skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deschooling Society is available online if you're interested in looking it up again. I highly recommend it. (http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap1.h...)

He's wide ranging, but his whole point in writing the book is to discuss why the current institutions devoted to education are inappropriate and even destructive (http://adambachman.org/illich_03.html). He goes on to suggest what an appropriate, human centered replacement could look like. (http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap6.h...)

I think you could reexamine your assumptions.
Predictive analytics helps an IBM employee win fantasy football
That's fucking awesome!
I totally agree. Can't believe they're not protecting their cash cow.
Comparing average incomes is meaningless for at least two reasons:

1) The cost of living will not be the same; and
2) Income is no measure of quality of life/satisfaction.

As an example, what if average incomes are higher, but so is income inequality? What effect does this have on the society (and the standard of licing of those within it) as a whole?

I also think jbooth has a point in that these are self-selected groups.
A lot of times yes, but others, the actions i simplify to "run process" are actually several commands based on output, to do things like verify side effects, etc. The scenario I describe is also very nice for developing shell scripts because of this.
I was banned from Google Adsense about a week before I was to receive my first $100 pay check. I have estimated that if I was not banned I would have easily made over $10k in ad revenue over the last 3 years.

I still have no idea why I was banned. I believe it was either I had my Google Ad banner a little to close to my Flash Game, hence, they thought I was trying to trick people into clicking the Ad. Or they did not like the fact that my page had no "content" in their mind because it was just a Flash Game. Also, I was banned about a week after I had a 5 times increase in traffic because I was promoting my game on forums so that might have had something to do with it.

The thing that I am pissed about now is the fact when I was banned only my Domain was banned but I just recently found out my entire Google account is banned from ever using AdSense for different domains.

If anyone is interested I can post the website and my appeal emails to Google.
Why does Craigslist bear the responsibility for making sure underage girls aren't exploited? Doesn't that responsibility ultimately lie with law enforcement and the folks actually committing crimes?

Then there is the whole argument about whether the criminalization of prostitution (as opposed to regulation) makes it that much easier for young girls to be victimized in the first place.

The point being. This is complicated stuff. What about the consenting adults who have used the adult sections of Craigslist to great effect?

I would have no issues with conscience if I ran Craigslist.
I vaguely recall a story about this that said they were using auto-tune at Paul McCartney's actual concerts. Which would not surprise me if it is becoming a standard, simply because it is easy to do nowadays.
The strange thing here is that retirement accounts with a tax deferment policy benefit the higher earners much more than they benefit people in lower tax brackets.

This isn't very consistent when the social issue that has really driven these polices into existence is trying to convince lower earners to save for retirement so that the state doesn't have a huge outgoing on pensions etc.
Are New Patent Marking Lawsuits Patent Trolling . . . Or Anti-Patent Trolling?
So that completely absolves her of responsibility? If she sees an underage prostitute on the street does she forgo calling the police and complain to the pimp that he didn't do a good enough job of checking if she was underage or not?

This is not to defend Craigslist, but to say that if she didn't report the crime to anyone she is just as guilty. Just because she is a reporter following a 'hot story' doesn't make her any less responsible for ignoring a crime that she could have helped to prevent. I don't like the idea that since the ad was posted on Craig's site, then he is responsible for it, but someone that actually saw it and knew that something was awry, and did nothing can take some sort of moral high-ground.
It may split the discussion, but also creates new discussion. What we need is a way to repost links for those who haven't seen them before (potentially many people), while maintaining the old discussion and adding on to it.
Pitch is complicated…

As you can see, the plot shows that Siegel didn’t hit a perfect “A”—that would have been at 220 Hz. Instead, she’s at 216 Hz, which would be noticeably flat.

I think that song is in F (175 Hz)[1], the first note is an A, the 3rd of the scale. The A on an equal tempered piano would indeed be 220Hz, but in a perfect third is 5/4 times the frequency of the F, 217 Hz. I'd say she nailed a perfect third.

