skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there are others who have learned many of these languages as well, but that doesn't mean it's not unrealistic. It probably also depends on how we define "learn".

One of the (many) problems with this page is that it is geared towards computer science students (see header or URL). Listing 10 languages (with an "and", not an "or") may give a student the impression that he/she needs to add these 10 languages to their repertoire in order to be a successful engineer.

I'd be less critical of the page if it listed "or" instead of "and".
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Ask HN: New Product Rollout Advice and Strategies
I am looking to launch a new product website, but I do not have extensive experience with how to grow a customer base from scratch.

Phase 1 - Rollout and Launch:
During this initial growth phase, I know I need to continually improve how each customer type finds my product, and I need to make sure that my product is tracking "enough data" for generating some reports that I can understand how to pivot + enhance + prioritize based off how each customer type uses my product. Right now, I am tracking customer free trial signups and customer conversions to a paid plan. Am I missing anything obvious as I look to roll this out?

Phase 2 - Growth:
What tools and or products will help route customers to my website? I used Google Analytics before with some success for searching, conversion tracking, and adwords. I am sure there are more so what others am I missing and what tools did you find effective for helping draw customers to your new product? I have heard about https://kissmetrics.com/ through another startup, but it is pricey without knowing more about it ($200/month for the basic "starter" plan and a 14-day trial is not long enough to realistically figure this all out).

Phase 3 - Growth + Engagement:
After I have enough customers (~500), I want to start engaging them and transition from purely growth-focused to growth + engagement to increase my revenue per customer and customer retention time. Are there any approaches, best practices, tools or products that will help during this growth + engagement phase? I have heard that converting all my simple html links to "deep links" with something like https://bitly.com/ will help me analyze how each customer type uses or finds value with my product. What other tools and or practices would you recommend for product refinement? I was looking into https://mixpanel.com/pricing/ which sounds like a potential solution.

I added some more details + questions about the product to my profile.

Thanks in advance!
I won't deny that the current trackpads are worse than they used to be.
Coming to a Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter near you…
I bet that if this list would be published on other domain rather than G, it would be not even taken serious.
I think what is meant is "the Finnish tech industry is rebuilding since Nokia left".
I think a better world would be one in which TED talks were nuanced and full of maybes and the audience loved the lack of certainty, saw it as opportunity, and many of them were even prompted to labor and take their part in resolving those uncertainties.
It's highly likely that this is the result of format transitions (being a copy of a copy), while the links and substance probably haven't changed. The non-technical people who moved this from some internal document to this page just don't focus on the same details you do -- they don't know the difference between markup and programming languages
How we created real-time features within 5 days
if so, then why should the pipes be privatized at all? in that case, the pipes should be built out and maintained at a governmental-level and leased back at a uniform/standardized price to all providers.
The problem with kids is they take up space. So they have to be cared for on land. And we have a land price bubble in the UK.
Because on average they only make about $0.05 per user per year [1]. I think they will struggle to grow that figure because messaging apps have very little lock-in. My friend John doesn't want to pay $1 to get WhatsApp? No problem - we can just use Telegram instead.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/
Nor was I saying that "nothing" was the argument. I am simply pointing out that TED, science journalism and "storytelling" is generally a societal good, despite their flaws. Should we approach all things critically? Of course. I'm not a big Gladwell fan myself and I can't stomach Godin on a good day, but my view of the TED culture is much more positive for the reasons I outlined above.
that's why there is an average counter on the right hand side top, you can play agains yourself (aim to get a better average over time)
display: float; indeed
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I love stuff like this, though I feel it makes the code actually harder to read because none of it's standardized and there are a variety of somewhat equivalent but not completely isomorphic libraries out there for functional programming in Python.
What if we turned that around? "I don't believe in selfishness"

- You get an ice cream because you've seen other people do it and have watched adverts and want to fit in. You've gotten an image that it's "a thing that people do", eating ice cream. You don't actually even like ice cream. You just don't want to offend anyone who does.

- You help others because helping is a root cause, there's no "because" of some other thing.

- You study, make a career just because, firstly, it's expected of you, by your parents, by your spouse, you can better support your children. Secondly your workplace and society rewards you with money, which is just a token of how much value you have added : in other words, how much you have helped others.
Which is not the same as "a language must evolve into my preferred design or become obsolete".

Python has made it through years of criticism from people who misunderstand Guido's stance on FP in Python (and before that from people who disliked his stance on tail call optimization) without being obsoleted by pure FP languages.
I am not quite sure what all the implications of this link are about, but the puppy photo is sure cute. German Shepard with American flags for ears and a German flag tongue.
Howso? In what way do a few grammar/typo level errors make this a blight upon the nation that is Google?
I don't agree at all. First, although it doesn't state it, it feels to me (and was confirmed by a googler in a separate thread) like this is meant for university students, for whom there is no "along the way" -- just academic CS courses.

