skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the concepts a lot. (See an old HN comment of mine suggesting a tiny sliver of what you've done, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650361 )

But, all the text about the grand vision with new custom terminology is off-putting. Makes the software sound appropriate for running some sort of utopian hippie commune. A 'Manifesto' makes me think of Marx and the Unabomber.

I suspect that like ThePoint -> Groupon, your opportunity is some pragmatic subset of all the functionality you're currently offering, rather than the entire doctrine.

(This is not to say you're wrong about the big trends. Just that people will adopt the new ways of work via demonstrated success in baby steps, rather than understanding the vision and inevitability in a flash of insight.)
Some further remarks:

Accreditation is a minimum standard, and is applied to the institution as a whole. As I'm carelessly throwing it around, "reputation" would refer to the effectiveness of an institution's graduates due to their education.

I guess I'm getting at a vocational measure, e.g. how well is a graduate prepared as a professional. The issue with online education is that accreditation is typically purchased through the acquisition of an existing brick and mortar school. See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/

However, if you are hiring a fresh graduate as a programmer, accreditation doesn't differentiate the candidates because they all have accredited degrees. What matters more is the ability of the school to turn out people with a higher caliber of skills, knowledges and abilities...the number of books in the library and Phd's on the professor's office walls aren't the important metric.

Accreditation matters for graduate schools and for licensing boards (law, medicine, etc.). Building the rest of higher education around it, doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Ask HN: Wireless at Conferences: Problems, Solutions?
I am interested in building an application for conferences which requires real time collaboration. The problem is conference wifi can be incredibly spotty, which means the application's usefulness is potentially nil depending on the quality of the conference wifi.

I am not a wireless engineer, but am trying to understand the problems that typically occur with conference wifi, and hopefully some potential solutions. Do any businesses out there work specifically to provide reliable wifi for conferences? When are we going to see three to five-hundred people be able to connect reliably to conference wifi without any hiccups?
Works well in Opera.
Is it just me or is the Lighbox effect really annoying? What's wrong with middle-clicking an image and having it open in a new tab?
You're being naive if you don't think any of that is going on at his parties.

Even at our parties, in a drug steeped culture, we'd give you the boot if you were openly doing drugs, selling pills, etc. As would most "above board" promoters at that time.
Looks great! What lang/technologies are you using ?
That use of capitalistic/libertarian ideals for efficiency in business would lead to major social unrest. Keeping dead weight (much of society) working keeps the masses and their pitchforks away from the houses of the ruling class.
As always, Tao's explanation is crystal clear, takes you from the absolute basic layman level to as deep as you want to go.
Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#?
Was F# viewed by MSFT as a cheap way to capture more developer mindshare, by accident, harvesting efforts by the research group? Or did they deliberately try to fill a niche they identified beforehand from marketing feedback?

F# is cool, but C# 4.0 does not seem to lack much, feature-wise. If anything the MSFT ecosystem seems to lack supporting tools, not language features.
Why another language from scratch? Why not more effort porting an existing language to the CLR?

Also, IronPython and F# projects seem to demonstrate that it takes a long time to make a credible language for CLR/Visual Studio. A grammar for your language, a compiler, ok. How long did it take? But then you realize oh no, VS support will take many man-years. Whoops.
So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.
This is an interesting question. If we really do get that separation of UI, then I think web-based frameworks that are heavily based on MVC+ORM will change dramatically...

The author does mention Rails as one of the server-side frameworks... but RESTful services are incredibly easy to do with rails. You don't have to use the view tier at all to use rails - you can instruct the controllers to simply provide a RESTful interface to the controller methods and then go off and build whatever separate UI you please... so I could easily still see myself using Rails even if I don't need a view tier (for the moment, this is what I'd do if I had to build a RESTful interface and I didn't have to use Java...).

On the Java side, I think that if all I needed to do was create a RESTful interface, I probably wouldn't bother with Struts2 (or SpringMVC, or other java-specific MVC tiers). I probably would just go with CXF or Axis2.
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The first thing i would start by learning is HTML/CSS/Javascript(and ajax, perhaps while learning a lib like jquery). If you are interested in web development (and to learn rails i guess you are) you need the basis of the web.
Try http://code.google.com/intl/pt-PT/edu/ajax/index.html for some learning materials.
Afterwards, with some pratice you can start by building your portfolio (can be one or many depends on the qualitiy i guess) and then i would say you more than to strap on your job helmet, and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on jobbies!
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So, the trick is to utilize the three dimensions. Can this be generalized to n dimensions? How fast can a four dimensional sailboat go upwind?
Do you sport or have physical activity in another way? I've found that there is a huge difference between sporting 30 minutes a week and no high intensity physical activity at all.
I don't think 2-gram bayes uses any NLP at all. To my understanding, it's just like naive bayes, but can use word combinations to improve accuracy. In terms of complexity, bayes classification is not much more than O(N).
Not entirely sure. The animation speed might be adjustable, but the jitteriness is probably due to browser support (or earliness thereof).
It argues more for JS than CSS.
Had it done 4-5 years ago. Quick and painless, made me wonder why I hadn't done it earlier.

