skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can find the time, I recommend just going for it and studying abroad in China like I did. I took two semesters of intensive Chinese at Beijing Language University, and it was a life changing experience. http://english.blcu.edu.cn/

Though if I were to return for more classes, I might try a different city, perhaps Xian. The air quality in Beijing is nasty.
What this article lacks is any per capita context. For example, it says 54.6% of hate crimes are perpetrated by white people. According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

however, 72.4% of the population is white, so white people are, on average, less likely to commit hate crimes. Likewise, only 22.4% of racial hate crimes are targeted against white, so white people are far less likely than average to be the target of a racially motivated hate crime.

There is a lot of missing context required to understand this data.
I understand that the conservation of angular momentum amplifies any initial tiny spin... however... I was commenting on the fact that the sun also demonstrates precession and itself traveling thru the milky way... so the point of anything being flat is relative to what? when?
The young entrepreneurs’ dilemma
Could you post your contact information?
India’s Technology Product Story Gets Major Boost With Avaz Getting Funded
I think if you dont understand what clean start means, there is no point having a conversation about this ^.
I'm sorry to offend but she is incredibly full of herself and quite immature. Like she's on some sort of pulpit, spouting things she thinks people give a shit about. I mean, she quotes herself numerous times in this post. She indirectly hints how her lifestyle is so similar to other rich CEOs. Also, from what everyone else says, she seems to be begging her "friends" to donate to her charity as to validate or eclipse her husband's success.

Honestly, this whole situation shows that all three of these people don't know how to interact socially, like for real, with other people. I'm saying "for real" because it seems their social perspectives are heavily skewed inward and towards themselves.

Also, it's super odd because towards the end of the post, the lines get blurred; she seems to be equating her husband's success with her own. She had literally zero to do with the success of Github.
Float is an implementation detail. Precision is an API contract.
Technically, they are probably making a ton of money on it, so I guess you can't say it is using resources net...
https://publicsuffix.org/list/effective_tld_names.dat
I'd say most people definitely don't have time for the extra effort of reading original papers.

Whenever this is important to me I'll get the link from the comments.

Also given NPR also interviewed Downey so 'value added' I wouldn't have necessarily given Technology Review preference.
Haskell itself was created starting in 1990. Haskell '98 is referring to the 1998 report which was a popular standard for Haskell. It's not the first standard for Haskell nor was it the last (2010).

Okasaki and Bagwell did a lot to expand and firm up knowledge on persistent data structures, but there have been persistent search trees (usable for hash-maps) for ages. Lists too.
Nobody said we can drop OpenSSL over night. If you start now in 2 years we might see the results.
Increasing year of birth means increasing human knowledge.

What, since the 1990s? No, don't be silly. There may have been a bump due to improved access to basic human knowledge. Is this what you mean?
What's the reason to keep Chinese hieroglyphs if all people know and use pinyin anyway?
That's tiresomely verbose.
Didn't take the media long after this book came out to trot out old Marx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_as...

In the capitalist west in the 20th century, it seems to me we've experienced what Marx envisioned, the struggle (sometimes violent) between the upper and lower classes, again and again. It is possible to be right in your assessment and wrong in your prescription.

Strangely enough, I think we're more socialist than we think we are. A huge part of the massive US Govt is pure income redistribution, and even so we're still farther to the right than any European country that comes to mind.
You've really touched on it here. People who say "art can't be defined" are trying to limit the notion of art themselves, specifically cordon it off into this romantic notion of the futility of the artist. Art is pure, the thought process goes, and thus man is not worthy of it. It's an original sin mythos all over again.

Art is easy because life is easy.

I've always gone by the idea that art is all just communication of some kind. There is a speaker, an audience, an idea sent, and an idea received. The exact idea received will never be exactly the same. It is always dependent on both the speaker and the audience, and how much shared culture they have. Art is fundamentally a fractal. It is the use of bits of culture to express new bits of culture.

Even people who say, "It means nothing" are saying something. They're saying, "your never-ending search for meaning in the world is inherently meaningless". Because if the artist never wanted anyone to interpret their work, they would never show it.

Art is not just for artists.
That Asociación puntoGAL are from Spain. It will be for sites with content in galician, a lenguage with common roots with portuguese. It is usually funded with public funds and at the end it is used for the politic photo/propaganda.

