skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really important point. My wife attended one of the Seven Sisters. While we're still paying college loans, we owe much less than if she'd gone to any of the state schools in her area.
My bad, I completely got that wrong. I don't actually have an iphone, I thought it could have plug-ins but that apple nixed flash.

So we're more in to adobe 'air' territory, flash based stand alone applications without a web container.
No. I worked with a guy who did this. I didn't have to sit at the desk next to him, but the guy who did... Well, he absolutely hated it.

It's also quite a bit different than 2 people talking, or even someone talking on the phone.

I think a quiet workplace is very important for proper thinking.
Bajaj Discover 150cc: Price, Features, Specifications
Riding high on the success of 100cc Bajaj Discover DTS-Si and to strengthen its presence in commuter segment, Bajaj Auto today launched the new Discover 150. With the promise of "More Excitement per Litre", this new model is all set to thrill riders with an exciting ride feel, exciting features as well as exciting mileage and value proposition. The Discover 150 is the first bike in the ‘Commuter Sports' segment which offers the utility of a commuter bike combined with the performance, style and features of a sports bike to bring in a renewed passion for biking.
It might be better to question why college is so expensive, or why student loans are so harsh ( http://www.collegescholarships.org/research/student-loans/ ) For example, in Denmark tuition is free for undergraduate and MSc and MA studies. ( http://www.internationalgraduate.net/denmark_university.htm )
Speaking of freedom, I'd rather pay the full price of a phone than have it subsidized by privacy invasion.
This is why you build a consensus. Selling your idea directly to the person in charge of making the decision is less convincing than disseminating the idea across the organization. Arrange for the superior's superior to hear it from his/her trusted associates and then hand it back down to you as a managerial directive.

As always, the only way to make someone do what you want them to do is to convince them that they want to do it because it's in their interest. Simply presenting a good idea directly to the person in charge won't be enough if the idea represents a change to entrenched organizational policies.
Awesome.

I love the single video. In my opinion, instant is far more useful here than it is for regular search. If only it were faster...
I've spent the last few months fighting with Ubuntu 10.04 on my Lenovo x100e. Wireless was awful and if the modules were loaded the system would crash every couple of hours. The graphics card had all sorts of issues. No sleep, no hibernate. Crappy battery life.

I've given up. Bought a Mac Book Pro 13" and it is wonderful. Has the unix I need and everything just works.
The article makes me quite worried for Quora.

First it's the same old 'users first, monetize later', a distinct problem from monetization strategy: it's a failed mindset where every day you're not charging people is a day you're not learning what you can actually get people to pay for, that is, what constitutes your business.

Secondly he doesn't event start addressing the hard problems of Q&A sites:

1) How to keep the quality of answers high. As soon as more people get on the site, the quality will drop unless there is a smart mechanic to prevent it. All he has is assertion that 'You’re answering questions because ...' as if he knew the answer to that question for the next 100k users who aren't early adopters!

2) How to monetize a Q&A site in the face of approaching commoditization, on a scale that warrants investment. Ads? Really?
Your point is valid but the fact remains that both companies offer and heavily promote only one GSM phone: the iPhone. That was all I was trying to get at.
Your email address is not in your profile, in the sense that it's not displayed. You have to put it in the 'about' section.
It's not a criticism of the article, but the article does seem a lot less relevant now.
Actually actually, it was NeXT who made that choice.

And the license itself does not require copyright assignment. Rather, the FSF does.
Apple Says "We Have Enough Fart Apps," Here's Why That's Wrong
Google’s Luc Vincent: Digital Imaging Mastermind Behind Street View “Trike”
It's not even necessary to check the HOST header. Simply use name-based virtual hosts and forbid access to the default virtual host. This denies access to simple drive-by bots that crawl IP ranges and others that request a HOST that isn't configured as a virtual host.
What's the colour scheme in the screenshot? It looks nice.
It can be improved, here's my version from a c program but can be used in objc in the say way.

http://pastebin.com/nbgdaGXJ
Hi there Andrew, I'm the author. After reading the comments on HN and elsewhere, I'm surprised to see my hack being praised for it's simplicity. If I had more time last night, I would have implemented more features - I have a ton of ideas.

I guess it's good that I didn't. It looks like simplicity won.
Same strategy with http://youtuberepeat.com but you just get the repeating video, not all of the other stuff around the edges.
You boot up an ec2 instance and want to give a domain name to a friend that isn't 100 characters long. How much effort does it take you setup your bind solution? Particularly if you've never setup dns before. Can I do this given that I'm not running any other servers? The popularity of dyndns should give you a sense of demand.
This is funny, but I respond to my own questions all the time. Often out of sync with the timeline of events, too. I'll remember an answer and answer my question from 10 minutes ago all while discussing it with myself. ;)
It's a small consolation, but at least this business with PayPal is giving him some good publicity. I'd never heard of Minecraft until now.
Google Instant's 37 Golden Tickets
I've been using DNS, DNS Services, DNS Administration Services and DNS Configuration Tools for 12 years.

