skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ND meetup would probably be pretty sparse at this point

// MN address, working in ND on long term
WTF is this for?

"js.twitter_widget.bad_words": 'ass,14 words,5 words,anal,anal
As someone who commented on the original article stated, I'd like to know whether or not the device works on scantrons.

If so, that would be a high school / college godsend.

This is also awesome.
European was a generalization, maybe it's only Germany. I'm not sure.
OP was not a mod or a personal friend or an employee, just another random person submitting stuff from the internet, so there was no special trust relationship to be abused.
An "App Store for Education" should be in the works. I don't if there's an opportunity here for an entrepreneur or whether Apple will do this but it's not just about iPads. Students are going to be increasingly learning on all sorts of mobile devices and schools are going to want to have a way to centralize purchasing and control distribution. In addition, discovery on the current App Store is focused on the mass market consumer, not the needs of a student, teacher or school administrator.

I'd be very interested to hear a discussion around the feasibility of building a software platform specifically focused on distributing educational software to mobile devices in schools.
Please don't cite evolution without fully understanding your claims. Evolution USUALLY works through tiny changes, but in certain situations the changes are dramatic and sweeping. If your proposed experiment was carried out, I would expect such a sweeping change. Further I would posit that a pre-mating barrier would form (in the form of contrasting mating rituals) and speciation would occur after sufficient time.

TLDR: Don't claim that Science supports your view if you don't really understand the theory.
Do you believe that the costs are too high on an absolute level or just too high to hire given current business conditions? If too high on a absolute level, I'm curious to know what you believe to be a reasonable tax rate is.

What services and level of service would this provide?
Is it inefficiency or uncessary services that makes taxes too high? Or something else?

Re health care benefits : that's not something you HAVE to give your employees. Why do you choose to offer them?
Becoming great is a process. It's different for everyone who's interested in being great. I think that's the driving point behind the article. There is no formula or magic number. You just have to work at it.

I keep notebooks for every subject I study. I have a shelf that is practically falling over with notebooks, looseleaf, and sticky notes. My wife hates it. I also keep journals of my overall progress where I can examine my thoughts and feelings on my process and successes.

10 000 hours? I don't know. Minor footnote in the article I think. Maybe certain skills requiring strong dexterity will require this magic number of hours of practice. But then again there's probably some Johnny out there who can do it naturally and with little effort.

Personally I don't think greatness can ever be achieved, only struggled for and sought after.
The worst is that it's not even an array, it's a comma-delimited string.
I picked up the same idea too, and it does seem problematic. I can sorta buy an idea of there being some kind of Turing-completeness equivalent property for human minds, where all minds who have this property can in principle do the same mental work, given enough time.

What I don't buy is all people being able to do the same degree of mental work in the same time, which is basically what the PhDs for all stance seems to require. If it would take someone 30 years instead of 5 to learn the stuff required to finish a PhD thesis, it's not practical for that person to pursue a PhD.

The developmentally disabled, stroke patients and others are unignorable cases of people who need much longer than others to learn things. It's a pretty big stretch to assume that the learning speed would be so close to same for all the rest of the people that there wouldn't be any significant fraction of people who learn so slowly that pursuing a PhD isn't a practical option for them.
I think you've found a strange loop.
A new trend -- the anti rock-star/ninja listing. This one caught my eye: http://jobs.github.com/positions/4463ed90-a175-11df-9567-22d...
No problem! It's strange even to me!
They probably have a live twitter widget somewhere, and don't want raunchy @mentions to show up.

The real wtf, of course, is that it's a comma delimited string - not an array..
WebSockets in Python: weekend adventure
Dubai Future Projects
Its not who should pay them its why so many are needed. Are the programs they are paying for actually needed?
I think most startups are non-profit, actually.

