skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I have seen, course credit's only function seems to be creating a standard between "full-time" and "part-time" students. Although this has practical implications due to requirements for financial aid, merit scholarships, and work-study, there is rarely any other value and is often easily circumvented.

The fact is that humanities and other classes are often easier than science and engineering classes, and when classes are standardized (usually 3 credits), there can be no meaningful scale in respect to difficulty or time spent studying/learning. This, coupled with the differences in rigor across institutions make such a construct difficult to determine or enforce.

Transferring credits from a local college during time in high school to my eventual undergrad, I have seen that the number of course credits/hours is meaningless. The important transfers were for equivalent classes that were major requirements, regardless of how many hours they were. Without transfer for credit of equivalent classes, credit hours is worthless - it does not signify process towards degree and is simply a GPA boost.

This concept also is carried across to medical school, which is kind of ridiculous. If I spent 60 hours in the hospital a week, does that mean I have 20 course credits? I am willing to guarantee I work harder for those 20 hours (plus much more time outside of the hospital), than 20 hours of classes I had in undergrad.

Then again, I'm not even sure it's reasonable or relevant to regulate credit hours. This is just a BS bureaucratic way to try to standardize education. I'm sure anyone who visits HN regularly would recognize such institutional approaches are bunk. You learn as much as you want, and it depends entirely on self motivation.
Cloud services don't have to be web services, although it is becoming more common that they are.

FTP sites are often hosted for a single user or small group of users who host and maintain the site. They own the burden of full site upkeep. It's not something that sits in this "cloud", but its a service on the internet that they maintain.

There's another thing that is implicit about cloud services, which is why I choose the FTP example, which is that the content on the service that is of most value is the content you, the user put in the service. So CNN.com, while a service on the internet, isn't generally considered a cloud service. Whereas FaceBook, Flickr, and GMail are examples of cloud services.
Steve Jobs Responds to Google, 7-inch Tablets
Yes! Haha. No, really, the book is only just getting to the point where there's something worth getting excited about and I've had so many side projects that setting up a mailing list and site for it has been a lower priority than it should have been ;-)
What makes you different from services like Tinychat or Stickam?
How I got featured on TechCrunch (and many more)
I think the onus is now on Flash developers now to make the case for why Flash is necessary in new development. And I think that's an important threshold.
There are many cloud services not tied to the web - an example is a service that replaces tape backups (for enterprise data) by letting you stream the data to an online service.
Doing a new one now actually. Literally spent a lot of today scripting, online at bestbuy waiting to get better tripod. Will write an article up.
The idea itself, as it currently stands, is an amazingly strong one that is relevant to almost everyone. Are you sure it's necessary to get so complicated so fast? I worry that perhaps you'll lose potential customers and mindshare by being too quick to "web2.0 it." For instance, I almost stopped reading this post after the first couple sentences - the information was in the wrong order. Tell us the simple version first, then tell us how it will grow.

I hope this doesn't sound rude - I don't mean it to be. I really like your idea.
TapZilla (S2010) applied the day of the deadline, we only knew of the application about a week or so before the deadline when Harj visited Seattle. After that, we never looked back.
Yep. And he made it sound specifically like they think of 10" as a minimum for the iPad line, not necessarily a maximum.

Edit: I've always thought that was the biggest problem with a 7" Apple device: either you have to scale 3.5" iPhone apps up or 9.7" iPad apps down. Neither of which is optimal. And I don't believe you're gonna be able to (or even that you want to) get devs to adapt their existing apps for a third "sub-platform".
Thank you very much for taking notice. :)

I'm an inveterate multitasker and if my middle-click/vimium breaks or the links are otherwise odd (not to mention the noticeable lag the html5 elements were causing for google chrome OS X) it throws me way off my rhythm.
Why do you care what management makes? They aren't your peers. Totally different job.
I feel for you -- whenever I try to write about basic algorithms (sorting, etc) I always get comments that you can do it in library. Yes, obviously, but I'm teaching an algorithm, not how to use a library!
google store also runs on asp. http://www.googlestore.com/googlesearch.aspx

curl -v "http://googlestore.com
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Length: 0
< Location: http://www.googlestore.com/default.aspx
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
< X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
< X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
< Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:07:08 GMT

