skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm not at all your target audience for this question, but this is a standard software issue. The important thing to remember is that we developers care a lot more about software versions than "civilians" do; and the real reason we care is that we know that an up-to-date installation is easier to maintain.

In other words, in the paid software world I expect this is covered under maintenance contracts. The person holding the maintenance contract may or may not be the original developer I suppose - but surely those issues are covered in their agreement.
Reddit just needs to hire a sales/bizdev team. They have plenty of traffic, they just don't seem to have anyone creative or even competent trying to turn that traffic into cash flow. The first step might be actually selling some of their ad inventory. At least half the reddit pages I go to have ads for reddit. Digg has actually done some pretty innovative work around social ads that reddit could steal without too much effort. But again, they'd need someone to sell those ads.
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Interview and more "real-life" demo with Robert Scoble:

http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/20/exclusive-first-look-at-rev...

I really like that kind of re-presentation of content. The "Times" app does something similar on Mac for feeds.

At least visually, I find it very appealing. I don't know if it's because of the variety of layout, or if somehow decades of newspapers and magazines have taught us to like content displayed in a certain way, but I feel that I'd be more interested in reading articles like this.

However, in the case of Times, (which admittedly doesn't look nearly as sexy as this) I ended up not using so much and going back to Google Reader…
ouch, what's with all the hate for Montreal?
Does not use xAuth for Twitter account addition, which seems strange.
They can put forth any argument they want to the press, but they can't make an argument to the court that they know is frivolous or not true. It's Rule 11(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/Rule11.htm
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Not yet mentioned, a chat app. Heavy on the 'web app' end w/ ajax and comet for best effect.
"The stuff you care about, all in one place."

Except the stuff I care about will never be in just one place. Somehow "more stuff you care about, all in yet another place" doesn't have the same ring to it.

To be clear: I don't mean to knock Flipboard. I'm very impressed with their high quality work, and I'm sure it can be a fun and useful tool. I'm just interested in the broader notion of "all in one place."

My hypothesis is that there will never be "one true venue" for finding news. We're foragers by nature. Our valuation of a piece of content is (in part) proportional to how hard that content was to find. We will always seek new venues for content discovery.
It's a nice trope, but the "money can't buy happiness" myth has been well debunked. Here's just one source, there are many more: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet
I'm not a lawyer but from the last time I had to deal with contracts, I recall that contracts with irregular or completely unjustified terms actually can be thrown out by the courts.
Are we, really? If you can put a satellite into space for 8k, why not put a thousand satellites into space, accept that some of them will fail, and have that much more of a network for the money?
Agreed. I didn't want to spend too much time on this, since sigfpe already beat me to "you invented mondas" by like 8 years :)

I think the key point I missed is explaining why a sequence like this is join . fmap . return . f. Mapping over a list makes sense, but would would I pick that abstraction for null/not null? Why "join"? Why not if/then?

But on the other hand, I think the main idea, "it's just programming", sticks.

One day, a Haskell programmer was writing some code. He wrote code that felt similar, and he looked for the similarities. He noticed, "hey, these are both containers", and "oh look, i'm applying a function inside the container", and "hmm, i always have to remove a level of nesting". Some thinking later, and the return/fmap/join abstraction appeared, and with even more thinking, the monad.

This is how programmers should always approach programming. Not just "genius PhD students". Just because some PHP programmer doesn't do this much thinking for his login page, doesn't mean you shouldn't.
Github or GTFO.

Writing HTML doesn't make you a programmer. Can't see anything dynamic on the site, blog is wordpress. 34F isn't even a valid float declaration.

And it ain't exactly new. I remember some ancient slashdot article about Asia Carrera doing her own site – well, back in those days that was probably necessary.
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Unfortunately, the first thing that came to my mind is that there exists a market for image compositing software that does a better job at obscuring manipulations like this.

It's a hard and evil problem, though. Not sure what the greater deterrence is though.
The full filing includes an alleged check carbon regarding the $1000; you can view it at Scribd (p. 14):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34239119/Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-compl...

But, the alleged contract is harder to read in that copy.

updated to point to page, thanks qhoxie!
I just got an error about them being "over capacity". Apparently they're not ready for all the press they've been getting the past few hours..
I'd have a look through it if the font didn't make my brain hurt.
Much appreciated bud, worked like a charm.

