skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? A couple of million people have learnt to code quite well. Some learnt quickly, others after lot of time and effort. Most are still learning after years of experience.

Learning something new is generally difficult. For example, a baby doesn't just stand up and walk. Most people don't just get on a bike and pedal away the very first time.

If you would like some help from HN folks, perhaps you could tell us what language(s) you have tried, describe how you find learning to code difficult, what you have tried and what the results have been so far. Doing so might elicit feedback that is in line with your experiences to date.
I'm a bit more pessimistic. I've tried Siri and Google Now but they just seem to be more involved, less accurate ways to do things I could have done by touch. A good (human) personal assistant should know what I want and execute without involvement on my part, and that requires social cues that are difficult to encode as inputs to machine learning. Until we reach that point all we have is are speech-to-text engines with some services attached, which is not that useful imo.
Very courageous to help a treasonous POS and spy working for the Russian government.
Because that's completely unreasonable and you know that.
How 25 years of Photoshop changed the way we see reality
If you are not using bag of words, then what features are you fitting your logistic regression with?
I think that we should instead have books that should be self contained and possible to read without any prior knowledge. For example a book about mathematics should start from very basic concepts illustrated such way that any motivated human could finally understand it without no prior knowledge about any math.

The same for other fields and also for a language.
Yeah, I'm not denying we need the philosophy/history books

But civilization would need to bootstrap to "current levels" quickly, and I assume a lot of knowledge about that is currently only in people's heads

Crops + Animal Raising -> food. Then construction and metallurgy (helps with the first items), then thermal machines, then industry building all over again. Then to electronics, semiconductors up to computers again. Don't forget all the medicine, chemistry, plastics, oil processing there as well
Care to elaborate? Are you even real?
What good have you done today?
This is great, installed/keeping it. Might donate down the line if I get much use out of it. It'd be awesome if it was set up with homebrew-cask somehow.
"The market has driven up salaries ridiculously high."

Has it really? My dad owned his first home freehold after working for 5 years. I'm almost there after ~15 years. And I've had help from my wife.

Real estate has driven up salaries ridiculously high.
This used to be absolutely true but is now only mostly true. Setting reminders by saying "Google, remind me to do X at 3pm tomorrow" like you would to a normal person works now much better than aiming at a calendar.

Same with quick searches. It's easier to do a voice search than type the terms on a phone, even with suggestions from your keyboard and Google.
This is interesting. I've been considering purchasing a typewriter but I fear the "clackity-clack" sounds would annoy my SO. I've heard of the noiseless variety but upon some YouTube viewing, it doesn't seem they're actually silent. This, in turn, has led me to consider an electric one.

On a side note, while attempting to solve a -50 error on iTunes, Apple Support told me "Apple does not support vintage or obsolete products." I have an original MBA (2008)... http://i.imgur.com/UR7HsZp.png
I see it as a reminder not to run software than you cannot patch yourself.
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Exactly what about it is awe-inspiring? In what services does Australia have an intrinsic advantage, or an advantage that will remain for the medium to long term? Why is a service economy a good thing?

Australia went through the entire commodities boom without posting a current account surplus. Australia has been a net debtor every year since 1973. Australia has no money to invest in itself because its population is too busy borrowing money from overseas to speculate in real estate such that shitty brick veneer houses built in the 1960s are worth 1 million dollars.

Our economy is so dependent on borrowing from overseas for "growth", that if we stopped borrowing and started paying back, then our economy would shrink, due to all the interest going overseas. Unlike Japan, for instance, Australian private debt is ultimately owed overseas, in another currency.

If that borrowing had been directed towards productivity rather than real estate speculation things might be better.

As it stands, the really expensive real estate is nothing more than a massive overhead for the economy. I challenge someone to argue how it aids Australia's productivity and competitiveness.
I hope he can elaborate. I'm sure he has nothing to hide =P
I disagree. Many advanced books on any subject would end up being huge volumes with 90% of the pages serving as introduction to the core idea discussed by the book.

Not every book about programming needs to begin with detailed description and examples of what the conditional statement or for loop is. You can arrange books in series with prerequisites and this is how people learn new subjects.

Your idea seems comparable to demanding that all C/C++ programs expand all their includes inline or that all Java programs that need a HashMap implement one rather than importing java.util.HashMap.

Perhaps a better solution is for books to suggest prerequisites to read or at least enumerate their assumptions about reader's prior knowledge. Some books actually do that.
It'd be interesting to see how much influence working at Amazon has had on the founders, if at all, in shaping the business practices, the customer-centric nature of the services offered, the overall culture of the company they built, the values it stands for, and the approach it takes towards software industry in general.

