skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tested it on my android based phone. Works.

I'm wondering what a media rich site _should_ do in this case. Can you really afford to build 2 (or _n_ ) sites for every available device, when cheap hardware (netbooks, phones) will play flash?
It is somewhat sad how transparent your bias is. You seem to be painting all low cost private schools with the same brush as institutions where the rote learning of religious texts is the main goal by calling it "the Wahhabi road of teaching".
Sorry, you misunderstand; technically it is a "solved problem" I agree.

The issue is that it would be a web app not a client - and you have a limit of how long you can run requests for (and, also, if your hosting the app it means pretty much we are limited to PHP - and no fancy stuff like asynchronous requests etc)

Example: if I have 150 friends and I send a "search request" to them, who then send a "search request" to their 150 friends - for, say, 3 levels of iteration that is a lot of work every page is doing - all within one basic request.
Neither of which address his point that creating a school is very costly, in part due to regulation and (possibly) external interference. In fact, your example supports this - the website for the very school you cited announces over $1M in annual donations to their scholarship fund alone - which is precisely the level of funding patio11 suggests is necessary.
You underestimate the power of entrenched interests over municipalities, the largest of which is often zoning. Zoning regulations are fun in part because the government can (and often does) make ad hoc exemptions for public schools but provides very little leeway for public schools. http://reason.org/news/show/127456.html discusses a bit of the problem.

But to delve a little deeper: in California, nearly every municipality of any size requires a special-use permit or conditional use permit (CUP) to build a school. There is no "school" zoning code. Almost never are such permits granted in industrial use areas, despite sometimes being locations that might have little to no risk. That means the school functionally has to get a CUP in a residential zone. Which residents often don't like because, even for a small school, it means a substantial increase in traffic. This is doubly difficult because not only does the school have to fight to receive zoning, but trivial-to-place legal challenges can lead to a huge expense. For instance, challenging zoning for environmental reasons is nearly trivial but an extended environmental impact report alone can cost millions of dollars.

So there's a substantial risk involved in the launch without any option for a quick buyout. Remember, these are almost all 501(c)(3) institutions (I don't know of any that aren't, but I could imagine there are).
Note the visual indication of what's known as a "joke".
"the US spends about $6K per child for primary education."

The cost for our children at a Catholic elementary school here in the U.S. is about half that.
I love it but I dont know any different either...
The Netherlands is an example of a country with a vigorous system of publicly funded, privately operated schools of diverse backgrounds.

http://www.onderwijsinspectie.nl/english
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I have to agree with you. Although BC's new "most active discussions" at the top of Messages does help.
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I found my apt 5 years ago by simply walking into the (on-site) leasing offices of a few high rises downtown. After seeing 4 apts I had found my home, and have been in it since. No broker fees.
It's not really a lack of dev talent in NYC, rather a surplus of founders.

There are many committed and hardworking founders in NYC, but there's also an NYC phenomenon of the startup-as-country-club, where people with spare cash/time go into start ups mostly for the social aspect.
Cross-comment: Another thing that makes the web great is opportunity. With the low cost of ownership the web provides me the opportunity to operate a legitimate business that gives me a chance at financial independence and success. No other medium has seen so many entrepreneurs that wouldn’t normally think they could start a business become actual success stories.
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A somehow distributed (to resist censorship) and encrypt (against problems with varying local legislation) wikipedia would not have problems like this.
I think you could just flip bits at random positions (probably blockwise to be faster) in those sensitive files. This should corrupt the files pretty quickly.
I can't help but think of OpenOffice here. By the time it's built, the world has most likely changed and it's irrelevant.

Innovation anyone?
Women can host these too!
Maybe this is Apple's way of being the next Internet Explorer?
I don't even really know where to start with the lazy stupidity of the linked through posts.

Yes, your 0.002% market penetration new toy doesn't support Flash, and yes you trawled the net for a site that had no alt content for it's Flash content aimed at a demographic that will be 99% Flash enabled.

Marketing is not a business that deals in 100%s, neither is web development. If you chose specifically to be in the 1% then there is no big message here, no champagne room, no deep-rooted moral to martyr.

Disney had a demographic in mind and a marketing experience they wanted those people to have and spent their money accordingly. Something any number of companies do every day.
Individually owned? Why not?
2 to 3 founders is ideal but we are living in Internet age where individuals have access to smart brains around the world. Technically it is very easy for an individual in one part of the world to achieve what a group of people in another location cannot

Having said this, I think Y Combinator does so because extra-ordinary individuals who are capable of achieving results on their own are probably hard to deal with when it comes to business
If you could guarantee money from extending an existing franchise, wouldn't you? It's not like Pixar is releasing sequels every year or two for all their movies.
The Contract ROI Trap (or why 37s is right to have a good employment contract)
I was just commenting as a film lover.
From the flickr comments:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/4594658152/#comment72157...
In such a decentralized (pushes of feed updates, for example) architecture, how do you revoke a given permission? The data is no longer yours once you pushed it to some other dude's server. DRMing little chunks of data would also be expensive and time consuming if you check every feed item you can see all the time from publisher's servers.