… insanely complicated.

[1] Sorry, on my way out the door, don't own a copy, can't listen to more than the first 8 notes.
I asked Paul Graham about this a couple years ago at the Startup School and he didn't seem particularly concerned with whether the companies ended up exiting. I don't know to what extent that has changed since they took on outside capital.
Swedish Americans are the descendents of lower class agricultural workers who left religious repression in Sweden between 1860 and 1910. In the case of Japanese Americans, they are descended from manual laborers who left Japan between 1882 and 1924.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_emigration_to_the_Unite...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American#Immigration

In any case, I don't get how you could read either of my factoids and suggest I was pushing genetic determinism. Clearly, some environmental factors are important. For example, living in the US rather than Sweden or Japan seems to cause people to earn 50% more money. Using US health care rather than Japanese health care seems to increase life expectancy by 2 years (no, I don't actually believe this latter point).

But on the other hand, ethnicity does also seem to have some measurable effects. Asian Americans beat whites on most social measures in spite of the head start whites had.

Feel free to call me a racist tea partier if you like.
Why don't you make an app to show people how much they would save if they couldn't use the app (because they decided it wasn't worth paying for the phone).
Ask HN: Motorola wants to help my Android Meetings. What can I ask for?
Hello to all,

Yesterday i've had a reunion with 2 Motorola PR of Mexico, and they're so interested in what are we doing with AndroidTitlan(http://androidtitlan.org) that they're wanting to help organize some informal reunion with all expenses covered from them, giving us promo stuff and cellphones, and free food. Is there anything more you can advice for ask to them??

Thank in advance
Meh. Netflix was great for the first 6 mo. Then everything got stale and nothing is good on streaming nor DVD. C'mon where's the remake of Tron for god sake.... I've canceled.
Because this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu?sort=newest

http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu?sort=newest

http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu?sort=n...

is obviously a good situation for people trying to ask questions or find answers.
Sammy 0.6 released
This.

Why doesn't local law enforcement just use Craigslist as an easy way to find these people and put them behind bars? It's not like these things are being broadcast to a select group of people in a back{room,alley}. They are being broadcast to the world on a public forum. Law enforcement can just search the ads, arrange meetups with the people and bust them. It's not like these people will stop doing what they are doing because Craigslist prevented them from posting an ad.
I highly doubt they would jump into the water and try to compete with Amazon. It's way to direct, I really don't see them being able to just brute force their way in.
MLB At Bat just added video out via the iPad VGA adapter just a few days ago so they're clearly comfortable with the concept of using the iPad to stream to a TV.
Assuming that PG is not a complete idiot and can identify obvious skill and/or obvious product home runs, thus removing them from the "rejected" list, your control group isn't very accurate.
Where did you learn that MySpace was created for bands? Wikipedia states that they just explicitly copied the most popular features of friendster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace#History
BUG: The Share balloon hides behind the video -- at least the one I'm seeing here:
http://talkminer.com/viewtalk.jsp?videoid=jqjTBEfh4gM&q=
I'm using Opera, btw. [typo edit]
I don't think it's right how, in his "defense", he crouches behind "borderline Asperger's".

I'm about to briefly rant on it because I think a lot of less rich and less notorious nerds and geeks in my industry make the same, lame, bullcurse excuse whenever they can.

He remarks: "I don’t have a normal person’s ability to sense when someone might be looking to take advantage of these shortcomings."

You know what? I cry BullCurse.

If you watch a tape of the interview, it's pretty clear (at least to me) that he knows damn well - from the start - that he's in a "gotcha" interview. He starts off highly defensive. Eventually she pins him on a question that as a freaking board member of the corporation, and its founder -- he really ought to be able to yet was not prepared to handle. If it were not a privately held firm, the stock would have justifiably fell on his performance. If he depended on being elected to the board - he might be in trouble.

It may very well be the case (and personally, I believe it is) that Craigslist is taking a fairly sane albeit difficult to explain approach to the issues here. I don't think they are an evil hub in that regard.

