skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, I'm in favor of merging the PR.

That said, maybe they aren't particularly concerned about subreddits with minimal activity, because by definition not many people use them.
This is absurd. I've done a lot of PC, web, and mobile programming in a variety of contexts, yet I've never owned or extensively used an iOS device. You can absolutely ignore Apple and their ecosystem and still learn how to code.
Apple can do a lot better, in fact all these counterpoints you mention are tripe, let me elaborate:

a. $100 (this 99 bullshit annoys me) is a pretty big investment for a student. A common argument is that if one is able to afford Apple hardware -- i.e. the Mac and a mobile device -- this $100 fee is puny in comparison. Not true. One can get an iPod touch for $200 and a Mac for $600 (Mac Mini). With a little more effort, e.g. trawling classifieds, one can get second hand hardware for cheaper. So the developer fee ends up being north of 12.5% of cost of ownership, and that's just for a year, it doubles to 25% if you use the hardware for 2 years, and so on.
N.B. Even when parents buy kids their computers, this percentage argument stands.
The simple point is, if someone wants to program their own device, why not let them do it? Why should they have to pay a 100 bucks?

b. The owner of the device (talking mobile here), should have the right to install whatever the fuck he or she wishes to install. Okay, do not open the door for people to do so by mistake, and have basic authentication. It should be trivial for Apple. Any device with an apple id tied to it, can and should allow the owner to plug in a cable to install a custom app. Make people enter Apple id's twice, once on XCode and once on the device itself, if that's what it takes (I bet there are easier solutions, but this came to mind first)

c. Now, for someone wishing to sell an App in the App Store, charge the $99. I think taking care of App distribution, developer documentation/videos, app vetting by App Store employees etc. would then justify the $99 fee and perhaps act as a filter.

P.S. I don't buy the filter thing either. Over time, the Android App store now has the same high quality popular apps as the Apple App Store (hold on, I know that tablet apps are still better on the iOS platform, but the big names are getting there)
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For that matter, write some HTML and JavaScript and make a thing that works on just about anything. Distribute it to your friends for free. "Coding" needn't be synonymous with native app development.
>>ould have been done in minutes with a python or perl or bash script written in an hour or two by someone with a basic knowledge of code.

The same would be a day worth work in Java.

See the problem there. Its not about learning 'programming'. The scripting guy just could do it because of the familiarity of tools.

Beyond all if the people have issues identifying problems. Merely teaching programming isn't going to help.
Just tried it and the peformance is fast, it loads in seconds and looks really good. My friends are already installing it and we are trying get the multiplayer working.
http://i.imgur.com/Mzjxhpp.png
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I learned to code. Listened to all the advice of hackers who said it was the most important thing ever, and they'd never work with you on startups unless you coded as well.

Well I learned. I worked as a software dev for 1 year as well. And you know what I've learned? I have no passion for coding and it makes no sense to force myself to do something I'm not interested in doing.

If anyone is interested in working with me on a startup let me know. I'm a founder who knows how to code but doesn't like to.
Ever dude should know how to work on their automobile. Especially these days, when it so easy to look things up.
... sometimes mystified by my own capacity to become conceptually paralyzed.

[...] are seen as [...]

Like, are you actually reading what I wrote ?

Who pretends to be smart by admitting their own capacity to become conceptually paralyzed by their own tools ?

What are you even talking about ?
Uh, what? The 2nd amendment discusses firearms and the 3rd discusses quartering of soldiers. What does search and seizure (4th) have to do with this discussion?
Silky smooth. Easy to build too, so long as you have cmake.
If that malicious addon/website can compromise your local machine then, yes the information can be accessed. Similarly, when you aren't using https the password is sent in plain text and could also be accessed then as well.
http://learncodethehardway.org/

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

There. That should do it--for our part, we'll try to be friendly. What more do you want?

EDIT:

http://railsgirls.com/ is actually pretty great to be fair.
Because there are parts of the driver (from 3rd party providers too) which contain patented stuff. So they don't want to expose this. S3TC is one famous example. Thats the only reason (apart from some company specific politics).
This is amazing. Good job!
I pretty much never get angry, but if I am a passenger in a car where the driver acts aggressively towards pedestrians or bicyclists, I totally lose my shit.