Facebook, also, is not just profiles and the feed. How about events, in a decentralized way, for example? Will a single accept will be amplified to the rest of 500 people invited?

For the profile part, my basic identity is my email address. Implement something on the mail server that I can manage and let that be my profile. Emailing a specific command to gokhan@example.com results my profile as the attachment, for example.
The problem is that even if Apple supported Flash, it wouldn't probably work anyway...

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/may/08/android-flash-demo-fla...
Edit: binary not decimal.
This touches on the Diaspora project, which was mentioned on HN not long ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321651
I failed statistics. If out of a million hard drives 5000 die in a year and take 15 minutes to swap, what are the odds of 2 failing on the same machine?
I use a 28" monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200. I've watched the same video in 1080p and 720p, and the 1080p is appreciably sharper and more detailed, even accounting for the fact that the 720 version is being scaled to the display's native resolution. It is 2.25 times as many pixels, so there's over twice as much detail possible. It's kind of fun to read the signs and computer monitors in the background of scenes (for example, on a 1080p version of The Island, you can see a character's hilariously disturbing criminal record on a monitor in the background).

As for latency sensitive applications, going from a 2mbit link to a 20mbit link reduces the round trip transmit time (excluding interpacket delays required by common physical links) of a 256-byte packet from ~2ms to ~0.2ms. If both endpoints migrate from 2mbit to 20mbit, then ~3.6ms of latency can be eliminated. The benefits are larger for larger packet sizes, so larger packets can be used (and therefore increased throughput) while maintaining low latency.
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A single item of mail is a letter (or a postcard, etc.), which can be pluralized. A single item of email, on the other hand, is an email, which can also be pluralized.
I did that on a small scale, sort of accidentally, and dozens of people have emailed me with the equivalent of "Wow! That's cool!" It has also developed into a small, active community.

Although customer development is great and popular right now, what I did didn't use any customer development. It also wasn't originally intended as a business either, but your post doesn't mention anything about money :)

I took an existing web application and gave it a great user interface. That's it. If you can take an application that already exists and make it:

* 10X easier to use

* 10X more fun to use

* 3X faster to use

* Free

then you'll grow to thousands of users via word of mouth and your users will love you.

The easy part about it is choosing the application. Anything that you currently use that's cludgy can probably be improved a whole lot. The difficult part is innovating the user interface, but luckily that is also the fun part (at least it is for me).

This is also similar to what Gmail did. They made web-based email much easier, faster, and fun to use (while staying free), and that app probably has the largest number of appreciative users on the planet. Google didn't have to reinvent email to get those passionate users; they just took an existing thing and made it much better.
The implication is that if you enjoy Family Guy, you must not like The Simpsons, while his point is that it is perfectly reasonable that one could enjoy both.
I agree that they should also include content for non-flash browsers (in addition to iPads, it's a heckuva lot friendlier to screen readers for the blind).

But at some point it is fair to draw a line. A very small percentage of my visitors are using IE5. My sites don't work at all in IE5. I don't intend to address this problem.
I admire your patience, and this is exactly why, even now that I own an iPad, I can't make myself buy ebooks. [1] I've never called tech support for a paper book.

--

[1] Except for my Safari Books subscription. As alluded to downthread: O'Reilly pretty much gets it. Their medium is impermanent, but it is also priced accordingly.
Not any more? What has changed, then? Our perception, Microsoft, or did someone just out-eviled them?
Ask HN: A maths textbook from Arithmetic to 1st year CS?
I've been working as a developer for years but all the interesting works seems to require a greater knowledge of computer science than I have. I'm self taught and I am always trying to keep learning.

Whenever I start reading a book about algorithms I get lost by the maths.

Maths seems to be built on top of maths so I wind back as far as I can and find that my maths education stops at arithmetic (for shame). I've tried using wikipedia whenever I get stuck but it seems to be a maze of interlinked concepts and I quickly get lost again with no solid underpinnings to depend on.