Here in Spain we have .cat for catalonian too. There were some blogs on .cat that moved to .com because, you know, they wanted to be found and read.
If art makes someone feel an idea then it's really cooking with gas.
Stay in school, but don't worry too much about grades. Spend as much time as you can working on projects that interest you. You're also in a great position to meet the people you might want to build something (like a startup) with in the future.
Don't worry HN turned into this down voting community where if your opinion does not meet with what people want to see you get down voted. It is the best way to get rid of different views so after a while just those guys hang around who's view is the same. RIP HN
I agree, though I wouldn't be surprised if it were true right now. The Internet is undoubtedly the greatest tool that has ever been created for spreading religion, but in the short term it probably just magnifies whatever the larger social/religious fads are, e.g. new atheism.
I too am interested in the comparison with such projects and the differing requirements they cater for. I'm also working on some notes on https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Stack if anyone is interested in bettering the order/outline/etc.
I guess if you're a badass you can boil less water than the required "minimum" line :)
True, but that's a reason not to be so free with them in the first place. I see a lot of wannabe-monopolists in this list, eg getting a .actor domain is easily going to be a must-have for anyone who works in film/TV/theater so issuing a TLD for that is basically granting a license to tax that entire profession.

I originally thought this was a good idea when I thought these new TLDs were going to be trickled out in an orderly fashion. As it is, it looks very much like a land grab that only rich participants can take part in. I predict the resulting balkanization of the namespace is going to lead to a collapse of the web within a decade, in the same way that Archie and Veronica eventually fell victim to their own complexity and were replaced by something more accessible.
That has always and will continue to always go on. The nature of it is such that it won't ever be mainstream. But if you know where to look, it's out there. Carpenters who use hand tools. Photographers who mix their own collodion. Musicians who build their own instruments. It's out there.
Do you realize how big % of the entire IPv4 range are you talking about? I do not think so...
Okay, shoot. What do you think is appropriate?

For a long time the policy has been that only YC cos can post to /jobs, but once a month we have whoishiring threads which are open to everyone. It doesn't seem an unreasonable balance to me, given that YC funds HN and asks (almost) nothing else of it [1]. I also like that it's completely clear and up front. But I'm interested in opposing views, if you'd like to share them.

[1] Re that "almost": the other YC-specific privilege on HN is that founders' names show up in orange. (PG did that years ago when there were beginning to be too many YC founders for them all to know each other.) Unless I'm forgetting something, that's literally everything.

Edit: several years later, in 2017, we added Launch HN posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches). Those get placed on the front page like job ads do at first, but after that they are subject to upvotes and open to comments.
You may need a few compiler flags turned off to compile OpenSSL ;)

That said, many opensource projects ignore the vast majority of compilation warnings. Many projects do the same.
I'd guess this article is definitely written by someone within Github close to the story but even if it's not it's a good thought experiment on how without knowing any details things often aren't what they seem.
mental calories, not dollars. ICANN is spending all their resources on it and not focusing elsewhere in their operations. Yes, it's making money. But budgets were already high. Good people (mehmet, etc.) have left.
Books that have really inspired me/changed my perspective:

Good to Great, by Jim Collins (and all his other books)

How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hsieh

Peak, by Chip Conley

As far as books I find entertaining and stimulating, but not necessarily actionable, anything by Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.
I remember going to Africa where I encountered sounds so radically different that on my return it was luminously clear to me that French, German and Italian were close kin to English in comparison. It gave me food for thought. Chinese is indeed very different from English. But so are many African languages.
No, that is not generally life, because many cities have laws in place that prevent short term renting. I signed the lease with the understanding that I was not moving into a hotel, because existing laws don't allow it to be used as a hotel.

Have you ever researched why laws preventing short term stays in residences were passed? That would be a good start.
The push to tax Amazon is so online and brick-and-mortars are treated equally in a tax sense. Yet the states that have enacted taxes on Amazon, do not collect taxes unanimously from all businesses selling online within their borders. It seems to me that states need to find a new method to treat all online sales equally as well, and not separate Amazon into its own tax bracket. Is each company that faces a legislature going to have to fight for its tax rate separately and work their won deals? This is ambiguous to buyers and hurts smaller businesses that don't have the legal funds or ability to negotiate.
I have not followed this case. However, this just rolled across my FB feed :

http://www.businessinsider.com/julie-ann-horvath-github-hara...

Maybe I'm being uncharitable, but based on her [JAH] public statements I have a hard time taking her version of events 100% at face value. The drama to fact ratio feels high.

> "Company perks : witch hunts, snow cones and silencing"

> "I am not a victim. I'm someone that a company's negligence pushed too far, for too long. I am living, breathing consequence"

> "Leaving GitHub was the best decision of my life"

> "Hmm still no mention of the man who bullied me out of our code base because I _wouldn't_ fuck him. Too popular to be accountable, I guess"

Is Github that awful? I'm not seeing it.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Some of these TLDs will prove to be quite lucrative, others less.

Ultimately, this will benefit
site owners.