Yeah Win 7 does indeed do more in less keys but I can do that with two more commands using Keyboard Shortcuts.
it'd be nice to have more of something you hate? this paradox is troubling. perhaps you should learn to love money, or learn to want/need less of it? examples: don't own an expensive mode of transportation, don't eat out, downsize your living arrangements.
Wat?

I think you are reading too much in to it.

Where did you get the impression that this conveys a message that "women can't do difficult things like computers and math"? It has nothing to do with being difficult but everything to do with being a rare combination. The same way a women who becomes the president of USA would be an interesting phenomena (as long as she is not palin), not because that women are not smart enough to be a president, but because its a rare combination. How many women + programmer + pornstar do you know?

Maybe you should take a chill pill.
Hurray for Adam Lisagor. His videos are great. He also did work for square, I wonder if this is going to become a trend.
You could piggyback off a popular meme doing the rounds and turn it into a one-off mini-site. For your product GoodGecko (I assume this is why you are asking) you could put up a one-page site and ask which old-spice guy video they liked the most. Then once they vote, you can break down the results and show them which country prefers which video.

Or setup a time-waster site where each questionaire is like a Trivial Pursuit/Pub quiz question and people can gain points and then they post their score to twitter or something.

That was a brainfart - may not make much sense outside my head.

edit: and its already been suggested - 2 years ago - D'oh
The one that made me truely see the beauty of maths:
Hallucinogenic drugs - due to the hallucinations basis in geometric shapes and patterns.

Not really useful for teaching yourself K-12 math however for the beauty of it nothing better
Doing her website is nothing, she's a Mensa member.

Actually there are quite a few famous pornstars and playmates with very good education and a high IQ.
Russian company Yota (currently a WiMax provider) has announced big plans and full switch to LTE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yota
"0-day" means nothing more than "unpatched". It's a silly terminology in my opinion.
I was also struggling with a particular quandary (specifically, I was trying to define 'value')

Is that you, Mr. Pirsig?

Serious question, though... have you read Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
> Most academic doctors or professors with publications do not go on to become the President of the United States.

Irrelevant. Becoming president doesn't imply that he's anything else.

Or, do you want to argue that he's an astronaut too? He didn't ever go into space, but that's just because he had better things to do.

> Have you ever stopped to think maybe he was busy in service of the public as well as his family?

It doesn't matter why he doesn't have scholarly output. If he doesn't....

FWIW, almost every other editor of the Harvard Law Review managed to crank out a paper or two during their tenure.

> Honestly, the original point was about the contrast in perspective, as far as the Constitution is concerned, between Obama and Bush. I really don't see what you are challenging.

You seem to think that teaching a class tells us something important. Without scholarly output, we know nothing about what he did. (I'm a lecturer at a major university....)
Other lawsuits have already plumbed Zuckerberg's email and other personal documents from this era... including a personal journal. Did Ceglia and his 'StreetFax' project appear in any of that? Is there any independent evidence Ceglia and Zuckerberg met?
When I went homeless living on the campus (in the CS building), I discovered two things.

1) the time to get all my work done which enabled me to actually enjoy the gardens and the park benches on campus

2) I was happy

The key to being happy isn't money, but having more time. After all, time is all we really have.
Yeah, lazy evaluation can be surprising (in a good way). Once you get in the mindset of thinking "this is going to be hard", you start programming Haskell like you would C, and while it works, you feel stupid when you realize you just rewrote the Haskell compiler. Poorly.

(Personally, I have done this a number of times. I remember writing some dependency evaluation system, with a central data structure that looked something like:

data Dependency a e = Thunk (e -> a) | Resolved a

with a bunch of code to turn a set of Thunks into Resolved when necessary.

But of course, Haskell always does this anyway!)

I was also surprised when I was on Windows and needed the "head" utility to look at the first line of a file, but didn't have it installed. Since I had a ghci session going, I just wrote:

readFile "foo.csv" >>= putStrLn . unlines . take 10 . lines

Half-expecting it to error out because the file didn't fit into memory. Nope! Problem solved!

(And yes, I know unsafeInterleaveIO is evil.)
In my mind, metafilter had the right idea years ago. Charge $5 per account. Keeps most of the scum out.
Even if you don't, it has a lot of good information and guidance on developing mindfulness skills.
Not so long as intent is clear. It's not computer code.
Okay, on the one hand, this guy will surely be seeing some money, unless it's a forged signature, in which case, he will surely be going to jail.