whois says it's owned by google.
I've emailed you a pitch I have so far. Please take a look at it!
How to Build an RSS Reader with jQuery Mobile
If you are looking for real world advice from a down-to-earth guy who also happens to have started over a dozen businesses over the past 40+ years,and started Duquesne's entrepreneurial studies program-here's the site to load the ipod up at http://taeradio.com/episodes/.Ive been listening to Ron Morris on The American Entrepreneur for over 10 years on 1360AM in Pittsburgh,but he's available to everyone via .com, podcast, ustream, and Talkshoe.He is truly a man who has worked long and hard to make his own millions(and his fair share of mistakes) and is looking to give back,unlike so many out there who are just talking heads in love with their own voices and looking to cash in on today's economic and business climate.He's live on weekdays 3-6PM EST and Saturdays from9-noon,but from the link above you can download past shows anytime.He covers all the concerns for start-ups,talking to accountants,insurance experts,bankers and lawyers who specialize in helping everyday people trying to realize their dreams.I wish this kind of advice had been around when I started my business,but the advice from the show still helps me save and make $$ after being at it for 30 years. He also has many successful internationally known businessmen on his show and they share their start-up experiences with him.If you're looking for real "in the trenches" info check it out-GEOD
Oh God I sense an influx of these! Aha, awesome, I'll take a look and get back to you soon.
Yup. It's kind of like getting picking for a football team. If you're not good enough you sit on the bench. You can either try and improve your game enough to get back on the team, or leave to find another team that either appreciates your talents or operates at a lower level.
The GNU C library dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path
Any plan to visit Australia for RailsCamp?
Inspired by HNers, I'm sharing my startup ideas
I doubt they would sign a deal that leaves them open like that with handshake deal terms different from the on paper terms. Maybe the debt is only payable on demand.

Can anyone post or point to a sample document?
I'd love to come to Australia for RailsCamp someday. I'll keep it in mind for next year.
Steve Jobs Talks Major Crap About Android
if there is no competition then why fight it. I love Jobs but hes Scared
Update: instead of Fedexing a C&D, the NY Times has filed a lawsuit, http://www.kachingle.com/kachinglex/2010/10/nytimes-files-la...
So... if the machine goes down, I need to rewrite my code? And how do I distribute it?
> Real vocation needs no financial reasons.

Sure it does. How do you propose a man follow his calling if he isn't going to make a dime off it? At the end of the day we all need to put food on the table.
That might be why people rejected his F# argument.

Or it might be that functional programming was reaching a level of abstraction that didn't make it especially useful for the problem at hand.

One could argue that bringing in a functional language first thing is somewhat akin to "big, upfront design" in the sense that it assumes a level of abstraction before you have complete knowledge of the domain.

The thing is that neither is bad, you do need some abstraction to start with. But both can be taken too far.
Collage: A new way of beating the web's censors
WeedMaps Tops $400,000 a Month in Revenues, Public Listing Imminent
These high salaries -- medical/law/architecture/business/etc are the same way -- are required in order to lure the superstars into academia and away from private practice. The highest paid professors at my public university were paid $500k+, with the top handful being at $1m +/-$100k.
Tinychat focuses on disposable chatrooms.

Quecast focuses on connecting people with topics and interests.

We want to make quecast a place where people can have constructive group discussions (or at least aiming to).

Stickam is one to many. Quecast is Many to many
Acrobat X With Sandbox "Protection Mode" available in November
Technologies in their spring?

A BSD kernel, a gui from Next and a object orientated version of C from before C++ !

Technology-wise Apple basically takes a steam train, wraps a Bang+Olufson case around it and makes it emit the scent of roses!

Nice toys, very well made, but cutting edge technology doesn't underpin Apple's success.
I wanted to tell how one of my friends created a movement for organizing (rather than trying to prevent) Moscow's pedestrian paths that were formed by people walking on grass (this happens because the paved sideways are often very ineffective).

However, I googled it and it seems that they ceased operations. Oh, irony. He moved to NY though.
Nice idea. Can you also talk in more detail about how you integrated the Thesaurus API into GAE?
I'm sorry, Chronicle of Higher Education, but you need an education on paywalls and why they are a show stopper on the Web.
Market Man: What did Adam Smith really believe? (full vsn behind paywall)
This is the key phrase to me:

What does an aspiring entrepreneur do now knowing that his idea can still work but has no motivation to continue without short-term incentives?

Startups are 1% idea, 6% brilliant founders, and 93% tenacity[1]. Of course, you have to be tenacious in a smart way, which typically means iterating and knowing when to pivot. If you're not motivated to stick it out, then your best bet is probably to put the project on ice. Maybe you'll find the funding and motivation in a year or two. But unless you want to do that, you need to keep grinding it out.

The hard part about grinding it out is that you're out of money, and you outsourced your development. That puts you in a hard position. Can you take over lead development yourself, and work on it nights/weekends?

Beyond that, read some Steve Blank. Are you convinced that: (1) people really want your product, and (2) you've built a product that clicks really well with the market? If not, you need to do that before you do anything else. No point in marketing a product that doesn't click. If you've done that, then it's a matter of getting the word out.