Startups which are deliberately non-profit is quite a different matter, of course...
How much analytical data could they need? I see Nielsen, quantserv, comscore, and Google.
Typo on page 13. "Rickroll is a mean or Internet kind of trend..."
I'd advise putting your vim directory (or ALL of your dotfiles) under version control. To keep things clean, the first thing you should do is install Tim Pope's pathogen plugin which allows you to install each plugin in its own self-contained directory under ~/.vim/bundle/plugin-name/, and it will autoload everything for you.

$ cd ~/.vim/
$ git init
$ mkdir {autoload,bundle}
$ wget -O autoload/pathogen.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=12116
$ git add autoload/pathogen.vim
$ git commit -m 'add pathogen.vim plugin'

Then, you can just extract each plugin under that bundle directory, or if they're managed by the same version control software you're using, you can use something like git submodules to track the plugins automatically. Add this to the top of your ~/.vimrc file:

filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
filetype plugin indent on

...and you're off to the races. Let's say you want to add NERD_tree:

$ git submodule add http://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git bundle/nerdtree
$ git submodule init
$ git commit -m 'add nerd tree plugin as submodule'

From then on, you'll be able to track upstream changes to the plugin, and everything is self-contained so you don't have to worry about copying all the files into /doc, /ftplugin, /syntax, etc. The one thing you'll want to do is generate all of the help docs after you have your plugins installed by loading up vim and running:

:call pathogen#helptags()

The list of what I use goes a little something like this:

@ pathogen - to cleanly organize all of your plugins

@ bufexplorer - to explore your open buffers

@ command-t - a better fuzzy finder for opening files

@ endwise - add proper end statements for ruby code

@ fugitive - fantastic git wrapper

@ matchit - jump to matching brackets or logical statements

@ nerdtree - navigate and manipulate files

@ pastie - post code to pastie.org

@ repeat - adds the ability to repeat functions with .

@ speeddating - Ctrl-A/Ctrl-X manipulate dates properly

@ surround - alter stuff that surrounds text like quotes and html tags

@ taglist - helpful source code browser

Beyond that, I have a bunch of syntax files for various languages and file formats.

Realistically though, if you're just starting out. Learn how to use the editor first, then if you notice certain use cases that you don't have with built-in features (and there are a TON), then start looking for plugins to make your life easier. There's a lot you can do with custom settings and functions in your ~/.vimrc file too, so it will take time (years) to build up what works best for you. Be patient, it's worth it!

If you're curious, you can always find gems by looking through other people's configs: http://github.com/elasticdog/dotfiles
It gets even better. Steve Russell went on to write the very first video game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!). I'd really like to know what else he did, and what he's doing now. The guy is a hero.
Nobody ever negotiates up from your first asking price, as that is the highest anyone will bid unless the terms of negotiation have changed. You can only negotiate down from your asking price or remain firm on it. Negotiating != auctioning.
This is definitely my must-have vim addon for working in vim.

Being able to quickly split and have your header file open is incredibly useful, considering how common an action it is.
On a quick look I couldn't find that variable referenced anywhere though. And it looks like there are two variables with the same data: js.twitter_widget.bad_words and js.social_stream.badwords
verizon + android = open source. that's exactly what vzw is doing by partnering with goog so much. WE know its bullshit especially when put next to this deal, but considering what a household phrase "open source" has become over the last 2-3 years, it's a valuable marketing foothold now and vzw isn't stupid.
Ruby is a hacker's paradise. The reason things are so chaotic is because people are doing so many cool things independently. It's impossible for someone to step in and impose order for the benefit of beginners, and even if it were possible it would diminish the value of Ruby.

