skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gap between grade inflation at colleges and universities could represent a gap in the energy, motivation and determination of students to complain about their grades.

There's asymmetry between the (nearly limitless) time and energy students have for complaining about their grades versus the (extremely scarce) amount of time professors have for addressing it. This is anecdotal, but I should note that the trendline is inversely proportional to the demands on professors' time over the past few decades.

In the MIT chem department one professor's tactic was to have the student evaluations right before dropping the hammer with a tough final exam.
"I am going to be a college professor" (video)
Not true. Production deployments in Pylons are primarily done with mod_wsgi behind apache or in some cases uwsgi behind nginx.

Paste is generally not recommended outside of development purposes.
Yup, and that will be the same story for some time. Again, we're talking years.
Has everyone forgotten that the iPhone didn't support copy-paste, at first?

Edit: [completing my thought]
Apple was ridiculed for it, though; however, it's more evidence that the phone isn't 100% complete, and that Microsoft wants a tool out there to show the world what they've made. Perhaps then, as requests are made concerning the phone, they'll incorporate those, not to mention adding features they, themselves want. (It won't take long to want copy-paste).

As a second thought I had while extending this post. Startups are encouraged to release early and release often. Releasing early, I imagine, comes with "releasing a not 100% complete and not even completely polished" subtext to it), why are large corporations slammed for it? I thought we praise companies like Google because they similar to a startup, and yet we scoff at companies like Microsoft when they may very well be doing something similar. Admittedly, I've not followed Windows Phone 7 very closely, as I'm pleased with my current smart phone (Droid original), so perhaps they've not alluded to this being the end-all, be-all for their phone. Given how XP came to be, though, we really should be prepared for their original version to not be perfect, and it take a few (free) updates to get it up to something very good.

So long as I'm rambling, I should add that, if carriers start modding the heck out of the operating system to the point that a user can't download the patches that Microsoft comes out with, producing an incomplete product is a very, very bad idea for them (or maybe for the carriers) -- but I don't want to start the carriers versus phone-makers versus software-developers war, again.

End my two cents on things related to the subject.

[edit 2: some grammar-o's fixed]
Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session
You can cut a lot of stuff with 3-axis gantry machine. I use it to cut spearguns of my own design for example, It's a bit tricky to make a precise machine with a lot of Z-depth though, but you can turn around the material and mill from both sides (double the depth in that case). Pretty much anything can be done on that machine. In hindsight, I should have maybe gone with a fourth axis too (rotational) since that would suit me more in this case.
I generally vote democrat in national elections, and whoever seems most competent in local elections. The democrats at the moment seem to have a monopoly on "believing in science." So I don't really have much of a choice.
The parent questioned whether there are any new markets in which Microsoft is succeeding. The poster above you gave one example.
Ha! When we sit around and brainstorm ideas for new levels in Paper Toss or World Tour (or secret future projects) we always joke about how no one probably has any idea that there is a storyline behind it. That's pretty cool you noticed that :)
No, I don't think so. I'm still quite proud of the Vic-20 bulletin board I wrote 26 years ago that got me my first job as a programmer.
So this isn't satire?
I've also found flot to be fairly powerful and have used it in a couple of projects.
How to Bootstrap a Lean Startup
If the clicks were accidental, we wouldn't see such strong conversion numbers when we advertise our own products with banner ads in our games.
http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/1.0/deployment/#deploying-the-ap...

"There are lots of ways of deploying an application, one of which is to use the paster serve command which takes the configuration file that has already been used to setup the application and serves it on a local HTTP server for production use."
Yoga in office - keep healthy
"Trying to deploy a T9000 XF Ground-Based Cluster Missile? There's an app for that."
I would argue that bringing a massive amount of new customers to their developers is actually rather developer-friendly. Maybe not "programmer friendly", as Linux is, but how many developers do you see making a living off Linux applications?
Check out 99designs.com or crowdspring.com

You'll get a good deal, and a significant upgrade to your current design.
Talking Points Memo needs a Director of Technology
"But for many, the web is a shortcut to avoid the problems of piracy and distribution."

I think this misses the point. The web won because it's inherently cross-platform. The iOS walled garden is the exact opposite of this.

The real trend is towards 'apps' in general (read: Chrome Web Store).
Http://www.jurnaltv.md/
Your ignoring the other things you get from the app store. You need to compare the 30% cut apple takes off the top to the possible increased volume of sales, the money saved from not having to host the app yourself or having to run your own payment system. Apple is not just taking 30% off the top to just to be greedy, it is more of a payment for the service they are providing.
Sure, but there are about a million times as many people able and motivated to do the wifi-neighbor attack than the stalker-ISP-gnome attack. And as people with true identities in a stable position of authority at as service provider, the gnomes are easier to find and hold accountable.