Is there a good book or online course you can recommend that can get me to the level needed to take a 1st year CS course? I'm not sure (a) what to learn and (b) in what order, so a list of the subjects to cover and an order that is logical would be enough for me to start learning.
This reminds me of an interview with Reddit's Alexis Ohanian where he said that they started out posting a lot of submissions under fake accounts just to get the content going.
Drives generally come packed either in those plastic shells, or in anti-static wrap, and then packed into specially cut foam (foam with slots, like a very parallel toaster) in a box with foam at the bottom and foam at the top. If you're not buying the drives in bulk, you don't get the box with foam.
These enormous debt relief loans wouldn't feel so bad if they'd just stop doing it over and over again.

When a plane crashes or any other engineered system fails, analysis is (supposed to be) carried out and we try to make it so that it doesn't happen again.

When economies crash we loan them out and never really analyze or try to correct what made that crash happen, or at least that's the way it seems.
Web browsing to support green initiatives and positive social change
New York apartment brokers are a frivolous class of overpaid, lazy parasites who collect 12-17 percent of a year's rent for doing virtually nothing. They also handle the nasty work of ethnic screening (which is, yes, still present in the real estate industry), if you've ever heard of a "code 22" building.

Brokers for engineers (and bankers, traders) exist on the business model you described. They're called headhunters. They won't work for equity.
This post is over 2 years old. Seems likely that the world has changed at least a bit since posted (slow things tend to get optimized).
Very cool. More power to you my friend.

Some free suggestions for your site: You should try jazzing it up a bit. Blue is a dull colour. Bright is good. Nowadays any worthwhile site needs to include comments, reviews and ratings, twitter/blippy integration etc. The more social the better. You should also have book page previews and maybe youtube-hosted videos of author interviews/talks. Basically be an information rich site. Branching out to e-magazine publishing say for short stories (maybe get onto the iPad/Kindle that way) can help de-risk the business.

You should also develop a focus on some specific domain like the college textbook domain and market it heavily to that audience (professors/students). Discount cash/gift cards sold at campuses, good referral systems, mobile payment options, iphone/android integration are all good.

As you can see I've been giving this quite a bit of thought myself :), but don't think it's something I want to get into at the moment. Have at it and best of luck to you.
This is straight out of Borges' "emporium":
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html
Lots of people who didn't fail statistics assume that events are independant.
A bit like, the chance of my machine catching fire are 1 in a 1000, my machine did catch fire and I lost both drives - the odds on that happening must be 1 in a million!
"That Goldman Sachs is not a shitty deal"
The joke is no longer amusing. Everyone is attacking GS, from utterly clueless uneducated morons to utterly devious dumb politicians with a private agenda. By attacking GS in such a gratuitous manner, one reminds others of such tragicomedy.
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The image you mention here only becomes porn-like due to its exposure to the non-medical mind. The image itself may not have been intended to be porn. His disappearance could be linked to simple fear from the irrational.

There must be an ethical and rational balance over the incredibly important aspects of research and science concerning the development of the young human.

Irrational social fear relating to any form of sexual development in the young can polarize legitimate scientific study in regards to youth psychology and physiology.

At some point one can cross from critical (and RATIONAL) exposition of credible threats and crimes to an absurd witch hunt which puts pedophiles behind every tree, image, or serious study.

Society already has a difficult enough time grasping how to cope with the sexual development of its young while at the same time horrified over scientific/medical exposition of said development.
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Higher than expected: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
I don't get it - what's not kosher? I see topless young girls on the discovery channel quite often and the king of swazilands marriage had a lot of young topless girls dancing about.
Do you also have RAID (Redundant Array Independant Donuts) ?
The liver stores long chains of biologically intert glucose in glycogen macromolecules located within hepatocytes. When the body requires more energy, the chains are cleaved and the glucose released into the blood stream. Glucose is essential for life, providing energy for all cellular activities through its conversion to ATP in the citric acid/Krebs/TCA cycle.

Reducing your caloric intake won't kill you and it has been shown in rats that it might even be good for you. Your liver only stores glucose, it doesn't create it (That would violate conservation of energy!).

This thread is talking about artifically spiking your blood suger which will rape your pancreas and eventually lead to diabetes. I wouldn't do it if I were you, but I might consider eating more vegetables and low calorie foods :-)
No, the plastic shelled disks are packed in solid foam in boxes holding something like 20 disks. Companies like NewEgg and Amazon break those boxes but do not follow the manufacturer's requirements (e.g. for shipping a failed disk back to them) when they repack them for individual orders.

Last time I bought disks ZipZoomFly properly repacked them by putting the shelled disks into individual foam boxes.
"You can't outsource your liability"
I have to disagree. You can define any part of your business as a "liability", so in that case you don't have to outsource anything at all. In fact a big reason people outsource tasks is because of liability.
AWS promises physical redundancy, which apparently doesn't mean crap!
> Community, sharing, and all of that? Blah […]

You're right. Open Source isn't really about that. Free Software is. He just mixed up the terms.
You can't outsource your liability.