The greatest opportunity for improvement is in the documentation arena, since blog posts are a huge part of the Rails documentation ecosystem, and because they tend to go stale and clog up Google with misinformation. Rails Guides are a really nice addition, but a meta-source that provided staleness information and list of preferred resources for various things would go a long way towards guiding newbies to a sane stating point (hmm, wheels turning in head).
For posterity, here's a similar Ask HN that I found after the fact:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424964
Well its on BBC news. I am sure it adds pressure on Google and probably sends them a clear signal.
I don't think it's as insulting as the author implies, more of a ritual placeholder response, an admission that "I have nothing intelligent to say about your work, but social graces demand a response and I refuse to default to sycophantic praise simply because what you did took effort."
Your analysis is too short sighted. Presumably the taxes are required to keep society running. So somebody has to pay them. In fact it doesn't really matter who pays them. Suppose businesses wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore. Instead there would be a new apple tax. So now apples would cost 2$ instead of 1$.

Now you can pay your hire 20000$ instead of 10000$. But the hire needs twice the money for food, so he needs to ask for a higher salary in return, so that he can still eat apples. So you still can't afford the hire.

That there is probably a lot of waste of taxes is another subject entirely. Of course it would be preferable to require as little taxes as possible. But taxes are not just some arbitrary costs governments can inflict or take away with the flick of a finger.
It's funny now these trends work. I remember the first time I heard a someone refer to themselves as a ninja and I thought it was so cool. It was this guy that had an ad on CSS Mania, if that tells you how long ago it was.

About 3-4 months ago I was sitting in class and heard my teacher talking about how all the kids want to be called rockstars and ninjas and I knew the trend was dead.
I think the expediency by which it arrived at the top might possibly be indicative of how many people have exactly the same sentiment. Possibly we were all just waiting for some one to say it first. Put our disdain for the phrase in text.
Signed up, looking forward to seeing what they do. More interest in seed-stage work is great news for everyone.
Norvig has the best line about this: "So the first Lisp interpreter was the result of a programmer ignoring his boss's advice." (PAIP p. 777)
It would be nice to have a section with all the "review my start up" posts. Those are usually some of the best ones.
Bob Geldof? Boomtown Rats to Deckchair.com
In the late 90s, when Bob encountered problems booking a family holiday over the Internet for his children and his French actress girlfriend Jeanne Marine, Geldof founded online travel agent Deckchair.com.
See: http://www.personallyspeaking.co.uk/sir_bob_geldof__147.html

John Perry Barlow: Grateful Dead to EFF. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow
I used "rockstar" to fairly decent effect in one job solicitation. It worked in context:

http://davidcrow.ca/jobs/1888/bandzoogle-rockstar-web-design...

I am told the company was quite happy with the solicitation and it apparently got them the kind of applicants they wanted, so win win.
sed s/\ /\\\n/g < Ask_YC_Archive | grep id\= | cut -d '=' -f 3 | cut -d '"' -f 1 | sort -n

gives 363096 as the highest id there, so http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363096 is the latest entry that was added to the collection, which is 1 year and 9 months old.

There must be plenty of quality stuff added in the meantime. Is there a reason why the list is no longer updated? It's a wonderful resource by the looks of it.
I agree that there is probably a lot of waste of tax payer money. But then I would like to read articles detailing the waste and what could be done about it. An article saying "I wish taxes were lower" contains no useful information at all.
Stand Up While You Work and Live Longer and Healthier
Lots of internet misspellings in the testimony. Reading this really makes me think about how foreign the culture on the Internet is to most people-and how indecipherable.
RHIPE: R and Hadoop Integrated Processing Environment
I don't know if you appreciate people pointing out grammar mistakes, but I think you meant to say affect instead of effect in your second bullet point.

Check out: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affect#Verb

and: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affect#Usage_notes
I flagged this comment, just to be clear. I don't understand how this adds value to the conversation at all. I understand people have opinions about Zed, but this is a great email response to a great piece of actual work.
thanks for the detailed response lsc, very helpful. Either there's something different about the cost structure there or the competition is forcing them into offering below cost? I don't know.