This is the first time I've ever seen a tool/web page that has done this so simply.

It may be trivial, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone do it before.

Oh, and the hacker value is very clear - if you notice there is (soon) going to be an update that will let you also update your DNS record.

It's clean, quick, and simple. Add the ability to submit updates via email, and you have a "posterous for DNS updates." :-)
Apple relaxes analytics restrictions – but not for third-party providers
> I bet that somewhere in paypal, it works like DEA style
> asset forfeiture, and the people who freeze accounts stand
> to benefit financially, personally and directly.

You'd lose that bet. They refund the money to the original payer. For better or worse. My company loses a few hundred euros each month to this. They keep asking for proof of delivery. Yet we sell internet access. No proof in that unless I'm willing to break the law (and my client's trust) and tcpdump my clients. No way I'm doing that so I swallow the losses. No client ever filled a complain in the first place and no client ever complained about returned funds for consumed services either. :P
You can ask them, though not easily, to transfer the money to your bank account - DAILY.
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Wtf I just bought his game yesterday, and he can't even get his money??
One type of fraud that they need to deal with is fraudsters getting control of an established account (...) Their strategy for this seems to be to make people jump over a low paperwork barrier, then wait long enough that the payments have all cleared before they pay out.

One day my account (solely used for sending payments) got blocked because of a "potential unauthorized third-party access". After completing the verification they asked (new password, new security question and credit card confirmation), I received another message asking me to send a scanned copy of my ID Card, a proof of domicile and my BBAN.

I told them that for confidentiality reasons, it was out of question to send any of these documents. I asked them to give me more specific information about the materials that led to the account suspension and to reactivate it without delay. The next day, I received an email with vague excuses and my account got reactivated immediately.

It is true that their antifraud system can lead to number of suspended accounts and frozen funds without any solid basis. But they may also take advantage of frozen money (eg. this 600k case) for further financial activities so as big-box stores are used to: http://books.google.com/?id=UOSk0J8vYugC&pg=PA533 (source: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vrcddc)
I'm told Amazon holds its inventory for 20 days, and Best Buy holds it for 74. Standard payment terms are 45 days. That's where Amazon's cash float happens.
I'm not sure that adults learning differently from children is vital here. I think it just comes into play that adults already learned these things and have an expectation to know them; children are looking fresh and are allowed to not know things. I think many adults would benefit from relearning math to use grids and chunks.

To this day I think about arithmetic using my own analogues to the grid and chunk methods. They're far closer to the intuitive meanings of the operators and are more useful when you start generalizing. They get at the heart of the divide between meaning and representation. (And for that, see GEB)

Algebra is representation of abstract objects via formal computational procedures (sort of). The formal procedures are the mechanism for proof, but really have no weight of meaning. I to this day cannot long divide (without regenerating the rules anyway) and get weird stares when I tell people that. But then I stare back: how many ways can you describe what division means?
FWIW I agree, but to add a counter point ...

Jargon emerges and evolves because it serves a real need. Short names make things easy to refer to, and hence easy to discuss. Once the definitions are made clear, often with just a simple example or two, the terminology makes things easier, not harder.

Until you do that, it makes things worse, which is your point.
Windows SxS was supposed to ensure that programs would get linked to the latest version of a DLL that the program would be compatible with. There are even conditional forwarders set up for it. You could have a program that would only link against the oldest version, if it needed to.

They were very, very close to a working versioned symbols system.
What do you use now for your payments instead of PayPal?
Deposits can be rolled back if the money is still there.

If anything that's a concession ("your business can continue, we aren't going to make your website shut down while you jump our hoops").
Brooks: America’s brightest minds have been abandoning technical enterprise
Ask HN: How exactly do stock option grants work?
I'm part of a 100+ person startup and I've just received my stock option agreement packet, and (not surprisingly) I'm terribly confused.

I've been granted X shares of an "Incentive Stock Option" and I have an "Option to purchase Common Stock of the Company". Does this mean I have to buy into my own stock?

