skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think paid "speciality" news will work. The WSJ will be fine. I do worry, with all these papers going out business, who will actually pay for investigative journalism. It really doesn't seem to happen on the 24 hour news channels (CNN/Fox/MSNBC). They just hire pundits for the demo they are serving.

One problem is that if nobody on the web knows you're a dog then nobody knows if you were a newspaper or tv network. You have to have video, written words, and pictures.
In this article, Rolling Stone abused its cultural influence by glorifying career criminals. Young people read this magazine, and the technical quality of the articles is very very high. In my opinion, if you are going to write a crime story, then you have a moral obligation to conclude that crime does not pay. The article concludes that crime is an exciting adventure! Ridiculous!

Articles like this give pundits on the right fuel for the argument that liberals lack morals.

Making millions of dollars by dealing drugs, wasting money, and buying guns to protect your illegal operations is wrong.
True IMHO. Get a server guy, that's where the rubber meets the road. Ultimately your business succeeds or fails on whether your service is secure abd available.
They will have to install ie6, some of them anyway, because there are a TON of applications out there built to IE6 that are years old with no one to support them and many of them have code bases that have disappeared.

It's a sad situation really. It's easier to install IE6 than rewrite the apps to work with another browser.
Can you describe the nature of the app. or any general description?

crowdspring.com tends to have a more 'creative' bunch than all the other outsourcing shops. post up a project! they just changed their policy that the buyer is not required to select a winning design. You can walk away if you don't like the submissions, and the cS will award the prize out of their pocket.

..and then there's always me. I don't have formal training in UI, but I've been at it for a while. @faramarzhashemi
Nonsense. First, I'm sure that Patrick does have competition in his niche (a simple Google for "bingo card software" reveals a litany of options). Second, having no competition is a big warning sign that perhaps that niche isn't a great one to go into. Third, you would be well-advised to avoid niches that are highly over-competitive. Finally, most businesses are pretty terrible, and not all that hard to run circles around, especially if you follow some of Patrick's advice here (I'm thinking particularly of the stuff regarding time debt and building repeatable processes).
No, heck no. It isn't the number of hours, its the content and the structure of school. Taking away summer then weekends is two too many insults.
Thanks for the suggestion. We will take a look at that

We are working on music composition software for the iPad. We currently have an iPhone app out called Symphony (which already runs on the iPad), but we need to redesign it to accomodate the larger screen size.
So, how would you describe your experience with part-time development ? I'm wondering if working 20+ hours a week on top of a regular 9-5 is enough.
A significant percentage of those are not launching anything on Monday but are simply presenting at Demo, or are announcing new features. Infusionsoft for example has been around for quite some time, and if you want a perfect example of a company to be skeptical of go look at their PHP sdk.
Multidisciplinary effort towards advanced photovoltaic building systems
H.264 predominance in web video will probably not affect Windows, Mac or Linux users but it will certainly affect BSD and alternative OS users.

I can't see flash content now because my OS of preference doesn't have the plugin. I've been doing fine with out YouTube videos and flash sites. I think I will also be fine with a bigger library of content I can see under Theora and more standard compliant sites even if I can't see H.264 content. But I think Firefox should use the available multimedia frameworks in the different OSes and leave video decoding to the users system.
I just changed the home page drastically. It's not completely done yet, still have to find a spot for the "recently earned badges" but check it out and let me know what you think.
Believe me, after a while depression sets in when you do that.
I must admit that I didn't read the article, instead I came directly here. I have worked with jQuery enough to have read lots and lots of simple introductions. The stuff that usually trips me up is knowing which files I need to download, host, then import into my page to get something working.

In java we have things like automatic imports in eclipse, dependency management with maven etc. When I go to the javascript frameworks it seems like these are somehow 'boring' little details that nobody writes about.

This whole thing reminds me of learning Spanish. When you go to a book store there are hundreds of intro to Spanish books. Maybe because they are easy to produce or maybe because most people pick up an intro book and never get beyond that.

What might be nice is if google could be customized to the point where it knows my skill level in various subjects and returns results that I will find interesting.
Net produces new generation of China activists
It depends on what you mean by "good" programmers or "good" server guys. Up to a certain point, yes, there are plenty of people that can do both well enough to get most jobs done.

However: unless the guy you're hiring happens to be an active developer for the operating system that you're expecting to him to admin, then there's a pretty low chance that he could be considered an expert in both fields. Each field is just too deep and broad, and requires too much time to maintain current knowledge in.

