skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There are some interesting parallels between the fictional characters of Reid Malenfant and 'Harriman' and Elon Musk.

What impresses me most about Elon Musk is that he is investing a very large portion of his personal fortune for his next steps, instead of sitting on it or counting it.
I think that's partly because the way it's written is much more readable. Larger font probably doesn't hurt either (though the caps does).
Well I'll be the lone dissenting voice here. Downmod away...

First, I think illegal immigration is still ILLEGAL immigration and yes, the laws need to be reformed but until they are, let's not be too devious in how we aid and abet criminal behaviors.

Second and more to the point, anybody who's considering immigrating to the US of A (or Canada) for "technology" will face a rude awakening in another 5-10 years. You're immigrating to the wrong hemisphere. Now if you think you might be a good producer of trash reality TV then hey! Come on over. That's where America truly excels.
I have been running http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ which has similar goals.

Some of its stats are - http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewGlobal.do
Well not really, Pythons' syntax isn't homoiconic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
This is a great big collection of surprising things you can do with javascript. I'm not so sure it's a good thing it's being released.

These are probably idioms you want to avoid writing in code if possible. Learning how to read them is probably useful some times.
What is fair?

It's a good question. Two months ago I would have said it was completely aribtrary. However, a sense of fairness is wired into humans, so it's a factor we need to consider even though for rational purposes it appears ridiculous.

This is the book I've been reading to give me perspectiev on this, _Animal Spirits_ (http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Spirits-Psychology-Economy-Capi...).
I don't like to downmod to express my disagreement, so let me try to put it into words instead of the 'down arrow'.

I think that your stance is absolutely indefensible since the poster explicitly states that he came to America as a young child and 'inherited' his status as an illegal from his parents.

So, even if he/she has done everything possible to stay clear of the law (if there is one thing you do not do as an illegal it is breaking ANY laws, since that can lead to instant deportation) simply by walking around on the street there is a risk.

If you have been in a country for as long as you remember and you have been a productive element in that society then by any definition you are part of that society, and not a criminal.

To pretend it is otherwise because of a bunch of stupid pieces of paper is putting the horse behind the cart.
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I really like this comment from Uncle Bob: Inheritance is not ISA. It is a redeclaration of variables and functions in a sub-scope!

http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/a-square-is-not-a-rectang...
I guess I am stumbling on the "worker" part of "skilled workers" needed. We're not importing inventors or CEOs (or "Albert Einsteins"), we're importing labor, people who know already how to create (technical) widgets from items A+B+C and there aren't enough of thees knowledgeable people already in the USA who know how to make A+B+C into widgets?

So these people are skilled in that they learned how to make these widgets in another country outside the USA, but they want to create the widgets here instead? Did they stop making the widgets in the other country? Does it pay more to make widgets here? Why the USA specifically?

(What exactly does the USA produce anymore anyway? Nothing is made here so what are they making?)

Again, I'm not against immigration, but somehow I think this is a smokescreen. If someone wants to come to the USA to go to school, to live, I say welcome, we've got plenty of room, plenty of food, and we need the taxes paid. But let's not make up reasons to come here?

There are thousands of college students graduating in the USA each year who are unemployed. If they don't have the exact skills needed I dare say a 4 year degree proves they can learn the skill rather quickly?