Part of getting drivers to behave better is to provide disparagement of driving aggressively from within their own car. You'd be surprised how many drivers are completely non-chalant to actively dismissive of the care and attention they should pay to others on the road not protected by a 6000 lb metal shell. That metal shell fosters road rage and road carelessness by disconnecting the drivers from the world around them. However, that metal shell won't protect them from being judged by their passengers.
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how do you launch boot2docker on your mac, raw virtualbox? or do you mean you actually dual-boot to it?
To add to this OpenNIC[1] is a project encourages people to host their own name servers and even add additional TLDs to their DNS network.

[1]http://www.opennicproject.org/
So if I buy a laser pointer with a patented on/off switch, I can use it to exercise my cat without fear of infringement of 5,443,036? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_exercising_a_cat
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power corrupts people and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

powerful people should volunteer themselves to 24x7 surveillance.
It makes me sad that Philips don't have any Ambilight TV on the US market. Now I'm tempted to order one from Amazon UK and ship it over internationally.
If you are worried about this, just save your passwords outside your browser with a password safe like KeePass. Of course this doesn't protect you if your whole system gets compromised. And if you are worried about Google spying, why you use Chrome anyway?
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I am confused, where exactly do you see this hostility? I thought the hacker community is welcome to everyone. In fact, i am not a white male. Most people i know aren't white males. A very large number of visitors of HN are probably not white males. But we're all respectful towards each other here. In fact of all the forums online, I actually find HN to be the least biased/racist/sexist. Just the other day, that post by Julia Evans about writing an OS received such positive feedback. I didn't see a single comment that discredited her for being a female. In fact when one commenter accidentally called her a "he", he was put down by the others for his mistake, saying that it is very disrespectful to assume the poster of a Tech blog is a male by default.

So i don't see really what hostility you are pointing towards. Some examples would be welcome.
I didn't say unique to, but "essential to." It may also be essential to those other industries, but I have no experience in them.

Sure, shady and disheartening things can happen at any company. However, if that type of negative culture is cultivated at the expense of everything else, it can be jarring even for the most stable individual. I experienced some things that were pretty terrible (and illegal) that gave me pause, but more veteran employees shrugged those things off with cavalier sarcasm. I left because I didn't want to become like them.
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Well I landed my current job after responding to a linkedin request. True, it happened after a long and twisted series of events, but the linkedin message was the catalyst.
To alleviate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_poverty every https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world nation Currency should be pegged to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opec Oil for 4 years till https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma is resolved.
Are STEM graduates about to become the automotive workers of the 30's?
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a) $100 is steep, but $25 on Android seems percentage-wise much higher, considering you can get Android devices for so little (you can probably get an old device for less than $25 on classifieds). I don't think the device-to-development percentage fee really holds up. Absolutely, yes, $100 is more than $25, and I think Apple should lower it just to encourage more people to try it out. But then again, free XCode with all simulators isn't enough to try it out?

b) I totally agree with this point, this does really bother me. If I'm willing to take the chance of bricking my iPhone, that should be my right. I've also been trying to do some testing with the new Bluetooth Low Energy tech, and not being able to unplug my phone from Xcode is pretty damn annoying.

c) I can dig it.
Well, one thing that could be done to change this would be to stop complaining about how one of the most meritocratic groups of people in the history of mankind is hostile, and get forking.

The code is thataway:

https://github.com/
People may have ethical conflicts but not voice or do much with them because they feel the security their job provides is superior to leaving & having to find something new.
I was about to reply to the original post but thank-you for editing and clarifying a bit.

I have to say, though, even if your first paragraph is true, do you have any empirical evidence that native African language speakers have a harder time with computer science than native speakers of other non-English languages?

Secondly, when looking at those of African descent who were not specifically born and raised speaking an African language as their native language, there's no excuse besides both an ingrained societal disadvantage and perhaps a specific repulsion of black people by hacker culture.

As an example, in the USA 13.6% of Americans are African American (born in America and of African descent):
(http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/black.htm...)

