skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thousand words dully glow

in unsmiling cages ---

the summer still yearns

for haiku's pale fire
I can't tell what was revised. I doubt the changes are notable.
> As a person with a foreign national husband (then-boyfriend) of several years, I can tell you that even the visiting process for foreigners has gotten worse since 2006.

But as far as I know EU citizens (which most definitely includes Austrians) do not require a visa to visit the US for up to 3 months - is that incorrect?
If folks are waiting in line to talk to you it's fine to say "do you mind if I give you a call or drop you an e-mail to do a follow up" and indicate (politely) that you would like to talk to folks who are waiting. Individuals will sometimes come up after a talk and want to have a 15 minute conversation--or try and have an argument of some sort--when three other people are waiting. It's not being rude to spend 30 seconds to a minute to understand the gist of what they want, make a note of it on their card, and follow up later.
> In relation to this article, it says that when you build a model that fits the data, it's not enough. It's a further requirement that the model makes testable predications that turn out to be correct. Models that make accurate predications are valuable. Models that aren't then tested by checking their predictions are, by definition, untested.

the problem with the article is that it lumps in many 'models' with wholly untested ones undeservedly, saying And no, that does not mean simply training your model on half of your data set and showing that you can effectively explain the other half of your data. That is hypocritical because this is more or less precisely what scientists, following the "scientific method", are doing, albeit many times slower than a computer with a parametric model.

> I'd be interested to know why you describe making falsifiable models is just "a learning algorithm."

what happens in some piece of the world over some duration of time can be represented as a function from that piece of the world's initial state to its final state. in the sciences, we try to estimate such functions. the scientific method is a very simple algorithm for doing so: generate a hypothesis, compute N "testable predictions" f(x_i)\approx y_i, and then accept your hypothesis if they all turn out to be correct.
Take a look at Ryan Bates' Railscasts @ http://railscasts.com. Many are very helpful.
I've never seen such an asshole comment get upmodded so much. It'll all fade anyway.
Related NPR story (& 5-minute audio):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1121245...
Anyone who worked in tech support knows that users lie. Most often they don't know they lie, but if you have the log files you can clearly see what's going on.

I imagine anyone who works in law enforcement is also well aware of the fallibility of memory, they just don't bring it up in the court room.

At any rate, this is not a surprising news the article makes it out to be. Our memory is crap. Write things down if you want to be sure of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English
This article is about the 'inductive fallacy,' more or less. Karl Popper wrote a long work (The Logic of Scientific Discovery) on the scientific method, putting forward the criterion of falsifiability as an alternative to the positivist approach of model-building.
If someone broke down your door and threatened you and your family with a gun, would you call that a "non-violent crime"? That's what happened to this kid's victims.

Sure, the kid wasn't personally breaking down doors and pointing the weapons, but he effectively ordered it. He is responsible for that violence. He and his victims were just lucky that no one actually got killed because of his actions, as does sometimes happen when the police invade completely innocent people's homes by mistake.
I'm glad to see others have seen Dragon's Den. There's also the BBC version. There are lots of clips and episodes on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dragons+den+series+1&#...

Shark's Tank falls short because it doesn't have the same kind of dialog as either the BBC or CBC dragon's den. The depth of analysis the dragons go into is great and can really help entrepreneurs understand how to get into a good business.

There was a CBC episode or two where some software products were shown and one of the dragons had a background in software and he loved the idea just for being software. I don't remember anything special about the particular product, but 100% margins were the topic of conversation.
A Brief History of Photo Fakery
There are some notable omissions: Oracle, SQL server, DB2... Is it supposed to be a list of free databases?
This looks awesome. Tempted to try it with my first-gen MacBook Pro, though I'd have to settle for an older ATA6 drive rather than SATA.
This thread from a few weeks ago might be helpful:

"How do I learn Ruby & Rails?"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747342
I imagine anyone who works in law enforcement is also well aware of the fallibility of memory, they just don't bring it up in the court room.

