skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For curriculum purposes, I'd go social. A FB-ish app doesn't involve huge amounts of wizardry, but it includes one of almost everything and it builds naturally. Start with static content (landing page, T&C, privacy, etc.) to demonstrate basic HTML document structure, CSS, and the value of server-side includes (DRY for HTML). Progress to signup/authentiction for a quick intro to database use and security. Build on that with user profiles, and add searching to create friends networks. There are a number of messaging contexts (to use FB terms, status, wall, and private messages) and response types (comments and message threads) and read/unread item management, all of which can be initially done with forms and server-side page refreshes. Finally, you can enhance with client-side activity (AJAX/AJAJ). Perhaps best of all, though, an app like that, poorly done, can lead to scalability problems even with a couple of dozen users on the sort of machine that is likely to be pressed into service as a server in a classroom setting (assuming, that is, that the students have a sandboxed server they can safely break now and then).
Spivak's Calculus, http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098... is a good bet. But it's very theory-involved.
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Whatever they want. Students are creative, give them some guidelines and I bet you'll be impressed.
the mac and OSX will die when Steve's happy to see his engineers using Windows to develop iOS
Finally a programmer who doesn't watch porn.
> women who becomes the president of USA would be an interesting phenomena (as long as she is not palin)

I loathe everything about Sarah Palin, but!, I would also argue that her presidential campaign will be way more interesting than Hillary's will - especially if she wins.
Dynex at bestbuy 42" is around $500.
It's got a vga and hdmi.
Works nicely with my computer.
I think the point re: credit cards is that PayPal has actually been able to create an alternative payment system that lives outside the banking system - I think PayPal itself is a bank (am I wrong?) in that they take your deposits when you leave your money in your account.

I agree that there is no getting around the banking system completely (unless you rely in cash somehow), but theoretically you could enable another way to move money from one bank account to another without charging 20%+ interest rates and exorbitant late fees, no?
Actually, it says that the "Seller [Zuckerberg] agrees to maintain and act as the sites webmaster and to pay for all domain and hosting expenses from the funds received."
My guess is real estate will be disrupted long before Wall Street.

Having worked in both finance and real estate, the parallels between real estate transactions and I-banking deals are shockingly similar, only I-banking deals are much more complex and high stakes. If you think investment bankers will soon be out of work, you should also be betting the real estate broker as a profession will be eradicated the way eTrade destroyed the old school retail stock broker.

Sadly, right now I'd take the other side of the trade for the next 5 years (long Wall Street, short startups trying to disrupt M&A). When amateurs engage in very complex and high stakes deals, such as buying or selling a house priced more than their net worth, they tend to want professional hand holding, among many, many other things.
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http://www.flashusamap.com/statistics.php

It's my first attempt at making a web tool like this. I know that Flash and php don't get a lot of love on HN, but I'm hoping you'll overlook that and give me some feedback on the tool.

If you find security problems please contact me rather than posting publicly.

Thanks for looking!
hehe. it's a good point though.

I think for me, one big way to virally spread would be to make it so survey results get shown after someone responds, make sure the design of those public results looks awesome, and then piggy back on some meme like you said.
It is another big layer of framework on top of ASP.NET which does _not_ work reliably. Be prepared to spend your time producing bugfixes for subtle and/or obscure bugs which you will have on one sharepoint installation but not on another. Install sharepoint twice on different systems and there will be differences right after the installation.

I program at the moment c# and java for a living and c# is fine (java too, if you can ignore all the frameworks). But sharepoint is a PITA. Don't get me started on complex webparts, getting them to work is weird - if there's a programmers hell I'm pretty sure you will have to program for sharepoint there.

(note: All information for sharepoint 2007)
Not me.

I'm holding out for Reddit Platinum so I can look down my nose at those common Gold members.
it.s combination of factors: most custom software vendors combine pretty incompetent programmers (on average) with crappy inhouse frameworks built by these programmers.
"Flipboard is currently over capacity, please try and add your Twitter account later"

Ehm, wtf? Why does it even need a Flipboard server? What happens to my twitter account info? All they need is a XAuth token, right?
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One place to meet tons of awesome people: Pier 38 / Dogpatch Labs is home to at least a dozen tech companies including Threadsy, Cotweet, 99 Designs, and a bunch of stealth ones, too. You could also try Citizen Space and Parisoma, they're awesome co-working spots with several startups each.