While the Computing Research Association reported that only 6.9% of the population of computer workers in the USA are black.
(http://cra.org/resources/crn-archive-view-detail/expanding_t...)

Why is this group so under-represented? Existing societal disadvantages exist, but why are they so drastic for computer science - and what can we do to change that? That's what I'm asking.
Interesting how they don't use the word "open" even once in that article, whereas the Nobel prize winning scientist makes that a cornerstone of his proposed solution:

There is a better way, through the new breed of open-access journals that are free for anybody to read, and have no expensive subscriptions to promote.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/09/how-jou...
I'm guessing because today Obama said something along those lines.
If the top-level domain of a website can now be chosen from any number of 2-3 character combinations (i.e. other than "com"), reducing chances of it having each URL be "guessable", then why bother with top-level domains at all?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...
name.com is mentioned on hn a lot, not a personal user of it.
If the same post is at the top of reddit and hackernews at the same time I'm pretty sure the internet implodes and life as we know it comes to an end.
relax, calm down down. Yes, so magically you managed to provoke a troll out of his slumber. Ignore him. Don't feed the troll.

That said, I am actually confused why someone would doubt your intellectual brilliance based on your mother-tongue :/
I didn't say my algorithm was perfect; just better.

Take a look at the current page to see how awful the current algorithm is:

http://www.reddit.com/r/all/controversial
Seriously stop make these accusations without any proof. Where is the hostility? Just because there are a lot of white males™ doesn't mean there is hostility against other people.
"Authorities did not say whether the deputy was on routine patrol or responding to an emergency call"

Why wouldn't they release this information?
I'm in SV/SF, and this attitude is completely silly. That isn't to say that it doesn't exist, but I would say it's far from the norm, even in tech circles.
good luck getting NSF funding for anything new
So have the kids learn to code on Android.

Problem solved.

There is no "Obstacle to America's Future" here. The point is for every kid to learn to code... not for every kid to build a business publishing iPhone Apps. Why does it matter WHAT they code on???

I learned on an Apple II e, why? Because that's the computer that was donated to my school. It was old and haggared and no... my programs were not compatible with the PC dos or that cool, slick new "Windows" thingy everyone was talking about at the time. And CERTAINLY nothing compared to the little Mac that was out.

But so what?

I still made a pretty cool Angry Birds style game on it using only hline and vline. It taught me the basics... that was the point.

If kids want to publish apps... well... publish them to Android. There is nothing wrong with that.
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"Don't just play on your phone. Program it."

Easier said than done. Not because it's difficult to learn to code. But because the owner of the phone cannot have uid 0 without "jailbreaking". Nor can she write an iPhone app without getting "permission" from Apple.

The closed nature of today's "phones" (which are really crippled handheld computers running UNIX) is the biggest impediment to learning to code and, for those who already know how, to getting their own code to run.

Give me a phone that lets me use my own bootloader, my own kernel and my own utilities.

In turn, I'll add value to what the phones provide out of the box and help the American economy.
Is $100 really that expensive? I'm quite broke, being a freelancer with irregular income, but even I could save $100. It's $100/yr not $100/app or per month. Also, it's one ecosystem out of many. Don't like it...can't afford it...don't build for it. You can still code without having to build a product or create a startup.
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The $25 mentioned for distributing apps to friends is actually only if you want to do it through the Google Play store. Your friends can install any app you give them as an APK file free.
I'm getting this lesson a lot lately, from my almost-2 daughter. The things I think are important, aren't. The things I think are trivial, end up being important.

I just put her to bed, and I'd like to leave the rocking chair and go sit with my wife. Right now, just having someone here is the most important thing to her.

As I read about this, it both breaks my heart and inspires me to live different. I have been touched deeply by many people. I hope I can have the opportunity to touch at least one life as deeply as mine has been.

