skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should learn to program FIRST. It will take you 6 weeks to learn how to programming, let alone trying to build a website while doing it.

There are a ton of resources online these days. I'd suggest you mainly stick to MIT OCW but many schools have online resources for programming these days. Khan academy is decent but I personally recommend you stick to official college lectures and try to work as many homework / project problems you can find.

Once you establish a solid foundation of programming, it will not take you but a week or two to build the requisite knowledge to put together professional-ish looking websites.

You need to learn javascript. You need to learn javascript. You need to learn javascript.

HTML is not a programming language, you can learn the basics in an afternoon.

CSS is a bit more difficult but you can learn it in a day or two.

Without knowing javascript, you will be hopelessly lost.
Start with the spelling. :)

data GADT a where
Constructor0 :: Field a -> Field b -> GADT (a, b)
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All this Blackhole talk reminds me of the excellent Frederick Pohl novel, Gateway. And its sequel Beyond the Blue Event Horizon. Both of which deal with humans interacting with these regions of the universe for the first time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28novel%29
Why do they care about whether the technology is derived from MySQL or not? Postgres makes way more sense for pretty much every application out there now. What am I missing?
Perhaps RMS will either contract Bunnie to create a replica for him, or he'll use Bunnie's open schematics to create his own. Then he can upgrade from his Yeeloong laptop or at least have an alternative with a bigger screen.

From what I recall, one of RMS's concerns was open firmware, which Bunnie has as one of the project goals.
You don't even need a Dropbox account. You can use storage provided by the hosted solution at Whig point is is like Flickr or Picasa with the exception that you can easily migrate the location of your photos without any disruption.
Egypt: The Next India or the Next Pakistan?
Nothing guarantees success. Having a radically different approach to an existing problem and getting people on board who understand it is a first step.

We are at step 2....of a lot of steps.
I agree. This culture also manifests at college campuses. If you aren't taking seven classes at once, you aren't working hard enough.

http://thetartan.org/2012/12/3/forum/mentalhealth
In A Bad Mood? How To Shift To Positive Thinking
Well, plug in one cord and use a wireless controller.
Right, right. Or! We could stop redefining common words and agree that 'pay' is a verb in the present tense.

(Please don't kill me.)
From one of the comments in the article:

"Economists, of course, broke away hard from mainline stats a while ago, calling it “econometrics” and reinventing names for EVERYTHING, plus throwing in a bizarre obsession with the method of moments. In terms of intellectual arrogance and needless renaming/duplication, economists are much worse than computer scientists and engineers."

This guy couldn't be more right about [most] [academic] economists. I laughed at the renaming of terms part because it is so true (classic example is RSS/SSR/ESS/SSE). Taking a course in the stats department alongside an econometrics course was bound to confuse any student. But just ask the economist, they'll tell you which one is right. :)
Android: Gingerbread
Would be interesting to know if the dropouts were more likely to use one platform or another. Not that it would necessarily mean anything.
I remember an undergraduate advisor recommending that I drop my D1 track and field bullet point from my resume (for grad school applications). No way! I don't want to work with anyone who would judge me negatively because of something that I do in my own time; it will be better for both of us if I never get to know you in the first place.

There are very few people* who can work with non-stop dedication on one sort of task for years on end. Everyone else (I've discovered) is faking it. You may be "working" for 12 hours a day -- minus the 2 hour lunch break, and the 3 hours on Facebook, and all the news articles that you're sure are making you smarter. But you can easily tell who these people are because they get less done in 10 hours than I do in two. And then these same people want to make some sort of judgment about those who actually enjoy free time?

People who are always talking about how hard they work and how they're such a martyr for their work rub me the wrong way.

* Some people are legitimately intensely focused on whatever they're interested in (especially start-up culture). But how often do these people whine about how much they're working? If they are that into it, then they're probably really enjoying their job.
Aren't the chipmakers like Broadcom (for rPi) and Freescale (the i.MX in Bunnie's design) taking the burden of this licensing fee? It would be a lot easier for them to roll the $0.15 into their part costs than hassle their customers with taking care of this licensing.
What's wrong with Elance?
As far as I can tell, neither this article nor Alex Gaynor's slides mention another big problem with Django's ORM: lack of support for composite primary keys and composite foreign keys.

We were layering some web stuff on top of a database that worked flawlessly with SQLAlchemy and ended up changing our data model to accommodate Django's weaknesses.
Bunnie is taking advantage of the massive scale of these SoC systems like the i.MX. There really isn't a lot of exotic signal line design needed to make these chips run. From my own knowledge of board design with this Freescale part, the only tricky layout would be the DDR3 RAM lines. The rest is wiring up I/O to the necessary connectors and discretes.

