skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping it would also cut boring posts from RSS feeds entirely.

The only thing preventing me from subscribing to the big news sites like techcrunch or the register is the sheer volume. I could subscribe to one feed that updates seven times a day, or to fifty blogs that update once a week. Subscribing to more than one big site just isn't worth it.

Something that would remove boring posts from rss feeds would be pure gold.
Concrete suggestions:

Don't treat schooling like a factory.

Don't group students by age.

Don't teach around the concept of there just being one answer.

Don't segregate people into two tracks: academic and working.

A lot of the things he's talking about are the same as what Maria Montessori advocated. If I have kids I plan on sending them to a Montessori school if I can afford it.
Belated reply, my knowledge for the US side is from threads on HN, which have greatly exaggerated the process if it's true that you can do it all online in a few minutes.
This is what spoke volumes to me.

In my mind, ParishNetwork.org was intended to be a place where you could meet other people who attended your parish. But a lot of the users expressed a desire to be able to interact with users from other parishes. I resisted accommodating that request because I really wanted ParishNetwork to be parish-centric, rather than one big meeting place for Catholics across the country.

You need to learn to pivot. Unless you are on a mission, listen to your customers and make something people want.

edit: I was going for Blues Brothers but I realized it sounded a little yucky.
Any advice on where to get started in figuring out marketing? There are the well known places to start like SEO, but I was wondering if you had anything else in mind?
I laughed at TFA, largely because it's clever and lucidly written, and cringed at the thought of what sorts of horror an unskilled operator could inflict with this on the poor dumb bastards charged with maintenance; but I'd rather my language err on the side of lunacy.
I did not know this more than half-a-decade earlier. I had even added the stuff I want to work on as an exception clause in the form. But it turns out that those apply only to (A) inventions/patents type of IP, and (B) work done prior to signing the form.

Reading the form that I signed, doing extensive online research, and then reading the form again, I found that the form has been very carefully crafted to take care of every type of IP possible and yet without violating any laws including those of California.

In my case at least, I am skeptical that not signing the form would have worked. But may be. I'll certainly be smarter next time around!
wow, what happened to that huge 2008-2009 jump?
Doesn't Entertainment and Devices also include the Mac Business Unit, as well? Yep, apparently, it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Business_Unit
The redesign is fantastic! And while I miss having that blue character dude always in the upper left, I think it's the right move for then to move away from the character from a branding perspective. That dude gave a bit of a cool underground underdog type feel, which I loved, but simplifying their brand I think will allow them to step up on a broader plateau.
Then, why no one still not made such eDSL? As I understand, the only reason to choose Python for Peter Norvig was the similarity of Python to pseudo-code. I think that such great hacker as Peter Norvig could easily develop pseudo-code eDSL on top of Lisp macro-system.

As school teacher on programming I'm limited in choice of programming languages. The only language which I can study is Pascal (a lot of other reasons on it). The problem is that Pascal have not any libraries (GUI, 2D/3D, Game Development Engines, programming micro-controllers, ...). Students can write only simple console applications. So, it was be ideal to have subset of Pascal as eDSL on top of Common Lisp or Clojure. In that way I can easily extend original Pascal to access some real world libraries.

I think also on top of Common Lisp we can develop some simpler eDSL as pseudo-code for beginner students.

PS: gone to learn Common Lisp...
Killing forms usually sounds great, but the familiarity of basic account create is super powerful. Keeping it simple will beat out engagement methods that someone new to your service can't understand.

Out of these examples I think the gradual engagement model is the most compelling and successful. DropBox has done an admirable job with this process that has led to great user growth and a healthy freemium business as well.
Are there any numbers on that? Sure, there are lots of people who want to be police officers, but that's not the same as being qualified. As far as I can find, unemployment rates among officers are extremely low, there are many unfilled positions, and officers who moved have little difficulty finding new jobs. That all usually indicates a tight labor market.

It's possible police academy is unnecessarily hard or something, but I suppose you could say that in any field (perhaps Google's hiring standards are too high, or med school is too hard).
The things I've been working on for the the past year solve exactly this problem. Mainly, I've been interested in connecting information between various websites. A subset of this goal is to cross reference a person to cruchbase, then jump to their site, then view its rankings on Quantcast, Alexa, etc. And, for any URL, I want to find the most similar websites, and repeat the process there.

The tools I've come up with are: http://www.moreofit.com and http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/

If you find one moderately popular example of something similar to your idea, plug the URL into moreofit.com. It will find you the most mathematically similar websites (based on Delicious tag vectors). There are other advanced options from there that I'll leave to you to figure out.