Also it looks like it will take five years to vest, so what happens if the company is acquired/goes public between now and then?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I still do my taxes using the online TurboTax basic plan, to give you an idea of how not difficult my taxes are currently. :)

UPDATE: Wow thanks everyone for your responses so far! I looked a bit more at the paperwork and it says (paraphrasing): 1/4 of my shares will vest on my 1-year anniversary and then 1/48th remaining will vest each month after.
What company did Oracle recently buy that was built around something known as the SPARC processor?
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Prompted by news of an abduction in Missouri a while back, I wrote this:
http://messymatters.com/strangers

Excerpt:

I love this quote from security expert Bruce Schneier:

Remember, if it’s in the news don’t worry about it. The
very definition of news is “something that almost never
happens.” When something is so common that it’s no longer
news — car crashes, domestic violence — that’s when you
should worry about it.

The truth of that hit home recently when I saw a news feature on the abduction of a four-year-old girl from her front yard in Missouri. Candlelight vigils, nation-wide amber alert, police blockades where every single car was stopped and questioned, FBI agents swarming the house. I think the expected reaction from parents is “oh my god, I need to be so vigilant, even in my own front yard!” My reaction was the opposite: Wow, this sort of thing really does essentially never happen. Let the kids run free!

[EDIT: It goes on to compare to a non-abduction story...]

In summary, a toddler got separated from her caregivers and wandered off, where a passerby saw her. Seeing no one else around, his first instinct was to scoop her up and take her with him. But he decided that that was a big risk to himself — what would people think? — and continued on, reporting it later.

The girl then fell in a pond and drowned.
I definitely get what hippich is saying. The idea is that when you have a community built around a platform, and that community is, well, communal (cooperative in some ways), solutions emerge to avoid conflicts and problems like this. (RubyGems for Ruby, CPAN for Python, aptitude for Debian, RPM, etc., etc.)

According to hippich (and I agree), that kind of community and spirit only ever emerges when we are sharing code.
The fundamental problem with math education in the United States (yeah, I know the article is about UK, but it's Friday and I'm in a ranting mood) is that math is taught as a set of rules that must be followed, rather than as a common-sense way of systematizing simple common concepts. Part of this is that teachers tend to have a poor quantitative background themselves, so they can do math but they don't grok it. I've seen transcripts of grade school teacher math lessons, and it's clear that they perceive math in a legalistic sense, using phrases like "those are the rules, right?" The result is that the students only see a set of rules, and not the reasoning, so the set of rules looks basically arbitrary.

If you explain well enough the concepts of place-value and multiplication, most children can independently invent an algorithm for long multiplication. They tend to arrive at similar solutions which aren't as well-organized or space-optimized as the traditional long multiplication algorithm, but they made it themselves so they understand not just how to do it but why it works.

The exact algorithms being taught for math education may make a difference in exposing the concepts, but I think the real determiner of math education is not the algorithms but how the material is presented. Addition and multiplication make sense, if they're taught as concepts, but the focus on test scores emphasizes ability to plug-and-chug over ability to understand what's going on under the hood. This is also why everybody hates word problems, and why I think math testing should use more word problems. Math isn't about your ability to perform rote tasks, it's about your ability to apply general concepts to specific situations, and that in itself is as important as the rest of schooling combined (indeed, it makes the rest of schooling useful).

Relevant parting anecdote: some school district knew that the Pythagorean Theorem would be on their standardized algebra tests that year, so they drilled all their students on it. The students could use the formula flawlessly. The test rolled around, and surprise! the Pythagorean Theorem question was a word problem, and most of the students bombed the question.
Oracle = hardware, remember Sun? HP = consulting. Oracle = consulting. They overlap in lots of areas. HP stupidly fired Hurd and now he has gone to the company most likely to eat their lunch in a lot of areas.
I don't think it implies ownership, but it could certainly mislead users who are not familiar with the purpose of DNS. It's always been trivial to point one of your own domain names at someone else's IP address (or create a CNAME), but this hasn't been the source of any major abuse that I'm aware of, probably because you don't have any control over the remote resource.
It looks like tangotango:

http://github.com/juba/color-theme-tangotango
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>The process is to meticulously explain code to an inanimate object

Isn't that what students are for?
Oh. Thanks a lot for pointing that out! Fixed.
That may be true, but RAM is not so limited (even on VMs/servers) that DLLs are worth the extreme hassle. Case in point: Linux (for me) runs much better on a minimal VM than any version of Windows.
While the Year of the Linux Desktop may forever be a joke, 2010 is the Year of Linux on the Small Computer you Carry With You Everywhere.
Talking to yourself is a symptom of stress. Because your working memory is too populated by stressors in order to keep the entire "conversation" inside your head, you externalize it. Think of it as paging out. The only inconvenience is that it can bother people. Well, maybe there are other inconveniences, too, but I'm not aware of any studies that suggest externalized verbal problem solving creates worse results than internalized problem solving, though I suspect it actually might be the case.
Self correcting - first you talk to yourself, then you start answering yourself, then you argue with yourself - then you sulk and stop talking to you.
Thanks. Now I remember that it's Qualcomm's chips that I couldn't get datasheets for:

MSM8660: Dual Core, 1.2 GHz, Q2 2010 (http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2010/06/01/qualcomm-sh...)

