skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is from 2007, while Google changed its logs policy in 2008. Does anyone know if the new policy anonymizes full IP addresses, or just the last octet?
My favorite Tanenbaum quote
Everything on Grid Based Designs and the appropriate tools can be found here: http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/grid-based-design-toolbox/
E-bay? Or you could offer better appraisal and eschew. I hear India has some good (and cheap) gemsmiths ...
Quantum mechanics enable pressure sensitive mobile devices
Segregation is alive and well. Public schools don't solve that at all. Human beings naturally stratify by class. Regardless, improving education is a greater good than increasing diversity. If there is actually a trade-off between the two, it's an easy choice.
Certainly a valuable contribution, but I suspect someone else would have figured that out fairly soon if he hadn't. On the other hand, nobody else in the US cares about what the US does in South/Central America.
Very cool but they can't say who it is licensed to.

"In January, Japanese touch-screen maker Nissha also licensed the approach from Yorkshire-based Peratech, who make the composite material QTC.

"However, as part of the licensing agreements, Peratech could not reveal the phone, gaming, and device makers that could soon be using the technology to bring pressure sensitivity to a raft of new devices."

Anyone know? Smells of Apple to me.
no need to be disappointed, this is just the first iteration of our experiment (v 0.1) and we are just soliciting feedback and collecting data

appreciate the feedback about consolidating results with relative rankings, that is something we are currently developing
If he is, all of us here should be too: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ycombinator.com+reddit.com/
or rephrased : idea no.1 - redesign ed.gov and associated programs.

:)

I'm not trolling; this is an actual idea. I'll construct a better, longer version of this and post it soon on the site. A better portal could make ed.gov a fantastic place for all to visit.
Public providers half-ass the underlying learning as well. The concept of "teaching to the test" didn't come from private schools. Whatever we choose to measure schools by will generally be what teachers and principals optimize for, whether public or private.
> As sonar and radar technology improved, the once effective dazzle camouflage was rendered obsolete.

If Silent Hunter III is at all reflective of reality, WWII U-boats didn't use either radar or sonar for torpedo targeting either, though unlike WWI boats they did have the benefit of an analogue targeting computer which took input from the periscopes and UZO ("U-boat targeting optic", the equivalent of a computer-linked periscope for surface attacks).
I think that's cute. Google tries to be cool in their adds and I think they succeed at that, there's something close and personal(duh!) in every one of those.

Here's a direct link there are a few more to what already posted on eff website -- http://www.youtube.com/searchstories
What, am I the only person on the planet?

Even with the endomorphin rush from exercise, I still feel like I'm watching paint dry, because of the lack of mental stimulation. It varies with what I'm doing, too -- less taxing exercises like riding a bike or walking let me zone out into mental exercises (I used to do WoW talent builds at the gym... bad habits die hard), but if it is something I have to keep my brain on to avoid physical injury then "Don't drop this 20 kilogram weight on your foot" is the only thing keeping me awake.
With 75m monthly actives, I'm pretty sure almost every demographic is covered.
The parachute books suggests that a good proxy for the skills you are good at is the skills you enjoy using. The argument is that you usually don't enjoy something for which you have little ability.

But another argument for this is that you only become successful by sticking at something - you know, it's mostly "turning up", overnight success takes a long time.

And there's the Dweck/Gladstone observation that it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something. So if you enjoy it (not necessarily find it pleasurable, but meaningful and worthwhile), you can do that.

I don't know if you can become world-class with 10,000 hours alone, or if you need a special potential. But one thing seems clear to me: if you have some aptitude, and you practice 10,000 hours, you'll be damn good. And if you enjoy it, find it meaningful and worthwhile, it's probably pretty close to maximum fulfillment.
95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious.
Then what?

;)
I know how old Erlang is. My point is that the computing environment has changed in the meantime, such that it's now a viable alternative for servers.
In reply to your edit: Your entire argument rests on the assumption that private schools that poor students attend will be worse than public schools that poor students attend. You haven't presented any evidence for that, and it is contrary to what a naive analysis would suggest.

Today, poor students have absolutely no choice when it comes to schools. They live where they can afford, and they go to the schools they are zoned to. In a voucher system, poor students would actually get to pick schools, and one would assume that they'd tend to pick better schools after taking distance and other requirements into account.

Bad public schools continue in perpetuity because students are forced to pay for them. In an ideal world, bad private schools wither away when students choose better schools.

"In the public system there is a constant struggle to push the low end higher. This is (part of the reason) why the public system costs so much."