Second, they did bring up version control:
"Work on a small piece of a large system (codebase), read and understand existing code, track down documentation, and debug things.
Notes: Github is a great way to read other people’s code or contribute to a project.
Online Resources: Github, Kiln"
Why can't it simply be that as most households moved from 1 to 2 income, the market adapted?

What policies and/or regulations can we make to incentivize a market where house prices reduce over time? Is that the goal? Houses are on average twice as big as they were not too long ago. How much of the increase is due to people wanting bigger homes?
> There is a bias here: the ideas presented in popular science books are more likely to be disproven, just because they are more likely to warrant further study.

If you're a researcher are you going to pursue Malcolm Gladwell's latest crackpot associations simply b/c they're popular or a substantive problem that appears and stands on its own merits.
How can an inanimate idea be held at fault? People use Religion to do bad things, not the other way around. Get rid of Religion and people will justify doing bad things for non-religious reasons.

You don't think people have used Science as an excuse to do evil?
Of course it's implied. The comment makes no sense unless you assume that the target of having 30% women is at odds with 100% of the board being competent.
React is really much more than just some virtual dom implementation.
I have friends in Sweden and I've always envied the childcare costs.

In London I pay £170 per day to have my two children in childcare. That's for private childcare, but you have little choice if you want to go back to work (because of the hours). There's a little give in the costs of different nurseries but most have a waiting list to get in where we're based (and the lowest I've seen locally is £75/day/child).

We now receive a £120(ish)/month government subsidy for our oldest child. That's something I guess - doesn't do much to help with the £1300 or so we pay per month.

It wasn't really worth it financially for my wife to go back to work, though it does give a much needed break from constantly looking after children (ironically, she's a speech therapist for small children). By the time you account for transport / lunch etc in London we're about breaking even.

It's pretty depressing when you're trying to get a company off the ground and all your money goes into childcare.
This is a fantastic example of using Phoenix channels! For those interested in how channels work, check out my ElixirConfEU Phoenix keynote where I give an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u21S_vq5CTw
Wait, Google Sent Me
>Request received...
>Content sent!

That was rewarding :)
Source code: https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e
Yeah, I have had a number of reasonable conversations like this with people.

For a lot of people, I think part of the purpose of the conversation is offering a warning (combined with a bit of venting). That they aren't explicitly saying, "And the moral of the story is..." doesn't mean there isn't something that we can't learn from it.
This giude by Peter Norvig also has a similar road map ... http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Verizon buys AOL for $4.4B – May. 12, 2015
Even if there's good reason to use it, there's no potential for growth. The only way this can go is down. It's pretty much going to be a race to recoup the investment before all these rural areas are covered by cellular (even 2G would be faster than dialup!) or satellite internet becomes cheap enough.
But they definitely aren't being acquired for that reason.
An attempt (copy paste really) to try and keep the window open and the content alive. Also, a request for the root/homepage could be funny if it was meta [0].

[0] http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/7eb67dd70747b8e979e77119e813f4...
And w3schools is provided as a reference :|
According to this thread, the overhead over pure WSGI seems low:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/python-tulip/AgKcuC-...

I'm wondering why the framework benchmark results are so different, even though they should include the same code:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=p...
Implementing a trustless security with hardware wallets and multisignature
Isn't that what Facebook does now?
Revealed: FBI violated its own rules while spying on Keystone XL opponents
This is awesome. Would be fun to see more statistics - how many people have I provided the page for, for example.
Well it still goes right through the server, so it only causes more strain on the server than a standard setup.

The actual way to do this an acctualy call it p2p would be with a small WebRTC framework that can bootstrap the actual site.
Embarrassing! I'm not sure how it happened, sorry
Facebook’s Internet.org, net neutrality and privacy
It's not the only language, but I think you're splitting hairs on the spirit of "learn at least 1 shell programming language."
It's .. an IM app (and arguably it wasn't a good one/a broken one for quite a while). Like AOL offered? ICQ? MSN? Okay, all dead.

Xmpp? Skype? Lync? Hangout? Telegram? TextSecure? etc. etc. I'm sure I forgot lots of somewhat sensible/popular options.

Basically it's not doing a lot, there are lots of alternatives, I see no way to keep users - or make them pay anything. I mean, I guess they pay with their privacy and/or first-born now that FB owns WhatsApp, but .. I - this is just me, my opinion - fail to see the point.

