skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its very interesting that she has so much to say after abandoning her state and quitting her job.

I guess she had to quit her job as gov so that she could spend more time on twitter and facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyotos

You might be thinking of Coyotos, which seems to have been abandoned.
huh? I never said it in the first place :) how could I admit to being wrong?
He lost me at the real estate example, and now I don't know if I can trust anything in the article.

Selling to agents on a per-transaction basis does not make sense to agents. It just means it will cost MORE in the long run than what they could just pay up front.

So why not an example that he KNOWS works? Does he even have one? Is he just guessing at everything? The author needs to qualify his statements because his example was way off base.
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something like that would do nicely, but just sit away from any beachball playing areas to avoid being hit without warning.
So, what about the JBoss-style pay for services/support/training model? It's clear from Benchmark Capital's portfolio that they're on-board with this -- Terracotta, Hyperic, SpringSource, Pentaho, etc.

Is this a viable model for a start-up? I introduced a piece of JBoss software at a Fortune 500 company, and they paid $45K/year in support without much thought or a salesperson even visiting. And, they were delighted by how inexpensive it was!
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That was the point of the "What are eigen values?" article. It was to give the intuition behind the scary mathematical definition.

I find this helpful, as it answers the all important questions 1) Why should I care? and 2) What is the basic problem that the scary math is trying to solve?

With answers to those questions in hand, you can return to the scary math and work out how it maps to those answers.
Ah, that's a very good point. I've updated the post to return early, since figuring out the short-circuiting behavior across a handful of languages is obviously not my strong suit. Thanks for pointing that out, sophacles.
It's a logical 'or'. You might have 'oracledatabase.com', it won't do you much good :)
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Or, just use the non short circuiting "&" instead of "and"
Wow, that's the best explanation I've read. Very intuitive. Not to say I didn't know the original definition at some point but having such a concept tied to a concrete example makes it much easier to remember.

It makes me wish that most mathematical concepts were explained with some kind of real world analogy.
Seems quite neat.

I'd also recommend PythonTurtle. http://pythonturtle.com/
Maybe we should institute copyleft as a first-class right, instead of hacking the copyright system.
One thing that's not covered in this particular article, but has come to light recently, is that MakerBot Industries is paying people to make parts for the MakerBot. http://blog.makerbot.com/2009/08/06/makerbot-is-pioneering-d...
I'm going to do the deal and track it on everlater.
The zero mapping is a homomorphism. I would not call it a "kind of equivalence"; would you?
Cool, I didn't know that would work in python in this case (testing shows it does). Thanks :)
Why is it that you Americans are so two dimensional? Every possible idea for social reform must either be the republican or democrat position. If it can't be pigeon-holed into one of those viewpoints, it's not worth discussion. If it can, it quickly devolves into some form of partisan debate.

Your two party system is killing you in every area, and you don't even know it.
This talk is derived from his book "Status Anxiety" as is the documentary of the same name which is available on Youtube in low quality:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=336D8AE0334C5C91
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"A lot of times our ideas of what it is like to live successfully are not our own. If you're a man, your father. If you're a woman, your mother.. We are highly open to suggestion. We should be truly the authors of our own ambitions. It is bad enough to not get what you want but even worse to find out at the end of the journey that what you got is not what you wanted."

"That problem is envy. If there is one dominant emotion in modern society - that is envy. And it's linked to the spirit of equality. We don't envy the Queen of England...because we can't relate to her... And when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are in age, in background, in the process of identification, the more there is a danger of envy... Which is why you should never go to the same school but.. The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school - everybody is wearing jeans and the same and yet they're not."

"One of the reasons we fear failure... is the judgment and ridicule of others. The number one organ of ridicule is the newspaper... they have failed and they are described as losers."

"We tend to worship ourselves. Our heroes are human heroes. Most other societies have had at that center something that is transcendent. A God, a spirit, a natural force, the universe"

-Alian de Botton
I think this is the key thought:

"The fallout of the bubble persists today."

Indeed. And it will take a long time to clean up this radioactive mess - I believe we're not even half way there.
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He'd Rather Be "Raped By Pirate Bay" Than Played On Spotify
There are a couple considerations. First, you want a language that is not too intimidating or difficult to start with, or you may fall off the bandwagon. Many programmers broke their ground on languages which allowed them to quickly get something tangible (a reward), like BASIC. Some people don't need this, and can jump straight into a language like C and love it, however only you will know if this suits your personality.

The other consideration is to pick a language that has some sort of structure and encourages a good understanding of underlying concepts. Working with C for example, really forces you to know and understand how a computer works. Something like Ruby (my favourite) allows you to easily ignore these inner workings. This has a speed and ease of development advantage, but could be detrimental to your core understanding of CS.

