between that which is dangerous enough that society decides to punish offenders, yet not dangerous enough that society needs to intervene to make the offender stop offending.

That coupled with the perverse incentives of fines being a source of revenue, and you have a recipe for law enforcement gone wrong.

Also, not explicitly linked to automated LE, but emphasised by it, is the graduation away from discretion in driving. Many drivers tend to forget that the fastest you can ever drive, anywhere, is as fast as is responsible. Even on German autobahns with no speed limit, you can get a steep ticket for going too fast - this is at the discretion of a police officer and ultimately the courts. Automated LE wipes out that discretion in favour of determinism.

> As long as the process is transparent (i.e. everyone knows about it and the algorithms are open source) I don't see a problem with that at all.

Well, you have near perfect empirical evidence to expect that won't be the case.
So the solution is for you to run a script which monitors Heroku for outages and changes the error page?

If you are doing that, you might as well write an app against another platform.