skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger.)
Posted this a few days ago but found a bug. Everything should be fixed up now!

Not sure if others will find this useful but sometimes I just wanna quickly check out a project on github like I would with ST2 but don't wanna have to clone it so I made this over the last two nights so I could just have a better overall view of a project.

For example: Here is what the project behind the website looks like: http://gitray.com/Jonovono/gitray
There are much more thorough and research-based explanations about why mathematics performance is generally better (recently) among Chinese people than among Americans.

https://webstorage.worcester.edu/sites/rbisk/web/marlboro%20...

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

Better teaching makes for better results in learning.
Normally you also recommend David Hanson's "C Interfaces and Imlpementations" which is a really great read.
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I actually just the opposite of sight reading. I think it is a very learnable skill in my experience. Most people I know who study can actually get drastically better over the course of a couple of years.

Playing by ear, OTOH, is much more difficult.

Natural talent may help some. But I can't think of many skill related activities where 10,000 hours of deliberate practice won't make you an "expert". Maybe not the best in the world, but good enough that virtually any layperson would call you an expert.
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I don't have up to date addresses and payment methods anywhere else, besides PayPal, but I'm far more active on Amazon. That's a great way to turbo charge sales.
Sure, will add it in a couple of days. Wanted to get feedback from the community before adding more use cases.
I'd rather use Mozilla Persona based login systems than OAuth based ones. From both a user and a developer point of view, Persona is a very refreshing approach to identity instead of OAuth.

For those wanting to know more about Persona, check out https://login.persona.org/about

also since Persona is from Mozilla, you can see all the code and development and you know that privacy and user safety are number one priority.
IT Managers should demand more
I'd rather use one with an exceptionally good security policy (including account recovery), realtime multi-modal notification, customizable settings (i.e. being able to ip/geo restrict, rate limit, etc.), etc. And maybe do groups, too.

Google Apps for Your Domain could be kind of like this, but isn't. Probably the closest, though.

Maybe someone like Dropbox/Box.Net/AeroFS?
Everybody can work as an exchange. You have to be very dedicated to shut down all the people that become exchange. Same way shutting bittorrent is possible but you have to be very dedicated. Far above the point where lots of people are gonna say "come on, you can't hide behind the claim that such measures are for our greater good"
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The Big Bang Theory of Data Governance
Stroustrup's new C++11 book is out: The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
I don't think michaelochurch is saying that. Rather, sometimes you look out for #1, which involves doing your best and setting yourself up for long term success.
Well I wouldn't call them ideolects to their face-- makes 'em ornery.
> "He is apparently not aware"

More likely, he's aware but chose not to address it (he confirms this in a sibling comment.) His point was about the effect of legalizing CP on "adult/children sex"; including disclaimers about age gaps involving borderline-adults and borderline-children would have made his comment less readable for little benefit.

The natural response to someone missing a disclaimer is to either let it slide or to note it in a non-adversarial way ("it is legal for those close enough in age" or something like that.)
I can't manipulate the way you process the terms "Moz" and it's association. The "Moz" = "Mozilla" comparison is easy to make so I hope time and continuing branding efforts by Moz will hopefully change that.

This transition from solely focusing on SEO to a more holistic marketing tool is not new. They've been moving in this direction for at least the past year. I think this is a good time for them to make the break from being pigeonholed as an SEO company to something bigger, something more inclusive. SEO is no longer a narrow niche type of marketing, at least not to the people who perform SEO daily or on a professional level.

It's a combination of content creation, site optimization, outreach and relationship building, branding and more. Not all these components are always associated with "SEO", which often times has a negative connotation attached to it. Moz is hoping to capture a larger part of the inbound marketing market than SEOmoz ever could.
You can't judge the speech negatively on its merits, since emphatic negation is a regular feature of many languages.

But the speech isn't in "many languages", it's in a particular language where the double-negation is considered incorrect, therefore there's no need to make assumptions about race or background to consider the speaker ignorant.
I say that as someone who has remained gainfully employed for several companies, only one of which was local, over the past several years.
I hate Amazon login where I can't reuse any old passwords as a new one or even as part of the new one.