My main concern was developing myopia again after the surgery. Sure enough my eyesight today is poorer than it was immediately after the surgery and I expect it'll continue to get worse over time.

Here's how I found my surgeon: I asked the various doctors I interviewed who'd done their eye surgery. Surprisingly many of them had used the same person - he was generally regarded as the best by the other surgeons. Once I found that out I was willing to pay more and go with the best.

Overall I had an excellent experience, my only regret is not doing it sooner.
> when there is so much evidence that total productive work per week doesn't increase beyond around 40 hours of work for most knowledge worker jobs

I don't think this is true, though maybe you can find a source to prove it?

What I've often heard and read is that the percentage of work falls off after a certain amount of hours per week.

or put another way, working 80 hours may not give you a doubling of productivity over 40 hours but it will increase the amount of productive output.
If you look at company reviews on glassdoor.com, you'll notice that people either complain that their company has too many layers of management, or that there are no opportunities for advancement.

I've never heard anyone claim that Apple is overly bureaucratic.
"What is middle click?"

- my grandma, who has a scroll wheel in the middle of her mouse
I tend to agree - the back history isn't something I'd want to litter with picture enlargements.
Maybe, I mean that whole culture sort of died out and moved onto parties at clubs which has a very real profit ceiling.

The biggest party I threw drew close to ~6K people at $30 a head. After expenses we cleared about 75K. All in cash, mind you. There are probably still parties that big in Europe and/or Asia, but in the states, it's all in clubs these days. That particular party was in the basement of a civic center and was relatively legit.
Slow, like all lightbox implementations. And the flash of the background color is likely to give someone a seizure. (Ok, I'm being facetious there, but it looks jerky.)
Works in any browser that supports the :target pseudo-class.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/:target
In the past, someone here criticized that book - at least I think it was that one - as appearing to be a collection of notes rather than a fully formed book. Digging...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1519291

Hrm... can't find it. Am I remembering correctly?
Fair enough. I hear you. Maybe the tool isn't applicable to you then - as you said earlier :)

Perhaps future iterations will interest you.
Did you see what happened to the airline industry after 9/11?! (hint: bankruptcy). It wasn't exactly good for business...
I'm not sure what your point is, as I already acknowledged that in the comment you're responding to, while making it clear that my concern was readability of code examples on a web page. Are you going for a cheap "gotcha"?
This feature is of course lifted from Haskell - another jaw dropping language.
Groovy is nice in that it has nearly a zero learning curve (coming from Java) and provides all the benefits of a dynamic scripting language.

The downside is that it is dog-slow (up until recently, it didn't even use explicit types that were provided and always used reflection under the hood) and has some flaws in its design, which make it a bit unpalatable once you really start getting into it.

The consensus of my office seems to be that Groovy/Grails makes you twice as productive as Java for 2 days, then you loose it all again fixing some stupid, incredibly non-obvious problem on the 3rd.
The fundamental difference is eBay has non-trivial auction costs, and you have to think about shipping.
"It means click the button in the middle"

If she can use a computer and browse the web, she can learn to use the mouse she owns.

[Note: props to your grandma]

Edit: Wait, maybe you're referring to a mouse that has the wheel but the wheel isn't a button? In that case, the GP could have said "right click, open image" rather than "middle click". Same thing.
Anyone know how the Toshiba controllers on these and the MBAs perform, relative to the Intel and recent Sandforce controllers?
Not trying to be a jerk or anything, what's the use of it?
Actually, it does exactly what I ( an Android user ) expect the back button to do and what I've wanted every lightbox to do. Sometimes the css for the close button is wrong, or the js is messed up and the close button doesn't work. The back button closing the lightbox is exactly what I want.
There are a number of confounding variables here that the article forgot to mention, which most likely played a larger part in his weight loss than any calorie counting.

I disagree completely. Stress and metabolism are minor factors compared to the repeatable, testable, and well understood calculus of calories in vs calories out.
> it's actually more about the lives ruined and suffering experienced by way of the product.

This is an 'amusing misdirection,' to use your own words, about you forcing your own morality on others. There are plenty of people that use drugs without ruining their lives, no need to get high and mighty about it.

> wealth is control over other people.

Hey man, I'm an anarchist. I understand exactly what you're saying. But regardless of my own personal thoughts on the subject, that's not the way that this country is set up.

