skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Has anyone learned that way and found it useful? Do you learn a few things in a familiar context while cargo-culting the rest and then fill in the gaps later? Does it just click all of a sudden?"

That's how I learned to write my first useful programs.

Maybe there is a better way, but that is the direct answer to your direct question.

Except I wouldn't say that it clicks "all of a sudden". It's a long process of learning. One day something doesn't work, and you think it should, and you just keep narrowing it down and eventually come to some deeper realization. It's the top-down approach to learning.

I've been trying to learn haskell bottom-up for a while, and I've done a few things and have some understanding of the theory. But I don't have anything to show for it. Every time I learn some new theoretical thing, I think "wow, what could I program with this?", at which point I've already lost. Because once I start thinking about the language rather than the utility, I'm not likely to create anything amazing.

I think that I'd be more successful if the next idea I had I just coded up in haskell (even though I don't really know it) and pushed through to a solution by any means necessary. But for me, learning a new language is secondary to realizing my visions; and my visions rarely start from an empty file any more.

That being said, I think a mix of bottom-up and top-down is probably best. There are some fundamental things that you need to learn deeply at some point to be good. Not sure the exact stages that these things should be learned, though.
That used to work here, but not anymore.
Interesting: "Mathematica is a big enough system that I don’t think anyone (even myself) can immediately remember everything it does. So that means that particularly if one is using a somewhat unfamiliar part of the system, the Predictive Interface is highly useful."
I think you missed my point, which was that the Wired article is citing the number from the second half of that sentence: "and 135 million are active in just the stream." (not the first number, which includes people who just +1'd an app)

I don't think the statement in the blog post could be much clearer, you just have to read the whole sentence :)
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Your conclusion doesn't follow unless you have a chart showing the average outcomes there are better. There are a lot of smart people betting their own money that you're wrong, after all.
So it's a social network for those too busy creating their own stuff to watch anything?
Thanks nacs. I actually should make that false, since I recently started working with a new startup.
I'm not sure why you think the average exit is $2 million. Are you getting that from the column titled "Average $?" If you mouse over that title, you'll see it refers to the average amount raised.
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I'm with you on this. They aren't worthy of the name without IPv6 support.
Qyuki's homepage takes more than 5 minutes to load. It has a size of more than 12MB. There was a 3 MB uncompressed image right on the Homepage. Whoever made this website really needs some optimization lessons

PS : I lost interest after 5 minutes, It might take longer and also have a bigger size

here is a pingdom analysis http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/q215oLm5R/qyuki.com
jsonip.com will have this relatively soon. Its been a pain in the ass to setup, much less test. I've tried going through the tunnelbroker tutorials a few times but keep hitting a mental brick wall. I, and perhaps others, need a simple 1-2-3 tutorial.
Buy it from Google, get a TMo SIM, and sign up for this plan: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
Really helpful article. Thanks Gavin!
actual link:

https://github.com/mmihaljevic/cheat_sheet/blob/master/linux...

is missing:

#ss -la

#ps auwfux

#df -h ## look for 100% file systems

#cat ./STRANGE_BINARY_FILE | strings |less
Remember when McDonalds got in trouble for putting "Over a million served." on their signs? Or the scads of other businesses that the SEC routinely cracks down on for similar announcements? The criminals at Netflix should hang for this crime.
Bin laden had legitimacy? I'd say that he did until he started organising the killing of people.
Is there any video of this in action?
Yes, but Facebook counts it the same way. If you like something once a month, you're an active user.
HSPA+ is actually quite fast though; in my experience it's comparable to WiFi.
Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Yeah, the culture is fascinating and they have so many basic urban problems that we can't solve in America down pat (public transportation, crime, and poverty, to name a few), but economically they just don't have that spark, and their educational system is an outdated waste of time that does little other than prepare students for standardized tests via rote memorization.

I don't know, maybe it's because life is so safe there that you don't see the desire to innovate that you see in America.
4 hour old account. Silly web page that uses 1465 bytes to display an IP address and pull in Google analytics. I don't see why this is HN worthy.
A while back, we were using zoneedit.com to keep track of changing DSL addresses at some of our offices. We had a little daemon running that checked the external IP every 15 minutes and shoulder-tapped zoneedit if there was a change. It started failing after a while, and we discovered the external server we were using to query our IP was wigging out.

So we googled for some alternatives. None were much good. So we wrote two of our own, one hosted at the company's main site and one at a free Google App Engine site. That was a good move, as both mostly outperform the various freebies out there.