I guess I need real-world examples to understand this better. I still don't understand why college students aren't being trained for these critical jobs, especially if they are in a tech sector which is always attractive.
Especially absolutely useless ones like this one. This article is of no use to anyone: boxers already know this for inside the ring, and know not to get into fights outside it – which is what everyone should do.
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I wonder how well mentioning religion to a person who puts religion on their profile vs mentioning to someone who doesn't compares. They say "Christin" doesn't help as much as atheist, but I would bet that people who put "Christian" in their profile respond more...
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I don't have anything against posting esquire links, although they are not "hackerish" or have a clear connection with HN. Frankly, I found the previous three interesting but I cannot say so for this one. Way too superficial for my taste.
I guess that, as with all links, it depends on the quality of the submitted article. I'll skip mentioning other submissions that were sub par to avoid a flame, but there have been quite a few that, although the source was HN material, they were far from being such.
Why? If they're interesting, I'd love to see them posted. If not, I'm assuming they won't get upvoted.
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Why are people up-voting this? This is a recipe for bugs.
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Agree on the public speaking idea and it has parallels to sport: The best athlete's are confident because they know they are the best prepared, not because they've practised being confident.
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OK. This is me: http://forums.devnetwork.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile... PM me there or DM on Twitter if you're interested in pursuing this idea.
Ah, nevermind then. I only gave a quick look and what I saw was all text.
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Great collection in one place!
I use about half of them, going to explore the other half...
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Thank you for the nice words. About the reading, at http://charack.googlecode.com/svn/ you can find my thesis text and a full paper. Unfortunately the master thesis is available in Brazilian Portuguese only (I really had no time to translate it to English), but the paper is written in English ;)
The IFCP competition isn't focused on anything in particular - this years competition happened to be based on a satellite simulation, but previous years topics have included DNA repair, AI-based cops and robbers and (my favourite, from 2006) computational archaeolinguistics.

It's really just about problem solving with programs and the winner gets the honour of their chosen programming language being declared the "programming language of choice for discriminating hackers".

I've had great fun attempting the problems in previous years and I'd encourage anyone who enjoys programming to have a go at it.
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please take note of this very important caveat:

> Since no asynchronous methods are available for WSGI applications, the

> httpclient and auth modules are both not available for WSGI applications.

The reason for the omission of the httpclient because of the inability of a WSGI application to set up and retrieve resources without blocking the whole process is clear enough, but I fail to see how the authentication module should suffer from this as well.
Still don't see what's wrong with it - it's not a public holiday, but it still a chance for people to see that their field of work is valuable for country. So - why not?
I think (hope) that it was meant to be funny as opposed to being a serious advice.
Light gray, then ;-P

Srsly, looking past the brackets is the least problem in reading lisp. The harder part is dealing with the lack of syntax, so you have to remember place structures instead of picking up hints from the punctuation. And in that regard, Pythonic indenting makes it harder.
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Translation sucks. It literally says that "this is a number of integers which can be represented by one eight-bit byte" although it doesn't sound as stupid in Russian (but it still does).
Ah common, what's wrong with the fact that Mr Medvedev actually points out that this industry is important for the country?! You can easily replace Medvedev with, say, Her Majesty (and Russia with the UK) and the idea remains the same.
I think what he tries to say by 'socialism' is to divert the focus of research from for-profit, corporation-sponsored goals to more idealistic pursuits, relieving the researcher from a profitability constraint on his work
personal preference I guess. I like it, and so most of my dev environment is dark themed
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Don't forget CSS spriting; static assets from multiple hosts is great, but when you minimize your dependencies AND their size the loading time appears even faster.
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Oh right. I get it now :-)
True, having a round trip to Lisp's standardized format might make this usable. I have to wonder how much of Ruby's success is owed to being unable to trivially share Python code with strangers without most of our tools shredding the whitespace.
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Well played, pity the downvoters can't tell a joke from a serious posting.

On second thought, there might actually be people that think like that.

PG is on the record stating that your posting history on HN is a factor in YC acceptance, maybe they extrapolate that to voting history ?
Ask HN: Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts"
See: http://imgur.com/b1dmB.jpg

A few questions come to my mind:

- Shouldn't a lot of this apply to extraverts too? If not, why not?

- Do introverts really need special treatment?
Do you mean that, only masochistic programmers ought to survive? Or, didn't we all start out as an unskilled programmer before we gained any skill?
Packages: You're right, that is a weakness. However, the important stuff is there, and compiling other things is rarely a problem. OK for experienced admins, bad for newcomers.