Rest assured, Derek... your writing has touched lives. Mine included. Please... write more. Priorities will shift, but whatever you do, please don't stop writing!
Facebook has a known, established history of carrying out large-scale, intrusive personal surveillance. Imagine if I said "NSA already hires excellent researchers and data scientists ..." We don't legitimize NSA that way, so why do we legitimize it for Facebook? Does something become morally acceptable just because it is done for money?
I honestly don't get why way make such a big issue of what the gun is made off. Accept that guns can now be 100% plastic and you can't do anything about it and just improve the security in places where guns can't enter. Basically metal detectors are obsolete and you need to find an alternate solution. Legislation is not the solution here.
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CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:20 (find_package):
By not providing "FindGLEW.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "GLEW", but
CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "GLEW" with any of
the following names:

GLEWConfig.cmake
glew-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "GLEW" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"GLEW_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "GLEW"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

~

:(

(Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
I'm sorry, but if you think iOS lock-in is the obstacle to America's future — not pathological consumerism, not Tea Party politics and a government that can't function well enough to pass laws, not your disappearing middle class — then you're not seeing the forest for the trees.

Sure, vendor lock-in is a drag. But let's not forget that open source software and increasingly hardware have never been stronger as a cultural movement.
Why jump to that conclusion? I never said 1 person = 1 vote. What I'm saying is, if Bitcoin takes hold (meaning it's really superior to fiat money, people use it in daily life, etc.) then eventually a tiny percentage of people will end up holding most of the wealth in the world.

Hypothetically, let's just say 1% of the world ends up with 99% of the Bitcoins. That's generous because today it's more like .0000001% of the world owns 99.99999% of the Bitcoins. Using some common sense and a maybe a lot of imagination, the 99% of people who missed the boat will be pissed once they realize what happened. They missed the mining boat and they didn't get to buy Bitcoins for $1 either. The 99% won't just play along and say, "Golly, I'm so glad there's only 21 million coins because that allows me to preserve my wealth." LOL, yeah right!

(Again, we're assuming Bitcoin continues to gain traction over the next 100+ years, the value of Bitcoin is intrinsically tied up with its future potential.) The 1% will be so vastly outnumbered, it won't be difficult for the 99% to get control of the network. That's why I think the money supply should keep increasing if Bitcoin wants to be accepted.

If you think the 99% of people who missed the Bitcoin boat will be "OK" with Bitcoins replacing fiat money, then please explain why. Bitcoin won't make people any less greedy.
I think Antirez is simply doing a master/slave system with async replication. This is what mysql, solr, elasticsearch, kafka, etc do. This is not an unusual model at all.

In CAP theorem terms, Redis has picked zero (remember CAP theorem is pick at most two).

There's a bunch of people who've made this choice, but why? C incurs a synchronization cost. A means that you have to reconcile different writestreams. If you want consistent semantics in a very fast database, you can't pick either. So you end up somewhere in the middle of the triangle.

The consequence of picking zero is that you'll lose a time window of data roughly proportional to the replication lag when the master fails/partitions. There are many applications for which bounded data loss is a perfectly reasonable paradigm.
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... and seeing as you're defending Apple, I'm assuming you already had a Mac, which is also required.
My prob wasn't really about being lost in parenthesis; I had an editor with bracket matching. My prob was the "inside-out" thinking that LISP requires. It's tricky when you're coming from a BASIC/PASCAL/C background.

I'm a sucker for punishment, so after my first (bad) taste of LISP, I took an AI course that was 100% LISP. My AI teacher studied under McCarthy at Stanford, so I probably can't blame him for anything.
This looks awesome. The code is very clean and well laid out. I am disappointed that there are literally no comments in the source code though. Hopefully he will add comments, because a lot of what he is doing is not super obvious, at least not to me.
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Honestly, trying to be "friendly" isn't enough. I know nobody told you that it's your job to include others different than yourself, but personally, I feel it's a moral obligation, one that in the end increases productive output of the whole group.

I'll take a guess here and say that it's easier for a white males to find those resources you posted above. More whites have computers. Males are encouraged to explore more-so than women. I could go on and on.. it's not enough to just post something online and assume anyone with the gusto and the self-will can find it. We don't live in a utopia, less than 35% of the worlds population are active internet users.
Gotta agree with you here. Maybe with more intelligent car systems and advancements in mass transit, the future can be brighter and safer.
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