skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ is a wonderful introduction to Ruby.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming ( wikibooks itself is a great resource. You might ask the children to contribute, thus helping them learn both English and programming simultaneously)

http://tryruby.org/ is an online irb environment, great for teaching the basics.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page might be a good resource, especially if you have the children contribute to interesting articles.
I have read about his habit of going to meetings and keeping his feet up on the conference room table.
Such students may not be "A" students, depending on how the class is graded.

When I was an undergrad, I had a couple of "A" performances (in one case, I was among the top 3 students in a class of about 150) marked down to "A-" due to attendance/pop quizzes ("statistical sampling of attendance").
Frankly, I don't think there's a need to complicate this discussion with mentions of Keynes or interest rates. Their error starts far earlier, at the basic measurement of value.

Joe works at WidgetCo and makes $60,000/yr. His loaded costs are a little over $100,00/yr.

WidgetCo pays this because his skills are worth about $125,000/yr to them, so it's a great deal.

At this point, if you are a well-meaning, but rational cherub, what is the highest rational price to pay to get Joe working again? I'm guessing anything up to $125,000.

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But that's not the end of our grossly simplified model. We also have the fact that Joe spends his paycheck on niggles. He fucking loves the shit out of niggles. As he consumes $60,000/yr of niggles, he personally pays for 1/2 of an employee at the niggle factory (and that guy spends his money on something too...)

So now we have to recognize that if Joe loses his job, there's going to be a negative ripple effect, and if Joe gets a job, there's a positive ripple effect.

So now, as a well-meaning, but rational cherub, what's my highest rational price? Well.. at this point I'd probably call in an economist to help me figure it out, but it's clearly more than $125,000/yr... it's likely close to $200,000/yr.

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And now somebody hands me a "stimulus" proposal, and it turns out that I could create a job for Joe for about $150,000/yr. So let's see... $200,000/yr of value for $150,000/yr... sounds like a great investment to me! Very good value for money, even if it does lead to an annoying headline indicating "$60,000/yr jobs cost silly cherub $150,000!"

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Obviously this is grossly glossed over (I didn't even mention the obvious fact that if people are buying widgets, they must provide value), and actual models of costs and benefits of various scenarios are quite complex, but I simply meant to demonstrate that simply dividing the total cost of a package by the number of jobs is silly, and misses the point widely.
Yeah, but the lists spring back when you hit the end! And there is no ugly battery door!
Hey Steve, can the iPad tether with the iPhone?
If you got kicked out a movie for talking on a cell phone during the film, would you call the theater "entitled" and ask who's paying who?

You want to think that through a little farther. If you got kicked out of a movie for getting up and going to the restroom, would you call the theatre "justified"? Because that's all this student's actions amounted to, at the end of the day.

I doubt anybody even noticed the guy entering and leaving lectures until the good Professor threw a rod.
http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm

Do I need to spell out the similarities with Time Cube, or enumerate John Baez's Crackpot Index in an oddly self-referential strange loop?

It is indeed not rocket science. Or much of any science.

edit: "We are all accustomed to believe that everything is made of something. We are taught that matter consists of molecules and that molecules are made of atoms which are themselves made of even smaller components. This line of reasoning makes sense initially but, as seen below, it cannot be sustained." if you think I am merely being obtuse.
Sizing Up Promising Young Firms
It may just be me, but I like that work fulfills that "getting out of the house" desire every once and a while.
I don't think this post in any way relates to a one-man shop. This is all about a management decision at a small org and what he feels is right for his company. It's an interesting read to be sure, but taking it as strict advice for any other org or individual would be folly.

I work with a distributed team and we get a lot done. Our developers have worked together physically for 4 days total in the space of 2 years. There are issues, but I wouldn't call the situation better or worse, but rather different. We enjoyed our time together, but our team is geographically dispersed and we make it work. Even if sometimes that means typing out our body language. :)

As an individual getting started you will want to try different enivironments until you get it right. Meaning don't blow your savings on what you think is the right environment. First experiment - check out co-working/incubator space on a rental/short-term lease basis. Try working from home for a while and be thoughtful about what you'd need to make that situation work.

Understand that every one of these articles (whether from 37s or Meta or whoever) have a big unwritten caveat of "this is what works for us." It is always useful to be exposed to new ideas and experiences this way, but it still gets a little tiresome to read the "I agree 100% this is exactly how it should be done!" comments because as with everything there is a wide spectrum of possibilities to apply to each situation.
The Jison grammar for CoffeeScript is surprisingly sexy
I've never had any first hand experience with a ROWE company. The question that always pops into my head is "How do you measure results?"