I remember a couple of years back when 1&1 offered three years free hosting, which I signed up for. I've used their service since and payed plenty for it, so maybe the 3 year horizon is fine by them...
I have on several occasions attempted to make a user interface that looked and felt like the okudagrams[1] in ST:TNG or DS9. My conclusion is that they are a stunningly bad use of space and a terrible way to direct user attention. If only they didn't look so cool I would stop trying.

I think now that I sometimes need to display an iPhone's worth of information on an iPad the day of the okudagram has come.

[1]okudagram – Okudagram is a nickname for the interactive (and usually reorganizable) displays found on control panels in 23rd and 24th century starships, and beyond. The nickname is a reference to Michael Okuda, a tech advisor for the show, who created definitive signage styles for a new design of control panel, without any physical controls, that was used in the later Star Trek Movies and TNG era productions.
People try to make an otherwise run-of-the-mill web dev job sound interesting by making it sound casual and fun

Just like this:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/web/1852182884.html
This would be great if it was on GitHub or something so people could interact with it rather than having to use UserVoice.
Lady quits her job in a creative way
I wouldn't call them stars, but I know at least two programmers (assuming one hasn't moved on to managing programmers) that play in rock bands. Does that count?
Care to address that question?
Very true; even with the same clothes, body language often varies substantially from culture to culture. With a bit of travel and observation, it's quite apparent.

A friend of mine who traveled to Central Asia was struck by how balanced people appeared; he found Westerners take up "too much space" in their movements, and East Asian people tended to do the opposite. But at least during his stay in Central Asia, he noticed the people there repeatedly showed an unconscious balance in their body language: neither too loud and aggressive, nor too quiet and subdued.
I wonder what the real-world failure/corruption rates are on ECC vs. non-ECC RAM. Does anyone know of any studies? I'd like to know if the differences are practical or theoretical.
Out of curiosity, if this is the case, why should more than a few people in the class pass? Do you believe that shoving the material down these unwilling students' throats in such a way that they are able to pass results in a higher portion of them gaining and retaining the knowledge than would have otherwise? To me it sounds like very few in this class are interested in or successful at learning your material, so what is the definition of "passing" a class?
As I said in the other thread, Cory Doctorow is an editor at Boing Boing and has a vested interest in other people creating art projects that make web surfers go "oooh, shiny!" for thirty seconds. It's in his best interest for people to work weeks or months to produce something that provides a few seconds of "wonder" for web surfers who then click on a YouTube video and forget they ever saw the Cylon moose or what-not. I think it's a very bad idea to assume that something has value just because it attracts clicks and eyeballs, and I don't think it's a bad idea for people to wonder what else they could do with their time and energy. But hey, if it's fun, that's a good enough justification for how someone spends their free time.
Turning an iPod touch into an iPhone
Another vote for Accelerated C++. Great book, brings readers up-to-speed quickly on a very useful subset of C++ features.
tech debt?
you mean the viability of their business has nothing to do with if their html validates, as long as it just works?

darn
I think the reverse is more accurate. When learning something study as if you have to explain it to someone else. If you can explain it to someone who doesn't have a lot of knowledge in the particular subject you are studying then you really know it. The converse is definitely not true though.
No user is going to turn away from the site because the HTML source is unattractive.
Android has an "allow other markets" checkbox, which would enable his preferred solution. But I guess it had to be Apple for some reason.

What school gives iPads to all it's pupils, and why???
I don't mind you flagging it, but for the record, I've seen some samples of the kind of email that Zed sends to people and if you're shocked by some of the stuff that you read by him on the web then you certainly wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of those.

Hostile doesn't begin to describe it. For many people receiving such an email would make them second-guess their decision of being visible with their real name and such out in the open.
Yes, too many negatives in my original comment.
Data Theft with CSS
Good advertisers (read: more than AdWords) tend to require traffic verification from at least two of the first three providers you list. Google Analytics is likely for their own purposes.

When you're selling page views and clicks by the thousand or million, you want to make sure you're not being ripped off.
> Do they jump on someone's desktop and start searching for evidence? Do they say "nobody touch nothin' ya hear?" and take over as sysadmin?