A programmer can probably figure out a particular sysadmin problem, and a good sysadmin can probably figure out a decent approach to a programming problem, but while they're figuring it out, you're paying them and potentially also paying for downtime or a slower development process.
My problem with this article is that they assume that school is the best place to learn things, and that an extra 7-8 hours of what most kids would term 'drudgery' per week would actually improve learning.

I agree with the statement that everything is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, but the perspiration is only useful if a student wants to perspire.
I think the biggest problem with any online university is letting the students network with each other. I took a grad-level class at UC Boulder last fall, and probably would've flunked it if it wasn't for my coworkers available for me to ask questions. That said, I've gotta look into UotP's social network thing.

Fun thought, it'd be interesting to teach/mentor techical knowledge (i.e. programming) in exchange for a business education. It'd let you organize the skills you've learned, learn how others approach technical skills through teaching, and learn formal business skills all at once.
that would be free to students all over the world, one of just a handful of tuition-free universities.

One of a handful? All higher education in Sweden is tuition free for all students regardless of where they come from.

Maybe he means "one of a handful in the US", but the "students all over the world" part suggests he's talking worldwide?
Playing chess is not so much about reasoning. It's more about pattern recognition and assessment. To play chess really well you need to have embedded awesome heuristics in your brain that shows you what the good move is.

I played with two people. One about same IQ as me, maybe slightly lower but having extensive experience (at least in comparison to mine) in chess (he played a lot as a kid, I played maybe 100 games total, never with significantly better opponent).

Second guy I played was more intelligent then me but had almost no experience in chess (he was incredible mathematician, transition between two lines of his proof that he saw obvious, required whole page of my reasoning for me to be understood, he represented my country in International Mathematical Olympics, he got master degree one year ahead of time).

With the first guy I won exactly once. Before that I lost about 20-30 games with him. When I played the other guy I was astonished how dumb moves he made. I won with him effortlessly first time.
I think the problem is that conversation about these issues is very difficult, because language itself poses an obstacle and the same word is used to mean similar things that differ in important ways.

For instance, I used the word 'nature' to mean what my parent meant: some objective, true, reality, about which we have knowledge. However, this is meaningless in exactly the same way that I argued 'laws of nature' is meaningless. Our knowledge is limited to our accounts of our observations and the theories and stories we have come up with to explain and predict such observations. 'Nature' can not possibly mean anything else than something like: "the ideas, theories, images and narratives that describe our observations of our shared reality that seem to be independent of individual humans". But when 'nature' is used in that sense in my original comment, then my claim is tautological. And when you don't accept the word can't mean anything other than I claim, then does the argument make sense? I'm trying to argue a point, where I use a word in a way that I could not actually use the word. It requires a sort of schizophrenic state of mind to appreciate the argument.

(And of course, 'nature' does mean other things: a landscape painter will have entirely different concepts and images in mind when we use that word. There may be parts of that meaning that are so bound to the individual entertaining the concept that they cannot even be conveyed to another human.)

All of this is, BTW, not very novel and hasn't sprung from my mind. My argument basically follows the argument as Hilary Putnam used in 'Brains in vat'. And it wasn't new then.
I think Thailand and Vietnam have many things in common regarding the startup culture, you were right mentioning that we can stay in Vietnam and be a success, actually, that's what we always wanted to do. The point here is that most people in Vietnam don't give entrepreneurs enough respect, and being an entrepreneur here means you have to bear a great cost of being seen as "jobless", and in my country, being "jobless" is the next worst thing to being a criminal (Actually my girlfriend just left me because I don't have a job, her family rejected me because I don't have a job).

When you go to VC (we have IDG venture fund here, they're the only one fund in tech) to sell your idea, they'll ask you about things like IPs, proven business model, stats about market size, market trends, demographic view and yes, they look at your background carefully, ironically, if you're a businessman with 15 year experience in business and tech and the like and can come up with the "great" idea like Facebook clone (http://bit.ly/c21XyJ) or Linkedin clone (http://bit.ly/96o8lm), chances are high that you'll get the investment. Having relations with government officials is also important here if you want to survive in the long run, especially when it comes to sensitive things like Internet related services like social network or social news ... So, when it comes to new product in new and untested market, you have to do it on your own with your own budget, test and learn. I see many friends of mine gave up their startup dream because they don't have enough support. It's a sad thing, and this must be fixed soon.We want to prove that this is the wrong thing
Do you have any recommendations for an FPGA newbie? I've been looking around at boards, but I'm not sure which ones are the good ones.
Well, I am a professional in both, and it's not at all BS. Yes, it's possible to dabble in both, but if we're talking expert levels here, then guys that are experts in both the programming and sysadmin fields are really, really rare. (I'm not an expert in either field. I'm just barely good enough to do it professionally.)