Of course you can. That is the entire reason the insurance industry exists.

More practically for the instant case, I use a provider who has a turnkey backup option, rather than one which would force me to spend expensive engineer time rolling my own only to discover that I really suck at thinking through all of the design challenges of backup solutions. (Something which always seems to get discovered that the most inconvenient of times.)
I'm guessing this is what caused the Heroku outage on May 4.
Control the search via ajax in the searcher's web browser. Think hierarchal DNS lookups, only fanning out instead.
>If a child is gifted, and does not succeed, does that not mean they are not gifted?

If an athlete is muscular and does not succeed, does that mean they are not muscular? Adjectives are useful for talking and thinking about things, but it's a mistake to try to reduce every attribute of an individual into a metric for "success" or failure in some area. Being intelligent no more guarantees success, whatever that means, than being beautiful or tall or diligent. Those are still useful descriptive characteristics, though.
The real Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates.
Need I say more?
I'm not sure I like the overloading of the "out" keyword for covariant type parameters, but otherwise, pretty cool.
Buh... I haven't read Jon Skeet's C# In Depth for C# 3.0 yet. Can I pass?
that's an imperfect analogy.

No economy (besides Iceland and Latvia perhaps, and even they haven't defaulted yet) has crashed so far. All are having engine problems though. What those bailouts are doing is buying some time before the crash, so we can hopefully restart engines or glide to a safe landing. That's the phase we're in now. Unfortunately I'm not very optimistic that our flight crews can still manage to save us.
Also, programming in C, it's very easy use thread-per-connection model especially if synchronization is not necessary. If you want a pool of threads it gets a bit more complex, but if you always spin up a new thread for each connection, it's easy as pie (and in my case doesn't matter since the time spent creating a new thread is negligible compared to the amount of time it'll spend doing useful work).
Hopefully its better than RC1 was..Honestly Ill probably just wait until they launch 2.8 for real, as the features arent so compelling to be worth the effort of switching from 2.7.7 for now...
I think the point is that Pixar is owned and manged by Jobs.
It's a little like finding that MS-Bing doesn't work with IE8
I think that what may happen in a lot of these cases is that the authorities subscribe to the, "if there's smoke, there's fire," train of thought. If they see that someone has art of small children (or just 'under age' children), they'll probably bust down their door hoping to find actual child porn. If they don't, then they'll try to make 'child porn' charges stick using just the art because the authorities involved at this point either don't like the person or just don't want to admit that they were wrong (and spent a bunch of wasted time for nothing).
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Very low. But that assumes they are independent events, which has never been the case in my experience.
This could well turn out to be a fatal flaw for enterprise adoption of third party clouds: when corporate IT staff screw up like this or just messing with a control panel (check the AWS forums where too often a "It disappeared!" complaint has a reply of "It was deleted at thus and so time and date using the control panel."), are they going to accept the blame or shift it to the third party?
Can this also happen to an S3 bucket? How do I backup an S3 bucket? Any ideas?
I find it easier to remember the difference between "out" and "in", compared to "covariant" and "contravariant".
OK, I see what you mean, but if what I understand is correct about the 2008 situation, we just narrowly avoided a crash and there's not enough real change to prevent it from happening again, at least here in the US.
Joke about blowing something up on Twitter, get arrested
I'm pretty sure drug dealers were not the first people to implement (or even popularize) this sort of marketing. It might have been school bake sales.
It might work well for corporate hosting of pages -- a work-life social network makes a lot of sense as a separate entity from our private lives.
change to max and you get a completely different story.
Oh, don't start with this.
http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html
From now on and until it stops working, Western elites are going to toss billions of pretend-money at any major economic problem. At some point though it'll stop working.

Perhaps it would be better for the West to live through market crash and sovereign defaults now, while it can afford it, than a decade later?
Vector Math with C++0x
After arithmetic, the typical order of classes (The ones I took, and the one I believe most often taught in American schools) goes like this:

Algebra
Geometry
More Advanced Algebra
Trigonometry
Calculus

I don't have any book recommendations and I don't know of any books that would cover all those topics. There are many books on algebra however, and I don't think it will particularly matter which one you use. It should get you up to speed very quickly.

The other topics are probably less important for intro CS. I don't think I ever used calculus or trig for any CS classes. Very basic geometry might be used as examples.
Unfortunately in this day and age terrorism is very, very real. It is most definitely not a joking matter. Yes, it might seem to be overkill. However, overkill is much better than thousands dying because the joke was actually real.
Is there any indication that anyone's going to restart engines?
poor, poor, Goldman Sachs.