Do they use Google Desktop search or the local office's Google search appliance to search for the incriminating evidence?
Previous papers on P vs NP
The tax burden in this country is lower than European nations, lower than Japan, lower than Canada.

The op-ed is a trite political attack piece (not out of character for the WSJ). Your comments, well, they seem directed towards the half-brained. That is, if you're smart, what your saying is obvious: Obviously Right if you're a conservative, Obviously Wrong if you're a progressive.

If you're a true neutral centrist and you care most about lowering taxes, I can point you in the direction of a gigantic defense budget that could be cut.

But in my experience, people who think Obama is an evil business killer also think that we mustn't cut a cent from the defense budget.

Finally, saw something interesting yesterday.. apparently annualized corporate profits hit 1.2 Trillion recently, the highest ever recorded.

Yes, socialist Obama is certainly proving himself the nemesis of prosperity for America's business community. Clearly.
Jalak Jobanputra,VC, on European Startups & Venture[video]
"Needless to say, all of us back home were appalled by this apparently fearful and paranoid US cultural trait."

The US is a big place, about 100 times the size of Ireland. Neighborhoods differ. Please don't judge an entire population because of what happened in one suburb. In other places in the US you'd have people waving hello to you.

I'm sure I could walk through parts of Derry and have a dismal experience, but that shouldn't be used to judge all of the Irish.
What's That Program Really Doing? Ask strace.
Todd Rundgren writes a lot of his own stuff. He's been coding since the Apple ][ days and even sold a graphics package for the early drawing tablets:

http://www.edibleapple.com/the-first-apple-tablet-from-1979/
I think Dave Mustaine was doing HTML work, at least for a while. Can't seem to find a reference though, and that doesn't really count in my book. :)
It looks to me like a string resource table for translation, possibly auto-included in multiple page, and used by widgets that exist only on some pages.
Page loads pretty quickly for me in Chrome, that should count for something.
That was incredibly dull and a complete waste of 10 minutes.
"Nao, [a robot] can form bonds with the people he meets."
My favorite is this proof that P!=NP:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/hubes/pnp.htm
A banker accusing programmers of causing trouble??
They did. Pretty much all of it.
Well if you're looking for MACs, wouldn't you need to listen in on network traffic? And then it comes down to whether that listened traffic was recorded or not, which is exactly what I'd expect to see from a diagnostic switch.
Try one before you talk it up -- the lines are thin, and kind of look gray like the output of a cheap black pen. I think I'm waiting for rev2.0 because as of now, it's less impressive than a regular pencil or mechanical pencil.
Stop telling me what to do!
Most banks in the U.S. outsource their IT to Fiserv or FIS these days.
I was about to ask why this is on HN, but really why is it anywhere except at the bottom of a stack of court proceedings? I have a hard time imagining anyone reading through this and not wanting those 10 minutes back.
It really does seem like the questions are worded to create contradictions where there are none. Almost like the author is trying to trap people instead of being intellectually honest (or even a decent philosopher).
Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
There's also the appeal of going back to your lab notebooks after six months and not finding them a smear of graphite. To me, pencils feel the best when writing, but the smudging over time is too annoying.
I've never heard a developer call himself rockstar or ninja.
The problem of storing energy is true for many renewable energies but there is work being done to solve it too.

An example for solar power is the use of special salty compounds that maintain the temperature for much longer (though I'd imagine at the cost of taking longer to reach high temperatures, i.e. they have a very high heat capacity) and hence provide a more constant output.

Another one is to connect one of these to an hydroelectric plant: any spare electricity is used to pump water up the dam.

Finally solar power has the advantage that it's plentiful during the day and especially in the summer which is when the electric demand is highest.

In the end solar power alone won't solve anything, but bundled with other renewable and with gas/nuclear to provide a steady baseline it should be fine.