Anyone who has had work responsibilities including reading trial transcripts, as I have, knows that people will report under oath, subject to cross-examination, all kinds of memories that can't possibly be true. The finder of fact has to figure whom to believe, if anyone.
I haven't been to the Agile conference series in the last few years, so this is based on several-year-old impressions:

Most of the attendees are not be people "buying" agile; they are (like you) "selling" agile. A great many of them could be described their work as "teach/train/mentor/coach technology teams into becoming high performing teams".
It's not that expensive. The problem, really, is that no sane person would wish to stop at the H1B. So, do you have a plan to get the person a greencard? That's a far more involved process and places onerous restrictions on the employee while it is pending.
E3 2009: Project Natal Xbox 360 Announcement
Even writing stuff down is oddly fallible because a lot of thoughts and memories don't really translate into written word very well - and even if they seem to at the time of writing, reading those words later can cause an entirely different impression to form in the minds of different people (including your own). Our ability to really communicate in any accurate way is surprisingly bad. It's kind of amazing we've achieved all that we have with such a lossy storage system, IMO.
So I'm reading this blog which advises me to stop reading books and find a mentor. Somewhat paradoxical. Why can't I have a mentor etc and still read a few blogs and books?

Maybe what he means is that we learn most from mistakes which caused us to suffer.
Seems like all of the offers that are made are for greater than 50% of the business. Doesn't that mean they are basically buying controlling interests?
That is one problem with moving to Canada - you will have to become bilingual in sarcasm+irony. There are federal programs to help with this, or you can inrole in monty python-immersion school.
Run Linux or DOS in a web browser
That is still a problem, especially in BC. Everybody wants to live in Vancouver, so they can pay peanuts
The Two-Hour Rule
The original draft for the law had higher amounts for all the drugs. For LSD it was 0.025 milligrams (which would be the smallest possible dose). When the law was vetoed, congress reduced the doses and voted again on it. That's the way they came up with that 0.015 milligrams.
Infogami?
There are 2 parallel systems.
Permanent Resient takes a few years to process, requires higher education but has very few limits.
Then each province has a fast track for needed skills, you must have a job offer and have some specific trade/qualification but it takes < year. IFAIK you can change jobs once you get there.
Visualization tools heating up
http://utilitymill.com/utility/MetaUtility
Just about the same thing for Python. It would probably be trivial to write another one like _why's with Rails, though
Ruby for Rails, it really helps displace the "magic"
A book with an ocean wave doesn't ring any bells. One edition of AWDwR has a hammock and an ocean, but I don't think that's what you mean.

The Well Grounded Rubyist is okay but yeah, you'd definitely need good OO experience first because it doesn't go into OO basics whatsoever. It does cover the dynamic features of Ruby quite well though.

I also forgot to mention the Sitepoint book - Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications. An excellent hobbyist book. I suspect pro developers might find some issues with it though (without cracking it open again I can't elaborate on this but I did hear some comments, despite liking it myself).
Get a linode slice and tell them to download putty. I made the switch to linux after a LONG time of just programming on windows (VBA activated excel sheets, more complicated than it sounds) and that is how I did it. I now program in Ubuntu, but when you are first starting out typing "ruby helloworld.rb" in putty is not too daunting.
Without a visa though you are at the mercy of the highly paid and highly educated experts on international affairs and terrorism that man the passport desk at the airport.

If they think you have stayed too long, visited too often or they just don't like you - you are denied entry. Once denied entry you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to ever be allowed to visit the US.
Never Criticize Your Competitors
I wrote in a fair bit of feedback to your last "Please review" and you never wrote back/replied.
I worked as a magician for a number of years; I was constantly being asked to "do that one trick you do" --- followed by a description of some phantasm I had no clue how to create.

Their memory made me a miracle worker. (I always politely declined, "too tired" for a repeat performance.)
Lockbox: secure secrets for your rails model using public key crypto.
There is (was?) a program in Alberta to fast track PR for any H1B holder - so if any highly skilled foreigners in the US just made it to the border they were welcome. Of course you end up working in Alberta !
One of the owners is a Googler (Brad Neuberg). Not sure that means Google gave this any kind of official support though.
Too generic of a question for me to want to answer.
I was thinking Rebol might be a good place to look.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=780853
It's easy to get too caught up in the heat of competition to remember civility. Suppressing the, "I'm gonna CRUSH the competition" urges makes for more enjoyable relationships, a better atmosphere, and most importantly, better decisions.
Nah, it was at startup and I just diverted emails to a collector gmail account that separated the spam from the useful stuff. It would label each one and then another coworker and I would star the interesting ones. Did this for about 6 months until I decided the stuff going on behind the scenes meant the company was screwed and we both moved on. The one I told was a former coworker from another company who shared an equal distrust.

Real Friends yes. I do not consider people I work with close friends, nor should you. Friends and work don't mix. Acquaintances perhaps...