As I said over here[1], it's just that we're talking about two different things. Within capitalism, kreci is creating value. If you'd like to discuss a different system, then you need to tell everyone that you're talking about something else. When on a forum about startups, I assume people are discussing the current system by default.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882865
Totally nitpicking here but != and == should typically only be used when comparing primitive values.

For example, if you have an Integer object (not a primitive int) you should use .equals() and not == for comparison. The == is used for comparing references and not values.

That said, this only illustrates some extra complexity in Java.
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If you want to do something other than show a bigger version of an image (like fetch extra data about it for captions), just CSS won't cut it. Remember that "lightbox" isn't just the effect, it's a UI control.
In Ruby 1.9, or Ruby 1.8 w/ ActiveSupport, you can use the & operator, which coerces it's argument (in this case, a symbol) to a Proc:

all_users.select(&:is_admin).map(&:username)

This is a common idiom with a fantastic writeup at http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/02/1100inject.html
IE 9 Beta works. Like FF, it has blue border around every picture and transition effect is missing.
Awesome tool, great idea, great implementation,

Couple ideas:
1) On the CPU and HDD graphs if I just keep my mouse over the dot the tool tip blinks in and out, if I mouse over the tool tip it stops blinking (this is with chrome)

2) I like the review info on CPUs it would be handy to have it for other components (from new egg or amazon ratings perhaps)

3) It would be useful to have more categories for mother boards (e.g. RAID support, USB 3 support, ect...)

4) Adding a social component would be handy. Let people build, share and vote on builds. Basically I would like see the top three builds for a development machine that the rest of community has selected.

5) I would prefer if the filters on the right were defaulted to collapsed if everything is checked in them.

6) It would be nice if the graph resized, If i just select SSD's on the HDD $/Capacity graph all the data points are on the left 1/8th of the screen, it would be nice for the graph to resize based on what data points are being shown.

Great job I will definitely use this to spec out my next build.
This reminds me of the artwork by Caleb Larsen, A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter. It's a box that sells itself on eBay for a higher price. As a condition of buying it, you accept it can sell itself again, and so on.

Recursion, profit, AI - what's not to like? You can see its latest auction at http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter.com and more about the artwork at http://caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-slaugh...
Potentially, but promotions are generally given for work that exceeds expectations; isn't this the way it should be?

Producing the 'minimal expected' amount of work for a prolonged period of time (reliability) is cause for being promoted as well, I suppose, but takes more time.
Has this concept been tested? As a potential customer I don't have any reason to believe that this organizational structure works.

The video is downright inspirational though, great job on that.
Summary would seem to be: innovation is good and all, but the US' trade balance is really out of whack, and you can't make up for that by just innovating.

Makes some sense. Let's not take this as a discounting of innovation, however. It's necessary, just not sufficient.
Not true. A back button is meant to "go back to previous state". When you click a link, then back, you will go back to the previous page or position on the same page depending on the link you clicked.

Similarly, if you enable a lightbox and your page goes behind a modal image, hitting back will behave exactly the way it should, i.e. take you back to your previous state.

I'll go one step further and say that a lightbox implementation that doesn't do this should be considered broken since it breaks user expectations. This does raise the question of judging a user's intent when he presses the back/forward button while there is something modal on his screen, but let's save that for some other time.
I can't say that I'm a fan of Friedman but it would also seem like Gomory's concerns are overwrought. While I'm far from an impartial observer, it seems that Gomory simply echoes the same concerns and fears that many Americans (and the world) had of Japan. I did a quick search for the 'myth of balanced trade' and came up with this article (written with an ideological perspective but it was written in 1986 but it could have been written today in direct response to Gomory):
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/protectionism-the-my...

Further this concern that the US manufacturing industry is dying or dead is a myth (and quite handily, type in 'myths of US manufacturing' and you come up with the following article among many) - an excerpt "U.S. workers produce 21% of all factory goods made globally, or about $1.7 trillion worth per year. That's significantly lower than the peak of 28% in 1985 but only slightly below the long-term average of 23% for 1970 through 2006.":
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/...

What Gomory doesn't seem to address and why innovation factors so importantly (if Friedman, overstates his case, Gomory understates the value of innovation), ideas have far higher margins than their underlying component and fixed goods. A contract manufacturer in China might make 5% or less (that Gomory argues are already subidized by the Chinese government which implies that the Chinese government is losing money in this process) while Apple makes 30+ on the overall products it sells (and these products presumably aren't subsidized by the US government). So for that same dollar of trade that an American consumer is buying from China, more profit is retained in in the US as those same products are sold globally. This is why it's not necessary for there to be "balanced trade" and why countries like the UK had been able to run trade deficits for large periods of modern history.

