skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair outer bound to place. I just like to be really clear about the fact that people don't necessarily pay sticker price at private schools. I've volunteered for my alma mater at college fairs and there are a lot of people who are interested and then freak when they see the tuition. I have to imagine that there are an equal number who don't even stop by our table because they've done just enough research to think "expensive."
Is Netbeans free?
For various reasons it's actually fairly difficult to do controlled studies like you say. I know a guy doing a study right now who is actually running it backwards. That is, instead of looking at how GPA affects future income, he is looking at how past income affects GPA. For example, business school students usually work for a while before getting their MBA. If you think that students with higher GPAs should earn more money after they graduate, then presumably you also would expect that students who earn more money before going to business schools will get higher GPAs.

The best traditional studies show that GPA accounts for about 3% of job performance, as measured by income and performance reviews among other things. (IIRC Alfie Kohn cites this study in his book What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated?) It will be interesting to see whether or not running the study backwards yields similar results.
Yes. GPL.
Stupid Programmer Tricks: Programmers describe the most embarassing mistakes they've made
Coding Horror: Was the Windows Registry a good idea?
it's like comparing a good comedian actor vs a good looking actor. e.g. Danny Devito vs Brad Pitt. You just cant.

Both make money, both are famous. But for different reasons. But there are cases of beautiful/comedians that don't perform equally well.

So, you can't say that un ugly looking site will perform better. Usually ugly sites don't function well. The whole thing is about flow/simplicity/usability.

Uglyness is so relative and differs to all individuals.

For example, would you consider not painting your Ferrari's carbon fiber indoors and pedals uglyness? The point is that beauty some times cannot serve the purpose needed or it just has different variables. And in this case, you wouldn't show the beauty of what this car is made of if you went with the paint!
The Open Source way to fame and fortune
Humiliation is a harsh word... both sides have brilliant engineers, and both understand that cooperation is better for everybody than competition. Could this be a new stepping stone in our economic realization. I remember Steve Jobs once said that he doesn't care about Apple being the market leader, that he only cares about making good products. Google seems to be following that philosophy, also. Being #1 is a by-product of doing great things. If you obsess with profits for the sake of obsessing with profits, you end up where Microsoft or the telecom industry is...
A startup can be successful even if it is a bad clone: FilesTube
I wouldn't call 15-11 "humilation."

Well, unless I felt like being a tool.
Many of the differences are a matter of taste.

Precisely! :)

R4RS isn't going away.

But any newcomer will consider the most recent version the default, and assume the others are obsolete. In other languages you seldom ever have a reason to start with an older standard unless you have legacy code to maintain. And that is the reason why they called the whole scam R6RS.
No, this is design by coup d'etat.
+1 for that. Even though I am trying to stay away from Microsoft platforms these days, I still will say that cirics of .NET/C# who posted above do not even deserve a serious answer. One "word" - RTFM.

And nobody so far has mentioned one of the best features of ASP.NET apps: crazy speed. After everything gets precompiled it is amazing how much load a cheapo $1K server can handle.
Well, I meant full vim integration. The code completion looks wonderful. Vim already provides syntax coloring and RoR itself provides svn integration (append -c to script/generate or script/destroy commands).

The only reason I can see to use Netbeans is the great code completion and auto-documentation. (Those are huge reasons, though.)

Edit: Hmm..
"We have been working closely with the owner of Vim and he has incorporated our netbeans integration code into a vim 6.1 patch (patch number 366). Currently these sources are not available in a vim release."

So I'm confused as to whether it does or it doesn't fully integrate with Vim. I'll have to try it after work..
How about a "nutrition chart" requirement for each college of any type? It would disclose the lower, more average charge per student over 4 years computed by each college using federal standards.

Secondly, the government should run the loan program themselves for public universities, since it's a lot cheaper for it to offer loans than to subsidize banks to do the same.
>but an experienced larger company will almost always execute better than you.

I'd love to see but one example of that, actually. IMO larger companies don't execute faster or better. About the only thing they do better is market.
If you haven't realized it yet, most of the education you're paying for in college isn't found in a classroom. College is a nice buffer against the transition to the real world where you can take risks without consequences for the most part. A lot of a college's value comes from your peer group, which is why smart people congregate at the top schools for the most part (aside from career prospects and prestige).
its not exactly quick and dirty...its rapid development, which means they eventually can get something very complex (which I'm sure facebook has in place), but if they need to start over, they can do so quickly.
I guess I got it backwards then, :S woops.
Re: Common Scheme, there is a more apt name suggested in the LtU forums:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2429#comment-36577
How big Wikipedia would be if published as as printed volumes
preach it brother!
Mobile phones used to call owls
sorry to split hairs but 5 is less than 5+ so they say
Manager or Junior Engineer	0.2 - 0.33

with the top range being for proven elite contributors.

going into the deal everyone has to receive similar stock offers, but after you prove yourself, the standouts can double or more, what the original grant was.
How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
I've always thought this to be really strange. How could they possibly know the major reason (e.g., bargain hunting, uncertainty about X, etc.)?
I wonder if that blog post evolved out of stuff he said to her.
If News Corp actually found a good name, the comments in the Mashable article would be deriding it. So far as it stands, the comments are general positive, which makes me wonder whether the name is really catchy.