If that's the case, there's no reason that students who require extra attention can't be provided extra funding via vouchers.

"If the vouchers were high enough to raise the low end to an acceptable level, the cost would be equal to the public part of the current system."

If that's the case, who cares? Getting to choose the school your children attend is a good in itself, so you're suggesting that vouchers would be an improvement even with your incorrect assumption that current public school costs are necessary to achieve current public school quality.

You refer to a market failure several times, but you've never described it. How would the market fail to provide at least equal quality with equal funding per student?
I definitely agree with the argument that historical perspective is important - but I think the author's pessimistic assessment of the American public school system, and its approach, is inaccurate.

For example, he references a poll by Strategic Vision LLC that purports to show the ignorance of students in Oklahoma - the poll in question was pretty thoroughly debunked here, three weeks before the blog post was published:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/11/real-oklahoma-student...
I'm not attacking every freemium model out there.. just one that involves sports that have a large percentage of fanatic fans and their favorite teams stats . Other models don't have the same potential for copyright violation.

The idea and technology being used is great I just think there may be an enormous legal battle ahead should the site and service become very popular.
"Site's HTTP 503 error raises new doubts about Internet"
I hate to even tell you this but it's completely realistic to jump into affiliate marketing and make fairly solid money ($10 - 20k a month net).

Thanks largely to Facebook (and other social networks) generating HUGE surpluses of traffic there is a free for all right now in affiliate marketers out-converting each other and sending that traffic on to advertisers.

There is enough traffic and risk tolerance from large publishers so that even averagely talented affiliates can make good money.

You'll find everything you need between digitalpoint.com, shoemoney.com, johnchow.com, nickycakes.com, and warriorforum.com.

The reason I led in by saying I hate to tell you this is because affiliate marketing can be extremely slimy, and will be short lived (in present state) as ad-networks become more efficient @ buying up large bricks of ad dollars eliminating the need for this sub-ecosystem.

But in the meantime, hundreds of millions of dollars are up for grab.
http://www.greenharbor.org/2010/01/wind-turbines-installed-a...

Uh, something doesn't seem right here...
This statement may be true for your personal experience, but is in fact completely wrong.

Emerging economies such as India have huge mobile Internet populations. In fact in India mobile Internet outnumbers PC based internet 3 to 1 with a mobile Internet use north of 37million users, very few of which are using iPhones.

http://research.nokia.com/files/MobileInternetUsageInIndia.p...

http://mobiforge.com/analysts/blog/mobile-internet-users-ind...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?article...
I think you would have to set the parameters very carefully.

In Australia, universities have been encouraged (or forced, depending on how you look at it) by budget cuts to offer courses to full fee paying students from overseas to supplement their revenue. This contrasts with the local Australian students whose courses are still highly subsidised by government funding (the subsidy has been decreasing as well though).

If a university is offering a course with an aim to maximize revenue, then it will naturally want to attract as many students as possible, in competition with other local universities and with overseas universities. Often that means lowering the entrance criteria for prospective students. Because the students are paying for the course, they expect to have their degree at the end of it, and this leads to significant pressure to lower the depth and difficulty of the material taught, as well as the grading criteria, to accommodate the weakest students.

I don't believe the actual teaching is poor, but the quality of education is lowered. I know professors who have had to take phone calls from overseas from parents demanding to have their children's grades altered, with a financial threat attached. Reputation is a key driver in students' choice of university, which adds a further incentive to placate the customer. I don't know if any of these anecdotes actually resulted in a "pay-for-grade" situation, but the normally assumed academic independence is certainly threatened.

Maybe education can be made to work well under a competitive market system, but in this situation I don't think it has, and I'm not smart enough to think of ways to fix this particular situation.
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Upvoted for recognizing that the melody is the same as in 'Heart & Soul' but the 'boom de yada' melody is also in 'Heart & Soul' as harmony. Well, it's technically not harmony (my music theory is a little shaky) but it's in the background of the melody. Just listen to the first few measures of 'Hear & Soul' and you'll hear it.

tl:dr All parts of the mountain song melody are in 'Heart and Soul.'
Its Gandhi not Ghandi.
Do you have stats showing anti-aging research has low benefit per dollar spent? Or do you just have some kind of prejudice against life? Aubrey de Grey says it's cheap, as these things go.
Just an intuitive understanding that if we decrease infant mortality we will net the human race many more years of life than anti-aging research. Spare a few cents for a vaccine anyone? As opposed to dumping a bunch of money into theoretical anti-aging efforts.