If history is instructive, it's useful to also consider what's happened to Japan over the past few decades. The ascent of China, who Gomory targets, is very very far from trouble free or certain. Further, he seems to have this assumption if the US aims for balance of trade with China, those same deficits won't simply go to other developing nations. Ultimately it is consumers who bear the costs of imposing protectionist policies.
Nothing in those guidelines prohibits mentioning who you are.

I thought the point of upvoting was that readers use their votes to decide what's relevant (as opposed to outright censorship).

Why are people allowed to talk about beer, "orthokeratology", et al, but mentioning gender is "irrelevant" (cf. "bloggergirl" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836538, which is reposted like six times)

Furthermore, my being a girl IS relevant. The Rails community has tons of initiatives to try to balance the gender ratio -- for example, the presentation at RailsConf 2009, an SF ruby workshop specifically for women, etc (really just google 'ruby rails women').

I've never been able to attend that stuff (due to being in the Midwest, which was also censored out of my title), but I'm still interested in reaching out to whoever I can to get advice. I thought that could include HN.
The DX is good for that. There's enough space that you can see sample code without horrible wrapping, without using a tiny type size.

Also, unlike the iPad, if you get the kindle you can read your kindle books on a desktop computer using the appropriate kindle app.

Tip: If you're reading PDFs on a kindle, it can be useful to open them and crop out the margins. Preview.app on OS X will do it.
(reply to turtle4) Regardless of what they say to us they know what the real success rates and what the long term complications are.
The difference is that with server rendered templates you're sending the structure multiple times. For example if you're displaying a list of things, you have a list of n times structure + n times data. If you do it at the client side you have 1 times structure + n times data.
According to Wikipedia, CMEs have a top speed of 3200km/s. The earth is 147Mm from the sun (at its closest), so we'd have a minimum of 12 hours warning.

How vulnerable are electronic devices that are powered off to CMEs?

I imagine that while we have sufficient warning, there is also considerable variation in CME speed (and size?). It might be difficult to coordinate "turn stuff back on" day without functioning communication systems.
We're drifting off topic, but I rather enjoyed this brief bit of satire: http://wonkette.com/411206/obama-golfs-with-dumb-tom-friedma...
6 months? I've been waiting for 4 years in my category.
As someone who is eating a delicious, olive oil-doused salad right now, I have to interject: your calorie sources do affect your weight gain, albeit indirectly: if you're getting most of your energy from carbs, you'll consistently crave food a few hours after eating. If you get the majority of your calories from protein and fat, you'll get over this.

I consume a lot of fat and protein: two or three dozen eggs per week, fatty red meat for most dinners, olive oil-soaked salads for lunch, etc. This has led to significant weight loss, as well as a substantial energy boost. As this is (fairly) close to the diet that humans evolved to consume, it's not especially surprising that it works.
Have you seen this one? http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html
"On the other hand, if you want to flick through the book reading the parts that interest you then paper is still much easier to use."

True, but you can make this work a bit better by setting up bookmarks. If a book has a table of contents that links to the chapters, that would make it easy to set up bookmarks for each chapter, that can be accessed from the menu.
I've put in an incompatibility notice closer to the top that should be a bit more prominent - it's not perfect, but hopefully a little more visible until I can figure the right way to present it.
Dmoz?

Good Luck getting in.
My understanding is that it was heavily invested into as an internal tool for MS's own use way before it was touted as an external product.
Your proposition has merit. I think this is another place where Apple's ideology might be counterproductive. But as we all know, they tend to stick to it regardless :-I

I hope the least they do is leave ordinary install options in tact. Other App Stores will probably emerge just like the Android Store clones.
Is there a way to make the links in the submissions (like Ask HN) be clickable after a certain threshold of upvotes? I understand why they shouldn't be links immediately, but if the submission is getting vetted by upvotes I don't see why we can't have clickable links.
You should try to streamline the landing page (and subsequent pages as well). It's not clear upon skimming exactly what you are offering.

Mozilla does a great job of this if you need inspiration.
Your middle-click technique works with this particular lightbox implementation.
I am unable to make up my mind here.
As atlbeer says, following is the standard breakup of responsibilities:
- HTML = Content
- CSS = Style / Design
- JS = Interaction

As argued elsewhere, lightbox straddles JS and CSS domains.

I was thinking that in CSS3 world, we should have slightly different breakup of responsibilities (subject to resolving performance issues)
- HTML = Content
- CSS3 = style/design and changes in style/design
- JS = interaction other than purely style/design changes

I see that this breakup may lead to confusion in some situations. (Though I still find it more appealing for lightbox example)
So, let me make up my mind when I have more experience with CSS3 :-)