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The Seattle 2.0 Startup Index might be a good place to start there: http://www.seattle20.com/startup-index.aspx

There is a concentration of startups in 3 neighborhoods: Pioneer Square (by the ballpark and Amazon), Capital Hill (the "hip" part of town), and East Lake Union (up and coming, near new Amazon campus)

Shortlist of startups I'd hit up: TeachStreet, Cheezburger Network, SEOmoz, Kashless, Gist, GarageBand.com (shares office with iLike/mySpace), many more since I left there
He has 73,041 fewer followers than @gruber. Probably trolling for attention.
Copied from reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/crjx8/bp_photoshop...):

"Um guys, devil's advocate here, but I do a lot of photography.
You know what happens when you take a photo of a room with a TV or a computer in it? If you expose the room correctly, the screens will be completely washed out. If you expose the screen correctly, you rest of the room will be completely black. You can't do both unless you turn the brightness of the screen down all the way, and even then it's a stretch.
To compensate, you can take two photos, one with the properly exposed screen, and one with the properly exposed room, and merge them together (basically creating an HDR version).
If you're decent at photoshop, it's not a big deal. But if you suck at it, you get results like this photo. I'm just saying, it's possible that they legitimately were not trying to hide anything this time."
I'd also like clarification on this. I think I remember the AGPL pissing off the ExtJS community quite a bit. From the discussion though, all it meant is that the javascript code you write to extend the library has to also be AGPL'ed. But if you bundle it with an open source app, it can be MIT, and you can still use it on top of a closed source web site.

Just like if one library cross references another GPL library, it doesnt automatically make that library GPL also. No code sharing is happening, just runtime dependencies.

But please let me know if I'm way off base here...
It's not so much that money buys happiness, than lack of money that makes you miserable. When you have enough (60000$/year apparently), having more doesn't enhance your happiness. See this interesting TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_exper...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/parsec.ht...
"Nowadays, Parsec is distributed with the standard Haskell libraries with most Haskell compilers (GHC, NHC, Hugs)."
As I grew up and discovered our society (third world country, somewhere in Africa), I found out that money plays a critical part of our ecosystem.

People here like to show to other people that they have a lot of money and the best life they can ever get: Luxurious car, fancy mobile phone, expensive clothes...

Many people are spending for the exterior, more than the interior. It means that their life, is kinda fuc*ing, but they have a great car, mobile phone and they are prestigious in the society. The only thing they care about is their position and prestige in the society. They sacrifice money and comfort for it.

Since money is power and can bring prestige, and prestige is what people are looking for and think is "the best life" or "the life of superior", then money means happiness.
Quite true. If you approach javascript with the notion that it's fundamentally similar to C++ or Java then it will look like a crazy mutant language create by insane sadists. If instead you approach javascript on its own terms and understand its fundamentals and how to use it properly then you will be far less frustrated and far more satisfied with javascript as a language.
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> That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe.

yes, lot's of places e.g. telenor (norway), vodafone (germany, maybe uk), magtel, boygues (france), d2 (germany) etc. etc.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm

aka Robert Tappan Morris. That's a name you should recognize. :-)
If you change your user agent to an iPhone's (and maybe other mobile devices) you get to download a PDF directly.

Here's the link I got:

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let's start with "how to solve it" (g. polya), if you love to learn the thinking of math.
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> I am genuinely not trying to start a flamewar (as stated in line 3 of the comments section of the 'guidelines'), but I don't think it's going to be an illusion for much longer.

I see that line in the guidelines as a nostalgic reminder of more erudite times past.

> reddit refugee camp

I really can't blame anyone who flees Reddit for Hacker News, even if I begrudge the migration itself.
"Lots of signup! Lots of contact!" wouldn't work well with the HN crowd, although in general I agree, on other websites I wouldn't take quite such a minimalist approach.
Okey, like I said yesterday it was my fault. Apologies. I have unchecked the box "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above".