Tools: Solaris has a strong history of standards compliance, so you've got the standards based tools, and the GNU tools. Different audiences prefer different tools. GNU tools are now the defaults to cater for people coming from Linux.

Sun/Oracle: Yes, this is an issue, and the uncertainty over the future worries me somewhat -- you'll note Oracle only promised to spend more developing Solaris, and OpenSolaris was not mentioned. Linux is also dependent on big corporates for development, but there is more than one, reducing risk. However, the Solaris model does result in a very clear vision of where things should go, and I personally really like the consistent and stable result - no wondering whether the new scheduler causes performance woes.

I'd also add Zones as well as ZFS as it's chief advantage, as the combination is absolutely wonderful for development and testing. Also see here http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5917-The-impact-of-virtuali... about the performance benefits of Zones for virtualisation.
I find it sad and depressing that a buggy browser plug-in has managed to rise to a status of "OS breaker". You can't be a successful smartphone upstart without Adobe blessing these days (unless you're Apple)

Even github.com brings up "plugins are missing" bar in Firefox. Github? WTF? By the way how do I disable plug-ins in FF like I had them turned off in Safari? It keeps bugging me with that annoying bar.
God no. I don't want to step away to grab coffee and come back to find someone has changed something.
In todays market 750K is not 'a small amount', especially not for a company that launched less than 6 months ago.

> I have a feeling that the people behind cloudkick are not too competent, and that they will bungle their opportunity.

Why do you have that feeling ?
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Grumpy old guys are why mobile computing is crap?
"unemployment is not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced technological society."

This is almost true. Everybody who wants to work should be able to do so, have the right to do so. It's not needed for society as a whole that everybody has to work (to survive) like today.
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Inspiring story. It won't work for all homeless though. Giving homeless people a voice, via Web access is a good idea though.
Makes you wonder what would happen to Mint if Yodlee were to go south.

What have the investors invested in ? A company that does not own its own core technology ?
Best attempt at this has got to be Dylan. Latest, plausible, attempt is probably David Moon's PLOT (Programming for Old Timers):

http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/

See how he does macros for a syntax-full language :-)

http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/Moon-ILC09.pdf
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Most of these just seem like standard bad design or human stupidity. I think there may be a "paradox" but I'm not sure it's well sketched out here.
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The attitude expressed in the first part of your post is the most likely reason for the second part of your post to come true.
Take some of this site with a grain of salt; the bogus PHP speed recommendations still live:

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-php.html

http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_th...
I can't say I've watched any of these yet. But a quick scan suggests they'll be well-worth your time, if you're interested. Many of the speakers are among the very best the field has to offer, especially in the Neuroscience sections.
Interesting.

I also found that I am really good at one thing, but I also dabble in pretty much everything else, whether that is finance, economics, drawing, and electronic hacking.

I acquired a little bit of knowledge in each field but nothing really match my programming knowledge and experience.
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I believe GitHub only uses flash for their repo location copy button which lets you copy a repository location onto your clipboard without having to select it and then copy it manually.
"Prefers C++" means "implemented his winning entry in C++".

This isn't terribly unusual. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest it seems that C-family entries won in 1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, and now 2009.
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The Aussie government research lab CSIRO held patents on some of the technology and only agreed a resolution early this year.
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That's one of my pet peeves with python. Even sites like the django documentation suffer from this, cut&paste simply does not work in the python world and it is much poorer because of that.

It also can make debugging such a problem hell because you have to completely grok the code in order to spot the fact that the last line of a code block has somehow mysteriously jumped left 4 spaces.

And it makes refactoring code a major pain.

Braces rule compared to spaces.
yes, this is where a large part of the idea comes from.
Who tell you to read all 10,000 unread items ?