But that was the most extensive I've ever gone. I wouldn't have messed with their personal lives. Those decisions are their own business.
'Tis true. Nobody in Vancouver would break $60K, and most were leaning towards lower $50's.

Meanwhile I'm working for a little over $100K just a few hours south in Seattle.
There are no multivalue databases on the list (e.g., OpenQM).
I love Ken Rockwell - helped me decide on which camera to buy. And I love this article - "When I had a job, a day of vacation was like finding a pot of gold. Today, a day off costs me a day's pay. Always."

One odd bit: "42? What's with 42? Simple: at this contractor, we billed time in tenths of hours. 42 minutes is 0.7 hours." What?
The main thing you want to do when learning Rails is to make sure you're pretty solid in Ruby. David Black's Well-Grounded Rubyist covers a lot of Ruby.

As for Rails, I have nothing but good things to about Foundation Rails 2 by Eldon Alameda. He gives a brief introduction to Ruby at the beginning, and doesn't rely on scaffolding/plugins, something a lot of early Rails developers try and overuse. Although, now that I think about it, the routing chapter was a little weak. Of course there's also the standard Agile Web Development with Rails (3rd Edition) which was written by the creator of Rails.

After that, the best place is to start writing apps and get some hands-on experience. If you want, there's another book that Eldon Alameda wrote called "Practical Rails Projects" which does exactly that -- guides you through 6 or 7 Rails projects to teach you all about Rails. However, it uses an older version of Rails (1.2.3 compared to the current 2.3.3) but I'm sure a lot of the concepts will still apply. You can always install an older version of Rails to follow along.
You haven't been trolled, I added that as a joke in response to previous accusations of trolling! That said, I was definitely in "devil's advocate" territory, I just didn't like the GP's attempt to blithely equate all possible groups.

"mob persecution of unpopular groups typically only makes them stronger "

"Mob persecution" is going way too far. I meant general disapproval, not rocks through windows. And I disagree it makes them stronger. The example I am thinking of is unemployment, which is pretty looked-down-upon in most western cultures. You're not going to be lynched for being unemployed, but do you proudly admit it at parties? No. That is the kind of "soft pressure" I advocate being placed on the religious, not outright oppression.

"you jump from disagreement [..] to the conclusion that a group is "poisonous" and deserves any kind of random harassment and persecution from the anonymous mob"

Again overstating my claims. Not "any kind of random harrassment and persecution", of course. Instead, fairly mild teasing and a general air of disapproval.
Okay, it's nowhere near as immediate or as cool as Try Ruby, but.. I answered the question by writing a book, Beginning Ruby - http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional-Sec... (not an affiliate link). Ah well, I had to try!

I sense, though, your question is looking for something more immediate to get over the "why bother?" hump with people who claim to want to do something but if it requires more than an ounce of effort could give up easily. In which case.. I'd recommend Microsoft's Small Basic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
It's funny--I was going to post that exact phrase and link.
Hacker Dojo open house right now in Mountain View
Why can't I down mod?
I have 160 karma. I can't find the rules anywhere.
"It is also possible to pay for a subscription through the purchase of Eve Time Codes using ISK. This allows relatively advanced players to play the game without paying real money. A player may buy an ETC for real money and sell it to another player in-game for ISK. The system is officially and securely supported by CCP"

So I'm not sure all 300,000 are paying customers - still very very impressive!
I think that nowadays it needs to be 200.
Yes. They were here: http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/
I guess you're thinking of Tom Mandel. First, he deleted his posts after a tiff with his ex-fiance. Also, he died of lung cancer, not suicide. Full story here:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/ff_well_pr.html
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As for practical experience -

A great help to me was http://www.opensourcerails.com/
It contains a whole bunch of Rails apps to download, and then learn from the code.
"Few people can experience now what Darwin's contemporaries did when The Origin of Species was first published, because everyone now is raised either to take evolution for granted, or to regard it as a heresy. No one encounters the idea of natural selection for the first time as an adult."

It's interesting to read this in the context of _The Selfish Gene_. Mary Midgley (who wrote a scathing attack on the book[1]) once suggested that she probably found it hard to appreciate its virtues because she'd read the ideas in it so many times before -- by the time the book came out they hardly seemed novel to her.

[1]: http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/articles/article.php...

"So if you want to discover things that have been overlooked till now, one really good place to look is in our blind spot: in our natural, naive belief that it's all about us. And expect to encounter ferocious opposition if you do."