TI even made it easier by mounting their DRAM in package-on-package ball grid. You can find the TI OMAP4 Pandaboard schematics online and see how simple their system design is.
"At Cloud9, more often than not we predicted our bottlenecks wrong. Dead wrong."

I'd be a millionaire if I made a nickel every time someone guessed at a bottleneck rather than looked. If I wanted to expand my portfolio, I would add a nickel for every time this is said: 'we had our programmers working for 6months to improve performance' when performance issues could have been solved with a $10k SSD array in a week.
This might be of some interest. http://fora.tv/2012/10/14/Stuart_Armstrong_How_Were_Predicti...
> Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr.

I periodically fire up an EC2 instance and do just that via the API.

> It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it. How many photos do you have uploaded anyway?

Unlike your average "unlimited" shared web hosting, I've yet to hear of a single person booted off Flickr for uploading too much (legit) stuff. Storage is cheap, and the folks paying $25 to upload a photo a month likely subsidize the really heavy users a little.
Great point, I hadn't thought of it that way. I guess what little I've seen from real (serious?) Colbert reveals a very deep humanism that, coupled with his smarts, is rare for someone so comfortable in front of a camera.

I think he has the talent to engender the widespread trust and respect that people had for Murrow. I'm not saying he should be a newscaster, though. I don't know what format a realtalking Colbert would come by. At some point in the Schmidt interview he goes into his sense of what character Colbert is in relation to discourse and media and it's a variation of the Stewart/Colbert party line: they are there to make fun of the media. It's too bad because if anyone has the ability to change media for the better, it would be them.
Here's one datapoint: I have 652,082 images in my account, and have downloaded my entire library a number of times using different 3rd party utilities. Haven't ever had an issue.
I've come to dread looking in on these threads. It feels like walking into a swarm of wasps. Boy is the content/nastiness ratio low in this one. It makes me sad and, as someone who has spent a lot of time here, ashamed.

To the people making and upvoting these putdowns: you don't come across as caring about design; you appear to care about feeling superior. That is not smart. It is a mean person's idea of what it is to be smart. As HN has acquired a reputation for being a smart place, it has become a mean place.

Do you guys know what "mean", in the sense of "nasty", means? It means common. Look up the root. The more you reinforce your wish to feel smart in this way, the more common you in fact become. It's hard to see this, because self-image is always telling us the opposite, and that feels good — really good. It's the opiate of the jerk.

In my experience, if one really wants to get smarter, one must work on inhibiting this. I was going to offer a tip or two, but who would want them?

Incidentally, these self-appointed protectors of Design against the masses appear to me to be significantly more mediocre in this way than some of the other subgroups here. Perhaps it's sample bias. Or perhaps it's because there's so little objectivity to any of it that one gets a purer strain of identity politics — "Leave Design to the Designers" and all that.

On another note, thanks to the OP for the helpful and playful article!
once you've crossed the event horizon, can neural signals travel in a direction opposite the center of the singularity?

They don't have to for your brain and nervous system to continue functioning. Suppose you are falling feet first towards the singularity, and your feet send a nerve signal to your head. From your viewpoint, the signal travels up your body normally. But from the "god's-eye" viewpoint, the nerve signal from your feet to your head just falls towards the singularity more slowly than your feet and head do, so your feet fall away from the signal and your head catches up with it.
only thing that bothers me
Neuroscience, as a science, might be growing by leaps and bounds but if you ask the average neuroscientist how much the field currently knows about how the brain works I think the answer will be a great deal more modest. It's very early days still I think. Not to mention the fact that nobody understands how and why consciousness works, which seems to me a key feature in eclipsing human intelligence with AI.
It could succeed because it puts a less-creepy face on things that are usually covered by goofy pick up artist sites.

It could fail because of the same reason.

Also, dumb name. Reminds me of how I left my trader joes tilapia in the oven too long last night.
Regardless of whether it is or isn't "hacking the system", that answer tells you something about the someone in question. From that, I learn that they are able to exert focused discipline and flex willpower where others might not be able to.

I've flown a kite once in my life, as part of a competition, that I won. My kite flew more than twice as high as the next highest kite. After the competition, people asked how I got my kite so high, and my answer was just that I brought more string than they did. Some might attribute that to dumb luck, but I have a history of winning silly little competitions like this by being prepared.
That page doesn't have more than three consecutive paragraphs. It seems to be designed for children with low IQs and severe ADHD.
Philipp K. Janert, author of «Data Analysis with Open Source Tools», spends a few pages for explaining how he perceives this «difference».

From his point of view Machine Learning is a fake science. Fragile, secretive and specific techniques for big problems that need secret parameters that have never been published for their application. This parameters will be supplied to you for a price by the inventors-researchers' companies.

In the other hand, statistics is real science, where everything is published and studied by a whole community. A science that has accumulated hundred of years of experience and that offer all its knowledge in any university. The methods offered by statistics are of broad application, robust and open.