On the other hand, it is extremely unlikely he will get anything near the order of magnitude of what he's asking for, unless the judge well and truly hates, and I mean hates Zuckerberg and facebook. And the appeals judge, and so on, up the chain.

One reason for this is that the judge is going to be weighing on the one hand this guy's thousand dollar investment, and on the other hand, everybody else's millions of dollars of investment, and asking if harming the millions of dollars of investment is proper on behalf of the guy who put in $1k.

If Zuckerberg is determined to have signed this all away, then the incorporation and all the shareholder agreements, and statements, etc. are void and fraudulent. This impacts not just Zuckerberg, but the other parties he is in business with.

It is nearly inconceivable that a judge would trash the entire corporate structure of Facebook based on this suit. Now, that said, he may sit Z down and say "I'm dumping this problem on your lap, fix it, buddy" by leaving the door open for personal fraud claims and damages to the corporation.

Regardless, in the end a judge is going to be asked if a $1,000 passive investment really should be worth billions of dollars in 6 years. The answer to that question in our country is 'no.'

Also, no way in a cold and frozen hell will DST and MS allow this guy to sit on the board and vote shares. The legal forces arrayed against him are going to be seriously, seriously formidable.

Look for a multimillion dollar settlement. Less than $100mm.
Update: given Zuck's other pending lawsuit, I predict he will be forced to pay personally; no corporate cash for this one.
Why tear down Gruber? Or concern yourself so much with what he is or isn't writing that you post about it on Twitter? Or Hacker News?

Just build cool stuff and applaud others who build great things too.
I'd rate managing your own website over being a Mensa member.

And yeah, I'm aware that undressing for money doesn't automatically make you stupid. I just doubt her programming credentials. I've come to terms that every porn actor and actress is apparently immidiately a porn "star", but I won't budge on being more reluctant calling someone a programmer.
I hope he can manifest clones of himself and get around apple's security time and time again.
This is what it was known as at Brown as well - the Freshman Facebook. I think it's a fairly common name back East..
I'm curious how are they are going to solve the problem that most people hate to learn new interfaces of their old tools.

For example, it took me a while to start using google reader, google calendar. I told all my friends how great those tools are, but none of them has converted.

People are used to their twitter, facebook, newspaper interfaces. Crossing the chasm from early power users to mainstream users will be hard.
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Wall Street appears to be doing a lot of insider trading, front running and shell games. To disrupt them, somebody just has to come along and provide some truly useful and non-parasitic financial service, while not doing those other things. Keep the baby but not the bathwater. I'm not sure exactly how to do that in a reliable and consistent way, while not say keeping all your cash under a matress. Because if you just deposit cash into a local bank, it can then indirectly end up in their hands.
Correct me if I'm wrong. But we're using Uservoice (not get satisfaction), and you can create ideas entirely without login.

Otherwise I wouldn't be using this stuff : ). But we are considering to change the style of the Feedback button now!
Hijacking the thread here, but could someone quickly recommend a college-level calculus book?
Interesting. Clause 9:

> "It is acknowledged that this is a work made for hire agreement and that all Intellectual property rights or patent rights are that of Streetfax Inc. [...] In the event that StreetFax defaults on its payment terms rights would be granted to seller."

Did StreetFax pay to get "The Face Book" running? Because if they did, why wouldn't they own it and have it running? If they didn't pay, they've got no case whatsoever.
The difference between the two communities is the level they require to participate.

From the MathOverflow FAQ:
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From the Math Stack Exchange FAQ:
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The given login doesn't work for me.

Also, I think the beta login URL should be http://www.zuupy.com/ ? (I didn't see a login field at the http://shh.zuupy.com demo store.)
My advice is to start simple. Simpler than you'd think at first. The point is not to see if they can come up with something that looks good, but to see if they can build a reasonably-sized project to absolute completion, and leave it in a maintainable state. I would want to see something a student could leave feeling proud having built, something for which they'd want to upload the code to their github account and point to when interviewing later.

Therefore, I'd start with a blog platform. Doesn't need to be "full-featured" in any sense of the term, just as long as there's a reasonable (explainable is close enough) way for me to write posts (doesn't have to be part of the frontend), and the frontend is usable (there should be some kind of indexed archives). Comments would be nice, not necessary (no login system for commenting required, saving an email or some kind of identifier for the commenter is enough).