This difference -- from random anonymous stranger whose only invested in software, to physical infrastructure with paid staff -- is also one reason bank phishing attacks happen via websites and not actual storefronts made to look like real banks.

If the only threat to Twitter and Facebook users was ISP-gnomes, the websites could put off fixing the issue for another decade.
They don't even have a desktop browser that doesn't suck yet - it's in beta. I agree it'd be nice if WP7 had a better browser, but it's not a very realistic demand at this point.
"I have no idea if it’s true or not, but the scene in The Social Network in which Zuck is ‘interviewing’ summer interns by having them hack a box while doing shots says a huge amount about how to only hire the best people."

Yeah, like how not to do it.
I'm a lot more embarrassed by the few times I didn't even try than the times I did try and failed.
Link: http://moodocity.com/
Group for HTML5 video player development
I'd also like options for lens quality on the camera (or some way to tell). I don't think any phone cameras have the optics to merit more than 3 or 5 megapixels, but some are offering 12. I guess megapixels sell, but I just want decent looking photos.
when confronted with this type of instructor, a student is given an opportunity to engage themselves in learning. Classes come with books, and instructors are meant to help the student understand and integrate the knowledge and wisdom within those books.

These words remind me of my introductory class in graduate solid state physics. The instructor was teaching the course for the first time, or at least the first time in a while. His lectures were very difficult to follow, the notes we took weren't of much use, and he hadn't calibrated the problem sets quite right. So, omigod, the problem sets were difficult. They were due weekly, they took two or three days each, and usually at least one all-nighter.

It was hell. But in retrospect it turned out amazingly well. The first thing that happened was that every member of the class bonded with every other member of the class. We solved those problems as one giant team. We would band together in the student offices, in groups of three to five, and then representatives from each group would go wandering late at night from one office to the next, trying to see if one of the other groups had found a promising line of attack. All the experimentalists made friends with the theorists. All the theorists made friends with each other. Half of my best friends in grad school came out of that one course.

And because the lecture notes weren't comprehensible, we were forced to read the book very carefully, page by page. And the book happened to be Ashcroft and Mermin's Solid State Physics, which is one of the best textbooks I've ever known.

In the end, I got fairly good at solid state physics (for an experimentalist, anyway). I later signed up with an adviser who was well known for asking tricky questions about solid state during oral exams, but I was well prepared. My thesis ended up being all about topics that I learned in that class, and I even put the lecturer on my thesis committee, because he turned out to be a very nice guy and quite smart.
Nice, I'm on the List. I guess my one year experiment worked.
Savon 0.8.1.beta.1
+1, I hit the browser's back button as soon as I see Mac, Iphone or App Store somewhere on the page. The misleading title wasted me those precious 2 seconds.
Don't know about business, but when you're working with audio it's very common to multiply the contents of a stream against those of an array, such as a filter kernel with the coefficients computed in advance. With multiple channels which are being mixed in unpredictable ways, there's plenty of room for errors to propagate.

Most of the time the only result is an imperceptible rise in noise, but it's not uncommon to have threshold-dependent routing of signal flow or for audio signals to used as input to modulation processors and vice versa. Every audio synthesis tool I've ever used had at least one bug resulting from error accumulation. They don't stand out very well in testing, but then people start reporting things like I was playing a tune with this patch and stopped to eat dinner, but when I came back my keyboard would only make a horrible noise, is it broken?
I don't know, but whether he's making a statement about how hard it is to write an effective resume or how hard it is to glean useful information out of a resume, either way, he's using them the wrong way.
Transaction Costs Table: PayPal Micropayments vs. Standard Fees
Tell HN: You can differentiate hovers on visited and unvisited links
If you specify a slightly lighter or darker link color on hover, and also give different colors to links that have been visited (a usability win), I just want to let you know that you can (and should) also style the hover effect on visited links differently.

a:link { color: (blue); }
a:visited { color: (violet); }
a:link:hover { color: (lighter blue); }
a:visited:hover { color: (lighter violet); }

Same goes for :focus (treat this like :hover) and :active.

The only browser that gets confused is IE6, which isn’t so popular anymore; the fix, if you care, is to repeat your :link:hover style without :link, after your :visited:hover style is declared. (This is because IE6 erroneously ignores multiple classes and pseudoclasses on the same element in selectors.)
standardize exams and evaluate professor quality based on VAM instead of student opinion.

As a student I'm fine with standardized tests if you can absolutely guarantee that the the tests test core understanding of the concepts and not just rote application of memorized algorithms and formulas. In other words, you have to guarantee that "teaching to the test" is a good thing and not a sign of poor priorities.
The death of spoken language? The death of the book? The death of the inkpen? The death of the phone system? The death of the desktop computer? Mainframe?