This is the first time it bites me in the ass though! It produces a shadow and lighting effect on the letters which is really distracting: http://imgur.com/qYkeh.png
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This is a marvelous app. I really appreciate your attention to detail and simplicity throughout the UI. The application feels very natural and provides a lot of information while not being bombarding. I plan to use this as my primary HN reader however, I did not see an upvote mechanic available. Overall, I really like the product and hope to see it succeed. I would, and I am sure other will, pay around $1.99 for an app like this.

Addition features:
offline mode
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Regards,

Steve
Probably he doesn't like working for anyone else and it's worth this opportunity cost for him.
Who here thinks that Zuck has always known about this contract? And has been praying every day that Ceglia had forgotten about it / died / etc. And the stress and stakes rose day after day, Zuck dying on the inside like w/ the tell-tale heart, stress coming through the cracks at his AllThingsD meltdown, etc...?
It still seems to be a weak point in the contract. Expenses grew beyond what the investor was putting in.
thanks for the offer, I may yet take you up on it, but right now i want to make hackernewsers opt-in only, it's not fair of me to assume that everyone on HN wants to join, although I hope they do!
> I don't understand why this culture of making things ever more complicated has grown up around Java.

Because nothing is more enterprisey than "architecture astronautics". Also, it's a nice way to spend time doing nothing useful in a large bureaucracy.
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I think this says a lot about the culture of the organisation.

They are prepared to present 'an altered reality' as truth. If you apply this throughout the company, what else do they alter and claim to be real. I would say a lot.
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It was modified.

First: http://imgur.com/701sS.jpg

Second: http://imgur.com/VEuaM.jpg

It looks like they thought there wasn't enough "stuff" on the screens. The second verson has more blank monitors/dead monitors.

In the first version they duplicated monitors [1,1] to [1,4] : [1,2] to [2,3] and part of [2,4] to [2,3]. They also darkened the room.
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There's a huge trust issue here. With the incumbents they will nickel and dime you, but people are pretty confident that they won't lose everything. Startups have a huge barrier to overcome to earn that kind of trust.
You can make a perfectly fine SOCKS proxy without using any unpublished API's. It's just listening on one socket and then opening a new one based on the request.
It's possible to create a tethering app using public APIs. The APIs for HTTP/HTTPS connectivity and WiFi connectivity are public.

Apple rejects apps that use private APIs.
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Can you only add 7 feeds (+facebook +twitter) to the contents page? I want to add like 30.
Well, I still would have to pirate WinXP to run VirtualPC.
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> I hate money

Money is means of exchange, you get in return for doing things. There's dishonest ways to get it (violence, fraud) - but outside of those, money is just a ticket that says "you contributed this value, as measured by the person who gave the ticket to you" - contribute immensely more value than you receive and you'll love money and be happy with it.

My wealthiest friends are honest wealthy people, who got their money as architects, doing shipping, surveying, building mines, coding, entrepreneurship, development, etc - creating value. They all contribute immensely more value than they receive in return - my best friend made $800,000 in his best year, but he facilitated about $100,000,000 of business while over-delivering across the board. When you're receiving .8% of the value you're helping build, you can be proud that you did so much and received such a small amount of it - while getting rich at the same time. Contribute much more than you receive in return, contribute a lot, receive a lot. Money isn't perfect, but it's a positive thing overall and not worth hating if you get it honestly.
The kid's under 18. You need to be 18 or over to sell apps in the App Store, as per the agreement. They could choose to pull his apps, remove his account and not pay him for that reason alone.
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It's only a vague plan at the moment but yeah, the plan is to be crazy busy (and it'll probably be 8-9 days and 3 cities in the end). Think of the 37signals "constraints are good" technique, just with the evils of airline schedules in the mix ;-)
Well said.

I read somewhere (wish I could remember where, bizarrely I think it was on paper) that the very definition of a framework over a library is that inversion of control - ie your application runs inside the framework - you are beholden to its lifecycles and view of the world.

