skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your not doing it just being state is very well known in the East, you might want to check the Zhuangzi. But your explanation is not very accurate. You'd go to this state more easily if you do something you don't need to think about, like housework, hiking, or even coding - but when you're in the zone. The main thing ifs to be without intention, without internal mental supervision. Then you are your real self, and you are happy, like fishes in the river.

It is good to you to be able to be yourself in the lines, and shows you will be able to handle the "distractions" of a smartphone easily.
On Being a Builder
Doesn't something like this exist? AKA Tour Guides?

Also, I think in order to cut down costs for the people who use this service, it'd have to be a group thing. Having a private session by a personal tour guide will be very expensive and extremely niche (ie: the wealthier people) and that, I think, will be your biggest challenge.

I think another approach (which is also on my list of random ideas) is instead of having a personal tour guide, have a person that functions similar to a info kiosk instead.

Example:
Say you're a Canadian visiting Malaysia, and the 'host' will be someone that's informed in both Canadian and Malaysian culture and paper work/law. They're the go to person for everything, questions you have, whether it's visa, places to stay/visit/eat at. If you ever run into problems, they can advice the best course of action, etc. Naturally, they'd be well versed in both languages (yours and the country you're visiting). They'll be a number you call if you ever need anything, need a price check, need a cab, etc.

(Regardless, the biggest issue is safety and insurance for a random person selling 'adventures, which you have already identified. Definitely throw a Craiglist up, sell a local adventure that you're confident in taking people on and see how that goes and decide from there. Good luck!)
YC funded: vayable.com
Like the idea, feel like you need some aspect that helps arrange a group for these types of trips. I really want a small group whatever deal where the first guy or two to say "I'm in" gets a discount.

Do follow the other fellow's advice and try validating your idea on craigslist, couchsurfing, meetup, etc. We don't have a real website yet, but we've surprisingly got some leads through those channels.

You may also look into trying some of the REI trips that sortof do this already.
An interesting course and text is From NAND to Tetris [1], which builds up from the raw silicon up to the application layer.

[1] http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/
No, of course I didn't sue them and they knew I wasn't going to sue. It isn't like there is even a phone number or person that you can call to complain. And really, what would I sue for exactly? How could I prove they did that on purpose?

I'm also not JWZ (even though my club was on the same street as his). I didn't have endless gobs of Netscape money to sink into dealing with stuff like that... and that is a big reason why my business died. This is just one story of many issues we faced.

Lesson learned: never open a night club despite how good your intentions are.
Yeah, no one's going to want to hire the law firm that accidentally leaked someone else's IP during a discovery process.
In-N-Out
The mind is a muscle, use it or lose it. Similar to Dweck's growth mind-set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Contributions
In a very real sense, imperative programming _is_ natural. Its much closer to how computers work. Whether this means that its an easier way to learn is up for debate. (For the record, I think it is easier for a majority of people, but that functional would be easier for a significant minority.) Your phrasing of that part just kind of bothered me.

I think we already teach beginners that you calculate the sum of the squares of a list of numbers with a for loop. Actually, its a fairly common type of problem when you're learning about for loops. Maybe I'm missing your point?
Honestly, I think Aristotle said it before religion did; I'm sure someone did before him too...

On the happiness bit - regardless of lifestyle I've noticed it's my mental disposition. Clear heads prevail...in everything (including programming).
From NAND to Tetris
Wow, I didn't know that! From ye olde Wikipedia:

"Bisphenol A is a preferred color developer in carbonless copy paper and thermal paper, with the most common public exposure coming from some thermal point of sale receipt paper."

The next question would be: what is the uptake of handling thermal paper like, as compared to the usual examples of eating food from cans that have BPA in their liners, or drinking from bottles that have BPA in the plastic?
If you hate that last line, you must hate Unix pipelines as well. Because both accomplish similar things and are surprising to newcomers in a similar way.
1. Only if they're licensed as such, or we're willing to completely disregard IP (which would be very bad).

2. That's nice, and in some cases successful web software causes significant contribution to FOSS (many examples from Facebook), but there's nothing preventing the same from client-side software (id Software's engines for instance).

3. I'd say this is also true for many client-side technologies.

However, the SaaS model allows developers to take advantage of GPL code without an obligation to contribute back, as the y aren't shipping any derivatives of the code, simply providing network access to it. (Whether that's good or bad is left to the reader.)

Many people complain about SaaS for it's strengthened ability to create vendor lock-in, but for non-technical users it's effectively the same. (It doesn't matter of the data's stored on your computer or in a remote database if you don't know how to open it.)
I'd like to see an example of a good writer, or even one sufficiently long piece of clear writing, that doesn't use idioms. Language is saturated with them.