If you can do that well, I'm sure it can work fabulously. Why does ROWE not run into the same problems as results oriented incentives.
It's actually only 1 class interruption: the interruption occurred when Galloway decided to stop teaching and instead focus on a student who he felt disrespected him (but probably went unnoticed by other students).
My university had a simple fix for this problem - all lecture halls actually had doors at the back. People who have back-to-back classes in different departments had to take a shuttle bus to commute since the campus is big. They could slip in silently from the back door and take a seat somewhere in the last few rows. No body gets disturbed, and the prof doesn't get offended.
Cisco about to change the internet?
Jason Fried reminds me of Ken Lay of Enron. He needs to be grounded.

I work from home. Coming into the office: after weeks and weeks, I develop a pattern. It's extremely different than my first week at work. My first week coming in to the office, I'm extremely punctual: I clock in at 10, and out at 6. I spend a good amount of my day interfacing with my Project Manager, talking to my fellow programmers, taking smoke breaks with them. Call of Duty, and NERF fights break out irregularly

Working from home: after weeks and weeks, I develop a pattern. I wake up early, 6 or 7, and start in on work or go to the gym. I may have four hours of uninterrupted work time before work "officially" starts. Maximum efficiency without interruption. I can "come in to work early" - 3-4 hours early - without feeling like I'm being taken advantage of, because I may stop working earlier than normal work hours. I usually don't, though -- my typical work weeks clock in at over 50 hours, and I'm the better for it. I'm learning when other people are sleeping.

I always ask my project manager and my director what's going on for the rest of the day to ensure I'm working when everyone else expects me to be. I have some flexibility in my schedule, and I try really hard to not abuse it. I give as much warning as I can that I'll be away from my computer. I took no days off from work last year except when I had to travel to SXSW because I was nominated for a web award and for when I had to have surgery/recovery for cancer.

iChat or Skype with video can easily solve the body language issue. "Emoticons" as horrid as they are, are invaluable in communication. Exclamation points, too. As outside my comfortability zone as it is, this statement: "No problem kicking it out before Monday! :)" communicates my situation far better than "I can deliver by Monday" does. Really, I don't mind putting in a few more hours over the weekend to ensure the project launches, but there's no way to communicate that without facial expressions or emoticons, so abuse the shit out of both.
Agreed, I also found the auto-expansion really jarring. My eyes are still reeling :).
I've been solo full-time for two years now (and off and on as well before this) and I'll vouch that having a special room for an office helps considerably.

Just before the new year we built a brand new office for myself in our house and it has been great. Before I was in a spare bedroom that doubled as my girlfriend's computer area and productivity just wasn't as high as it is now with my own space.

Plus, I got to fill it with a bunch of my sports stuff. You can't top that. Photos available upon request if you're into gawking at other people's workspaces.
The music is cool and the "study" room setup is endearing. But, in plain English, what's the result of the experiment ?!
I emailed YC regarding co-founders and they suggested HN, so here I am [...] I can't discuss the company details here [...]

If your idea is so fragile that discussing what it is will destroy it, you really don't have anything useful.
If your job is to accurately assess your customers, you certainly can fail them.
There is a strong genetic component to hypertension (61% heritable) so I do not think it is fair to say that exercise and diet would cure it for most people.

Perhaps the most sobering stat I learned in med school: Take everyone who is 55 years old and does not have hypertension. 90% of those individuals will ultimately go on to become hypertensive.

In atypical fashion, I can actually source this: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/hbp_low/hbp...
New Version of MediaRing Talk 2.9.3.5
MediaRing Talk offers free and unlimited phone calls to other MediaRing Talk users along with presence indicator.
This is incorrect. AdSense was 31% of their revenues in Q409. They did more than $2B in AdSense revenue in Q4 alone:

http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q4_google_earnings.h...
Seems like this is more of feature or a wizard/plugin for a wiki or project workspace than a stand-alone application. But it's a very good idea and a great start on an interesting implementation. The copyright should be 2010 and there should be something on the about page about the founders and why solving this problem is important to them.
There a few automated tools that can help you analyze your site for potential SEO mistakes - this is one I've made which can hopefully help:

http://www.seositecheckup.com
Related:

Unit Testing Achievements : http://exogen.github.com/nose-achievements/

The Game-ification of Everything (watch the last 6 mins or so if nothing else) : http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Bo...

surely there's an enterprise developer-motivation product hiding in here somewhere...
I have no idea what definition you are using for "standard insurance." Health insurance does cover routine care, but that's actually a loss control mechanism in the longer term.

Health insurance sold on a group basis is underwritten on a group basis. That does not have anything to do with whether it is "real insurance." Health insurance sold on an individual basis is underwritten on that basis, but rate differentials may be severely constrained by statute or regulation.