I personally love programming with Ruby, however from personal experience I can say the large amount of different programming styles which Ruby can encompass can cause you to write some really odd and sloppy code while you are learning. Additionally, there are an infinite amount of crappy examples of Ruby code, and relatively small amounts of good code. My recommendation if you go the route of Ruby is to ignore many of the articles/blog posts on beginning Ruby (they are drumming up ad traffic), and dig around in the source code.

Additionally, you can writ Ruby in a multitude of styles. Flexibility is always good, however, it can lead to some real serious slop. My first year or two of writing programs that were more than simple scripts were with Ruby, and they are some awkward and sloppy programs. However, the pleasure of producing those programs was probably greater than if I had tried to struggle through with something like C.

I am lately leaning towards suggesting javascript or actionscript for a first learners language. First off, both have an awesome ability to quickly get you something tangible. They have a really good layout system (mxml or html/css), and you can easily share your creations with others. Both can can be written in a C style, or can be very object oriented. Neither require crazy development environments.
Would love to meet up, I'm also doing the pass!
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It's a good explanation. I guess my question is deeper: what's the semantic case for having these things in the language? So far as I can see, these are purely optimization vs. a standard continuation. They allow the interpreter to "skip" the stuff on the stack above the reset, and thus free it earlier than it otherwise might. Otherwise the closure of the continuation code would need to save the reference to the whole stack, and everything it references.

So... why make the programmer do this? Can't you figure out for yourself the scope of the "highest free variable" in the referenced code?
Oh joy, a distro advertisement: nice fuel for a flamewar. Considering the username: double advertisement.
Im in the middle of readin "How to Talk To Anyone" by Liel Lowndes. I think it might be the solution to your "obnoxious" problem.

It puts together 92 tips for improving your body language and the impression you make on people. I've found it useful.
Your argument is flawed because you're making it seem like Facebook competing with Twitter is a technical problem, when it isn't, it's a social, branding and marketing problem. People use the products in different ways. Twitter is associated and popular in the public consciousness on "public updates" while Facebook isn't, and Twitter has a buzz behind it that Facebook doesn't.

By using the same logic as yours, Facebook Marketplace should have beaten Craigslist by now. Or Match.com should have beaten plentyoffish. Or, hell, Reddit should have beaten Hacker News. But they haven't happened, despite all being technically superior and having supersets of the others functionality.
I love the story of this startup, and it's great to see them succeed :)
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I wish there was Octopart UK. Was trying to track down some nice Hall effect sensors to measure wheel speed on a robot I'm working on and bouncing around from vendor to vendor is a mess.

I actually use Octopart as a product catalogue and then find the things it finds in the UK.
Incredible, but nothing a little sleep(rand()) won't solve.
Blogger is like Windows. Tons of users, zero innovation.
You're assuming they use the UNIX epoch.
The article addresses this by saying there could be vouchers or some way for the government to encourage people to go to them. And don't forget that in his system, the low income people would be subsidized anyway, so they might be in a better position to get preventative care than they are now.
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"If I replace population and diversity of India with US, I don't think even US can survive."

On what logical basis can you make such a claim? What do you mean by "survive"?
My response came off snarkier than I intended. I've edited it to hopefully de-snark the point I was trying to make.
That's all very well (and Goldberg's paper is excellent); but it has nothing whatever to do with the linked page, which is by Fields medallist Tim Gowers, arguing that in pure mathematics "infinite decimals" is as good a way to construct the real numbers as "Cauchy sequences" or "Dedekind cuts".

For what little it's worth, I agree with Gowers, and have done since before I read that page, though I'd prefer to use binary rather than decimal.
Yeah, I'm not one to speak but the valley is living in a bubble, most likely as LA or Washington DC or NYC is. That has upsides and downsides, the downsides probably being really out of touch with what people outside of a 2 hour drive radius want from their technology.

I spend time around being very geeky people who are in very different domains than I am. It's entertaining the knowledge I'm assumed to have of people and companies and technologies , as though web and mobile technologies are the only game in town here.
I think this version doesn't use the "Memory" API. I have two versions, one that uses it and one that doesn't and the difference is very minimal - not worth to drop the Flash 9 support at least.