What's important is that the final application is robust and at least mostly secure. It's almost impressive how few "web programmers" can't put together a complete webapp without gaping holes (security, functionality, or otherwise). Lots of points would be determined by maintainability of the code, that is: was it well thought-out from the start? has the code been sufficiently refactored instead of just copied/pasted everywhere? are templates being used properly?

If someone implemented it cleanly without javascript (that is, when I click a link, even though it just fetches a new static page, it "feels" ajaxy, in the sense that large bits of UI don't change underneath). With javascript would just be sugar on top.

Beyond this, for adventurous students or those with lots of extra time on their hands, I'd ask for a simple facebook-style application. Something where I can log in (remember your security, folks!), form relationships with peers, and post some kind of content (either broadcast or directed at one user) is enough. Here I would expect some javascript as needed to make the UI feel snappier, though if the student could do without and still impress me, I'd be happy. Of course, javascript is a big part of webapps, so this "bonus project" would be a good place to demonstrate that.

Going farther, real-time chat would be my next task, but I really wouldn't expect undergraduates to be able to bring that to fruition in a semester.

If you want to build up a portfolio, I'd go with real-time collaboration a la Etherpad. Make it clean, and make the UI pretty. If you came to me with something like that I could play with for half an hour without finding any obvious bugs, I'd be extremely impressed.
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To me, viewing linked images and articles from twitter is a whole different app. So it's less about convincing them to upgrade and more about convincing them that they need the new app IMO.
That doesn't contradict the example that I provided.
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You'd think that if BP had spent as much time mitigating potential future risks as they have spent dealing with PR fallout, the whole Deepwater Horizon fiasco would never have happened.
In a previous post about SSDs some people already mentioned not having problems with apple care. This is probably because as of the unibody macbooks the harddrives are meant to be 'user replacable'. (Replacing the default harddrive with an X-25M took me just a bit over 15 minutes, mostly because I didn't have a small-enough screwdriver ready.)
This is actually just a couple of pages from the whole document. It is page 11 and 12:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34239119/Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-compl...
Well, I suppose it's just the logical continuation of the "rockstar programmer" trend. I expect all future "we're hiring at my startup" posts to request pornstar programmers.
Assuming these students know how to build a basic web app using a javascript library like jQuery.

Project 1

html5 local storage /sqldb using javascript for the front end.

This is a standalone web app that supports touch interfaces and manages sql of the students choice in the browser storage. ie.. inventory db, profile db, tweet db something crud.

Project 2

Now build a server that supports basic user authentication and get ready to store your data from Project 1 in a sql db.

Project 3

Build Registration/authentication into Project 1 and support online/offline sql db w/ sync via web api

Project 4
SSL and encrypted data
I don't have an iPad but I'm seriously impressed by that website and the video production quality. Well done. I wish I could try it out.
It's rather difficult to find developer interest for new open source projects. Sourceforge, etc, have no real means of high-volume social networking. Besides, I'd really like to find someone from HN that is interested in my area of research (distributed web tech).

I understand if you're going to keep this spreadsheet specifically for the purposes of startup networking, but I politely request that you consider allowing open source projects as well. I don't think it would overcrowd your data.
FYI, we added a feature where you can directly link to pages.

Page 14: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34239119/Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-compl...
Based on a quick glance at my bookshelf:

“Brian Greene: You seem intelligent. Write about more shit than just String Theory. You're boring, and a total fan boy. It's just getting old now.”

“Stephen Hawking: You seem intelligent ...

“Stephen Gould: You seem intelligent ...

etc. etc.
I think using Knuth's Art Of Programming as an example is somewhat flawed. It's not your run of the mill set. The only reason why I wouldn't pay you as much for the paper collection versus the hardcover set I have on my shelf is that I consider the hardcover set to be more of a collector sort of item. However, if I didn't care about it acting as a mantle piece I would still pay for the content, just not as much as I would for the mantle piece version. Similarly, some pay for collectors version of games, books, etc.

However, the content should still be valued and priced accordingly. Clearly less than mantle piece versions. As I said in my previous posts, the prices should come down with the publishing costs discounted, but any more than that would devalue the content IMO.