You'd be on more solid ground (and closer to your point about loops) to say that, when teaching foreign languages to beginners, idioms are best avoided because the student is struggling just to know the individual words. Even then, though, I doubt I ever took an introductory language class that didn't teach at least some idioms; you can't get a feel for a language (or fully understand any real-world text) without them.
Might be feasible. You only need enough liquid nitrogen to keep the superconductor cool for a minute. Apparently, the Holbrook supercondcutor Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook_Superconductor_Project) has been using superconductors in the Long Island power grid for years.

> (Yes, I know what you're about to say).

Please don't do this. If you know what the 'obvious' objections are, please say what they are. People unsure what the reasons for not doing so learn something. I'm certainly not aware of all the problems involved in using superconductors.
Wired had a good piece about companies going after Ticketmaster, back in November 2010: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/
Your comment is hyperbole in every way. The post made 2 points:

- we should be calling "idioms" "social mores"

- we should teach beginners simpler constructs instead of idiomatic ones, especially `for` instead of `.each` in ruby.

Note that you agreed with his second point.

He has no responsibility to address the upsides of `.each`, since that's not the point of his article. He wasn't talking about advanced programmers, he was specifically addressing why he didn't teach `.each` in his book, and why it shouldn't be taught to other beginner programmers.
Awesome, thank you. I came here just for this. It's a bit annoying trying to watch them sequentially on the flash player provided on the site. Constant stop, start, stop start. If I get the time I might stitch these all together and upload a new torrent as one long video.
How does clumsily being able to replicate a very basic task that laptops have been doing for many years extremely well for $100 imply that tablets are going to kill computers? This might well be the case (I hope so!), but being able to attach a keyboard is not the indicator of change this guy wants it to be.
Are you referring to TAU? what department were you in?
The Future is not Real-Time
God help you if you want to use it in two different applications. Plus, "you can use a third-party service" is not exactly an elegant solution.
If your goal is to create programmers, then you should be creating programmers, not good little rubyists/pythonistas/etc
Threats will continue until we have A Good Place to Work.
On the "don't allow new users to post comments for, say, 8 hours":
Don't forget lot of people create a first account just to do a first reply. I would have feel not welcome the first time I try to comment if this protocol was implemented.
More than that, I'm not sure that your proposal will resolve the fake-account problem: if I love to be a jerk I will play with 2 accounts, your 8 hours delay will not block me.
He never argued that .each is a horrible looping construct. He calls it a horrible _first_ looping construct, that is to say that its bad for teaching to beginners. Your last paragraph says nothing that contradicts the article in any way. In fact, you beautifully summarized that portion of the article:

> Well, sure, if you're teaching someone programming for the first time it's probably better to start with "for".

That said, I was inclined to agree that idiom has simply picked up a new meaning. That's usually where I fall in debates about changing language. However, your straw man argument almost made me change my mind out of spite.
You see there wasn't suppose to be any "Constitutional Amendment" that is exactly the point you moron. Pick up a history book and stop watching fox news
> In fact, I think that many religions, and this especially goes for more severe, "by the book" versions of Christianity, actually make people much less content with themselves, but they carry on spreading themselves in spite of (or because of) this anyway.

I think this takes a very special type of person, though. Perhaps these peoples' "happiness" is self-sacrifice. Beyond that, I have no explanation.

> Perhaps it is the case that (most) humans need to work in order to be happy. What does this mean when we arrive at a level of technological sophistication that makes work unnecessary?

I believe this is true, and I truly fear what will happen when this becomes a concern (assuming it isn't already!) However, I suspect we'll simply create ever more layers of bureaucracy to envelope ourselves in, avoiding the problem indefinitely.
You don't need to use Google Talk or have a gmail address to use XMPP. It's just another implementation of an existing standard.

I don't think that I need handholding from a protocol to the extent that it saves me from putting their chat address in my address book. If I don't know it, I can text them and ask:)

I don't ask their home number to automatically give me their work number.
These things from the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

Also, the title is overly link-bait-y, and there's the thing about yes/no questions in headlines almost always being best answered with "No." Overall, I just don't think it's a great submission.
Wrong angle. Stories like this, and comments like yours, are because those insisting "it's not ready" are stunned when they find it is - and has been.

I've been using this iPad 1 for everything (save heavy duty coding) since minutes after it came out. I just switched devices and went about my life. Nice to see people figure it out ... if years late. Wish others would realize its not novel just because it shows up on the news.