Plus, I said that I - again, as in me personally - don't understand these companies and what they offer. No need to agree ofc. I haven't been an AOL user, I don't have a FB account or a WhatsApp account. My mom has no smart phone. My dad doesn't use WhatsApp as far as I know. Last but not least: Why would I want to get emoticons(?) or voice notes(??) from my mom? The former is .. useless. The latter? We use my smart _phone_ as a phone for that.

I guess if you don't understand the value something brings to the table, everything is overvalued. I don't understand the value of smart watches. I don't understand the pay grade of football (as in, soccer) players. That doesn't mean that I want to slight the things I mention (or could add to the list), it's just that I am unable to understand these valuations. To see the value, you .. need to find value in something?
but how well does it scale?
He did use JS to just populate the HTML :-)
> I'm aware of feeling, sight, smell, etc..

a), you can have that thought only because of symbols, and b), people without thought can feel, see, smell, etc. I don't see how your argument holds any weight.
Could you be more constructive, and suggest what is missing or what shouldn't be on the list, please?
I recently purchased a used 2004 Honda S2000 with 33k miles on it. I went to the S2000 community/forums and they had a huge pre-buying checklist. After buying it (had 5 days to return it hassle free), I went to a Honda dealership for pre-purchase inspection and a body repair shop for inspecting off the record accidents (not on carfax). Finally, I wouldn't buy a car that didn't have a strong forum presence with DIY guides for repairs.

http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/775801-what-to-look-for-when...
Lisp and Scheme? Scheme is a Lisp. I think they wanted to say Common Lisp and Scheme.
Lots of criticism here, but very little of it constructive. Please could those people criticising the list explain exactly what is missing, or what should not be on the list?
I don't know, I don't view Google as having the same level of perfection as, say, Apple. I know when I use Google products, almost infinitely in beta, there's going to be some things lacking and unpolished. Helpful yet unfinished, you take what you get.
Learn UX, AI, Cryptography, parallel programming, compilers, maths... lol don't let those guys/girls or HR write those guides they put all the keywords in there
This blew my mind at first until I thought about all of the media properties that AOL has. Verizon probably already has large Ad spend on sites similar to these this just makes it more cost effective.
If this experience applies to the Netherlands you should look for a better employer! In my experience this is perfectly possible at large cooperations (well known names) without any weird looks from HR or management.
You can't have a free market in land. There are too many constraints such as planning permissions and the fact that the supply is fixed overall.

Therefore to have a free market in credit with these constraints it's inevitable that it will be used for speculation. We should have land value tax to win back our right to exist instead of credit fueled full land enclosure. It's an unmitigated disaster - the defining issue of our times.

Credit is near infinite as thanks to fractional reserve banking banks can create as much of it as demand requires. They are not constrained by savings. Most bank lending is against land, it's how money is being printed.

How has the market adapted when we are working 25 times 2 years for the same pile of bricks our parents worked for 15 years for? It's simply the banks taking more of a share of your labour. You get nothing else back.

There is no point in being more productive. It will feed through into land prices as disposable income (briefly) increases and then land prices go up and we are back where we started. This is how banks capture all productivity.

Read http://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depression...

ps in the UK house sizes are falling, in part because of smaller families / divorces but mostly because of land price ramping
That's because experienced software developers know they can only be productive for 4-5 hours a day and any attempt to forcefully extend this time results in lower quality work and hidden bugs. Then you get a senseless situation on your hands - you first waste a few extra hours to make things bad then you spend additional time to correct your mistakes. You might as well just go home and enjoy extra personal time, to come back fresh and energized the next day. In 20-25 hours per week you can actually accomplish a lot. A 40 hour week will wear you quickly. A 50 hour week can bring you one step closer to a burn-out and possibly damage your health in a long run.

Additionally, there might me some cultural issue involved. A few years ago I worked in Germany and the one thing I didn't like about the German workspace is that companies didn't really want their workers to be productive and efficient, they just wanted them to put in all of their official working hours and complete all of the formalities involved, while also frowning upon any activities outside work. That was one of the reasons why I eventually moved out. I wanted to accomplish things and grow, the companies I interviewed at wanted me to stay 9-5 and be satisfied with their routine. I grew to dislike this attitude and eventually made other plans for myself.
No. I'm talking about the Google user sign in features for Chrome and Android. Microsoft is adding a twist to its version, but in my mind they're pretty much the same.
This kind of American exceptionalism is just as bad as the "we're the best at everything!" nonsense you see in American politics.