To cower behind "Oh, it's my borderline Asperger's and the mean lady tricked me...." that gives me some doubt about Craigslist's concern and competence in this area.

Pardon me, but: that was dumb, Craig. Dumb arrogant, not dumb Asperger's.
More grist from a review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R15OHRG7XHGJK7/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...

Caveat emptor, YMMV, etc.
The megapixel myth
Scientist's Firing After 36 Years Fuels 'PC' Debate at UCLA
2 words: too complicated. Beanstalkd FTW!
Law enforcement frequently does. There was a big bust near Orlando (Lakeland maybe?) recently where many prostitutes from craigslist were arrested.
* it is legal to have a digital backup of your media*

I was referring to the act of downloading the mp3 from a website vs ripping the cd directly to your computer. Similar to the situation of growing your own pot for personal use vs buying it from a drug dealer.
Just to be sure, I wasn't talking about C being low level but more about the stuff you were doing with C that was low level. I could have said: Clean for such low level Scheme or Clean for such low level Perl.
>Do you? My relationship with dell isn't just about getting warm fuzzy feelings when I call our rep to order stuff, it's about knowing that, if I do have a problem, it's going to get resolved immediately when I call her.

right. you need to pay a /whole lot/ to get that relationship; the cheap level support contract, in my experience, is usually worse than just fixing it myself.

the thing of it is, at least on the more affordable support plans, Dell expects a corporate environment where unexplained reboots, so long as the server comes back up in a reasonable period of time, are acceptable. In my business I say a reboot costs me... so I've got to figure out if it was hardware or software, and then trace it down from there. Dell and RHEL seem to say "Well, it came up clean, what do you want?" Dell and rhel are both awesome when a box is down and it stays down, but those problems are trivially easy for me to solve myself, so I don't really see the point of buying support for that.

>Do you think anybody from micron is going to jump in their car and bring you something when you need it? Or care that something got messed up and fix it for you immediately?

Absolutely not. and yeah, if it was something I couldn't fix myself, this would be a big concern. like I said, I go 'full service' in areas where I'm helpless, like accounting. But the thing is, when my ram goes bad, I don't /need/ micron to drive down and fix it for me. I have spares of everything, and I am better at diagnostics than any dell tech I've met.

Also, if you buy the cheap support plan from dell, well, you are waiting until Monday for your part anyhow.

Now, yeah, maintaining that skillset is pretty expensive. if it wasn't central to my business, if hardware wasn't where the majority of our money went, you would be right, it wouldn't make any sense. But hardware is where the majority of my money goes, and I am able to provide a level of service that exceeds what I have seen from dell, so it does make sense.
AOL renews ties with Google, Microsoft out
A rather mild tone from Luboš Motl, but overall a good and detailed essay on why this, or especially what its major proponent say, is a really bad idea.

I'm not sure why Motl left Harvard, but after this I suspect he's glad he's no longer associated with it.

What I wonder is if this could do some serious damage to the Harvard brand. Will "dropping the H-bomb" become a futile act some years from now?
I am totally acting as a devil's advocate here, I haven't dug into this enough to have formed a proper opinion:

2 is unfair. If you ask about a specific ad, they can look in the system and say "that ad was placed on X, it was reported as problematic by a user on Y, we checked it on Z and reported it to the police.

The problem in this imaginary chain of events is "it was reported as problematic by a user on Y". What the hell is the user doing reporting it? Why aren't there dedicated staff?

These guys are reported to make $150 mill a year with just 32 staff. That they're not picking up on this shit is just plain negligence.

Just because we as programmers are used to dealing with huge data sets doesn't actually mean this problem isn't policable with a couple of people.

They could pay a couple of students minimum wage to vet all their adult adverts.

In the old days the vet would be in the phone call placing the order for an advert. Just because it's now all handled by a computer in the form of a web form so staff costs are reduced doesn't mean there's any less responsibility on the company. It's a cost. You pass it on to the advertiser.