[1] Citation needed.
We (Auctomatic W07) applied on a whim back in November 2006. We were in London, had no idea how YC would react to a foreign team, and worse, neither of us could hack back then. I remember discussing with Harj just that week that we really should move to the Valley, but it wasn't really obvious how we should. Harj spent about 10 minutes drafting an application and I spent 30 mins on the train ride home that evening editing it. We had zero expectation that anything would come from it.

We got a call from Jessica that we were admitted for an interview a few days later, and booked a flight for Boston. We were there for less than 24 hours, and I remember Harjeet taking the acceptance call from PG as we were walking through airport security, with the TSA yelling at him "put down your phone! Put down your phone now!". In our excitement, we hadn't arranged a place to stay, or bought a US plug adapter for our laptop for the demo. We woke up extra early that morning to get to Cambridge to buy one, and were early to the interview. (I remember reading that being early was bad, so we did our best to lurk around/stay out of sight til it was our turn).

I distinctly remember the euphoria of being accepted. London back then was a horrible place to run a startup and I ended up writing about the move for the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6355289.stm (which ended up stirring a lot of debate back in the UK and eventually led to the creation of things like SeedCamp).
Julian Assange denied Swedish residence permit
I'm not a Lisp expert, so I have another question. Is it possible to embed DSL into Lisp which will looks like pseudo-code?

For example:

(pseudo

a = 0

b = 100

s = 0

for (i from a to b)

s = s + i

write(s)

)

If such pseudo code can be embedded into SBCL it would generate fast machine code, also it would be possible to easily modify pseudo code syntax.
If I'm not wrong, you were consulting and working on GitHub at the same time - how did you manage getting both things done? Time, money management, etc?

I've often heard that if you can't get co-founders on board, it often means your startup idea is not good enough - but given the mountains of debt we students graduate with, it's often difficult to convince people to start up. How did you find your co-founders? What are your thoughts on single founder startups?

You've said that Gravatar was especially hard to run in the last year, how do you know when to give up? From what I've read GitHub was scratching your own itch, but how do you know what to work on? How do you personally judge ideas?

Thanks!
Looks great, Jason. Congratulations!

And +1 for the Zero7 track (although I'm not sure how appropriate it is for the product :-P).
you're overestimating the worth of that human- retail banks are generally franchisees, and they have very limited powers. If the problem has to be escalated, you're in the same place as you would be with Paypal, except BoA insiders don't read reddit.
Which was mainly because we didn't know much about Y Combinator before applying, one of our friends suggested we apply.

I think that first demo was written entirely in October 2007, but I can't seem to find our old subversion repository anywhere.
"And as you go up in your levels of abstraction, it gets harder and harder to really understand what's going on."

There is a difference between abstraction and indirection. Just because you've added the latter doesn't mean you've gained any of the former.

"Sure, some macros are intuitive and easy to follow, but those are usually easily replicated with other things, especially in a dynamic language like Python."

How would you implement SETF in Python? Or how about compile-time link checking for a web application (http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2008/11/compile-time-inter-app...)?
A bit late, but thanks.
Their domain is 37signals.com

These guys call themselves 'zazu'. Not 'appname'.

Just like 37signals calls themselves '37signals'. Not 'appname'.
Ask HN: Users offer to help with your non-OSS project.  What do you do?
One of my projects recently got some press. Some new users that signed up offered to help out with the project. It is not open source. I have no budget to pay anyone, and would like to maintain control over the project. How can I take advantage of these offers?
No, it's not missing the point at all. The professor in this story is making an invalid assumption that all of their students have met the custodian. It is atypical for custodial staff to perform their duties during normal business hours. Custodians typically work during the evening. If you were a student who had a 10:00AM class in the building and no other classes in that particular building and the custodian starts cleaning at 5:00PM, it is very likely that you have never met them. The pop quiz question that faults you for poor social graces does so on the baseless, invalid assumption that you have met the custodian. As the old saying goes, when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME.
If I wanted to use other versions of Lisp, I would be using them. For my environment (lots of legacy java code) clojure is the right language, and I can't reasonably change to Haskell or Scheme (or whatever) because working from files is a little bit inconvenient.

My point was I hear people gushing about the REPL, but I don't find it that useful because of this one deficiency. It makes me wonder if I'm missing something.
Thanks for the reply. This was 1099 which is very standard as a consultant. I don't know if this makes a difference legally though.
I don't think Tom equates happiness to lack of stress, or to freedom in the context you seem to describe. My understanding of Tom's advice to "optimize for happiness" is more along the lines of "optimize for self-determination". Historians seem to analyze "the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence similarly -- basically, as a right to self-determination.
stimulated thinking across the company and helped catalyze our drive to the cloud.

This man is the biggest horseshit artist in our history.

His work should be in a museum.