Google Reader is slow and not very efficient when you have a lot of subscriptions but unread articles is not its problem. IMO Google Reader's home page can be improved more than just displaying new articles. It could display most read, most recommended articles etc ... from your feeds.
Oh no, I have no parenthesis. I am not a dataset nor a function, how do I compute?
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Why don't you start the conversation and maybe we'll feel compelled to join in? Sorry - it irks me when I see posts asking for personal information/thoughts yet the author provides none of his own.
I don't disagree, it was a cold and calculated assessment of ethics, which, to be honest, I don't have a lot of time for in discussion. I find it much better for one to state outright what they abhor or condone and we can frame a discussion about something worthwhile from there. It's not a calous attitude but a sweeping attempt to discuss the finer points rather than the elephant in the room.
Make the web faster? EASY!

Step 1) Remove all external advertisement, that shit slows everyone down.

Step 2) Remove all large images (when they're resized to small sizes). I thought that this was a 90's thing, but it still happens too often.

Step 3) Remove all domain names, all too often DNS is slooow.

Step 3) Remove large useless flash banners and other such stuff thats supposed to be pretty but adds nothing functional to a site.

Step 4) Things others mentioned here + whatever I missed here...
My Haskell way of thinking of it would be that Square and Rectangle are distinct (non-inheriting) data types, Square and Rectangle are both instances of the type-class Rectangular (which inherits and provides default functions for Closed and Polygonal), Square has a transformation into Rectangle, and Rectangle has a transformation into Maybe Square.
You mean, it could combine search with rapid preview?

Oh, wait.
What the hell are you talking about? Adding dinosaur names isn't an argument.
"Facebook allows behavior that users will later regret." What doesn't? If I wanted to, I could post on Hacker News right now detailed stories about my sex life, and I'd regret it later. That doesn't make "negative feelings toward the brand". That makes "negative feelings toward the stupid shit I said online." Everybody says stupid shit. Facebook isn't a requirement. Meanwhile, unless posting photos and writing to people is "encouraging" bad behavior, Facebook isn't.

Please look up the word "osmosis" and how to use it properly. I hate when people use words they don't understand.
is there a way to interchange ( to [ ? I have RSI.

P.S. Not keyboard mapping please.
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I take away from it that real programmers do not have an emotional attachment to one or other tool/ language. They are interested to solve a problem with maths and logic and the computer and his language are just the butler; a layer that has to be abstracted away.

Obviously Knuth thinks that books as a medium are still valid. (I am with him on this one.)

I have not read the book nor do I have any clue about Leaper graphs, but for some reason he thought it could help to research this. How can this research / knowledge help? Maybe it's just fun, I don't know.
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Utilitarianism is a failed foundation for Ethics, as far as I am informed, as it relies on an infinite regress to find the initial act for instance (thus defining the "greater good"), or omniscience in order to be aware of all possible outcomes... thus knowing the greater good from some priveleged position

EDIT: yes this may seem like an egotistical way of looking at it, but I'm trying to shirk the details and keep the feeling - even if that is mostly that I'm an opinionated dick... you may disagree, but that's the thing with opinions
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Pretty soon we'll be seeing headlines like "Hacking riding a bicycle"..
Well there is the Minix which is a Unix like os that predates and inspired Linux which exists purely to teach operating system design and coding.

http://www.minix3.org/

Source code included :)
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So, even if he/she has done everything possible to stay clear of the law ... been a productive element in that society

If he has been a productive member of society then he has broken several laws around the employment of illegals, including tax evasion.
It as if he broke in to your house and has been living in your attic. He contributed to the upkeep of the house by fixing a holes in the roof so that his bed would stay dry. Now that he has lived in your attic for so long he demands ownership since he doesn't remember living anywhere else and doesn't have anywhere else to go.

...in that society then by any definition you are part of that society

No, you are member of society when you live by the rules of that society, and take your punishment when you violate their rules. Doing what you want and breaking whichever rules you want because they don't apply to you doesn't make you member of society. That is not to say the law is correct, but violating them because you don't like them makes you a criminal not a citizen. If he were practicing Civil Disobedience then there would be a political component to his action instead of entitlement whining.
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