Respectfully, I think that once you start dealing with some more interesting problems, and doing so professionally, you might begin to realize just how much you don't know in one field or another.
Absolutely not. Highschool was by far the least productive time of my life. I'd have shot a few teachers if I had to put up with them six days a week.
Douglas Adams is always excellent, but his writing (and his speaking, now) related to endangered species is my favorite.

If you can find a copy of Last Chance to See, it's well worth reading.
I expected them to be swinging for each other from the buildup this got!
Our worldviews seem so completely different that we're probably talking past each other.

Case in point: I don't know how to respond to someone who requests data to establish that advertising is based on manipulation. You may as well be speaking Martian to me. (My immediate response - after sputtering - is, more or less, "It's advertising. Look at some.")

Let me stress, I'm not saying this as a put-down or any kind of argument in proof of anything. I'm simply trying to express in words my jaw dropping when I read your response.
I use 'singular they' because at some point 'one' started to connote pretentiousness. I don't see how Spivak pronouns solve that problem, but this off-topic sub-discussion has convinced me to go back to using 'one' (for disambiguation's sake).
Ah, the Timex Datalink. I had one as well. Even managed to reverse engineer enough of the protocol to roll my own led blinker in some embedded hardware, allowing me to do a daily time sync without the PC.
The fallacy is considering "academic performance" to be meaningful.
> why would anyone ever use XML for anything?

I ask myself that every day.

XML is a huge scam perpetrated on the software industry, but now it is too late because a huge parasitic 'industry' has built around it, and too many people (specially too many PHBs) have invested their reputations on XML being the ultimate standard for representing data.
Swedish schools won't be free for foreign students starting next year.

http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/12821/a/140013
Personally, I like the doctor who model. I think that regenerating 12 times would be enough for me.
If this can be made to work the way these articles are suggesting I think it will be revolutionary. I think about some business that has my personal information on file for the purpose of maintaining an account. It could be the phone company, credit card whatever. I would feel better if all that was encrypted so that not even the programs that operate on that data would be able to use it for ID theft.
The biggest impetus is MSIE's early onload bug, so while this trick supports more browsers, it still doesn't support the one you want it to.

I hacked up David Baron's demonstration so you can see it for yourself:

http://geocar.sdf1.org/zero-timeout.html
That interface is certainly inconvenient to use, and potentially quite dangerous without a clearParameters().

It's not at all a rebuttal of the article, though. The article points out that the number of unit tests a design requires is larger for more complicated designs. An interface like yours would require no fewer tests than another interface exposing the same functionality using conventional function calls.
I've never written any Ruby, but I refuse to believe that Ruby cares about which line has the comma. Am I misunderstanding something?
One of his complaints is that discussions concerning the legal status of contributions takes place in private, rather than on the public mailing lists.

This seems quite reasonable to me. Discuss whether or not some piece of code infringes a patent, say, in a medium that leaves an easily searchable public record, and you are practically begging the patent owner to come ask you to license the patent.
No it doesn't. I've tried to get IE6 working on win7 to do website testing, but gave up and use a program called IETester instead. There might have been some hacks or registry mods to get it to install and run on vista, but nothing works on win7 64bit.
I decided to go through the application process. I'm currently a student enrolled in a community college transferring to Baylor this Fall.

The question that really poked out to me was: "5 Please finish this statement: “When I think of Online Education I think…”. "

Well, of course, I think infancy. The internet as a whole is probably still in an infancy stage with nothing set in stone. I started thinking about it from a philosophy POV too. My Phil101 class consisted of 70% natural texans, 10% out of state, and 20% international students. There was an obvious amount of disgust from the natural texans not only to the international students but to the out of state students. I realized a major problem with discrimination and fear had to do with just plain lack of familiarity. I had always got along with the African transfer students because our stories were similar in a way. We were both just looking for a place to fit in where we were basically regarded as foreigners. The texans would criticize, laugh, and just be pure cruel to the transfer students. I would get questions and express my agnostic/absurdist opinion and get the same exact vibes. It wasn't because we were picked on that we could get along though. It was because we had experienced more than just what "texas" is. An online environment can not only teach students subjects but can teach students about one another if it is made interactive in some way. My countless hours spent on IRC in various networks has already contributed to my ability to be able to put myself in another's point of view.