Sigh.
Can someone explain what the international story would be like with a Verizon phone (and thus CDMA)? Would it work in Canada? Would I need a completely different phone if I traveled anywhere else?
Yes, px. Bitmaps should be scaled from device pixels to CSS pixels.
A Patent on every app ever made?
If you write your code in Java (or Ruby or Python or C++) it will come back and byte if you even need to scale or change architectures.

Actually, if you have to change architectures, you are probably bitten anyway.

If you need performance:
1. Do as much as you can in one SQL statement (unless you are using MySQL where the optimizer sucks)
2. If you can't do it in one SQL statement, use PL/SQL to do data processing as close as possible to the data - this will save on network load and PL/SQL is highly optimized to reduce overhead for embedded SQL statements.

With all the talk about "horizontal scalability" we sometimes forget the benefits of writing fast code in first place.
Thanks for that, we will definitely look in to those two options.
Sure. I found The Django book (http://www.djangobook.com/) a good book to start with.
And those Mac owners actually buy apps, unlike the vast majority of windows computer owners.

Wait. What?
Yeah, but they work and they give you the throughput. Engineering smarts, why build an expensive SSD->PCIE component when you can buy cheapo 4xSSD->RAID->PCIE existing parts and slap them on the card?
Definitely a good point that suggesting what someone can and can't do is not necessarily a positive thing to do. However, using the term startup as a broad generalization for all entrepreneurial endeavors can mean different things to different people. There are certainly startups that can be juggled around with other projects and life priorities. However, I'm sure there are countless very successful startups that would not have succeeded had someone like the author juggled all these other priorities at the same time. Not all startups can be successful, and some require countless hours of busy work, coding, and other tasks that would be a detriment to a family lifestyle.

Dave McClure put it well in this video of why not to do a startup: http://vimeo.com/15799330

EDIT: I don't have enough life experience to know how efficient a person can be when they have a family and manage crazy work hours, but my opinion is that Calacanis wrote about what he thinks is optimal not REQUIRED.
Similarly, I don’t mean to knock you or the article, but the submission title is overly vague and reminds me of Reddit-style “what is he talking about?” click-baiting. (Especially for HNers, such as I, are not sure what the Arduino is.)
How Intersect.com is Covering the Stewart Rally with Location-based Blogging
For anyone in the Bay Area that wants to play around with an Arduino, Mitch Altman runs fairly regular workshops (every few months) at Noisebridge up in San Francisco. (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge)
My no-name (HP) work laptop only requires a single screw to get at the hard drive. And you can hot-swap it.

Thinkpads have done this since about 1995.
I feel bad for the MS devs, but from a consumer perspective, this is how it works:

It's 2010. If you start a television production company today, you won't come out with a black and white CRT using the excuse "has everyone forgotten that Panasonic didn't support color HD TVs at first?"
Its year 2010, we've invented RAID a while back. Stripe and mirror everything and you get decent performance without SSD.
I feel as if projects like these, as eye-popping as they are, are considered a norm for Google. Also, of all the investments that cause "analysts" to scratch their heads leads me to believe that after all this time the world really doesn't understand tech. it's like Hollywood's inability to fathom why Zuckerberg would build FB just to build it
Macho. But a phone is exactly where you want a VM. In fact, I would love to be able to push vm images for my phone from my desktop machine. Wake up, plug phone, push image. Security upgrades, new GPS data, my downloaded podcasts, news, emails, etc. I want to be able to come home with a new handset, plug it, and have my "phone" back.
Crowdsourcing always bloats (or does it)
We have collected thousands of crowd sourced road informations on a paupers budget. We describe how we keep it useful and clean.
Most consumer windows PC owners pirate apps. Anecdotal evidence, of course, but for every one who's keen on paying for software there's 10 who will call a "techie" friend up and ask where they can get a free version.
Most of the games on Steam are developed and maintained by relatively large teams. Compare to most iOS developers and my guess is the teams are much, much smaller. So for the Mac, I'm guessing it would be non-trivial to be supporting two SKUs, cross grading, upgrading, etc with such smaller teams of people.
Off-topic: I submitted a Tell HN post inspired by this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848420
http://twecan.com/#!/insecurely%20on%20a%20public%20network
It's cool, but is this really a usability issue?

I don't think a user is going to see a violet link, realize they've visited it, then hover over it and still need another indication that they've visited it.
Apple's marketing copy gives a plausible reason for their design decision that makes them look good? Shocking. Apple's site is not going to say, "if the battery was removable, we couldn't charge $99 to replace it," which is probably the real reason.
Interesting idea...

Definitely get help with the design and the communication of the concept on the homepage -- what it is all about, and why it is interesting and fun.

But apart from that it looks as if it will be a lot of work to make users want to share their mood and location on your service. How will they find your project? How will you keep users on the site? Sounds like it would need to become a social network of some sort.