QSD8672: Dual Core, 1.5 GHz, Q4 2010
Sorry, you cannot buy happiness with a $75,000 salary
I always get a laugh out of people who get excited about this, I think the far more interesting statistic would be stickiness factors - once you are on a phone platform, how likely are you to stay. For example, what percentage of people get an iPhone and then when their 2 year contract expires - get another iPhone because they love it (despite AT&T). It is hard to judge Android in that context right now because for all the noise it has made in the past year it is still relatively new in the scope of phone devices and carrier contracts. I think RIM has been pretty strong historically in this kind of metric and iPhone has proven well here too.
Right. I'm just used to seeing the stance "College is a waste of (time/money/etc)". I mean, if you're paying for college, it's a tradeoff just like anything is.

It's an investment. If it's not going to pay off in the long run, don't go. Basic economics. That was my point, didn't intend to sound so arrogant in my op. :(
I talk to myself during work most of the time (but usually it happens in the privacy of my head only). Or better, I talk to the monitor in front of me as if it would help debug something faster :) ... well sometimes it does, actually.
But when i become very frustrated with the piece of code i am debugging, I usually say something out loud as well.... swearing mostly :D
> But I'm no longer accepting paypal payments myself
> and I would advise everybody to keep their account
> balances as low as possible.

Sound advice. In my new private project, I redraw from paypal every 200 euros. Thankfully, that's a lot of redraws (for certain definitions of a lot) and I'm a bit behind redraws but I learned the lesson from the losses the company I work with endures every month. Details in this same thread. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679288)
If it is, then it's a money laundering scheme with a very good game. I recommend participating.
Interestingly the complaints would disappear if they just got rid of homework.

No, I'm not being facetious. If you read The Homework Myth you'll find out that homework in grade school is a net neutral from a learning perspective. The benefit is that you get more practice. The downfall is that without supervision it is as easy to practice the wrong thing as the right thing, and practicing the wrong thing sets you back.

Studies have shown that, in practice, the net effect is that homework causes academic performance to become more strongly correlated with the parent's socioeconomic status, but overall across the whole population there is no net change in learning outcomes. Plus assigning homework is a source of stress for families that causes students to dislike school. The strength of these effects is roughly linear in the amount of homework assigned, all of the way down to no homework at all. (Instead students have to do in class exercises, under the supervision of teachers. Which they have to do anyways.)

The reason for that is that homework causes enforcing correct practice to be the job of the parents, and so how well the parents understand the material determines whether homework benefits or hurts. While my family educationally benefits from the trend (me and my wife can assist correct practice), reduced stress and inequality makes no homework seem fair to me.

And hence the problem underscored by this article. With homework, when we teach students different techniques, we need to think both about how easily the students will learn them, and how well the parents will understand them. Without homework the parents lose that responsibility, and we're free to just focus on what works for the kids.
Back on the webapp now. Thanks!
Please allow me to cast a bit of skepticism on this topic. I have an MA in Math Education, and am currently working on a PhD in Education, so I have had a lot of first-hand experience with "how the sausage is made" with regards to education research.

Teaching fads are all coming from research-oriented schools of education like those that I am getting my degree from. While the new methods that are being introduced are "research based", I find much of the research being conducted as highly questionable. Since around the 1970s there has been a strong shift away from quantitative research towards qualitative research in education, which IMHO allows researchers to pretty much "prove" anything that they want. I think that when most people hear the phrase "better teaching methods" they tend to assume that this means "better ways of getting students to learn the target curriculum", but in my experience actual mastery of, say, math skills now takes a back seat to, for example, higher self esteem or even just hating math less.

The result is that over the past several decades students in the US, at least, where such trends towards new teaching methods seem to be the strongest, are performing worse and worse on international comparisons of math and science skills (see, for example, the TIMMS: http://nces.ed.gov/timss/). Meanwhile the countries that now have the best performing students in terms of mathematics ability are largely from Asian countries that predominantly use methods now considered passe here.

The elephant in the room is that the biggest reasons for poor math skills are not related to teaching methods, but rather are cultural issues---starting especially in the middle school years, most students just don't want to be seen as being good at math, as that can be a social stigma for many students of that age (I'm sure that many readers of this site can relate...).

A student who wants to learn will do so, no matter how bad the teacher or the teacher's methods. A student who doesn't want to learn will not, no matter how good the teacher or the methods.
Even in New York City, $250,000 is rich
I'm still waiting a HDR display to actually view all this HDR material that is produced these days.