Peter Singer is a good case study in this.
I wish there was a bot that replied with a link like this to every scribd thread
We may, but remote is not nearly as good as local, and when they are 8 time zones away it is much less effective than them being somewhere in the US.
Aplikasi Pencuri Data Facebook
Pencurian data di internet bukan hal yang baru, dan itu terjadi pada jejaring sosial seperti Facebook yang akhir-akhir ini teridentifikasi oleh Trend Micro.

Pencurian data di Facebook seperti data username, password dan juga nomor kartu kredit teridentifikasi melalui aplikasi yang terdapat di Facebook yang dikenal dengan Facebook Apps Platfrom.
Rails has built-in Request Forgery Protection. Seems Basecamp runs on a legacy version of Rails, which don't harness these features..
Company Incorporation - Singapore Vs Hong Kong
Even if some of these benefits seem long term or irrelevant (like being bought out by a competitor), the tip about growing the overall market is both immediate and gold.

If you have 10% market share you can grow by taking customers from the competition, or by maintaining that percentage while you and competitors help the market to grow and grow. Both are worthwhile strategies, the latter especially so in emerging industries / technologies.
Ultimate iPhone App Organizer Hits The Web
I did address the issue of not seeing what you just did in the tutorial: the next popup appears a bit later so you can have more time to see what happened.
Arrays of Arrays
#Hashing. The whats, hows, and whys.
How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers
Apple's TV ads criticize Microsoft. I think "never" is too strong, but you should definitely be careful, and do it in good humor.
Visual Media Optimization Mistakes
Visual media is growing quickly among the web design community however are web designers taking time to consider the potential search engine optimization impacts?
RapidMiner is an environment for machine learning
Thats a pretty decent definition. I think their phrase "incompatible type systems" is meant for you to stress the word systems. The word type is not needed. Not to be confused with "type of an object, i.e. its class".

If you really want to know what's in various lower level drivers, as opposed to ORM frameworks (which vary quite a bit themselves), just go crack open some code and look at the APIs for yourself. You can go pretty far back to MS ODBC libs or even vendor dependent Oracle libs from mid to late 80s and see they were used quite effectively on their own for many years. JDBC was fairly straightforward derived from these predecessors.
Plan 9 C compilers
I'm getting interested in Machine Learning and was wondering if there was such a thing. If people have experience with RapidMiner feel free to chime in or recommend something else.
You are what you listen to, says new study of music lovers
"We are competitors, not enemies." - Bill Clinton
The union wanted to move up go-home time, and compromised on lunch time alotted. So instead of working 8-12 then 1-5 with a 1-hour lunch, the schedule changed to 8-12 then 12:42-4:42.

That doesn't explain why :42 instead of :40 or :45. Hence the mention of 10ths of hours. That makes the choices :36, :42, :48, etc., and I guess ya gotta pick one.

(That's my best guess, anyway.)
In uk most banks now transfer money within 2 hours.
yes, an ORM will do all that and then some. Sometimes you don't want the extra stuff. I'm not knocking ORMs. They serve their purpose. Sometimes all I need though is a simple lower level driver.
There's a fine line between criticism vs. compare and contrast.
1. Never generalize.

2. This is helpful in the sense that criticism isn't necessarily the best way to compete, especially if you're growing a new market.

3. Sometimes it's good to ignore your competition, sometimes it's good to partner with them, sometimes it's best to undercut them on price, or best them on features. And sometimes it's best to tell everyone the raw deal they've been getting.

4. Criticizing your competition generally works better in established markets where you're resegmenting.
Emacs not the cause

Twenty-five years I've used it

Fingers good as new
That's true, but as you said, Apple is very careful in phrasing their criticisms. Microsoft's flaws are drawn out from comparisons, not explicitly stated by Apple's guy (I don't know the actor's name). The viewer then makes the predetermined conclusion on "independently".

It's a crafty technique put to good use by Apple's marketing department. Whether it's something a small startup could use to put a dent in a market goliath, I'm not so sure.
Yep, it's in the source: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254
only 55 points?! this is the best thing I've seen in 2009!
Someone is paying for each subscription. Time codes only let someone else pay for your next month's subscription in exchange for ISK.
There's also a fine line between humor and making fun of people. For me, "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" is not humor.

By the way, I'm a PC guy.
The Hosting Provider Time Machine: Paying 2006 prices in 2009
Be careful having lunch with competitors; conversations to set prices or market share are illegal in the US.