(It could be a good coding platform too if Apple allowed compilers on iOS.)
Ask HN: What do employers look for in a github profile?
I see lots of posts saying that potential employers were looking at your github profile. If you were reviewing somebody's profile, what are you looking for?
Ticketmaster and Comcast alternate as the #1 and #2 most hated companies in consumer surveys year after year. But it doesn't seem to matter, their monopolies have been stable for many years. I thought maybe the acquisition by Live Nation would help with Ticketmaster abuses but there haven't been many changes. Unless the government steps in it looks like this will be the state of affairs for a long time.
You probably guessed this but: promoters often have deals whereby they get a cut of the ticketing agency fees, say in exchange for exclusivity. So really the distinction presented to the consumer between fees and the face price of the ticket is all a bit bogus.

And that's before you look into the sort of practices around tickets being released by the agency to a secondary ticket vendor (perhaps one which they own...) and sold on at great markup with a cut going back to the agency and perhaps even back to the promoter.

I suspect the problem is that while the author is happy to pay $60 all-inclusive with no questions asked, a lot of live music fans are young-ish and on the kind of budget where it isn't an easy decision to spend $60 on a night's entertainment. You might persuade them to pay, but harder if you put them off with a big upfront ticket price than if you spring it on them in hidden extras. I'm sure ticketmaster have done their research and wouldn't be doing it this way if it didn't increase their revenue, and that promoters wouldn't be using them if these tactics didn't improve theirs.

Also part of the problem is that there's this social pressure in the music industry around fans and ticket pricing and around artists 'selling out'. In the open market, tickets for big shows are usually worth a lot more than the face price, but promoters (or at least, artists) are reluctant to be seen to capture all that value because of the negative PR involved.

A lot of people have wanted to see Ticketmaster taken down a peg for a long time. It's probably easier to do if you limit yourself to small-to-mid-size gigs, independent artists etc, and there are already some great non-abusive ticketing agencies in this space for example http://www.wegottickets.com ...
OnLive Sold To OnLive And Nothing Will Change
Slow compilers(*)
_delirium read the amendment. either way it states clearly that no tax from income should be collected
Publishers have had a solution to this for years.

Just come out with a new edition each year where you move the problems around so that people have to buy the new textbook and cannot buy used. And in the occasional case where that does not work, change the title of the book occasionally so that students do not know which second hand book to buy.
Leaked Memo Indicates Hulu CEO Jason Kilar May Be On His Way Out
> This is always a great indication that the author engages in reductionist simpletonia. There are many types of people in this world, all of which can be plotted along a spectrum between two poles.

You probably shouldn't drop the "all of which can be plotted along a spectrum between two poles" line right after complaining about reductionism. It's a common reductionist notion that fails for even the most simple of cases, politics.
How knows Clojure/Java and wants to live in Auckland?

We'll help. Ping me at colin taylor at gmail.
Thoughts on Silverlight, Expression and Games
Handy. Thanks :)
Cracking the monsoon 'source code' in India
Check out https://twitter.com/N165Mars to stay updated (and more importantly, for a hilarious take on the updates)
Yeah, Vayable YC s12 is doing pretty much exactly this:

http://www.vayable.com/
I love the branding. Regarding the limit on creating new tags when submitting, while the site is new I think you should lift that restriction. I wanted to add a new tag ("cheat sheets", seems like a common one).
It's a three hour drive to Taos from ABQ. Depending on where you start, there are no direct flights to ABQ. Flight schedules often require traveling during the day, and when you can travel at night, a seat that's comfortable enough for a good night's sleep is expensive. I have experienced two hour delays at the car rental desk at ABQ. There are many places where air travel is long and inconvenient.

The US has poor rail connections from airports. Airport security adds uncertainty to making one's flight and making international to internal connections. Airlines have cut their redundancy to the bone, so cancellations and missed connections can turn into an extra day of travel, rather than just a changed flight.

Of course, I hadn't considered stepping out of the terminal at ABQ and into a robo-chauffeured rental that arrives precisely when I'm ready to go. So perhaps the drive at the end of a long day of air travel turns into a restful nap.

Still, being able to travel privately, quietly, directly, and whenever in the day makes it most convenient makes elapsed-time comparisons not always valid: Any distance where you could step into a robo-car in the evening and wake up at your destination would become tough for airlines to claim greater practicality, never mind comfort.
Exclu­sive: New rev­o­lu­tion­ary prod­uct rede­fines category
What I would like to see (maybe a bit more complicated, but I would love it):

* Select day, say next Sunday.

* Select time, say 11am-4pm

* Select location, say Sydney CBD

* Select type of activity, say both sightseeing and food, or anything.

* Enter amount of money, say $200 for two adults.

* Click 'search' and then browse the things I could do there at this time spending that much money.