These do not affect whether financial risk is transferred. The routine care issue does impinge on a valid consideration of whether the transferred risk is "insurable", but since these are short-term contracts it is not fatal.
This is bullshit - we must move past the one-way lecture to collaboration
Someone tell this guy/girl retail distribution is the key to getting rich off their product. Or alternatively, they could license it to a manufacture and take royalties.

I hope they own some sort of patent on it.
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The big "statuses" are inconsistent (and therefore useless) compared to the actual status in the details. This means I have to actually read the details since I can't get any useful info just from scanning the page.
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You've captured the interest of absolutely no one. You can try again though, this is a fickle bunch.
I think there's a difference between discussing it, and discussing it somewhere it will pop up on your competition's Google Alerts. ;)
Getting to know more of the world and working in a remote location close to nature are actually huge pluses for a lot of people (myself included). You just need to find those people and keep the hassle level as low as possible. Relocation assistance is important.

Damn, you're making me seriously consider submitting a resume...
I like this group--how it's pretty nice and brutally honest at the same time.
It's not that it's fragile. The key with this project is to be the first. I've never seen it done before so I want to do it before anyone else does. Sorry for being so vague. Thanks for the input though.
Outstanding Web Admin Dashboard Designs
I've always understood an inverse quadratic relationship to be related to the surface area of the sphere over which a force is distributed at a given distance. Is that correct, and if so, does an inverse quartic relationship suggest additional dimensions in which the force is propagating?
Really? Investing in Canada must be really bad then because moving to the US is not easy. (At least not if you aren't sponsored by BigCo whose large legal department will take care of the insane paperwork for you)
In short, no competition among app stores means no competition for the license terms that apply to iPhone developers.

What is impacting developers is the lack of competition between the iPhone and other mobile devices. Apple's app store is winning because iPhone is winning. This will not always be the case.
Why is this story so polarizing? Here's a theory, inspired by a Less Wrong post [1]: some people, thinking back to their time in class, remember how distracting it was for a student to come to class in the middle of a lecture. Others, like myself, barely even noticed.

The one side thinks "how rude of the student to walk in and out of lectures like that!" and the other side thinks "what's the big deal? Just ignore it!" and from there they side with the professor or the student, respectively.

Does this gel with your personal experiences? Is there anyone who sided with the professor but does not find student movement distracting? Or anyone who sided with the student but can't stand it?

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
Ask HN: How do HN comments get negative point values?
I've been on HN for a while now, but I still can't figure out how comments get negative scores. Only upvotes are supported, so what contributes negatively to a comment's score?
Tech startups, exclusivity and our competitors (some thoughts)
From the FAQ:

Why don't I see down arrows?

There are no down arrows on submissions.
They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
The requirements are rather vague. Who nowadays does not consider himself "well versed in social networks" and "not too busy to make money"?

Seriously, you've got to narrow the pool a bit. Telling us your startup plan will do X will not mean some random entrepreneur will suddenly work out an entire functional plan for X'ing.

"Something to do with social networks" is about akin and officially evil as a freelance project offering $50 to clone Facebook.
Cisco's Visual Networking Index
Thanks. Wasn't my intention to catch everyone's attention though. Just one person.
This is completely unrelated... but wow, they didn't even attempt to hide they stole their design from TechCrunch.
How did my suggesting a solution for people who apparently want it become "If you can't stand people asking questions about things they don't understand, then maybe you sir have problems sharing this "digital playground"."...?

There were people discussing the fact that they would like to see certain keywords actually banned from HN, and they were suggesting it on submissions that already had over 100 points and plenty of people participating in the comments. If you happen to be one of those people who thinks their opinion on what belongs > what the actual majority thinks then this can help. This was posted for them or those who feel the same way but didn't comment.

The reason this is a post instead of a link is that I wanted to explain why I was posting it, and what element of the script was relevant.
I'm telling myself that Oracle can't be as large as they are and not realize the secondary value of visible open source projects like Drizzle.
I'll definitely reveal more details once i've seen a reply that piques my interest. Thanks.
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It's about monetizing Twitter.
What you don't see because it is invisible is that you've lost 5-10 minutes out of every hour of lecture time. And you don't realize that you're losing over 10% of the course you paid for because you don't realize what you could have had.

I say this both as someone with a tendency to arrive late, and as someone who has taught classes. Before I tried to write up lesson plans and saw what those interruptions added up to in lost teaching, my sympathies would have been with the student. Now they are not.
One of Jarvis' best in a while, particularly his defense of why his TED talk was still a one-way bullshit lecture: Ego.
thank you for sharing. slow and steady is great. +1 transparency
The debugger he's so fond of is actually the Paste debugger (paste.exceptions.errormiddleware.ErrorMiddleware). See http://gist.github.com/326254 on how to use it with Django WSGI deployments.