And they're not doing it.
Read good writers in your field of interest.

1) Outline their works to see how they build logical structure/argument
-- See how they introduce key points in the structure/argument
-- See how they support key assertions with facts or examples
-- See how they exploit the "ladder of abstraction." When they make an abstract assertion or point, do they back it up with specific examples or concrete evidence?

2) Identify the "elevator statement;" e.g. major thematic assertion of the work. If you can write it down on the back of a business card, you're on the right track
-- Study how they introduce the theme
-- Study how the develop it
-- Study how consistently the stick with it
-- Study how they reach a conclusion that hammers the theme home

3) Study how they construct paragraphs
-- See how they transition into a paragraphs
-- See how they set up and establish the main point of the paragraph
-- See how they stick to that point within the paragraph
-- See how they set up for the next paragraph (transitions of thought)

4) Study how they construct sentences
-- See how they use concrete vs. abstract nouns
-- See how they use active vs. passive verbs
-- See how they use (or avoid) adjectives and adverbs
-- See how they make every word count
-- See how the vary sentence rhythm across simple, compound, and complex structrues.

5) Study how they relate to the reader
-- Study the voice (formal vs. intimate, etc.)
-- Study the tone (friendly, angry, ironic, etc.)

6) Master spelling, punctuation, and grammar

7) Lean about different conventional "formats" -- e.g. essay, opinion piece, news story, report, thesis, etc.
-- How do they differ?
-- What are essential elements of each?

8) Write for specific readers
-- What does your readers expect?

9) Follow the "yeah, yeah, oh!" pattern. E.g. Introduce a thought (yeah), introduce a logically connected thought (yeah), throw in a surprising image or twist of thought (oh!)

10) Tell the truth, but tell it slant (e.g. avoid cliches and dull, worn-out language; keep it fresh..
Any recommended tools for monitoring keyword positions?
A command line is a poor mans gui.

A gui is a poor mans command line.

Whichever I'm using there are always aspects of the work that you could do better with the other.
Couldn't they just move CL out of the US and be done with it?
When Does Holding Teachers Accountable Go Too Far?
> I think the big thing people are missing in Apple's strategy with this is the streaming from iOS to AppleTV.

Absolutely. Your idea about the single boolean to allow an app to stream to Apple TV is brilliant. I was thinking Apple TV would be its own iOS platform with apps, etc, but I think you might have the solution here.

As I watched the presentation, I thought the biggest feature of Apple TV was the streaming from the iOS device. Sending Up from his iPad to the TV was cool, as is the idea of easy slideshows from pictures you take. If a friend could bring over a movie he has on his iPhone and zap it over to your TV, that would be hugely useful.

I see Apple TV at this point as akin to one of those music docks people have for their iPods. Same price and same idea. The music dock, you plop your phone down and now you have speakers for everyone to hear your songs. Apple TV, everyone can hear/watch your media on the TV.

I would love for Apple TV to eventually disrupt the awful TV industry someday, but for now I'm not sure it's much more than a low-margin accessory to generate more sales of iProducts.
It's unclear to me how the TV works with non-Apple software. Will it stream movies from any DAAP server? Can I use it with my existing digital movie collection that is not housed in iTunes?

I already have devices that can display Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, etc. onto my TV (TiVo). Will this get the rest of my content to my television?
http://www.kikabink.com/news/
http://www.domainerincome.com/news/
Very cool for TaleSpring to be a part of BoomStartup! It's been an awesome summer and we're looking forward to sharing our progress on the 10th.
Horribly laggy (1 second from click to change of appearance) on my EeePC in FF, where the buttons look good. Not laggy in Chrome where the buttons look a mess.
check out this guy and be amazed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_zjWssn2g
> Notice there is no retune speed adjustment knob.