Anyone else notice that the world works in opposites this way?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993
Google In Oregon: Mother Nature Meets The Data Center
Can one really put a price on learning how to do a kegstand properly?
Northern Virginia Meetup
The kooky comments show why growth doesn't happen in Oregon - no matter what company wants to build, people start trying to find out how 'evil' it is and protest against it. It's sort of a knee jerk reaction, it seems:-/
How about a meetup at Gordon Biersch in McLean, Virginia at 7:00 PM on September 5th? Everyone that can make it out is welcome. Reply here (or on HackrTrackr since he's doing a good job with it) if we'll see you there.
Any Virginia, DC, or Maryland YC users out there please check out a potential meetup here, thanks to HackrTrackr:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
hard?

i think the guys developing the YC funded web based photo editor, should have made an offer to him to join them. It would sooo much give a boost to their effort.
Bingo.

Check out my comments below.
Consider forming a group at groupomatic.com. I created one for the Philadelphia area and we are having our first event tomorrow.
There's another cost, some jobs you just won't be able to do when you have a wife, kids, and lots of loans to pay every month. At college age is part of the very short time in your life where you are free from all this and can easily focus on something harder than virtually anyone else.

Of course, the majority of people will never consider even performing at this potential. But could it be different if college as we know it wasn't so severely required?

That's the first cost that came to mind when I read the title. On the other hand, there were some good parties and women.
I'm sick tired of these applications... I'm not logging in any more not to see notifications which of my friends installed what... Who cares?
Seriously, the site had more downtime, more errors, and was slower than any site I have ever seen. I'm betting that you missed that though.

The founders pored so much money into just barely keeping their non-scalable site running that they completely watered down their share of the company. Is that what you call succeeding?
You're about two years too late to do benchmarks on myspace as a startup. They've re-written the thing at least twice over and put a whole lot more money into fixing it up by now.

Myspace's server software and html was bad. So so bad.
women. beer.
Seems really small, actually. I guess the site has a ways to go before it contains the sum total of all human knowledge, if that is the goal. But Wikipedia already kicks ass.
your users must have Amazon accounts

Bad idea: I can see why Amazon does it that way, but it makes FPS very, very unappealing.

if your customers cards get rejected for no reason, you will need to solve that problem NOW

Two phrases you never want to see together: "credit card processor" and "beta service".

Thanks for posting your experience.
I've been using the most recent stable dev releases for several months now and love them.

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/

Also, the devs are incredibly quick to respond to bugs if you run in to a problem.
Listing officezilla.com being free as a "Deal Killer" is too bad. It would have been nice if he would have at least gave it a try. Sure it is not a pure project management system but because it is not there are some advantages since it can do more then projects. If you spread your information out between various different systems you will find yourself with a whole lot of logins and urls to remember.
Just wanted to say thanks for the compliment, and I'll try to keep up the good work.
I really don't want to know the etymology of that one.
Watch out for pump-and-dump schemes on tootsie roll pops.
My eyes hurt...
From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
NetBeans looks great. Perhaps you can help me with something, though. Every time I try to evaluate one of these spiffy, does-everything-but-brush-your-teeth IDEs I go through the following process: (1) search for half an hour to find exactly the right thing to download; (2) download, install, and run; (3) now what???

In other words, I've found the documentation for fancy features to be rich, but instructions for just getting started are piss poor. Particularly critical is the lack of docs for step 3---how do I start or import a Rails project into the IDE? I've tried Eclipse, Aptana, and NetBeans, and given up in despair each time. I eventually figured it out for RadRails under Linux, but that was only after much effort. (I've since switched to Mac/TextMate.)

Any help with the three steps above would be much appreciated. If anyone can post a nice step-by-step guide to getting started, I might even switch to NetBeans!
Shotgun weddings and medical emergencies aside, nobody's going to force anybody to get married, have kids, and take on a heavy debt burden. Screw the Joneses. And this isn't to say you should be a bachelor for life; I'm sure there are women out there who value freedom and a man who's willing to make sacrifices and go his own way in search of that freedom.
Wear reading glasses, even if you don't think you need them. Set the color scheme in your editor to black on light yellow (this combination works well for me, YMMV). If you're using a CRT, either switch to an LCD or drop your resolution down a setting.
In related news, Google removes facebook.com from their index.
Is it possible you are a bit farsighted? This can create some eye strain if you are forced to focus on a nearby object for long periods.

