skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the systemic failures of the US education system leaves me unable to see a viable route to a high functioning system[1]. This leaves me wondering, when I have children, how to deal with educating them when even the very best private OR public schools have to conform to a very broken system, and when home schooling might even be illegal.

The only solid answer I can come up with is to move, though I am not sure where to. I live in Tokyo right now, but the school system there is even worse.

On a different note, I was surprised that Minsky makes the mistake of suggesting that it is a positive thing that subjects other than math are taught by bombarding students with tons of new words to remember (names, dates, etc), saying "[in other areas] each pupil learns hundreds of new words in every term. You learn the names of many countries and organizations, the names of leaders and battles and wars"

The students by and large "learn" these useless data points one week, regurgitate them for the test, and then forget them when the testing is over. We would do far better to teach people to think for themselves, to analyze information as it comes at them, and to focus, in as much as we really want them to remember history, on the relation of people and events as a narrative story, rather than obsessing on meaningless dates.

[1] world-leading in meaningful terms, not just learned-knowledge tests.
"Information Rules" by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian
"Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
Apple's design process
All of the "a buncha states don't matter so focus on the ones that do" logic should jump up and scream that the system is broken. Oh you live ix X state so why bother campaigning to you because your vote doesn't matter?!

With the 2 party quagmire and "electoral college" nonsense that imho has basically stalled the US govt in an endless corporatocracy, worrying about the primaries is like worrying that the lines aren't painted straight on the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
binary diffing (rsync-like algorithm) and compression is built into the protocol.

i've been using it to sync my 3gb development VM across my computers; also works great with photoshop files, big documents, etc.
Commodore was incorporated in the Bahamas but it was problematic.
SGI was originally incorporated as a California corporation in November 1981, and reincorporated as a Delaware corporation in January 1990. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics

I presume that you pay lawyers in Delaware to use their office address as your official headquarters and then your California office becomes a satellite office. The fee for this service could be expensive but it would be tax effective.
Google Demokratische Republic: Guilty until proven innocent
This could be worthwhile even for the UK startups that YCombinator has funded. This is due to tax regulations that affect IT contractors and IT startups.

UK IT contractors are encouraged to incorporate for the purposes of professional liability. However, many solo contractors kept large proportions of fees in the shell company to cover lean periods while minimising tax. Tax officials took a dim view of this practice and changed the regulations. Although the regulations are intended to cover contractors, it could also affect a startup. Incorporation in Delaware would remove this limitation.
You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack!
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...
i would like an invite too. Very Interesting idea, eager to try it out.
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134321
Yes this is a big deal.

Flash may work better than PDF on Windows, but this is definitely not the case on OS X, especially iPhone, which doesn't even have Flash but is great at displaying PDFs.

It would be nice if there were even just a small .pdf link right next to the bigger URL. Or a way to disable iPaper integration completely.
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123510
As someone else mentioned, this won't work with iPhone or any other browser without Flash installed, so I shouldn't have to view the iPaper-ized version just to get to the PDF.
tx: "The primary expense has always been the cost of talent and "cost of sales". Employees time and marketing/advertising."
The point I am making: it is not so any more!
How much dev time or marketing or technology insight went into any of these, for example: digg fbook myspace flickr techcrunch?
And yet they´re worth billions of $.
The Search for the Killer iPhone App
Anticlimax: YouTube Announces More Open API’s
i really hope so
P2P Next is getting funding from Europe to devlop new...
P2P Next has received 14 million Euros from the European Union to develop a P2P for the masses. BBC is already a partner along with some other heavy hitters.
I didn't get negativity or anger from the article. It's not life-altering wisdom, but it is pretty much all true and worth thinking about from time to time.

The most important thing to take away from it, I think, is that if your success depends on a single unlikely (but wonderful) event, your likelihood of success is very small indeed. Might as well play the lottery or hop a plane to Vegas. But, I do see entrepreneurs fall prey to that line of thinking, whether it's hoping for a Google acquisition, a big deal with a single client, or just expecting people to beat a path to their door upon launch.
P2P next is getting over 14 Million Euros funding to produce the next P2P platform for the masses to distribute content from TV shows to software.
Yahoo to join Google’s OpenSocial?
A typical project for getting EU funding

- A million partners, indicating that noone can or will take any decisions leading to design by committee.

- A flashy site that looks good to EU auditors, but where basic functionality, such as the back button, is broken

- Fluffy language and biz-speak that doesn't amount to anything on their homepage.

- "a consortium consisting of high-profile academic and industrial players with proven track records in innovation and commercial success." - which basically guarantees that it will involve no innovation at all.