Now you might argue that one additional year for an adult is more valuable to society than one additional year for a child, but I'd rather not quibble over the exact value of a year of life. There are counterarguments; how many genius do you think we lose in Africa because of inadequate medicine and education?

EDIT: If it's cheaper than optimizing on the low end, then of course I would support optimizing on the high end. But given the large number of human beings that die young for stupid reasons, I can't imagine that the high end is cheaper. Thanks for pointing out Aubrey de Grey, though. I'll do some reading.
i would presume that the scoff came more from the implied "I am unable to understand or appreciate the needs and desires of a female partner" than it had to do with the logic behind the statement.

if you find a partner who doesn't want a diamond, then you are completely justified in not getting her one (just because she says she doesn't want one, doesn't necessarily mean she doesn't, though).

otherwise, the real value isn't in its intrinsic value, but in the various byproducts -- the signal it sends, how she's able to show it off to her friends (and will be expected to), the fact that she's likely been dreaming about it since childhood, etc.

just like any social norm, it doesn't always make sense. but by refusing to do something because you think it doesn't make sense, the real thing you're saying is that it's about your needs, not the other person's.
I think you need to know going into posting an AMA that people will want to know who you are. I think if you use a pseudonym for anything people will want to know who you are. Just because _why couldn't handle it (as you say), doesn't mean everyone else is to blame for that.
Correlation between boredom and death does not mean boredom causes death. It could just be that, for example, unhappiness causes:

1) boredom
2) alcoholism
Part of the articles argument seems to be that growing up with fast paced shooters gives younger players more of an advantage. I have to wonder, though, if rewiring the brain for fast twitch reflexes through FPS games is actually good for the young, developing mind later in life.
How would a large sample size have made correlation = causation?
Ok, my point was I recall some Erlang hype back in 90's. What specifically in your opinion made that 20+ year old language "production ready"?
China shuts down hacker training website
The important thing in history isn't the who, the where, or the when, it's the what and in particular, the why. History classes almost never cover that, most important, part. Instead it's an exercise in rout memorization. If you focus on the why, everything else falls into place because it actually has meaning. If it doesn't have meaning, it's just a number that needs to be remembered for a few hours to be regurgitated on a piece of paper for a grade.
88yr Old Mayor Gets City Debt-free & Puts 700M Cash In The Bank.
>so the startup was sold for >=30 million dollars

He got 30M. That means that startup was sold for much more than that (2-300M?)
What argument are you making that doesn't apply if you replace education, schools and vouchers with food, supermarkets and food stamps?
Lol. That is some funny stuff.
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If private providers half-ass the underlying learning, why do private schools consistently outperform public schools?
His justification is somewhat questionable. Is stopping people talking on cell phones by standing in traffic when the light is green actually making the world a better place, i.e. reducing traffic accidents? It seems at the very least to be an open question whether any decrease in accidents from reducing cell-phone usage would be matched by an increase in accidents from cars unexpectedly stopped in the middle of a road.
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> Real-estate on the Moon is also divisible and un-manufacturable, but no-one seems to be arguing that we should base a monetary system on _that_.

From the perspective of a fiat currency serving as a store of value, Moon real estate is a great idea. The exact amount and location of it is available to anyone in the world; it's tamper-proof; and unlike regular paper money, it's difficult for it to be inflated.
Consider this. Money is directly related to the quality of education. New Trier is a school in the area where I grew up. It is one of the best high schools in the nation. New Trier spends more than $15,000 yearly per student, compared the the state average of $8,786 [1]. Now in a private system we could just provide vouchers to everyone for $15,000 and everyone would have an excellent education. Except this would cost way more than the current system and no one is willing to pay it.

Now, you would suggest that though free market forces, New Trier's figure of $15,000 could be brought down. But these free market forces are already operating on New Trier! New Trier already has all the characteristics of an elastic good! (1) Many substitutes - families are rich so they can move or send their kids to private school, (2) Low percentage of family income - families are rich, (3) Breadth of definition - there are public and private schools in the area with similar prestige, and (4) Necessity - the kids of rich and educated parents are the least likely to need a degree. To be honest, $15,000 per student is probably a pretty accurate figure for what it takes to give a kid a top notch education. A private system wont lower this figure. The cost of education wont be reduced.