Never put a salesman in charge of a company that actually has to make things.

- signed, a former (teenaged) salesman who now makes things
This looks at the short term effect in one organization. The effect across the economy is something else to take into account. Market theory assumes perfect information. If you want to use market economics to maximize efficiency, then you want pay information published.

For example:

Some companies have issues finding people with certain skills.

People in other less productive companies who have those skills can use salary information to move to the more productive companies that will be able and forced to pay higher salaries.

People in other fields are encouraged to retrain into higher paying areas.
Check out: http://patternsketch.com

I built this over the past couple months. You can create, share and download created patterns in wav, ogg and mp3 format. The timing capabilities of JavaScript leave much to be desired, and I tried many ideas to get the timing as solid as possible. Currently works best in Firefox (3.6.10 is the current release version as of this writing). Tests in FF4 B6 are very promising as well. Works well in Chrome, too.
Submission is very hard on hn via mobile?
will hn make it easier ? How many use hn via mobile?
What matters though is what the person signing the editors pay check thinks about myspace!

Thats the danger with print journalism. If you see a Fox news story that Obama easts babies you can pretty much guess the impartiality of the source.

If you read a tech story about Blue-ray not being very good do you know if the paper's parent company owns a study that is backing HD-DVD?
You can check out another successful one here: http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/10/18/how-i-got-featured-...
It's a lot simpler than that: Truyoo just didn't identify the right customer!

The commenter is not the customer. The website owner is. While the commenter is not going to pay anything, the website owner will (or rather, might), because it's in their interest to keep their website clean and tidy.

There has got to be some connection to the true customer there that would keep the sign-up limited in hurdles...

BTW: Why Credit card? Why not something else that offers enough of a catch but isn't subject to such scrutiny? Phone number, perhaps? Maybe references (I.E. you'r comments are "approved" manually until you establish enough of a "rep")...

This is such a huge issue that I really think it is worth you perusing more... you're basically doing the one thing that disqus avoids/is not.
I feel like the Arc project pivoted until it became YC.
Zazu is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine.

You say that really well. Your site doesn't. Is there some reason you can't just say exactly that on your website?
he is a bit "empire" focused

What does that mean? I've only ever heard stories about his legendary niceness, and that makes him sound political and, um, not-nice.
Sure and I get that they are compatible, but I think jQuery may be a bad example. Have you ever tried to write a huge web app with jQuery? I have and I can say hands down that Dojo is an easier toolkit to develop large apps with.

The reason, everything is implemented on the jQuery tree and you have to chain stuff together. So long as you don't have to extend jQuery, it works well, but as soon as you have to provide a large code base with custom plugins to manage the code it becomes untenable quickly. I know I have done quite a few of them. Please don't take this as me knocking jQuery, I love it and use it extensively for quick solutions in which I am going to use existing functionality, but if you have a problem set that grows beyond whats in the box or that you can't find in a box. It becomes a massive time sink.

One of the major reasons is it does not have the concept of jQuery code existing outside of the jQuery tree you build on jQuery and not with jQuery while subtle it is a huge distinction. It is a monolithic philosophy, you have a hard dependency on jQuery while Dojo does require a dojo API to declare and construct objects they exist independent of the dojo tree.

It is not my intention of devolving this into a toolkit war, but I wanted to highlight that jQuery exemplifies my assertions, it is great for quick a dirty, there is nothing faster, but it does not provide the depth of a more OO centric framework for those of us that produce the building blocks that other people use.

I think this post sums up what I am trying to say better than I am communicating it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805143

As well for sake of clarity, when I say UI development, I am not talking about putting text boxes on a page, grabbing the values and submitting them to a service. OO provides no advantage over functional in controller or work-flow logic. When I am talking about OO's advantage it is specific to new and novel UI components that are packaged for others to use off the shelf in controllers and work-flows, in fact I think OO is inferior for work-flow. Just wanted to ensure that I provided clarity on where I believe OO provides superior advantages over functional.

In fact, the way most people I have seen do OOP

sure people do bad OO they also do bad functional the reality is there are more hacks than there are good programmers. It is not an exclusive trademark of OO programmers. I will give you though bad OO is much harder to fix than bad functional. It's the nature of the beast. To quote uncle Ben "With great power comes great responsibility".

I realized that this is just a matter of opinion

You are correct it is my opinion, that is why when I posted my first comment I called it a philosophy. It is all opinion, some of it relies completely on how an individual developers mind works. But for me, and most of the developers that I know that have been doing UI for a long time the opinion is that OO provides a superior philosophy. If you find that something suits you better by all means use what works for you.
Careful, man. People are getting sued for writing software that fiddles with the stock market. At least, if it fiddles with it without appropriate kickbacks.