You can use the toolbar to scope out sites with unheard of productivity. That is, open the toolbar on the URL you're scoping out, and use the moreofit.com shortcut to view similar sites. Or you can use the Delicious shortcut to jump to the result on delicious and see how popular it is there. Or you can use the Quantcast/Alexa/etc shortcut to view traffic stats of that domain. Or you can use Backtype/UberVU to see various discussions of that URL. Or you can use the Twitturly shortcut to view tweets that contain that URL. Or you can the Reddit shortcut to view the top submissions from that domain. Or you can search within that website using Google/Bing/etc.

Hopefully you'll find these tools helpful. /shamelessplug

I've been using these tools for a few months now, and I can tell you that the internet is far more vast than you could ever believe. It's likely something extremely similar to your idea has been implemented, but just never gained traction.
Be aware there can be a cost difference if you want to provide SSL to your users. A wildcard SSL cert to cover *.app.com will cost you $200/year, whereas a standard SSL cert to cover just app.com will cost you $20/year.

I personally prefer subdomains, but I agree that people are generally comfortable with whatever approach you take.
The World of Data We're Creating on the Internet
Is it possible that it OTHER reflects off-duty work? I know some cities allow their officers to work off-duty but in uniform, and the places that want to use them have to pay the city directly instead of the officer.
So, what you're saying is that Microsoft has failed in all domains of IT where MS has failed?
This is really interesting to me – self-organizing passion keeps things juiced more than the strategy or leadership?

Puts the whole "biggest startup in the world" business into perspective, I suppose.

I'd love to hear stories from your experience that illustrate how this motivation works. Others have told me that Apple is very big company but somehow this doesn't poison the end-product. I was crediting this to leadership and smart planning, so I'm fascinated to hear the real deal.
Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market
App Store Infographic
Design the Obvious by Hoekman articulates the basic challenges of design in a very straightforward way.
Ask HN:  When to stop helping start ups?
I started a company a couple years ago and we(and all in the company) love working with startups. We've done everything from early stage to later development. However over the past two (of three) years, we've been killed twice on large contracts with start ups. The amount we ended up not getting paid for each of us for the year.

I admit we aren't the regular startup, we're a consulting group. However, despite all of our mentor recommendations, we've never been big into you missed payment date X, we're halting all development. Instead we have reworked many contracts to make very favorable payment terms for the startup, and we've given several extensions in good faith.

At this point we are pretty sure just got burned buy another person, and are rethinking our practices. We have always wanted to help the start up, and have gone above and beyond( Not many teams i know will spend their own money to fly places to help the startup).

However, now we are left in an awkward position, what do we do? we want to keep working for start ups, but we too need to pay the bills; so what do we do?

We want to see these companies flourish. We believe in start up culture, and know our risks.

Is it wrong to think we could live on working with start ups? We want to continue, but how? We've felt if we just give a few another month or two they could make it, but have also been killed on this.

What do you think?

We just want it to come back to what many of our contracts have, a handshake means it all.
I think that email wasn't that good at all. tell me who cares your software was rewritten from the ground up. also most of those bullet points (searching/filtering) are pretty lame and after reading the whole email I still have no idea what your app is actually to be used for.

I would attribute your success to something else, I find it hard to believe that email was the main factor.
That quote is awesome. I will use that to recruit people in my startup. Thanks quote-source-that-scottw-cant-remember!
Any problem in computer science can be solved by adding a layer of abstraction, apart from the problem of too many layers of abstraction.
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805839
I "wasted" a year working on projects in a big company that didn't launch. What I realized at the end of it is that doing anything new is doing research. Null results are useful in the sciences, even if they don't make you famous, and null results are useful in product development even if they don't make you rich. You learn from the experience, and if you share your knowledge, the world learns.
If you own a share of a company, does that entitle you to know the salaries of all its employees?
Computer thief backs up victims data & mails it to him
I liked your sidebar comment: "One thing that's pretty obvious from the screenshots: I kept re-using the same $3 stock photo I purchased for one of my earlier ventures. Hey, it's generic enough that it works in pretty much any context."

However, I think you should ditch that stock photo. It's too "corporate," and when I visited the sites that were using it, I felt like I was on a godaddy squatter page.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/09/if-it-looks-corpora...
TurKit lets programmers use input from an army of online humans
Tomorrow: Does the angry yellow bird violate the conservation of momentum?
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Euro Construction is a full-service state certified building contractor specializing in quality insurance repairs and property restoration. We have a building contractor's license so we can take care of claims ranging from a few hundred dollars up to multi-million dollar jobs.
(0) (the quote) is not in contradiction with (1) and (2). It is (1), a break from the situation implied in (0), that necessitates (2).