So my claim is that free market forces are already at work. Why then not just convert to a private system if the net effect would be the same? After all, the government is evil and the invisible hand is a force of good and prosperity for the human race. The answer to this question comes from wisty's comment [2]. It is the market failure I refer to several times. The underlying learning will take a back seat to the profit in a private system. Ever notice how some really expensive cloths aren't the ones that look the best? It's because prestige can trump quality. This is inevitable in the private system. It may happen in the public system as well, but the government has the power to try to stop it. No such body exists in the private system to look out for the quality of education.

[1] http://sitemaker.umich.edu/dompierre.356/new_trier_high_scho...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111503
That's not how I read it. He will let you embed the stats from his site for free, but its going to have his branding/ads and you can only show the views he offers. If you want a different segment of data or to remove the branding, you'll have to pay.

So for example, he may let you embed a stat sheet about all NFL teams, but if you want one with just the Eagles, you'll have to pay. This is what he means by "giving away the whole thing, and charging for the pieces."

Its actually a really sharp idea, especially for this niche. Kudos to the author.
a freelancer wouldn't know and if they did they wouldn't care. (i am a freelancer.)

we're talking about websites that are in the top 5% of all sites (by traffic) that would even need to think about using something like phpc or hphp. the number of those that would be willing to use a freelancer to handle their scaling issues are probably in the single digits at best.
My point is that there is a kind of fearmongering in comments like the one above mind -- that if somehow Apple were to open up its platform to the wild and wooly world, it'd soon be overrun by every form of scam and debauchery known to man.

It's not that you've shown that there wouldn't be "every form of scam and debauchery known to man." It's more that you've shown that there would be, but the world won't end and it wouldn't be so bad for you. But for a lot of people out there, the experience on the net is full of suckiness, because they don't have all the knowledge that you do. If someone wants to create a walled garden for those folks, why can't they? Wouldn't that be allowed in a free market? It's not like they're forcing you to buy their phone!
im into freebies what do I have to do?
I'm not taking graphical design advice from a guy mixing up so many concepts into a uniformly hideous "design" lump-word.
Ive taken the site down. Thanks everyone for their suggestions.
> The document structure is instantly apparent, most superfluous noise is gone

Except that normally document structure is already apparent. Most people don't write HTML pages from top to bottom -- sites consist of a common header, footer, sidebars, etc. Common controls (such as buttons, date selectors, voting tools, etc) can hide most of the superfluous noise. What then remains is easy to follow. It seems like Haml is to HTML what assembler is to machine language -- it's merely a 1-to-1 translator. Which is great if you want to work at that level but it seems you could get more bang for your buck with a higher level tool.

The big disadvantage of Haml is that it isn't HTML. Now using any template engine takes you away from HTML, but hopefully you get some real value added. With Haml, it's the same structure with a better markup. I don't see what the big deal is.
Thanks. I searched for one of my sites, and found a "how to hack [site name]" video on YouTube I didn't know was there. It wasn't actually a hack, just a silly JavaScript trick to disable a upgrade nag graphic, but I never would've noticed that video otherwise.
Submission title is bizarre. No talk of failure, let alone "why".
So, this makes two pro-affiliate program links today. More to come?
I've always fit into the "run & gun" category, but I don't know if it's just because I'm younger. I personally find the team cooperation games boring, so much sitting around doing nothing :)

Based on how I end up doing on Xbox Live, I consider myself better at these FPS's than a lot of kids that are younger than me, and I didn't really grow up with FPS's like most kids are these days.

It could have more to do with sport involvement and other reflex activities (I've been a musician since I was young).

As an aside, I think one of the ultimate run & gun gametypes I've played is Halo 2 or 3 SWAT. Now THAT is intense!
Then you would have a whole new set of social problems to try to solve.
I see two problems with his "volume" solution. The examples given show a fundamental divide: there's the song you've spent years working on, and then there's some random comment someone felt the need to get off their chest. There's one problem with the volume metaphor. How often would people change the volume? What's a mid-volume update, or an update with the volume set to 75%? The second, much bigger problem, is that using "volume" is a confusing interaction; people are already used to using those volume slider controls on websites to control the volume of sounds. The UI is telling them one thing, but the functionality isn't consistent with the typical website experience.

Offhand, I'd say maybe create a separate category called "Announcements" to take advantage of existing psychology and etiquette. Who would "announce" something like "mmmm... Cheetos." or "gonna get my drink on 2 nite!"? Maybe they'd get called "announcement whores".
not me. Married, no kids. Not that rich. I also know how to invest.
Dell buys Exanet for $12M
Apple Annoucnes iTampon Flash Drive Just To Prove iPad Name Wasn't a Mistake
That's a solution, but I'd think Facebook would want to avoid their users coming to that conclusion.