Along the way, I wrote a little script to test a bunch of alternative IP sources. Just for fun, I added a version of your Google query to the mix, along with the OP's site, and just reran it, with the following results:

$ ip all
IP Address Time Bytes Server
[cynwoody's IP] 0.217 58 dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html
192.168.1.1 0.197 25545 www.whatismyip.com/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.497 7382 whatismyipaddress.com/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.144 13010 www.hostip.info/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.131 9007 www.ip-adress.com/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.577 14706 ip-lookup.net/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.426 20508 www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
[cynwoody's IP] 0.492 10054 www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp
[cynwoody's IP] 0.917 22058 www.dnsstuff.com/
end of file 0.120 0 www.ipaddressworld.com/
1.7.0.0 0.486 18427 www.ip2location.com/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.191 34468 www.find-ip-address.org/
[cynwoody's IP] 0.221 25019 www.iplocation.net/
[cynwoody's IP] 1.040 10776 www.lawrencegoetz.com/programs/ipinfo/
0.272 0 www.ostrosoft.com/OIT/external_ip.asp
66.249.74.77 0.576 32953 www.google.com/search?q=my+ip
[cynwoody's IP] 0.074 1467 internetaddress.me
[cynwoody's IP] 0.097 35 www.[cynwoody's company].com/ipaddress.php
[cynwoody's IP] 0.110 35 [cynwoody's app].appspot.com/ipAddress
$

The Google hack got the wrong IP. I assume the reason is that script is downloading the page and parsing out the first thing that looks like an IP address it comes across, but the part of the Google response that shows your IP bold and clear occurs further down in the result. So, it could be made to work, but would require a less trivial parse.

BTW, FWIW, www.[cynwoody's company].com is hosted at FutureQuest. Attaboy FutureQuest!

And internetaddress.me did best of all, responding in only 74 ms (I'm located in the Boston area), but one has to wonder what popularity will do.
And it is not optimized for mobile. I am really surprised - India in country of mobiles!

One thing, this will be an interesting case study if content can win over usability, particularly in my country (India). It can become a celebrity site.
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yeah, I discovered all those links, + some more regarding their forex company, and a couple of other partners in crime who'se names I won't mention.

I particular enjoyed the ripoffreport one, where a random internet dude got on and defended Mr Himler with huge walls of text including bold and italic formatting. They seemed to take a lot of care for someone who had no connection at all! Colour me skeptical!

It made for a great Friday afternoon of reading, all that was missing was a beer in hand, but I have since taken care of that missing beer problem.
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http://whatismyip.io/ gives a nice sharable URL..
ps: I am one of the developers
if you take https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle and mix it with https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku you can make a svbtle clone on heroku for free.
As I've just scratched Scala's surface, I don't get what you meant by the community status. Considering how important the ecosystem is, could you point some resource to understand ? Thanks
> The only problem with g+ is that none of my friends use it.

At one point in time, you and everybody else had the same problem in Facebook, yet everybody still switched.

Sometimes, if you really want something but social inertia is against you, you have to be a trendmaker/leader and force your friends to follow you against their will. Make yourself rare, and if you're valuable enough in your circle, they will follow you. If they dont, it only means that using Facebook is more valuable for them than keeping in touch with you.

Thats how Facebook won. All the cool and rich and influential ivy league kids got there first, and the sheep had no choice but to follow. Do you remember arguments like "Why should I use FB? None of my friends are there?" from the early era where every early adopter's friends were somewhere else?

If your _only_ argument for one network and against another is where your "friends" already are, this means only that you are one of the following-only sheep without any social influence whatsoever, and will simply use whatever you're socially pressured into. With enough FB data about you, it would probably be possible to tell whom Google would have to make to switch to G+ first, so that you as the weaker link have no other choice than to follow.
I had a similar experience switching from Java taught in college to self-teaching lisp. I essentially had to relearn everything that I knew and start looking at lisp as an entirely different beast, as most pattern matching that I did between the two came back to be wrong.

Apart from the basics, things like the CLOS definitely threw me for a spin, since it uses a different model for its object system.

Overall, probably best to approach most of the languages mentioned as a new way of thinking.
Well, 17 lamborghinis was an exaggeration, he did seem to have a number of them, an excessive number, coming from someone who drives a commodore, I was jealous!
The language isn't the important thing: http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
There's probably no technical barrier preventing it, but I can almost guarantee that it would violate Facebook's terms of service. They're decidedly unfriendly to bots.
Why did Google get rid of the centered design of YouTube?
Google just changed YouTube. Everything is now aligned left. That might be good for a smaller resolution, but on mine it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cB2ZB.png

So now I have to look at the upper-left corner to see the video. Which is bizarre at least (and I'm irritated by it, for now at least).