Most traffic may be derived from search,
but direct traffic is not to be discounted.

It is good that people will be able to get memorable domain names.

Unfortunately, it will be some time until the public is appropriately trained.

Waves of traffic will be lost or misdirected with people mistakenly adding .com to the URL.
Two character ones are for countries, though. What would you do if a private entity owns ".op" and a hypothetical country of Opzerkistan declares independence?

As for domain hacks, I think many laypeople just enter "something.com" without thinking too much. Remember whitehouse.com[1], in the 90's?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com
Well, let's be clear: I wouldn't advise clicking anything in a V1@GRA-type likely illegal spam message.

But if we're talking about newsletters your don't remember signing up for or marketing emails or invites to a new social network, the unsubscribe usually works and will almost never harm you. AFAIK it's a myth that there's this huge black market for "valid" email addresses. Spammers don't want a list of people who click unsubscribe; they ain't gonna buy anything. There are way easier ways to find email addresses on the internet. And it would be crazy (and possibly illegal) for any sort of semi-legit company to sell their unsubscribe list.

Anything send by an actual company -- especially anything sent through any of the major email providers -- will almost certainly have a working unsubscribe. It's almost impossible to send a message in MailChimp without a working unsubscribe.
They let Google have .ads!

I think that is a bad idea.
soy is effectively AM in spanish. yo.soy/google
Sorry about being an asshole here, but really. The problem with articles like that, is that a novice developer, with some 5-10 years of experience can pick up an article similar to that one and use such techniques without any need. With disastrous consequences. How do I know it? I've seen it happen. Again and again. Hell, it had happened to myself, years back.

An article like that should start with: "unless you really really know what you are doing and are an adult (20+ years of coding) you should probably avoid using techniques like that in the production code."
> always preferred Emily Short or Andrew Plotkin.

Likewise, as well as Nick Montfort; Ad Verbum is exceptional.
This is eminently possible with make-plus-GCC - add the line:

.depend :

gcc -M *.c > .depend

then at the bottom:

source .depend
So are we to understand that when your prophet did this, he was wrong ? That he is not part of your religion ?

How exactly does your argument work ? The islamic prophet killed people for apostacy. That's a fact, confirmed by both islamic and non-islamic historical sources. In fact he massacred an entire city for that.

So answer the simple question : was that wrong ? Is it okay to kill individuals or massacre cities for apostacy ? If he was wrong, then is there any islamic religion at all ?
agreed. though there is some price discrimination in this market.
FWIW if you're doing explicit recursion for something then it's usually either:

a) Going to be bounded by a small number or user controlled

b) Something you would have to use recursion for in any language, like a recursive descent parser.

So like you said call stacks growing is usually not a big issue if you know what you're doing.
No ? The law that the government that is generally identified with the enlightenment movement was my object of study for almost a year. Half of it matches canon law article-by-article, word-for-word. Right down to the freaking wording, and let me tell you, word-by-word latin-to-french translation does not exactly make for clear reading.

If you don't realize the reason for no female priests, knowing that priests are supposed to be missionaries, including deep in "enemy" territory. If that doesn't clarify matters, I don't think you will ever realize why that won't happen any time soon.

The enlightenment law (well, it's direct offshoot, napoleonistic law, to be pedantic) is by far the most-used law system worldwide. Hell, it's the law in Mecca (outside of "family" disputes, and even then), Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, and pretty much everything in between. The "other" law system, English Common Law, is merely a slightly earlier offshoot of the same biblical law (and frankly, common law is much more medieval, local "rulers" have much more power under common law than they have under napoleonistic law), which applies in Delhi, West Africa and Washington.

Which of these would you call the enlightenment values ? Because either version is definitely based directly on the Bible.

In other words, the enlightenment values (the actual ones, used in courts today) 30-40% of them, are sentence-by-sentence copies of a Vatican bible interpretation manual (ie. "canon law"). The rest are copies "in spirit".

It is not the case that enlightenment itself is still in force. You wouldn't want that either, there are plenty of enlightenment values (meaning values of the enlightenment government) that are no longer practiced. This is a very good thing, Google "Robespierre" and start reading. I guarantee that your respect for the enlightenment will drop 50% before you get through half the wikipedia page and you'll be forever thankful that the enlightenment itself ended as quickly as it did.
"drag" seems like a bit of a misnomer for what that parameter is doing - the effect on x and y velocity is calculated separately, so you're always going to get the little "twist" at the end when velocity on one axis drops below the drag value.

See also the source here:

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/master/src/physic...

and the doc comment for computeVelocity a couple lines down.
A clean start should include a better license. Either accept that SSL libraries _absolutely_must_ be update-able and auditable to be sure, which for myself implies nothing less than LGPLv3; or go for second-best and have just a plain old no-advert BSD license that is suitable to the GPL-has-cooties privatized crowd.
> To date, the most robust definition I've seen in those debates are "does someone call it art? Then it's art".