I predict it will fail...
http://twitter.com/iamdanw

Who's on tumblr? I'm http://tumblr.iamdanw.com on there
The Geometry of Music
Nice code, but no need for this. We'll be looking for the iPhone user agent and redirecting automatically to the original file soon. Also, the link to the original file is going to be preserved, either on our side or on Paul's.
Actually plain Coca leaves have been chewed for (insert very long time frame) by people in its native areas for a variety of medicinal and performance enhancing effects.
Implementing mutual exclusion for Ajax in JavaScript
I wonder of the Google Gears introduction of multiple JavaScript threads means that we need an alternate variant closer to the original Lamport's bakery algorithm.
Actually if you read the literature on Provigil, it is much safer than caffeine in two vital ways. It is not a stimulant, whereas caffeine is, like amphetamines. It very specifically and directly affects the brain's chemistry. It is also not addictive, whereas many a coffee-fiend greets the morning, lunch, afternoon, and night with coffee, and woe to he who gets in their way.

The only reason caffeine, and alcohol, and tobacco are viewed differently from MUCH safer drugs is that some people subscribe to illogical belief systems that differentiate between 'old' drugs and 'new' drugs, regardless of the fact that many of the drugs they hate are just as old as the ones they love.
Jaiku had [1] sorted. Replies would be displayed as a thread of comments under the original message.

Pownce has a good approach to [0] with its enclosures/attachements which can be files, events, etc as well as links.
Dubious benefit. $31M in VC huh? I'm not sure you can't produce something with equally dubious benefit, with the fancy coverflow interface, with the Yahoo Search API and say, a Websense URL categorization database.... in a matter of an hour

Also.. how is this going to work for Flash based resources??
Yes, tax may be the only reason to go for a lower salary / higher aquisition combo.
I've summarized a lot of my favorites at http://www.squeezedbooks.com - a site I created for the very purpose of sharing the "meat" of good business books.
You haven't used your account for anything other than self-promotion of a website which collects email addresses and displays banner adverts. You've made similar posts in other forums too. On four counts, you're unlikely to become an insightful contributor to this forum.
http://twitter.com/hasanv

Started using it recently, still haven't worked out what it's really about.
Oh this is maddening! Can someone please invite me? :)
twitter.com/timothyandrew

Twitter is amazing.
From the article: Google has such momentum now that it would be hard for anyone to stop them.

Within 48 hours of this being published, Google anounces layoffs ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134967 ) and a new search engine from Sequoia is covered by TechCrunch ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134291 ). In addition, the share price has fallen from US$747 to US$439 and there has been speculation by television pundits of it falling to US$350 or less ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133966 ).
Yeah, it totally screws with iPhone.
> how is this going to work for Flash based resources??

Thumbnailing Flash is fairly trivial if you take a bitmap from a browser rendering component. Indexing Flash is more of a PITA.
Alphabetical order is obsolete
And it's written in Python.
You can play real time on the DPjudge. But you would probably like to set up VOIP calls in addition.

You are right about the background munching though. I kind of like it to have a lot of time to ponder my moves.
Firefox 3 Memory Usage
I've read most of the ones you mention but I find that the best input for strategy is being around people. So to get my strategic bearings going I am on the board of the local yacht club, and a foundation for leisure sailors. The intrigues, back-stabbing and talking behind backs is worse than any boardroom. The great thing about these places is that if I get kicked out for backing the wrong horse or back-stabbing the wrong person it doesn't matter much. It's just a great exercise in political and strategic maneovering.
I was expecting a list of rewards other than cash, trinkets and junkets. I'm especially unenthused by the chance of winning a mountain bike. Just give them a bike or don't give them a bike.
When I search using Google, I use the context (e.g. the text excerpt) of the search results to decide which search result to choose more than the ranking.

I would like to see create a VR-type search experience - with a cocktail-party type auditory experience - where as you moved to another search cluster - the context of that cluster would increase in volume and as you moved away, it would decrease. Or maybe this makes sense only to me.
Redundant Widget Of The Week: ClockLink.Com
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'
A distant dream comes true with Django
http://twitter.com/nkohari
it's missing 'pass' which is essential if you wish for automatic indentation to work properly
I don't doubt the calibre of your judging panel. However, you may wish to refrain from using the phrase "top shelf" because it is British slang for porn ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=top+shelf ). Combined with your April Fool's Day deadline, this may reduce the gravitas of your endeavour.
Game developers enthused about iPhone, Touch
9 Essential Rails Tips
Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week - New York Times
How Did A-Rod Get So Good?
Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again
9 Ways To Jumpstart Your Writing Goal (Surprisingly applicable to programming.)
The $100M dollar iFund certainly grabs the headlines. You have to wonder though if they didn't just slap on another zero to beat Google's $10M prize for their Android developer challenge.
Modept Mobile Application Provisioning Platform
As I understand it this opens you up to a lot of extra possibility for vulnerabilities. Each new combination of block cipher, prng and hmac etc has the possibility of interacting in unforeseen ways. Maybe it's better to specify all these things so that the system can be evaluated as a whole. At least that's the impression I've got from Practical Cryptography which I'm currently reading.
Why late? I don't think the SDK will kill iUI (or iPhone web application development more generally) - it's targeted at a different developer audience.
I have a bad reaction to all flash home pages. And doesn't the lack of any text say 'we don't care whether search engines find us or not'?
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They probably aren't scared because they know whatever you come up with, they own if they so please.
Excuse me, but since when do money market funds earn 0.25% interest?
Will tomorrow's world still need designers?
Hello I am @stejules and wanna have more friends!