For example: harbour cruise, or cruise and a lunch in a near-by restaurant, or bowling and pizza in a near-by cafe, etc... Also with comments for these activities, links to venue's websites, easy to print-out maps, etc...
Product Managers don't have to put long hours at work when the schedule they came up with is unreasonable. Engineers have to make adjustments, put long hours to make things work.

Product Managers should be doing better than just shouting in morning status meetings.
You can buy BPA-free thermal paper. Probably a good idea if you're going to interact with it a lot. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=BPA-free+thermal+paper
Which will be great, but this isn't the only project using MS-PL. And if the GPL didn't include its "strong copyleft" text, there wouldn't be an issue.

It's coercion which tries to make everything freer, but in this case made things less free.
I mostly got away without buying new textbooks after first-year - there were a couple of classes where I needed them, but in a lot of cases I knew people who'd taken it before and lent me the book / the prof had kept with the old version (or in some cases gave old as well as new question/page references), but I've found that it's the first year courses where they mix up the books the most.

My own personal experiences have been with archaeology texts where the chapter-end studies were replaced with a different culture, physics texts where the figures within the questions were changed and maths texts where the questions were the same but reordered. Yeah, you can learn the same stuff from the textbook's main content, but if you get assigned a list of questions to complete and those questions don't match with this years' then buying the previous textbook is essentially useless. In my later years, the homework was never "do these questions from the book", so the texts dated less.
I was going to say it looks like a Bussard IEC (Inertial Electrostatic Containment) with a VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) tacked on the back, but there's a dozen things about the IEC that they're talking that seem different, and they spent little enough time detailing the thruster that comparisons v.s. VASIMR are a little tricky.

Lol, wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VASIMR
You could maintain separate queues for each priority, and always process them from the top down.
Oh bullshit. I live in Dunedin where the previous two Mayors were asian. Is that the mark of a racist population?
Set up a vm to check compatibility and this will take off. I've been using alot of plugins that overheated my laptop and this somehow doesn't do that so very nice
The registration form doesn't seem to have a submit button...
OnLive reveals details behind its asset sale and new investor
The amount of users who wish to become developers in my line of business is absolutely amazing. The reasoning always revolves around 'you guys get to create something.' The day a person from marketing/executive says, 'I want to create to enhance experiences', I will recommend they be thrown into our department. Everyday, we are bombarded with project requests for changes to enhance user experience. Usability is measured in amount of clicks. Yet, instead of wanting to create to help their department, they wish to create to play with legos.
Absolutely agree with this. It's crazy. But if you only have to do it a few times, e.g., as a young undergraduate, you're unlikely to think about it much. You just pay the fees and think nothing of it. You've got other things to think about.

But if you got through some more rounds of education, then you might start to think. A professor that requires her students to buy a textbook she authored is something to think about.

What I found interesting in one of the degrees I got was that students did not even need the textbooks. The assignments and handouts were not tied to textbooks, though textbooks were certainly recommended and required as usual on the syllabi. So I decided not to buy any textbooks. I just used ones from the library. I learned more doing it this way than I ever did from mindlessly buying textbooks.

Still, the whole time I kept thinking, if every student tried this it would be unworkable. Professors did put materials, including texts, on reserve though, so "sharing" a copy of a text is not itself a crazy idea. Fortunately, few of my fellow students were keen to read the library's textbooks. As such, they were always readily available. I would routinely have about 7 texts checked out at any one time.

One of the things that kept the other students away from the library's textbook holdings was, I think, that they believed only the latest editions would be useful. Syllabi tell students to buy some specific edition of some textbook. And students, if they are fresh undergraduates, are very obedient. They will do as they are told.

But I found the dates on these texts mattered little. In some cases the best texts I found were "dated". But when you read lots of differenet texts, you get a much clearer picture of a subject area. And you can see the coverage as it has evolved. You can tell what's changed, and that itself is very useful knowledge. Now I'm absolutely hooked on this method of learning. I always seek out old texts as well as new ones.

The idea that "only the latest edition will work for this course" is another of the textbook publisher's little schemes. I'm sure they try to get faculty to use only the latest editions.

Interestingly, one can see the same dynamics played out in software. The hunger for the "new" thing, the bleeding edge, without any regard for history and how we got here. The obedience aspect is there too. To pick a random example, Microsoft tells people that they need Windows 8, and they obey. Little may have changed in 10-20-30-or-more years, the changes might be only cosmetic, but lots of people wouldn't know any different, because they focus only on what is considered "current". Like fresh undergraduates, they want to be told which edition to buy without ever thinking much about it.
Are adjuncts writing textbooks? Almost all of my texts, when I bothered to read the author bio, were written by the XYZ (endowed) Professor. Frequently they were the chair of the department.