It makes it just impossible to remember your login when you reset it a few times, because you need to learn a new one.
Ask HN: What is better: artist.domain.com or domain.com/artist?
I'm putting together a simple web app that profiles artists. I'm curious which is better for search engines - having the artist at the beginning of the domain or after?
that's what they said about the music industry. ;)
Exactly; I have a bad habit of saving failing projects, generally of companies that had to have them succeed, and very seldom got any thanks from it, even when I was explicitly hired to do just that (sometimes was even purged when technical success was achieved but not cemented, causing the company to later crater). If there is a gentle way of doing this it was beyond my limited interpersonal skills, and I agree with everything Mr. Church is saying here, if you can pull it off (I can't): keep your mouth shut while you pull the ejection handle.
I've got the old iOS version which I don't really use much but seems to work just fine. Any compelling reason to upgrade to their latest & greatest?
I maintain the kpcb.com website and I'm watching the server logs at the moment for this page - it is quite amazing how much traffic nginx can serve up without missing a beat on a single small server!
The URL is quite common among large corporations and is used by, off the top of my head, Gamestop and NVIDIA.

www.google.com/search?q=corporate-ir.net
I've never used 1Password, but if you're looking for a simple, free alternative, oneshallpass.com and its Chrome extension would be a good fit.
1/4 of the cost of SanFran and still has good food. Ohio despite being not hip central does have lots of people and a wide array of companies.
Very cute.

But very 1970s?

I mean copy picture to usb stick, put stick into TV or DVD player?
Well, at some bitcoin related forums informal 'Gox' is actually used quite a lot to refer to MtGox. Regarding SEOmoz to Moz change, I'm more concerned that people may start to somehow see Moz as being associated with Mozilla Corporation. The idea behind rebranding (to distance from 'pure SEO', so to speak) is valid, but the choice of the new name seems unfortunate to me.
Just downloaded this. Looks great!
Sass can't do that, but the Compass framework (built on Sass) has sprite generation.
As someone working on a healthcare startup, a thousand times this.

More than the technical disgust of building a policy-laden system, marketing is terrifically difficult under regulation. Consumers get scarred by inconsistent regulatory rules and stop being willing to change processes because it's too frightening to possibly run afoul of policy.

This is, by the way, a great opportunity for organizing regulatory consultants. Such a service might be an important forerunner or partner to ventures trying to change heavily regulated industries.
"Scientists" who still thinking in terms of a single cause of it all (especially in social sciences) instead of complex/chaotic multiple causation are doomed to be ridiculed.)
"HSBC was to pay a $1.9 billion fine -- it's unlikely that Liberty Reserve would be able to come up with something of that order of magnitude"

That was for $60 Trillion in un-monitored transactions. The fine is very roughly ~ 1/32,000th of the total transaction dollars. Perhaps rather than shutting them down, the feds could fine them 1/32,000th of all of LR's un-monitored transaction?

This "break the law to make money and pay the fine later on" is just part of the revenue model now. Fines are not a deterrent (in fact I think they are more appropriately called "bribes"), they are considered like insurance, or rent, or banking fees. All just part of the cost of making the most profit possible.
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Vlok - decentralized service for the generation of unique, time-ordered IDs
Regarding the URL: Amazon (and just about every public company in the US) outsources the investor relations portion of their site, because it is easier to do so than to integrate the feeds mandated by the SEC on their public site themselves (stock quote, press releases, sec filings, etc). There are 2 major competitors in this space, and the one that Amazon chose has these ugly URLs.

I'm surprised that they haven't made this better since that platform (phoenix) was designed in the mid-2000s. I presume that nobody really cares enough to put money into migrating it to a url scheme that is more sensible... the site exists to satisfy the SEC, and serious investors get their news/stock data from other sources anyhow.
> Also what do you mean about number 5, rejecting proposals?

The client has the ability to reject a proposal and move it to the declined pile, where it is hidden from view. The client should exercise that ability at every possible turn to keep the current proposals on the project page to a minimum. Nobody likes dealing with a crowd.
I'm still not using any software solution because there are too many to choose from. :(

"faced with too many choices, consumers have trouble making optimal choices, and thus as a result can be indecisive, unhappy, and even refrain from making the choice (purchase) at all. [Even when making any choice would be better than not making any choice at all]" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
I'm fully aware of the PNAS paper (and others like it which have been published). Let me point out a few other times in history where scientists, without clear evidence for their beliefs, were wrong:

When Galileo championed the idea of heliocentrism, the vast majority of all other astronomers during his time opposed his views. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

The idea of phlogiston was quite prevalent in the chemistry community for about a century before it was definitively proved to be a pile of combustible turds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

Even recently, in the early 20th century, physicists believed that:
a) The smallest particle of matter (the atom) had been quantified, measured, and fully explored.
b) There was no more to discover in the field of physics.
Clearly, they were wrong.

Let me rephrase my objection more clearly.
I believe that the Earth's climate (across all biomes) has been rapidly shifting over recent time.
I know that humans can impact local ecosystems and one of the results is a shift in local climate.
I have yet to see evidence for (cum hoc ergo propter hoc is a danger when looking at studies) humans causing climate change on a global scale.