And I think he has a point in this reasoning.

PD: Statistics works, ask in any hard sciences. Its contributions has been essential for the science in the last centuries. Machine Learning was bashed (like old AI) because it never offered real solutions or helped us to advance in our understanding of anything. Machine Learning is a tool, not a science, that tries to cope with the limitations of our knowledge, which means that it's a very convenient tool for engineers and problem solvers, as are numerical methods are, but it means too that its results share the problems of numerical methods.
if you emitted light (which is in principle no different from an electrical impulse) from just under the barrier what prevents it from traveling past the barrier and away?

The "barrier" you speak of (the event horizon) is already traveling outward at the speed of light. Gravity curves spacetime so much at the horizon that a light beam traveling radially outward stays at the same radius forever. Inside the horizon, spacetime is curved even more strongly, so that a light beam traveling radially outward still gets pulled inward towards the singularity.
Job prospects for neuroscientists are completely bleak. Which is a weird dynamic of "need" vs "supplied" (or, will pay/fund). It's rather sad.
Look, every week someone writes one of these articles disparaging RIM and BlackBerry, harping on how crap BlackBerry phones are.

Yet none of them actually know what the fuck they're talking about.

They focus on the old RIM, from the Basillie and Lazaridis days. If you actually got involved in the development community, you would see how much RIM's culture has actually changed.

And do you know why? Because QNX took over.

To those lamenting that the developer environment is crap: it was crap. BB10 development is a ton better. Having done Android development, I am able to say it's better than that even. I can't compare it to iOS, but the fact that RIM's tools are available on Linux, OS X, and Windows, makes it better for me.

I've written about this before. You can read them if you like. Honestly though, with the environment here on HN, I don't expect many to read anything I wrote, and instead, blindly accept that iOS/Android are better.

Ultimately, we'll see. The last piece of the puzzle for RIM is marketing, to reverse these negative trends. And they've already started on that front.

http://blog.taab.co/index.php/2012/08/15/how-were-building-t...
http://xitijpatel.com/2012/11/27/why-i-like-blackberry-10-an...
I'm not sure it's possible for the brain to be half-way across an event horizon.

Sure it is. But the brain is falling inward, so nothing has to move outward across the horizon for the brain to continue working. Everything falls inward, but signals traveling from one part of the brain to another might fall inward slightly more slowly, so the part of the brain the signal is going to will "catch up" with the signal, from a global perspective.
A malicious provider wouldn't have to brute-force the key; they could compromise your browser to steal the key and install a keylogger to take your password. Browser exploits aren't expensive, and zero-days are discovered semi-regularly.

A sufficiently well-capitalized provider could even pay researchers to find new browser exploits, so they don't have to depend on scavenging them out of feral malware samples.

This would probably work only once or twice, but would give that provider the ability to read any encrypted payloads that they have recorded.
In the UK a pardon doesn't necessarily presume innocence. It simply means that you can't be punished for your crime.

Although rare these days there were times when a pardon could be won or purchased in exchange for services rendered. It didn't mean that you were innocent of your crime.
I didn't read this use of the word "McCarthyist" in that way.

It is really extravagant to use this to smear Canonical as being just as bad as Microsoft-in-the-90s. Really? What is Canonical doing to destroy GPL? Nothing. In the worst case they have used inflammatory language to ask GPL zealots to leave them alone, not to mount some massive assault on Open Source.
They aren't starting from scratch. Migrating your database is a complex and risky project, and not the kind of thing you do unless you have a very clear, very pressing reason, like horrible performance and stability issues, or saving tens of millions of dollars in licenses. Migrating to MariaDB is more like upgrading a minor version, with minimal risk and zero downtime. And they have a lot of experience in MySQL, almost all of it transferable to MariaDB.
there is no such thing as an inertial frame or near-inertial frame that crosses an event horizon.

Sure there is. Consider an object falling into the black hole; you can set up a local inertial frame around the event of that object crossing the horizon and it will work just fine even though it straddles the horizon.

What you can't have is a static inertial frame that crosses the horizon; i.e., you can't have one that stays at the same radius, even for an instant. The inertial frame I described above is infalling--i.e., an observer at rest in the frame is falling into the hole.

But there is no near-inertial frame that, from within the frame itself, appears to cross the Rindler horizon.

Yes, there is. This is even easier than the black hole case because you can have a Rindler horizon in flat spacetime, where all inertial frames are global--they cover the entire spacetime, including the region behind the Rindler horizon.