;D
Flashy site yes (-1 point for dissemination tasks) but that's a periphal concern of EU project officers and auditors especially when you consider the bulk of deliverables and milestones an integrated large scale project will have.

I think you're correct but on a macro level - what I find useful with anything EU FP is at the micro level... universities get students funded - they and academic staff push out good research in the general area of original project. It's here where you'll find the innovation. Also within the SME (micro-ISV) participation in such research activities can produce promising technology.
Ask YC: Best forums for coding questions, by language?
I'm interested in Ruby/Rails forums myself, but I thought it might be useful to get peoples opinions on the places they go to get nagging programming questions answered for their language of choice.
So, here's a question:

Who's the competition? How did readers who didn't go through Y-Combinator get off of the ground? How'd you first get in contact with angel investors? Or incubators or seed funding or whatever...

As much startup rhetoric as seems to be kicking around this site and others, there seems to be a gap between "Go YC!" and "We just did our A-Round..."

We've been scrambling to get together as many contacts in the ramp up to quitting our jobs and there are some interesting leads, but before we start playing the find-funding-or-die game it seems prudent to have as many leads as possible.
Twitter has been great for our startup. It's true what they say, news travels fast on there. I'm here:

http://twitter.com/hooande
First, this is for Reddit, not for here.

Second, this could also be titled "Why I Am Now a Brain-Dead Conservative." His reasons are contain many spurious claims such as 'Do I speak as a member of the 'privileged class''? If you will—but classes in the United States are mobile, not static, which is the Marxist view." Nope. That's what America likes to believe of itself, but the reality doesn't match. If you're born poor in America, you'll most-likely stay poor. Google it. The classes aren't as static as 150 years ago, but they still exist and are much more distinct in America than most European countries.

Personally, I was a non-brain-dead conservative (Libertarian) who has become a non-brain-dead liberal (Socialist). Why? Because it's humane and because it works. Norway, Denmark, Switzerland -- all have strong social policies and all are richer countries than America. All of these countries have almost no crime and no homelessness. When you minimize the divisions between rich and poor, everyone benefits.
http://twitter.com/darreld

Love it.
While I enjoyed the article because it confirms my own beliefs, I do not believe that it is hacker news.
It's an amazingly fast way to spread info.I'd recommend it to all you start-up guys if you're not on it already. I'm twitter.com/lukebrdn
This has already given me some interesting ideas for utilising microformats into some HTML I am working on.

The presentation style of this resource is very chatty and gives lots of background to go with the data. Quite a contrast to the dry lists of tags that one normally comes across.
Quick - is 91 prime?
Late because I posted it after ashu posted his news.yc interface for the iphone.
Yahoo Plans to Join OpenSocial Alliance?
MyLoki Lets You Tell the World That You Are Here
> ...not bother with Adobe Reader

That's what Foxit is for.
You've just described the current crisis in the credit markets. The crisis wasn't so bad when it started with higher-than-expected defaults in subprime credit markets, but people are panicking a lot more now that liquidity is drying up for high-quality assets. Many firms' business models are based around having access to sufficient liquidity, they aren't built to buy and hold.
RadRails makes a comeback
This implementation of Lamport's bakery algorithm deals with the single threaded nature of current JavaScript browser implementations. However Google Gears has introduced multiple threads so perhaps we will need to look for something closer to the original to handle Ajax access to JavaScript data objects into the future.
Math is hard? Since when? ;-)
Nice math hack. The 11 and 7 ones were new to me.

Here's some more fun: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/02/sum-of-first-n-odd-numbers-i...
I just Google it.
As someone planning to launch an ecommerce site from a Bahamian company, I can confirm that it's very problematic. Good luck trying to get an internet merchant account!
Classic math puzzles for job interviews
Universe turns out to be modeled on Dungeons & Dragons
What are worthwhile problems: Feynman's moving letter
Very, very nicely done.
Isn't using a "main" function a C-ism? I have never heard of such a convention when programming in Python.