Aren't Google testing these on multiple resolutions, or am I the only one that feels the discomfort of this lack of symmetry?
I agree with that. Even more, I think all the documentation people should start being chastised for not providing a decent picture of two. I am a picture thinker, and code translates well to and from pictures for me. Not so much with the documentation. By analogy: I'm sure I could get an understanding of a city with written instructions on geting from various parts to other various parts. I'd do better just wandering around. However give me a map and I know it well pretty quick, especially if I can wander around with the map. Likewise with code, give me a single decent architecture or dataflow diagram and you've helped me more than a whole well written book about the codebase.
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I have built this site with my friend Nathan. I am a designer myself and wanted to build something to help people build better iPhone apps! Would love your ideas on other awesome user flows I could add to the site!
Do you know any great onboard, explore, search flows?
I really like how you can take a specific facet of a mobile application see how it is implemented across various applications. Very nice design.
Yes, it's way off. It's based on Crunchbase, which is very incomplete about funding unless investors make a deliberate effort to log rounds there. The actual median up to w2012 seems to be 850k. (We don't have fundraising data from the summer batch in our system yet.)
This awesome, I'm digging it!
I went to G+ last week because Google requires it for the "Author" feature in search engine results (pure vanity, my blog posts will never show up in SERP). I went to G+ for thirty seconds this week to read the post about the guy who "cracked" a really lame DRM scheme. I don't consider myself an active G+ user at all, and yet I'm sure those "actions" (adding a URL to my profile and viewing a post) contributed to the 135 million, and I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one. Engagement across G+ per unique monthly visitor is almost certainly an order of magnitude smaller (by time on site, for example) than Facebook's.
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In some cases, yes. But I think on balance people who escape the countryside for the city factory jobs are not leaving a comfortable job for the promise of riches but with health risks. The factory/city job offers a much better alternative. An alternative to being a subsistence farmer or a day laborer, or a maid, or the daughter who has to marry at 16-18 and have no chance at an education. In the countryside it's not unusual for people to barely 'eke out' a 'living'. It could be picking up discarded trash and finding something recyclable, etc. Going from the coutryside to working for a Foxconn is like going from line cook at MickeyD's to being exempt salaried in the US with flex time -it's no contest.

As 'unhealthy' as the city job might be, the alternative in the countryside is, for many people, worse. It's a life of a kind of feudalism.
Incidentally, are you the wintermute that was involved in DS homebrew way back when? (I recently started reading HN again and I keep seeing you pop up).
pico.js - A Browser & Node.js JavaScript Library For Real-Time Audio Processing
source: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/picojs-javascript-libr...

Info: pico.js is a JavaScript library for real-time audio processing. It allows you to generate audio using a simple API, using different sample rates (8000, 11025, 12000, 16000, 22050, 24000, 32000, 44100, 48000).

Optionally, you can use Flash player to play the sound being processed, as well as using HTML5 to do so. pico.js also is available as a Node.js module.
"With the thermostat, we revolutionized the product itself, absolutely -- but we also revolutionized the sale of it. Most thermostats were only purchased by contractors and installed by contractors... over 95% of them are actually installed by users themselves"
"May face" is the key word here. The SEC is likely investigating the issue to see if he was using Facebook to give material information preferentially to a subset of investors. An investigation is quite far away from being an actual lawsuit.

As for people asking why the SEC goes after stuff like this--the SEC's authority is pretty narrow. We use a very free-market regulatory model for public companies. Instead of telling them what to do, we basically police the information they put out to the public, and depend on the markets to act on that information to punish bad corporate governance and reward good corporate governance. Pretty much the whole authority of the SEC revolves around disclosure.
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The only reason I recently created the account on Google+ was to be able to 'author' my blog posts so that they appear nicely in Google search results (as described here, for example: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EmbraceAuthorshipTheImportance... )

But I'm sure they counted me ...
Unbounce (http://unbounce.com/) is about as good as they come.
Fascinating stuff this is!

In this case it's the 5.2L Lambo V10's uneven firing order caused by the two banks being 90 degrees apart vs. the 144 crankshaft rotational degree spacing of exhaust pulses on a given 5-cylinder bank and opposing cylinders sharing a common, non-offset journal. In effect, this is two 5-cylinder engines sharing a common crankcase and crankshaft.

The musical third is lurking in this uneven timing and the heavy high harmonic content comes about when you have two banks that are even firing unto themselves.

A cross-plane American V8 is not even-firing on each side of the vee, but a bundle-of-snakes (180-degree) exhaust like in a Ford GT40 will get you some of that octave scream too.
Holy..! This is awesome. Made my day as a fellow designer/ux guy. I am in the process of mocking up a new app now and I'm sure this will come in handy. Good job!
I didn't know about this, but it's all I wanted google apps for anyway.