Secondly, Django is nearly unparalleled when it comes to CMS-based work. It probably is the wrong choice if you're looking to build the next Google, but for anything involving a system where the administrators are computer illiterate, it's always a winner.

As for the entire reusable apps thing, I have to agree. It's good for namespacing, but other than that, it doesn't have many benefits.
The content is incredibly weak in this article and it's obviously a tactic to try and sell some themes (or at least I hope so as the content isn't even proofread basically). Having said that the themes look great and this is awesomely relevant to me right now (working on something similar and there are other articles on front page right now). Worth a look for some inspiration.
What does that do to surveyed property lines?
My favorite feature is that zooming in and out with Firefox's built-in zoom reveals more or less of the map.
You are worse than obtuse. You are plain dishonest. You are picking stuff up out of context in order to appear to make a valid disparaging point but you are just being an a*hole. And you know it.
Has the Spam War Been Won?
I suspect the rules become different when you're the boss.
So learn to save before the 50 page doc is on the line. Try a 3 line this is a test and master it. Don't wait to learn to make toast until you're about to serve poached egg to Donald Trump either.
Alcoholism treatment.
Synergy Group Services Inc., an addiction rehab, situated in gorgeous West Palm Beach of Florida providing addiction treatment for the addict and the family members affected by the disease of addiction.
Could whoever is modding me down please take a moment to explain the difference between the student's actions in this case, and the actions of a student who gets up and goes to the restroom?
Neat, but wow look at the bus on that thing! Is Intel still using a basic crossbar for an interconnect? When are they going to roll out their new interconnect technologies? (They clearly must be working on them... they know just as well as the rest of us do that the on-chip network they have now isn't going to scale.)

These appear to be still built on the old 45nm process. It should be interesting to see what the 32nm westmere shrink look like. (The ones out so far are mostly only dual cores. They plan to do the rest of the line later in the year...)
Considering that http://www.google.com/search?q=monetize+twitter gets >6M results, including several lists of strategies, you may wish to be a bit more informative.
For someone who claims they value debate and conversation you seem to expose the opposite in your posts here..

What are you afraid of sir?

Some honest debate? Get real sir

Your non logic in this area seems to turn people off who were fans of your work in other areas..

Some of us are extremely disappointed in your responses coming from someone, in your own self appointment , who claim to support relevant results from search engine searches.
When you talk about debugging with a simulator I assume you are thinking about targeting a mobile device, so correct me if I'm wrong.

One of the strength of Qt when developing for mobile devices is that you can develop your app on the desktop and debug it there (to a point), and then deploy to the device and tweak. Of course, when you start using device specific features you will have to go in hardware or a simulator.

At the moment the EPOC emulator which comes with the Symbian SDK leaves a lot to be desired. Many of the phone specific features (like sensors or location) are not supported, so you will have to goto hardware for those anyway. Unfortunately, I don't know what the plans are with regards to simulator for Symbian.

That said, debugging in target from Qt Creator is quite often nice. The problem comes when Qt Creator simply says that you have a Generic OS related error, then you are pretty much stuck.

Hope that helped answer some of your questions.
It looks like it generates solo.rb and dna.json files based on what's in the Vagrant file, which is pretty cool, and I see there is a single cookbook path relative to the project directory. Is there a way to specify a site-cookbooks path, too?
Parallels: Bare Metal Hypervisor announced
That's a fair point. But I just somehow don't see Steve Jobs sending that email. (He would have Woz hack the school PBX and have fun with the Professor. ;) So, yes, if you are a genius with a devilish charm, and have the stuff to back it up, go ahead and break the rules. Hell, even Jobs had to learn a few painful lessons about people, business, and politics the hard way:

http://prateekthapar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/6.j...

"You are an anonymous student who is now regretting the send button on his laptop. It’s with this context I hope you register pause…REAL pause xxxx and take to heart what I am about to tell you [...]"

To me that's the subtext of this object lesson by the ex-"Muffketeer". Let me paraphrase: "I didn't know you before, and the event was forgetful. Not any more. That was stupid, and you need to learn so you won't make that mistake again."
But does this dongle come with the device? What services is it compatible with?
Would you two please stop?
You see unprofessionalism. I see creativity.

Fortunately, you moved from PHP to another good language - most of us in the Ruby world have a lot of appreciation for Python. You never hear good Ruby people badmouthing Python. Programming language selection doesn't have to be based on ad hominem.
All great examples, appreciate that. I personally hate to see things like this though. Specifically the fact that each admin panel that is a great design happens to be for sale and they're all tagged with his referral link.

I just wish someone would disclose that information on the website if they were making money of your purchases. Too much to ask...