I should note that I do not mean to imply that the "finbot" article linked to is correct; it isn't. As I described above, inertial frames that straddle the horizon can be constructed, and they are perfectly consistent with the equivalence principle.
It could fail because mushyfish.com is a terrible name and it looks like a content farm site re-purposing blog articles.
How to hack your seed round in India? Winter 2012 Edition
Looking out from [falling into] a black hole you see the life of the universe pass before you

This is not correct. You will only see the portion of the universe's history that is in your past light cone; there will be a lot of the life of the universe that you will never see if you fall into a black hole, because you will be destroyed in the singularity at the center before light from most of the universe has a chance to reach you.
What do you mean?

If I don't try then I just stay at home.
Yeah, it's similar to starting a sentence with "I don't mean to sound racist, but..." Because at that point you know for a fact that they will say something racist.
He would make a great senator, probably. It would actually be really interesting if he became senator, and he continued speaking in senate with his sarcastic style, because it would probably be much more effective in convincing the other senators to vote with him, than being all serious, like he did here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp8HbMH27_s
Yes, it's best to avoid the use of "anata", which is why I removed it. Also, it's just phrased really poorly in general - it feels like a literal translation from English, which rarely works with Japanese. And it is indeed "wa", not "ha". It's often mistakenly written as "ha" because the hiragana used for the particle "wa" (は) is read as "ha" in other contexts. I would also say that it should be "o", not "wo", since it's pronounced "o".
I think that if Colbert did approach it seriously, his apparently genuine sincerity (which I agree with you on, is heartening and rare), would wear thin on most people. Especially his guests. I think before long they just would avoid his show or people's cynicism would harden them to it. I think this is why when he or Stewart do lash out with an honest emotion, it's so stark to everything else they do, and everything everyone else does.

No, I think Stewart and Colbert are best where they are, at least for now, as biting satire that reveals the shallowness of the news and pundits they mock. Hopefully the constant razing leaves the ground ripe for a new growth of journalism with less weeds.

And I say this as someone who previously worked in local news, and hopes to return very soon. I sometimes think that if you watch the news without giving serious thought to it, there's a very real possibility you're doing yourself more harm than good.
RIM looks like a great investment. As mentioned in this thread, they have very long term contracts so they won't die anytime soon, and they Are trading at such a ridiculously low premium that if they don't die they're bound to go up by a factor of 5. Heck their market cap is 1% of apple's, so (very roughly speaking) if they hold on to 5% of the market you'll see a massive gain.
I used to think that apple had built a fortress around the iPhone with its app ecosystem. After getting a new iPhone I realized I didn't need to reinstall most of my apps, and I stead its mostly: web, messaging, phone, music. I left blackberry way back when because of its horrid web browser, but if they fixed it then it'll probably my be more than good enough for business (many of which have the phones locked down to begin with)
if gravity were to act on a human body with that much force, wouldn't the force alone kill you?

No, because you don't feel this "force" of gravity; you are in free fall, just like astronauts on the International Space Station.

Your body will be subject to tidal gravity because it has a finite size; the effects you talk about in the rest of your post (your body's atoms being pulled apart, etc.) are due to tidal gravity, not "the force of gravity" per se. But for a large enough black hole, tidal gravity is small enough to be bearable at the horizon.
Thats cool I would pay to use openphoto if you hosted for me and be satisfied knowing it supports a open source project.
There are many forms of wishful thinking. Apocalyptic disaster is also one.

You seem nice; forgive me if I get too dismissive here.

As a software practitioner it seems to me obvious that we are so many light years away from the kind of software the Singularity people are talking about that the whole thing is all a fantasy club, and a little embarrassing. It's like the detailed debates 19th century radicals used to have about society after the Revolution.

Also, the Singularity people always seem to do that moving target thing where as soon as you say one thing, they go: But that's not the Singularity, that's a misunderstanding of the Singularity. Leaves me thinking: it must be awfully subtle.
How much gravitational force does the Sun exert on you? Do you feel any of it?

A constant gravitational field doesn't change anything - everything is accelerating the same amount, in the same direction. What can cause problems is the difference between the gravitational field at two different points (for example, when a planet gets too close to a star, it can be torn apart due to the force exerted on the near side being much greater than the force exerted on the far side). But this isn't the same as the overall strength of the field, and a sufficiently large black hole could have a very survivable field gradient at the event horizon.
The X-rays don't come from "tidal forces" by themselves, they come from tidal forces acting on matter falling into a black hole.
I agree with this, 24ways along with a list apart were two essential resources for me back in high school. It turned helped guide me into an insightful developer/designer.

It's just my opinion, I'm not a fan of the "I'm not a designer but heres how I bs it" type articles - I would rather people say "I'm not a designer, but I'm trying to learn, and here are some tricks I picked up"
I am Adam Lanza's mother
If track and field is not relevant to what you are applying for, and is only something you do in your spare time, then what good reason is there to put it on your resume?
Eh I beg to differ, design is not something thats easy to learn at all. Just because you can prototype, build an interface that looks 'good' to your customers, doesn't mean you really learned 'design'.