I'm not sure if RF2 can be done in regular JavaScript though. Maybe in Chrome 3, which about twice as fast in my 3D canvas benchmark test (this one: http://gimme.badsectoracula.com/canvas3dbenchtest.html ). But Flash works 'equally' in almost all browsers while JS+Canvas is very browser specific when it comes to performance.
I don't know about him, but it was my island and my home, I'd prefer a solution that worked. I'd save the tinkering for something other that the most important thing on the island.
status is a zero sum game, while the economy is not. one can't generally create status without lowering the status of those around you, the same is not true for wealth.
Ask HN: Are you looking for a founder?
If you're looking for a founder please post the description the role! :D

I'm interested to join a startup.
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We list parts from Premier Farnell which is in the UK and we'd like to get part data RS Components. Who else would you like to see? If you let distributors know that you'd like to see them on Octopart when you make purchases, that would help greatly.
I really hope you hire a decent web designer. The markup is really not very good and the site doesnt tell you what it does when you first visit.

You should be aware of what a site does within a few seconds of visiting.
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I don't think he was saying meritocracy equals bad. It's more like he's saying look, here are some effects of meritocracy that we should consider
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A few points:

a) by asking people to sign an NDA before beta testing, you're slamming a door in the face of the overwhelming majority of potential testers. If you want to ensure a purely CYA legal policy, just stick in TOS as they sign in to test (that won't turn off most since most don't read TOS)

b) while it's true that you are unlikely to find someone who'll look, test out everything, and summarize in constructive bullet points, it's missing the point a bit. Your ultimate goal should be to find large number of warm bodies (ideally, from target audience) to throw at your app and then have infrastructure & discipline in place to observe them and make inferences. Also I think we need to differentiate between alpha and beta testing, they require different approaches (and I suspect that the author is talking about what I would call alpha: pre-functional still secretive app).
Not a trademark.
Is this a registered trademark? (I poked around the USPTO search form a bit, and couldn't find anything resembling "programming praxis").

I know copyright kicks in automatically, but is there such a thing as a non-registered trademark, and does it carry any legal weight?
FWIW, two of my friends got offers in the last two months.
It would probably make you look pretty foolish though, I think maybe a beach umbrella is a better idea if you care about that.
Yes, I've developed on both, and find the redhat ones to be much, much worse. Perhaps its a different development area, I do mostly Ruby and other dynamic languages. The -dev is a PITA when I want to install the mysql ruby gem, but I can't because it can't find the headers, so I have to go hunt down if I want mysql-client-dev, mysql-devel, or something else. With Arch, if I have mysql installed, I have the headers. Done.

I find the 1 3rd party repo to be a far better situation. I've never even needed it, everything is in the main pacman repos, or AUR. If I need the latest git, I have to decide if I need Dag, or EPEL, or some other one. And compiling your own is trivial in Arch, a ~10-line description file vs the nightmare that is rpmbuild. I don't have any experience building .deb, so I can't comment on that.
Good arguments. Anything taken to the extreme is bound to have negative implications, including meritocracy.

I would disagree about how much choice we have once you are down and out.
I would like to think otherwise but I'm where I am because of where I was born, my family, friends and circumstances. May be some choices I've made here and there might have made a difference.
On the other hand, I've know so many people who were much smarter than I will ever be, end up in bad social standing because of the things I've mentioned like family.and circumstances.
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y/w. This actually brings up an deeper problem too: the vast majority of the timing attacks exist because of little algorithmic optimizations, such as return on first inequality. In most cases such a comparison is desirable, as it is on average 50% faster (depending on specific data characteristics). We as computer people do these sorts of things as second nature, because we have been taught that efficient algorithms are always best. In cases like these, even when I know that there is a major problem being fixed, I cringe at the inefficiencies. It seems also to be a cause of other types of security hole, e.g. "why should I check this data, it should have already been checked, If I do it here, it's a bad redundancy".

Anyway, rambling thoughts aside: thanks for the article.
Twitter's Biz Stone speaks out about crippling DDoS attack
My understanding is
Introspection is the analysis of ones own thoughts.
Meditation is simply being still and seeing things as they really are, understanding that thoughts are just thoughts, just as the floor is just the floor.
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I believe that Ruby's Digest == method suffers from a similar issue. It uses rb_str_cmp to compare the hex strings, which uses rb_memcmp to do the comparison which uses memcmp.

The implementation of memcmp bails out as soon as it finds a difference:

int
memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
{
register unsigned char *a = (unsigned char*)s1;
register unsigned char *b = (unsigned char*)s2;
register int tmp;

for (; len; --len) {
if (tmp = *a++ - *b++)
return tmp;
}
return 0;
}

I suppose I ought to be reporting that somewhere. OK, I just told the security alias for Ruby about it.
Flagged this because it's not a trademark. While he might have a legal case due to first use, and be able to trademark it now, he doesn't currently have a trademark. Bad title, no biscuit.