This does not mean that we should stop our efforts to prevent deforestation. Nor does it mean we should ignore local environmental disasters, but linking local impact to global impact has not been done definitively yet, so as a scientist, I question that belief. It is not out of arrogance that I question, but out of the desire to be a better scientist. I am trained to base my beliefs in: Hypothesis -> Evidence -> Examination -> Belief. What we do have currently is a very good "guesstimate" hypothesis (we observe that humans can cause local ecosystem shifts). What we do not have is evidence. And thus, we do not have the opportunity for discussion or the transition to belief.
Perhaps we're supposed to revere them ("reverence", really, like for the Baby Jesus?), but I'm not so sure we ever did. The 19th- & early 20th-C fiction I read as a child that included teachers, seemed full of examples of "one-room schoolhouse" teachers who were routinely physically attacked by students and parents, widely derided by less-violent community members, and frequently paid late or not in full. (I'm sorry I don't have access to my childhood book collection at this time so I don't have any cites.)

I can see how respect would contribute to the goal of education at younger ages, but in high school the successful teacher will have more resources upon which to draw than just "reverence".
on second look, it's just a login system, no payment integration https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/lwa/dev/...
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Is that the reason it bothers you?

That's the reason I'd give if pressed. But as the article shows, people are inclined to give a lot of reasons that don't hold up. There's a pattern to who's giving the reasons and who's on the receiving end that suggest that there's something else going on.

For example, "like" is often used as a replacement for "um" or "er". But "like" bothers me more. And different cultures have different noises for that; one of my small delights is figuring out what country somebody is from by which noise they use to indicate that they are holding the floor but need a second to think. I actively enjoy those, even though they're equally low-signal. And there's a lot of word-compression slang (e.g., "totes" for "totally", "prolly" for "probably") that increases the signal, so in theory I'd like it.

Thinking about it, a lot of the linguistic features that really bother me are exactly what the NORM pattern indicates: I don't like the ones from people with lower social standing. E.g., "ain't" as a class marker. I'm inclined to argue for the ones that privilege me (educated older white male), and against the ones that don't.
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Is Coding the New Second Language?
Love the idea. I bet having a video showing people what it looks like in use would increase conversions by a significant number.
If we assume that speakers have conscious control over both their words and manner of delivery, then the sentence can be read as "what is the intent of the speaker who uses vocal fry", and not "what external authority has approved the use of this manner of speech." Your response reads like you were looking to get offended / pick a fight.
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In what way is bcrypt an alternative method when compared to two factor auth? Also, from the point of view of the live MITM attack you mentioned above physical tokens or TOTP wouldn't help either. What exactly are you proposing they do?
I started using LastPass a few years ago- any compelling reasons to switch to 1Password?
I agree with the first half of your comment - the "deliberate" in "deliberate practice" is definitely necessary to understand what the 10,000 hour rule means.

However, I think you take it too far at the end. To say that the nature half of nurture+nature is unnecessary goes against a significant amount of research. In sports, this becomes pretty clear. What are the odds that short people never work hard enough to become good swimmers, for example? It seems drastically more likely that nature has an enormous impact. 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is necessary, but by no means sufficient, for success at most sports.

It is less obvious in other domains, but there is still research to the effect that some people simply aren't wired for certain things, just like short people are can't swim at world-class levels. In HN's favorite domain, programming, there is reason to believe that some people simply can't think in the right way. Here's a reasonable article on the subject: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/is-it-....

PG's lazy rule sounds good, but only in the absence of opposing evidence. It behaves like Occam's razor - it leads in the right direction, but don't take it for truth.
There is one more "gotcha" if you dig deeper. That is the drop in EC2 prices and Amazon in general has been vague about passing on the benefits of price drop to old reservations ( https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=325153 ) . We even thought about adding speculative price drop and then do the comparison, but dropped the idea. It will be interesting to hear the take of HN community on this ..
article thesis: people say all it takes is 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert but really you need to have talent as well

supporting evidence: 1) Warrent Buffet was clearly born to do business. 2) The author didn't learn how to program when she had the chance

This article is fluff.
No, the purpose of public school educators is to EDUCATE. Disclosure of such information is NOT required for the educational process. These attempts to improve the process by probing and influencing behavior outside the classroom grossly oversteps appropriate boundaries.