I can attest it takes about 5 minutes to setup if you already have web space somewhere and know how to access its email server details.
It may not be relevant, but New Zealand must have one of the most robust and well controlled banking sectors in the world. The behavior seen internationally by financial firms has been mostly absent from New Zealand - South Canterbury Finance being an exception, and couple of few blue chip companies too. If your after a country with weak laws in which to set up a fraudulent financial country, New Zealand would be a poor choice.
DDG got my IP and my town right. I'm impressed. Most of the IP location servers are one town over or just punt and say Boston.
I had higher expectation , as A.R.R was involved in this.
looks like their site needs a UI remake .
Increases complexity....
This is especially true and contradicts the generally accepted opinion repeatedly expressed around here, that knowing about programming in general is enough to be an expert in any technology in a short amount of time. The reasoning then goes that when hiring, one shouldn't rule out seasoned developers that have no experience in the technologies in actual use. This is an arrogant recipe for pain for the whole team. The myriad combination of interfaces between tools/stacks/technologies cannot be understood expertly in any small amount of time.

I suffered at a polyglot consultancy that shifted people around rapidly between stacks and technologies due to overconfidence in this belief; it is very painful for any programmer with a sense of craft and client stewardship. Of course, if all you care about is banging out a piece of garbage that will hold up until the checks clear, then I guess this doesn't matter.
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I don't think it's so clear cut. What if it was 20,000 big bank analysts? Clearly that would be unfair disclosure. 200,000 Facebook followers? Maybe not, but part of the point of launching an investigation is to gather facts to put that in context.
Don't worry, that problem hits us native speakers quite often

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It's working for me (Canada).
(Seed-DB founder here)

Exactly; where the majority of startups in an accelerator don't have funding data in Crunchbase, it defaults to the funding that startups get from the accelerator itself. (This is why the list of accelerators defaults to sorting by average funding versus median funding.)

There were a few different ways I could have calculated median funding. The first is just looking at the values of startups with funding data, but this would have only identified the median funding of the "winners" of a program and thus isn't as valuable. So I calculate median by using funding data from Crunchbase for each startup, and where there's none I use the original funding from the accelerators.

If anyone has any questions, comments or feedback, my e-mail is plastered all over the site. (jed.christiansen@seed-db.com)
The only reason I created an account was because they kept spamming me with "People you may know," and the only way to opt out of the spam was to... create a Google+ account.
He may be getting that figure from the $950M "$ Exits" figure divided by 450 companies -- but that's incorrect as not all 450 companies have had exits.

I'd imagine that probably 45 companies have had exits, making the avg exit value around $20M, which sounds pretty realistic to me.
I have a pretty strict definition of what constitutes a "seed accelerator": http://www.seed-db.com/about/view?page=definition

Since Founder Institute charges startups to be a part of the program, it's not included.
oh damn, I actually followed those links to Drew Houston and Alexis Ohanian expecting even more exciting scammer reads, but received a history lesson on the founders of dropbox and reddit instead!
SEC is investigating FB IPO issues.
HOLY SHIT! As a designer, this is blowing my mind.
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I would totally recommend using a 3rd party app like postmarkapp.com or something similar, especially if you're not a linux/vps guru. The amount of money you will pay will far outweigh the time and issues you'll have to deal with (that is if you have actual working products on those domains).
> I see bitcoins as the storage of value, but not method of payment.

If this comes true, the bitcoin system is in trouble. Block reward is down to 25 bitcoins a block. It will half one more time then no more money for mining, it'll all be through transaction fees.

If people are just storing bitcoins and not using them, there wont be enough transaction fees and lots of miners will drop out, making the system more vulnerable to takeover by government or malicious miners.
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Until they disable them again? Save yourself some time and aggravation. Either pony up or find a more reliable provider.
Seed-DB founder here.

I've recently added a feature where I grant permission for users to enter/edit information on their accelerator and their accelerator startups to Seed-DB. It's a manual process, and I only give this permission to accelerator program founders or administrators. But if that's you, please get in touch. (jed.christiansen@seed-db.com)

Otherwise, if you sign up for the newsletter (http://www.seed-db.com/about/view?page=newsletter <- very low traffic) you'll hear about all the new stuff first.
You know what? I am a iOS developer and I can tell you that no matter how good your application is, without advertising, you will get nothing.
There are many great applications in App Store, however, no one cares. The new search function of iOS App Store, and the new top charts, Apple only wants customer to get application from there, because those applications are GREAT, and your new application to them, is just another number.
So what I say? Forget about this content, find someone who can post the review of your application to some famous website such as HN, Engadget, Cult of Mac...
If your application is not too bad, you will always get the thing you want.
Maybe, find some companies that could help your application go into the Top 10 is the best way.
Maybe he violated the letter of the law but I don't see a comment where everyone can read it, and broadcast to 200,000 people isn't public disclosure.