No way is "children require cars" a uniquely American perspective. I have a lot of in-laws in urban China and the ones who are now having children pretty much universally buy cars if they didn't already have them. I lived in France for several years and I don't think I knew anyone with children who didn't own a car. Look at just about any city on the planet and what do you see? Cars, cars, and more cars. Cars as far as the eye can see.

Car culture is not an American thing. It's a first world thing, where "first world" includes the wealthy parts of the third world too. Now, it's certainly possible that this is not necessary, but that's how it currently is all over the place. If you want to change it, you won't get anywhere if you think that it's somehow unique to a single country.
Upcase does something like this for Ruby, JavaScript and a few other languages/disciplines.

upcase.com
Am I missing something on how this is CSS only when you are using jQ...?
Google.com loves w3schools. Top search result for every DHTML query.
Vessels that aren't intended to go anywhere are called hulks.

This is a potentially interesting project, if it can be done in a serious manner... a credible hulk, if you will.
I can echo that experience. We've been lucky in that our kids have generally really enjoyed going to childcare.

There was one place that my daughter was never really happy to go to. It was fine, and she was safe - she was just never happy there. We moved her to a new place and she loved it from the moment she walked in (though she knew some of the other kids from her first nursery).

I think sickness and childcare just go hand in hand. It flowed on to the rest of the family too. I've been sick so many times in the last few years - though I think we're through the worst of it now. Nothing like the happy embrace of a snotty child to make you ill.
Apparently it simply try to open a bunch of modal window to close. Chrome is smarter enough to figure that out, and there's only about five windows before the script is killed.
I doubt it was for the subscribers. Look at AOL's recent acquisitions in the last 10 years.

Video: StudioNow, 5Min Media, GoViral, Vidible

News: Weblogs, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post

Marketing: Lightningcast, Third Screen Media, AdTech, Tacoda, Quigo, buy.at, Pictela, gdgt, Adap.tv, Convertro, Gravity

One by AOL sunset Gravity, Pictela, ADTECH, Adap.tv, AdLearn, and Convertro (along with subproducts like Adap.tv Marketplace, and AOL's native data platform) into one product. One by AOL is a HUGE product. http://corp.aol.com/2015/04/14/aol-launches-one-by-aol/
>Sure, but just a few decades ago there were people dismissing all of e-commerce

Were they? From what I recall people were saying, "Why isn't this catalog a webpage yet?"

I'm not sure if buying a bunch of little buttons and plastering them all over my house is necessarily convenient. Convenience is largely counter-intuitive. For example, you'd think everyone would get their groceries delivered at this point, but most of us drive to the grocery store. There's a larger convenience in having all these products at your fingertips, trying different brands, shopping for lower priced items, seeking deals, etc. You lose this flexibility with the Dash. Its also really ugly to have what look like ads plastered all over your home.

I'm surprised we all don't have a home robot with enough computer vision and fuzzy logic to figure out what we're low on and produce a list of items that need to be bought that week. I feel like some kind of robot revolution that was supposed to happen never did, so we're finding weird automation solutions that don't really work. I imagine this is what is was like when computers were rare and you could only use the ones at work because home computers weren't a thing yet. Smith-Corona kept making better and better typewriters but you really just want a word processor and printer.
GPU rootkit POC on Windows
I compiled a list of online courses on Computer Science and Electrical Engineering the other day. The curriculum is based on my old CS college syllabus. Maybe it can be useful for students. Feel free to add something on the comment.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oZ6eY7WqVNGgyRSF9F8L...
You answered your own question: In the US.

WhatsApp is huge outside of the US. If memory serves correctly, SMS has always been expensive and MMS never really took off - once the data messaging platform came to be WhatsApp really served that market and has done well because of it.
Agreed, but touchscreens and SD or USB means connectors, which are often a significant part of BOM cost and take up space. If you can do it all from the one-chip/module you have in there it's a big benefit when it comes to making something small and cheap.
Anyone else read it as "Verizon to buy AOL for $4.48"?
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Well, consider that probably the content was developed by someone who knows what he/she is talking about, and has been later edited by content editors, mistakenly.

This is a reasonable explanation to me.
My feedback: It's 2015. Time to upgrade to Android. Much larger market, especially in the freemium space.
Time to discard every media entity under AOL. You can be damned sure Verizon will be tightening up how wild they get on certain issues e.g. Net Neutrality and anything else that can affect their bottom lines.
Its more that the non techie who wrote it fell for Mozilla's decades-old harebrained marketing gimmick to name JS after Java.
>if low wage, and probably lower skilled workers can take your job, you probably suck

Or the company is short-sighted, undervalues the skill and experience of onshore jobs and overvalues the $$ they're saving on paper. I bet a buffalo nickel you've never personally seen how offshoring affects a team/department.