I also have a friend who forgets to blink when he concentrates hard (seriously). Needless to say his eyes hurt when he codes.

Whatever the cause, you should consider seeing an ophlamologist. I'm sure they can help you find a remedy.
Right. An online photo editor is a product. The resize method is a feature that can be easily redone. That's what is hard about making it into a company.
It might surprise you but drink more water. Not soda, or coffee; drink water. Half the time my eyes hurt it is more about being dehydrated then staring too long ...
Mine was free. However, a flaw in my character led me to believe that a) It was trade applicable 2) They would teach me to build things. I studied electrical engineering, and it was mostly applied mathematics and physics with little systemic perspective. If I had to do it all over again, I would have studied pure mathematics, comp sci, and physics and built things on my own. But hey, free is free.
I wear glasses full-time. I am myopic already. The color scheme on ViM is already pale yellow on dark grey (I think this works better than black and yellow, try it). How will the resolution bit help?
Thanks for the response.
I am going to try having more water, lets see if this helps...Thanks for the response
Most CRTs get blurry when you run them at their top resolution.
Nope, I am myopic or near-sighted. Thanks.
LCD and not blurry.
Give me a second while i get undrunk
Can you share what your fees are for authorize.net? They don't disclosing anything on their website...
Speed up your Ajax applications while dodging Web services vulnerabilities
Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps
Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking
The trick is not to lower the brightness but to invert it. Under Mac OS, press Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-8 or get one of the many apps that do virtually the same thing but add more options. Basically, it just inverts the gamma curve and what was white becomes black etc. Under Linux... I have no idea.
hmmm...interesting. Let me try..
Thats because Authorize.NET is sold through a network of resellers who pretty much dictate the rates. If you contact Authorize.NET directly though you will be directed to a sales rep who can disclose rates.

Heres a ballpark of what you can expect with them:

Merchant Account
~ 2.4% per transaction + $.25 per transaction + $10/month

Payment Gateway
$100 setup + ~$20 a month and.10 per transaction

You will need them for a Payment Gateway, but you may have a merchant account with someone else (for instance Paymentech)

I have had good experience with Auth.NET in the past and they seem to be a good value for medium transaction volume ecommerce sites.
Take it from someone who quit. If you want to climb the corporate ladder than definitely go to college and sell your parents house to finance it. It will be worth it. I've seen it work. If you want to build your own ladder (as what I am doing now), then I suggest you check that college thing again.
I look around and I see my friends who graduated from school and they all make 1.5 to twice what I make a year, but not for long. The difference shows sometimes in our lifestyle and the way we look at the future. They see title, I see users. They see corporate car, I see users. They see 401k, I see Acquisition. Their biggest dream is to make Project manager or CEO. Fuck it I am CEO, and my wildest dream is to get that call from Sergey asking me for advices.
Software for data mining publicly available information
San Jose tops list of richest cities in US
wealth builders anyone?
Only 4.4 gb as uncompressed text.
New Malware Fakes Google Home Page
I suggest using a work timer to remind you to take short breaks every 30 minutes or so. My favorite timers are xwrits (Linux) and AntiRSI (Mac). (N.B. Despite being an X program for wrists, 'xwrits' is not a typo.) As you can guess from the names, they are principally designed to help with RSI, but they can help with eye pain as well.

Here are a couple of things to try during the breaks: (1) count to 30 while focusing on something more than 20 feet away; (2) close your eyes and place your hands over them for a count of 30.

I know it's sometimes hard to take breaks when in the throes of a hackathon, but you'll get better with practice. I try to be really anal, taking breaks even if I'm mid-line; that way, I know I'll get back to work when the break is over.
Check out this post on lifehacker. You can see what the screen looks like and you can maybe replicate it on Linux. Someone in comments has a suggestion for Linux too:

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-mac-download/enable-...
Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
Unlocked iPhones highlight DMCA absurdities
BUG: An open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform
Of all the stories in Founders at Work I think my favorite is Wozniak's. It still amazes me that he made the entire Apple II by himself, both hardware and software.
You know a lot of people are paying full price.
"Ultimate humiliation" is a play on words, not a substantive comment on the score.
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
carbon is black = bad,
hydrogen is clear = good.
this is all the science you need.
He was/is on the faculty at Columbia. They have a group dedicated to comp. biology and they may be interested in modelling the interaction you are talking about. Associate with some of the professors there in the chem/bio dept and you may get something going. Drexel University also has a great IP/funding program, you may want to try them. Do what this woman did: http://lungevity.org/uploads/files/WSJ.2007.pdf. Hell, start a benefit run or bike ride...something. This line of work is too important rms. Make it happen.
I wish I had a project I cared about enough to work like that.
Nicely done.