Perhaps a better format would be an app for Android and iPhone.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but how is Javascript becoming ActionScript? To name a few major differences: the OO architectures are very different and Javascript doesn't compile.
To be blunt, you don't know the first thing about libertarians and I think you should stop using the word as a synonym for "Republican". Just looking through the first page of the Cato Institute's blog, here's a post criticizing the future Republican Speaker of the House for pandering to the Medicare crowd:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/boehner-endorses-more-medicar...

90% of articles at Cato, Reason, and other libertarian publications between 2001 - 2009 were critical of Republicans when they were in power and running up a big debt, starting wars, and generally making a mess of the place.

If you listen to ACTUAL LIBERTARIANS, you will find plenty of unapologetic concrete plans for reducing government spending. These plans are ignored by 100% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans, but we hope in time to have a larger influence over society. People like you using the word "libertarian" even when you don't know what it means is a good sign that we are increasing our visibility at least.
I think now a days people are giving more priority to online social network instead of real social life.

We are cutting our-self with physical world, and want to live life in virtual world day by day.

Facebook and other social networking sites are like world of "Matrix", where we want to control virtual world and want to go away from sorrow/grief of real life.
This is why the GPL is better than Apache. The military would have to release their code.
I would suggest looking at a few of the "Match.com" for startups sites:

http://www.startupwithme.com/
http://www.techcofounder.com/

The good news is that since you're technical, you're one of the women on "Match.com". Everyone will come to you.
You need to display your skills, period. I have hired over 20 developers in the last 6 months and received over 30 resume for every 1 good resume. I did not have time to read everyone's work experience explanation either on the first run. I could only spend less than a minute on a resume. So we rely a lot of the Skills section.

- Put it on a table. Include how many years you have been working on a specific skill. It will be helpful to list when was the last time you used that skill. So that is the first cut.

- After going through the skills section, we look at the Employment history and what you actually did with those skills that you listed. Then you get a telephone interview and possibly invitation to an in-person interview.

You are not going to get into the interview list if the HR person does not know what you are skilled at. Trust me, they are not going to use the interview as a discovery session. They don't have time for that, especially when there are other candidates who were clear in displaying their skill sets.
Eh, do quote fairly though:

"Although GPA has been widely analyzed, the research has produced inconsistent results. Some meta-analyses suggest that grades have relatively low validity as a predictor of job success (Bretz, 1989; Hunter and Hunter, 1984). Individual studies by Ferris (1982) and Schick and Kunnecke (1982) support the meta-analysis findings; these studies found no relationship between grades and performance evaluations."

In other words the state of research on this question, back in the early 90s when this article was written, was "inconsistent".
GET is only for the chart api, the visualization api is not the same case (with a couple exceptions that use the chart api) http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall...
> I mean, if I could convince you SS was a public good, it wouldn't change your opinion, right?

Yeah, it would, though I strongly doubt you can do that given the definition of ``public good.''
from Verizon (CDMA coverage)

* Bermuda
* Canada
* Dominican Republic
* Guam
* Israel
* Mexico
* Northern Mariana Islands
* South Korea

http://support.vzw.com/faqs/International%20Services%20and%2...
You are paying developers to rewrite features that already exist in the database and you think this is "throwing hardware at the problem"?
Do you realize governments can appropriate any technology, closed or open, for whatever purpose they see fit, and you're entitled to just "reasonable compensation"?
I'm the author of Grafico, A Raphaël (js based SVG/VML) charting library with a focus on proper charts (per Stephen Few/Tufte) Check it out here: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/ and this page has a lot of examples: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/documentation/index.html

It doesn't have pie charts, because pie charts are a tremendously bad way to visualise data. I have barcharts with negatives though :)
Here's another reason Alphalab is a great incubator.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/best-cities-to-move-to-in-...
Why? They don't distribute it outside of their organization.
I've spent a good year developing with Pylons and this question of recommended production setup comes up about once every couple months in the official mailing list. Paste is considered by far the worst option in terms of performance, which is why most devs go with Apache/mod_wsgi. Nobody recommends Paste. Some (in my case) deployed with nginx/uwsgi.
Their doctors don't work for free. If you seriously injure yourself in Singapore, you will have to pay money to have yourself fixed up.

This is confusing to people not from the US, apparently.
One of the main value propositions of web apps such as google docs is that your data is stored in the cloud and accessible to you AND others on any machine that has a modern web browser. The value I currently get out of local Microsoft Excel over Google Spreadsheets is waning as the quality of such web applications increase. I think the mac app store is going to be great for single functionality novelty apps, but any serious product, especially those that require a lot of collaboration will stay on and continue to move to the web.
Read about the experiences of Dodgeball founders, Dennis Crowley, of Foursquare fame to get the not so good side of the experience.
Obviously micro payment is better for small purchase. But I can't imagine how paypal make money with this new micro payment table...