Agreed. I've seen debates over whether various forms of "abstract" paintings are art, but that's not a particularly interesting debate. Of course they're art; the simpler and more useful question is whether they're good art.
It seems to correspond to #9 here: http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/my-illustrated-top-10-...
>what you're saying is the word "irrational" has no meaning whatsoever

It has meaning. It means "we have insufficient information" or "something is going on here that we don't know about or understand."
As with AT&T renaming their 3G HSPA+ network "4G" in most part a of the country, this Gigapower network is mostly already installed and is simply a "flip of the switch" for very small and few newer developments and neighborhoods (newer areas are easier and cheaper to lay fiber rather than run cable on existing streets). To me this is much more of a marketing ploy than a serious commitment.
>"does someone call it art? Then it's art"

I think that's the easy answer... but if you went to the curator of the art institute of Chicago, of the MoMA, or any other art institute of renown, they would have more strict interpretations of what's art, I would think.

That is there is "Art" and there is "art".
OD4B has nothing to do with Mesh.
It's also the greatest tool that has ever been created for destroying superstition and myth. We're in the golden age of critical thinking, something that is very destructive to religious belief.
And the improved access is likely mostly due to the internet.
Clearly, Europe does not intend to defend itself, it's members, or it's neighbors against Russia, no. It is telling that this is coming from the US state department. Makes you wonder, in Brussels, are they so incompetent they don't know ? Or are they cowards, unwilling to even point out the obvious ?

I mean, it's not like we really need these pictures to tell us Putin is behind the destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

It is perfectly well known how Putin will respond to a show of weakness. It is equally clear that the military alliance known as NATO isn't worth the paper it's charter is written on.
Man... I hear you. I was a CTO for many years (I'm old, in tech years) and didn't even look at code for a long time. When I left that job to be a partner in start-up I was doing everything. Coding, sysadmin, pulling fiber thru the homemade server chiller... so I know what you're talking about.

If you get LAMP development and OOP, most things haven't changed. Java is helpful to learn, Ruby/Rails and frameworks work like template engines so if you get that concept you should pick up MVC pretty quick.

If you're going to build apps on mobile my suggestion is to work in iOS. There is lots of code out there to do just about anything you want to do.

I'm building an app in .net for my windows phone just to see how it works. Its very easy and they deploy really easily. So you might want to look there too if you have .NET experience.
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If anything this might discourage picking up a lot of domain names. Instead of the somewhat standard practise of buying your name under say 5 top level domains with all these inclusions most companies will probably decide it isn't worth it to buy their name on every available top level.
While I think this whole thing is a useless namespace land grab, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that there is one slightly useful new TLD: http://www.atgron.wed

They're selling .wed domains cheap for the first couple of registered years, but then charging tens of thousands of dollars per year after 2 years. This is a smart way to create a short-term use namespace.
The link appears to have been edited - the current link does not mention logistic regression at all, and gives a very valid description about the relationship between correlation and causation.
Haha, I guess I can see why you'd think that's "my premise". Actually I feel we'd be better off if the FCC and all its regulations were eliminated tomorrow. (We'd learn the real meaning of "wireless innovation", at least.) A regulated provider that gets the chance to rewrite all its regulations "mid-stream" benefits from an enormous windfall, and the public is not well-served when its representatives give away such a windfall for free. (Well of course there was expensive lobbying and other corruption, but the public didn't benefit much from that either.) This unearned windfall is the "ripoff" that we're complaining about.

The point is not that every home in the nation should be connected by fiber: that would be unnecessary if the FCC ever got off its ass on unlicensed wireless but more to the point was never feasible even while the RBOC lobbyists were promising it. Promising what they could not deliver is really not different than failing to deliver what they promised.

It's funny, but a fiber in the ground is actually an example of a network component that wouldn't require much effort from a regulated provider to remain useful. If a regulator prevented vertical integration, other operators could compete to "light" the fiber, and that would be enough to accommodate innovation. In fact that's what happens in other nations.

There are two actually-independent wireless network operators in the USA. Sprint and T-Mobile both have to rely too much on the big two for backhaul to really threaten them commercially. While it is true that much spending is in response to demand, that demand would be quite different in a market where the FCC allowed actually-innovative services. Also the RBOCs and their two mutant descendants don't get to complain about the regulations they themselves wrote.
Was this already in mind when the proposal to monkeyhammer new user posts was presented?
What would it look like if other planets in the solar system replaced our Moon?
Clearly something only the pirates would do.