What's with the SQL, though? Doesn't NetBeans support migrations?
Miro (formerly the democracy player) has lots of these features, but this looks wonderful.

"Intelligent taste recognition" sounds good, but I wish I had more confidence in such services.
"...	My eyes hurt... From very long hacking hours ..."

Have regular breaks. your eyes hurt because the muscles focusing the eyeball is squeezing the eye forward (extrinsic ocular muscle activity).

HOMER: "... *my eye's hurt*"
LENNY: "You know its the inter-ocular pressure causing by the muscles trying to focus. Asthenopia is another name for it."
HOMER: "Huh?"
CARL: " Homer just take a break."
HOMER: "... I did. I just poked my eye to see what it was like."

So to stop your eyes hurting take regular breaks ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthenopia & http://www.coopereyecare.com/eye_strain.htm
My startup and I are moving to Japan. These guys aren't waiting. This speed will have so much impact in their culture and work in 10 years that other nations may sit and wonder wtf happened.
Examples like remote-medical applications are pretty meaningless. High bandwidth applications for regular users is what will change the world.

I think the result of the US lagging behind is that the rest of the world has to wait too. Because US-based innovators don't have the connections they don't create the new applications. Japanese users don't have much use for their awesome connections now. I know, I have one.
They don't know. They just find any reasons to support what's happening. Hindsight is 20-20.
Interesting tech behind this. Two points that stuck me ... (though I shouldn't be surprised) ~ http://tv.seas.harvard.edu/research.php

- Ubuntu download

- all or most of the code is crisp python ~ http://svn.tribler.org/abc/branches/mainbranch/
looks like i have to get back at you tomorrow
Cool post. Do you have a website going right now? What do you do?
It dumped core on me in around 8 minutes. I did get to see a nice "The Knife" video though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZatCZ1YWQeI
You can get the same thing in Linux installing Compiz/Beryl and it's "Negative" plugin.
Once active just press Super+m (Super is the "Windows" key) to "negate" the screen.
That's unfortunate that users must have Amazon accounts. I have a question for you - does FPS support micro payments? It seems like Authorize.net does not.
End the Mobile Phone Ban in Hospitals
So how is this responsible journalism?

It reminds me a bit of web 2.0 bloggers who need a news angle to mention a startup no matter how weak/silly that news angle might be.
$27.95
I'm a huge fan of statistics for reporting, but I think his ideas about how to use it in practical development is mostly broken.

Their team needed statistical analysis and charts to solve a 60 second response time bug? That's just a total lack of basic debugging skills.

Eliminating all confounding and spending the time to test your application's performance characteristics in a statistically valid way rarely makes sense. If lives are on the line fine, but in most cases the reason for even attempting it do so is bureaucratic. Release early, release often.
Is facilitating the download of copyrighted content illegal?
0.69 vs 0.7? If that precision reflects accuracy, how did they get it?
Reconstructed image of a Neanderthal child
I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest

Here's a statistic: 99 percent of all achievements in computer science come from men. But, hey, I'm no statistician, so maybe I'll just trust some off-the-cuff twaddle from random jerks.

I try to show them how to properly graph a run chart and they're indignant.

Just wondering: Is this guy hacking device drivers? OpenGl? Maybe he's tweaking the last bit of sweat out of microsoft's C++ compiler? No...he's clearly doing CRUD work. Performance issues in CRUD work are solved by RAM and memcached, not screwing around in Excel. That's why your co-workers are indignant: You don't understand your trade.

If we want to only verify one single query on a database then what's stopping us? Stupidity that's what.

Because there are 6000 queries, and not all of us can spend all-day-all-night screwing around with Excel.

The classic example of this is the Pet Store

"The Pet Store" isn't the classic example of jack.

Then I hit the DB2 database and about crapped my pants. Almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second response on average, but a 60 second standard deviation!

...my own statistics are a little rusty. If the average is .5, and the SD is 60, doesn't that mean that certain runs should be choking so hard that the log file would...just freeze. I mean, break out the Excel if you want, but I've seen log files choke before, and it's usually obvious what the problem is: The entry at the bottom.

"It's not the database, it's IBM's DB2 configuration.

LOL. DB2's configuration being a part of...what then?

The next day we had IBM fixing the problem (turned out to be a single update index command) and we all kept our jobs.

Our hero! (Self-proclaimed)

That's what a proper analysis method can do for you.

Or just watching the log file.
Also try using artificial tears. They're cheap and you can get them from pretty much any drug store. I used them for a couple of weeks when I had my eyes lasered, and now I use them anytime my eyes are sore.
The government used to have more involvement in the student loan programs. My father started up a non-profit under the state board of regents to service guaranteed student loans in Utah in the late 70s or early 80s after the feds passed some big program. They did quite well for a few years, until the regents made them transfer everything to various banks and shut the thing down because it had the potential to be fabulously profitable.