It's not as prominent as in the first one (and I'm prepared to believe it's not used hamhandedly by the skilled engineers), but it's there: bottom row, slightly right of centre.
The title of the blog post is "Understanding Job Control In Bash" -- why not submit it here under that same title?
The data I gave is adjusted for cost of living. (Fun fact: adjusting for cost of living hurts Sweden, living there is more expensive, not less.) This blog post describes the methodology:

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

As you can clearly see from the graph linked to in my previous comment, the bottom 15% or so of Swedish Americans are slightly poorer than Swedes. The top 85% or so are richer. That's the effect of inequality.

As for quality of life/satisfaction - I'll focus on wealth since I don't really know what you mean when you say "quality of life" or "satisfaction" (they are fairly subjective terms).
Oh, I wasn't accusing you at all, just noting it was funny that we were talking about the Danish with their blonde hair and blue eyes, in the context of genetic determinism -- been reading about Hitler and Stalin's respective rises to power recently, so it's on my mind.

As far as the Asian American thing, I'm personally partial to social factors there as well. At the risk of being a stereotyping a-hole, there's a lot of Asian Americans in SAT prep classes. Correlation with ethnicity doesn't necessarily mean that asians are genetically predisposed to be better at the SATs.

Really, I just wanted to highlight those satellite pictures of Denmark.

EDIT: Also, RE: the impoverished and hardworking immigrants, I agree, it's not like they were Saudi princes when they came to America, but those who did come were the ones who had the motivation to pull off the journey -- then, now that they've bitten it off, they're obligated to succeed. Still self-selecting to some degree to me.
Has anybody made an @font-face package with icons? That would be super helpful and nice for doing icons on buttons etc...
Your request to URL "http://egoist.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-starting-your-startu... has been blocked by Webwasher Proactive Scanning. The program could potentially perform operations, which is not allowed by your administrator at this time.

Malware Name:	McAfeeGW: Heuristic.BehavesLike.JS.CodeUnfolding.A

Don't count on anyone's website either! :-)
I've only talked to them once (I was annoyed that there was no option for communication except phone), but the guy I talked to was very helpful, friendly, receptive, and did indeed seem empowered.
Money Buys Unhappiness
I like it. It's good if you're goal is to eventually sell dual licensed products. A company that is just using your product on the small scale shouldn't have a problem with sharing their code too. If a company has monetized it in a way that makes them protective of their code, you can sell them a commercial license.
Leaving Las Vegas: The Exodus Continues
OK, I'll concede that the 'prior' is also US-heavy.
I live in a big city where they have a local warehouse and they consistently ship movies to me really fast. I'm on the cheapest plan ($8/mo) and when I send a movie back, they get it the next day, and in the same day send out a new one. At that level of service it was already easily worth $8, but now they have an awesomely expanding offering of HD streaming content which makes it tremendously more valuable to me.
Hotel guests now put Wi-Fi at top of amenity list
I understand and respect your disdain for premeditated deception, but as an observation I'd like to point out that as a person, you are ALWAYS manipulating whether or not you are aware of it.
Listen carefully, she's even more clueless than you think. She says "posting", not "hosting". Personally, I am surprised how terribly Craig handled this - the appropriate response was simply "Just as the phone company can't police the calls used for illegal acts, there is no way we can police a service of millions of users, but we try. Stopping crime is the role of the police department (that's what taxes are for)".
Ask HN: Have $15k to invest. suggestions please.
Have saved about $15k and do not have a need for this money for the next 5 years. Please suggest where i can invest this amount with decent returns, say somewhere in 12-15% range. I have not tried investing in stocks due to volatility, hence any pointers on stock/bond investments would also be helpful.
Appreciate your time/suggestions very much.
I would guess that it's due to the collectivist culture and value on collaboration that inspires active triggers of reciprocity circuits
i liked it, i really liked it.

the first thing i've searched is "django" and i got an awesome result. :)

congratulations and wish you all the best.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried "burst" advertising on iPhone/iPad?
Has anyone tried "burst" mobile advertising on iPhone/iPad? How did it work out? Any recommendations for how to decide whether to go for it or strategy?

Thanks!