Most start-up companies in SV and the bay area are either co-founded by ex-Yahoo or Xooglers (of late, the Facebook/Twitter alumni has joined in as well). Is working at/working of Twilio different than working at/working of the start-ups that are founded by founders from other companies?
Show HN: Mandelbrot Explorer
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck.
Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide
Ask HN: Is hacker news unfair?
hacker news front page ->
http://i.imgur.com/qjcd6z7.png
new section ->
http://i.imgur.com/KKj24Kl.png

I am using Chrom OS

here are some more screen shots->
http://i.imgur.com/3Lv2RXd.png
my link that did not make it to the front page
http://i.imgur.com/o0nbGN3.png
You can see my link in the new section that had 11 points but still did not make it to the front page.
In theory, that would work and solve the problem. In practice, downward nominal wage rigidity is a thing.

http://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/nominal-wage-rigid...

(note especially the ludicrous 27% "natural rate" of unemployment for Spain predicted by standard economic models cited there)

Ordinarily the problem would be solved by de-valuing the currency against the more competitive economies' currencies, but with the Euro that's not possible.

So the best way in practice would be for the more competitive economies to incur some inflation, say 5%, for several of years so that the less competitive ones can stay at <1% and restore competitiveness that way.

Unfortunately this is politically impossible in the Euro zone today, hence we have 25% unemployment in southern countries.
It matters less than cashflow.
It's useful for sharing snippets and the associated disassembly with others, much like you'd use pastebin. I use it on IRC all the time (for C++). It's also useful to be able to see the codegen for compilers you don't have in front of you, like MSVC or different versions of GCC.
> For the first time ever I had to deal with xargs and find together last week. Bear in mind I've been using Unix for about 20 years now.

I'm really curious about this. Do you have a very specific workflow that gets around that need or an alternative that would replace find + xargs? Is your job pretty niche? It just seems like I _need_ it a few times a week minimum, and I'm not really sure what would replace it off the top of my head.

I do agree on powershell being quite slick. Sometimes finding what I want is a process, but so was unix in the beginning.
I think WikiLeaks helped Snowden a bit more than getting him out of Hong Kong/Moscow airport. When Assange was asked a question about how they helped Snowden get out of the US things got interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johT3i6XFfc#t=1778
If these compete on the same idea in the same field, only one of them can succeed

I disagree. Its not a zero-sum game. Many markets (although certainly not all) are large enough for more than one company to be wildly successful.
The author tells me to 'Please enable Javascript!'

I counter: 'Please enable HTML!'

In all seriousness, it's text, images, links.
There are no user accounts,
no dynamically updated database of 'favourited' sections,
no per-paragraph instant chat,
the page is remarkably atrocity-free!

Hence, this page seems very much un-Unix-y:
Solve problems at the lowest level of complexity, what?
Spring Framework 4.1.5 released
Another possibility is the new, more efficient, ways to interact with your computer.

Direct brain interface maybe.

Pretending that your computer is a human is actually NOT an efficient way of communicating with it. Moreover, it is unreliable and dangerous because those "intelligent" assistants lack intelligence and may do something a human would never do. So one cannot (should not) use them for any mission-critical tasks.

As yet, it would be nice to see at least a non-painful way of editing text on a tablet. Or something better than pen and paper (or an electronic pen and a tablet) to quickly express your thoughts in a graphical form.
And when you're browsing a web site with a Facebook Like button (that you don't click on), you're giving information about your browsing habits to Facebook and it's totally non-obvious.
I just don't deal with lots of files really. I tend to deal with a small number of very big ones instead and the paths have always been short. To replace it, no idea.
Its much harder to create a decent webapp than a desktop app. For example, you can easily drag and drop together a semi-decent UI using winform/Android IDE in a couple minutes. The time it take construct a decent UI for the web is at least a magnitude longer. It's simply easier to delegate the "simple" web stuff to CMSs and move the harder logic bits to a native app where you don't have to worry so much about client-server problems, rendering etc.
yes, it works accross most browsers and in most operating systems. Mordernizer is tweaked so much to support some age-old browsers too.
This was interesting positioning from Netflix: We don’t and can’t compete on breadth of entertainment with Comcast, Sky, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, or Google. For us to be hugely successful we have to be a focused passion brand. Starbucks, not 7-Eleven. Southwest, not United. HBO, not Dish.

Netflix is phasing out its DVD business over the next couple of years to focus on domestic and international streaming. International is where penetration is pretty low and they're targeting 15-16% penetration of broadband households over five years from its current 3%.

In the last few quarters they've outperformed their own subscriber growth forecasts on the international side with country launches in France, Germany underway. The share price has jumped each time. Other markets they are likely to cover Italy, Spain, OZ & NZ. Massive markets like India, China, Russia and Japan really unlikely for the medium term at least with piracy, strong local incumbents and lower purchasing power.