Upvoted because it sounds skeezy as hell.
Ask HN: How important is SEO to your business and what tools do you use?
And what is your most important tool? Website or desktop tool? Consultant? And do you pay for these tools/services or do it yourself?
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Yahoo Personals Review Links, Online Dating Sites and Many More
This web site reviews several online dating sites and rates them according to members, price, effectiveness, and privacy. This particular page is open to the review of the dating site, Yahoo! Personals.
defiantly
An ad-supported version of your product that doesn't make you any money is worse than the Pirate Bay. Advertisements shit on your brand.
As others have said, the purpose of the site is very unclear. I'm reviewing it for the sake of reviewing it, but normal visitors won't work so hard to figure out what the point of your site is, they'll just move on.

Here are a few suggestions:

1) Put a question mark after IsItOpen in your logo. Pick a more readable font. The shape next on the left side of the logo doesn't add anything either, so remove it.

2) Add a highly visible tagline that explains the site, either under the logo or in another highly visible place. Suggestion: "Rating consumer electronics on their extensibility and ease of use"

3) The FAQ needs work. I'm OK with a conversational style, but "What the hell does that mean?" is too much. Make this section clearer and get to the point faster. The sections starting with "Have you ever" are a step in the right direction. Remember, they've probably landed on this because they are confused about what the site is for. Its your last chance.

4) Remove the animated menus. They are buggy, slow, and annoying.

5) Comparing an iPhone to a keyboard to a stereo is not helpful. Presumably I'm trying to choose between a set of competing items based on their "openness" before making a purchase. So group the items by type.

6) On your about page you mention that during the submission process the user grades the item on a number of criteria. These would probably be a lot more interesting that an "openness" score with an arbitrary number next to it that has basically no meaning. Is .83 good? If its out of 1, yes, if its out of 5, not so much. I think its out of 5, but I had to look at a bunch of other products to deduce that.

6) Reduce the number of device types. Honestly, I think phones are probably the only place people really care about this, maybe TVs. I could be wrong. But I don't think you'll find a lot of visitors trying to figure out how "open" various keyboards are, whatever that means.

7) The design is hard on the eyes. You mentioned its an alpha, but make sure you clean it up before launch. Bad design takes away from your authority.

8) Buy a new domain. .org.uk will become an albatross.
Anecdotally, shortly after The Daily WTF gained popularity I emailed Alex to suggest starting a sister site for non-programming IT related WTFs and he tried to poo poo the idea saying he didn't think it would have enough content, etc. Without support of the Daily WTF, it was a lost cause so I gave up on it. Shortly thereafter, he started a section on the Daily WTF site for non-programming stories.
I first read the title as "Dean Kamen takes His island off-grid" and found it amusing.
Thanks for pointing that out, I stand corrected.

In my defense, I wasn't trying to criticize the theoretical content of the article, which, in all honesty, is beyond my mathematical knowledge to criticize. The real number to "infinite" decimal conversion issue just reminded me of the age-old floating point number arithmetic problem, so I let out a little rant.
He's not talking about a legal trademark, he means his "trademark" phrase has been co-opted by TDWTF.
Not really, if this attack is doable over the internet, which will have latencies randomly[1] distributed (in a normal curve), rand does not actually do anything, well maybe require a few more sample points to get that noise out.
to some extent. wealth and the economy are complex systems with limited resources.
I like the idea. But.

The logo is really not very appealing, and it doesn't say anything about the project. It doesn't add anything to the site, which in my mind means it detracts. Your brand identity should definitely NOT detract from your product.

The database is really weak, which makes the site useless. You need to scrape some info from somewhere so that when I filter the tags by 'camera' I don't get a list of mobile phones. That happens to me once, and I'm gone.

You should put a brief description of the purpose of the site on top of the results on the home page. So that we know why we are there.

I can't buy anything here? This is a store with no cart.

Don't make me signup/register/login before allowing me to vote or rate stuff. There's nothing to play with to get me hooked before requiring login.
why hasn’t the market unraveled? Why aren’t employers making offers to students when the results of the joint entrance exams are announced?

I suspect there's an oversupply of workers. But I also think it's just a matter of time until the entrance exams results are sufficient for a lot of employers.

Why hasn’t competition driven out `bad’ institutions?

I suspect a shortage of supply in education and oversupply of demand for education.

Last, what if quality of faculty research is unrelated to the ability to educate undergraduates?

It isn't! But you don't go to Harvard just for the book learning, mostly you go there to rub elbows with the old money.
Do you mean "one dimensional"?
HTML worked fine. It's the documents which are not compliant, because they use non-HTML frills and were not correctly designed to degrade gracefully without them.