Is there one? Does the BDFL know about it?
YouTube expands API
Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
This is a very good article by Joel Spolsky that was written seven years ago (I stumbled upon it via dzone this morning). It's still very relevant.
In addition to what you list above, Sun Pin - Military Methods (Sun Tzu's great grandson iirc).
i'd be fascinated to see a reference to the literature of an interaction between cipher/hash/prng (and two) that caused them to be insecure, when the cipher/hash/prng alone didn't become considered insecure in and of itself.

and i would be at least slightly curious for a pointer into where practical cryptography makes that point.

ssl, pgp and ssh are all examples of software which is generally accepted as secure, which does not mandate particular algorithms up front. see nearly every piece of snake oil out there as an example of software which does talk about their algorithms and bit counts up front.
Google sets the stage for its own platform push
Seed capitalism
Interview with Guy Kawasaki
Unless you stop after "this is for reddit, not for here", someone is going to feel compelled to respond, and then someone else to them, etc... Hopefully the moderators will simply disappear the whole thread.
Bjarne Stroustrup comments on C++
http://twitter.com/yansarazin

Just started using it more often.
Audiko does free ringtones for the iPhone
7-year old article, although that doesn't invalidate it. I think what does is that web development (particularly using frameworks) is much more tractable and probably more lightweight than creating an office suite or operating system.
I did the same (Went to dropbox.com first)... very odd. If I owned dropbox.com I'd be laughing I expect...
I like the site. Requires no setup. No third-party tools to track feeds. Just go to the site, pick a topic and start browsing.

Sure, it's not something built for tech-saavy users who want to customize their own RSS feeds, but the majority of internet users don't fall into this category anyways.
Yeah, I noticed the 2001 dateline, too... it was especially apparent when he said (paraphrasing) "Mozilla - when is that thing getting released, anyway??" :)

I thought it was surprisingly relevant today; especially because it was written during the sobering post-dot-com rush. A lot of those lessons need to be remembered. You're right that a lot of his points are more related to consumer software, but he does have a few gems in there about web development, too, like his points about "Overhype syndrome" and the myth of "Internet Time."
This is kind of sad - couldn't the EU just sponsor a summer of code contest to add the needed functionality to bittorrent?
GNOME 2.22 Release Notes
Plus, most revolutions aren't really revolutionary in idea. They mainly retread tired, broken ground that the "conservative" position was meant to fix. I'd say a significant amount of innovation in the political, social, and philosophical realm is merely forgetfulness.
Wow a lot of twitter guys here. I wished you could
a) Import an opml file with Twitter accounts.
b) Create groups of Twitter friends you can message like @group1

If someone knows of any webapp that implements a) please let me know :D

I'm putting all the twitter accounts so far together here:
http://twitter.com/tipjoy
http://twitter.com/danielha
http://twitter.com/iamdanw
http://twitter.com/codergnome
http://twitter.com/jraines
http://twitter.com/yansarazin
http://twitter.com/lukebrdn
http://twitter.com/darreld
http://twitter.com/hooande
http://twitter.com/nkohari
http://twitter.com/timothyandrew
http://twitter.com/hasanv
http://twitter.com/dcurtis
http://twitter.com/webwright
http://twitter.com/pkaler
http://twitter.com/npost
http://twitter.com/rosshill
http://twitter.com/avinashv
http://twitter.com/bootload
http://twitter.com/stejules

And I'll add mine:
http://twitter.com/abarrera
A Few Questions About The iPhone SDK
Great screencast. It does a great job of showing off the capabilities of the system.

Can you share a little info about what you used for capture and what kind of a mic you used for the audio?
Let's see, I replied to someone's comment with a valid criticism. I just read the entirety of Zed's piece and, lo and behold, my argument against the comment still stands. (Whether or not Zed's protocol still stands is an open question.) Meanwhile, you've been attacking a strawman the whole time.

Now you're trying to personally attack me. I'm not sure what your problem is or what you're trying to prove, but I am a practitioner.

See here:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-85B/SP800-85b...
[PDF]

or here:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-83/SP800-83.p... [PDF]

or here:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips201-1/FIPS-201-1-... [PDF]

(You won't find my name in that last document, as authors and supporting researchers are not listed on FIPS.)

I'm not going to ask about your credentials because, frankly, they don't interest me. You've jumped the shark and I'm done responding after this. Don't make this thing personal; you've got a problem with my comment, do us all a favor and keep it there. You trying to start a pissing match with me is boring for everyone and ultimately wastes both of our time. Chill.
http://twitter.com/iseff

And, on tumblr, http://featureorbug.com (recently became a Tumblr staff pick!).
Ok, I fail and don't get the job, I get it... but where are the answers!
Any plans for an API? Any site that people upload files to would love to share this interface.
Chris Brogan tried the group idea with "Twitter Packs"... he implemented it quickly and dirtily using a Wiki though, so editing it runs into some obvious pitfalls (e.g., contention when a page is edited by more than one person)...

http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/

I toyed with the idea of implementing it as an actual standalone service without the wiki... but I have too many other "side projects" right now! :)

Here's my twitter account:
http://twitter.com/mdesjardins