It's just made $270m in profits in December 2014, after 10 years of losses from IPO to 2012 and secured a $500m loan with $1.1 billion cash so it is only now becoming financially sustainable. I assume they are getting better at creating own original content and thought Marco Polo was pretty good, might be on my own there though. I think the future is bright though opening in each new country and having to license content in them way in advance means lots of upfront costs in unfamilar locations. Should be a long slog but they're on the right track as a focused, passion brand.
Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot it anyway.
On second thought, not sure resampling |S| words from L is a good idea because you want 100% coverage of your sentiment universe and an asymmetrical corpus is not a priori incorrect so resampling does not solve anything except reweighting match lists which may not even lead to symmetrical sentiment since the distribution of words amongst the language (TF-IDF helps here) is not necessarily the same in your negative and positive lists
> immature state of the US agency
> recruitment market compared to Europe

You really have no idea about mature recruitment markets. The UK recruitment industry you represent needs to be replaced with a number of short Bash scripts, so that people like you (yes, you) will lose their jobs and suffer. The sooner it will happen, the better for everyone.

I'm a Russian living in London and always mention Russian recruitment industry as an example of smoothly-functioning market with most inefficiencies resolved in a way you would expect in a modern economy. In short, agencies in Russia only deal with hiring top-level execs, equivalent to someone on £200K+ salary in the UK (i.e. less than 0.1% of the country's labour force).

The rest is handled directly by companies directly through two of the largest websites -- job.ru and hh.ru (it actually feels weird to describe this on a forum that talks about disrupting something all the time!) The traffic on those websites is enormous, the number of applicants for any vacancy is much higher than any recruiter I used in the UK ever brought in.

It costs the company a fraction of recruiter costs; it shows the applicant the company name immediately so he or she can do their own due diligence without listening to things like "top-tier investment bank" that you and your colleagues have invented. It's better for everyone. Compared to that, UK recruitment looks like car boot sale compared to eBay.

Best companies like Yandex normally also advertise on their websites with few questions dropped into a vacancy to filter out non-qualified people (see, for example http://company.yandex.com/general_info/jobs/develop_cpp.xml).

Now, please, tell me about the added value recruiters in the UK bring anyone.
I guess you never mistyped a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation number before then.
Computing is cheap. Setting up and maintaining that is more human seconds than doing it clientside. I dare you to calculate the amount of energy this wastes on a blog that gets a billion hits.

This is a battle you cannot win and should not attempt to fight.
It is not really ! I found The Coding the simplest job ever :)

This is the only thing which ALWAYS works the way being told: Whatever you put to your code, it will work exactly the way you phrase it ! (this doesn't mean - the way you expect)
Wow, Next-Generation Infrastructure APPSERVER is out with mind-boggling features
The Magna Carta.

Civilisation is not a working air-con and LTE. Saudi Arabia has those, and it is not a 'civilisation'.

Civilisation is primarily a political order built on liberal tolerance of multiple sources of value, and the rule of law. Roman civilisation, at least up till Constantine 1, was a civilisation.
But there's only one compiler supported and that's for a single particular version of gccgo.
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It's not bad, but consider it rather an linux guide, not unix.
This web-page doesn't work. It just displays blank/black page on Chrome or complaints about missing Flash on other browsers.

Creating main web pages in flash today ? heww...
Great. Does anyone actually use Siri? I still don't see people talking to their phone while walking around.

I like the thought of having a smart assistant, but to me, the input mechanic just doesn't work.

Maybe a brain interface would really kick usage off, but I don't think we should expect that within the next 5 years.
Suikervrije sushi met zalm en zeekraal – Leef Nu Gezonder
Lots of startup advice seems obvious once you have heard or read it a few times. But you only understand the value of such advice when you fail to follow it.. For example, I read the fantastic list "57 startup lessons" by Slava Akhmechet when it was published. But only after I personally failed in many of these, I really understood how hard it is to follow even simple, obvious advice. When I read this same list after my startup failure, the deep wisdom of this list really stung hard.

As a startup founder, you should go through this kind of list regularly to keep yourself in check.

http://www.defmacro.org/2013/07/23/startup-lessons.html
Reminds me of typists' shorthand.
The works of men, and men themselves, are part of nature.

It is nothing short of hubris to believe otherwise. We, like all apex predators before us, will soon become extinct from this planet leaving only fossils in our wake.

Nature encapsulates us - not the other way around.
You do realize.. ..that you can just re-format your drive as it is.
Too edgy for me :)
> TL;DR: "Clean install from a standard image" sounds like great advice on paper but it's not practicable for normal users.

Ignoring sailfish for the moment: mom and dad types take their infected machines to other people.