Anyways, back to the point! Online education could pull off some things that a traditional college fails at achieving. "Its who you know and what you want to make!" Well... I haven't met anyone in my traditional college other than professors. I have the need to create, but there's really no intermediate for creating or place to talk to others who might be interested. An online community not only has the chance to create great contacts (how much easier is it when student A just gives you his email address?) but also allow for hubs of creation to spawn on sort a viral scale. Creation is limited in traditional environments that I've been a part of! If online institutions decide to stray from what we call tradition, maybe, just maybe, they will create what should be called higher education. Because, baby, this ain't it.
I used to play under-16 tournaments before I gave up the game, and I found that there were two stages:

- Experience. This would take you up to a certain level and you would beat less experienced players. At some point, however, the experience curve would just flatten out

- Study. Once your experience benefit stopped growing, then studying past games and the theory from books would kickstart your growth again, and then that would flatten also

- After those two had been exhausted, then the differences in people was up to that intangible that you could call talent, intelligence, focus or whatever

So someone incredibly intelligent but without that initial experience would usually be beat by someone with some experience. And similar, experienced players would be beat by those that made the transition to studying.
Many mail daemons will "accept" mail no matter who the recipient is. Internally, unmatched mail may be discarded or forwarded to a "catch-all" account, but all the sender sees is "Recipient ok"

I think this started as a response to SPAM bots that used to "RCPT TO:" random strings and save a list of valid address.
But you are just one data point...

First, the refund they give you is preliminary.

Second, there is a common scam that debit cards are susceptible to and credit cards are not. It goes like this: I steal your debit card info. I mail you something trivial. A trinket. Cereal box stuff. I send it USPS Signature Confirm. It has "Reward Dept" listed on the outside and you sign for it.. I mean, why not? You're perplexed by the contents. Somebody spent $3 to mail THIS?

I charge your debit card. Hundreds of dollars. Not usually thousands, not big enough to make FBI radar screens.

You call Bank of America. They give you a preliminary refund. They investigate. They call me, the perpetrator, as part of the charge back process. I say "Oh, well, I have A. Brown's signature from USPS, as you can see right here."

They take the money out of your account. They call you. You are incredulous. You ask for a supervisor. You demand "So if I buy a laptop and they mail me a brick, you can't help me? Just because I signed for it?" They explain that "How would we know? You'll have to sue them to get your money back."

You see, there's a very big difference. With a credit card, the bank is on the hook, until you pay your bill. Until you pay, the fraud is perpetrated against THEM. And federal law gives you right NOT to pay a disputed charge. With a debit card, you are the victim. Hell, the bank even made 2-3% on the fraud.

Not to mention, as I replied above, I make between 2 and 3% cash back each year on my credit cards. We're not rich, but even at our spending, that's a nice chunk of money each year. Far better than the measly "points" some debit cards offer.

(Edit: And in the same vein, once you pay your CC bill, you lose most your rights and conveniences for dealing with fraud. That's why it's important when using things like BoAs ebill initiated payments to still review your statements before you pay the bill.)
I'd guess there are 3 types of people:

1) Those who just use computers as they come out of box. These users will have Windows 7/Windows Vista and therefore are capable of running IE9

2) Those tech savvy people who insist on installing XP. They are smart enough to install and use some alternative browser (fx/chrome)

3) Those who are using that 10 year old computer and are using it as it came from the box. These people are the problem (in addition to corporate droids)
The central theme in Patrick's post was not "how much to work", but "how to work effectively".

His points are especially relevant to people working with lots of competition.
I had this problem recently. And the solution was really simple.

My goal was to display in an Rails App the latest entries from a wordpress blog.

In the end I used this http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/ which worked perfectly, without any hacks in Rails.

You can check it out on www.2performant.com at the bottom. It's all javascript.
For sure. But if you take this to its logical conclusion, there is no safe place to use your debit card, ever.
GDB 7.1 released with Multi-program debugging support
Wow, this was amazing, and better than almost all of the other time management posts out there.