The information being demanded (and, where possible, anyone advocating not complying is being punished) is subject to naive, ignorant, bigoted, and biased interpretation by people not trained, hired, nor authorized (by parents) to interpret that information, yet those same people are empowered to act on their interpretations with severe consequences up to and including "reprogramming"[1], expulsion, and prosecution. Some of the information revealed seems persuasively permissible ("are you currently a user of illegal hard drugs?"), but many are subject to gross misinterpretation of answers ("have you ever consumed alcohol?" "yes", not explained as in fact a tiny amount a few times during Communion at church). The context is inappropriate and veiled, the answers viewed without parental permission, a permanent record is made, and "anything you say can be used against you in a court of law".

tl;dr - none of their business. Teach the subjects assigned; don't pry unless there is objective reason to do so. What my kid is doing outside the classroom is my problem.

[1] - someone taught my niece that "gun" is a "bad word". She won't fess up to who, and I have reason to believe it's her "educators". In a culture where owning & using them is common family recreation & survival, this crosses the line.
>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases.

It seems like it is outsourced investor relations. Funny thing is that if you go to the bare domain, it redirects you to ccbn.com, which doesn't work because CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) got bought out in January and apparently killed their domain too. That's pretty shoddy.
We believe that in the next decade, the effort and dollars put toward web marketing will become more sophisticated, and growth in channels like SEO, social media marketing, content creation, etc. will dwarf the growth rates of those in more traditional, interruption-based endeavors.

And then once everyone gets on this bandwagon and the market gets saturated, we'll switch back over to interruption marketing.

I'm a firm believer in the power of inbound marketing, but for all of those things painted in blue[1] there's always a campaign in red to drive my attention to it. True inbound marketing is way too risky at scale.

The next decade and the next century is going to be the ultimate battle for people's attention.

[1] - http://d2v4zi8pl64nxt.cloudfront.net/goodbye-seomoz-hello-mo...
"And while this is somewhat true, it gets the causation backwards. It was obvious to me from a very early age that I was better at sight reading as a singer, so I spent more time doing it."

This is self-refuting really. You admit that you spend a lot more time on one skill and then report that you are better at that skill and are hopeless at the one you tinkered with.

K Anders Ericsson, who is one of the sources of the research on this speculates somewhere (I can't recall of the top of my head where), that there are very likely extremely small marginal differences in initial aptitude, but that these alone are enough to garner praise and tiny edges in performance that are self-rewarding to the practitioner and that these advantages make them more likely to continue with the work required to get better. That's not natural talent, if it's true, that's just a minuscule advantage that may help foster interest and practice and lead to better skill.
Well, reasoning is indeed equivalent across cultures, but only when these cultures embrace it. Reasoning is a cultural trait too and a lot of people or cultures don't know the rules of logic.

These people/cultures use other ways of convincing and arguing instead of reasoning: strongly held prejudices, religious frameworks, proverbs, tribal loyalties, etc.

Besides, inductive method is not the only form of reasoning; I find it interesting how the Germans are so much at ease with deductive reasoning using so precisely defined words and expressions.

Like reasoning, another example of a western notion that we think as universal but it isn't: the humanist notion that every human being is worth the same regardless of gender and race. I find it shocking how many people find themselves as being worth less just because they are not white and/or male. In Latin-America this is changing fast and a lot but still is a widespread feeling among native South-Americans, blacks and women in rural settings.
Very simple - the way you cursing affects how you think. Some cultures are exceptional in using "bad words". Russians, for example, using all the dirty details of a sexual intercourse, while, say, Italians using some blasphemy. Here lies the answer.)
understand temporary solutions and the priorities that necessitate them, but don't accept a decision that you feel is wrong without raising the issue and getting a better understanding. This is your company (your garden) and if you let people pull in the wrong direction the entire plan will fall into disarray.

i'm interested in hearing experiences about what happens when you actually achieve this level of control. I love my garden so much, and have been given sufficient responsibility over it, that I care very much when people pull in the wrong direction. Refusing to accept incorrect decisions -- decisions that will absolutely cause technical debt, overtime, and significant stress and a smaller bonus for us all later in the product lifecycle -- can lead to some interesting and complex social dynamic and this is the biggest thing I struggle with today. Its actually even more complicated because while I feel I am usually correct (who doesn't), there are times when I'm wrong and there are other times where I don't realize I'm wrong.
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If you've a bunch of bare integers or floats you're passing around with meaning beyond "number" and you're tempted to wrap them in a typedef to add some readability, consider wrapping in a struct with no additional elements. The compiler will boil it away entirely when it comes time to generate code, but it'll catch it when you mix up the order of arguments to a function and the like.
Why is some weird combination of fruit fucker and bender on the top of their page?
Liberal Hawks were vocal on Iraq, but have been quiet on Syria