Those people should know enough to know that malware removal is a con and that the quickest, most effective, way of cleaning the machine is a clean install of the OS.

This has been true for a very long time. It's weird to see malware tools recommended so often on HN.
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welfare says otherwise
It is supported, just need an expanded SDK or you can provide the OS X variant of mach_vm.h and import that.
Did you read it? Their example Unix was OS X.
Interesting read. I think they are slightly underestimating Amazon as a competitor. They mention them but from my point of view the edge that Netflix has is good engineering (including usability) and being attractive to good engineers. A somewhat random small, recent example is the fact that they were at reactconf, talking about interesting stuff (targeting non-DOM) and showing involvement in "hot" technology.

That's an edge that HBO has a really hard time catching up to but Amazon doesn't. I think Netflix is putting a bit too much focus on the content side. It also reads a bit like they'll shift a bit more from customer to business partner focus which may or may not be a good idea.
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Forgive me for being blunt, but I get the impression that you knew what comment you'd make before you read the article.

The article suggests the problem is systemic. Even if Greece goes bankrupt but stays in the Euro, the core issues have not been solved and the situation will arise again. In a race between efficiency and diversity, the Euro is systematically predisposed towards efficiency (which reduces the scope for diversity), and the economic controls that have historically protected diversity have been removed, therefore either diversity is lost (member nations lose control of their fiscal policy) or the Euro is abandoned.

That is what the article suggests. What is your response to that?
It's not our livelihoods, it's our sanity. CSS + HTML = ?
You misunderstand. IO is just as much a purely functional concept as the rest of the language. notPurelyFunctional is a purely functional function. "notPurelyFunctional 5.0" will behave the same way no matter what you do with it.

do
value1 <- notPurelyFunctional 5.0
value2 <- notPurelyFunctional 5.0
value1 == value2

is just syntactic sugar for

notPurelyFunctional 5.0 >>= (\value1 -> (notPurelyFunctional 5.0 >>= (\value2 -> value1 == value2)))

Note the nested lambdas in the above line.

You cannot be sure what value1 == value2 will evaluate to even if you assume all the functions (including notPurelyFunctional and (>>=)) are pure(which they are)

One way to make sense of this is to think of 'IO a' as instructions for the computer to compute a value of type a. So you can think of your notPurelyFunctional function as taking a Double, and returning instructions for the computer to compute another Double. notPurelyFunctional 5.0 would then create a value with something like the following information.

let z(which will always be ()) be the result of printing the string "Please enter a number: "
let name be the result of reading a line from stdin
let y be name parsed as a Double
compute and return the value (5.0 + y)

Notice that no matter when or how many times you call notPurelyFunctional with 5.0, the instructions generated will always be exactly the same. When you run your program, the value called main in your program will first be evalutated purely to produce these instructions, and only once these instructions have been (purely) generated will your program be run and these instructions be executed. Thus Haskells purity is preserved at every stage.

Note that this was a very crude way of dealing with how IO behaves and is only meant to be an aid for grasping the concept of IO.
Note Apple is also offering refunds for those who paid for repairs!
That's neat, I didn't know that. Mission accomplished then!
But clang did not treat it as an error when I commented the #include line. I have no idea if it was actually dynamically linked.
One week ago the HDD firmware manipulation by NSA/GCHQ was revealed. So, if the snoops intercept the parcel with the laptop, it's better when you go into a computer parts store and buy a random HDD...
It's a great start, those are pretty good numbers.

Your bounce rate seems a little high, maybe try Outbrain or something to show people relevant stuff once they land on your site.

You should think about starting to collect emails (not sure how relevant to a recipe site).

The low hanging fruit seems to be (without actually seeing the site):
1. keep people a little longer on the site
2. you didn't mention where people were coming from

There's no such thing as average traffic. You're doing great, especially on social. Keep it up and double down on the things that work. If you share your site we can give feedback on layout and such that can affect traffic and revenue.
It's all driven by real estate: residential, not commercial. Salaries are higher because people need to spend so much of their income on housing, and living in a high-cost area like San Francisco requires a higher income level.
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Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck” [pdf]
>> STOP SENDING SUBPOENAS

Can a police officer just send a subpoena to them and get all the information for free?
I can code in Perl, Ruby, C, C++, Assembly language, and more. Learning new languages is pretty simple if they're in a family I know.

I read/write/speak English well. Learning Finnish? Painful. Slow. Hard.

On that basis learning code feels too easy!
Pretty impressive. May I ask how big is the team?
How to Make JavaScript and the Web a Good Compilation Target
Using Instagram/Kik in a similar fashion is quite popular among glassblowers in the US. People post their wares on IG and say 'kik me for prices'.