When on the JVM, I use scala - and I have found very little utility for frameworks. Libraries - oh yes, very much so.
There's nothing directly wrong with people coming from Reddit to HN. I never really spent a lot of time with Reddit as even when I transitioned I felt that Reddit was already in its downward spiral. My only fear would be that some of Reddit's mainstream users would make the transition but I feel this is unlikely, given the nature of the site. By having an established technical presence, along with progressive karma unlocks, new accounts have comparatively little influence on the moderation itself.

In addition, while Reddit facilitates anonymous discussion, Hacker News has a substantial transparency in its population. My real name and address, for example, are trivial to find out using the information in my HN profile -- and that's kind of the point. You'll find that this practice is far more common on HN than on Reddit.
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Java is a fine language, but it has some significant limits. Unfortunately Java has become the de facto general purpose language in many places, especially in "the enterprise". So a lot of tools have been built in and on top of Java which allow you to do anything and everything with it, even when other languages would be a far more natural fit and would require drastically less development effort.

Worse yet, many dyed-in-the-wool javaists also have mental blinkers (see: blub language) which prevents them from seeing outside the limits of the language, leading them to believe that it's perfectly natural and normal for an MVC application to require mountains of code, mountains of XML, and every detail reproduced in exacting triplicate across the depth of the framework. Simply because they lack the perspective to realize that they're missing out.
This is like complaining about the brand of paint on the managements multi-million dollar yachts.

I would think the news about them dumping hundreds of barrels of left over chemicals down the well to use them up and get rid of them despite environmental law much more important.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...

One witness described how BP mixed a large quantity of
two chemicals and injected them into the well to flush out drilling mud. But the chemicals aren't usually mixed together, and the injection of more than 400 barrels of dense, gray fluid were about double the quantity normally used for the task, said Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for contractor M-I Swaco.

The reason for the action:
BP had hundreds of barrels of the two chemicals
on hand and needed to dispose of it, Lindner testified.

By first flushing it into the well, the company could
take advantage of an exemption in an environmental law
that otherwise would have prohibited the discharge
of the hazardous waste into the gulf, he said.
I don't understand why this culture of making things ever more complicated has grown up around Java.

I think it is because of the whole corporate ecosystem that surrounds it. There's experts that need to make a name for themselves, consultants that need to make money, companies that need to sell services or consultants, etc. etc.
Usually I'm a little more forgiving for random posts, but a twitter post? Really? Can someone please explain to me how this is relevant to HN, and a little more importantly, how is this is getting points? I'm honestly curious.
Nope. Give us the gist of it
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This promo video feels a lot like what Square had. In fact the main guy looks like the same guy in Square's video demo. I wonder if there is a Square (read Jack Dorsey) connection with this product.

Looks great. I don't have an iPad to use it, but the interaction in the video looks promising.

[Edit] I Just read that Jack Dorsey is one of Investors. perhaps that explains the video demo similarities. same resources?
That's going to upset a lot more people than an extra dropped call here and there I bet.

Only shareholders, not users.
Can you disable editing by anonymous users? jvargas, I just restored your email and product url, someone replaced it with gibberish.
Actually, it does use xAuth for Twitter.
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Also, please try and keep things mostly about hacking and startups. And please, please, please: no politics or other flamebait topics. I think the "intellectually gratifying" articles are ok if they're just random interesting things (the mating habits of the blue-bottomed oak warbler) rather than "interesting" because "it confirms my view of a contentious topic".
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Would be great, if you could include whole articles in the RSS feed. Making it easier to read it offline, on the go.

Also a more flexible layout, better suiting devices with limited screen sizes (read mobile, aka iPod/Pad/Phone) would be great.
That would've been a lot nicer than what I did for this: http://dustin.github.com/2009/12/31/countdown.html

Though I'm actually a bit proud of how ghetto I made that. :)
It's nothing personal, it's just that we don't want even ten other inhabitatants of Montreal commenting about that fact, just because the protagonist of a post lives there.

There are always many more people that can add relatively low quality comments to a discussion, for instance by solely making a joke or recounting some personal connection to the OP. The quality of the average comment on HN is high, partly because the low quality kinds of comments are discouraged, so they don't drown out the high quality comments.
My prio is: make it work, make it pretty, make it fast. I guess they put pretty before work.

I would actually like to do that as well but my sense for design is not up to their standards.
Two years ago this would have been the top comment.