If all the contributors own their part and license it under the GPL, this ensures a level playing field. The GPL provides a shield for all involved. If they all assign copyright to a single entity, they lose their shield and this entity has the advantage. This is why that entity should provide something in return: a GPL-like guarantee.
Please note that "its" is the correct word to use in the title and the Wired article had it correct.

Edit: Thanks.
Is Your Training Path Full of Traffic Lights (Instead of Roads)?
It largely depends on which group you're in. There are people working on stuff that's just sort of ticking along (there's a lot of technology in OS X, some of it sort of hidden -- like the latent semantic analysis framework, which is solely used for Parental Controls), or are inherently sort of gross (QuickTime for Windows, I'm looking at you), and I imagine that their experience would be different from e.g. the people working on iOS or hardware engineering on the Macbook Air or XCode.

I worked at the iTunes Store on video, and it was wild; I started about a year after the store launched, and there were maybe a dozen engineers on the team; by the time I left there had to have been a hundred (10x growth in five years.) What was really motivating was watching the broadcasts of the keynotes -- or being invited to attend -- and seeing the stuff you'd been working on presented by Steve. There was also, I have to admit, a certain charge that came from knowing stuff about future products that wasn't widely disseminated; Apple keeps their teams very segregated, and you often just know a code number or name of something that's passed over the transom, and you don't find out what it is until the rest of the world does.

But that said, siloing can have an adverse effect if you're not working on a hot product; once something is established, executive attention can wander onto something newer and cooler, and big company politics with all that that entails can come into play.

All taken with all, though, it was a fantastic place to work. I recommend it unreservedly.

EDIT: Cleaned up a couple of clunky sentences.
Ask HN: Has anyone ported iPhone Apps to Android?
I currently have a free, iAd-based app in the App Store. Everyday I get the question, "When is it coming to Android?"

Has anyone ported their app with a similar revenue model? I'm interested to see how it is as a revenue channel. I'm also considering writing for WP7. Would be interesting to be the first of it's kind for the platform.
Here's the thing: The GPL combined with copyright assignments makes the dual-licensing business model possible. This is why we need to study carefully how this is done, and consider the consequences of assigning copyright.
FYI, Nintendo does not typically sell hardware at a loss. While they don't get an automatic recurring component, just on the hardware, Wii margins approach Apple hardware margins.
I stayed in MS research for a little while. Their research department is really really strong and they have a lot of cool stuff. If they can better transfer them into products, things will be different.
Angry yellow bird makes a noise as if it were angrily flapping its wings when you activate its speed boost, suggesting that it is not accelerating without having a new force act upon it. This is a completely Newtonian bird afaik.
crocodoc (we actually applied as WebNotes) applied within a few days of the deadline. The idea of doing so randomly came up during a late night of coding. One of the best decisions we've made.
Neat-o. Hopefully, he'll explain next why the sticks and stones don't seem to have heard of Isaac Newton at times! Some of the planks won't even slide and fall when they're in awkwardly precarious positions. But, then again, that's why I played for an hour at work the other day. :)
I love startups. I just don't extend credit to them. If their ability to afford my services is doubtful, I suggest that they read the blog instead.

You know what they call a startup you don't own? A business. Businesses pay their invoices in a timely fashion or they get a polite reminder then cut off at the knees.
I know the local chief of police for a UC school, I will try to ask him about "other" pay.

I know that University of California, police get paid very well. But i've been told that you need to be recommended into the selection process and it's also a very small group, about a dozen officers covering 20K-30K campus. Most I know are 10-15 year vets. These salaries have always been public, and they get criticized all the time. The Chief has told me that they have to make a case for having each one of these officers every single year.

On an interesting note, UC police have jurisdiction for the entire state of California.
I think the difference is that, unlike EMTs and firemen, police officers need to be difficult to corrupt.
I would suggest checking out http://www.wibiya.com , and similar websites http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/www.wibiya.com/Top_10_Sit...

Wibiya seem to have done a very good job with their toolbar, and I've been seeing their toolbar more and more across the web. The market is seemingly large enough for more competitors.

I might be entirely wrong here, I really have no idea what your product does as I didn't actually fill out the form on your website to try out hellobar. Why not include a demo right on the homepage, and why not allow me to try it without having me fill out an obnoxious form? I'm sorry to sound harsh, but it really bothers me when sites force me to sign up to try something out, especially when I could easily be shown a live demonstration.
Let's not forget about the Universal Binaries (a solution for the transition to Intel)

And from 68k to PPC.
I would have thought that would be overtime, thus in a different column
is this why we have a $19B budget deficit?
Were you referring to this quote?
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!"

Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html
Well that leaves "bonuses, housing allowances, sick leave payout, vacation payout"

Most of the time sick leave payout and vacation payout is no more than the same day rate of a 'working' individual.

Thus it is hard to know why the OTHER column is bigger than the base salary.
Overtime is usually time spent on the clock while "on-duty" - i.e. still performing their regular police duties, but hours over their standard workweek. Whereas an off-duty officer might be patrolling a bowling alley parking lot or high school football game - still in uniform, but not on "official police business".
I think you're misunderstanding the reaction. It _was_ a funny/cool comment. Definitely worth being here.

The thread on reddit, however, indicated that many people were ignorant in regards to viable use cases for variable variables.

I code almost exclusively in Python/Django nowadays but I can honestly think of situations where I wish I had a simple ability to do functions like "$a->$b()" to clean up a piece of code.
[In Short] Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition
It would be interesting to learn just how aggressively leadership must filter and otherwise confine these impulses to end up with the focus, profits and product mix we see today.

A big key is that things don't ship unless Steve thinks they're great. There's lots of stuff that doesn't ship, and lots of stuff that isn't pursued. However, as a consequence, there's a lot of internal competition to get Steve's attention - or to not get Steve's attention if you're in a services group.
Did you guys ever read the "architecture astronauts" article that Joel Spolsky wrote ?

It's pretty much about Ozzie and it aint flattering.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html
Presumptuous, controversial, relevant. What a beautiful HN link-bait title.
Maybe something like: the state has been poor so is cutting back on officers, so the ones left have to work tons of overtime to make up for it?

If that's the case, then what's the difference between paying crazy overtime vs. hiring more officers.
As I say in the last paragraph, the product matters most. And this is all anecdotal, I really have no idea if the email helped. Though I'd like to think so. :)
Jessica Jackley's TED talk on Kiva and Profounder
I think by building it for ourselves, we really built something that everyone could appreciate. Not tying it too much to any one language, and encouraging projects from other languages to get on board went a long way to making it feel language agnostic.

We discontinued the gem builder because it was causing confusion in the gem ecosystem and we were unable to build all gems (e.g. those with C extensions or that needed signing). It was a fine experiment, but it didn't end up being the right thing to do.

Those kinds of build tools make more sense to be developed outside of GitHub and hooked in via the API or webhook system.
...and apart from the well-known two hard problems.
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Not a single cent of my money.

I stopped using Apple products when they started to lock down the iPods (by using encryption) and tied devices to a specific installation of iTunes.

And do not even get me started on the closed platforms that are the iPhone or the iPad (i.e. the Apple Store).

The amount good will this company has with consumers is staggering.
Proclamations predicting the imminent decline of Apple got old many years ago.
Perhaps talent + innovation?
> Uh no it doesn't.

Uh, yes it does.

> Python uses OS threads. It cripples them with the GIL

And CCL doesn't. QED.

> using green threads can be an advantage

Not if you have multiple cores.

> What?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snW3cM1KipQ

;-)
I remember when "structured programming" was the new silver bullet all the guru's were talking about. This must have been the late 70's or early 80's. I was programming in DEC Basic-Plus on the RSTS/E operating system on a PDP-11. All variables were global, as I recall. We had subroutines and user defined functions with arguments but no local variable scope. We had if-then-else, but I think only a single statement was allowed for the "then" branch, so the cleanest way was often "if condition then gosub 1000 else gosub 2000" or something like that. A lot of the legacy code I had to work with was classic spaghetti-code with goto for flow control. Oh, I think we had only single-character variable names. Those were the days.

But I worked out how to adopt the new structured style to the limitations of the language, and learned a lot. Better languages make better tools, of course, but it's the hacker's attitude that really matters.
I don't buy into this kind of conspiracy thinking.

Apple builds more products than it releases. It's entirely possible (if not probable) that Apple developed a 7" prototype. Just like I'm sure there's been a CDMA iPhone prototype. That means nothing however. Just because there is/was a prototype doesn't mean there will be a product.

I believe the 7" competitors come down to two things:

1. The competitors might feel like they need to differentiate themselves from the iPad; or, more likely,

2. Apple has tied up the world supply of 10" capacitative touch screens so the competitors needed to go for parts they could get.

Unfortunately a lot of these Apple rumours are started and propagated by people who simply don't understand how Apple operates or are simply link-baiting.